Bright Headlight for Winter - Recommendations?

[guerney]

This is a good deal, £35-40 in UK, most guitarists would be very happy to receive this from Santa even if you already have loads of gear. I have the Lekato branded version and love it as up in running in 5secs...
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I was listening to a review of that earlier, sounded good, but I never know if the reviewers of such things have been given free gear to make them sound as awesome as possible using other much more expensive gear. Thanks for confirming it aint a waste of money. Might buy one, but I'm mostly on the keys - for guitar I have the Line 6 Amplifi TT (and other stuff), the app for which against all odds continues to function all these years later - it cannot last tho.

 

[guerney]

OK so their website can fck off, I cannot get the price you get and have given up, then I tried on gaming PC next to me and I get £4.78 welcome deal...like I said they can fck off.... The reason I've only ever previously ordered 3d printer spares, after this I won't be back until need more printer spares...

Thanks for the help anyway!

The welcome deals appear when you haven't created an account and signed in. Their search engine is designed to be inaccurate and keep you tempted using cheap stuff you never requested or ever wanted, and it sends you results loosely based on what you're previously looked at and searched for. Fiendishly evil. Amazon did the same about 12 years ago. It stopped after I emailed jeff@amazon.com a long complaint. True story.

 

[portals]

Nope, but this reverb sounds nice for the money. I haven't listened closely for noise yet - I bet that will happen via the power supply, if one is supplied.

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Sounds pretty good to me, much better proposition than a mini pedal reverb for only few quid more. M-WAVE do a lot of FX stuff, I linked to the multi FX above from them and this reverb look like another OEM product rebranded by few sellers.

Most of these pedals are around 50% cheaper from AliE than in UK so fill yer boots I suppose...

 

[guerney]

Sounds pretty good to me, much better proposition than a mini pedal reverb for only few quid more. M-WAVE do a lot of FX stuff, I linked to the multi FX above from them and this reverb look like another OEM product rebranded by few sellers.

Most of these pedals are around 50% cheaper from AliE than in UK so fill yer boots I suppose...

It seems to be a TC Hall Of Fame wannabe, doesn't sound nearly as good, but it's so damned cheap... NO! I refuse to be drawn into the game of constantly hunting for gear when I should be dreaming up tunes, when it's time. The latter is much harder.

 

[portals]

The welcome deals appear when you haven't created an account and signed in. Their search engine is designed to be inaccurate and keep you tempted by cheap stuff you never requested or ever wanted, and it sends you results loosely based on what you're previously looked at and searched for. Fiendishly evil. Amazon did the same about 12 years ago. It stopped after I emailed jeff@amazon.com a long complaint. True story.

I was signed in to the website in Chrome on both PCs so they 'know' ;-)

I found a link to that multi FX pedal on google for less than £2 on AliE, when I clicked through the 'product' page had actually three completely different products on that one product page? A £2 cable (the jailbait link), the FX unit was £25 and some other shite for whatever it was? Cntos! Never again!

Know what you want, order then leave!

 

[portals]

I was listening to a review of that earlier, sounded good, but I never know if the reviewers of such things have been given free gear to make them sound as awesome as possible using other much more expensive gear. Thanks for confirming it aint a waste of money. Might buy one, but I'm mostly on the keys - for guitar I have the Line 6 Amplifi TT (and other stuff), the app for which against all odds continues to function all these years later - it cannot last tho.

Get one. for £40 in UK it was a great buy, for under £25....buy one for everyone you know for Christmas...

EDIT: you can also use it as a digital interface via USB but not sue what latency is like, also you can use the free software to edit the presets on laptop.

I have the Chibson, small amp and that FX pedal at side of my desk, playing in around 10secs when urge takes me! Usually record on phone too just in case....!

Not recorded with it mainly cos it's much easier to use Cubase and Amplitude for FX (full control) and just use a (cheap Rowin) noise gate on way in (and another in Amplitude).

It's nuts these days, the kids have it so good....you can buy an amazing guitar for around £140 with padded case and quality lead, chuck in a small practice amp and that multi FX pedal and you golden for under £200 with kit that will last you for a good while.

 

[AndyBike]

Why would I want headlights which light up the road hundreds of feet ahead?

Who mentioned anything about "hundreds of feet" They illuminate 50/60 feet at best. and you need a bit of a spread, as pot holes arent always in your immediate path. Then theres speed of course, for example going down a hill.

Last thing I want is to be suddenly surprised by a hole or obstacle because I didnt see it in time.

 

[guerney]

Who mentioned anything about "hundreds of feet"

The dude in the video excitedly whacking with Exposure in the woods mentioned 150 metres, which is 492.126 feet.

