Aweful realization about ny guitars tonight

[MetalManiac]

They sound bad. Actually, the Blue Strat with the EMG's sounds flat out horrible- flat, icepicky, sterile. I put almost unquantifiable planning , effort and execution on this too.Super expensive to assmeble- Plays perfectly.


Next up, the 1997 Gibson Les paul Jr with P-90's. Lifeless, dull. 2 dimensional. The effort to make this play outstanding, get all the right pickups and everything is almost immesuarable, and now- sounds like hell.


Actually, the Warmoth Mahogany Strat is the only one that sounds great,, but the pickups are super-microphonic.More effort tpo get these potted.


This may be just the tip of the iceberg as I try other guitars I have assembled.
Takes a great amp like a Hiwatt Custom 50 to expose these guitars for what they are- which is aweful.

Stand by to see all these parts up for sale.

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[Funkfingers]

Re: Aweful realization about ny guitars tonight

Have you considered the possibility of pilot error? :fingersx:

 

[kramersteen]

Re: Aweful realization about ny guitars tonight

I bet i could make them sing.

 

[Phantasmagoria]

Re: Aweful realization about ny guitars tonight

Takes a great amp like a Hiwatt Custom 50 to expose these guitars for what they are- which is aweful.

Looks like you need to buy a really crappy amp then ...make those baby's sing! :bigthumb:

 

[Funkfingers]

Re: Aweful realization about ny guitars tonight

Behringer - the (Nathan) Brown sound!

 

[BloodRose]

Re: Aweful realization about ny guitars tonight

Awesome!! I'll be watching the trading post. Ive been saving my money to buy guitars that sound terrible!!!

 

[BloodRose]

Re: Aweful realization about ny guitars tonight

IMO, all of my current guitars have to potential to sound amazing! Just not strapped to me...

In all seriousness, Is it just with a diff amp that you all the sudden have lost favor with them? As you said, you carefully pieced them all together..

 

[Dahla]

Re: Aweful realization about ny guitars tonight

If multiple guitars suddenly sounds bad, and a (new) amp is the common factor, is the guitars to blame?







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[greekdude]

Re: Aweful realization about ny guitars tonight

IMO, all of my current guitars have to potential to sound amazing! Just not strapped to me...

In all seriousness, Is it just with a diff amp that you all the sudden have lost favor with them? As you said, you carefully pieced them all together..

+1.
I played my heavily modded strat straight to my Crate when all effects, pedals where installed next to my new studio box located in another room. The chopper in the neck sounded so boomy and bassy, string action and pup action was so terribly high and the sound so awful that I wanted to throw the guitar way, and I grew up with this guitar for the last 32 years. All it took was to play the guitar with my main rig again to remember how much it shines.

 

[ehdwuld]

Re: Aweful realization about ny guitars tonight

All these must be recent additions
Love the strats
That blue one is beautiful

 

[beaubrummels]

Re: Aweful realization about ny guitars tonight

When that happens, my first thought is I wonder if the ears have gone flat, dull, lifeless?

 

[treyhaislip]

Re: Aweful realization about ny guitars tonight

I went through a stage where I thought all of my gar sounded terrible–I unplugged everything and took a couple of days off. Then I tried to learn something new–played along with styles of music I normally didn't to kinda hit "refresh" in my mind. Came back and started over with my gear deciding what it was about each guitar I didn't like.

If they sounded good to your ears before the new amp then I think you've isolated the problem

If you as a player are morphing/your style is changing then I would suggest you view each guitar as an individual tool to be modified to what suits your new needs.

Seems to me you have a solid foundation there–SSS and HH with different wood combos, you have a lot of potential that a pickup change/mod here or there can make them quite an arsenal. (I personally never cared for EMGs in a Strat )

 

[PFDarkside]

Re: Aweful realization about ny guitars tonight

Just a question... How loud was the Hiwatt when everything sounded flat and lifeless?

Electric guitar amps are (and are meant to be) loud, but full and juicy occurs at a different point for a HiWatt and for something like a Princeton Reverb.

If you set the volume up into the 5-6 range I'm curious if everything sounds better all around.

 

[Mincer]

Re: Aweful realization about ny guitars tonight

Sometimes this happens. Pick up an acoustic for 6 months. Learn a few different styles. Write a song featuring the worst guitar tones you could ever imagine. Set the controls on everything in the exact opposite of what you usually do. Shake it up, baby.

 

[JeffB]

Re: Aweful realization about ny guitars tonight

This is why as I get older I realize I need to try to stick to one guitar and focus on getting everything to sound good with that particular guitar.

As soon as I start messing around with my 335 or my classic or my 245 in addition to #1, I start to say ..oh I wish #1 had the big low end of the 245, and the woodiness of the 335 and blah blah....and I end up not being happy with any of them because all of them have things I like and dont like. Then I start saying..well maybe if I try xyz, speaker/tube/pedal, maybe that will help all of them, and usually it just messes up my perception of them all even more and I hate everything I own. They all feel and sound funky.

So I just put them all back in the closet, let my ears calm down for a couple days. Let the OCD go. And start back up with #1.

That said..amp and speakers are the foundation , so if the Hi-Watt is King...cater your guitar/pickups, to it.

 

[blakejcan]

Re: Aweful realization about ny guitars tonight

twist some more knobs

 

[jeremy]

Re: Aweful realization about ny guitars tonight

theres no reason your guitars should sound bad

 

[ginormous]

Re: Aweful realization about ny guitars tonight

Assuming all else is ideal (good set-up, fresh strings, good cables, ears in good shape), I'd check the amp.
Maybe something is going south... tubes or caps can go bad slowly, until you notice something awkwardly sour.

 

[JOLLY]

Re: Aweful realization about ny guitars tonight

Tone is in the fingers. That's why they sound bad.

 

[Funkfingers]

Re: Aweful realization about ny guitars tonight

my first thought is, I wonder if the beer has gone flat, dull, lifeless?

Fixed for Jer.