Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
Forum Ringside => Guitars, Amps and Effects => Topic started by: MrBump on May 10, 2008, 10:19:28 AM
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Hey, guys.
This is probably an odd question from a 37 year old family man with a decent job in the city, but...
It's my birthday today, and Ive been given a total of £80. This is money that DOESN'T have to go towards anything for the kids, and DOESN'T have to put diesel in the car. It's mine. All mine.
And I'm VERY excited about it.
So what shall I spend it on? I could get a couple of BYOCs for that; I don't have anything tubescreamer-ish. Or maybe a cheap pedal board...
What would YOU get?
Mark.
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What would YOU get?
Very drunk :D
Happy birthday.
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BYOC?
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Build Your Own Clone.
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if you want something tubescreamer'ish, get a used SD-1 on ebay and mod it.
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BYOC tubescreamer would be good, hopefully you're better at it than me though :lol:
Either that or get very drunk as tonemonkey says :)
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Tubescreamer !
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Tubescreamer sounds good! dooo it
Happy birthday! May is a great month for birthdays, always good weather.
6 more days meself, and my girlfriends today
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9 days for me and an exam the very next day.
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May is a great month for birthdays, always good weather.
Mine's in June, but I hate the summer :evil: . I'd be better off in Scotland, or maybe Greenland.
Happy birthday Mr B!
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Happy Birthday MrB!
Hmm 80 quid... I'm not much in to pedals (that's Sue's department), I'd be thinking "That's almost half of a Stormy Monday set".
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If I had £80, It'd cover about half the repair bill on my new JMP50 I reckon.
But for someone else, especially if you don't have a TS-type pedal, I'd consider getting an MI Audio Blue Boy Deluxe. It's a very well made boost/OD pedal, that will cover all TS-type needs and many other tones too. At £79 it's a steal, and exactly the right amount !
BTW, happy birthday !
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Happy Birthday, now go get some beers!
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Statistically people born in May are the happiest of people and are less prone to depression. I was born on 2 June, so I guess I missed the boat by 2 days :D
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Hey, guys.
This is probably an odd question from a 37 year old family man with a decent job in the city, but...
It's my birthday today, and Ive been given a total of £80. This is money that DOESN'T have to go towards anything for the kids, and DOESN'T have to put diesel in the car. It's mine. All mine.
And I'm VERY excited about it.
So what shall I spend it on? I could get a couple of BYOCs for that; I don't have anything tubescreamer-ish. Or maybe a cheap pedal board...
What would YOU get?
Mark.
make it 6oo quid, 8 days ago and you have MY 37th birthday, and I got a Gibson SG :O)
Guess that's the difference between kids and no kids ....
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Statistically people born in May are the happiest of people and are less prone to depression. I was born on 2 June, so I guess I missed the boat by 2 days :D
Then why do I want to kill? :shock:
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Statistically people born in May are the happiest of people and are less prone to depression. I was born on 2 June, so I guess I missed the boat by 2 days :D
Then why do I want to kill? :shock:
coz you have exams...?
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Statistically people born in May are the happiest of people and are less prone to depression. I was born on 2 June, so I guess I missed the boat by 2 days :D
Then why do I want to kill? :shock:
coz you have exams...?
Probably :lol: .
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Hey, guys.
This is probably an odd question from a 37 year old family man with a decent job in the city, but...
It's my birthday today, and Ive been given a total of £80. This is money that DOESN'T have to go towards anything for the kids, and DOESN'T have to put diesel in the car. It's mine. All mine.
And I'm VERY excited about it.
So what shall I spend it on? I could get a couple of BYOCs for that; I don't have anything tubescreamer-ish. Or maybe a cheap pedal board...
What would YOU get?
Mark.
make it 6oo quid, 8 days ago and you have MY 37th birthday, and I got a Gibson SG :O)
Guess that's the difference between kids and no kids ....
That I did NOT want to hear...
:evil:
Thanks for the opinions, guys. I'm liking the idea of the Blue Boy...
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The blue boy is a nice OD, works well in the clean channel of my rockerverb so it should suit your Orange too.
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BYOC screamer is a great pedal I have one and it works great. Not too difficult to build took me about 4 hours (but most of the time was struggling with wire stripping, buy a wire stripper!)
Slightly over budget but how about a looper pedal? I just bought a Boss RC20XL off ebay and waiting to receive it. RC2 is about £115. Sounds like a really fun pedal to play with and ideal for both practices and playing with your band. Search for it on youtube there are few great demos.
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If you can, maximize on the £80 and buy it from america with the current ex-change rate you will have $160!
Chances are customs wont be bothered with a small parcel( they wern't when I recieved some heavy brass a day ago) and the shipping will be very small!
You could buy a Maxon OD-9(re-issue) for $150 or so.
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OK, for the sake of "closure", me and the wife went out last night and saw Iron Man, followed by a slap up mean at Ronald McDonalds finest resurant in Southend On Sea. This is soon to be followed by the purchase of a BYOC Tube Screamer...
Goodbye 80 quid, and thanks for the memories!
Thanks for all the tips.
Mark.
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Fair play :)