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Mine is the old Rocktron Deep Blue. Have had many including a real Boss Dimension C always come back to the old Rocktron. Own 3.

So did Washburn on their USA guitars in the 1990's. Where are you getting the inserts, and what exactly are you using? They also hand cut a thick piece of foam to fit the bottom of the pickup with holes drilled for the polls and then used rubber tubes on the springs. Rock solid and sounded...

Not a fan of the SSL5 in the neck and middle, but am in the bridge. I have run SSl5's in the bridge of several Strats. It gets the bridge pickup output at least in the ballpark of my other humbucker guitars yet still has the character of a true single when you roll back the volume a little or...

Finally got time to really clean it up some and get a good coat of wax on this one. Still have not had time to pull the strings polish the frets and get some oil back in this fret board. It's rosewood but is so dry it almost looks like maple. This is the second one of these guitars I have gotten...

Now have a game plan on this one. Washburn used a 500K volume pot on this with the SSL 5 set. That's why this one is so brash in the bridge at full volume. I found a neck and middle unopened set of the scooped strats for $150 shipped on Reveb and have them coming. I will swap the volume pot for...

The MG 132 FR came today. we intentionally waited until Monday to ship it in order to miss some of the Christmas shipping madness. Unplayed 30 year old guitar that has been in a collection. The seller set it up with 9 to 42 before he shipped it. This one is an absolute killer in Playability...

The amp channel switch and all the effects are on the pedal board, so it's all at my feet on stage. Compressor and overdrive plus at times a wah are into the front of the amp, everything else is run in the loop between the amp preamp and power amp.

Both my pedal boards are set up the same way. Guitar into a wah, compressor and overdrive then into the front of the amp. All time based effects go into the loop with a send going into a booster buffer (Xotic Super Clean on one board Super Sweet on the other), then into Verb, delay and chorus...

Yes, they are hybrids. We sold them, and they sound decent, but IMO were nothing special.

Thanks for that. That was exactly what I was hoping for on the full Texas Hot set Chewer and slightly darker than the Surfers but still sounding lake a Strat should. Listening back to recordings running the 95 with the SSl-5's live, it's too brash and harsh, plus doesn't have that classic Strat...

After listening back to recordings live with the new Silverado I'm rethinking things. Running the mix I was in my personal monitor on stage at Church was not giving me an accurate feel for how it was really setting in the mix out front. This is why I record regularly with my Zoom, the tape...

What I am looking for if I keep the SSL 5 in the bridge is not super hot in the neck and bridge. The SSL 1 is simply too bright and weak for what I want in this one. I have a full Antiquities Surfer II Retrospect set with the custom bridge in my other Silverado. I love that set up but want this...

Right now I am looking hard at the Scooped neck and Middle. I have the Antiquity Surfer II set in my other Silverado so am familiar with that set. I know I'm going to lose some chime over that set but want something thicker than the SSL-1's are. Had an SSL 5 bridge with SSL 1's in my old...

These came stock with SSL 5's and they are ok. While I like the hot bridge a lot, it just doesn't sound like a Strat should in particular clean. I have an Antiquities Surfer II set with the Eric Johnson 300K volume with neck and bridge tones set up only in the Sunburst Silverado. I want hotter...

I bought several Mesa sets a number of years back, and still have one set left so don't know on the current tubes. I have several EL 84 amps and have run a few different power tube sets. I stand by that in current production that one Tungsol that crosses to a 6BQ5 to be the best I know of at a...