Recent content by MikeS

One of the greatest metal solos ever. That said, listening to it stripped of the context of the other instruments, even as repetitive as the backing riff is, it just doesn't hit the same for me as an isolated track.

Easy... strat, because Fender has already made one in pretty much every form you would want.

Got a pic of the body? Since it's pre-routed, the mounting screw and string-thru locations will tell all. The location & quantity of the mounting screws and string-thru holes, as shown in the image Chistopher posted, can differ. I wouldn't put any stock on the location of the saddles relative...

This is my first tube amp purchase in 20 years, and so far so good. The amp is plugged into my homemade 2x12 with a pair of Celestion Greenbacks. I spent the first two hours playing around with the settings through various guitars while resisting the urge to play "We Die Young" and "Them Bones"...

This should get you there. Duncan colors for the humbuckers. S1 is a master series/parallel in positions 1, 3, and 5 (switch "up" is series). Positions 2 and 4 split to the screw coils and add the middle single, and the S1 does nothing. Without knowing the wind direction or polarity of the...

Can you clarify what you want in position 3? I can sort of read that both ways (either wanting split humbuckers in position 3 vs. full humbuckers affected by S1 in position 3). What pickups do you have? Are you sure the middle pickup will be in phase with the humbucker screw coils?

Perhaps the greatest thing about the strat is that a few of these arguments are easily addressed because the guitar is the best modding platform we have.

It's been many years since I had HSH, so long in fact that I couldn't tell you how it was wired (it was a ~1996 Ibanez RG170, so unlikely to be anything fancy) and the middle single coil rout got filled in when it was converted to actives a few years after that. If I were to get one today, I'd...

Went with the Warmoth SG tonight... P90s into the Scarlett interface tonight, running the Mercuriall Spark plugin, specifically their take on the Marshall AFD100.

I've been experimenting with string types and gauges the last few string changes. I used to use DR (Tite Fit or Pure Blues depending on guitar) exclusively but found that I really liked the NYXLs that came on my Strandberg. The 9.5-44 set on my LTD Serpent is tuned to Eb and feels just about...

Tonight I was playing (poorly) my ESP LTD Serpent.

I was perfectly happy as a loyal Duncan user for a long time, and there have only been a handful of Duncan pickups that turned me off. One such pair was a P-Rails set that I had in a Dean Soltero. A few years ago I stumbled on DiMarzio's annual sale and took a chance on a Super Distortion and...

Looking good. I do the same thing with my strat pickguards.

I dig that. The CV series guitars are well known to be good value for the money. The flame on that next is certainly unexpected on a Squier. You should drag that out of the hard case and play it more frequently.

The Crazy8 and the Stra-Bro90 I ordered with the forum runs for each. I had regretted not getting a Brobucker in the original run, so a couple years ago I ordered a trem-spaced covered Brobucker. I have another that I bought secondhand, which is a PATB-3 wind on screw/slug trembucker bobbins...