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After thinking for a while, I realized that the Blackout in my Alexi V was just way too much output. It sounds great for modern/detuned stuff (slipknot sounds great with them) but for older sounding stuff, which is what my band plays, it's just too much. I finally changed it out to a Dimarzio...

As of late, I haven't really been liking the blackout in my Alexi V--i dont really like actives in general anymore. I am hoping to change it out for a passive pickup. The Alexi is an alder body, maple neck, ebony board, neck through. Single pickup. Floating bridge. The guy who owned it before me...

As I've been playing my Laiho V some more, I've noticed double stops go out of tune very often. If I play two notes and bend one, the one I'm not bending will go pretty flat--almost half a step. I've tried to find some things to help it by looking online, but I haven't really found anything...

Re: Which budget Explorer should I get? I can also vouch for a 58 reissue from epiphone. I've got the mayhem distortion set in mine right now. I had to move the strap button to behind the neck (bad neck dive beforehand), but after that, it became a workhorse

Re: Pointy basses that aren't horrible Cronos with an Ibanez Destroyer. I believe Mike D'Antonio from Killswitch Engage also uses a Destroyer bass

So I've recently saved up some money from working, and I have also been wanting to learn how to do kinda intermediate guitar maintenance things -- changing pickups and stuff like that. I don't want to do this to my nicer guitars in case something goes wrong with it or I don't do it right. With...

I would like to get a new cab. I currently have a Marshall MG cab, and its decent, but I want something better. I don't have a super high budget (Mesa and Orange are out) but high enough to get good quality and good speakers (blackstar, peavey?). I have a Randall RG1003H head and play mostly...

In my explorer, I currently have the distortion mayhem set. I like it, but I don't love it--I prefer active pickups. I have a set of EMGs in my charvel that badly needs a setup and I don't play it that often, so I might switch the pickups in the two guitars. Would there be space in the...

I recorded myself earlier today and saw that my alternate picking is REALLY sloppy. Any exercises or drills you would recommend to tighten it up and get it faster?

My second NGD of the summer! This time, it's an 07 LTD Alexi Laiho model. I bought it used from reverb. The previous owner put a Duncan blackout in, I'm excited to try it through my Randall at band practice as soon as I get it fixed up. A few cons this time, as the guitar came with only one...

I've been looking at the Line 6 Helix a bit recently. It looks amazing, but I'm not really one for emulations of amps, so if I had it, I would just use it as a pedalboard and hook it up to my amp with a 4-cable method. The $1500 price tag is fairly steep if I was just going to use the effects...

Over the past few days, I've noticed my Charvel doing something weird. Every time I bend the high E from the 14th fret up to the 16th, it frets out. It doesn't happen when I bend 13 or 15, and it's only on the one string. I'm guessing this is a problem with the 15th fret being too high at about...

On a lot of the low/mid range Ibanez RGs, the tremolos are now labeled as "standard double locking." Are these Edge bridges? If not, are there any edge bridges that are a direct replacement?

When I first got my epiphone explorer, I thought the stock pickups sounded pretty good. After playing it more (and louder), I've found the bridge pickup to be subpar. I like the neck pickup, it will be staying. What would you guys recommend for a bridge pickup for mostly rhythm playing? I was...

I finally was able to get a summer job, and with my money I found a great deal on this explorer. With a locking Dimarzio strap and a set of strings, I walked out of the store for less than $300. The official title of it is the Epiphone Korina Explorer 1958 Reissue, and I'm not sure what year it...