What Did You Do With Your Guitar(s) Today?

Jarick said:
Picked up a Suhr Woodbucker bridge pickup for my PRS CE24. Currently have Thornbuckers but want something hotter in the bridge. Found this one mint for half price figured give it a shot. Looks like an SSH with alnico 2, 43ga wire wound to 13k.
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Ive found a new Appreciation for AlNiCo IV with low/Med output Pickups compared to my AlNiCo V that was in my Revstar Prior, the 4 is so much nicer in the mids, much easier to produce better Harmonics (think STP/Dean Deleo) and the OD sounds awesome
 
Stone said:
Ive found a new Appreciation for AlNiCo IV with low/Med output Pickups compared to my AlNiCo V that was in my Revstar Prior, the 4 is so much nicer in the mids, much easier to produce better Harmonics (think STP/Dean Deleo) and the OD sounds awesome
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Big fan of the alnico iv paf style pickups in my prs. I had alnico v in them originally but it was a bit harsh, switching to alnico iv made them a little more balanced.
 
Doing a string change and some adjustments.
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I spent some time practicing using my Strat and the Micro Cube/Presonus Eris 4.5 rig. Clean Jazz tone with no effects and just a dash of reverb.

Time well spent, that rig keeps me honest. Worked on fundamentals and a new composition.
 
Had "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" stuck in my head when I woke up, so decided to properly learn it. Strat sounded alright, but too stringy for the solo parts. Decided to get out the Les Paul which I have a love/hate relationship. Today it's absolutely killing it. With the neck volume down it's perfect for lead lines, and then flipping to the bridge on full volume and tone rolled off for the more aggressive parts.

I've fought with the muddy neck pickup / bright bridge thing on this guitar and rolled through a lot of pickups, but right now it's in a great spot. I have a set of Wolfetones in there, Dr Vintage (underwound PAF) neck and Marshallhead (overwound PAF) bridge. I think I swapped the magnets out for alnico 4's but can't recall. Just sounds fantastic running into the Quad Cortex with a Marshall 2203 and a little reverb.

Unfortunately there's some issues going on with the pots again. I just replaced all four pots and rewired it a couple months ago. This seems to happen with this guitar constantly, and only with this guitar. It's also really noisy and always has been. So I may rip everything out and give it the full copper shielding and put it back and see what happens.

Edit: it might have been the treble bleed shorting out on a wire. Took the cover off and fiddled with that, now it seems rock solid again. Fingers crossed. Stupid guitar.

One more thing on the treble bleed. I know everyone loves 50's wiring. A good treble bleed circuit to me is a lot more useful. This guitar cleans up a lot better and avoids the low end mud in the neck.
 
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Last night I was curious about a riff in Mastodon's "Oblivion", once I learned it I just started learning the rest of it even though that wasn't the intention. Now that I've learned it I'm tempted to bang out a quick cover. I've got a few hours to kill before Hagar/Satch tonight!
 
Initiated a conversation with Tom Anderson about getting my Angel neck profile shaved from Even Taper to -.20" like my Drop Top, which is perfect.

Trading emails with Tom on a Sunday - that's customer service!

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Funny that both pictures I posted (from the sellers) are both in front of a fireplace! :)
 
Busy day today.. I put my @1 on the bench for a long over due cleaning, fretboard cleaning, fret polishing, string change and set up. I used this instrument for 90% of the 2 Ariel's Attic albums
 

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Sudden change of gears a lil bit, picked up a somewhat last minute show this Saturday. Have an hour and a half set. My band hasn’t all been in the same room in like a month though. Been jamming with my drummer a lot this past week, probably will only have one or 2 practices with our bass player before the show though. We’ve mostly just been working on new material and prepping for recording the past couple months so dusting the cobwebs off a lot of our songs

Should be a good time tho
 
la szum said:
Always interested in hearing a Suhr Pickup breakdown. :unsure: I also have a Marshallhead I have yet to
install in a guitar. I need some crappy tones to be plagued by so I can get busy. :LOL:
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I've heard good things about the Marshallheads. Let us know how it turns out.
 
I know @Jarick has experience with one, too, which is why I mentioned. I like a slightly
overwound PAF vibe. Just not sure what guitar needs it, or it would work best in? LP?
HSS Strat? :idk
 
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