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[Molly]

This is the state of play at Molly Towers right now.

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Not doing another 'NGD' thread this week as that'd be taking the piss. I have just bought this though. It's a Fender Custom Shop Ancho Poblano Strat. I've a back-story here in that I once ordered one from Showcase Guitars (or Guitar Showcase) in CA. When it landed in NZ I discovered they'd swapped-out the neck for a different, older Custom Shop neck. The whole bloody point of the exercise for me was that the neck was the biggest Fender had done, with monster frets. Even bigger 'D' than a Nocaster. Never really got any satisfaction out of them and sold it on at a loss (with full disclosure). Anyway, at least this one is as per factory.

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https://www.coffeehouseguitars.co.uk/gu ... pre-owned/


The pickups sound bloody marvelous:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_cJj0LX9is

[Timoes]

Nice collection there ! Loving that Firebird. Def on my bucky list. The Jube head is a 87 or re- issue ?

[sihirst]

I don’t think I’ve shared photos of my studio before. Sorry if I have!

Here it is! Dubbed ‘Grange Studio’ and built in Hamilton by my best friend and myself. Setup particularly for recording loud guitars. Control room, and then a smaller Iso room. The Iso room is a full room-in-a-room, double solid-core doors build so the sound proofing is pretty great for what I need, and with what we had to work with. There’s a big double glazed window that was already in the Iso room so we built hefty, solid shutters for that. It should great being able to open them up though.

I only run a couple channels currently although I wired the loom up to go to four channels. But generally all I need is two, so at the moment I’m running an Apogee Duet but using BAE Audio 1073 preamps, and I have one channel going through an IGS OneLA which is an opto-compressor (LA2a styles).

No, that’s not how I generally mic amps to record them, haha!

[Bg]

Hey Si, would love more details as I'm in the process of doing the same this year thanks in advance!

It gets noisy down here as the ceiling doesn't even have any insulation from the ground floor, so room in room and insulation above.

[sihirst]

Hey Si, would love more details as I'm in the process of doing the same this year thanks in advance!

It gets noisy down here as the ceiling doesn't even have any insulation from the ground floor, so room in room and insulation above.

Hey, Beeg!! Of course man, ask away or I can write a decent thesis about how we did it? Actually I might have photos so could start a thread on the build if that was helpful!

[jeremyb]

Hey Si, would love more details as I'm in the process of doing the same this year thanks in advance!

It gets noisy down here as the ceiling doesn't even have any insulation from the ground floor, so room in room and insulation above.

Hey, Beeg!! Of course man, ask away or I can write a decent thesis about how we did it? Actually I might have photos so could start a thread on the build if that was helpful!

Yes please!!

[Bg]

Hey Si, would love more details as I'm in the process of doing the same this year thanks in advance!

It gets noisy down here as the ceiling doesn't even have any insulation from the ground floor, so room in room and insulation above.

Hey, Beeg!! Of course man, ask away or I can write a decent thesis about how we did it? Actually I might have photos so could start a thread on the build if that was helpful!

The whole thesis would be awesome, also how much noise separation you achieved? A photo love story would probably be good too I currently have about 10 amps that are unusable over 1 on the volume scale, help me obi wan kenobi, you are my only hope... apart from youtube.

[sihirst]

All good, I’ll hunt down the photos in the next few days and make a start. It was the end of 2019 so details might be slightly iffy but I’ll do my best!

Sound separation. Overall, I’d say it’s good. I think we did a very good job working with what we had though. I’d say that complete soundproofing is really only achievable with an enormous budget and a perfect layout. If you’re working to existing rooms, as we did, and with a normal-person budget, it’s likely not realistic. However, you can definitely get things to a point where you can have them amps going pretty flippin’ well. Especially going the room-in-a-room way.

I run my amps pretty hard and I’ve never had a complaint. I’d guess that you’d hear it at the sidewalk which is maybe 6-7 meters away, and it isn’t helped by the glass window in the Iso room. Even double glaze is a bit of a weak point compared to a solid wall.

But I think, during the day, with all the ambient noise of cars etc, you probably wouldn’t hear it much past there. And they’re pretty cooking. If my monitors are down I’ll hear it, but as soon as the monitors are on it’s buried

[sihirst]

Yes please!!

I’ll do my best, JB!

[Molly]

Nice collection there ! Loving that Firebird. Def on my bucky list. The Jube head is a 87 or re- issue ?

Reissue. Nice amp but I prefer the Friedman. The Firebird also doubles as an ironing board.

[Molly]

I don’t think I’ve shared photos of my studio before. Sorry if I have!

That looks great. What a luxury to be able to run your amps at a proper volume. I've nothing worth recording but hope to live remotely enough to make all the noise I want.

[sihirst]

That looks great. What a luxury to be able to run your amps at a proper volume. I've nothing worth recording but hope to live remotely enough to make all the noise I want.

Thanks, Molly! Yeah, so true man. I count the blessings regularly. At high volumes, haha. There’s really nothing quite like some decent volume in great tube amps is there.

[Slowy]

Not doing another 'NGD' thread this week as that'd be taking the piss. I have just bought this though. It's a Fender Custom Shop Ancho Poblano Strat. I've a back-story here in that I once ordered one from Showcase Guitars (or Guitar Showcase) in CA. When it landed in NZ I discovered they'd swapped-out the neck for a different, older Custom Shop neck. The whole bloody point of the exercise for me was that the neck was the biggest Fender had done, with monster frets. Even bigger 'D' than a Nocaster. Never really got any satisfaction out of them and sold it on at a loss (with full disclosure). Anyway, at least this one is as per factory.

FFS Molly! I'm a content old man who has all the gear he'll ever need and you give me not one but three GAS attacks in as many days. It's not fair; I'm calling elder abuse.

You make sure you bring them all home now.

[murky]

I don’t think I’ve shared photos of my studio before. Sorry if I have!

Here it is! Dubbed ‘Grange Studio’ and built in Hamilton by my best friend and myself. Setup particularly for recording loud guitars. Control room, and then a smaller Iso room. The Iso room is a full room-in-a-room, double solid-core doors build so the sound proofing is pretty great for what I need, and with what we had to work with. There’s a big double glazed window that was already in the Iso room so we built hefty, solid shutters for that. It should great being able to open them up though.

I only run a couple channels currently although I wired the loom up to go to four channels. But generally all I need is two, so at the moment I’m running an Apogee Duet but using BAE Audio 1073 preamps, and I have one channel going through an IGS OneLA which is an opto-compressor (LA2a styles).

No, that’s not how I generally mic amps to record them, haha!

Si! Is that the TBX that I sold you aaggggges ago? Rich M

[sihirst]

Si! Is that the TBX that I sold you aaggggges ago? Rich M

The same!! Man, I can’t even remember what year that would have been?! Must be about 14ish years ago?