New Guitar

[Caveira]

Anyone play an Ibanez?   My son wants an NDM5.    We have a epiphone sg and fender squire Strat in the house as of now. 

[mspart]

I'd like to have an SG but my guitar display is full.   I don't play Ibanez, and have no idea how they do.  But it is tough to go wrong with a guitar and amp.   

mspart

[mspart]

Well, I didn't like the Hagstrom that started this thread.   The tone knobs or pots just didn't do anything until the end of the turn.   It also is not that easy to play.   So I need to sell that one.   In the meantime I got a Cherry Red Epiphone ES-335 "Inspired by Gibson".   It is a 2024 model and sounds great.   It has also been a little difficult to bond with but I'm getting there.   My LP is still my go to guitar.   This has classic 57 pickups which are not standard on these guitars from what I can find.   This picture is similar. 

I love the sound plugged in and it sounds very nice not plugged in.   But better plugged in.   It does a mean Back in Black just straight through the amp.   

I will be selling the Hagstrom.   I just have to get around to it.   I will be selling my 4 track cassette recorder as well.   That worked well but is just a little out of date.   

I may be getting a Behringer Centara pedal that is supposed to sound real nice. 

 

I have a few OD pedals so this will be interesting.  I have a Big Muff and it sounds ok, but adds noise to the signal that I don't care for.   I might be selling it soon as well.  Maybe I just need to play with it a little more.  I also have a Tube Screamer that I do like and won't be getting rid of that anytime soon.  

mspart

[Caveira]

6 minutes ago, mspart said:

Well, I didn't like the Hagstrom that started this thread.   The tone knobs or pots just didn't do anything until the end of the turn.   It also is not that easy to play.   So I need to sell that one.   In the meantime I got a Cherry Red Epiphone ES-335 "Inspired by Gibson".   It is a 2024 model and sounds great.   It has also been a little difficult to bond with but I'm getting there.   My LP is still my go to guitar.   This has classic 57 pickups which are not standard on these guitars from what I can find.   This picture is similar. 

I love the sound plugged in and it sounds very nice not plugged in.   But better plugged in.   It does a mean Back in Black just straight through the amp.   

I will be selling the Hagstrom.   I just have to get around to it.   I will be selling my 4 track cassette recorder as well.   That worked well but is just a little out of date.   

I may be getting a Behringer Centara pedal that is supposed to sound real nice. 

 

I have a few OD pedals so this will be interesting.  I have a Big Muff and it sounds ok, but adds noise to the signal that I don't care for.   I might be selling it soon as well.  Maybe I just need to play with it a little more.  I also have a Tube Screamer that I do like and won't be getting rid of that anytime soon.  

mspart

Want to get into / have pedals a bit more.  I’ve only started playing this July.  Have two classes of amps… the first is a fender LT 25.  I have 3 of these two in the house one in my buddies studio.  I just got a Marshall MG30GFX….  I’ve been learning mayonnaise from the smashing pumpkins and would like to stop having to manually switch presets.  Either way it’s awesome.  
 

is there any magic to pedals?   Quality?   Etc 

i want a bass guitar and an electric acoustic too but cant move that fast lol 

Edited Tuesday at 11:03 PM by Caveira

[mspart]

With the pedals, I have a few.   I have a delay, chorus, reverb, tube screamer, Big Muff.    Rather than put batteries in , I just run them all with a 9 volt adapter that plugs in.   I bought daisy chain that allows me to power all of them with one plugin.  Also I got patch cords to get them all in series or however I want to configure.  

Daisy Chain

 

Patch cables

 

Power supply

 

I got all of these on Reverb.com.   You can get them anywhere like guitar center or sweetwater etc.   I just cut a piece of plywood and put down velcro on the board and put the opposite on the bottom of my boxes and they stay in place pretty good.   It's nothing fancy that's for sure.   But it is fun playing with them but I usually don't get them out.   The amp has an overdrive that sounds pretty good and I just play like that mostly.    But it is nice to get some effects in there.  

You could bypass all of that and get a modelling amp.   I have a Marshall Code 50, but there are others out there.   They model all of the effects you could want and do it pretty well.   Mine is not the best.  I modified it to take a jack in the back.   When I plug in my speaker cab to it, it turns off the crappy speaker in the amp and sends the sound to my cab.   That sounds much better.   Good luck with all of it.   It is a lot of fun.  

mspart