What Did You Do With Your Guitar(s) Today?
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Dunno, but it’s gorgeous!
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Got home from work tonight and changed out a guard and pickups. Put in my old DG set w/ black guard to finish it out. It's been a minute since I've played EMGs, but I used them for a number of years. They sound great in this partscaster 
, I'm happy with the tones. 
, I'm happy with the tones. 
norminal
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Love the Gilmour look!Got home from work tonight and changed out a guard and pickups. Put in my old DG set w/ black guard to finish it out. It's been a minute since I've played EMGs, but I used them for a number of years. They sound great in this partscaster
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mercifulfuzziness
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Jeff Mcerlain truefire
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How do you like the bridge? Is it the Gotoh version?Got home from work tonight and changed out a guard and pickups. Put in my old DG set w/ black guard to finish it out. It's been a minute since I've played EMGs, but I used them for a number of years. They sound great in this partscaster
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It's the Wilkinson IIK 2, so a more budget version. It's good other than it being a bit more of a pain to intonate. Tonally if seems a bit darker than what I'm used to and the tension feels slightly higher. It's just different overall. I need to put more hours in with it though.
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The VS50k mk 2 is one of the best budget bridges available and you are right about the tone . I don’t find it higher tension than the Gotoh version myself but it depends what you’re comparing it too . Good though, I fit them all the time .
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Yeah, the higher tension thing could possibly just be in my head. The fit and finish is very nice and comfortable on the palm.
HomespunEffects
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I put a Callaham bridge block and bent steel saddles on my American Standard. It brought out that top end snap that that one has been missing.
The springs also don’t ring when you hit a Bb. That always drove me batty. It’s a good mod and actually does make a difference.
Oh, that’s their short bar as well. I like a little more resistance and the shorter lever is perfect. I’m really not used to a bar that stays where you left it. It only moves if you move it.
The springs also don’t ring when you hit a Bb. That always drove me batty. It’s a good mod and actually does make a difference.
Oh, that’s their short bar as well. I like a little more resistance and the shorter lever is perfect. I’m really not used to a bar that stays where you left it. It only moves if you move it.
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I'm kind of back in a real single coil mood and have been swapping the noiseless pickups out of my guitars. Lately they have felt kind of dead sounding and uninspiring.
Rewired the original pickguard from my Ibanez AZ with a Suhr Thornbucker Plus in the bridge and ML's (V63+) in the neck and middle. Fresh switch and pots too as the noiseless set had 500k and I needed 250k with the real single coils.
Sounds and feels great, maybe need to tweak the single coil heights as they are sounding a bit warm but should be fun.
Other project of the weekend was to rewire my PRS S2 Standard 24. The volume has been shorting out at 10 which obviously isn't fun. Pulled it apart and sure enough it's a bad pot.
While measuring the pots, I found they were both under spec, around 450k. Maybe that's why this guitar sounds so dark and dull? I went to my stash and all four of the 500k pots I measured were below spec at 450-475k as well. Everything else I tested measured fine.
So I ordered a new set of 525k pots because I want max brightness in this all mahogany guitar. Not sure if I'll keep the current pickups in there (Suhr SSV's) or swap those out for a pair of Duncans (59/Custom Hybrid bridge and Jazz neck). Maybe keep it as is and see how the higher value pots sound.
Rewired the original pickguard from my Ibanez AZ with a Suhr Thornbucker Plus in the bridge and ML's (V63+) in the neck and middle. Fresh switch and pots too as the noiseless set had 500k and I needed 250k with the real single coils.
Sounds and feels great, maybe need to tweak the single coil heights as they are sounding a bit warm but should be fun.
Other project of the weekend was to rewire my PRS S2 Standard 24. The volume has been shorting out at 10 which obviously isn't fun. Pulled it apart and sure enough it's a bad pot.
While measuring the pots, I found they were both under spec, around 450k. Maybe that's why this guitar sounds so dark and dull? I went to my stash and all four of the 500k pots I measured were below spec at 450-475k as well. Everything else I tested measured fine.
So I ordered a new set of 525k pots because I want max brightness in this all mahogany guitar. Not sure if I'll keep the current pickups in there (Suhr SSV's) or swap those out for a pair of Duncans (59/Custom Hybrid bridge and Jazz neck). Maybe keep it as is and see how the higher value pots sound.
TJontheRoad
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Finish up my 2024 holiday track
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Finally got around to finishing this one. Setting up the intonation and all that took a minute. Plays great though! Getting used to the scalloped board was no problem at all and not a drastic change tbh. I think if I use lighter gauge strings the difference will be more apparent, so maybe I'll do that next go around. Just going to enjoy it for a while and see what small tweaks I can make as time goes on, if any at all. The EMGs really compliment the overall sound of the guitar too. Happy how it turned out! 
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megametal7
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That guitar needs shot of rum and cigarette after that....
megametal7
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today i did nothing with guitars.....
I looked at them and i was like ... fook yea... they look badass..... then i went to work.....
tomorrow im recording cover song....
my friends are helping me with vox . piano.... ( i know i said piano )_ I dont know whats wrong with me anymore.,... someone must have done voodoo magic on me....
So we will be recording that cover ... bass spot still open if anyone wants to join my madness...
I looked at them and i was like ... fook yea... they look badass..... then i went to work.....
tomorrow im recording cover song....
my friends are helping me with vox . piano.... ( i know i said piano )_ I dont know whats wrong with me anymore.,... someone must have done voodoo magic on me....
So we will be recording that cover ... bass spot still open if anyone wants to join my madness...
What song and how are you recording it? Might be able to do a track from here……
megametal7
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Song Godsmack Under your scars
recording in reaper then film it to put it on YT ( ill do all the video editing )
