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Re: MAMI'S GEAR
Posted Mon Aug 29, 2016 4:02 pm

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deathclown wrote:can you really buy the mami jazzmaster pearl white model ? ive seen it in ebay and amazon but i really want to find a legit/trusted dealer for that

They had a third round of the guitars out a few months ago (there is a thread for the official Squier SCANDAL guitars on SH). Looking at the major retailers in Japan online, it appears they have all sold out. If you were looking at Amazon JP then it should be ok as the marketplace tends to be occupied by legit stores (you can check anyway).

Some stores in Asia (HK, S Korea etc) do sell 'em in very limited quantities (each release is pretty much limited in the first place - like a hundred copies per run).

So, it looks like you gotta find one on the second hand/resale market. There are a few on Yahoo! Auctions Japan if you check often enough.

Good luck.



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Re: MAMI'S GEAR
Posted Tue Aug 30, 2016 10:34 am


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kudo_maharizu wrote:
deathclown wrote:can you really buy the mami jazzmaster pearl white model ? ive seen it in ebay and amazon but i really want to find a legit/trusted dealer for that

They had a third round of the guitars out a few months ago (there is a thread for the official Squier SCANDAL guitars on SH). Looking at the major retailers in Japan online, it appears they have all sold out. If you were looking at Amazon JP then it should be ok as the marketplace tends to be occupied by legit stores (you can check anyway).

Some stores in Asia (HK, S Korea etc) do sell 'em in very limited quantities (each release is pretty much limited in the first place - like a hundred copies per run).

So, it looks like you gotta find one on the second hand/resale market. There are a few on Yahoo! Auctions Japan if you check often enough.

Good luck.


so they really manufacture scandal model guitars woow, it would be a great luck if one of the owner of a guitar gets to sign them with the respective members :D



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Re: MAMI'S GEAR
Posted Tue Aug 30, 2016 2:04 pm

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From the guitar stores I've visited occasionally I still see Haruna's guitar on display.

This was in Shibuya/Shinjuku in Tokyo, so for those interested, they should have the stores check their inventory. Timo's bass were the first to be sold out at the last reissue.

But if you look online like rakuten, you can see all 3 squire guitars are still widely available.

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Re: MAMI'S GEAR
Posted Tue Aug 30, 2016 5:47 pm

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wildthing wrote:From the guitar stores I've visited occasionally I still see Haruna's guitar on display.

This was in Shibuya/Shinjuku in Tokyo, so for those interested, they should have the stores check their inventory. Timo's bass were the first to be sold out at the last reissue.

But if you look online like rakuten, you can see all 3 squire guitars are still widely available.

When responding to deathclown's query, the only store that 'had' the Stratomaster was one of the Ishibashi branches in Tokyo but it was on hold for another customer.

I did look on Rakuten but the global site - there's a few Skullsilvers knocking about but not the other two.

Anyway - I'll stop here as this is getting out of topic. There is an actual thread for the signature series guitars here: https://www.scandal-heaven.com/t10022-scandal-s-signature-squier-instruments



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Re: MAMI'S GEAR
Posted Tue Sep 06, 2016 6:31 pm

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Do you guys have an idea if Mami owns that Lake Place Blue Telecaster we've seen on the Sisters promo?



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Re: MAMI'S GEAR
Posted Wed Sep 07, 2016 1:34 am

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MamiNoodles wrote:Do you guys have an idea if Mami owns that Lake Place Blue Telecaster we've seen on the Sisters promo?

Probably she uses that guitar for studio/personal purposes only, as you can see herebut i'm not sure if she owns it.



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Re: MAMI'S GEAR
Posted Sat Jan 28, 2017 6:30 am

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The Lake Placid Blue Tele is still there. 

Grin

Tweeted by SOUND DESIGNER magazine in Japan:

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Re: MAMI'S GEAR
Posted Sun Feb 05, 2017 3:06 pm


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does mami's current guitar hard to find ?

