Recent content by Archer250

I like ash and alder a lot Chambered hard ash is really nice

The more I dive into it, tonewood denialism is a concerted effort by the industry to reduce costs by selling the shittiest materials to the users (shmucks), who now will gladly eat anything up as long as it has stainless frets and "specs" ie "you will eat the bugs and sleep in the pods in your...

I think theirs are the best Single coils, IMO Duncans are better. Humbuckers, equal, but differently flavored Rails, yeah DiMarzio takes the cake

Real hahaha

Yep Swapped 2 Chinese G12Ms to the EVH sig Celestions To be clear, it sounded amazing as-is, but I wanted some more softness I knew the Heritage/EVH had

I have my own opinions on IP laws, but I don't blame DiMarzio for playing the game

Usually I'm a Duncan guy, but I've been on a DiMarzio binge lately, and after swapping stuff around and trying out different sets... I like these, a lot. Left: Fast Track 1 / Chopper / IGNO Middle: Cruiser Bridge / Cruiser Neck / Tone Zone Right: PAF Joe / Super 3 The Fast Track 1 and the...

ah TIL

I like using Perplexity for research since it's basically "AI chatbot, but permanently hooked up to a search engine" This would be so helpful 10 years ago but now I just use whatever pickup sounded cool at the time :ROFLMAO:

Boredom lol

If we're talking about timbre/character, I'd agree that it's very attack dependent. (Although do also keep in mind I'm using 9s here, so those chugga chuggas are going to behave differently from 10+s) But it's one of the least volume-knob-reactive pickups I've ever used lol. Even more than the...

But with Dual Resonance

I got this pickup a few months back only because my old teacher had an Ibanez SLM that he liked for playing in pop cover bands. I remember checking on YouTube and most demos of this pickup were either in a Polyphia-esque Math Rock context or a downtuned metal song. In some rare cases it's an...

See? I think I've said this before but the JB is the "it just works" pickup lol I could change all my bridge humbuckers to JBs and be happy with that. The only weakness is that the clean sucks. However, splitting the coil in the Neck + Bridge position gives some of the best cleans ever, so...

I like the JB the most, then the Custom. I do not like the Distortion. It sounded too "grainy" I don't have a JB installed right now (no place for it), but it's definitely a fav.