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The Wood Wizard wrote:I use gravity picks. I love em. hell send you a free one if you email him and ask. I use 3 different models, they add a sweet sparkle to cleans and they last a long time. AANN they glow in balck lights!!

I considered picking up a few gravity picks, as I've already been playing with V-picks for quite some time now. The acrylic material is nice, a little tack in your fingers so they don't move around so much. My ONLY issue was that somehow I manage to wear through the bevel in all of about a week, on the pointed picks anyway. Rounded picks last a bit longer, but they don't have quite the same clarity that I need for rolled off cleans. I decided to pick up a few Clayton picks a few weeks ago, and they're a nice mix of feel of v-picks without worrying about the premium. The S-Stones in particular feel a lot like V-picks, and they wear down quite a bit differently. I also picked up some of their horn material picks, which I'm not quite sure how to describe yet.

I may see if I can squeeze a free Gravity Pick out of Chris in the next few weeks, but I'm not worried considering I have 6 of these S-Stones to grind up first.

those looks cool but I wear through picks so fast I don't think I could justify the expense. the black dunlop nylon ones are the only ones I don't seem to shatter or wear through in a day.

do the$10 picks
end up in the same wvortex
as the 50€ ones
i havent shattered a pick yet
thats freakin hardcore
bananabacker is comin along
released the string tension
and started tightening the truss rod
today when i turned it
it turned real freely in the hole
and then back to tight
i think the hex nut is wedging itself half turn
so when it was built
it fooled the torque wrench into thinkin it was tight
anyway its gettin way straighter
went from 3/8" bow
to under a quarter in not even a full turn yet
just needed some trussrod tension
when there was none
ima paint this fucker BLOODBURST
maybe festeringbananaboilburst
i dont know

dazedbyday wrote:

deathmonkey wrote:

vidret wrote:what the fuck did i just do, i got bored and browsed TGP for 10 minutes and ended up ordering THREE PICKS for 30$.

i'm staying away from that place, what the FFFFF

When everyone was talking about how good the mxr micro amp sounded, I decided i needed one and when i couldn;t find one cheap enough, ordered a kit to make one off of GGG. I've never made a pedal in my life, and I have no idea how this will turn out.

We have the same disease, friend.

Good luck dude. Building is fun. I actually got inspired by the distortion+ and will be putting together a modded one that my other guitarist or bass player might use. I was also thinking of putting a distortion+ and a micro amp in the same box.

Yeah man. i sort of want to try that too, but you know.... baby steps.

haha, yeah. I started with kits too. It is really great to have everything in one place.

I really like your etched boxes. At the very least you will have really good looking boxes when you start putting the pedals together.

Does anyone here use drum machines? obviously not in the band, but at the riff writing stage.

when i say drum machine, i mean a real physical one that i can use sticks or hands to tap on, not computer program. I'm thinking about doing the drums for our tracks and then giving that to the drummer to use and embellish on.

any thoughts or recommendations?

EDIT: just found this...looks like fun
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGpSjCdJM_s[/youtube]

vidret wrote:i've never paid more than a dollar for a pick...
it's over 30 liters of milk.

Now that's perspective.

Do any of you guys in the UK/US/Eurozone get ripped the fuck off for milk? Is my country the only one having some bizarre supermarket monopoly power play going on?

Nice ones go out to Cpt. Boxman, by the way. How many exams you got left man?

5 2 hour exams left over the next 3 weeks. Some are nicely spaced out and some are cramped together. Some have reasonable subjects, some were presented terribly. I bet you can guess which go with which, right?

The real issue isn't actually writing an essay in an hour; that's easy enough with practice and proper revision. It's the fact that there are 20 lectures for each exam, but we only get 4 questions in the exam, and only answer 2, so the odds are really shit for actually being able to revise exactly the right stuff. There doesn't even necessarily have to be 1 question from each lecturer either, it can be all questions from 1 lecture series if they want.

Jesus Fucking Christ dude, that is brutal.
I had forgotten what end of semester exams were like (a scaled down version of that, IIRC) but that's finals and that is nuts. I love how broad they make shit so it makes it hard to nail down a topic and own it.
Damn, man. You're gonna be nailed to your books.
You'll be cool though. You're a smart and resourceful guy...wait, no. Smart and resourceful MOTHER FUCKER!
Sorry, I always find it helpful to think in a Samuel L. Jackson voice. It makes it feel like you can kick anything/ones arse.
Try it. You'll like it.

I'm gonna stop typing now.
You'll be fine.

dazedbyday wrote:haha, yeah. I started with kits too. It is really great to have everything in one place.

I really like your etched boxes. At the very least you will have really good looking boxes when you start putting the pedals together.

...phrasing.


Thanks though. I'm pumped to try it. Will get my mind off some shit.

I'll let the statement stand.

samuel l jackson voice
thats so funny
all pointin at you and shit
kinda lookin down his nose
see so much whites of his eyes
you..are….a smart…..AaND resourceful..motherfuker
the and is kind ofsarcastic
kangol hat

samzadgan wrote:Does anyone here use drum machines? obviously not in the band, but at the riff writing stage.

when i say drum machine, i mean a real physical one that i can use sticks or hands to tap on, not computer program. I'm thinking about doing the drums for our tracks and then giving that to the drummer to use and embellish on.

any thoughts or recommendations?

EDIT: just found this...looks like fun
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGpSjCdJM_s[/youtube]

I use an Alesis DM5 pro. It is ok, can sound decent if you spend time with tweaking it. The only thing that sucks is if you are like me and are used to pounding the shit out of real drums. You don't have to do that with these and it took me a while to get used to them. I still mess around with them but now I'm using EZ Drummer to program all of the drums on the demos I write.

Also, I scored some sweet vinyl this week. I traded my old band's cd and a t shirt for an autographed copy of Terrifyer that the guy won in a contest from Relapse. Came with a poster too:



Then when I get home this morning I found this waiting on me:



Doom Room representin like a sumbitch. Shit is so good. Snagged one of five test pressings the other day.

Dude Clifton thats a sweet score!!!!!!

ryan summit wrote:samuel l jackson voice
thats so funny
all pointin at you and shit
kinda lookin down his nose
see so much whites of his eyes
you..are….a smart…..AaND resourceful..motherfuker
the and is kind ofsarcastic
kangol hat

OMG... I haven't thought about Kangol Hats in forever...... makes me miss my JNCO's and UFO's, not to mention all the arm candy and my tongue piercing.... God I was such an idiot teenager...