All Of My Gear Sounds Like Crap To Me Today..LOL

[STRATDELUXER97]

I was messing with this "Guv'nor" pedal that I built off of JD Sleep's Guitar Gadget website...This pedal sounded amazing upon completion a few days ago and after some added tweaks..Today I plugged first straight into my Marshall,then my BF Pro Reverb,and things just don't sound too inspiring to me today?I then plugged into the pedal and things went from bad to worse(Weird).. Probably just male menopause or mid life crisis or something huh? :laugh2:

I put my Tele back in it's case and called it a day... :newangel:

 

[seafoamer]

Re: All Of My Gear Sounds Like Crap To Me Today..LOL

Kill!

 

[kjrocks]

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Some days you just need to walk away.

 

[SoCalSteve]

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Isn't that weird? One day I'll love the tone I'm getting and the next I'm ready to go to ebay!

 

[YJM_Rocks]

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Full moon?

 

[Guitar Toad]

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better put it all on the trading post!

It's that problem blue strat or that problem Vox amp. I'll take em off your hands for you! :laugh2:

 

[STRATDELUXER97]

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better put it all on the trading post!

Naaah....I Just put the guitar away when this happens(Doesn't happen often)and go back to doing pedal mods or something else..

 

[Slash2987]

Re: All Of My Gear Sounds Like Crap To Me Today..LOL

It's the Tele's fault. I have a horrible grudge against Telecasters.... can't stand 'em.

 

[STRATDELUXER97]

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It's the Tele's fault. I have a horrible grudge against Telecasters.... can't stand 'em.

I didn't try plugging any of my other 8 guitars(Strats,Les Paul,SG)etc.in,but I assure you it isn't the Tele's fault...LOL

Maybe it is the full moon? :laugh2:

Teles kick a$$!

 

[XSSIVE]

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i don't get it...it happens to me too. one day my main guitar will sound great through my rig then the next something sounds "off" with it and i have to use another guitar. odd.

-Mike

 

[V-Spot]

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I haven't seriously played my axe for two days now.. But I've been busy with family and other stuff going on, so I guess it kind of goes together.

I've only written one riff in the past week

 

[STRATDELUXER97]

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My Vox Valvetronix amp into the V30 Marshall 4x12 sounds great today though..As it always does! What a great amp in this Vox...

 

[Lewguitar]

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I think there are a few factors involved when this happens: air pressure, humidity, fluctuating voltage...and just the way our moods and hearing changes from day to day.

BTW, old guitar amps from the 50's and 60's were designed to run at 110 volts AC I believe. These days the voltage coming out of the wall is higher which raises the plate voltage, resulting in a differant tone. And from what I understand from the inspector who just went through the home I am preparing to buy, voltages are going up again. 220 is going to be closer to 240!

Audiophiles who have expensive tube stereo gear are freaking out, according to the inspector I talked to, because the sound of thier expensive ausio equipment is changing to a harder, brighter tone because of the higher voltages coming out of the wall today.

What do you think John? BS or true?

 

[Mephis]

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I know the feeling, a few days after I put a Qp in my tele I just got disgusted with it.

I still am tho, quite a few weeks later.


Ohh well, You know what that means? EMG Time.

 

[DeadSkinSlayer3]

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I hate to say it; but I haven't had one of those days in a long time.

 

[Kommerzbassist]

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look at my avatar.

 

[greendy123]

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BTW, old guitar amps from the 50's and 60's were designed to run at 110 volts AC I believe. These days the voltage coming out of the wall is higher which raises the plate voltage, resulting in a differant tone. And from what I understand from the inspector who just went through the home I am preparing to buy, voltages are going up again. 220 is going to be closer to 240!

Audiophiles who have expensive tube stereo gear are freaking out, according to the inspector I talked to, because the sound of thier expensive ausio equipment is changing to a harder, brighter tone because of the higher voltages coming out of the wall today.

What do you think John? BS or true?

Hey Lew because the voltage is higher couldn't we use voltage regulating apc's power things to bring down the voltage.

 

[DeadSkinSlayer3]

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I'd say the voltage would have an affect, for sure. I mean; if something like impedance, matching or not, can affect the tone, why wouldn't voltage?

 

[STRATDELUXER97]

Re: All Of My Gear Sounds Like Crap To Me Today..LOL

I think there are a few factors involved when this happens: air pressure, humidity, fluctuating voltage...and just the way our moods and hearing changes from day to day.

BTW, old guitar amps from the 50's and 60's were designed to run at 110 volts AC I believe. These days the voltage coming out of the wall is higher which raises the plate voltage, resulting in a differant tone. And from what I understand from the inspector who just went through the home I am preparing to buy, voltages are going up again. 220 is going to be closer to 240!

Audiophiles who have expensive tube stereo gear are freaking out, according to the inspector I talked to, because the sound of thier expensive ausio equipment is changing to a harder, brighter tone because of the higher voltages coming out of the wall today.

What do you think John? BS or true?

I'd have to say the info you've given us is true Lew.My amps did sound harsh and cold this morning and I have seen the variances here at my own home through the wall outlets..Seems like voltage regulation might be the ticket if the voltages do raise up even higher...Yet my Valvetronix amp sounded great as always?

 

[kmcguitars]

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I think Lew is Correct In the house I grew up in the Electric service was from the 1940's or older? When my Father had the service Upgraded I Noticed
right away my amp sounded like crap? I had a SF Twin at the time. The notes
where Sterile and Ice picky now ( I guess the way a SF twin is suposed to sound) B4 the notes bloomed like a tube rectefier. So you figure it's summertime Hazy, hot and humid. Everybody has there AC units cranking.
this could concievable cause a voltage variance that will be audiable to
your high end sterio people and us guitarist. :13: