Recent content by che_guitarra

Hi everybody and welcome to 2023 :) I've just put together a Warmoth superstrat. It has a single humbucker in the bridge - a Duncan Custom. This guitar is an absolute blast to play. But unfortunately, the pickup is so hot it's causing signal clip in a few of my pedals. A good thing in a...

Hi all. Title says it all. Looking for a 24-fret (6-string) hardtail guitar, preferably in a shade of white or a natural finish, as all my other guitars seem to be. I've googled my best to see what my options are, but i'm sure i've missed out on a whole lot that a forum might be able to...

Now that I have your attention, lol :laugh: I put together a Warmoth Jazz/P bass hybrid thing over the last couple of months. Stringing it up for the first time, and playing acoustically, E and A sound fantastic. But the D and G strings are very dull, muffled. This is translating through...

The neck on my #1 is just about toast after the last fret job. I'm going to replace it for a Warmoth aftermarket part, and I think reverse necks look pretty cool. Intuition tells me this orientation might look cool, but it's probably going to be a pain to keep in tune. Does anybody have any...

I recently installed a brushed gold EMG 57/66 pickup set in a newly acquired Les Paul Custom copy. Why? Because in my head black Les Paul Customs have gold pickups and that's that. The EMGs look the part, they certainly deliver a kick-ass rock tone, but if i'm going to be honest, for my...

I'm talking Les Paul clones here in the $700 - $800 range. Greco's are a known quantity for me, having owned a few in the past, but their price has drifted up so much over the years I can only afford their '90s offerings now. I've owned a couple of Epiphones too, but never an MIJ variety with...

My pedal board has been pretty settled for a few years, so i'm going to make a custom board with my christmas present to myself - an X-Carve CNC. Pedals - Polytune - Wah - Timmy - Arc Klon clone - Catalinbread Mesmerizer (modulated tremolo thing) - MXR phaser - Analogman chorus - Echoplex delay...

Can anyone suggest a power amp to pair with a Line 6 Pod Pro? I'm looking to drive a pair of 8Ω speakers (a 2x12 cab loaded with a Celestion Lynchback and a V30). Power amps for guitarists are not my domain at all. Don't know the specs I should be chasing, don't know the brands I should be...

From what I gather, the EMG 57 is that company's take on the classic PAF... with an added 9 volts. Just wondering what an EMG 57 is bringing to the table (sonically) that isn't found in a regular PAF. Hmmm.

Each pickup in the Seymour Duncan product line has a basic EQ profile, broken down into bass, mid and treble. Dimarzio has a similar thing. Now I realise either company is unlikely to have a room full of Albert Einstein types sitting in front of oscilloscopes with complex mathematical formulae...

I pieced together a superstrat a year or so ago but i'm not completely sold on the Seymour Duncan Custom SH5 I have in the bridge. Floyd, sustainiac, black korina body, maple and ebony neck. Specifically, it's a little bit too peaky @ 650, 1.3K and again around 2.6KHz. I think the Custom...

Hi guys. Hoping you can help me get my b-pass in order. It's for studio work, but it needs a problem resolved to get the results i'm chasing. Specifically, the lower register notes are all boomy, farty and clippy. But the action is perfect, pickups are of vintage wind (Fender '62s) and...

I need to get a neck for this guitar. The one I originally ordered has gone onto another project - it was an all-maple neck - I think this guitar might 'look' better with a rosewood or ebony fretboard... but I can't decide. My goal: '90s hard rock and metal tones. I tend to like bright...

I'm installing a Sustainiac but none of the supplied schematics are exactly as I plan to go. My plan = 1x bridge humbucker and 1x volume pot, on/off toggle for the Sustainiac system, and another toggle to flick between the Sustainiac's harmonic modes. Basically, I want to mod this circuit to...

Hi guys. I've recently screwed together a Warmoth-based superstrat. Maple neck, black korina body, Sustainiac and Duncan Custom in the bridge. It's a great player, but i'm yet to be convinced the Custom is the right pickup for my needs. I'm looking to set it up as a 80s/90s hard-rock and...