Recent content by thebigcheese

I studied recording as a minor in college (nearly 10 years ago now...) meaning, as you might imagine, that I learned on Pro Tools. But outside of school, I found it pretty irritating that I needed their expensive hardware to run the software, so I switched over to Reaper. I was pretty happy with...

Guitars, effects, cabs - PRS, Orange, Z.vex, and more! I'm just going to link to my Craig's List post because it's a long posting, but here's the short version: 2000 PRS McCarty with hard case, $1000 (it's got a repaired neck). Takamine EG224SC with hard case, $300. Squier Bullet Tele with a...

Looking to buy the new Fuzz Factory 7, so I need to clear out some gear. The Fuzz Factory looks basically brand new except it has velcro on the bottom. The Dean is actually brand new, but it arrived at the store with a broken neck and was being thrown out. It broke by where it attaches to the...

I've been interested in MIDI guitar systems for a while, but could never justify the expense until now. I got a hell of a deal on the Tripleplay, and it's a pretty sweet device, but I don't own and have no intention of buying a laptop, so for the moment it is just a fun toy to mess around with...

I finally.put the finishing touches on a custom guitar by adding some custom Antiquities made for me by SD so that I could coil split them. I really like the neck single coil sound for clean stuff, but not so much for heavy drive. The problem is, the single coil is a lot quieter than the...

I got a MIDI Mate for free the other day and I would like to configure it to work with Amplitube so that I have a nice, silent way of practicing, but without giving up the convenience of stomp switches. So my ideal setup is to run the MIDI Mate in Controller mode and have the bottom row of...

Anyone have one of these pedals that can comment? I know some fuzzes get real ugly when they aren't first in the chain. I really dig how this thing sounds (in YouTube videos...), but if it's not gonna work with my setup, then there's no point ordering one.

Help me out here. I bought a Music Man Luke 3 not too long ago and it's my first guitar with a compensated nut. For whatever reason, tonight is the first time I noticed this problem, but for some reason, I can not get the 1st and 2nd strings to sound right together, but they are perfectly in...

Cleaning out some gear I don't need any more and I just can't get any hits on Craig's List, so I've finally decided to suck it up and post them all on eBay. I have: Schecter Stiletto Custom-4 in Natural finish. Includes a Coffin Case. Professionally set up, by which I mean I am a professional...

I have a Roadster, which is a generally awesome amp in that it is like an analog modeling amp, but I am trying to squeeze all my pedals onto a PT Pro board and the amp's footswitch is just gigantic. I didn't want to go with a MIDI solution, as all the foot controllers are at least as big, and I...

My bassist has been insistent that I should have a bigger pedal board so I don't have to limit my options, and since he has kindly agreed to buy me a PT-Pro, I will take him up on that idea. So at any given time I could have up to 13 pedals on the board (thought 12 is more likely). Personally, I...

So here's the deal. The frontman in my band has a fetish for Fender amps that the bassist and I (who are kind of tone snobs, I have to admit) have never really understood. For a long time, he was convinced that his Frontman 212R was fantastic. It was only after months of badgering and the...

I use my computer for gaming and general purpose stuff, mainly, and a bit of mixing for my band when we're putting an album together. I use Yamaha HS50ms for the monitors, with the matching HS10w sub, and a Focusrite Saffire Pro 24 for my interface. Prior to noticing this problem, I was using...

I don't have a wireless card in my tower PC because they used to always cause problems with recording. Is that still true? It's been many years since I thought about it, but I was looking at adding a bluetooth option to my computer and most of the PCI cards I can find with that are also wireless...

$800. Selling my TH30 head so I can buy an OR15! This one is in great shape - no dings, but a few little (black) scuff marks from taking it to a handful of gigs. I recently bought a cover for it (that I have yet to use), so that will limit any further scuffing. The cover and an official Orange...