Recent content by james.fusco

Hi there, I'm looking for a nice hot neck pickup that works well with the Seymour Duncan SH-10 Full Shred in a Ibanez Basswood body, Maple neck, Rosewood Fretboard. I need a neck pickup that can handily high gain settings and adds some variation to the Full Shred. I don't play much clean, but...

Hi there, I posted not long ago about a bridge and neck pickup for my Ibanez RG721FM and thanks to some help I decided on getting a Full Shred installed. I now need to find a Seymour Duncan neck pickup that works well tonally with the Full Shred on an American Basswood body with maple neck and...

Hi all, I've got an Ibanez RG721FM and I'm looking to re-fit the stock pickups. Unfortunately the CAP-VM's aren't doing it tone wise and I need something with a bit more bite and chunk. The guitar is a basswood body and rosewood neck. It is set to Drop B and runs into a Peavey 6505+ and Mesa...

Hi there, I'm getting my hands on an Ibanez RG721FM shortly. I've heard the CAP VM stock pickups might not have a great sound for Metalcore. Is there any suggestions of high output pickups that I could check out if that's true? Thanks!

Hi there, I am looking to upgrade my stock pickups in my Ibanez S570B to something a bit more chunk and response. My guitar has a Mahogany body and 3 piece Maple neck, but due to the body being thinner than other mahogany based guitars i need a bridge and neck pickup that can compete with a live...

Hi there, I'm having a bit of a battle over which tube screamer would be best for Metalcore. The sound I'm trying to achieve is a Killswitch esque sound. I'm torn between an Ibanez TS9 and Ibanez TS808. What's your opinion on what would be better suited for this. The rig I would be using it...

Hi there, I've recently received my order of my very first tube amp (Peavey 6505+). Absolutely happy with the amp and what a sound!. Upon inspection while the amp is on I noticed that one of the power tubes is not as bright as the other 3. It has a duller glow, while the others shine bright...

Hi there, In the near future I hope to replace my stock INF pickups in my Ibanez S570B with something with a bit more punch. The amp I'm currently using is a Peavey 6505+ running into a Mesa Boogie Rectifier cab. The sound I'm aiming for is similar to Killswitch Engage and Trivium. I've been...

Hi there, I'm have a bit of trouble finding the best possible way to set out my pedal boards signal chain. Only thing I know really is to place the tuner at the start so it suffers no interference for the other pedals. Any help would be great my pedal board includes: Ibanez TS9 MXR KFK 10...

Hi there, I was in my local guitar shop today and had a fiddle around on a Peavey 6505 and 6505+. As astonished as I was with the sound (being a metal core guitarist), I was a tad disapointed with there being no built in effects. So I was thinking what are some good Reverb and delay pedals...

Hey there, I thought I'd make a topic and get an insight into what everyone regards as their favourite noise gate pedals. I've got a boss NS2 at the minute and it seems to hold up well live but tends to slightly cut of some sustain. Apart from that its a pretty little pedal that I see myself...

Hi there, I'm looking to upgrade one of my guitars pickups to get a better tone on my new set up. The guitar I'm looking to upgrade is an Ibanez s570b ( The INF's don't cut through well enough). I'm looking for a high output passive pickup. I play Metalcore and the sound im looking to aim...