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I picked up an Ibanez RGAR42MFMT (enough letters?) last summer and have had about six months to noodle around on it. The guitar is mahogany with a bolt on maple neck and a pot metal Floyd. It's pleasant sounding and playing guitar with the nice mahogany low end and maple snap, but the Quantum...

Re: Early '80s Donnie Iris sound You guys are awesome. I was up at 4:00 AM feeding my son and had that song stuck in my head for no particular reason. Anyway, I am looking at upgrading the pups in my home built tele. I built up the body a year ago and stuck some cheap eBay pups in it. Tragic, I...

Yeah, think "Ah Leah" thick and "Sweet Merrilee" cleans. What's going to get this kind of sound with a pine-bodied tele with a maple top and neck? Discuss.

I have an older '95 MIM Strat, black label Squire, that I've played around with different pups for years. Started new with stock imported ceramic single coils, next moved to an APH-2 bridge, SSL-1 mid, JB Jr. neck. It was okay for a while but nothing seemed to mesh well in between. I later...