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They're definitely unencrypted. The only one I know of that uses encryption is a Mipro system. I believe Muse uses Sennheiser. Most of them do have some kind of companding in the RF signal that means you can't just pick it up with any old radio tuned to the same frequency. A way I know it could be done, but would be logistically ridiculous is to take the same model receiver with you, search the channels until you find one of the iem signals and then record the output onto something. Now, how you get that in there, and then power it (battery? wall outlet?) is beyond me.
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Original Bomber. Good gracious. Still my favorite by a mile.
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There are actually quite a few acoustic guitars with very similar cutaways. Google Venetian cutaway. Also see Florentine cutaway. There is a wide range, but its pretty standard practice.
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Ahh, yes. Option B for sure, although there's usually some back and forth. How it would be done is tune up to whatever pitch you intend for the guitar/bass to be in. It's possible you'd have to cut the nut slots bigger to accomadate bigger strings first. If so, do that. Most likely the truss rod needs to be adjusted. Do that, retune to pitch, check truss rod, retune to pitch. (that may only need to be done once or possibly not at all.) Then adjust the action up or down. Again retune to pitch. Adjust intonation. Smash guitar into Dom's drums.
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The short answer to what I believe the question is, is no. I'm using an online calculator for string tension here, so I don't know how accurate the numbers are, but it should work. Also only doing one string, but that extrapolates to all. Guitar string "6" .046 set to E - 8.78 kg .046 set to C - 5.53 kg Put on bigger string so you can set it to "C standard a la QotSA. .056 set to E - 13.58 kg .056 set to C - 8.55 kg Now I believe your question is if you put on a bigger gauge, and then made sure the intonation/relief were all the same...would the guitar be back into standard tuning..instead of tuning it to what you want and then setting all of those. The answer is no. In this case adding .010 to the diameter of the string and dropping 4 semitones actually ends up with very similar tension. So, there would actually be very little you have to do setup wise. Of course that's not always the case. No idea if I even answered the question, but I had a good time.
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I want that...real bad.
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Guitar center just runs straight off the prices that are out there. It's about a $600-650 guitar new? So they can sell it used for $500? Then they'll give you 50-60% of that price because they need to make margin on it so 250-300 seems about right. Now, they could run into a Muse fan and sell it for more than they think, but they aren't willing to take in that risk. Unfortunately mods don't really do anything for resale. The stock pickup could be better sounding to some, and then an aftermarket pickup (even a nice bareknuckle) has actually devalued it.
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Granted I'm not in the market for any kind of guitar at this point, but that price seems a bit high to me. You can get a brand new MBC-1, MBK-2, and Sustainiac for less than 1k. To keep it under 1k you'd have to install them yourself, but you could have a brand new version of this with tech install for like $1100. Good luck on the sale though.
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I've done BYOC pedals before. They're not THAT cheap, but they are fun, a good learning experience, and often come with instructions on how to mod them as well. Would recommend.
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Use the blue Loctite. It's not permanent at all. Even the red is still removable its just a pain in the ass. Another option is a dab of CA super glue. It doesn't bond to metals well so it isn't permanent and can act the same as Loctite.
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Not necessarily. If you make sure the nut slots are cut with files that have a rounded bottom then the thinner strings should still be fine. If you are going to put 12's or 13's on a guitar I would get the nut slots widened though. The strings will most likely bind and go out of tune at the drop of a hat if not.
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Not you, Kempers, a pedal tray, and Shure UHF-R receivers.
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It's most likely a chain of bass into OC-2 first. Dry out goes to Animato so that only the higher octave (where he's playing) is distorted. Lower octave is left alone distortion wise. Distorting the octave down would be a little messier sounding. Doesn't sound like he's using anything else on it to me. The pick is certainly important to the tone too.
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For Fury I wouldn't go with a clean amp with a Fuzz Factory. Just use whatever is closest to the VH4 channel 3 sound. I'm pretty sure the Fuzz Factory isn't present on Fury at all. It's whammy, delay, high gain amp. Any high gain marshally sound will be good. The VH4 (in the gain channels) is much closer to a marshall than a Fender. If I remember correctly you can put either 6L6's or EL34's in the VH4. I think channel 1 might be closer to a fender style clean, but I highly doubt Matt ever used it because it's not that great to begin with. I put a cover up over in the creative section of Fury recently in the muse covers thread. It's whammy, delay, VH4 sim in the Axe-fx. Personally I think it's pretty spot on.
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It's a harmonizer/pitch shifter. It's just freaking/glitching out because when he barely touches the string the signal level is too low and its struggling to harmonize with it.
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Yea, I think in the studio recording there is an assload of compression on the guitars an bass that give them this crazy swelling sound that helps with that. I just don't like what it does to the note attack, so I chose not to do that. I appreciate the feedback though. The one thing I'm really missing compared to the studio recording is the crazy delayed/pitch shifted effect on the guitar in the chorus. I can't figure out what that is.
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Full cover of fury. Working on my audio engineering skills. Things are getting better, but I certainly have a ways to go.
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An auto wah will most likely NOT do that. You're just going to want either a regular wah pedal, or a nice eq pedal that you can use as a bandpass filter. Wah pedals are just movable bandpass filters anyway. That sound comes from a huge boost in a specific frequency. Get a wah pedal, turn it on, leave it in one position. Also known as a cocked wah sound.
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I don't think he's actually using the wah probe there. It sound like a phaser to me. For his tone, humbucker guitar into Diezel amp. That's pretty much the bulk of it. For the parts mentioned where it sounds "wah-y" I'm sticking with it being a phaser and not a wah. Similar to a Mike Einziger vibe on the intro to Vitamin except with a shitload of distortion.
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This is a bit to vague to give a good recommendation so as others have mentioned maybe you can roughly define the following: Full 88 keys needed? Weighted keys needed? What kind of sounds and what quality do you want? Transportable for live use? Need a case with it? Budget. For example. I have an 88 key, fully weighted Casio Privia. It's not that great, but it gets the job done for what I need and didn't break the bank. I play mostly classical and other stuff with a piano sound. The other sounds on it are not great, but I use some vst's for recording other things. This may or may not be at all your goals.
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While I appreciate the insight, it would be much more useful if you could suggest a frequency band boost/cut in either to help with what I was trying to accomplish. Apparently incorrectly.
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There is actually a clean blended with any distortion at all times although the blend ratio may not be to your liking. I did clear out a ton of EQ on the bass tracks around 250 hz though to make room for the kick. If anything this was more of a progression in my recording/mixing/mastering skills which are still very new.
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Full band cover of The Handler. The guitar and bass were done with an Axe-FX II. Drums were done on superior drummer. Vocals were me singing into one of those sound catcher things.
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I'm not quite sure what you're asking, but the midi foot controller will remember all the settings you put into it after it is unplugged/plugged back in.
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For that kind of budget maybe see if you can just pick up a used powered PA speaker. For 200 you might be able to grab an Alto TS110A. It can also do double duty as a monitor for a band, party speaker, etc. Tons of guys in the modeling world go that route.