Recent content by msplines

A big hello to all you square eye enthusiasts. I have just bought a couple of triple shot rings and I want to use them in a different way. First to switch between mag pickup only/mag and piezo/piezo bridge only And second to switch between power for the Fishman on-board powerchip preamp tapped...

Does anyone have any long term experience with various brands of piezo bridge pickups? I have had Fishman piezos on a Wilkinson type trem (OK, but arrived with a faulty saddle which they supplied for me to change) and a Tunomatic for a Les Paul, where two of the saddles (A and E) have developed...

Got an RBX Yamaha bass for my nephew off ebay but it has a lot of sticky tape residue on the body. Has anyone removed this gunk without damaging the otherwise perfect finish? All help gratefully received.

I have to replace the bridge on my LP (posts into inserts type) and there are quite a few variations available (I don't want a hipshot baby grand type mod). I got a slightly "sweeter" sound when I fitted an ally tailpiece, so I am interested to know if the alloy gotoh bridges give anything...

I am finding it nigh on impossible to intonate the bass E on a '99 LP studio, all the other strings check out OK, if a little close to the back of the bridge. I changed the strings (10-46), reversed the saddle, checked all the heights, widths, stud straightness etc and eventually filed a slot in...

I've got a couple of "Legend" guitars (I think they were a sort of Patrick Eggle copy or even PRS flattery), possibly by Aria but made in Korea). I was wondering if anyone knows what the main body woods are likely to be? One of mine has a maple cap, the other a three piece plain body. The...

Just a passing thought, anyone know what guage strings Gary Moore used to use on the famous Peter Green Les Paul?

Does anyone have experience of these combinations (especially alternative wood sg types) - I would like to build a strattyish sounding sg, but I don't know what wood to go for. All info would be greatly appreciated!

I was just interested to know if the LP Studio I have has sound chambers and, if so, where they are situated ? (yep, it's an old one ('96, I think) and nope, I wouldn't buy a new one now - see other posts). I dimly remember a thread a while ago, but I don't remember the studios being mentioned...

I often hear guys with relatively high end gear get a kind of "bloom" at the beginning of some notes when soloing. Is this the famous "sag" that you get from valve rectifiers etc or is it something else that us mere mortals can't do without three trillion dollars worth of gear?? ta lots.

One of the guys in my band has got a hankering for a Randall RG50TC 112 Combo - I think he would like it to be the dream team Marshall and Fender in the same box and not too expensive either!! Has anyone tried one of these and maybe at stage volumes, is it any good? The HC reviews are sketchy...

I need some help as I may have to use some other guy's speaker cabs with an old Selmer tube amp (el84s non-adjustable bias) that should use an 8ohm load from the speaker (it's a non switchable tranny - old, see) . I can't change the output tranny so is it OK to run a mismatch, but which way is...

I've got my eye on a LP studio with a rosewood fingerboard, but the guy who has it says he uses GHS fastfret religiously (no smutty jokes perleese!). I've never used it myself - does it feed the wood like bore or lemon oil or can it cause harm or is it not an issue, it's supposed to make the...

Does anyone know what symptoms you get when the coupling caps start to give up the ghost on older Marshals - it's a mastervolume 50, not a plexi.

I've sometimes seen remarks saying that you can increase sustain using a compressor. What sort of settings are people talking about and what is the result, does it work only with cleans or is it good with tube overdrive too? I've only used a compressor once (clean) to get a honky tone from a...