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Maddy Myers 🏳️‍🌈 @midimyers.com · 08/12/2023

my tweets are all deleted so i re-uploaded my 2020 era cover of "have yourself a merry little christmas," enjoy the sweet sounds of the fender rhodes www.tiktok.com/@midimyers/v...

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Antigua Telecaster @antiguatelecaster.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

@tssf.bsky.social Hey, we’re you planning to ever do a Synthetic Origins of Mystic Quest? I was just thinking of how good that would likely sound because that game has nice music but kinda has the most rinky-dink sound quality of all the SNES Final Fantasy games. It’s a lot smaller in scope too.

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Antigua Telecaster @antiguatelecaster.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

@tssf.bsky.social Hey, have you ever thought of recreating the bonus unused tracks from All Sounds of Final Fantasy I + II with FamiTracker? I know you did an FF6-style “Battle 3” but I was thinking it would be cool to have those tracks with the original sound without the CD’s filtering and reverb.

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Antigua Telecaster @antiguatelecaster.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

I would use BlueSky a lot more if it let you turn on post notifications for people you follow. Some people I especially want to hear from and seeing they posted on Twitter would bring me in and then I’d look at other things afterward. How do they not have such a basic, engagement-boosting feature?

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Antigua Telecaster @antiguatelecaster.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

@iridescentaudio.bsky.social Hey, I wanna tell you that you and CHz intrigued me enough by your posts that I checked out Alien Soldier many years ago and it quickly became a favorite of mine that still looms large in my mind in some way.

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Antigua Telecaster @antiguatelecaster.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Still love this. Feels like it gets at the little part of me that lingers from my childhood that was excited about this time of year instead of it just being another set of days that become weeks that become a month that is over.

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Antigua Telecaster @antiguatelecaster.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

I haven’t bought a ton of gear lately, but I did see Suzanne Vega, Death Cab For Cutie and The Postal Service, PJ Harvey, and David Gilmour this year, all of which were great, of course. Never thought I’d get to see The Postal Service, and I’m so glad I got to see Gilmour with my own two eyes.

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Antigua Telecaster @antiguatelecaster.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Not sure why people are suddenly following me. Look at my new Antigua P-Bass, I guess.

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Antigua Telecaster @antiguatelecaster.bsky.social · 14/04/2024

Finally got myself a Flower Pedals Dandelion tremolo/harmonic tremolo. I’ve wanted to get one for the past few years but it wasn’t a high enough priority before. It’s pretty much the perfect tremolo with all the control you could want and it’s compact and attractive.

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Antigua Telecaster @antiguatelecaster.bsky.social · 10/04/2024

I put EMG SA pickups in a Strat to see for myself how they are. I was, of course, inspired by David Gilmour because I think his guitar tone on Delicate Sound of Thunder is among the best ever. I always read that active pickups sound so different from passive, but that’s not what I’m experiencing.

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Antigua Telecaster @antiguatelecaster.bsky.social · 28/02/2024

It’s my birthday today and I don’t very much like the idea of celebrating my own getting older. But I can remember this as the day I got tickets to see PJ Harvey in September. Might even see her twice.

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Antigua Telecaster @antiguatelecaster.bsky.social · 07/02/2024

Got an Amplified Parts order in with a reverb tank for my Princeton (“Bordeaux Reserve” wine red tolex/wheat grille cloth), and some other stuff. I’m not a big fan of the really springy spring reverb sound, so I like the MOD 3-spring short decay tanks. Sounds more natural than most reverb pedals.

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Weird Guitar of the Day @weirdguita.rs · 28/01/2024

Mental health tip:

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Antigua Telecaster @antiguatelecaster.bsky.social · 25/01/2024

I have seen more references to Marc Ribot and his guitar playing on this app than I ever have anywhere else in all my life combined. That must say something about the demographics on here, but I don’t really know what.

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Lee Bruemmer @lbruem.bsky.social · 25/01/2024

Annoying everyone by claiming that "humbucker" only be used to refer to Gibson-specific guitar pickup designs and that, historically speaking, the proper general term for any 2-coil noise cancelling pickup should actually be "Butts-Lover"

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Antigua Telecaster @antiguatelecaster.bsky.social · 22/01/2024

Fender made an absolute ton of guitars in midnight wine. It was a color option for the MIM Standard guitars and basses for around a decade. I think it’s really great, looks very refined, but I think a rosewood fretboard would match better, so I bought an AmPro II neck. Now I have one classy guitar.

