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Guitar Lounge / Re: Charvel Pro Mod SO CAL How to block tremolo

« on: January 22, 2020, 03:20:01 PM »

Hi,


I often see people do a tremolo on a chord in their solo.
What kind of chords can use for such things? For example in the minor swing?
I have no idea what kind of chords to use in solo and everytime I try it sounds bad.   



GreetZ Rookie

Most trems won't pull every string evenly, but generally I like going up from the major 7th (just the one note) into the tonic of the key (chord) or down from the minor third (note) to the tonic chord. Works pretty well for me.

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The Pickup Place / Re: Output and EQ-wise, which noiseless single is closest to a Fast Track 1?

« on: January 19, 2020, 01:24:33 PM »

Check out any of Paul Gilbert's more recent stuff (except maybe the latest latest album), the Injectors are all over that.

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The Pickup Place / Re: Output and EQ-wise, which noiseless single is closest to a Fast Track 1?

« on: January 19, 2020, 01:01:14 AM »

Maybe something like the Heavy Blues 2, Virtual Solo, or Injector?

Those are all pretty hot, warm, and midrangey for single-coils, but still very much in the single-coil wheelhouse tone-wise.

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The Pickup Place / Re: Press Release : DiMarzio releases Fortitude Pickup

« on: January 18, 2020, 09:51:44 PM »

Dimarzio dropped a demo with Joe on their youtube channel. It's all Gojira stuff, so if you're not into that it's not gonna be the demo for you, but uh, it sounds pretty bitchin' for the heavy stuff.

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The Pickup Place / Re: Press Release : DiMarzio releases Fortitude Pickup

« on: January 17, 2020, 02:27:15 AM »

Welp I know what's going in the bridge of my Strandy now. Joe's riffing tone is to die for.

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The Pickup Place / Re: Wax Potting

« on: January 13, 2020, 05:08:31 AM »

Unpotting a pickup that's been potted with wax is pretty easy to do with a hair dryer, it just takes forever - took me 40+ minutes for a pretty crappy job on a humbucker. Potting with lacquer or shellac is very much a thing, some of the newer Fender pickups (on the new Player series IIRC) are shellac potted, and it's a bit less "potted"-sounding than wax because it's not as solid a material.

My $0.02, if you want unpotted pickups order them that way from the factory, because it's just not worth the trouble. A lot of pickups have been designed with potting in mind and they're unbearably microphonic with the potting removed.

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The Pickup Place / Re: Curious: Dry vs wet sounding pickups?

« on: January 07, 2020, 01:59:09 PM »

A pickup that's more naturally compressed, higher output, and less treble and upper mids and more low end is gonna feel more "wet", whereas something that's more dynamic, lower output, and with more top end than bottom is gonna feel more "dry". That's pretty general though, so YMMV.

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The Pickup Place / Re: Wiring Anomoly - HSH

« on: December 30, 2019, 10:44:48 PM »

To take it apart, flip it over and take out the small screw holding down the baseplate, then pull it off, flip the magnet, put it back on, and re-screw the baseplate on. Pretty easy as long as you go slow and are delicate with it to not break any wires.

If you want a legit Transition set that will work with your setup, just call in and order direct from Dimarzio and let them know that it's going in an HSH setup and that you want something that will be in phase with the DM2 single in the middle when split.

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The Pickup Place / Re: Wiring Anomoly - HSH

« on: December 29, 2019, 10:31:09 PM »

The grey wire might be for phase issues, which you seem to be having, but the issue is the Transition clones. The EBMM Luke III (and the Sterling that's based on it that has the pickups you're having trouble with) have position 2 and 4 being inside coils together, then outside coils together, so the neck pickup is RWRP relative to the bridge. If you're using an HSH setup, you want your neck and bridge humbuckers to have the same winding direction and polarity to work well with the middle single (unless you use the inner coil of one humbucker and the outer coil of the other). In your case I think you'd have to take the neck pickup apart and rotate the magnet 180° (so the part that used to be under your treble strings is now under your bass strings and vice-versa) and that should hopefully fix it. If it's still an issue after that, you'd need to swap which coil of the humbucker is active in position 4.

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The Pickup Place / Re: D Act.-X mod...

« on: December 29, 2019, 01:04:56 PM »

I'll toss in another recommendation for the Behringer stuff - I have their 8-input U-Phoria interface (the UMC1820) and it's a pretty killer little piece for under $350, but they do a 1-input one for under $70. Same preamp and all, just less inputs.

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The Pickup Place / Re: Your holiday wish list

« on: December 27, 2019, 05:49:18 PM »

New tubes for my amp. Little bugger's been dead for a couple of months now but between finals and the holidays I've been too broke to swap them out.

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The Pickup Place / Re: Pick Up For Ash Bodied Ibanez

« on: November 26, 2019, 01:11:45 AM »

I really like the Fusion Edge set in my RGR652 AHM - it's basically yours but black, satin, and with a reverse headstock - because it's a very even-sounding pickup. There's enough treble, bass, and mids, without anything overpowering, a bit of natural compression without killing dynamics, and a really nicely defined attack - not too sharp, not too muffled. You get a pretty good representation of what your guitar sounds like with pretty friendly playaibility.
The closest thing you can get at retail is the Titan set IIRC, but you can get the Fusion Edge set for like $80 all day on Reverb.

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The Pickup Place / Re: pickups for 75 custom...

« on: November 23, 2019, 08:40:36 PM »

Actives, usually about 3-5mm from the strings. Passives, high enough to get a decent output but otherwise as low as they'll go - my current Kiesel Lithiums are like 8mm from the strings, the HSS set in my Strandberg Classic 6 is about 5-6mm depending on the pickup, and the Ormsbys in my Hype GTR are at like 9-10mm.
IMO you get a bit more touch response this way and more variability depending on how you pick a note (pick, fingers, tap, etc.)

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The Pickup Place / Re: pickups for 75 custom...

« on: November 07, 2019, 02:18:44 AM »

You could try getting the pickups potted and the guitar re-shielded if you want to keep it original. Otherwise maybe a Super Distortion bridge/PAF Pro neck or Norton bridge/Air Classic neck (use the bridge model though to balance the output better). The SD/PAF Pro setup will be hotter and have more mids, while the Norton/AC setup would be a similar vibe to a JB/59 from Duncan but IMO more balanced and less obnoxious.

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The Pickup Place / Re: Pickup tone vs hearing tone

« on: November 06, 2019, 01:33:19 PM »

I'm a P90 guy, really, but I can't deal with the hum at all because I generally play with higher gain. I'm partial to Tele singles more than Strat ones, and probably my favorite pickup currently is the Kiesel Lithium humbucker, sounds like a big hi-fi modern p90.