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Post by rayden44 on Nov 6, 2010 1:16:56 GMT -5
Played some Schecter PT's today on my own amp. Couldn't really find a great sound out of either the regular PT or the Fastback version. Coil tapping didn't really produce a single coil style tone. Otherwise though it was a nice feeling guitar. Tone / vol Knobs are very loose to turn.
I was able to find a Godin, and the guitar does seem really nice but the pickups didn't produce anything resembling a clean tone. Changing from bridge to neck made little difference at all. I thought it might be a bad one, but the other I tried (of the same model) did the same. It might simply be the model. It had P90's, might be the LGSP90.
Also went and saw the ASAT again with my amp in tow. Still sounds nice. Like the satin finish on the neck makes it real easy to play. Think this will be the one to buy, just have to find some money lol
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Post by rayden44 on Nov 4, 2010 21:43:55 GMT -5
Where did my post go? bet I forgot to hit send before closing this window!
Would be helpful to know the artists you like listening to. Although metal can sound like a noisy mess, it also can be pretty complicated. But you can always simplify to start with.
Malmsteen is about the heaviest stuff I listen to, but he often goes beyond what I like. He tends to play minor scales in his leads.
Satriani is more my speed, there are blues scales in his stuff, but lots of other scales too. He mixes it around a bit, his left hand freedom up and down the neck I'm very envious of. His 'verse' sections usually aren't all that complicated though.
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Post by rayden44 on Nov 2, 2010 21:15:30 GMT -5
You've reminded me I enjoyed "Cracked Rear View". I might even go dig it out tonight. Probably haven't heard it in over 10 years The 90s had a couple of memorable moments for me. Tracy Chapman's Gimmie one Reason I learned pretty well. The brief swing revival towards the end of the decade spawned Big Bad Voodoo Daddy who had a lot of Bill Haley and the Comet-isms in their playing. EC's Unplugged that got me into all this guitar stuff again. I was into some pretty easy going stuff at this time Blues Travelers Straight on till Morning is another one I can think of.
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Post by rayden44 on Nov 2, 2010 16:29:49 GMT -5
300 in 2.5 years? That's astounding. 2 gats a week every week and then some left over... I've envious of the many custom gats you guys have access to. My first electric gat is my Peavey Falcon International, and I still have it. It's a noisy little bugger but not too bad a strat sound. I still have it around and usually use it to fiddle with setups. Currently it's set so I can blend in the neck pickup using the tone control - which I really should replace with a volume pot I guess to make it easier to control. I had a Washburn BT-10 with locking bridge that was actually easy enough to tune, but eventually found the tone wasn't for me. Sold to buy a Laney VC30 2x12. I also had an Ibanez RG370DX which also had a locking bridge - but a totally different kettle of fish. A right pain in the rear end to tune. HSH setup provided a lot of versatile tone, but nothing really spectacular. Tried changing out the neck for a Dimarzio double whammy (think PAF Pro with more Treble) but didn't really get what I wanted. Sold. My first Tele was an SX. They have a nice Tele sound even with its cheap pickups, but also noisy. Got me some Kinman Broadcaster pickups and this became a pretty nice guitar, but never 100% happy with the neck. These pickups made it onto my current Squier Thinline. The SX body I still have, but haven' set it up again. I had a Squier Jagmaster 24" scale for a while with HH pickups. Still not learning about humbuckers again I liked the tone for a while, but wasn't really there. The 24" scale made things less of a stretch for my hands, but made the setup even less tight in the tone department. Sold. I wouldn't mind playing a Fender Classic Player Jaguar at some stage. My Dearmond M75 is the only humbucker gat I still use. Has a lovely D shaped bridge a bit archtop like, and the body is a Guild les paul copy shape. The pickups are nice and bright, no mud here! Always nice to play. Currently this is setup for slide in open G. An Epiphone EM-1 was a bit of a surprise. I was looking for 24" scale guitars and Epi advertised this as such. Not having my ruler with me I bought it and it's actually 25.5, which they corrected later. If it wasn't so comfortable to play and cheap as chips I might have actually complained. 24 frets too from a light lil hockey stick. Don't really play it anymore tho. My Squier Thinline was weedy and thin in the shop, but my kinman pups brought it to life. Semi hollow so it's light, and a good sized easy to play neck. I usually Albert Collins style it over my right shoulder only Totally agree with Mojo on the G&L, and I think there might be an ASAT Special in my future.... depending on how it behaves with my amp
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Post by rayden44 on Nov 2, 2010 15:42:31 GMT -5
I should probably give a comparison - a Fender Blues Junior is about $1,200 here
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Post by rayden44 on Nov 2, 2010 12:36:09 GMT -5
Normal RRP here is $2995, but it was on special for $2499. Plus I traded another amp I wasn't liking so paid less than that in actual $'s.
