ASK JOHN JUSTEN

you got time to lean you got time to clean

I will try to answer these questions as soon as I am less hung over than I am now.

Oh what the hell.

Telecaster - I am totally down with the classic single coil config, but I also enjoy P-90's. When it comes to humbuckers, I really prefer the wide-range humbuckers (old school chrome covers with Fender written across the top) Be forewarned though, both the wide-range (which are non-standard sized) and P-90 options limit your ability to sub out with other pickup options, so make sure you like them as they are. Also acceptable, but not my thing - humbucker in neck position, single coil in bridge.

Telecasters with standard size humbuckers in the bridge = guy who wants to look like he likes teles, but is actually living a lie.

Archtops? sure. Unless you are small statured, in which case the bigger body might get in your way. Any guitar that doesn't suck is fine to learn on.

that was hard

I'm unhungover now, and still agree with what I said up there, so it must be true. (no joke it took me fifteen painful, distracted minutes to write that last night)

Thanks, it sounds like I'm fairly safe sticking to my Telecaster plan for now.

second question: I need to get a Pod-type of thing for hotel room practicing. Any opinion on the various makes/models?

Well, the thing that people forget is that pretty much all of the tiny "starter" effects processors have the left side of the stereo out set up for headphone output, meaning that all the Zoom and Digitech cheapola stompy baby processors are actually Pods in disguise (this fact is often glaringly omitted by people trying to sell you a pod as well.

I dig the Zoom G1, mostly because it's super-el-cheapo (street $59). Haven't heard the newest digitech thingy (RP70 maybe?), but it'll probably be fine too. I think the base model pods are selling more on the ubiquity of the name than the feature set vs. price ratio.

You are a tru bro.

did you buy telecaster?

i am bored, and need geetar stimulation until the new stuff shows up.

also, i am not actually asking myself a question up there, which means i have broken the rules of the thread ;_;

I finally bought a Telecaster (from Japan)!

and a Japanese Les Paul!

Ebay + hotel room + bottle of Maker's Mark = oh shiiiiiiiit

What kind of Japanese Tele?

an Edwards "E-TE-120" - relic, (meh, but it didn't cost extra) model w/ higher-grade pickups and stuff.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=330153451984&ssPageName=STRK:MEWN:IT&ih=014

It looks like the Nocaster, kinda:
http://i1.ebayimg.com/01/i/000/ag/fa/ab4e_1.JPG

Les Paul looks like this:
http://i1.ebayimg.com/03/i/000/d8/13/3dbc_1.JPG

the maple grain is a little Guns n Roses for me, but I really liked the Les Paul body when I was trying guitars out.

John, what is the absolute cheapest electric guitar that isn't a complete piece of shit?
I intend to use this solely for direct inputting to my sound card, to give you some idea of how little will be asked of it.

Or would any shitty guitar at all work for that purpose?

Shit, I almost got fried over this thread. Thanks a lot, GUYS.

Okay, I've got to stop looking at this thread to try to figure out what makes it NSFW. (Or maybe I should get a job and things will be clearer?)

Hope you are okay, Abbott!

Off the top of my head, if I were going to send someone out looking for the cheapest decent guitar out there, I'd look at the Ibanez GAX30, which is about $150. More importantly, the cheaper the guitar, the more you want to look for simplicity. Quality between (recognizable brands, and not the versions of those brands avail in Target/Best Buy/Walmart) $150 guitars is pretty much all the same, so every added feature you don't need (tremolo in particular) subtracts from the materials used elsewhere. If you want to/can spend more $$, I'll have more complicated suggestions.

Oh, and Sara, this thread is marked NSFW because of the day that HI DERE and I decided to mark all the ITR threads NSFW, in order to annoy people on Site New Answers.

Oh, and also, feel free to spew out a list of possible candidates and i'll let you know what i think, Dan.

Thx John. I was seriously wondering if GUITARS were Not Safe For Work, and if so, what the hell else I might be missing.

Probably not a good sign for my mind that I was thinking that way, huh.

if guitars were NSFW, then i could just stay home all the time, which would be awesome. except for that whole no monet thing

Yeah, I would be sad with no Giverny paintings or prints to look at, too.

JJ, have u heard the new c93 ep?

