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dudelove
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Check this out guys, I ordered a slide from the good people at Diamond Bottlenecks a while back and after many delays with their shipment due to the heavy snow and all that crap, they finally started work on my slide.
It's in a lovely cranberry red, and its completely built to fit the exact requirements of my finger - diameter, length, slide thickness. I can't wait to try it out. My current "medicine bottle" slide is really hard to play so I'm gonna need the perfect fit and comfort to make up for lack of talent. Hehe, that's just my stupid excuse to warrant such a purchase.
Any slide enthusiast out there?
It's in a lovely cranberry red, and its completely built to fit the exact requirements of my finger - diameter, length, slide thickness. I can't wait to try it out. My current "medicine bottle" slide is really hard to play so I'm gonna need the perfect fit and comfort to make up for lack of talent. Hehe, that's just my stupid excuse to warrant such a purchase.
Any slide enthusiast out there?
What material is yours gona be made out of? Looks like plastic from the photo but I'm not sure... Love listening to derek truck's slide work but I need a lot more than a perfect slide to play decently.
Btw, the MKII is one killer pedal. Have yet to try it in a jam setting cos my PSU died just before the jam
Btw, the MKII is one killer pedal. Have yet to try it in a jam setting cos my PSU died just before the jam
dudelove
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@wck: Plastic!?! Hahaha that's hand blown lead crystal. It looks like that because it's unfinished. Still quite some bit of work to do till the finished product.
This is off their site:
Derek trucks is inhuman. There are some single string licks that I can pick up from him. But my main influence for slide now is Rory Gallagher, the amount of energy he puts in his playing is just phenonemal, in other words, he's very my type of blues player.
I'm still pretty much a beginner and I just know a few licks here and there in open tuning and standard tuning. Learning to play those simple licks very awesomely is what's important for me now. Playing something simple but playing it well is much more impressive than playing something difficult but doing it poorly or mediocrely.
I'm glad you like the MKII. Try stacking things behind it. To me that's when the magic happens. Go easy on the gain of the pedals stacked behind it though, it gets flubby and muddy.
This is off their site:
Derek trucks is inhuman. There are some single string licks that I can pick up from him. But my main influence for slide now is Rory Gallagher, the amount of energy he puts in his playing is just phenonemal, in other words, he's very my type of blues player.
I'm still pretty much a beginner and I just know a few licks here and there in open tuning and standard tuning. Learning to play those simple licks very awesomely is what's important for me now. Playing something simple but playing it well is much more impressive than playing something difficult but doing it poorly or mediocrely.
I'm glad you like the MKII. Try stacking things behind it. To me that's when the magic happens. Go easy on the gain of the pedals stacked behind it though, it gets flubby and muddy.
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Haha paiseh. The rough unfinished look makes it look like some plastic thingy and I was wondering why you'd ordered a custom PLASTIC slide haha. Yes it is insanely hard and it doesn't help that I'm not that good a player to get the hang of it.. I still prefer Truck's/ Allman brother's style but Gallagher's is a pretty sick player as well and not just on slide.
Yeah, thats what I've been doing. I find that it opens up more with my Goose BD-2 after it with slightly above 1/4 gain on it. Tried boosting it with the BD-2 before but it didn't sound good to me.
Yeah, thats what I've been doing. I find that it opens up more with my Goose BD-2 after it with slightly above 1/4 gain on it. Tried boosting it with the BD-2 before but it didn't sound good to me.
dudelove
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There's just something about slide solos that have so much feel to them. For example, when I hear an Allman Brothers song, it's always the slide solo that sticks out, the normal solo sounds very meh to me compared to the slide solo. Go buy Hittin' the Note by the Allman Brothers. Derek Trucks and Warren Haynes absolutely rip on that album.
I'm really working hard to play some good slide stuff but it's difficult since most players dedicate a specific guitar to slide (action, tuning). Time for a new guitar maybe? SG?? Hehe I've no money anyway.. sobs
Oh, I love country music as well and pedal steel, lap steel players always leave me in awe. And I'd love to play a resonator one day.
I'm really working hard to play some good slide stuff but it's difficult since most players dedicate a specific guitar to slide (action, tuning). Time for a new guitar maybe? SG?? Hehe I've no money anyway.. sobs
Oh, I love country music as well and pedal steel, lap steel players always leave me in awe. And I'd love to play a resonator one day.
That album is really good man. My favourite track on that is old friend, I saw a video of them playing that song in a dressing room and its still awesome..
Haha yeah, I wish I had a guitar just for slide. Its not easy even with 11s on my strat, the action is still too low for slide and if i make it higher it'll be uncomfortable to play normally.
Haha yeah, I wish I had a guitar just for slide. Its not easy even with 11s on my strat, the action is still too low for slide and if i make it higher it'll be uncomfortable to play normally.
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lazy3yed
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Ibby RT450TS
New pickguard ish in!!! Yay! Looks very AT now. As for the tuners, think I make do with the Sperzels for the time being.
Copper shielding done. New 5 way switch installed. Grease applied to make the action smoother. The Gotoh YM50s are rather stiff. Wanted to change to the VLX91 but had problems coming up with a scheme to tap the outer neck coil instead of the inner coil). So I gave up and used the YM50 which it originally came with.
And I finally got around to moving the controls on the Kleinulator to the front. Makes more sense to me.
New pickguard ish in!!! Yay! Looks very AT now. As for the tuners, think I make do with the Sperzels for the time being.
Copper shielding done. New 5 way switch installed. Grease applied to make the action smoother. The Gotoh YM50s are rather stiff. Wanted to change to the VLX91 but had problems coming up with a scheme to tap the outer neck coil instead of the inner coil). So I gave up and used the YM50 which it originally came with.
And I finally got around to moving the controls on the Kleinulator to the front. Makes more sense to me.
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Benster
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here one for 2011
that is a smokin' eastern maple top! which model Lester is this?
dezng
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It's the Collector's Choice #1 1959 Les Paul Standard Melvyn Franks VOS
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