Bruce - If he was talking about distorted tones you might be right, but on clean tones the decay is much faster. compression/sustain pedals could concievably help a lot.

"compressor sustainer" is a bit of a bullshit name; it just means "compressor with a low release setting"

but yeah, i suppose if he's getting the sustain he wants with dirt a compressor might help

but honestly not buying a pointy balsa wood guitar would also help

[QUOTE=Bruce E Kinesis;17954911]"compressor sustainer" is a bit of a bullpoop name; it just means "compressor with a low release setting"

but yeah, i suppose if he's getting the sustain he wants with dirt a compressor might help

but honestly not buying a pointy balsa wood guitar would also help[/QUOTE]

He could also get a guitar with a volute, neck thru construction, a big headstock, a fat finger, super high output active pickups adjusted close to the strings and only a bridge pickup to reduce magnet pull, a solid brass stoptail bridge, a maple body, huge frets, a thick neck profile, and a brass nut with locking tuners and ebony fretboard.

But really, strictly speaking, theres nothing wrong with a pointy, light guitar from a design standpoint. They're not as robust in construction, but thats easy to work around if you dont abuse the guitar. They don't sustain as long as super heavy guitars, but they have a voice thats built for certain styles, just like a jazzmaster doesn't typically do high gain shred, a point light guitar typically has a harsh attack and a midrange tone that cuts through for the style of music.

[QUOTE=AG;17954609]I need to write 1500 words today. :([/QUOTE]

easy

Yeah, it's done now.

Dissertation = done

Gratz AG

[QUOTE=Bruce E Kinesis;17954774]The reason you're not getting the sustain you want is probably just because the guitar isn't giving it; I assume it's a light, alder or something guitar with not much mass to it? You probably won't find that much improvement.

What amp are you using? Sometimes the light compression of a nice valve amp is enough.[/QUOTE]


All my guitars are Basswood (so yes, light), though one of these days I do plan on adding a Mahogany body in there some where. My Talman TC420 is my main clean guitar seen here [url]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v193/leftfacedown/Musical%20Equipment/DSC00283.jpg[/url]. It is basswood with semi-thick 1-piece maple neck with rosewood board (bolt-on). Currently sports a DiMarzio Air Classic Neck in the neck and Norton in the bridge.


Sustain has just been something I've been paying attention to as of late. I've decided to get rid of my Ibanez RG570 due to it. My RG1570/Talman TC420 are perfectly fine distorted and *almost* where I would like them clean. All these are running through my Peavey XXX 2x12 combo. Which will hopefully leave one of these days and be replaced by a Mesa/Boogie Express 5:25 1x10 or possibly 1x12.


After I track down a 500K push/pull pot with DPDT on/on/on switch [mission for today] I'll also have a DiMarzio Area '58/Area'67/Super Distortion (w/ Series/Coil Tap/Parallel switch) combination in my Ibanez GRX40. It is a starter guitar, so my expectations are low, but pending it stays in tune it will probably be my sparkly cleans guitar and my Talman will be my fuller cleans guitar.

Sup guys stopping in to say hey

Spending money in my head that I don't have yet and wishing that the job market still didn't bite no matter how much Obama tells me we are out of economic troubles.


Sup with you?

Obama is a liar.

The best liar of the bunch, but still.

So tonight Imma get drunk on this:

[IMG]http://louisesoon.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/hoegaarden330ml.jpg[/IMG]

Then this:

[IMG]http://www.mediabistro.com/agencyspy/original/stella-artois-bottle.jpg[/IMG]

To celebrate 10,000 words in two weeks.

thats all youve spoken in two weeks?

EDIT: also, wtf whats up nick??

Hoegaarden rocks! Every time someone talks about Blue Moon (which is also pretty good) I show them that beer. I'm not really a beer guy, but that's good stuff

finishing up school

just figured I'd stop by and say hi

no time for forums really anymore haha

whats the schooling for?

[QUOTE=Left Face Down;17955092]Spending money in my head that I don't have yet and wishing that the job market still didn't bite no matter how much Obama tells me we are out of economic troubles.


Sup with you?[/QUOTE]

Yeah, because it's only Obama talking about consumer confidence coming back and capital starting to build again in the business sector of the country.

You are a moron.

Talk to me when unemployement starts going down Josh. If people don't have jobs (like me) we really could care less how well wall street is doing.

TBH i'm not even convinced Obama is a liar, he's just smart enough to know when to STFU

i seen a car today driving around a car park with an obama sticker on the back

what a douche

[QUOTE=Left Face Down;17955291]If people don't have jobs (like me) we really [B]could[/B] care less how well wall street is doing.[/QUOTE]

*couldn't

[QUOTE=Left Face Down;17955291]Talk to me when unemployement starts going down Josh. If people don't have jobs (like me) we really could care less how well wall street is doing.[/QUOTE]

People who believe that unemployment is the reason the economy is poor do not have a well grounded understanding in what caused and sustained the recession. And to believe even more that unemployment would turn around when the economy has been revitalized is even more laughable. Current levels of unemployment are due to the restructuring of the work force in the United States, from a manufacturing/producing sector to a service based industry. Why is this the case? Because many of the manufacturing and producing jobs were shipped out of the country due to the fact that cheaper labor leads to higher company revenue. It is a purely capitalistic system but not in a way that benefits American workers. What you have left is a dwindling manufacturing sector in the country with an education system that is in no way prepared for educating/re-educating enough people quickly enough to get ready for the growing service industry. Where does that leave the country? With a surplus of skilled workers with no demand to use them. Now that companies have sacrificed industry for cheap labor, you have a large pool of people who will have sustained unemployment because of the value of a cheaper worker over one that demands a living wage. What does this have for the future? Well, the industries that have exported their factories over seas have done nothing but train those countries' citizens to do their work at a very high, efficient level. Do you think these workers or the children of these workers will be satisfied in the working conditions they have now? Absolutely not. What you will see is a growing industrial sector in these 2nd world countries which are beginning to industrialize themselves. So, in the interest of supporting the "burgeoning global capitalist economy" and exporting their businesses else where, American companies have done nothing but 1) eliminate the market for the American worker, and 2) Provide the information and technology necessary to start the industrialization of second world countries, creating a work force that is superior to that of the American industrial worker.

