u/Pitiful_Ad918

Tl;dr I’m trying to de-quack my American Pro II Strat. I currently use the neck, bridge, and neck+ bridge which all sound GREAT. But I can’t stand the 2 and 4 positions, too quacky and sounds like cheesy 80s soft rock to me. Middle pickup is OK but too trebly and not enough bass. I play clean or low gain, mostly indie rock and classic rock. I’m mainly a Tele/LP player, this is my first Strat in a long time.

I’ve tried the following to remedy the issue:

-adjust volume/tone on guitar

-turn down amp treble and increase bass (amp is dialed for the Tele neck pickup)

-drop treble side of all pickups and raise bass side

-add gain (amp gain or Morning Glory)

-lower middle pickup to pickguard

-play Mark Speer and Frusciante riffs instead of Lukather and Clapton

-soft rock exposure therapy

None of it has really worked. I’m thinking maybe a new middle pickup might help, something with more bass response and less quacky treble, maybe a Strat sized humbucker like cool rails?

Now that Madstad seems to have gone out of business, what are people using to mitigate wind buffeting? I have a 2019 CRF1000L base model that I can’t get rid of the buffeting. Even at city speeds 35mph I can hear it. It’s frustrating because if I tuck down, it’s a perfect quiet bubble behind the windscreen. I just can’t tuck down for 3 hours on the interstate, and I don’t want to look through a plastic windscreen to see the road.

Steps I’ve taken so far:

-Puig touring windscreen with and without clip-on visor (came with bike)

-cut down Puig touring windscreen with and without clip on visor

-Puig sport windscreen with and without clip-on visor

-plastic wind deflector that fits over the forks (came with bike) (edit: it’s called Swegotech)

-installed eBay wind deflectors (rubber strips on the side of the fairing under the turn signals)

-switched to quietest road helmet money can buy - Shoei RF-1400, always wear foam ear plugs

Tl;dr: should I wait for the bottom to continue falling out of the guitar market, or buy now? Is $3100 a good deal on a new Custom Shop telecaster? (Journeyman relic, 50s specs)

So I’ve been passively shopping for a Fender Custom Shop Telecaster and I’ve found 2 recently that have the specs I want. Both are new/leftover guitars a couple years old, both retail around $4500 and I’ve gotten offers around $3100 for both guitars. I’ve also had my local guitar shop offer me a discount on basically everything in the store - eg a new American Vintage II 1957 Stratocaster for $1250 (MSRP $2500). My anecdotal data tells me the guitar market is a buyers market, and dealers are aggressively slashing prices. Im not in a hurry to buy, should I wait for the bottom to fall out of the market a bit more, or go ahead and take the $3100 deal I’ve been offered ?

So I bought a bunch of cows recently, turns out the farmer was pimping them out for side money.

Anyway the cows keep mooing at me, day and night, for different things- water, food, need milking etc. Turns out the cows make a different moo sound for each demand. Imagine 37 cows just mooing incessantly for different things.

After 3 days, I couldn’t take it any more. I snapped and screamed at them, “DAMMIT I CANT KEEP ALL YOUR WHORE MOOS STRAIGHT.”