Recent content by Nem

so im looking for a combo amp (wont be able to fit a head and cab in my apartment) that can give me a decent tone for metal (e.g. iron maiden, metallica, dream theater) preferably looking for a solid state as I wont be able to crank up the volume in my place so any recommendations for a combo...

Im just going back to electric these days after a few years strictly on acoustic. having played 12 gauge strings on my acoustic for years now I cant get used to 9 gauge on electric, it just feels too thin so is it possible to go from 9 to 10, or maybe even 11, on my electric without an...

whenever I play the GBE strings on my electric, whichever pickup I have selected, the sound I get is ultra bright and tinny, what could be the cause of this? Ive tried changing the height of the pickups but no change. the wiring is pretty standard Ive heard of this thing called phasing which...

so I have a Jackson slsmg soloist with a 3 way blade, can anyone point me in the direction of a wiring diagram for this type of switch? im looking for the traditional type of wiring, 1 = bridge bucker, 2 = bridge and neck, 3 = neck the lug layout looks alot like the fender type switches (7 lugs...

so I currently have a dimarzio crunch lab in bridge, and have a SD alnico 2 pro lying around that I want to throw in the neck position the dimarzio is considered a high output pickup whereas the SD is a medium output pickup, is this output combination going to present any problems? I assume...

does it matter which way around the humbucker is in the guitar? cos theres a problem with my bridge pickup, it sounds very very thin and nothing like an A2P is meant to. ive adjusted the height but it doesnt matter where it goes it doesnt sound like it should :( ive always had this problem and...

how high would you recommend I set my bridge and neck A2Ps?

I wired my pickups up like this: http://www.seymourduncan.com/website/support/schematics/2hum_vol_tone_5way-w-split.html but now my tone pot doesnt work, it doesnt affect the tone at all. i tried putting another tone pot in the same way, but that didnt work either...is there something wrong...

how would i wire up the following to the switch, i cant figure it out: position 1: neck split position 2: neck humbucker position 3: combined humbucker position 4: bridge humbucker position 5: bridge split i have 1 volume, 1 tone and a standard 5 way switch. my pickups have 4 wires so i can...

with 5 way switches and 2 humbuckers, what kind of switching options would be useful? i was thinking: position 1: neck bucker position 2: neck split position 3: neck + bridge bucker position 4: bridge split position 5: bridge bucker but then i thought it would be awkward switching from one...

ive never had the chance to test this combination buuuut.... if i put alnico 2 pro's into my guitar and use it with a Peavey Bandit 2 (which is a pretty aggressive metal amp)...will the warmth of the pickups still cut thru the crunch of the peavey? cos im trying to find a good cheap way of...

does anyone have a classic 30 here? cos im dying to here how distrtoed this amp can go! im trying to decide between a classic 30 and a bandit 2 atm, i like the classics warm clean tone, but im not sure if it can handle distortion (like metallica) like the bandit 2 i tend to play a lot of...

i ordered some Alnico 2 Pro's the other day and when i get them im wanting to do a double coil split with them i have a 3 way pickup selector, when its in position 1, i want it to activate the neck pickup, when in posiiton 3 it activates the bridge pickup, but in position 2 (central) I want it...