I have a Greco SG from 1989. I love it. Slapped a Bigsby on it and did the Neil Young mod to the Bigsby. Can pick notes and bend them at the same time. Fun stuff.
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Thanks! That could be helpful in getting me motivated.
Iām not totally inept at playing them either; Iām just not practiced, nor do I have calluses currently.
Iām fairly certain they all need new strings.
Im not going to be ripping through scales or anything but I can play some chords and have some slightly less than horrible degree of accuracy. Enough to record some stuff anyway.
It is pretty nice. I remember wanting one of these when I was wee youngin
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Those Epiphone Thunderbird basses pack a lot of bang for the buck. Big sound.
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Excellent to hear! Iāve noodled on it a while back but havenāt really dug in yet!
Between those three stringy thingys, youāve got some fantastic sample fodder hanging on your wall!
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How does that āmic positionā feature sound?
Iām digging it. It sounds to me just like youāre moving the mic around. Iām using this setup today:
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Wow, itās so much smaller than I expected.
Itās available locally now so way more interested, in the bass one. Iāve always been partial to a second mic near the rim of a 15" for that touch of flatulent growl.
Lately Iāve been on a bit of a vacation from electronic stuff while I work on some solo guitar music and I got a few upgrades for my MiM strat, including a new trem system (Vegatrem, https://vegatrem.com/) and motto pickguard.
So far I really like the vegatrem ā itās super stable, the bar is nice, and itās got a collar-attachment system so you can have the bar be as āfloppyā or tight as you want, which was one of my biggest gripes with the MiM strat since it comes with the screw-in trem bar which is impossible to keep tight.
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I love my Simplifier! Ironically this is very similar to my current project setup. Mercury 7 - Simplifier - OT.
Are your volume and gain pots noisy when turning them? Also, I have the tiny EQ knobs, your looks way cooler!
Hey stringy people! I donāt have an amp for my stringy things, nor do I have a huge desire to get one.
Whatās a good (your favorites) alternative for running my large stringy, and smaller stringy thing through for recording? As in an alternative to an amp and a microphone. Obviously the acoustic will get a mic 
Iām okay with software or a digital emulation (pedal or otherwise) for recording into a line in on my audio interfaces or samplers.
Edit: I was such a rebel growing up in Iowa that I despised guitars because I was one of the only people making electronic music in the area. People would basically (more or less) say itās not music unless you were singing or playing guitar. Calling them āstringy thingsā makes it easier for me to talk about 
, even though those feelings are long gone.
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I just heard about VegaTrem from my friend last week, when I saw him play with a trio. He wasnāt playing his usual stage guitar, a 65 Jazzmaster that he got from his dad and modded with Barden pickups, Mastery bridge, etc.
Instead he was playing a Strat that Iād never seen before, which was actually his first electric guitar (I guess dear old Dad handed him the JM later) . Heās into modding that one up now, starting with foil pickups and the next step being the VegaTrem.
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I like my Line 6 HX Stomp XL. It can also be used for processing acoustic string things, synths, bass, etc. The amp modeling is pretty good. Dunno how much was of the tech was shared with parent company Yamaha. It has USB audio interface functionality.
The HX Stomp sounds fantastic when paired with Line 6 Stagesource - a powered speaker with several Smart Speaker modes - basically speaker modeling. Modes include plain flat full range speaker, electric guitar amp speaker, floor monitor, keyboard amp speaker, etc.
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What kind of sound are you looking for? If you mostly play clean-tone type stuff and already have a DAW on your computer, chances are an audio channel with some light effects (smidge of compressor, reverb, and delay) would be more than enough. Most audio interfaces have pretty good preamps that do wonders. Beyond that (especially if youāre more interested in the crunchy side) most overdrive and distortion stuff is a little less plugānāplay using DAW effects in my experience.
If thatās more your thing AND youāre looking for something more on the amp simulation/modeling side of things thereās a few good VSTs that do amp sim + effects, etc. BiasFX, Ignite, and Overloud are a few worth mentioning.
If you donāt want a computer involved at all and already have/donāt need specific effects, youād probably just want to get a preamp to boost your electric signal up to a decent level so that it plays nice with everything else. Thereās a ton of options there, including a bunch that are in guitar-pedal form, tube ones, solid state ones, etc. Something like this electro-harmonix one would be fine:
Fender actually also sells a micro-amp thing that includes a bunch of cab simulation, effects, etc. as well: Mustangā¢ Micro | Guitar Amplifiers
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Nice! Yeah, so far Iām really loving the trem. Iām not a huge ādive-bombā type trem user, but my understanding is that all the folks in that world tend to like the vega because itās stable even when you do huge bombs or up-pulls. Iām mostly playing clean and finger-style but I keep the bar in-hand at all times, and Iām really impressed with how expressive it is along with the tuning stability.
Hereās a cheap amp sim pedal that gets some ok reviews:
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Dang, thatās a great price for an amp sim pedal. I have a Joyo pedalboard power supply and really like it, but would be curious to know how their effects pedal are.
Joyo products are exactly what they seem, inexpensive Chinese pedals, but this one in particular has a reputation. I picked one up cheap and it works great if you have a guitar input on your mixer or whatever. Ultimately the lack of line out or XLR means it doesnāt get used much for me.
Typical ignorance/arrogance of guitar people. They donāt have a damn clue. But we are not all like that! I am a guitar teacher and I much prefer electronic music!
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I have not noticed any noise when adjusting them. I canāt wait to use it with the mpc1000 I have on the way. Simplifier solves a lot of problems for me. Should have bought one a long time agoā¦
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