New look (final)

My long-waited Squier has finally returned. Well, it has the 'Loki Regnarok" words and the logo, which I made myself one it.. This is one of the neat work done by Aaron, the person who I had entrusted my guitar to. My favourite would be the logo, it is very very neat!

 The inlays were bought from Music Ensemble. I'd mentioned this in the previous post, too. I'd also gotten ready a fresh set of GHS Coated Guitar Boomers. This set of string is one of the cheap coated strings from SV Guitars but the feel of this strings are still there.

I'd been playing it for the whole of today, giving my Fernandes a rest for a change. Miss the neck of a strat. =), which is thicker than my Fernandes and Ibanez

Boss GT-10

I'd managed to try KJ's Boss GT-10 which he had traded for his Epiphone Les Paul Standard Top Plus with some guy in soft.com.sg. Well, these are my personal comment on this multi-effects.

It is very big. Got the length of about 2 x 30 cm long ruler and width of one 30 cm ruler long. Hope this helps you to visualise it. As for weight, it is very heavy. 4.9 kg heavy. For those who go to gym, type imagine yourself carrying a 10 lbs dumbbell and that's how heavy it is.

Now about its function. I only managed to understand most of its basic functions. Well, basically, there are banks. In each 'bank', there are 4 effects, which can be chosen with the numbered foot switches as seen above. Well, there are rather a lot of combinations, and in order to know them all well will take time. Some example of the combinations are chorus, clean, delay and distortion in one bank. Well, you can also create your own bank and make a combination of 4 effects as well.

For those who think multi-effects are better than compact, this is the equipment they should get.

Strymon back in stock

Stymon pedals, which some of its pedals were out of stock before, are now back in stock at SV guitars. Apparently, SV is the only dealer of these pedals. Frankly speaking, I'd never tried them before but I won't mind to give it a try though. =)

To the Extremes

I had finally bought an distortion pedal after trying out much of distortion pedals. Well, it is the ModTone Extreme Metal Distortion. I had been telling Mike at Standard Value that I will, one day, come and buy it. Finally, I'd done as I'd wanted and as I'd said.

As on about this effect, I had mentioned it previously on a post. Click >>here<< to read~

Sorry for not updating properly, I'd been rather busy though my exams are long over.

Carried away

I m supposed to write about the new distortion I'd bought yesterday, but got carried away while trying it.. that I was oblivious of the time. Will write it tomorrow.

Anyway, just wanna share this video. This band is remarkably unique.

Inspiration

I saw this in the local music forum, posted by one of the member. Found this rather inspiring so I decided to share it here.

Crunchy, Grungy

Need a distortion pedal with large tonal spectrum than normal distortion pedal? Need more crunchy tone than a DS-1.

Digitech Grunge Distortion can fulfill all these needs.

Grunge has a special feature from other distortion pedal. Most distortion pedals, like BOSS DS-1 or ModTone Speedbox Distortion, only have one 'Tone' knob. However, Grunge is equipped with a Low and High instead which gives the user a larger tonal spectrum. It only requires the user's creativity to produce various tone from this Grunge. The DigiTech Website provides a few of its presets though. It is also provided in the manual booklet you get from buying this, too.

Grunge, when in comparison to DS-1, has more crunchy sound, the first impression I got from it when I first listen to it at its website. This would be a suitable pedal for anyone who seek for a distortion power of DS-1 but with more crunch and colour. I personally find DS-1 very raw but empty.

Grunge can be bought at Swee Lee, the sole DigiTech distributor. It costs around S$107. If you are looking for a cheaper deal and willing to wait for 2 weeks, you may also check on eBay. However, eBay has its own limitation; you can't see the pedal's condition beforehand.

Updates

Arron, who I had entrusted my guitar to help me make a decal, had finally finished it. I'll only get it back by next Friday or earlier as he said he needed to brush up some of the parts. Take a look at the quality of work he'd done for my guitar!

I also have another photo of his work as well. Not on my guitar but somebody else's SG.

If you want to get one for yourself, add him in his FACEBOOK GROUP.

Again.. New Inlays

Once again, I went down to Music Ensemble to get another set of inlays for my Fernandes. I'd mentioned before that I would get the red cross inlays if I ever get a red colour guitar. Well, I finally managed to buy the red one. 

This is how it looks like.

The 24th fret sticker goes onto my neck pickup which managed to fit it perfectly.

Unrelated post..

My today post is unrelated to the guitars. However, I still think it is worth blogging about this.

I was browsing the drums buy and sell section at soft.com.sg when I come across THIS POST.

As you can see in this post, I think someone is trying to buy these drumsticks bags from somewhere, probably from Drums Resources. In fact, the photos were taken from that shop itself. Hmm....
I suspect that one of the staff there is trying to sell these and make money out of the shop's stock. Well, I wouldn't say it IS as I thought since there is no evidence. So I just contact the Nigel, the shop owner about it. He'd confirmed that it is not him.