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

I swapped the hardtail bridge on my Tom Delonge Strat to a nice Gotoh one, and it's made all the difference I could have hoped for. The original saddles are some rough and matt/dull material that's pretty uninspiring. The guitar resonated pretty well but there was a scooped sound to it that I put down to the hardware. I had great luck putting a Gotoh trem and bone nut on my other strat, so I ordered the Gotoh hardtail.

Well, it's now my most acoustically resonant guitar, and has really filled out the mids when plugged in, which is a huge boon the the Invader pickup. 10/10, would recommend.

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I'm considering ripping out the all electronics out of my Schecter C-1 and building a Warmoth super strat partscaster using them. The C-1 was never a favorite of mine but I keep it around for the Sustainic pup matched with the GK-3. I have another guitar for the GK-3. Here's a quick mockup of a basswood body with a Zebrawood top, natural satin finish, and a Birdseye Maple neck.

This would be my 3rd partscaster. The two partscasters I previously build are among my favorite guitars. Whatcha think?
 

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Aside from frustrate the hell out of myself with the Pedaltrain Terra 42" board I ordered, that I'm pretty sure is going to end up in a landfill and my pocketbook $300 lighter, absolutely nothing. I should've just stuck to the carpet and mdf board I have in the living room.

The pedaltrain was a waste of time, effort, and money. Whatever.
 
Spaced Out Ace said:
Aside from frustrate the hell out of myself with the Pedaltrain Terra 42" board I ordered, that I'm pretty sure is going to end up in a landfill and my pocketbook $300 lighter, absolutely nothing. I should've just stuck to the carpet and mdf board I have in the living room.

The pedaltrain was a waste of time, effort, and money. Whatever.
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Can you elaborate? I have the same pt2 (I think) that I’ve had for like 16years and would like some more breathing room so have Ben looking at current gen offerings
 
Spaced Out Ace said:
Aside from frustrate the hell out of myself with the Pedaltrain Terra 42" board I ordered, that I'm pretty sure is going to end up in a landfill and my pocketbook $300 lighter, absolutely nothing. I should've just stuck to the carpet and mdf board I have in the living room.

The pedaltrain was a waste of time, effort, and money. Whatever.
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42"? Do you only use big box Moog pedals? :grin
The only issue I could see with this is there's too much space, haha. And if you do fill it, that's a ton of wire and power management, not to mention properly securing everything. Yeah, I guess I could see that being frustrating.
 
FuzzyAce said:
42"? Do you only use big box Moog pedals? :grin
The only issue I could see with this is there's too much space, haha. And if you do fill it, that's a ton of wire and power management, not to mention properly securing everything. Yeah, I guess I could see that being frustrating.
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I have a wah and two Mission Engineering exp pedals. The screws will not screw in enough without the feet like a Rat when you remove the feet. I didn't have an adequate length cable to go from the tuner on the lower portion of the board in the center to the GT1000 Core to the right of center. As such, I had to move the GT1000 Core to the bottom row near the tuner. However, the expression pedal for the back panel of the Core requires a straight cable, pretty much, so I couldn't put my Guv'nor on the board. I also couldn't put the EMG ES-918 external power where I wanted it next to the tuner/wah. On and on.
 
Still fiddling with dual detune.... flipping back and forth between WD vibrato.....and Dual Detune..... fiddling.
 
This one went on the bench today. It was neglected for far too long.. A JTV-89F
These are actually very decent guitars. This one got a sorely needed cleaning, fret board conditioning, fret polishing and set up after restringing.
 

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Spaced Out Ace said:
Ah, cool. I contemplated getting a Headrush instead of the Boss GT1000 Core, but I mainly just needed the effects and the Boss has lower latency. Anyways, the detune sounds awesome. I wish I had a wdw rig to try it out.
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I wanted a ms-3 at the time I purchased my HR. I felt the amp modeling was a bit better, for the models I wanted to run, in the HR, and a bit more signal routing flexibility, which was very important once I started running a left and right field...but...well, let's just say I'm sticking with the devil I know for the time being.

Im working on wdw.... right now I just run WD or stereo currently....but soon I am hoping to get a stereo power amp....and then...oh yes.....the full Monty!!!! All the sheebangs!!!!!😝😝😝😝

I think the wdw thing is crucial for maximum detune coolness and overall size/hugeness...but I don't know, just my theory.

I certainly have the cabinets for it.
 
likitlikeyoulikeit said:
I wanted a ms-3 at the time I purchased my HR. I felt the amp modeling was a bit better, for the models I wanted to run, in the HR, and a bit more signal routing flexibility, which was very important once I started running a left and right field...but...well, let's just say I'm sticking with the devil I know for the time being.

Im working on wdw.... right now I just run WD or stereo currently....but soon I am hoping to get a stereo power amp....and then...oh yes.....the full Monty!!!! All the sheebangs!!!!!😝😝😝😝

I think the wdw thing is crucial for maximum detune coolness and overall size/hugeness...but I don't know, just my theory.

I certainly have the cabinets for it.
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I was contemplating whether or not I should get a Syn-50 head and put two SLO II modules in it for my dry rig. Then the wet rig would be the Boss GT1000 Core and two Syn-2 with OS modules into a Fryette Power Station PS-2A.
 
That sounds like a whole lot of awesome to me!!! 😝😝😝

I'm going quick cheap and dirty. Running my Laney IRT120 as the center dry .....splitting off the effects loop to send to the HR, and then l/r to the stereo Power amp....nothing as nice as a power station....but it isn't for a permanent setup ...just for fun, so I can't go whole hog....but I am sure it will still sound epic!!
 
likitlikeyoulikeit said:
That sounds like a whole lot of awesome to me!!! 😝😝😝

I'm going quick cheap and dirty. Running my Laney IRT120 as the center dry .....splitting off the effects loop to send to the HR, and then l/r to the stereo Power amp....nothing as nice as a power station....but it isn't for a permanent setup ...just for fun, so I can't go whole hog....but I am sure it will still sound epic!!
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I didn't have any real plan or goal with my rig when I was getting stuff, then got to a point where I was like, "huh, I basically need a head of some sort, and I've got a WDW setup. Crazy!" I think it's too impractical to follow through with it, but it is something I've considered just because I can.
 
Had opening night of a new show last night and getting ready for a two show day today.

Using my new guitar for the first time and it’s everything I ever wanted in an electric guitar. It’s better than I imagined. It’s got all the sounds!

This is the first time I haven’t felt like I’m compromising electric tones by not using multiple guitars for the show
 
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