But that's wasted information on people like you who are comfortable in your vast ignorance as long as it justifies your misleadings.


And then to go, hur dur when will someone give me a job when all you do is post on here? It's ineffable.

[QUOTE=Bruce E Kinesis;17955323]he's just smart enough to know when to STFU[/QUOTE]

If only he'd shut up completely... I get a headache when I hear him explain to me that a law making it illegal to be an [i]illegal[/i] immigrant goes against the American idea of fairness. I'm sure there's more than a few folks who waited years for legal citizenship that disagree as well.

TBH the dude has a PhD in law; you can blame your education system for his having to talk down to 'y'all'

b-but he is brown

Except that he's "talking down" because an oversimplification is the only way his statements fly. He [b]can't[/b] go deeper into why it's fair to knowingly allow (and hence [i]encourage[/i]) illegal immigrants to stay here when folks have to spend years (and $$$) on a waiting list trying to do it the [i]right[/i] way.

He keeps it simple so folks can keep imagining this is a fight against brown skin and he doesn't actually have to dance around new ways to imply it, and distract folks from the fact that this is a battle thats already been fought and decided. We aren't talking about unethical immigration are we?! Arizona had to protect itself from [i]illegal[/i] immigration because our federal government refuses to act on laws already on the books.

If B.O. thinks labeling certain types of immigrants "illegal" is racist, he's got a new war to wage and a law to repeal, but until then he should stop picking and choosing which laws to enforce.

[QUOTE=JoshIsNumber3;17955349]People who believe that unemployment is the reason the economy is poor do not have a well grounded understanding in what caused and sustained the recession. And to believe even more that unemployment would turn around when the economy has been revitalized is even more laughable. Current levels of unemployment are due to the restructuring of the work force in the United States, from a manufacturing/producing sector to a service based industry. [B]Why is this the case?[/B] Because many of the manufacturing and producing jobs were shipped out of the country due to the fact that cheaper labor leads to higher company revenue. It is a purely capitalistic system but not in a way that benefits American workers. What you have left is a dwindling manufacturing sector in the country with an education system that is in no way prepared for educating/re-educating enough people quickly enough to get ready for the growing service industry. [B]Where does that leave the country?[/B] With a surplus of skilled workers with no demand to use them. Now that companies have sacrificed industry for cheap labor, you have a large pool of people who will have sustained unemployment because of the value of a cheaper worker over one that demands a living wage. [B]What does this have for the future? [/B]Well, the industries that have exported their factories over seas have done nothing but train those countries' citizens to do their work at a very high, efficient level. Do you think these workers or the children of these workers will be satisfied in the working conditions they have now? Absolutely not. What you will see is a growing industrial sector in these 2nd world countries which are beginning to industrialize themselves. So, in the interest of supporting the "burgeoning global capitalist economy" and exporting their businesses else where, American companies have done nothing but 1) eliminate the market for the American worker, and 2) Provide the information and technology necessary to start the industrialization of second world countries, creating a work force that is superior to that of the American industrial worker.

But that's wasted information on people like you who are comfortable in your vast ignorance as long as it justifies your misleadings.


And then to go, hur dur when will someone give me a job when all you do is post on here? It's ineffable.[/QUOTE]

i wasnt going to ask those questions at all dick

[QUOTE=purple_hazer;17955522]i wasnt going to ask those questions at all dick[/QUOTE]

Why I oughtta!

[QUOTE=JoshIsNumber3;17955349]
But that's wasted information on people like you who are comfortable in your vast ignorance as long as it justifies your misleadings.


And then to go, hur dur when will someone give me a job when all you do is post on here? It's ineffable.[/QUOTE]

Hur dur I did go to college for 5 1/2 years and get not one, but two Bachelors degrees in fields of Engineering and a minor in Mathematics.


Also, and take a picture if you want, but I AGREE with what you said and know that American business have been exporting jobs to foreign countries for a while now. I remember that being a topic when Clinton was the President. The thing is, my field isn't one of those majorly hurt by that and the economy is what hurt my field.

With that said. If you don't think the economic downfall in recent years had no part, let alone a big part, in the massive unemployment we currently see then you are off your rocker.



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So about those Compression/Sustain pedals... tried out the BOSS CS-3 and the MXR Dyna Comp today. Neither of which are true-bypass I believe, but the BOSS is by no means where the Dyna Comp wasn't that bad. I still felt kind of limited with the two knobs though. I liked the features of the BOSS, hated how it colored the tone way too much. With the MXR it was kind of a, why would I pay money just for this?

i like my marshall ed-1 a good few features and tru bypass, + pretty cheap

ITT: josh

Can any of the americans explain why Canada completely rapes you in terms of employment and safety? You're pretty much the same country, so why is Canada so much better?

Lack of Mexicans?


Well, in terms of safety they factor in badly but employment they should help if they are legals. My damn safety teacher lectured for like two days how workers born in Mexico who come here (legally or illegally) often can't read/speak English well enough to understand our safety manuals or people telling them verbally. Also a lot of them can't even read Spanish apparently. Either that or my Safety teacher is not only crazy but stupid; cause he was crazy.