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I like the tones from my current setup (a C. Rex in an open back combo mixed with a V30 in a closed back cab). I was looking at picking up a closed back 2x12 loaded with greenbacks in our local music store for some different tones while recording, but the guy in the store seemed convinced that...

I would never own it, but think it looks pretty cool.

:D

At first glance, they all seem to be pretty similar pickups: The lollars are Alnico 5, 6.1k and 7.4k for the neck and bridge. The SDs antiquities are Alnico 5, 6.4k and 7.5k for the neck and bridge. The SD SM-1s are Alnico 5, 6.3k and 7.4k for the neck and bridge. I guess I'm looking for the...

I'm looking for a pedal that can make my amp sound like a 5E3, and this one keeps coming up in all my searches. Anyone have experience with it? I really want something that does that warm, smooth transition from clean to breakup with guitar volume.

I've had this Squier 70s VM bass for about 15 years. It reliably does everything I want from a bass. The original pickups weren't terrible, but I swapped in some SD Apollo J-bass pickups and now they sound even better and there's no hum which makes recording easier.

Not what I was picturing, but still cool:

If you remove the screws from one coil, then you're not going to pick up anything magnetic (like strings moving) with that coil . . . you need a coil with metal in it. The magnet on the bottom is going to just be picking up the slug coil, right? Seems like this: is going to result in a...

Natural ebony can be completely pitch black. Usually it's black with very dark streaks of brown though, and is treated with dye to make it evenly black. If you look at many higher end modern Taylor guitars they stopped dying their ebony and let the grain show through, which looks cool to me...

I was using this Orpheo LP for some soul stuff today, and it sounded great:

This has been my number 1 guitar for more than a decade now:

What about the aliexpress-guitar-kit-gone-wrong V?

Linear are generally pretty straight, but most 'logarithmic' taper pots aren't actually logarithmic at all. When you measure them you'll see a combination of two or sometimes three slopes to sort of emulate log values. This graphic explains it pretty well: So log pots will tend to have...

The stag mag poles are wider in diameter than the typical screw holes would be. Looking at the diagrams, I think a humbucker cover without holes might not even fit overtop because of the height of the poles above the bobbin. Stag Mag: '59 Uncovered: '59 Covered...

In that case, you just need to add light to the fretboard: : D