Recent content by skyking

Been listening to Ryan Adams new album and watched him on iTunes festival, and I'm totally digging his tone he gets with a princeton. Please talk me from the ledge!! I have this urge to just go out and find one now and the sad thing is I have a guitar shop with probably some blackface and...

Heys guys, at work listening to this song and i was wondering if the beginning riff that dickey betts does is him using volume swells? I figured some of you may be abb fans and might know. I love the sound of it and never knew how he does it. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I'm no expert on these old amps but it looks pretty original to my eyes and sounds fantastic! I was hoping some of you old fenders gurus could look over some of these pictures and see if everything looks as it should.

Hey guys just bought a new LP std and was wanting to tune to open e to play some slide and was wondering if it would do any kind of harm to the neck. Ive tuned my other guitars like this and didnt care too much because they werent as expensive as this one. So i just wanted to get some thoughts...

I just read on the fender forum that they're about to ship these amps. They are ptp wired and I guess they're from the custom shop like the twin. The list price is supposed to be around 2,500 dollars. With all of the clones and kits out there, is fender a little too late and a lot more...

I was playing the amp and then it started making a crackling noise, then that went away. Then the volume went up and down and then it died. It wasnt sounding right at the low volume I was playing at. It was kind of distorted around 3, but not the good kind. I pulled the fuse and it was...

I have an alnicoII pro in the bridge and I'm looking for something that would complement it. I like using the neck pickup but in my tele its weak but I like the sound. My lead is overpowering my neck. I guess what I'm saying is that I want a neck pup with some oomph to play some blues with...

I want to put some brass saddles on my highway 1 tele, what are your thoughts on the compensated saddles and are they better than just the regular ones? Also my guitar came with 9's on it, I changed the strings to 10's do I need to set it up for tens or will it not make a differance?

I have a reissue deluxe and I'm wanting to know if its alright to dime it and not damage my speaker. Its the stock speaker thats in it.

what does tube rattle sound like? I have a deluxe reverb ri and when i hit certain notes I get this kinda high pitched fast rattle. I thought that it was my speaker but im not so sure. if any of you guys have any ideas i would appreciate your input.

well i got home from work and went to fire the amp and twin tube up, and there was no sound coming out with it on. on the right side i can see one of the tubes lit up, but there is nothing on the left side. is there a tube there? i've only had this thing about three months im really diggin...

do any of you guys own one and what do you think of it? is it loud enough to gig with?

how do you get into building amps? i have some technical knowledge about electricity since im in the air conditioning biz. im just wondering how to acquire the knowledge to do it and where to get started.

i just put in some new pups tonight, and its my first time to do it. i put a vintage stack in the neck and an alnico II pro in the bridge. is there any kind of rule of thumb for how much space you need from your strings to the top of hte pup? my bridge pup is louder so i lowered it and its...

does anyone know what e.c. used to get his sound on "from the cradle". i love that album and was wondering if anyone knew what he used? don;t know if this is the right place to post this. im new here.