Recent content by Farkus

Hey fellas, Just like the title says, I am getting some unwanted early distortion/breakup on my fender silver face amp. I have tried multiple guitars, multiple speaker cables, multiple guitar cables, multiple cabinets as well as changing every tube (preamp/power amp/rectifier) and the problem...

Re: Unhappy with STR-1 (neck pup) in my Mex Tele.... Here is mine. American Standard with Callaham bridge, SSL-1 neck and middle with Duncan vintage tele in the bridge.

Hey all, I'm building a new board and I'm looking for advice regarding reverb pedals. There are so many choices out there now so I'd like to hear some of your experiences. In terms of my own experience, I have used 3-4 different reverb pedals in the past, but the one that I've kept the...

Hi guys. I'm a long time guitarist and I play enough bass to lay down tracks when I am demoing a song for others to learn. So let it be known I am not a bassist and as a result I don't have a lot of knowledge about the gear. Anyhow, I have a Fender Jazz V bass and I'm having issues getting...

The thread title says it all. I love the sound of my Supersonic into a 2x12 with G12H30's but, as a 60 watt amp, I'm a little concerned about blowing the 30 watt speakers. Anyone have any suggestions I can use as closely voiced, but more wattage appropriate, speakers?

Hey all-Just like the title says I'm looking for a new pickup set for my LP. I'm not liking the stock pickups that much in this particular guitar; I've had the '57 classics in other guitars and they were great. In this one they sound somewhat too congested...I like thickness but not with such...

Hey all, I'm in the process of modding up my beater Strat and my next mod will be locking tuning machines. I have some experience with the Schallers and I like them. My only issue at this point is that they've discontinued the polished chrome Schallers and have replaced these with Ping...

I've had these pickups around for awhile and finally got them installed. Now after spending some time with them I'd thought I'd give a review. They went into a '97 American Standard Strat with maple fret board. I did use standard Fender 5 way pickup switching along with both tone controls...

I'm nearing the assembly stage of my Telecaster project. I have decided to go with a neck humbucker on this particular Tele. It will need to be covered to go cosmetically with this build. My question is, which neck humbucker should I go with? I am familiar with multiple Duncan humbuckers...

So, I got a Malmsteen strat body from fleabay. Someone took something abrasive to it to dull the finish. Now, there's no wood showing or anything like that, but the finish is matted, kind of like a highway 1. Is there anyway to get it 'wet' looking again (besides refin of course, lol)...

So I've got a really nice looking EJ in CAR (one of my fav Fender colors). It sounds great unplugged; really loud, almost acoustic sounding. However, when I plug it in, it sounds really lifeless with little dynamics. My experience in the past with guitars has been that if they sound good...

I'm using my BF Bandmaster again, mostly for jamming in the house only though. Anyway, I'm getting a good clean tone from my 2x12 cab that's loaded with Emi Tonkers. When I use od/distortion though it really lacks warmth. I'm considering changing these speakers as the amp gets great OD tones...

So, after a LONG wait, my King of Tone finally got here yesterday. The shipping was fast, but I was on the wait list since Dec 06. Good news is, the pedal sounds great! It doesn't have as much gain as I thought it would, but I've got plenty of distortion boxes. What it does do is give you...

I'm building a new tele with a body I bought from Warmoth. It is routed for a neck humbucker, a middle Strat single coil, and a Tele bridge. I'm trying to decide on what pickups and config to use. I was thinking a Strat neck and middle pickup...I'm going to use a Floor Shop Custom SD...

Well, to make a long story short my BF Bandmaster is going to be retired from the rotation. She popped a tube on me and ended up in the amp hospital...thanks to Jeff Seal and the other guys over at Speaker Surgeon I have her back in working order (thank the Lord they're just down the road and...