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Antigua Telecaster @antiguatelecaster.bsky.social · 20/01/2024

My enthusiasm for Telecasters extends to basses. This is a Squier Vintage Modified Telecaster Bass, a body shape Fender has never made themselves, although G&L has an ASAT Bass that looks very much like this. It’s a 32” scale with a “Duncan Designed” ‘51 Precision Bass (Antiquity I) pickup.

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Antigua Telecaster @antiguatelecaster.bsky.social · 15/01/2024

The vintage EHX Polyphase and the modern Stereo Polyphase. The Stereo isn’t really a reissue, lacking an envelope filter mode but adding a lot of tweakability. I think the base phasing sound is nicer in the original, but the Stereo gives manual control of the start and stop of the frequency sweep.

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Antigua Telecaster @antiguatelecaster.bsky.social · 08/01/2024

New pedal day: the SolidGoldFX If 6 Was 9 MKII. It’s an attempt at making the ultimate Fuzz Face clone. The BC183 transistors are said to straddle the line between the sound of germanium and silicon, the voltage control can simulate a dying battery, and bias can give it that velcro ripping sound.

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Antigua Telecaster @antiguatelecaster.bsky.social · 05/01/2024

2014 Squier Vintage Modified Baritone Jazzmaster (Antigua Burst)

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Antigua Telecaster @antiguatelecaster.bsky.social · 02/01/2024

Today is the 55th anniversary of The Beatles starting production on the Get Back/Let It Be project, so to mark the occasion I’ve started watching the Get Back documentary for the first time since it came out. Even if it isn’t their best work, still, what a great thing to be able to witness.

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Antigua Telecaster @antiguatelecaster.bsky.social · 25/12/2023

Maddy’s version is excellent. Check it out.

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Antigua Telecaster @antiguatelecaster.bsky.social · 25/12/2023

I’d like to share a very sweet Christmas song by one of my favorite artists, Jeff Kelly of The Green Pajamas. It was written for his two daughters when they were very young. Probably makes them cry now. If you happen upon this, please give it a listen. thegreenpajamas1.bandcamp.com/track/christ...

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Antigua Telecaster @antiguatelecaster.bsky.social · 24/12/2023

Hark! The Fromel Seraph Deluxe sings. This is a chorus pedal based on the Roland Dimension D rack unit, which applies two separate but correlated choruses to the left and right channels. It had four preset buttons, while this pedal includes that functionality with the switches and a manual mode.

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Antigua Telecaster @antiguatelecaster.bsky.social · 20/12/2023

DigiTech Hardwire RV-7 and Polara reverbs. These are highly regarded pedals, in large part because they use algorithms developed by Lexicon (though only the plate reverb is claimed to be one of the classic Lexicon reverbs). The RV-7 commands high asking prices, but is mostly the same as the Polara.

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Antigua Telecaster @antiguatelecaster.bsky.social · 19/12/2023

I just bought front row center tickets to see Suzanne Vega next year. That plus Death Cab for Cutie/The Postal Service makes two concerts already scheduled for next year, up from my grand total of zero concerts this year.

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Antigua Telecaster @antiguatelecaster.bsky.social · 18/12/2023

I recorded the guitar on this for my Romanian Discord friend, who wrote the song and made the rest of the instrumental and got another Discord friend of his to sing it. I used my Univox 12-string for the chords and my Antigua Telecaster (naturally) for the high single notes. youtu.be/umV_sxTkTSU

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Antigua Telecaster @antiguatelecaster.bsky.social · 15/12/2023

@weirdguita.rs I assumed when I saw it that this was something weird from the ‘60s. I was dumbfounded to see that it’s a current production guitar costing $1,000. eastwoodguitars.com/products/eas...

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Pennan Brae @pennanbrae.bsky.social · 14/12/2023

Guitar on wood 🪵.

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Antigua Telecaster @antiguatelecaster.bsky.social · 15/12/2023

Electro-Harmonix Linear Power Booster LPB-1 and LPB-2 The LPB-1 was the company’s first product. It’s a clean boost: just a transistor in a box with in and out jacks, a pot to control amplification, an on/off switch, and a battery connection. The LPB-2 is the same in guitar pedal form.

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Antigua Telecaster @antiguatelecaster.bsky.social · 14/12/2023

1983 Boss HM-2 I’m not a big fan of the orange Boss distortions, but this one and the Metal Zone are better since they have more EQ control. The HM-2 surprisingly doesn’t have much more gain than a DS-1, but it doesn’t have that fizzy, mid-scooped sound that pairs poorly with my Fender amp.

