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Rotten eyesight. Monospace fonts are easier for me to read, and people have a fit about fixedsys when I use it. :p Thanks. I've pretty much blown off the Internet after twenty-three years of online forums. Honestly, there are just too many jugheads. Jugheads drive away good users and ruin...

But only two Coloramas. Note the slideshow. You don't get that factory gigbag shown, but rather a funky generic one that doesn't fit and isn't as nice by a long shot.

>> diamond-style humbuckers installed. I don't know for >> sure where the pickups are made,but I'd guess in China >> as well. > According to MusiciansFriend.Com, both the humbucking > and P-90 look-alike pickups on these Chinese Coloramas > are German made, presumably by Hofner. Heads up on...

Direct, modeler, line-out -- in order of preference. Recording bass acoustically is so problematic in the home studio that few recommend it, and relatively few pros do it either in real studios unless they have a big budget and lots of time to screw around. Bass frequencies are just a...

One might want to have more than one amateur sound that's already a cliche. Rarely, if ever, is a pro-recorded guitar track quite as simple as that, either -- even if the unwitting artist believes it is. ;) If you get good -- truly expert -- with a modeler you can save an immense amount of...

I have never used a POD of any model, but I've been reading modeler wars on netfora for a few years now and have (and do) use other modelers to record. Here's what I know about modelers, generally speaking: Most modelers can be used to get some genuinely excellent, pro-quality recorded...

Here, read this book. I read the Dregni bio last year. It clears up many Django myths and goes into great detail about the Selmer-Maccaferri guitars, Django's Gibson years, the remarkable scene at Django's wartime club, the bizarre story of the second-best guitarist in Paris, Django's...

Whatever you get, forget eBay. You'll pay too much for what will almost certainly be a problem amp, plus you'll have to pay an arm and a leg for shipping. Shop hard, buy local.

Best advice in the thread.

Of course, you must do "what works for you," but having gone through similar problems I came to a different conclusion -- aside from whether or not short-scale basses actually have inferior sound, as many experts assert. I'm a big guy who has somewhat stunted hands as a result of childhood...

Yes, and they're pretty highly regarded.

I have a set of the DFs and I hate them. :mad: Possibly the cheesiest-built expensive (MSRP was around US$280 when I got these) headphones I've ever seen. You'd think at that price they could have earcups in a material that wouldn't disintegrate from contact with normal skin oil, but no...

Ditto to every bit of the above.

The subject's been done to death here many times before, so you might save some time just doing a search. Bottom line is that you can buy two lot better pedals than you can make in 2006 for the price of building one, if you shop hard. People may still wish to build pedals as a hobby thing, but...

WHICH one? "SWR" includes all sorts of amps, some of which are great -- the pro stuff -- and some of which is overpriced imported junk-to-adequate gear. "SWR" is meaningless without more information. The Pro stuff (US-made) is particularly notable for the high quality of the electronic...

I have a ton of the Pro Series stuff. What did you want to know? :confused:

Two reasons, for starters: One, naptha is a strong solvent and surfactant. It will dissolve any dirt or grease and make it soak into the wood through any openings, making nasty discoloration -- the bane of maple fingerboards and the reason Leo eventually prohibited their use on his guitars...

If it's a maple fingerboard, use nothing fluid. No oils, solvents, anything. It will discolor the wood and do no good. That's official from FMIC. If the fingerboard is rosewood, clean it with naptha (per Erlewine) and re-oil with a non-gummy vegetable-based oil. Olive oil works as well as...

Neither are all Stratocasters. There's often a remarkable difference in sound between "identical" Fenders. Always has been. I'm not, nor have I ever been, a fan of the Stratocaster, but I have some and have been through many. They vary greatly, as do "identical" Telecasters, an instrument I...

This could be a number of things from the somewhat unclear explanation of the symptoms -- but it sounds like some variety of intonation problem. If a tuner is available, it should indicate much more clearly what's going on: Are the open strings in tune, but the played notes off? Where? Open...