- i dont use trem
- i beat my guitar like hellll
- mastery is too expensive
so i put wrap around bridge. haaha
(bridge post widening needed.
cost me $80 including secondhand wilkinson bridge)
sustain and tuning got much better.
and i love how it feels when palm muting👻👻
hey yall thanxxx in advance🩶
due to lovely comments and ideas last time,
i kinda made my life easier.
and for about ahalf decade, i had such help from reddit so ima try to be the help this time👻👻
ive been doing buskings for about 7 years now, and have learned things that werent on internet so here i go.
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<quick access pedalboard for guitar/singer>
i suck at guitar.
and i feel like dying when singing too.
i literally have no talents in music so everything is so hard for me.
oh, and im also dumb🫠
so, my pedal board had to be fuxxin easy to access.
(during buskings, i have to go smoke, pee, get laid, eat herbs so everything needs to be wirless)
Since my whole band members are 3,
me: vocal +guitar + drum machine
girl1: vocal +bass + keys + sample chops
girl2: "dance" with paper bag and a bat
i need
guitar processor
vocal fx
mixer
drum playing machine
on my pedal board.
and my life savior appeared.....!!!!!!!
" Boss Gigcaster"
it's a
-gt1000 inside
-full vocal processor
-7channel mixer
-absolute sound quality preamp(trust me)
-light and small (1.3kg)
-price under $800
-8 pads for playing backing tracks from internal storage (also capable with foot switches)
and most importantly.....
connects to GAFC !!!!
(originally made for Katana amps)
what that means is that
u can assign whatever fx from any channel to 6 footswitches
(i have 4 for guitar, 2for vocal)
in a very small slim foot print !!
which means that now i can stack 2nd row right above it!!
(i always stepped on stupid knobs cause i couldnt see my board properly while singing and playing at the sametime)
such a life savior....
(by the way, i had actual gt1000 and for some reason, the gt inside gigcaster has more clarity😵 i did A/B test using looper)
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zoom l6
yo this may look like a toy, but trust me. it handles big sounds better than my allen&heath proper mixer shit.
never distorts. i think its due to their weird setting of not putting gain shitt.
people complain about not having gain shittt but i never want my mixer to alter my sound sources, so i prefer it having only volumes.
Midi!!!! works absolute!
with Luminite M1 wireless tiny joystick midi attached to my guitar, now i can adjust volume of my guitar and drum in a finger distance access.
(people use knob type for volume, but then it takes more time and consentration. But with joystick, i use my pinky finger to just tick them. Much handy and reliable)
all my gear runs with laptop powerbank
(usb c to 9v cable)
(powering my mixer guitar vocal fx and pedals and midi, lasts about 8hours.
25000m, max 140w out)
not single problem happened for about a year)
now for boring stuff.
guitar chain:
Jaguar
⬇️
oc5 direct out (wet goes to Mixer L6)
⬇️
Gigcater (Gt1000)
⬇️
mini universe x2
⬇️
zoom l6
vocal chain:
Mic (senhiiiiiixer e945)
⬇️
gigcaster
(noise gate - enhancer - deesser - comp - harmony - radio fx - doubler - reverb )
⬇️
mini universe
⬇️
zoom l6
Drum machine/backing track chain:
Boss RC5 (drum loops and backing tracks)
⬇️
eq pedal with volume boost
( i stomp on chorus parts for more volume)
⬇️
zoom l6
<Best Speaker/PA portable>
this shittt is the best.
i have used
- cube street
-cube street ex
-hk audio move 8
- everse 8
- everse 12
- gigantic JBL
- yamaha stagepas 200
- yamaha stagepas 400bt
- bose s1
- mackie shitt
- and some china craps
among them,
best was stagepas 400
(clarity, headroom)
but every portable PA always has that problem,
"drop or cut in sound/volume, when drums or big sounds are plyed"
however, that IMi RoB-8 never ever had that problem.
clarity 10/10
volume 10/10
weight: 16kg
battery life: 20 hours (no joke. i tested it my self actual full band playng time. stand by about 2weeks....)
price: about $800 i think.
i found this brand/PA in Korea. i think they sell it abroad.
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<Pedal Board>
- ive recently bought boss bcb-1000.
i like how it is well built abd real easy to carry around.
the wheel work fine and the handle is medium robust.
But!!! the plastic shell? casing? itself is not thick or robust enough.
the way i use this is without the metal frame,
(not a common situation i guess)
so i had to put some wood plates to make it tougher.
this way, now i have extra height for stacking up my pedals vertically. (22cm....!)
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<wrap around bridge for Jaguar>
i never use tremolo.
i use fingers to pick quite a lot.
i strike my guitar like hell.
= jaguar/mustang bridge sucks.
the strings keep popping out!!!!!
everybody recommended mastery or else, but i thought, with that money, ill try something more fit for my needs.
so i went to local guitar shop with wrap around bridge and told the guy to make this happen.
he said he did
- a bit of shim,
-bridge shave (due to radius)
done.
cost me about $80 total.
(used wrap ardound bridge for $10)
im superrrrrrr happy with the result.
sustain improved significantly,
tuning stabillity much better
better for palm mute playing.
most importantly, now i have that gigantic space below bridge.
ima attach MPC Sample there soon👻
(i needed to play some samples real quick for my original songs)
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<m vave mini universe>
u know they cost nothing.
but for me, cost wasnt issue.
i fuzxin love how they act.
none of my other reverbs like bigsky or new nux shittt can sound like m-vave.
what i mean is that,
all the other reverbs wet volume max is around the dry. that is very normal.
But what i wanted was about +10~15db boosted Wet ShiMMERrR!!! for dramatic moments.
i ended up using 3 of them
2 for my guitar.
1 for my vocal.
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hope it helps those dumb broke untalented people like me haahha.
though im here playing in streets of a fuxxed up nation,
ima do my best playing and writing good shiiit so i can see y'all in real life soon👻👻🔪
till then,
cheeeeerssss
From: Dear DeMON🩶
@deardemon69
so im doing a band.
2 members only.
me : vocal + guitar + bass(oc-5)+ backing drums
the other: vocal + guitar/bass (bass vi) + mpc finger drum/keys
we play some of our original songs (@deardemon69) and hellllotta covers from nujabes, smashing pumpkins to elton john.
besides the fact that i need all sorts of sounds,
we got more than one role to play...
so i know there has to be limitations on shrinking the size abd weight of my pedalboard.
But i still think there's a way to down size more...
(we go buskings and play in venues 2-3 a week with 20kg speakers, a table and of course mic stands.
im dyingg.........
i really wish i could, at least, shrink my pedal board and place it in my guitat case some how.)
what i must have
- oc5 (for the lowest note function)
- drum machine (currently using rc5 for both drums and backing tracks loaded)
- 1 dist, 1 overdrive, 1 light rev, 1 shimmer
- vocal effects (1 shimmer, 1 lofi or telephone
the pic shows my current settings
(i colored them with siver crayons but those are
- gigcaster 5
- gafc (connected to gigcaster for guitar/vocal fx toggle)
-zoom l6
- rc 5
- oc5
- some m vave stuff
the case is 45*30*12 cm now
helllllllp
save my backbones yallll
p.s. its Seoul here. cars are almost "illegal".