Recent content by nepalnt21

thinking of getting a set of wilde L-500s for my ibanez sz520 actually, i'll likely end up with a L-90 (2.8H) in the neck, as opposed to the 500c in the neck, but this question is about the bridge pickup. i played my friend's gretsch with a 500xl in the bridge (c in the neck), and it was too...

ibanez sz520qm duncan/ibanez pickups (neck one sounds particularly nice) this one is a magenta-ish color (not sure if its rare, but i personally havent seen that many) some scratches on the back (clumsy friend with a metal belt buckle), but the front is in good condition backplate supposed...

i am about to rewire my strat, and i want to have two singles, and then a hot-rails in the bridge position. but what i am wondering is: can i have it set up so that in position 4, one coil of the hotrails is in parallel with the middle pickup (or neck, even), and then position 5 is the...

got a custom 5 up for grabs ill let it go for, 40 usd (+ standard s+h cost) it is in used condition i assume it works, but ive actually never heard it myself. *EDIT* its not the SH-5, but the SH-14. sorry about the confusion.

i have two strat style guitars. one is a squier, and the other is a warmoth. i really like the neck of my squier strat, but the guitar body is a little too dark for my taste, and i want to combine the two. the problem is, the holes drilled for the squier strat arent exactly right for the warmoth...

so the problem of deforestation, and this talk of the lacey whatevers has me pretty interested in new forms of wood with sustainability in mind. they have these composite woods out now, just wondering if anyone has heard about them. like the flaxwood guitars or hemp fiber woods (sorry if this...

yay or neigh??? do they really make a difference? ive heard arguments from both sides... now i wanna know what you guys think - is it reasonable to spend more on guitar cables advertised as "low- capacitance"?

ok lets say one has a bias probe (a tube socket hooked up to +/- leads and banana plugs for use in a multimeter detecting current), but an amp with more then one power tube. can one use the single bias probe, but leave the other tube plugged in like regular, and take the current reading for...

the past few months, ive been hearing a new overtone that was not there before, when i play the twelfth fret d. its a tone that is a semitone off, creating dissonance when i play that particular note. i made a damper for the vibrato springs, muted the strings above the nut, and muted the strings...

should i go for one of those usb/ firewire units, or a card that fits into the pci slot of my motherboard? got an asus mofo with built in sound, but need something more. im gonna be recording using probably at most 2 or 3 mics, and maybe a midi keyboard. my moboz has 1394a and usb 2 and 3 built...

so im in the market for some new pedals. my eye was on some moogerfoogers, but the price, and the issues people are having with the preamps are making me think twice. ive been looking at alternatives, mainly at ehx. they have a few different envelope filters, all similarly priced, and i just...

so what options for cards do i have, outside of the creative soundblaster cards? if i do everything through a usb interface, would i still need a soundcard for high quality audio/ handling the higher sampling rates?? thanky

what i am talking about is a footswitch pedal that switches between 2 amps or two guitars. i really dont know where to start. what are some good ones i should look into? are they all pretty much the same, so i should go with the cheapies? or are there switches that are seriously better than...

how has it been so far? tough? easy? are the programs that are available for production (digital audio workstations, etc) satisfactory? can i get max/msp on linux? how is puredata compared to msp? thank you (p.s. - im a nooooooob when it comes to this kinda stuff)

wow i just got a boss loop station (rc2) and let me tell you... 15 minutes out of the box and im having more fun on guitar than ive had in awhile! if you guys dont have a loop pedal of some sort, i would HIGHLY recommend that you get to the nearest musical instrument supply store and pick one...