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Hi there So I have a Randall Diavlo all tube combo amp (40w). At some point, it just stopped producing any sound. Only the cooler was working, maybe even louder than usual. So I brought it to Thomann here in Germany. A few days later I got a message that they didn’t find and issues and the amp...

Hello gentlemen So I have a basswood Jackson with a maple neck-through and a rosewood fretboard. Originally, it had a Duncan Designed humbucker in it. Number 103 if I remember correctly. In 2017/2018, I put a Nazgul in it when I joined a melodic death project (not a huge fan but there were no...

Re: NPD: EHX Silencer (4 cable method troubleshooting anyone?) From the duckduckgo search results: Yeah, this is how it should be. But the BOSS manual (and EHX too) is not very specific.

Re: NPD: EHX Silencer (4 cable method troubleshooting anyone?) Most noise gate pedals with FX loops are actually not marketed the way many guys use them, unfortunately. It creates lots of confusion. I think the 4 cable method is very logical if you think of your dirt pedals and the preamp as...

Re: Parallel Axis Appreciation Thread my patb-2

Hi guys, so I bought the Silencer from Electro Harmonix and it does the gating great. Some metal dudes say it doesn't close fast enough or it "swallows" the first attack. I don't know... I found my setting pretty fast: Release: 7 o'clock (fully counterclockwise) Threshold: 2 o'clock Reduction...

Is the capacitance of 88 pF/m "good" enough for a 6m (20 feet) guitar cable? I've noticed recently that I got too many different cables I randomly bought over the years. Mostly no-names but also one MONSTERRRRRR ;) Now I want to stick to one brand to keep my tone consistent. But before I spend...

Hi guys, after months of playing, I now realize that I'm not very happy with Black Winters. They have too much high end which is hard to dial out (even with pedals). That makes palm mutes on the 6 string sound too "crispy" lacking growl and depth. I'm pretty sure that Alternative 8 would be a...

Ok folks, appartenly I always learn it the hard way... So, you know a tunomatic bridge is basically a bar with 6 saddles and 6 adjustment screws. After having restringed one of my guitars today, I noticed that the screw under the low E moved all the way towards the neck under the string...

Ordered this one right before the new year's eve. It took me some days to overcome the feeling of guilt, though. Because my wife didn't buy the argument "well, see, my dear, I want to have two identical guitars in order to make my tone more or less consistent so I don't have to tweak my amp...

Being a 1H-guitar lover, I have some serious boner right now! Thoughts? Anybody's gonna grab one? From the website: "New Black Metal Series We’re unveiling three new models in a brand new LTD Black Metal series. The guitars, comparable in build quality to our LTD Deluxe 1000 Series models...

Keep asking me this question over and over again. JB is aka SH/TB-4, Custom as SH/TB-5 etc. etc. There're however such (awesome) pickups as Black Winters, Nazgul, Pegasus, Alpha&Omega. Why don't they have their SH number? And should they?

Re: The best cheap gear you've had. Charvel Desolation DS-3, I think. Install a pair of good pickups in it (Black Winters in my case) and it doesn't feel/sound cheap at all. My first electric (cheap Ibanez) was one pile of sh*t though. The neck was set improperly (the high E string was...

Re: Lets See Those Charvels - Old and Young Although 4 controls a bit too many for my taste, this cheap desolation has what I miss on San Dimases - a tunamatic bridge. Those fender-like hardtails are the deal-breaker.

Re: who's rockin' a single pickup guitar? let's see it! There should be more 1H guitars out there, IMO. I need another basswood maple/rosewood neck-thru and I think I could buy another Scott Ian Anarchy. But two times the same fancy finish would be too much!