Recent content by Koreth

I wasn't sure if I should post this in here or the The pickup lounge, but decided here since I'm asking about the gutiar. If I was mistaken, I can always move it to the other. I have a couple Ibanez RG520QS guitars in blue, like this one: I have a few pickups on hand to try out to figure out...

I got the RG520QS mentioned in my prior thread strung up and let it sit overnight so the string and hopefully the neck could settle late Sunday night. When I picked it up last night, something felt...off. The bridge angle and the action were fine, so I got out the straight edge and feeler gauges...

The topic says it all. I have a '99 Ibanez RG520QS that I recently aqcuired. As I usually do when I purchase a used guitar, I strip it down and give everything a thorourgh cleaning. It wasn't until I was ready to restring the guitar that I noticed this: Yep. The outer edge of the baseplate...

So right now my guitar instructor has be working on an exercise that goes like this: |---------------------1-2-2-1---------------------| |-----------------1-2---------2-1-----------------| |-------------1-2-----------------2-1-------------| |---------1-2-------------------------2-1---------|...

So, Japan finally shipped the parts I need to fix my current Ibanez RG5EX1, so I took it into the shop today to have that fixed and get it the fret work it's needed for several months now. However, as I was getting that scheduled into my day I realized that since the RG5EX1 is my only axe, I'd...

So, over the past few months, I've been hankering for a new guitar. Also over the past few months, my financial situation has been improving, and thus I've started browsing eBay and Craigslist once again without (much) guilt. I was looking at various Jackson models and noticed that individual...

Saw this thread over at the Boogie board. Not quite the conventional method of relicing a guitar, but I can't argue with the results.

So as I mentioned in a thread a few moons ago, it's time to start looking for an axe to replace the MII Ibanez RG. I sold off my other RG that I never played, and saved up and last month finally got my tax return check. I've got a bit more that $400 to work with presently. I've been looking at...

Several months ago, dissatisfied with the output levels from the JazzN pickup I've been running in my main axe, I managed to pick up an old SH12 Screamin' Demon on eBay. It was an older version of the pickup, with no logo on the baseplate or bobbins, long baseplate legs, and a sticker on it that...

I made these recordings about a months ago actually, and just now got around to getting them uploaded to the Internets and posting them. The recording setup was as follows: Axe: Ibanez RG5EX1. Basswood body. Maple neck Rosewood fingerboard. Edge III double locking tromolo. Amp: Mesa/Boogie...

So, I see names of different Fender amps thrown about here and on different guitar forums, but being a darned young 'un, I don't get really what the difference is or why a Deluxe Reverb is more special than a Twin Reverb. Really, all about I do know about fenders is that I've plugged in to two...

Exactly what it says on the tin. Friday night, during rehearsal, everything with my rig is working fine. The pedals work, the cables all work, the amp works, everything is good. Saturday we pack up our gear at the rehearsal space and head to the show. Nothing went wrong during loading and...

For Part I of this adventure, where the #3 saddle broke, see here. *sigh* If it's not one thing, it's another. The #2 string lock block broke when re-stringing last night. I have a show in a couple weeks, and again, can't afford to wait a month or so for Japan to ship a new one. I've already...

So in my continuing adventures of trying to get a sound I really like out of the Fender Hot Rod Deluxe I'm borrowing until my Mesa is out of the shop I decided to try to run my two dirt pedals, the Boss DS-1 and Boss SD-1 directly into the clean channel and use them as my primary source of dirt...

I have two guitars, both cheap Guitar Center exclusive Ibanez RGs. They have similar, but not quite the same unplugged sounds. Now I realize that all other things equal, two guitars with the same setup, same hardware, made the by same luthier from the same wood cut from the same tree on the same...