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21 Dec 2024, 8:41 pm

TIL: Will Kiillingsworth used an SG with P90s and a Marshall Valvestate when recording Orchid's material.

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I've been using the same guitar for about the past ten years now, which is a Gibson SG from the 90's that someone before me modified with a new pickguard which enables it to hold regular P-90 pick ups. I've just realized recently how important the P-90s are to the sound I've been getting for years, and that their clarity has allowed me to get away with some of the more dissonant/weird chords I use sometimes and have it not sound like mud. So, getting the guitar with them in it was really a happy accident I feel. That guitar was used for every track on Orchid, Bucket Full of Teeth, and Failures records. For Ampere I usually use the SG on one track and then a Gibson S1 from the 70s on another track, it has a thinner, cleaner sound, that really lets the notes shine through, but on it's own can be a little weak sounding.
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I started off in Orchid playing only out of a Marshall Valvestate, I think the model number was VS100 or something, it was when they were first introduced in the late 90s I think.
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For recording in Orchid, the first recording with Steve Austin was done completely using the Valvestate and no pedals. Then when we recorded three songs at God City I only recorded one guitar track, also with the Valvestate. When we went back to record Chaos is Me, and then again the 10", the Jeromes Dream split , and Red Scare split, I did an initial track with the Valvestate and then did overdubs with a JCM900 and a Boss Metal Zone pedal set with the distortion very low used as an overdrive. In the present day I can't believe I actually used a Metal Zone, because they're so noisy, and thin sounding to my ears, but somehow it worked.


I never would have guessed he uses single coils to get his sound. :nerdy:


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21 Dec 2024, 9:51 pm

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21 Dec 2024, 10:34 pm

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23 Dec 2024, 7:30 am

Honda is merging with Nissan. Mitsubishi might also be part of the merger.


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23 Dec 2024, 9:26 am

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23 Dec 2024, 9:55 am

funeralxempire wrote:
Honda is merging with Nissan. Mitsubishi might also be part of the merger.


Am not seeing this as a good thing reducing competition in the car market..... quality control ,might very well suffer.
Nissans regardless of other peoples opinion have driven and own a number of nissan cars . They cheaped out on the quality of the wire,they used to wire their cars with..And defective grounding to the chassis.Big issue for someone whom kept patching her high mileage Nissans for over ten years ,and overall Nissans( datsuns) were a part of my life for over thirty years. Nissan was the master of planned obsolescense before the word became well known imho.
A HondaSanubitsi..Car? is the new marque ?.??? j/k


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23 Dec 2024, 10:23 am

Jakki wrote:
funeralxempire wrote:
Honda is merging with Nissan. Mitsubishi might also be part of the merger.


Am not seeing this as a good thing reducing competition in the car market...


I'm not sure it really reduces competition, Nissan is currently owned by Renault. It's not going to make the market less competitive if the next Sentra is a rebadged Civic instead of a rebadged Megane.


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23 Dec 2024, 10:42 am

humpf...am not particularily fond of Renault either... 8O ...maybe they could help Nissan,, or just make them worse.
But Dud like the R- 5. back in the day, mid engined racing model. They looked very fun .. unlike my Old R-10 or
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25 Dec 2024, 5:53 pm

if you want something done, you got to do it yourself. The people at the group home took me to the ER & screw up things, I TRIED to talk to the nurses, NO ONE let me talk, someone else talked for me. The people may know me for over 7 months now, but they DON'T KNOW EVERYTHING about me, my own sister don't know everything too.



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06 Feb 2025, 3:31 am

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06 Feb 2025, 4:14 pm

I'm glad you got something out of my thread :P


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08 Feb 2025, 3:32 am

Nottingham is he only UK city where Hooters has successfully launched a restaurant. I wasn't aware they were operating in this country at all.


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08 Feb 2025, 4:20 am

Not quite today but an interesting thing I learned recently is its' illegal to collect feathers, and well I have a collection of blue jay crow and various feathers, had no idea you aren't supposed to pick them up. But I don't really want to throw them away either but I guess the big thing is it would be illegal to sell them. And of course I don't want to sale them I just like them and figured if a bird dropped it, it was free game as like I didn't harm the bird, just pick them up off the ground.
I would not kill a bird for its feathers for sure though which is probably where that law came from cause people were killing birds for feathers.


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09 Feb 2025, 9:34 pm

There's a map of the Grand Canyon that shows all the places of people who have died in it. They have little symbols that show how the person had died, such as falling, jumping, drowning, environmental causes (such as heatstroke), or even murder. when you click on the symbols you get some information about the individual in more detail. It's pretty morbid, but fascinating. :skull:

A lot of the deaths could have been prevented if the people had common sense and brought enough water their for hikes or hadn't been drinking alcohol heavily. Or didn't make the hike at all because their bodies couldn't handle it.

There was another map that was similar about Mount Everest. It has read flags for every body that died on the mountain. Even if I could, I would not want to climb Mount Everest because of all the frozen bodies up there. They haven't been able to get them removed because it's too dangerous. 8O



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09 Feb 2025, 10:57 pm

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12 Feb 2025, 12:25 am

Sweetleaf wrote:
Not quite today but an interesting thing I learned recently is its' illegal to collect feathers

Hmm.....I wonder how the makers of the cat toy I own managed to get away with creating it? There are feathers on it. Somebody must have collected them. I thought maybe it was a myth about the law, but I looked it up and the Internet seems to think it's true. Seems the authorities aren't smart enough to find the people who actually steal undiscarded bird feathers for profit, so they make a much broader range of behaviour illegal, and criminalise the innocent along with the guilty. I wonder if my purchase of the toy counts as collecting bird feathers? If it had been mail order I'd have had to collect the toy from the post office.