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The Pickup Place / Re: Pickup selection
« on: March 05, 2021, 11:58:06 AM »
Yeah, you can't go wrong with a Super Distortion for hard rock/metal.
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Gear Closet / And my present to myself
« on: March 05, 2021, 11:56:31 AM »
I had talked previously about my 80s rack setup. I just scored a new foot controller for $31 from Music Go Round. Happy Birthday to ME!!
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The Pickup Place / Re: Super Distortion Question
« on: March 02, 2021, 12:28:43 PM »
I think the PAF Pro would be a great neck pickup with the Super Distortion. I would go for that. I also wouldn't worry about what others may think of your guitar choice regardless of how good you may think you are or aren't. You like what you like. Wear that badge with confidence.
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The Pickup Place / Re: HSS Configuration for Strat - Alder
« on: March 02, 2021, 12:23:41 PM »
I really like the AT-1 for a 25 1/2 scale guitar. I noticed that you said you want hum cancelling, but what I also noticed is that you are looking at something like a single coil sized 'bucker for the neck. I would probably go pro track if I were to do a rail bucker in a single slot. If it is stacked noiseless, then at least for me, the DP409 all day long with 500k pots. I REALLY like this pickup with 500K. It is pretty much my go to neck noiseless single coil.
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Gear Closet / Re: Early birthday present
« on: February 26, 2021, 11:02:40 AM »
I am doing some recording with it this weekend.
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Gear Closet / Re: Compression?
« on: February 26, 2021, 11:02:13 AM »
Update. I removed the Dynacomp. After several yrs it just started acting finicky. All of a sudden, it sounded great with single coils but any kind of humbucker, and it just went into suck mode, for lack of a better term, where it would clamp down on the signal so tightly that humbuckers would almost disappear.
I looked at a few, tried out a few, and after exhaustively trying three different guitars (my Highway 1 strat with a jb jr and factory singles, my Big Apple Strat, and one of my RG Ibanez) I finally settled on, of all things, another two knob compressor. This time it was the J.Rockett Squeegee. Why? Because you can actually set it to where it evens out humbuckers being full on, or split. It doesn't go into freak out limiting if it sees a hot signal from a humbucker. And it, at least with the low settings I have, it just balances everything out, and gives my clean that nice little sparkle that I love about compression. When I hit my distortion I don't even notice it. And set this low, I can still be dynamic. It doesn't kill your nuances unless you set it to.
I looked at a few, tried out a few, and after exhaustively trying three different guitars (my Highway 1 strat with a jb jr and factory singles, my Big Apple Strat, and one of my RG Ibanez) I finally settled on, of all things, another two knob compressor. This time it was the J.Rockett Squeegee. Why? Because you can actually set it to where it evens out humbuckers being full on, or split. It doesn't go into freak out limiting if it sees a hot signal from a humbucker. And it, at least with the low settings I have, it just balances everything out, and gives my clean that nice little sparkle that I love about compression. When I hit my distortion I don't even notice it. And set this low, I can still be dynamic. It doesn't kill your nuances unless you set it to.
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Guitar Lounge / Re: New neck time.
« on: February 26, 2021, 07:25:37 AM »
Wow! I just took a look at my first post on this subject. (Think of Val Kilmer in Tombstone) Now I REALLY hate the auto correct function on my smartphone!
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Guitar Lounge / Re: If someone has a hard time finding music inspiration ....
« on: February 25, 2021, 12:01:23 PM »
I think there are times when all of us rack up our sound to our gear, and that is partially true. But how we play has just as much to do with it.
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Gear Closet / Re: Lovepedal Tchula 'Burst'
« on: February 25, 2021, 11:58:41 AM »
I happen to like Sean's pedals. I think those slight tweaks sold as variations on a theme being sold simultaneously with the original design is a terrific idea. How many times have you tried out a pedal with your rig and thought, "If only it had this or that"? You have a better chance of getting something to gel with your rig.
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Gear Closet / Re: Speaker for an Orange Micro Dark and a guitar with Super Distortion/PAF Pro?
« on: February 25, 2021, 11:54:15 AM »I know, I know. A fat sounding amp with a fat sounding bridge pickup/clear neck pup. I've only been able to hear the combination through the cab sim headphone out, and I find myself dialing the shape knob on the scooped side. I use a Boss SD-1 to tighten things up a bit.
You may be scooping with the shape knob, but with the sd-1 you are getting a upper mid bump much like a ts-9. It kind of makes sense as too much of one frequency can start to sound a little boxy. If I recall correctly from when I worked for an Orange retailer, the 412 cabs we had were loaded with V30s which sounded great with their 30 watt tube head that had the shape control instead of a full range of tone controls. Great amps.
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Gear Closet / Re: Dragon's Heart Original pick...
« on: February 25, 2021, 11:49:24 AM »
I wonder how they would work for me. I have a pretty light attack. I used to compensate with thicker picks but have gone back to .60 star pick. I like the thinner picks.
