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If you’re going to get a banjo, you may as well get bagpipes and a kazoo. They’re cheaper as a set. I’d be a bit leery of the Ibanez mandolin, simply because Ibanez isn’t a name you see in the Bluegrass world. But I endorse the mandolin concept. They sound very nice, and they’re fun to play...

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No one ever needs to record “Wish You Were Here.” It was perfect the first time.

You will enjoy that. I love the color.

So, I have two extremes. On the one, the venerable MXR Dyna Comp. Stupid simple, and it works. It’s a bit noisy. On the other, the TC Electronic Spectra Comp for bass. You can use software to adjust every single setting to within a nano of your heart’s desire, and then beam a signal with those...

Friend, you’re your own worst enemy! Join the club. You will fit in just fine. :cool: PS I love my Epi too. Amazing quality for a fraction of the cost of a Gibson, which conscience would never let me afford. Two boys in college and what not.

Great read. Although Epiphone as a company is long gone, it’s cool that Gibson respects the heritage and reintroduces things like the Masterbilt line decades later.

Those are very cool. It’s funny how hard we try to emulate warbly tape delays. Back then, those guys would have killed for a super-clean digital delay!

Nothing like sticking your nose in the sound hole of a good acoustic and smelling the wood! I’m sure you had some great experiences at the factory.

Well, if you went and screwed up the old one, yeah, replace it. :LOL: Learning about guitars is a life-long journey and we’ve all been there. Enjoy your Les Paul (I also have an Epi Les Paul, in honeyburst) and happy playing!

A Les Paul (or any other) fretboard can be “conical” as you say, but it will be called a “compound radius.” For example, the specs might say compound radius 12-16” which means the fretboard begins at the nut with a 12” radius and flattens to a 16” radius as you approach the highest fret. The...

Everybody can play like McCartney! He’s not a fast or complicated bass player. But his lines are melodic and clever, like his songwriting. Geddy and Chris and others, I can’t keep up with…:confused:

Well, the question is, what do you want to do with it?

I have the MXR Carbon Copy and like it a lot. I’d like a tremolo pedal. I have tremolo on a Peavey tube amp. It sounds good—it’s real analog tremolo—but obviously I can only use it on that amp. Amp effects are always one trick ponies too.

I decided at Christmas I wouldn’t buy any gear this year, and would join Fender Play and Guitar Tricks instead. Which I did, and I’ve played/practiced nearly every day for about an hour since then. I also bought two amps, a guitar and several pedals. And a case for the guitar. And an audio...

Blue and black with a maple neck is great look. :cool:

I’ve been playing this a lot recently, through a Mesa 1x12 cab. Orange Terror Stamp. It really sounds good—20 watts with a 12AX7 in the preamp. I think maybe I just like the sound of the cab too, and this is something I can use at bedroom volumes in the man cave.

I This was asked on Phil McKnight’s podcast last week. His immediate response was the TC Electronic Ditto, and then the Boss RC-1. I have the single-button Ditto and like it, but I’ve never used another one, so I can’t compare it to anything. It’s a handy practice tool.

Yeah, he’s a candidate to take a lawn mower blade to you skull, for sure.

It took out the motorcyclist too. The boom was probably the transformer blowing when a motorcyclist traveling 100 mph un-assed the bike and snapped the power pole.