Surprise NGD!

[Warmart]

Woohoo for super surprise new guitars!

May you love it long time! I sure would!

 

[TSJMajesty]

Hahahah I actually considered throwing the EMG’s in

Now that would be ironic.

Awesome score dude! Finding a guitar you really want at a steal of a price sure is nice.

 

[dbagchee]

Go against the grain and go low-output. Something like DiMarzio Fortitude (Joe Duplantier) perhaps?

 

[DrewJD82]

Man, I picked up my ExpSolar for band practice yesterday, hahaha that was a good perspective shift. While everything I said about the S model I got the other day stands true, there's still quite the jump in quality from the S to the actual Solars. You can polish the S model into something that doesn't quite feel like an entry-level model, but the techwood fingerboard and super light poplar body tend to keep it typecast to that role, if that makes sense. If the S weighs more than 6.5lbs I'd be surprised and picking up a 10.5lb mahogany bodied-setneck Explorer right after handling it is a bit of a shocker.

This probably would work pretty well for all the pinch harmonics and harmonic bar dives, especially since he's also using a 5153 and it's not like Gojira is lacking in any balls or saturation anywhere along the way. I shouldn't have dismissed it as fast, my bad, @norminal.

The other guitarist in my band is getting a crash lesson in how pickups and your picking hand can really define what you're actually doing and to a degree, the genre itself. There's stuff on their demo I believed they were going for a punk vibe with, but now that he's bringing these different pickups into practices and there's so much more clarity, I'm hearing he's actually doing a lot more syncopated things, albiet a bit sloppy with the picking hand, that's much closer to metal than punk and compeltely changed my perspective on the songs as a result.

He's brought in a new LTD with the rails version of the Nazgul and that thing is pretty fucking intense. I have the regular Nazgul in my Solar plugged that LTD into my rig, I had to turn the Drive from 4.5 down to 3 on my Red channel and still felt like I had a boost on the amp.

I just find tones sound so much bigger when the output of the pickup isn't slamming the front end of an amp so hard it's compressed AF. It almost always requires a bit more effort on the picking-hand front, but the payoff is worth it.

 

[norminal]

Man, I picked up my ExpSolar for band practice yesterday, hahaha that was a good perspective shift. While everything I said about the S model I got the other day stands true, there's still quite the jump in quality from the S to the actual Solars. You can polish the S model into something that doesn't quite feel like an entry-level model, but the techwood fingerboard and super light poplar body tend to keep it typecast to that role, if that makes sense. If the S weighs more than 6.5lbs I'd be surprised and picking up a 10.5lb mahogany bodied-setneck Explorer right after handling it is a bit of a shocker.



This probably would work pretty well for all the pinch harmonics and harmonic bar dives, especially since he's also using a 5153 and it's not like Gojira is lacking in any balls or saturation anywhere along the way. I shouldn't have dismissed it as fast, my bad, @norminal.

The other guitarist in my band is getting a crash lesson in how pickups and your picking hand can really define what you're actually doing and to a degree, the genre itself. There's stuff on their demo I believed they were going for a punk vibe with, but now that he's bringing these different pickups into practices and there's so much more clarity, I'm hearing he's actually doing a lot more syncopated things, albiet a bit sloppy with the picking hand, that's much closer to metal than punk and compeltely changed my perspective on the songs as a result.

He's brought in a new LTD with the rails version of the Nazgul and that thing is pretty fucking intense. I have the regular Nazgul in my Solar plugged that LTD into my rig, I had to turn the Drive from 4.5 down to 3 on my Red channel and still felt like I had a boost on the amp.

I just find tones sound so much bigger when the output of the pickup isn't slamming the front end of an amp so hard it's compressed AF. It almost always requires a bit more effort on the picking-hand front, but the payoff is worth it.

So you’re saying that’d you recommend the S model as a modding platform?

 

[DrewJD82]

So you’re saying that’d you recommend the S model as a modding platform?

Based off this particular guitar I'd have a hard time arguing against them as modding platforms. This won't even need a full fret job, it just needs one fret leveled and then new hardware/electronics and it'll be pretty rippin. My only real gripe with it is the weight because it's so light, but so are Ibanez S models, which is right around the same weight and those have no problem moving untis, so it's hard to cite that as anything related to quality.

 

[norminal]

Based off this particular guitar I'd have a hard time arguing against them as modding platforms. This won't even need a full fret job, it just needs one fret leveled and then new hardware/electronics and it'll be pretty rippin. My only real gripe with it is the weight because it's so light, but so are Ibanez S models, which is right around the same weight and those have no problem moving untis, so it's hard to cite that as anything related to quality.

I’ve yet to see a Solar in the wild. Hopefully I’ll get my hands on one sooner or later. Always wanted to try one.

 

[wreckless]

Nice score!

Good to know about the pickups ahead of time, in case I come across a good deal locally.

 

[la szum]

Hahahah I actually considered throwing the EMG’s in last night

 

[la szum]

I just find tones sound so much bigger when the output of the pickup isn't slamming the front end of an amp so hard it's compressed AF. It almost always requires a bit more effort on the picking-hand front, but the payoff is worth it.

Compression is a blessing, and a curse.