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rocklander wrote:
the kiwi made in my lot far outweighs the non-kiwi... but it's not a kiwi pride thing..it's a tight @rse thing.
you should be proud of that tight arse of yours.

I got a bunch of interesting kiwi made stuff and I'll do some reviews soon.
Radian tele. Very cool guitar with some nice ash touchs.
A couple very vintage Jansen amp heads.
Gunn tremelo pedal. Mid 70s. Best tremendous sound I've heard. Not very fast. Lol
Mirrortone Eightnote. Rare hawkes bay made octave/fuzz in the old style. Was looking for a cheap hendrix style octave pedal and stumbled on this unique pedal of awesomeness.
Heaps of FuzZiebRo pedals. Was collecting for a while. Mostly one offs and prototypes.
A 70s local made Leslie speaker.
Two DC cabs. 2x12s. Well made. Good looking. Great sounding compact cabs from our own DC.
FuzZieBRo combo. I scored an old dead tape deck and got Fuzz to fit an amp into it. An interesting EF86 based circuit. Really tasty tone. Loud with an old goodmans alnico 12 fitted.

There's probably more if I look for it.

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One Ash Custom RRV :P

possibly something from Greenstone next year, lets see. 8)

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aliasceiza wrote:.I meant for people to actually say what they thought of the gear,
Rocklander stuff= Feckin awesome 8)
Hurdy Gurdy.... some how... and I'm not entirely certain how mind you, an instrument that sounds like someone has shoved a nest of angry hornets into a goose with a kazoo bill and is randomly slapping the poor creature with an accordion.... Sounds amazing.

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I've owned some NZ stuff, and it's all been great. But of course it is, I mean I could try it before I bought it

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Currently, a G2D Standard (older Custom) and Freedom cables.

Formerly, Ash Radian SG, Hotcake, Gunn 50, Weta Jag/Jazzmaster copy.
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I've got the Greenstone Bellverb 5 which I can't rate highly enough. I'll be adding some tone clips to that review including some different power tubes as soon as I get the chance to record them.

Also got 3 Rocklander built pedals with a fourth on the way. He offers a kind of a RDIY (Rocklander-Does-It-For-Yourself) sort of thing. Not really a business as much as a very generous hobbyist. I've got a HeartThrob Tremolo, Sagittarian Charger (Klon Centaur clone) and a Runoffgroove Grace distortion that he built for me. All three are really well put together and sound great.

Here's a pic of the HeartThrob (I put the graphics together and he etched them for me)
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And the Grace (the best looking pedal I own I reckon- same deal as the HeartThrob):
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I've also owned a pickup that Ash custom made for me which is seriously kick-arse. I reviewed it a while back (it's called the benderbucker). The only reason I'm not using it is that it's a Wide-Range humbucker sized beast. It sounds absolutely excellent though.

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rocklander wrote:*cough*
:lol:
Funny shit, I did connect the names, but I've also heard of much stranger coincidences; that's pretty cool, and even better that others on here use them...I guess I'd better rock up to one of these gearfests and check out some of them!

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WHOAH.

How much are your pedals, Rocklander? Hearthrob has my interest.

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pricing is only a PM away.. it's usually a looong read though :lol:
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Cool. Fire away that bad boy PM, bro! I like lots of indepth details :) Is the switch at the top a sine/square wave shape selector? Can you make one with a true bypass switch that doesn't pop like a bitch when you step off it? ^___^

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rocklander wrote:pricing is only a PM away.. it's usually a looong read though :lol:
Better still, do a thread! Super interested in a Klon clone...

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MogwaiBoy wrote:Cool. Fire away that bad boy PM, bro! I like lots of indepth details :) Is the switch at the top a sine/square wave shape selector? Can you make one with a true bypass switch that doesn't pop like a bitch when you step off it? ^___^
The rest/rush switch is a speed selector. 1x to the left and 2x to the right. It's a great sounding tremolo but mine very picky about the power you feed it (crap power supply makes it pop like kerrrrrazy but clean power and a pedal with a buffer in it afterwards and it's silent).

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Hot Cake Bluesberry. 8)
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I used to have a Jansen Bass 75 and currently have an out of commission Holden Wasp that I keep meaning to get fixed.
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Ironbird13 wrote:2 Rocklander pedals and a Rocklander Ruby amp, which reminds me, I must get that housed up
and an old Gunn50 modded by Clarry and Simcha. excellent work there 8)
and Freedom speaker cable, i noticed a big difference between that and a cheapy cable 8)
Hurdy Gurdy.... some how... and I'm not entirely certain how mind you, an instrument that sounds like someone has shoved a nest of angry hornets into a goose with a kazoo bill and is randomly slapping the poor creature with an accordion.... Sounds amazing.

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