Guitar Generation
Skye Severy
Now the pickups are not very good, i am changing those ASAP. It has an active electronic using 9V battery. But the Piezo system is excellent! I have used it in a studio for fattening up a real acoustics and it came out awesome. Piezo in this price range is beyond great. It is a GIFT. It has a stoptail bridge, a nice neck, deacent quality maple/rosewood. Frets are not very durable but hey... this guitar is made for a short term use only - maybe 5-10 years top (that is if you abuse it like I do ). For that price range it is great.
Versatility is the main thing here. You can choose wheter you want only the sound from the pickups, from the piezo or mixed together. To tell you the truth a never used the mixing option but it can be usefull if you want to fatten up the sound. It has an stereo output, to send a signal from a piezo to a left channel and pickups to a right channel. THis way you can plug them in two sepparate amps for example if you have one acoustic amp. Interesting but not very usefull to me because i dont have an acoustic amp. THe sound of the Piezo is just great. You can use it for studio recording easily. Pickups are nice, but not enough for recording. If you wanna record something - get some decent pickups . It is well worth it. If used for gigs guitar is to say perfect.
Now i travel a lot in a bus and go on gigs in different cities within my country with my local radio station. This guitar has seen all kind of abuse, falling and bumping (i carry it in a cheap gigbag). It has never failed on me. BUT be shure to have an extra battery at hand because of the active electronic inside. Even when battery is dead you can still get some sound form pickups, but not very good quality.
GOOD> Versatile, durable, nice looking, and VERY cheap for what is giving, excellent piezo cuircutry.BAD>Half-deacent pickups, little his noise from active, and half deacent frets but hey... the price..
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As you can tell, it's a Nashville Tele knockoff. The pup configuration makes this a strat/tele hybrid and therefore a very versatile instrument. 5-way switch, a good ash-tray bridge and some very decent vintage Fender-like tuners (they look like these from Guitar Fetish.)
The frets NEEDED WORK. They were a bit sharp at the ends, so I had to sand them down. I also needed to smooth about 10 of the frets out (did all of them to maintain a consistent height) because they were just scratchy, if that makes sense. At first, I thought it was rust, but it was just poor frets. Not to worry though, after the my amateur fret dressing and polish, the baby played like imported butter.
I'm very impressed with these "vintage-wound" pups. They're ceramic, of course, but they get the job done. The bridge pup is twangy. The neck and the middle pups are articulate and kinda-creamy sounding strat-type pups. I did run into an initial snag, though: the bridge pup seemed to be way too weak compared to the other two. They were all the same height, yet the bridge meowed when it should have barked. So I raised it a little and lowered the neck and mid down a bit. This produced slightly more hum because I had to play the guitar at a higher volume on my amp, but it didn't bother me. If it bothers you, you might as well replace the bridge pup and sell it on ebay calling it a "underwound" pickup, because that's what it really is.
Well, this thing needed a lot of work. But, the whole job took me about an hour. Like I said, it needed the fret dressing. It also needed a neck adjusment. I haven't done the intonation yet, but that's coming soon.
I haven't gigged with it; I'm a bedroom player anyway, but this thing is very sturdy. I like that it's well balanced; not neck-heavy like a lot of cheapies are. It weighs about 8 pounds (although the Peavey website says 7). It doesn't feel cheap at all. It feels like a mid-priced guitar.
I do have one qualm: it's not shaped exactly like a Fender tele. I know, I know, i'm a stickler (I hate the way Agile LP's look with that funky horn and I can't stand to look at Fullerton or Pacifica strats because they look deformed versions of Fender strats). I guess I'm a superficial bastard.
I purchased a used instrument that they described in the same manner that unethical eBay sellers describe their wares: the only thing a bit off about the guitar, they said, was that someone had sanded off the logo.
And when I was trying to give my shipping address to the salesperson, he was trying so hard to be cool that he was nearly incoherent. When I attempted to restate my address to make sure that he got it correctly, he cut me off and said, "Yeah, yeah, man, I got it."