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Re: MAMI'S GEAR
Posted Sun Feb 05, 2017 5:32 pm

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deathclown wrote:does mami's current guitar hard to find ?

The same answer as I gave you last year I'm afraid - https://www.scandal-heaven.com/t8880p125-mami-s-gear#743510

Just a friendly word of advice btw - this is the wrong thread for your query in SH. This thread is for updates on MAMI's guitars, effects and amps.



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Re: MAMI'S GEAR
Posted Sat Mar 04, 2017 2:47 am

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After seeing the current ish of SOUND DESIGNER, I think it's somewhat safe to say that the Tele is MAMI's as it is parked in her home studio, together with her old "Sticker" Fender Strat.

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MAMI's is an Fender American Vintage '64 Telecaster in Lake Placid Blue.

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This series is still available in the 2017 catalogue although the Lake Placid Blue finish is not a current option.

The specs as provided by Fender:

SPECS:

This Tele of MAMI's has a lovely tone, as expected for guitar that retails in the region of USD1700! Have a listen!



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Re: MAMI'S GEAR
Posted Sat Mar 04, 2017 6:31 am

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Thanks for the scan and info, Kudo. I've updated the first post.

Also, I think basically everyone missed it, but the Lake Placid Blue Tele actually made a brief appearance in the SCAFES guide videos last year, so at that point it probably would have been safe to assume that MAMI does in fact own it. Tongue

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Re: MAMI'S GEAR
Posted Mon Mar 06, 2017 2:35 pm

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I think that Mami's Tele is made by Fender Japan years ago. I found something similar to her guitar while window shopping online:

https://reverb.com/item/3417604-2006-fender-telecaster-62-reissue-guitar-tl62-us-lake-placid-blue-cij-japan-usa-custom-shop-pickups?gclid=CL_a0bKJwtICFQiBswodJ_gAoQ&pla=1

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Re: MAMI'S GEAR
Posted Mon Mar 06, 2017 3:56 pm

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MamiNoodles wrote:I think that Mami's Tele is made by Fender Japan years ago. I found something similar to her guitar while window shopping online:

https://reverb.com/item/3417604-2006-fender-telecaster-62-reissue-guitar-tl62-us-lake-placid-blue-cij-japan-usa-custom-shop-pickups?gclid=CL_a0bKJwtICFQiBswodJ_gAoQ&pla=1

I actually have seen that 62 Tele online too.

Being a geek, though - I have to beg to differ. The 62 has the spaghetti Fender font but only has TELECASTER in quotes.

MAMI's has an additional line beneath the TELECASTER which has the three design patent numbers, and the AVRI 64 Telecaster has that.

I am prepared to stand corrected of course. Grin



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Posted Sat Mar 11, 2017 5:08 pm

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I wonder if any of you eagle-eyed MAMItasu fans noticed the amp she used today in Kumamoto?

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It appears to be a Marshall Astoria Dual amp.

They always bring their own gear for their live tours in Japan, so I wonder if MAMI's got herself a new amp setup. Watch this space, I guess.

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Posted Sun Mar 12, 2017 4:39 am

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Yes, that old style sports car look color scheme is pretty eye catching.
Well, for venues with capacity of few hundreds, it makes sense they tour with slimline amps set up this time.
You will also find Haruna is not bringing her EVH III set along as well. No earbleed of those in the front row haha!
It is possible that Marshal ask Mami to give the Astoria a try. When you are famous enough, you get gear for free/to try out.

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Posted Sun Mar 12, 2017 6:08 am

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Metal Mickey wrote:Yes, that old style sports car look color scheme is pretty eye catching.
Well, for venues with capacity of few hundreds, it makes sense they tour with slimline amps set up this time.
You will also find Haruna is not bringing her EVH III set along as well. No earbleed of those in the front row haha!
It is possible that Marshal ask Mami to give the Astoria a try. When you are famous enough, you get gear for free/to try out.

Interesting, eh?

They've done live house tours before and that never stopped the band lugging their usual gear, but I guess 53 venues until July is a lot of lugging.

