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Oct 06 2010

Pro Tweed

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Pro Tweed
Pro Tweed
What are the pros and cons of living in Northumberland?


My partner and I are looking to relocate this time next year from our current location in Birmingham, UK. His company has an office in Newcastle, and we came across some information for Morpeth, Alnwick, Hexham and Berwick-upon-Tweed in our searches. However, we haven't been able to find any practical information about living in Northumberland. The transport links seem decent to major cities, but what about getting around the villages? What are the people/area/shopping/restaurants/etc like? Are there good schools? Is it really that much colder in the winter? If you live in Northumberland, we'd love to hear what you think the best (and worst) things about living in your area are. Cheers!

I don't live IN Northumberland (indeed, i live just south of county durham) but I visit a lot. If he's working in Newcastle, don't consider much further North of Alnwick - which is about 1hr from Newcastle. THe East Coast line runs Newcaslte-Morpeth-Alnmouth-BErwick-Edinburgh through northumberland, buses are great too! (Thats how i get there).
Arriva run the main 501/505 service from Newcastle to Alnwick, then north to the Coast (Seahouses, Bamburgh), Belford & Berwick. Travelsure are the main provider of the smaller vilagey routes. The people are usually lovely (its the North East, so expected i suppose =D) The area is lovely, lovely scenery, mainly pretty villages and small towns. The shopping is OK. Morpeth has a Morrisons, Alnwick a Morrisons & Sainsburys. Berwick has Morrisons & Somerfield. Some of the villages like Belford & Seahouses have co-ops too. Never really eat up there (although pinnacles in Seahouses do nice chips!). The schools work on a Three-Tier system if i recall correctly, AND YES it can be cold in the winter (although February has some days where the temperature was more like 20 degrees).

The worst thing about Northumberland for me is how isolated you can be, however the scenery is fantastic - and for me without a car, the bus services are pretty good

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who embodies corruption in america?


i am doing a project that involves me taking on the identity of an influential person in american history, and have William "Boss" Tweed as my person. one of the questions we have to answer as our person would think is "who we consider a true american hero?" so i was going to go with a very corrupt politican or possibly a pro immigration leader.

what do you think? who should i choose? thanks!
immigration is a completely different idea because because boss tweed lived off the immigrants vote, im not trying to say pro immigration politicians are corrupt sorry

Being pro-immigration does not make one corrupt. Fundamental dishonesty makes one corrupt. Perfectly honest people can have positions you disagree with and there is nothing dishonorable or corrupt about those people. If I were looking for a corrupt politician I would suggest Mr. Carl Rove, convincing the voters of Ohio that John Kerry was going to take away their Bibles if he had been elected.

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Aug 11 2010

Clone Guitar

Published by under Fender Electric Guitars

Clone Guitar
Clone Guitar
guitar effects pedal are circuits only involved?


I'm trying to research if i can make my own guitar effects, (clones) like the fuzz factory.I was just wondering do all guitar effects just use circuits? If yes can i just take a course in circuits, (though i already know a bit about them) to get more experience with them and to start making my own effects? If yes again could it be possible to make a effect (or take it out of the case of a commercial effect) and put it in my guitar?

Guitar effects are based from circuits of some kind. It's a good idea to start by cloning effects when starting down the road of homebrewing your own pedals... that way you have an idea what you want, and you know more or less what you want to achieve, and how to get there.

Distortion pedals specifically are a great place to start - the Tubescreamer, for instance, is only about a dozen components, not counting the power supply, enclosure, jacks, switches, knobs, etc of course. Many of the most popular distortion pedals are relatively simple circuits with relatively low component counts, ie, Big Muff, Fuzz Face, etc.

You can take a course in circuits, certainly, but I should warn you that the knowledge won't be 100% applicable. Audio electronics seems to be something of a subdiscipline in its own right, and once you're talking about effects you end up in situations where you might intentionally want to break the rules... for instance, good engineering practice might suggest one value of bypass capacitor (see first link), but that doesn't take into account the function that capacitors play in terms of filtering your signal... there are times that you want a smaller cap than may be normally considered, and there are times where a larger cap may be warranted.

Also, some engineering practices may run contrary to the point of a circuit's intent... for instance, I found a document describing how to design a JFET preamp for a radio circuit. While it showed both a design with the source resistor both bypassed and non-bypassed by a cap, it mentioned that even though you lose some gain, it may be best to *not* bypass the resistor (ie leave the cap out), since it can introduce noise or hiss into the circuit. In practice, this isn't an issue with guitar pedals (at least not in the same way), especially distortion pedals where in general you're going to *want* more gain.

