Recent content by GuitarStv

Honestly, I'm more excited about the movable plugs. Tighter, cleaner pedalboard layouts are just better.

There are some things I always consider when playing around with a new pickup: - Every once in a while I just hate everything that I hear when playing guitar. This has nothing to do with the gear or settings. The next day it will all sound fine or even great. But sometimes my brain just...

Never had a fretboard get so dry that I could hear any tonal difference from oiling it! Fretdoctor sounds like good stuff, but it seems pretty expensive for what it is. Recently, I had some leftover Howard's Wax N'Feed from polishing some furniture, and have started using it on my...

That is an outstanding idea!

I usually like phaser before distortion too. Does he use both the delay and phaser in combo with the DS-1 kicked on? If he's using the delay mostly for clean sounds and the phaser with distortion, then it would be fine to put the multiFX first. If he's pushing a broken up amp, then the phaser...

I've come to the conclusion that as long as there isn't anything wrong with the tubes, I can tweak my amp to sound close enough to what I want to make me happy with pretty much any set. Unless directly comparing them back to back, there's not really enough difference for me to worry about...

That doesn't look that bad for 25 years. The ones that look like crap really quickly for me are gold bridges . . . they just seem to disintegrate on me for some reason.

So, I had a Tone Zone with neck Evo in a So Cal for several years. The pickups worked well together balance-wise, and would probably work great for you if you play a lot of shreddy/heavier stuff all the time. The EVO is very articulate. It splits well. I tend to gravitate towards a variety...

So I usually drop my neck pickups pretty low. Like with the A2 antiquity it seems to sound best to me slightly below my neck pickup ring. Would swapping in an A3 have much/any tonal difference if I need to raise it up a bit higher to keep the volume difference between bridge and neck from...

Seems like a great idea. I've always done similar with wood blocks for string changes.

Legit. Pros would never use an Epiphone.

I have an antiquity neck in a Les Paul and there's a love/hate thing there for me. The mids are really nice for mildly overdriven stuff . . . but the bright sparkly highs I like from a neck are missing. I alternate between thinking it sounds beautiful and sweet and thinking it's a little too dark.

Back in the day there weren't really too many companies making good sounding, reliable instruments and amps. Over the past 20 years or so though, the quality of cheap guitar gear has risen so much that with a good setup and maybe a pickup swap an awful lot more stuff will work well for any kind...

Louder is more good.

I second the recommendation of an A2 strat pickup. They're softer on the high end than A5s which have more bite to my ears. Mini-hums are a good suggestion too, little less highs but also have more mids than most single coils.