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  1. I'd second (or maybe it's third) the suggestion to try slightly lighter tension strings. I have a Taylor 314, and have switched to a silk and steel set (LaBella 710-L). The bass notes are smoother, less tubby than the usual Taylor-suggested phosphor bronze lights. Downside is that the unwound strings seem a bit more fussy to pick technique, and of course the guitar is a bit quieter.
  2. I think these guy are what the Ramones would look like if they had blonde hair..........the guy on the left looks like Joey Ramone to me I would have said Led Zepplin...
  3. I really like the "Vend-A-Goat" one, myself.
  4. +1 on the Big Muddy. I've had their little one, the MM-8, for about a year and a half. Fun little firecracker, but I had some intonation issues (new to mando, took me a while to notice). I ended up sending back to the builder, who fixed a couple of things and sent it right back. If you want to support a company that's in the USA and run by somebody who gives a damn...
  5. I see them more on electrics than on acoustics. There are two types, Indian scalloped frets and Vietnamese scalloped frets. The VN scoop them out the deepest. Very cool!
  6. Very cool - thanks for posting. I'd love to hear what kind of music they play on that super-scalloped-neck guitar.
  7. I'm 40, and I do a variety of work (mostly office & shop) for a high-quality sound company in the Chicago area. I still do have some of my own odd stuff which I can cobble together for a PA: MIXER: A Soundcraft Spirit RacPac, just like Audiopile's. Great little board, though I'd be a lot happier if it had channel mutes. Bought used (and not especially cheap) maybe 8-10 years ago, and I've only had to replace a couple input preamp parts in all that time. Fits nicely into one of the old Samsonite suitcases I use for hauling around stuff. I've also got a big DDA console I got used, which has a few more channels and much better EQ than the RacPac. SPEAKERS: A pair of EV "Force" 1x15 cabinets, originally purchased for playing upright bass. Tall and square, great low end. Not especially good at the power handling, though. Better-sounding than anything else I looked at on the cheap end, though. AMPS: For quiet stuff I've got a 3-channel 100 watt amp I built out of a couple salvaged chassis from a now-defunct power speaker company (Red Acoustics). For loud stuff I've got the classic QSC RMS 850. PROCESSING: A dbx Driverack 260 for system EQ and such - great swiss-army knife box, I can get extra outputs with separate parametric EQ for other feeds, solve various routing problems, etc. A dbx 1066 dual compressor, which I bought used last summer and really haven't used all that much. Also have a FMR "Really Nice Compressor" which is great for vocals, terrible on bass. EFFECTS: A TC Electronics M2000, bought used a year or two ago. Wonderful reverb, plus a bunch of other effects I never use. Completely different from the Yamaha reverbs I'd grown up on. MICS: A real odd lot, since I got more interested in trying out various mics instead of building a working inventory. I've got an SM-57, SM-86, Sennheiser 421 and 441, a pair of the original CAD E-100 mics, three of the CAD C-195 condensor vocal mics, and several Oktava MK-012s. Plus the mics I build myself, several "Alice", "Audrey", and a couple "Earl" mics. All of my own mics are condensors built more for acoustic stuff than loud sources - the Earl is specifically built for doing the live bluegrass "one mic" setup. The CAD E-100 mics are interesting, and I almost always use one for kick drum. DIs: A pair of EWI actives (LDB-101) from Audiopile. They sound great on bass guitar, plenty good enough on everything else I've tried, and have a ground lift switch which actually works. CABLES: Assorted cables, sometimes built as needed. I never really set out to build a show rig, I just accumulated pieces as needed for various odd jobs. Not really interested in making a living from hauling a PA around - mainly I don't like bars, but also because I'm more of an electronics and computer guy. With my current job I work the occasional show, but mostly I'm in the shop dealing with repairs, rentals, and other odd jobs like IT and website management.
  8. I've got one - it's pretty bare-bones, no preamps or anything. And the analog circuitry is on the card that goes into the computer, which is a bit of a sonic compromise to some folks. But it works fine - I've made some very clean acoustic recordings with no complaints at all.
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