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money, as usual.
for selling the cases at around a hundred dollars seperately, they can ‘lower’ the price of the guitar to some degree. then sell you a generic case of shitty music store-brand ‘gig bag’.
one of the big chains, not protecting anyone just forget, got in deep shit with rickenbacker over this very issue. new ricks come with cases, end of story, and they weren’t complying. i know that rickenbacker’s owner fuckin hates guitar center, for various reasons, and he had no problem banning the store from carrying his stuff (or even copies of his stuff).
the big stores aren’t even a necessary evil any more, they’re just evil. i feel bad for the people that work there, bad for anyone whose ever bought more than a cord or some picks at one. those stores absolutely sicken me, and have from an early age.
on my jaguar i just wrapped the end of the arm in electrical tape, enough so it fit very snugly. never a problem with it falling out.
while i personally like the feel of nitro, the thinner less gloopy finish, it’s not just low end guitars- it’s pretty much any fender guitar that isn’t explicity ‘vintage reissue.’ my late 80s american standard telecaster, a fine guitar, has a poly finish. nitro is more accurate to the old stuff of course, but the influence on sound is very debatable … (there was a time when everyone stripped down their guitars of ANY paint, and guess what, tones didn’t magically improve overnight.)
fuzz probe for the win… does essentially the muff sound, plus the awesome squeal!
the tone bypass on the muff is interesting, what a mid boost! the foxey lady is pretty much thin and shitty, i could see how that would work on a solo, but man does that thing suck on its own.
great clip, thanks for it.
j’s rig is so much more complicated than it has to be, in my opinion.
supposedly he uses the jmp-1 (a 1u marshall tube preamp) for all of his drive sounds, using two big muffs (plus misc pedals) for fuzz and even more fuzz. the marshalls (and now the victoria twin) are there as power amps only. i would suggest they’re also there for the visual element of that many cabs + marshalls. i guess the victoria has more clean headroom than the marshalls.
additionally, the open back victoria has less than one half the sound projection of EACH of those 4x12s, so while it may be the dominant player in terms of the FOH mix, it’s not like it’s NEEDED with that wall of cabs. honestly, couple pedals into the 1974x, throw a mic in front… he’d still sound like J.
the more i read about ceriatone, the more it looks like a completely killer deal.
the 1974x is awesome, but they keep breaking. marshall reissued them pretty much exactly, and the output transformers can’t handle being run flat-out at all times, which everyone natrually does.
what is the actual scandal with the BJ Armstong LP Jr? seemed a little high for a more or less stock guitar but other than that i’m sure it’s pretty nice.
i have a fuzz factory as well as the wooly mammoth, i think they work EXCELLENTLY together- if i have one complaint about the FF, it’s usually lacking on the low end- kick on the wooly mammoth and you get wayy more bass. the octane is a completely different type of fuzz. i used to have a proctavia, but it broke, i’ve been looking for a new octave fuzz ever since. i think i may check out a fender blender, can’t really justify the expense of the octane.
come to think of it, octave up fuzz is one of the effects i don’t recall J ever using….
i had one of the cheapie sovtek big muffs. i thought it sounded merely ok, then it broke. then my friends stereo polychorus (at the time the most $$$ EH pedal) broke. thats when i decided not to buy electro harmonix stuff.
i think you’re hearing lou’s bass chords and thinking its the blue box. i’m not saying j never used the mxr pedal, but i’d never heard of him using it on the first couple records, and that pedal sticks out like a sore thumb. it does sound a little like lou’s bass style tho. either way, its by no means a crucial part of his sound.
the swollen pickle (discontinued, usually 500+ used) and the zvex wooly mammoth are both ‘heavier’ than the big muff, and are awesome for way bassy fuzz tones.
i have the wooly mammoth. one seriously expensive one trick pony, but i like the sound alot.
j was using an electric mistress at the time, but the ending chorus sound sounds like a small stone to me – but thats a guess.
