Geeetuhrs · 1:31am Aug 4th, 2014
(Didn't realize this doesn't autosize into a READ MORE thing, woops)
I decided to indulge myself and write up a quickie about my most used instruments~
This was my very first bass, I got it pretty cheap from a relative who wanted me to start playing. Before then I'd never played anything, but had fondled a few basses (and briefly played a single note during a music class in primary? Maybe?), and had really enjoyed the feel of those fat strings. It's a fender MiM 1992, and was pretty beat up even when I got it, then I beat it some more.
At some point I changed out the pickups for some hotter seymour duncans, everything else left stock. or well, almost everything. The jack was smashed in at some point. Poor guy. There's a faded painting of GIR over the bridge, that I did back in... 2006, maybe. The red tape was probably added around 2004-2005. A mistake, as pretty large areas of the bass is still sticky and icky as it keeps melting away. I keep having to clean it.
The stickers are Dir en Grey, the Studs (good good) and Like rats from a sinking ship. All good stuff, though Dir en Grey has become metal, somehow. Like rats members later formed "barren womb" (very good) and- "jesus fucking christ".
It's a beautiful sounding bass, and I adore precisions. I like a loud thumpy and rattly sound, which this does pretty well when it wants to. I haven't used it a lot on my pony stuff, but - I plan to use it more in the future. During my starting out period with this bass I played on a Peavey Series 400 with a Dynacord D-30 cabinet. I still use the Peavey 400. It's a pretty good transistor amp.
Now this is a guitar that I don't use very much, but one that I adore nontheless. It was a very cheap behringer strat that was given to me. It didn't sound very good, but it was a guitar to play on. I don't remember how long it took me before I modded it. When recording I usually borrowed my dad's guitar, which is probably why he gave me this one. I bought an SX Telecaster to use instead, after a - few years, I think.
I loved modding this thing, changing the tuners, and a long time later, probably around 2008-2009 I changed all the pickups with some I've gotten from friends, the stock bridge from the Telecaster and a GFS fake widerange bucker. It sounds pretty nice now. Currently it's tuned F#F#DDG#G#, and it sounds pretty good. It's the lead melody in the song I posted on my last blogpost actually.
The whole guitar is painted in waterbased acrylics, and I painted the back green with leftover paint from my little gir thing on the precision. The tremolo bridge was removed, and while looking at this I realize that the ground might not be reaching the strings anymore. I should fix that.
Around 2009 I painted the entire back of the neck white with pink and baby blue in a pattern, it was pretty cute, but hey acrylics wears away fast. I think I painted the fretboard a while before that, like a year maybe? I dunno. And it actually doesn't make it icky to play, somehow.
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My main bass! (I am mainly a bassplayer) This is probably the instrument I've used the most, I love it so much. One day I decided I needed a jazzbass, the sound is just so nice. After saving some money and finally hitting the shops, as I was a teenager at the time it felt nice to finally buy something from a proper instrument shop, rather than just hanging out there, trying random instruments. I was looking at the cheapest fender's I could get my hands on, when the salesman told me his favourite in the price range was a Coxx Classic J60, a brand I've never heard about, but- it was very nice to play on, after trying it out I took it home.
It's been my main bass ever since, it had pretty decent stock pickups, but they're now exchanged with seymour duncan sjb 1's. At some point I broke the neck, I have no idea how, as it seems to have cracked in a way that I didn't notice, then over-night (probably) been pulled apart by the strings. So now it is sporting an all-parts neck~
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Thu SX Telecaster~ probably my main guitar, this and the hofner are the ones I use the most. I have an Ibanez as well that I use, but not as much, but is almost a main as well. The first guitar I bought with my own money. SX's are pretty darn cheap, and I found this one in a ware-house shop of some sort. Which, luckily, meant I got to try them out first. I later exchanged the stock pickups with, again, seymour duncans.
I adore this guitar. The stickers are pretty much bands I like, and things I like. There's a Razer sticker on it, since my keyboard came with one, but- eh, yeah. I use another keyboard now, one that doesn't eat my T's when I type fast~ (I am a fan of vintage computers, so I went back to a nice PS/2 Mechanical keyboard) Luna has seem some really rough wear on this one. The smudge above on the bass-side of the strings used to be a cut up postal note. I used to buy a lot of CD's from japan, so I put part of the EMS postage note on the guitar for some reason. All gone now.
Although this is a fine playing guitar, sx is not reliable. I bought two SX Basses to use as backups or beaters during a school year of performing music, but- the pickups were awful (The E string being more or less inaudible), and one of them was so top heavy I couldn't let go of it or it'd topple over and fall off the strap. But getting a telecaser wrong is hard work, so it worked out pretty well for that.
I really wanted a jazzmaster, so I bought this. It was pretty affordable. Then the squire vintage modifieds started coming out (I was sure these were labeled fender for a little while?). I love it, though. It's nice and different~ The pickups aren't the best in the world, but I have no idea what to replace them with. This is my second main, so I've used it a lot of my pony songs, it's pretty good for the darker, fuller tones. And desert rythms, as I like to call them! Plonk plonk.
I drew a deer in a bridle.
I have some more guitars, including a banjo and some old auction lounge accoustic guitars. A fivestring seen in the background there, that I have never really used. It came with actives, now has an 8 string passive guitar humbucker in it, but it just doesn't sound veyr good. I still have hope for it, but- we'll see. Not pictured is a very very wonderful bass that I love, but one that is not in my house. A Fender BASS VI from their budget line~ (Mexico? I don't know.) I always dreamt of owning one of these, and then, bam, a nice cheaper version comes out. Now there's another one with different pickups, more vintage-looking, which makes me all wanty wanty. But I really adore that bass. It can really pull off the dark bassy parts with some addition of full, nice brighter tones. I love it.
I've slowed down on buying things, as I've bought some things I don't need over the years, but- now I really want a Fender Starcaster (yay for fender's sudden release of a lot of these old birds as budget line), Jazzmaster, Jaguar and a Gibson RD Bass. And maybe- maybe a Coronado- oh man, I want it all.
Vintage Coronado, tho. That tooooone!
2343156 Who'd want a Gibson semi-accoustic when you could get this!? So nicee
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Shame the re-issue changed the pickups and added a centre block, else I'd be all over it.