Recent content by Osensei

This used to happen to me. But since I play with much less gain these days and more volume it sorta went away. Listen to what happens to this guys tone at about 37-38 secs into the clip. For a brief moment his guitar sounds like it's about to vomit! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S34o80KNa90...

Listen and despair! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71izserFcek&feature=channel

Well my favorite tones have always been in the Fender, Mesa Boogie Mark I thru Mark IV flavors! However, my little solid state Marshall practice amp gives me all the tonal variety I need based on my taste! To be honest, if it were a full sized gig worthy amp I would be satisfied with it tone...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cn_YVx8Qb_Q http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoD5UrE1aSg

I currently have a set of Seymour's favorites (Jazz (n) /JB (b)). But I'm thinking they're good but not all the way authentic compared to the classic PAF sound that one gets from lets say a 59 Les Paul Sunburst coming through a Fender Twin baby! I'm sure you know the mojo I'm talking about...

1974 Santana w/ musical guests Flora Purim on vocals, Stanley Clarke on bass and Brazilian percussionist Airto Moreira. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrWqli5cq1E&feature=related

I know a lot of ppl start out playing in cover bands. One question always arises. How do you go from one tune to another often switching between genres without constantly having to go back and forth fiddling with your amp settings and adjusting your tone. One minute you're playing balls to the...

I figure they must be some sort of variation on the Gibson Burst Buckers, but what pickups are in the Gibson VOS 59 sunburst reissues?

Well before I started my first PU change project, I thought my way would be clear. Now I see that there is a tangled overgrown forest of good information tangled w/ misconception, exaggeration, deceit and outright BS. Issue #1: First there are the wiring schemes. I've read one author that...

I'm looking for 500K OHM linear tapered pots. It seems to be desirable to have linear tapered pots at least for the tone knobs. The problem with the audio taper pots is that they really don't have a fine enough taper to be suitable as a tone control device. As far as the vol controls are...

I have a set of Jazz +JB pickups. I was wondering why Seymour specifies .047 cap instead of the .02 caps that are in so many Les Pauls? I was also thinking about doing the vintage 59 burst wiring scheme as I posted in another thread, but I wonder how that will turn out for a Jazz + JB combo...

Hey guys! I came across this article. Tell me what you think. The author seem to dislike modern wiring. And what does a vintage 59 LP sound like anyway? Does this guy have a point are is it all BS? http://www.singlecoil.com/docs/paula.pdf

what is the best gauge of soldering resin to use for installing pickups?

I saw this axe used the other day at GC. Unusual for a Les Paul to have a maple neck with a rosewood fingerboard. It also had a sweet looking flame maple top on it. All the maple was finished natural + gold hardware. The thing had the sweetest tone ever! It kicked the old Santana Yamaha SBG...

Well, it turns out this guy I was visiting had just acquired a new Marshall amp head! It's been a few months ago, so I really don't remember which model. It was one of the solid state ("yuck!") heads though with the DFX crap! Maybe it was 150 watts, I'm not sure. Well, he had this half stack...