The 2nd track is vvvvvvvvv scary

no i have not o_O this is something i must go and find.

srsly

wait waht new c93

check yr email

lol

-roxymuzak

hahahahahahahahahaaaaaaaa

hahahahahahahahaha

by which i mean A) WTF and B) awesome maybe i think

also i just sent ILX robot an email that was "THAT IS FUCKING HILARIOUS" because i am not very smart xpost

;)

bahahhahhaaaaaa this night is awesome

hahahahahaha maybe delete <<<that from wdyll

I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT

STOP

OK CONTINUE

good mysterious times had by all

Dear John Justen,
I have a question that I think you may be able to answer. Do you know any good+cheap amp repair-persons in the twin cities metro area? I have a 4-channel amp that I really like, but only one of the channels really works properly so I want to get it fixed.

thanks in advance,
Dan

Similar question: Refretting? Of an old classical guitar? You fix. How much.

Actually to be more specific, the fifth thread fell out and vanished. So it's just the one.

Dear John Justen,

What the hell is this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMVzRYreDGw

oh no

Dan I, are you talking about a home stereo sort of thing or? i am kind of detatched from the hifi world, so i don't know how helpful i can be, but i can certainly try. hit me up with the manufacturer/model number and ill get the info i can.

rrrrabies - ugh i am afraid to even quote a price because i am so far behind on repairs right now - the tricky thing is that if the rest of the frets are worn, replacing just one could have kind of deleterious effects - might have to either level or refret the rest of the neck which is $$$$. id probably have to take a closer look at it before i could give you any really solid ideas of cost.

other dan - i have no explanation of that. i couldnt sit through the whole thing, so now i am worried that blooddiamonds.jpg of me shows up part way through since you sought out my help directly, but i am hoping not

Okay cool. I'm unemployed and the guitar's in Mankato so I'm in 0% rush. Just wanted to know if you did that sorta thing cuz I'd rather give you my $$$$ than some other schmuck weirdo around here.

Sorry, should have mentioned the type of amp.
It's not a hi-fi thing, it's an instrument amp, a Roland KC-300. It's a keyboard amp with 4 input channels that have separate volume knobs. Right now 3 of the inputs don't work, and I have at least 3 instruments that I'd like to pipe into this thing simultaneously!

oh ok that makes sense. i could probably take a look at that, odds are that you just have bad input jacks - again tho note what i said upthread about not being exactly speedy at the moment. if you need it quickly, you could probably try EMI in mpls (johnson st NE i think?) otherwise, all my work type contact crap is at www.eclipsemusic.org

well shit that didnt work.

http://www.eclipsemusic.org

i am stoopid wrt computars

i have no explanation of that. i couldnt sit through the whole thing, so now i am worried that blooddiamonds.jpg of me shows up part way through since you sought out my help directly, but i am hoping not

you'll have to watch to find out, ha

Hey cool, I knew you sold music stuff, but I didn't know you worked on them. Now I just have to get my shit together enough to move the damn thing.

looooooooool why did I just get yr screenname now

hahaha i wasnt sure if no one had figured it out or it just wasnt funny

was considering changing it to "math majors did .818181818181818181"

"Knock knock"
"Who's there?"
"0.818181818181818181"
"0.8181...eight...wuh--hold on what?"
"YOU SAID YOU'D NEVER FORGET!!!!!!"

hahahahaa

bumping this because i never did watch the video and i need it to be avail on zing reader for maximum youtubeability

cant get video to work, so you can ask but i have no answers dang

dear dude,

why you gotta be closed on a sunday? it's like my one consistent day off when i go "hmmmmmm what do i do with my whole entire afternoon oh i know i'll ride the bus a hour there and back and play a buncha guitars and oh wait no it's SUNDAY"

oh and real question, i got that guitar back finally, you still backed up on repairs?

oh duh and i'm rabies fyi

oh hey!

my backlog seems to be an eternal problem - let me see what nightmares are on the table and ill let you know.

sorry about sunday closure, but hey pick one of the other six days! for funtime! (dont pick tuesday, i take that one off as well.)

my backlog seems to be an eternal problem

http://fivecentsworth.files.wordpress.com/2006/06/meta_smooth_large.jpg