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Gear Closet / Re: Amp choices
« on: February 25, 2021, 11:47:19 AM »
I am really impressed with H&K. But then again, I always have been. I agree with the brightness. And like you said, it cuts through a mix. Even with the brightness, they still manage to sound full and fat. They really make some impressive stuff.
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Gear Closet / Early birthday present
« on: February 25, 2021, 11:44:45 AM »
So last night my brother in law calls and asks if we are busy as the family went to his wife's parent's house for the evening. I tell him to come over and hang with us. He show up and gives my wife a bunch on candles, and then hands me a Sweetwater box from the bottom and tells me, "I got this over a month ago for your birthday and couldn't wait so enjoy." I open it up and there it is; a Boss SY-1. We must have noodled around with that pedal for 3 hrs. At one point my wife walked in and asks if that was me that just played the organ solo from Highway Star. I just grinned and told her THAT was why I married her.
Anyhow, very enjoyable night with a new toy and good company. That pedal is amazing, by the way. I couldn't stop thanking Donnie. That was a very unexpected gift that's also pretty expensive. If it had sucked, I still would have appreciated it.
Anyhow, very enjoyable night with a new toy and good company. That pedal is amazing, by the way. I couldn't stop thanking Donnie. That was a very unexpected gift that's also pretty expensive. If it had sucked, I still would have appreciated it.
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The mini bar (off topic & misc) / Re: So this may peeve off some Dragonforce fans but....
« on: February 25, 2021, 11:37:23 AM »
Both of those guys can blow (I mean that in the jazz sense in that they can tear it down). I just get annoyed when I see those claims like, "They just can progress and keep up with me." It would be nice if they just went, "These guys offered me a better deal. Nothing against my former company, but I got more money, more free swag, more publicity, etc." I thought the Egen was a cool guitar. I find it sort of peculiar that him AND Totman no longer have axes with them.
I have a love/hate relationship with the Ibanez stuff. I have played some models that no matter the price, I couldn't gel with. Then I get a RG450 as a gift and it feels like I have had it for years. I think I actually like the necks on their mid-upper mid level guitars better than the higher priced ones.
I have a love/hate relationship with the Ibanez stuff. I have played some models that no matter the price, I couldn't gel with. Then I get a RG450 as a gift and it feels like I have had it for years. I think I actually like the necks on their mid-upper mid level guitars better than the higher priced ones.
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The mini bar (off topic & misc) / So this may peeve off some Dragonforce fans but....
« on: February 19, 2021, 03:56:31 PM »
So back in '07 one of the other motorcycle techs at work heard me play and introduced me to Dragon Force via the Fire and Flames video. I went and bought the disc because I thought to myself, "Finally! Guitar heroism is back!" Then I listened to the disc. While I still like Fire and Flames, it just seemed to me that every song was somehow Fire and Flames 2.0, 3.0, and finally a sort of power ballad type song. And then it occurred to me that the list of guitar heroes, or guys that I considered great guitarists all did something else on top of guitar playing. They had a catalog of songs that while in the same style, did somehow differ from one another. Sometimes greatly sometimes not so differently, but enough that it didn't feel like I was listening to the same song over and over and over again.
Today, I decided to take a look and see what happened to them. Surprisingly, they still seemed to be pretty busy. I only looked it up to see what happened with the Ibby endorsement as their models hadn't been in the lineup for some time now. When I read Li's comments, I thought about how a lot of us called b.s. on Nita Strauss' "Oh I FINALLY got the guitar I had in my head with this signature model" which to me looks like every other S series with some personalized appointments like the pickups and the inlay. Kind of the same thing but the opposite. "I left Ibanez because I need something more advanced and they just couldn't keep up with what I demanded in a guitar design". A little later in his quote he talked about how he doesn't buy guitars.
I then thought about how all of us pretty much concurred that Nita could have probably easily found 5 or 6 axes from the rack that would have suited her needs. Now this guy is no longer endorsed and is claiming almost the same thing while making the statement that he doesn't pay for guitars, they get sent to him for free. I guess I am just missing something, or misinterpreting the whole statement because he really came of as "dicky" for lack of a better term.
Today, I decided to take a look and see what happened to them. Surprisingly, they still seemed to be pretty busy. I only looked it up to see what happened with the Ibby endorsement as their models hadn't been in the lineup for some time now. When I read Li's comments, I thought about how a lot of us called b.s. on Nita Strauss' "Oh I FINALLY got the guitar I had in my head with this signature model" which to me looks like every other S series with some personalized appointments like the pickups and the inlay. Kind of the same thing but the opposite. "I left Ibanez because I need something more advanced and they just couldn't keep up with what I demanded in a guitar design". A little later in his quote he talked about how he doesn't buy guitars.
I then thought about how all of us pretty much concurred that Nita could have probably easily found 5 or 6 axes from the rack that would have suited her needs. Now this guy is no longer endorsed and is claiming almost the same thing while making the statement that he doesn't pay for guitars, they get sent to him for free. I guess I am just missing something, or misinterpreting the whole statement because he really came of as "dicky" for lack of a better term.