got an evh black and yellow plays very well and after a setup it now also stays in tune,lots of loose bolts and the bridge was tilted to the bass side.
however since i had to adjust the spring tension for 10s i got to see the trem springs cavity and i am quite shocked at how bad it left the...
new neck day.replaced the previous neck i put on my frankenstein guitar with a new one with a maple fretboard.
old neck
painted by a friend since there's no logo on the headstock
the guitar now
had a friend come to me for help with a dimebucker that wouldnt work well.
tested it with a dmm all seemed fine wired it straight to the jack still sounded weak.
in the end i reversed the white and black wires and all of a sudden it no longer sounded weak and out of phase.
wiring that worked...
was arguing with someone on some other forum about only needing trembucker/f-spacing in the bridge position if you have a floyd or strat and he brought this quote from the dimarzio site:
"How do I know which spacing to use?
F-spaced pickups measure 2.01" (51 mm) center-to-center from the first...
well my marshall has acted up again but after a bit of pocking around i found the problem.the fuse for the tube heaters current burned out so the tubes didnt light up at all and i got no sound even though the power was on and the ht fuse was fine.
anyway did a quick fix with some spare wire...
i have a SD 59 that's acting funny one coil measures at 3.8K ohm and the other at 10K ohm.it sounds ok most of the time both in series and split but when i use a boost pedal with it (lpb1) the series mode sounds thinner with less gain and the split sounds fine,plenty of boost like i get on other...
something im working on,intro is ok with lots of guitars overlapping each other the rest of the song is off the cuff riffege and solo..........
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/songInfo.cfm?bandID=503389&songID=3621046
made 2 new patches trying to get the gt8 to sound just like my marshall tsl601 when cranked,so here ya go.
tube clean (little bit of breakup for that extra something)
http://www.guitar.com/useruploads/44475/MP3/030406083715.mp3
tube dist...
jam from jdbluesville.com forums
backing
http://thenormster.com/MP3/Eightysomething.mp3
my solo
http://www.guitar.com/useruploads/44475/MP3/123005192819.mp3
hamer studio usa with custom custom in bridge and alnico 2 pro in the neck---->GT8--->line in of computer.
well i ordered a HFH but the shop got a X2N by mistake which im kinda interested in too so im consedering wether or not to take it instead of the HFH.
im putting it the bridge position of an alder body strat style guitar with a tune o matic and rosewood fingerboard.
i like nice crunchy heavy...
someone requested some GT8 clips thought id post em in a thread for everyone to hear.
main thrash dist tone
http://www.guitar.com/useruploads/44475/MP3/122905095931.mp3
marshall tone
http://www.guitar.com/useruploads/44475/MP3/122905100056.mp3
clean 1 have the chorus and reverb switched on...
here's a simple metal backing ive made and the solo i recorded over it,enjoy.
backing
http://www.guitar.com/useruploads/44475/MP3/122305214625.mp3
solo
http://www.guitar.com/useruploads/44475/MP3/122505184147.mp3