The Astoria's pretty high end - hand-wired, sounds lovely and costs a bomb (MAMI's Astoria Dual head in the photos at Kumamoto retails at GBP1999 and the 1x12" cab is GBP450 here in the UK).

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MAMI's gear during the SCABEST47 tour
Posted Wed Aug 02, 2017 8:34 pm

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This Sept's issue of GiGS has the lowdown on the band's live gear at SCABEST47.

Guitar-wise, MAMI used her usual Strat and her Pelham Blue Gibson Les Paul.

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The Marshall Astoria (Astria[sic]) Dual amp. MAMI utilises the Astoria as her main amp on the tour when she is not able to use her usual JCM2000 head/cab, and due to the Astoria's dual-channel spec, she gets both her clean and dirty guitar tones from the amp. For the larger venues, MAMI would use the JCM2000 head and 4x12" cab. [Thanks to astuffds for making sense of the kanji!]

MAMI's pedals were almost as it was in 2016, but she placed her BOSS Dynamic Wah where her ZVEX Fuzz Probe was (not necessarily the order in the signal chain though). Where her Dynamic Wah used to be is a Katana Sound distortion pedal (in blue casing):

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Did some detective work on Katana Sound  「カタナサウンド」 - M. Takaki is a boutique effects pedal maker which has been around since 2003. Interestingly, he made his pedals for the US market, and only began to sell them in Japan in 2006.  

http://www.katanasound.com/

Although the mag describes MAMI's Katana Sound as a distortion pedal, but Katana seems to just make overdrive and fuzz pedals. Perhaps with her being a fuzz nut, she might have gotten the Raging Wave fuzz, but I'm merely speculating. Nevertheless, with this being a boutique pedal and as MAMI's pedal looks a bit tatty, I won't be surprised if the blue casing is a variant or a replacement. Reminds me of her rare-as-hen's-teeth boutique Krishna distortion pedal!



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Fender MAMI Stratocaster
Posted Thu Nov 02, 2017 9:59 pm

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MAMI's new Fender Strat is featured in the latest Go!Go!GUITAR Dec 2017 ish, but I wish she'd say more about it. Unfortunately, I had to go thru Google Translate for this and all I can gather is that the colour is a Vintage Cherry Red (and the grain of the wood is visible through the finish), and the guitar's tonality is suitable for heavy and pop tones, which means she would be using this guitar a lot. Does this mean sayonara to the black HSS Strat? I hope not.

Now, I don't know if it's Google giving me a bad translation or if it is actually picking up the subtleties of the sentence itself, the translated sentences seem to indicate that MAMI chose the specs ("I made etc etc..." - perhaps Jade could look at the caption in the photo and help clarify) eg gold hardware, maple neck/fingerboard. So, is this an MiJ piece? Or a Custom Shop order from the US? Hope there'll be other articles on these new guitars soon so we can know more about them.



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Posted Fri Nov 03, 2017 12:44 am

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One of the trickiest things with Japanese is that you don't always need a pronoun (I, we, he, she, they, etc.) in a sentence for it to make sense, and (in)conveniently none of these sentences have them, haha. However, it does seem like this is a guitar customized by MAMI, so I translated it to make it read that way:

The grain of the wood was made visible by making it a vintage cherry red color. The neck and fretboard were made of maple to bring out the brightness. Features such as the bridge and tuning pegs were made gold to bring out a feeling of quality. I made sure to make its appearance pop without giving it a heavy feeling and not making it too low-key. The sound is also important, but I took being able to use it for a long time into consideration.



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Posted Sun Nov 05, 2017 9:33 pm

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kudo_maharizu wrote:So, is this an MiJ piece? Or a Custom Shop order from the US?

Guessing it's MIJ based on the headstock decal, which is inverted. Fender Japan has been doing this forever on certain models and it drives me nuts. I think there may have been a few transition era US Strat decals that were like this, but 99% of US models have a gold logo with black outline on a red headstock. It's unlikely that Mami would have specified that either way, so it points to it being MIJ.