(sorry, hope that wasn't too technical)

I strongly urge you to hit up the DIY sites and forums, and spend a lot of time reading and asking questions. Many DIY sites have build reports, scanned PCB's, schematics, vero stripboard layouts, and some even offer components and full kits for sale.

It is possible to put some effects directly into your guitar, yes, but because there isn't a lot of space in the guitar's cavity, it isn't commonly done except with preamp and/or EQ circuits. Remember, you've got to fit a battery in there too...

Speaking of which, a preamp is a great first project to get started on. I would suggest a buffer... it's simple, very few parts, and gets you used to the whole idea. It's kind've a subtle effect, but when you put one onboard it can make a very big difference in your tone. Um, third and fourth links down talk about buffers.

The idea there is that guitar pickups have a high output impedance. This isn't good - high impedances are more likely to suffer from tone loss (loss of treble especially) and noise. A buffer converts that high impedance to low output impedance... which means that your cables and certain pedals will no longer suck your tone! A great mod, especially if you don't like to spend tons of money on expensive cables and/or have long cable runs.

I've included a number of links, the last few are some great sites, some with stores attached where you can order kits or parts pretty easily. Most also have forums attached as well, places where you can learn a ton!

I would suggest starting with JFET-based circuits... they're simple, cheap, pretty standard, and can sound very good. Runoffgroove has a number of *very* cool projects that use this component, the fetzer valve link below has a lot of good design information, for instance.

Google "dr boogey" for a great mesa boogie "recto" clone pedal, or any of the variations of the Shaka pedal for MOSFET based circuits.

Creating delay, modulation, etc type pedals ain't easy... work up to those.

If you want to go that direction, consider the Epiphone Valve Jr. It's a cheap tube amp (available as a head or combo) that is a great platform for modification and tweaking... a good start to getting familiar with building your own amps.

Alternatively, google "Matsumins valve caster" and see if you can find the 63 page (!!!) topic on diystompboxes.com. It's all about using tubes run at low voltages for overdrive/distortion pedals. Really cool stuff, that's where I'm heading towards now...

Good luck!

Saul

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Wanting to switch guitar styles BAD!!!! HELP?


heres the scoop. my guitar teacher wants me to become his clone! he's trying to train me to be a bad a** lead guitarists who plays TONS of solos and what not. which is totally HIS style. however, 6 months into the lessons i'm realizing that i don't want to be the front man like that. i don't want to be the guy shredding solos, i'm totally kool with somebody else having that role. i just want to be a solid rhythm guitarist and put my focus on lead vocals. i'm naturally a singer. so i just want to be a decent enough guitarist so that i can play a little and sing sing sing! how do i explain this to my teacher? i feel like i'm crushing his vision for me. yet i don't want to be a A+ guitar player. i want to be an A+singer who happens to be a decent guitarist. that's it. thanks.

Just say i would rather play rhythm.But its real good to learn solos

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Jul 27 2010

First Prototype Amp

Published by under Flying V Guitar

First Prototype Amp
First Prototype Amp

LA Amp Show '09 - 65Amps 20 Watt Prototype Head Demo

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Watch True Blood Story

What Is It?:
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The Gray town of Bon Temps provides a fun scene for this tarradiddle. Position out the vampires, and you relieve feature a full town grumbling of colourful characters, configuration shifters, exorcisms and separate supernatural goings on. I'm also stimulated roughly the assumption of the news with the aim of vampires fighting for someone rights and few smooth mainstreaming.

The Bad:
Despite a fascinating suppose and a composed scene for the news, weaken one console relied on too many acquainted motifs. The Sookie-Bill-Sam copulate polygon rang a younger too proximate to the Edward-Bella-Jacob scenario in Twilit. Sookie occasionally comes off as a soft frivolous as she bounces between Sam and Visor's attending, and to be truthful, during the prototypical flavour, I never really saw any present why we should desire active Sookie and Instrument's relation aside from the fact that according to the script, "they're supposed to be together."

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The Sex:
Hmm, anybody who watches this evince knows that the sex scenes can be surprisingly off the interpret alter for HBO. Most of row seem to become between dr. sex insane Jason Stackhouse, and, rise, women who mostly end up stillborn later. Time I'm all for amping up the sex scenes, this is a Austral tale with vampires after all, sometimes it's a younger distracting.

Characters We Pair:
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Characters We Dislike:
There's few characters I hate in this lead, but it's probably a bad entity when your stellar characters are on that table. Brim needs to get a personality. The one and only content he seems to person is protecting Sookie. He's upright not that newsworthy. Sookie meanwhile occasionally shows spunk but soothe feels to often suchlike a damsel-in-distress/love curiosity and lower same a part in her own manus. Steady her original sex pic with Eyeshade change just out of a silly Barbara Cartland new.

