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I have been attracted by Blackstar HT Venue amp for quite sometime now. However the amp received mixed reviews by its users. Does any one have an indepth experience as regard this amp?

Suggestions needed: Option 1. If I use Seymour Duncan Hot Strat in the bridge, which SD single coil pickups will be best for the neck and middle pickups ? Option 2. If I use SSL 5 in the bridge, which SD pickups will match for the neck and middle positions. Thanks in advance.

One of my guitars has a mahogany body with maple top, maple neck, rosewood fingerboard, set-in construction, JB in the bridge and 59 in the neck, push-pull tone pot and a 500K Ohms vol pot. I had a mind to replace the 500K vol pot with 300K or 250K without altering the tone pot. Will the tone be...

Which one will have a better sound, the ring mount or direct mount ? If guitars with direct mount pickups have better sound, why are the pickups of many high-end (expensive) guitars still fitted via mounting rings ?

Does the TS9DX in the TS9 mode sound actually the same as the TS9 ?

None of my existing guitars are equipped with active pickups. I am quite attracted by Ibanez RGA 72TQMZ (new model, 2011) and decided to buy it sooner or later. One particular feature I like about this guitar is its set-in construction having mahogany body with maple arched top which sounds very...

Though a transistorized amp, the Peavey Transtube Bandit 112 faithfully emulates a tube amp, at least to my ears. Did anyone try boosting its drive with an overdrive sort of things ?

I want my Ibanez RG Prestige which has a basswood body, maple neck, rosewood fingerboard, DiMarzio IBZ as stock pickups with Edge Pro bridge to sound very similar with the fatness of mahogany body guitar with EMG 81 and 85. As a result, I had a mind to replace the stock pickups with DiMarzio...

I want to swap the stock overseas EMG pickups of Cort M600T which has a Wilkinson WVPC trem bridge. Which string spacing is used in this bridge ? What would be the spacing of the pickups ? :scratchch