The pearl pickguard also looks MIJ to me; they're very white compared to the American ones. Ditto for the maple fretboard.

I know that back when there actually was a Fender Japan, they'd do one-offs like this for artists periodically. Fender Japan no longer exists as a paper entity, but whichever factory actually makes these probably just had to get approval from Fender in America rather than Kanda Shokai. I'm guessing that otherwise it's just like the way the other artist models were made in the past.

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Posted Sun Nov 05, 2017 9:41 pm

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Fender "Japan" (kinda) is back somewhat, though - possibly in a limited sense. The peeps at Fender prolly let the girls have a chance at getting a customised piece each while they have a chance. If I were to speculate, that is.

https://shop.fender.com/ja-JP/made-in-japan-traditional

I understand these in the website are traditional Strats/Teles and not custom jobs, btw. Change your country to JP at the very bottom of the page as the link brings you to Fender (whatever country you're at).



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Re: MAMI'S GEAR
Posted Sun Nov 05, 2017 9:56 pm

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Well that's why I said as a paper entity. Fender Japan was just a name; the company was actually Kanda Shokai, but they were just the rights holders to the Fender name in Japan. The actual work was done by various guitar makers. So previously Kanda Shokai had approval over making one-offs, but they'd have one of these other factories build the guitars.

Those factories all still exist and continue making Fender guitars for the Japanese market, but now it's FMIC in America that controls it and there is no "Fender Japan". It's all just the same Fender we know here. So probably Dyna Gakki or Tokai Gakki or some other factory there made this guitar same as they always would have, but now it's just under the supervision of Fender in California.

So, just interesting that they're still doing this, because I wonder who approached whom to do it. There's no Japanese intermediary anymore. I think they must have some contacts with FMIC based on the previous Squier custom guitars, because Squier as a brand didn't exist in Japan at that time (and Kanda Shokai didn't seem to have the rights to it), so I always thought that deal must have been through FMIC. But those guitars I always suspected were actually US custom shop guitars with Squier decals put on them for marketing, whereas these definitely look Japanese to me. I wonder if they will end up using them to market their "Japan exclusive" guitars in the same way they did with Squier.

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Re: MAMI'S GEAR
Posted Sat Nov 11, 2017 9:45 pm

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kudo_maharizu wrote:This Sept's issue of GiGS has the lowdown on the band's live gear at SCABEST47.

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@kudo_maharizu and spacecadet, I wandered over to Equipboard and saw there was no info at all about Mami, although she's a listed artist (and nothing about Haruna or Tomomi). So, I created a login and started to add some of her gear just for fun. I only put a few pedals in using Gigs magazine as the source (they need a source to post). Why don't you guys do the same so she has some content. Seems a shame there wasn't any. I've added the link. Equipboard page


@kudo_maharizu Nice job on Equipboard, I saw your updates and "reviewed" them as the site asks. I see you added Haruna, too, nice. I'll add some of her pedals.

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Re: MAMI'S GEAR
Posted Mon Nov 20, 2017 8:32 pm

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mbowie4321 wrote:@kudo_maharizu Nice job on Equipboard, I saw your updates and "reviewed" them as the site asks.  I see you added Haruna, too, nice. I'll add some of her pedals.

Thanks. Did all I could, but that moderator keeps changing the names I assigned to the recently released signature Fenders. For a stickler for accuracy, he's not doing a good job of it.

Anyway, that's all I've to say about equipboard, before this gets out of topic.

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Re: MAMI'S GEAR
Posted Tue Nov 21, 2017 2:15 am

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Whatever happened to the white Les Paul Double Cut guitar Mami played in the early days as seen in the DOLL and SAKURA GOODBYE videos?  I am not sure if this was an actual Gibson since it's hard to see the headstock in photos and videos, but I always thought Mami looked pretty bad a** with it (like a schoolgirl Johnny Ramone, even thought he played a Mosrite).

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