It didn't arrive in a timely fashion, so I called the store and was treated rudely while someone got me a tracking number. When I plugged in the tracking number at FedEx's site, it was listed as having been delivered already. Guess who had to call FedEx and try to find the package? Yes. I did. And you can imagine how annoying that was. FedEx did track the guitar down: the really cool I'm-a-musician-not-a-salesperson salesperson had F-ed up the address in a way that was almost unimaginable.
FedEx was able to pick the guitar up, though, and they delivered it to me--but until I got it (a few days later), there was no guarantee that FedEx would be find it at the other address (it could have been stolen or the recipients could have got a free guitar and claimed that it had been stolen.)
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Around the campfire, at the picnic, or at a sleepover, we sing a song of friendship!
Dress your dolls in the lovely pale-purple sleeveless dress with a flared lace skirt to instantly stand out from the crowd. Bright fuchsia lace-up boots and matching star-shaped sunglasses will give your dolls a bright and colorful star quality. If the weather gets chilly, layer the teal cardigan over top to stay cozy. Your dolls are all dressed up and ready for their performance! Grab the realistic doll-sized guitar and strum a few notes. Your sing-along will be happening in no time, and your dolls will be sure to make some great memories!
Doll clothes are not quite like clothes for people, so they need to be cared for in a special way. A little prevention can go a long way towards keeping your doll clothes nice and tidy for years to come!
Doll clothes with embellishments like pearls, sequins, or other gems require special care so that the decorative elements don't come off. To repair your doll clothes, an adult can help you use a needle and thread to sew any rips or tears in the fabric, or to replace any embellishments that may come off during play.
For smaller messes, try using a clean, damp cloth to gently spot clean the clothing. First sponge up as much of the mess as you can, then use warm water to gently rub the area. Let the stain air-dry and repeat as needed.
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The CBA Generation Loss was a real eye-opener for me at that point and I used it then largely as a very warbly sort of lo-fi chorus really. I had not fully associated it then with being a Lo-Fi Modulator specifically vs a VHS Tape Degeneration Effect, while it inhabits a similar sort of space to the Champion Leccy Woozy, Fairfield Shallow Water, Hungry Robot Wardenclyffe, and Zvex Lo-Fi Junky - while each is pretty distinct in its own way too.
So the CBA Generation Loss Edition took on and added to the V1 Generation Loss in a few ways. The V1 consisted of 7 controls - with the central dial being the Wet/Dry Mix, then bottom left and clockwise - Generation (Sample Rate), Speed, Span (Wow + Flutter), Noise, High Pass Filter, and Low Pass Filter.
On the CBA Generation Loss we have separate Wow and Flutter knobs, Wet, High Pass Filter, Generation (Sample Rate), Low Pass Filter knobs, then AUX Function toggle : Modulation / Generation / Filter, Dry toggle : None / Small / Unity, and Hiss (Noise) : None / Mild / Heavy. And finally we of course have 2 onboard Presets courtesy of the toggle switch between the LEDs - and of course the 16 dip-switches on the top edge of the unit - for all the typical CBA Ramping and Bounce controls etc.
So the CBA Generation Loss adds in quite a bit more range and granularity to the V1 via its additional controls - essentially 6 fully variable, and 3 x 3-way switches. The step up between CBA Generation Loss and V2 Generation Loss is also fairly significant, and very significant per the first visual in the V1 vs V2 stakes.
The immediately noticeable changes are that the V2 separates out the Wow and Flutter Controls which were just Span in V1, and also Wet and Dry signal Levels have been separated out versus having a mix / blend - which obviously gives you far more granularity and flexibility in generating certain tones and textures.
The V2 also comes with dual-footswitches and 2 x push-button selectors, not unlike on the Arcades device albeit with slightly different functions. The Left-hand FUNC push-button controls the Function of the AUX Footswitch - you have 3 Functional Modes to select from as indicated in the visual :
The right-hand PRST push-button allows you to scroll through 3 user-definable onboard presets - more via MIDI. You need to observe the two LEDs for the number of Functional Mode or Preset you are in 1 : Left LED, 2 : Right LED, 3 : Both LEDs.
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