Recent content by AdrianSD

That's what the one and only Stevie Vai has been doing for ever 🙂

Great looking top. I love my 470 AHM with the JB / Jazz installed. But it's my heaviest guitar, around 4.5kg 🙂 Unfortunately can't play f.all these days, bed ridden with some influenza b.s.

My DSL40CR is a pretty stiff sounding amp, a bit scooped compared to other Marshall's and ultra 1 with gain on 6-7 boosted can give me very realistic AJFA tones. If I think about it I can probably cop '80s and '90 heavy / thrash / Seattle with the DSL and an SD1 or OD9 as clean boost.

Wasn't RIP recorded dry or something like that? In my humble opinion Pantera from Vulgar Display of Power onwards sounds better with a mid forward tone played rather than listened to. So do some of Dream Theatre riffs from Awake - the ones I can actually pretend I'm playing close enough. Not...

I have one in my SC20H Mickey Mouse JCM800 and absolutely love it. I started with gain around 7ish and low volume (so I don't get my family running for their lives and the house repossessed) and with the gain & bass switches up. Now into the BOSS TAE Core with the master up around 4 I had to...

I'd go with something that matches the colour of the pickguard.

Very cool little project! Have you thought of scraping the Floyd completely and getting a Gotoh GE1996T? Should drop right in, you'll have to widen the 2 studs holes because the Gotoh one are thicker. I replaced 2 FRs in a Jackson Dinky and an LTD with the 1996T and couldn't be happier with the...

Very nice, well done! I might do this on my 550. A teeny tiny minor upgrade would be using shielded cables.

A8 gives a flatter EQ, yes. I have to lower mine until the bass tightens up. You can also try short hex screws for the EAD, á la Full Shred.

JB8 ftw!

@Kurayami do you have a multimeter? Ibanez colour code is different to SD, just measured the stock V8 I replaced with a JB in my RG565 and it's like this: - White is hot - Red/Green - split - Black - ground I haven't replaced the neck yet, I find it quite usable - but so was the V8 before I...

Looks a lot like the one that came installed on my Jackson DK2. Maybe Dunlop?

Both SH-6 and TB-6 will kill for metal, plain and simple. Too harsh in a guitar? Adjust the treble / presence on the amp -> done. On the ceramic Custom: in the right guitar it's hard to beat. Now, chuck a double ceramic in and you'll thank me later 🙂

To add: No need to unscrew completely the 4 bobbin screws going into the baseplate, just enough to be able to lift the bobbins off the baseplate with a flathead screwdriver so that the magnet can be removed easily. If you feel like you can't push the magnet out safely, blow some hot air with the...

Man, that TLA for the Blackened BW gets me every time, sorry but I just couldn't resist 😂😀 @nienturi very good articles, thanks for taking the time to write them. I don't necessarily agree with the neck pup limited versatility statement, for cleans it sounds great both split, in parallel as well...