Recent content by Phantasmagoria

My spalted maple top MiK Raven West (after a string change..) Needs a bit of a set-up again though ..action's too low & there's some fret buzz.

*Bump* 5 years down the line my buddy Vik finally got around to doing the vocals for 1 track! I used my modest recording/mixing skills to immortalize this.. 1 down & just 7 more tracks to go (excluding one instrumental/Outro). Vik missed our last two scheduled recording sessions, so here's...

Two more string changes today... Things are starting to come together after my break from playing & and after spending the morning with these two shredmeisters it's great that the old digits have'nt lost their nimbleness (y)

I prefer HSH & SSH to HH in general, I like having a middle pickup (single coil) not just for switching options but as a standalone selectable pup as well. They just sound good. Also probabaly because that's the config (HSH) most of my Ibanez Sabre's have & they're the best playing guitar's ever...

Changed some more strings... Video w/ some deeply emotional playing (guitar might have needed a bit more tuning..). But I was raring to go.....it's been a while so.. (y)

Just changed he strings on this one so I gave it a spin. I'm dreading the amount of string changing I will have to do over the coming weeks :(

My old Cort w/ Lace Deathbuckers. I'd switched those out for SD Blackouts years ago but now I have the Deathbucker's back in there again. The Blackouts (reg Blackout neck & Blackouts Metal bridge) were kind of difficult to get a balanced sound out of. The Metal was always too loud :p

Yeah I'm sure that's true, I've got nothing against modelers per say, but that crappy 'standard modeler metalcore' tone is what I think of when I hear the term "modern" metal.

Axe Fx & Kemper. That shitty, flat, overcompressed, zero dynamics modeler metal sound based on the same 5150/6505 thru V30's patch that all those bands use.

It's been a while since I played any of them (got bored and took some months off to buy lotsa CD's/LP's, listen to \m/ all day & catch some concerts instead :D ), but this morning..

Yesterday I went down to a nearby guitarstore to get myself a strap for my Xiphos.. And there's this other dude who was there to buy a guitar and had narrowed it down to two. One being one of those new Indonesian made Fender's that everyone seems to be cribbing about & the other being this...

Eh, NGD thread deleted? ...seriously? ....you'd think I'd posted decapitated heads, not 2 tiny drops of smudged blood :rolleyes: Anyways... NGD-Stealthy Spectre of Sin (V2) My new Ibanez Xiphos XPTB620 BKF . Gassed for one of these baby's (Xiphos's) for close to two decades. My fave...

New budget T-Style guitar day... Been holding off buying a Tele for years because I can't stand the look of them. Finally this one is a different enough take on the shape to appeal to me. In fact I think it looks pretty hawt! Now ..a die-hard Tele fan or a purist might say "Eh, wtf...

Cuz my son's bought them for me... :bigthumb: Both my boys are into metal. (elder one's hair is halfway down his back) ...not crazy into it like me but more casually. He likes modern metal, "progressive" stuff & djent... and the two of us argue about our completely different tastes all the...

Ok so about 90% of my axes fit that description (except for the shy blue part)...but the FGN/Fujigen axe I bought last has a regular Strat-type bridge ..so not quite there , mad shredelicious shredding machine though it undoubtedly is. So now we have a triumphant return to the glory day's of...