a digital piano recently,
and in fairly short order a MIM Silver Burst Telecaster (here’s a GearPage thread about this guitar that ruminates well on such purchase).
a Squire Bullet that you can fit a shot glass between the neck and the strings.
My preferred computer operating system these days is Ubuntu (***TRIVIA*** the same name as the font used for this post; this is also the default font in Ubuntu).
Ardour and impulsively Best Buy where they stock M-Audio MobilePre Audio USB interfaces.
Neat, I’ll have to look into the Ardour. I’ve been needing something to do home recording that isn’t as over the top as ProTools. Thanks for the tip.
Also check out Reaper (http://reaper.fm). It’s pretty lean & mean.
I prefer Reaper if you’re not on Linux.
I’ve never gotten a MIM guitar before, but that silverburst finish looks pretty cool…
I’ve got two MIM Teles. I always replace the pickups (I like hotter wound pick ups) and put in graphite saddles, oh and also change the string gauge to elevens.
It kinda bums me out that none of them have nitro finishes, though. Although I was just reading some online speculation that maybe they’re applying their poly finishes thinner than previously, so maybe it doesn’t matter as much anymore. It’s also weird that the prices have gone up so much, so the MIM’s are now almost what the MIA’s were a few years ago.
From everything I’ve read, MIMs are now almost as good as MIAs, which would explain the price hike, (along with the general tendency for big name guitar companies to hike their prices just because they have big names; I’m looking at you fuckers, Gibson). From what I’m led to understand, MIJs are now the crap models.
I got a special MIM Custom Telecaster from Guitar Center a few months back, and I love it. Admittedly the tuners are on the cheap side, and I’m not a fan of the glossed neck, but overall it’s a great guitar.
The other thing that bummed me out, though only barely, and I understand, is that the new Telecasters with the “Wide Range” humbuckers don’t use the same magnets in the pickups as they used to, in their early-70s heyday. They’re just regular old humbuckers now; apparently the metals used in the original magnets that gave the pickups their distinctive sound are now too rare and expensive to be used in something as relatively trivial as humbuckers, as each pickup would then cost something like $300-$400. Still sound good, and I love the sound of humbuckers on a Telecaster body, but a little disappointing. Such is the way of the world I guess.
Is Fender still making white blonde guitars? I loved that color and wish I would have bought one when I saw one.