Member Photos

[*Deidre*]

It looks scary! >.<

[energizer bunny]

It's a bad spot in a tree that no one can really explain, ya bunch of freaks.

They were just looking for an excuse to ogle at my pics some more.


Anyways, Happy Belated 4th of July everyone.   If you guys look hard enough, you'll find a ghostly image of a naked women. 










Happy belated 5th of July as well . And happy 6th of July. And in case i don't see you again happy 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, of July as well.

[brewer]

No women, but a whole bunch of phallic looking thingys with a couple ejaculating.

[Rev. Rye]

I’ve decided to rework an older photo of mine, showing off my musical gear.

Family portrait:


String side:


Kalimba side:


And one in the old two-strip Technicolor filter in RECS:

#hailtritanopia. Good god, did I just do a hashtag remark in a context where it would be totally pointless?

Instruments:

• Cigar Box Guitar "Del Präsidente": Catoctin Mountain Music 4-string built from a kit that doesn't seem to be readily available at this point, though a different version can be found on chince0's ebay page. Tuned DGBD like a banjo. 
  
• Cigar Box Kalimba: Built from a C.B. Gitty kit with a Cap-o-Tone Jr. Pickup built from a piezo disc and a bottlecap. Tuned to an E minor pentatonic scale.
  
• Diddley Bow "Celestial Freddie": Built from a giant piece of padouk lumber and enough CBGitty parts to make it a string instrument, tuned to F.
  

Amps:

• Vox Valvetronic VT20X: A cheap (but still quite good) approximation of the Vox AC30 I've been craving since I first got into the guitar.
  
• Pignose 7-100: Something for the Kalimba.
  
• Homemade preamp made from a guitar preamp and a Drew Liga cigar box.
  

Effects:

• Joyo Vintage Phase: An MXR Phase 90 clone I use to make a poor man's Leslie speaker. Then again, due to it not working properly anymore and TC Electronic releasing their Vibraclone (a rotary sim with a GC cost of $60), I strongly suspect I'll I may replace it fairly soon at some point. Reports of this pedal's death are greatly exaggerated.
  
• Joyo Sweet Baby: A Mad Professor Sweet Honey clone, a mild overdrive I use mostly as a "sweetener." It doesn't do a good drive on its own (at least with piezo pickups like are on my CBG), but with another one (see below), it's perfect.
  
• TC Electronics Cinders Overdrive: A good overdrive, which I suspect is a clone of a BOSS BD-2 overdrive. With a piezo pickup and a Sweet Honey-style overdrive, it sounds almost perfect. And it doesn't even feed back.
  
• TC Electronics Skysurfer Reverb: Perfect reverb for the low price point.
  
• Joyo Ultimate Drive: Overdrive pedal based on the Fulltone OCD. It's a bit heavy for my guitar playing, it almost makes the kalimba sound like a harmonica. Maybe if you kinda squint (or do the auditory version thereof), but it at least works for doing "Rumble" (because its scale fits with Rumble).
  
• Joyo AC-tone: On the eventuality that I'm required to use some other amp, I can keep the AC-30 tone.
  

Accessories:

• Slides: a John Pearse "The Edge" slide based loosely on an old pocketknife (placed between the strings and nut of my CBG when not in use), blunted and cast in bell brass, also a copper pipe fitting for the Diddley Bow.
  
• Cables: Not enough! Seriously, I took one of Dad's longer ones from the OCD to the Pignose, and I know I'll need several more patch cables, especially after watching a Youtube video from CSguitars which explained (using physics) how pedal couplers can actually be detrimental for a pedal's health. To be fair, reports of my Phaser's death have been greatly exaggerated, but better safe than sorry.
  
• Picks: A V-Picks Euro and a couple dozen Ultex Jazz III picks (mostly 2.0s, but with some Primetones) all in a tin that looks like the Awesome Mix Vol. 1 cassette.
  
• Tuner: Snark clip-on tuner which allows me to tune to A432.
  

[brewer]

I’ve decided to rework an older photo of mine, showing off my musical gear.

Family portrait:


String side:


Kalimba side:


And one in the old two-strip Technicolor filter in RECS:

#hailtritanopia. Good god, did I just do a hashtag remark in a context where it would be totally pointless?

I blew these up for old eyes. Hope you don't mind.

[Rev. Rye]

I blew these up for old eyes. Hope you don't mind.

Fair enough. Then again, all you needed to do was just click on them, and you'd see a larger, higher quality version of each photo.

[brewer]

I blew these up for old eyes. Hope you don't mind.

Fair enough. Then again, all you needed to do was just click on them, and you'd see a larger, higher quality version of each photo.

Ya got to tell the tech idiots this kind of stuff.

[Rev. Rye]

Fair enough. Then again, all you needed to do was just click on them, and you'd see a larger, higher quality version of each photo.

Ya got to tell the tech idiots this kind of stuff.

And speaking of tech idiots, it turns out the issues with the Vintage Phase pedal were actually all due to the battery crapping out. I just swapped it out and it works well again. I may need to invest in a proper pedalboard and power system, but maybe that should be saved for when I'm actually doing concerts, since it usually works well for bedroom purposes.

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Shine?

I'll see your Shining trailer and raise you this Oasis compilation:





Apparently, Noel kept putting the word "Shine" in his lyrics because he knew Liam insists on pronouncing it "Sheeyine" and he thinks it's hilarious. By contrast, Noel's pronunciation is fairly normal.

[Mr.Obvious]

found an older pic of mine

[brewer]

Sigh, you just can't leave kids alone around art.