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K. A. “Kîck Åß” Pillë @keithpille.bsky.social · 13/12/2023

This was presented as a “look how they have massacred my boy” post but I think it kinda rules and if I were to repaint one of my guitars I might bite the idea

A guitar painted to look like a drawing of a guitar

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Antigua Telecaster @antiguatelecaster.bsky.social · 12/12/2023

The Soul Preacher compressor, whose circuit the Deluxe Big Muff integrates, except this has a treble boost switch. It seems the prevailing trend of the time for compressor pedals in the ‘70s was to be very unsubtle. This thing can only squash, there is no light tone thickening/sweetening setting.

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Antigua Telecaster @antiguatelecaster.bsky.social · 11/12/2023

I have this beautiful Deluxe Big Muff Pi from the late ‘70s. It’s pretty different from modern Deluxes. It combines the opamp Big Muff circuit with a slightly more limited Soul Preacher compressor. The two can be used in series or parallel with the blend switch, each with different strengths.

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Antigua Telecaster @antiguatelecaster.bsky.social · 10/12/2023

My lovely Electro-Harmonix Deluxe Octave Multiplexer, presumably from the late ‘70s. I bought it with bass in mind more than guitar. Despite its designer, Howard Davis, saying he thinks he made the best possible analog octaver, the tracking isn’t as good as the Boss OC-2, but it did predate that.

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Rowdy @rowdycontrolfreex.bsky.social · 09/12/2023

Guitar Gear

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Antigua Telecaster @antiguatelecaster.bsky.social · 09/12/2023

Here’s an oddity, the DOD FX45 Stereo Reverb. Produced from 1985-1987, it’s an analog reverb pedal, which is a very rare thing because the technology was barely up to snuff and was quickly surpassed in quality by digital processing. It uses MN3011 bucket brigade devices to achieve its effect.

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Antigua Telecaster @antiguatelecaster.bsky.social · 08/12/2023

Got tickets to see Death Cab for Cutie and The Postal Service. I didn’t even know they were touring until it was over and it turned out they didn’t come very close to me. But now they extended the tour and are playing only an hour away from me, so I was ready the moment the tickets went on sale.

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Antigua Telecaster @antiguatelecaster.bsky.social · 08/12/2023

My last unusual vintage Fender for now, the Solid State Reverb. This is from their line of then-cutting edge solid state guitar amps, PA gear, and effects units in 1966. The Fender Blender (see my post from yesterday) was also styled to fit in with the series and the tape delay got a facelift too.

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Antigua Telecaster @antiguatelecaster.bsky.social · 07/12/2023

This is a 1971 Fender Blender octave fuzz, one of the few guitar pedals they made in the old days. They recently put out a Kevin Shields signature version and there was a 2005 reissue that used germanium transistors, but this is the original (with silicon, counterintuitively).

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Antigua Telecaster @antiguatelecaster.bsky.social · 06/12/2023

Another piece in my Fender oddity collection, the Dimension IV Sound Expander oil can delay, made for Fender with their branding and silverface aesthetic by Tel-Ray. It uses a rotating can filled with oil to “write” your signal to a rubber belt and the oil insulates it to be “read” shortly after.

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Antigua Telecaster @antiguatelecaster.bsky.social · 06/12/2023

I’ll play along, I guess. This is after I put regular 10s on my Antigua Strat after I got it with the standard three springs. Had to poach two more springs from another guitar to get it mostly flush. If you see this, post a bridge.

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Antigua Telecaster @antiguatelecaster.bsky.social · 06/12/2023

I like to collect weird vintage Fender stuff. I’d like to get guitars and amps, but they’re obviously more expensive than the stuff that’s off the beaten path. Like this Electronic Echo Chamber. Apparently it’s the first portable tape delay unit, made from 1963 to 1966. And mine still works!

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Antigua Telecaster @antiguatelecaster.bsky.social · 02/12/2023

Just acquired this Leslie 18 speaker cabinet from the late ‘60s/early ‘70s. I’d heard how rotary speaker simulation guitar pedals don’t recreate the experience of the real thing, which I’m more inclined to believe in this case than I am with things like digital tube amp or tape delay sims.

The front of a Leslie 18 speaker cabinet, intended for use with guitar. It’s smaller and lighter than most Leslies intended for use with organs, having only one 12” speaker mounted horizontally and no inbuilt amplifier. In front of the speaker is a rotating drum with a chute that directs the sound out towards the three ports on the left, right, and top sides of the cabinet where the scattered sound creates a stereo field and a Doppler effect, making the guitar sound lush and watery.

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