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Post by rayden44 on Nov 1, 2010 23:25:17 GMT -5
I honestly never thought I'd own any mesa gear. This was on a massive special when I bought it and it was cheaper than the Fender stuff (I like my cleans!) I usually gravitate towards. I would like to get a Vox Pathfinder 15r tho. For a cheap little solid state amp, it sounds amazing.
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Post by rayden44 on Oct 31, 2010 11:08:47 GMT -5
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Post by rayden44 on Oct 31, 2010 11:01:13 GMT -5
Spent 2 hours laying in front of my amp Instead of boring you explaining this amp, I'll let scarf guy do it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gvatf2riOyM The muddy notes out of the clean channel 1 I noticed in the video a little this time through. They're kind of a "wah" and not distinctive, when chording they're pretty annoying. For our sets, I need to be able to do nice cleans for say Key to the Highway, but then need some heavy stuff for something like Gary Moore's Walking by Myself. I had been using the Ch1 Clean + Ch2 Burn setting for this. Now though I've gone back to how I set the amp up originally. I'm using Channel 2 set to "Blues" for my cleans (I can back off the guitar if I need), then Channel 1 set to "Crunch" for my heavy stuff. I also seem to be getting better sound on the 50 setting than the 5, I suspect this is due to driving a 12" speaker, but this needs a bit more experimentation. I do have a 10" speaker that I use for my 15watt homebuild amp, but the smaller cabinet seemed to be restricting the sound, tho it did provide some sweeter higher tones. I ran the two together for a while as well Ahh the quest for sound...
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Post by rayden44 on Oct 27, 2010 22:56:50 GMT -5
mmm k I'll give that a go. might try dropping the mids a little too. Will let you know if I find anything promising
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Post by rayden44 on Oct 27, 2010 22:51:17 GMT -5
Went to see a guy play who had a strat and fender amp - couldn't see which one. Just occasionally you'd see the front row jump a little Yeah go the Ice Pick sound!
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Post by rayden44 on Oct 27, 2010 15:00:25 GMT -5
Ok now that I have your mind thinking about exploding guitar strings. I'm the only guitarist in my band, so I'm moving in and out of lead + chords. I generally play my Kinman pup equipped Tele with DR Blues 10-46 into my Mesa with bass about 9, mids about 10, treb about 12.
What I'm finding is I have my tone dialed in for lead, but when I descend into lower and thicker strings I start losing clarity. This is most noticeable when returning to chording - just kinda makes a muddy boom sound. I've tried turning down the mids / bass but then my lead tone becomes weedy and thin. Pushing the treble up doesn't remove the boomyness either.
I've had a thought (pretty much while writing this!) to try dropping the pickup height on that side of the strings, but any other insights?
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Post by rayden44 on Oct 27, 2010 14:47:59 GMT -5
Went out yesterday, into a music store. They had a Fender Deluxe setup in there. Played around with the following: (all G&L's are tribute series, good luck finding anything else here!) G&L ASAT Special, G&L S-500, G&L Classic Bluesboy semi hollow, Squier Vintage Mod SSH The ASAT Special is winning at the moment. It keeps a rich tone almost no matter where I set the tone knob. Good neck sound without getting boomy, and the bridge doesn't stab you in the eye. Sustains like nothing else. By comparison the Bluesboy and the Squier were very muddy in neck, no real surprise being humbuckers. I couldn't find that interesting neck + middle sound out of the SSH Squier I did before, probably due to diff amp. The Squier has easily the fattest neck of all the above just to stay on topic! The S-500 was interesting, but still had a touch of that boomy quality on the neck pup. Will prolly take my amp over there and see how it responds. Might also try mucking with my present pickup heights a bit. I'll chuck up another topic for my next piece
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Post by rayden44 on Oct 27, 2010 14:39:05 GMT -5
I've heard good things about Godin, but I don't think it'll be possible. One of our major stores does stock Godin, all of 5 of them. 3 of which are archtop, and two are HSH Ibanez looking things with floyd rose trems. bah.
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Post by rayden44 on Oct 27, 2010 10:14:50 GMT -5
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