Flavor Two:
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The appearing of Jessica, now living with Programme, has also revolved on a author comedic endorse to Measure. Who knew he recycles?! She should also be an riveting foil to Sookie who's relation with Nib at slightest seems to have mature a soft as they seem writer healthy to hold hurdling similar oh, say, your man lucre off your pervy uncle.

Finding:
The direct seems to be allay find its feet. The characters are comely many state and little same an consolidation of every other vampire-erotica/horror tale you've e'er interpret. I plant can't improve wishing that a fated Goat Star inspired vampire mightiness throw into town and tone things up, but the prevarication seems to be arrival unitedly and that's a act.

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May 04 2010

Guitar Black Extras

Published by under Flying V Guitar

Guitar Black Extras
Guitar Black Extras
how much can i sell my guitar and these bonuses for?


how much should i sell my guitar and amp with bonuses on ebay for..

i have a like new epiphone sg G400 in mint condition (black) (link here

http://www.samash.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product_G400%20Electric%20Guitar%20Assorted%20Colors_-1_10052_10002_183603_cmCategorySA-10001

and im selling it with a Fender SP-10 watt amp
also with a fender guitar stand, strap
and one extra bonus strap.

all this stuff is in great condition
how much would this go for?

Well, the Amp is only $50 brand new. The guitar $350 new.
the stand and strap are basically of no real resale value.
but is a nice bonus if someone else is selling the same guitar.

Now I looked on Ebay for similar guitars. There are lots of Buy It Now prices of $250-$350 for the same guitar and lots of them are new.
and if you look at item up for bids, nobody is really bidding on them much.
I'd say the total "new" value of your whole package would be $400. but since it's used and there are tons of them already on ebay, you'd have to go below $350 for the whole thing. If you can do a Buy it Now price I'd go $300.
If you put it up for bid, make it a reserve item at $250. that way you'll get $250 minimum or it won't sell.

If you tried to trade it in or sell to guitar center or a used musical instrument store, the most you would possibly get is $200 becaues they only will pay 50% of the resale value, so you might only get $150 for it.

A pawn shop would give you maybe $50 to pawn it and maybe $100-125 to buy it from you.

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What is the value of a jackson js20 electric guitar?


I bought a Jackson JS20 a couple years ago, i barely played it at all (got another new guitar soon after). Its practically in mint condition, it's the transparent blue color(blue and black). I gave up playing the guitar and i need a little extra cash for the holidays, does anyone know what a decent price would be? thanks

Between 149.99 to 249.99

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Mar 23 2010

Head Guitar

Published by under Used Electric Guitars

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Head Guitar
Head Guitar
What is the difference between a guitar amp and a guitar amp head?


An amp will be the head and speaker combination. The head is just the control and power portion that will connect to the speaker.

Here are examples:

Head + separate speakers: http://detroit.craigslist.org/mcb/ele/1436439571.html

Amp: http://detroit.craigslist.org/mcb/ele/1436407746.html

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Learning Guitar Basics

When you start with something new, you are usually so eager to jump into this new venture with both feet that you forget that every subject has its own basic information and way of doing things. When you start learning guitar playing, you want to be the new sensation on the hit charts within one day. Woa - pull in the reigns. Learn the guitar basics first. Why? You will be a better guitar player later on. Even the masters of the guitar started off with the basics and progressed from there. There are many things that are included when you learn guitar basics: the chords, the scales, the fingering, but perhaps most importantly, you need to learn all of the different parts of the guitar.

How is a guitar constructed?

One of the basic reasons to learn guitar basics, is to know the different parts of a guitar. As you progress, you will meet different terms for the parts of a guitar and if you do not know those terms, you can find yourself struggling to learn the guitar. First of all, you should know what the body of the guitar is:

1. The guitar's body is the large wooden part of the guitar.

2. The thin part of the guitar that is connected to the body of the guitar is called the neck.

3. The bridge is located on the body of the guitar near the hole.

4. The strings of the guitar begin at the bridge and end at the pegs, which is located on the head of the guitar.

5. The head of the guitar is on the end of the neck not connected to the body.

6. There are small metal pieces located at various intervals along the neck of the guitar. These metal pieces are called the frets. When the player presses the strings into the frets at various intervals, the strings vibrate and produce different pitches.

The way you hold the guitar differs for nearly every type of song you play on a guitar. If you are right handed, your right hand is your strumming hand. Thus, you hold your guitar so that your right hand rests on the strings of the guitar above the hole. This means that your left hand is your picking hand, and your left hand should rest on the neck of the guitar. If you are left handed, then you should use these directions as well, only reversed.

Take time to learn the guitar basics and you will be richly rewarded not only with money, but also with a life long relationship with a wonderful instrument.

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