Who mentioned anything about "hundreds of feet" They illuminate 50/60 feet at best. and you need a bit of a spread, as pot holes arent always in your immediate path. Then theres speed of course, for example going down a hill.

Last thing I want is to be suddenly surprised by a hole or obstacle because I didnt see it in time.

Yep, got that using four easily replaceable inexpensive headlights soldered to a big ebike battery. I don't go all that fast downhill, because mine's a 20" folding bike with v-brakes... about 32mph at most probably. How long does it take to avoid a pothole? Half a second? If so, I need to see about 23.7 feet of the road surface ahead, which I can. I'd have to be travelling at 279.6 mph to need a 492ft view provided by a bonkers bright retina roasting driver dazzling rozzer magnet of a floodlight, to avoid a freaking sinkhole made visible 1 second ahead. I didn't know Bosch ebikes went that fast TBH If I want to repair headlights rather than replace: cheap new Pulse Width Modulator and/or buck converter - or component(s) thereof, or replacement LED bulb/panel. I hope you have the lighting solution you need.

 

[thelarkbox]

Aliexpress Search tactics!!!

Am i crazy? whenever i search ali express for a specific item the options displayed are often NOT the cheapest?? in order to find the cheaper options an incidental search sometimes works..

For example i wanted some hydraulic brake sensors and magnets, but options displayed when searched specifically were circa £7 each, but when i searched for any other bike part, lights, saddle etc and the brake sensors appeared in the 'also ran'/similar product options at a significantly lower price circa £3....

 

[kevsbike]

I already have a Chibson (this little beauty), finish is phenomenal and you would not believe what it was bought for from a UK site..

So has anyone actually bought a guitar from AliExpress? Or pedals or amps?

A mate of mine brought a Chibson SJ200 lookalike along to the same pub we played at, very nice guitar, and I wouldn't dare chance a genuine Gibson now, partly because I think you pay an awful lot for the name, and partly the worry of buying a convincing fake, not to mention I am perfectly happy with my (licensed) Sigma Martin copy.

Coincidentally I had one of my best front lights stolen while I'd stupidly left it on my bike outside the same pub, but Smart don't seem to do them any more and it was Duracells rather than Aldi or Lidl batteries that leaked and wrecked my Smart rear light, too, but the CR2032 voltages on new batteries for my clip-on guitar tuner are all over the place!

The old Ever Ready lamps were already practically useless when the batteries ran down, and putting them on a low-slung bracket on the offside fork didn't do much for visibility either, especially when you hit a bump and they flew off into the road!

 

[portals]

A mate of mine brought a Chibson SJ200 lookalike along to the same pub we played at, very nice guitar, and I wouldn't dare chance a genuine Gibson now, partly because I think you pay an awful lot for the name, and partly the worry of buying a convincing fake, not to mention I am perfectly happy with my (licensed) Sigma Martin copy.

I agree, would love an original 60s/70s Fender Strat (I checked the serial number on my Fender Squier strat and it's a 1984 now classed as 'vintage'!), Gibson Les Paul (have Chibson) and Gibson 335 semi (have lovely Vantage cherry red copy from early 90s), but realistically now I would never spend £1000s on a new or new-old) guitar as new they're ridiculously overpriced and taking the ****. Only 'original' guitar I have is a Freshman Apollo OC2 electro-acoustic I got for 40th, a handmade beauty.

Here's a quick comparison of some of the available Gibson/Chibson 'Slash' guitars (I'm not a fan of heavy rock or metal but if you have a Les Paul then you cannot not spend weeks of your life learning the solo the way slash plays it, no cheating like James Dean Bradfield does when Manics play it live!), just picked LP as an example, similar pricing available for strats etc. too


Gibson: £2,449.00 (Ouch!!)



Epiphone: £949.72 (called 'Gibson by Epiphone' or something...as they have a license to produce the, ahem, 'budget' versions...still an Ouch!!)



Chibson AliExpress: £176.39

 

[pedalfettal]

I have no space left on handlebars so want to reduce the footprint the two gear levers take up. This is busy handlebar, you can see the two nasty looking thumb levers for gears taking up a ridiculous amount of space (already dremeled the 3 speed lever so it's shorter):
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My question is will they work OK with this Shimano derailleur, is the tension per click the same as I read that you should match them re index?

Have you seen these handlebar extensions?



You can get gear shifters with the levers underneath the handlebar, rather than on top. You'd be able to "stack" them under the brake levers.

If Tourney is an MTB derailleur then any MTB gear shifter should work (they have same "pull").