Aloysius

Playing with it right now (the app I mean), that's a lot of fun and a great use of the pressure sensitive screen if you've got a newer phone. I also dig Glitch Machine (a generative music synthesizer for live coding fun) and Beatmaker 2 is great.

EPOCH6

Whoa. I've never seen that done before, looks good.

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Plankton

Not necessarily "Gear", but my Xmas present finally came in the mail:





Gonna put my Ukulele through some paces.

Also, I recently purchased a new PA system for the upcoming open mic I'm hosting. Pretty cool little system, and I'm giving it a test-run tomorrow where I'll set it up and jam some random tunes at an all day St. Pat's party.

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EPOCH6

Glad to see Fender moving away from the "bent steel" saddles design and more towards the Gotoh style with their new American Elite series. My American Standard came with the bent steel style saddles and they were literally cutting my strings at bridge, there was a manufacturing issue where every once in a while a Telecaster would make it through with burs on these saddles, mine was one of them. Even after carefully filing down the saddles twice it was still an issue, ended up replacing them with Gotoh saddles, and now it looks like Fender is doing the same, hopefully with the entire 6 saddle Tele lineup. They're comfier on the right hand too when muting strings.

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EPOCH6

Double posting with an SG update.

So I ended up dropping it off with our bassist's guitar tech last week for a full check-up and servicing. After a week of suspense (he's a busy dude) it is revealed that, thank christ, all of my tuning issues were originating at the nut and not the vibrola system. The nut slots were simply poorly sized from the factory, narrow enough that even .9 gauges were catching, so it's no surprise that my .11s were damn near useless and unplayable. He did his thing and I got it back on Friday, unfortunately we rushed him because we were rehearsing that evening and two of the nuts slots were filed a bit too deep, nasty fret buzz (temporarily fixed with the classic stick a piece of paper over the nut slot trick), so I had to drop it back off after rehearsal so he can re-do that, but it performed so much better in those few hours than it ever has before, tuning was rock solid even with frequent trem use. Can't wait to bring it home, now that it's playing as great as it looks I'm damn near sliding into withdrawal without it. I'll be sure to post some recordings of her in action once it's back in my hands.

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Chula Vista

Great news! Love that guitar.

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on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

Frownland

Fishman soundhole pickup for my acoustic guitar, which is nice because I have a floyd rose on my only electric and that makes it hard to do alternate tunings. It'll be nice to have live as well.

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Frownland

My friend gave me this Yamaha drum machine for circuit bending, but I'm having a lot of fun on it without even having to do that.

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Chula Vista

You need to get one of these.

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

Frownland

Wolves in Sheepskin - Circuit Bench

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