How Good Are Your Ears pt. 2!

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ratherdashing

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This is inspired by sosomething's original contest.

Here's the first contest.

Here are the results of said contest.

Your goal, good people of the Internet, is to identify which guitar/pickup I am playing in each of these clips. Here they are:

Riff I
Riff II
Riff III
Riff IV

The guitars, in ascending date order of me making their acquaintance:

Fender Stratocaster, poplar body, rosewood fretboard, SD Crazy 8.
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Fender Telecaster, basswood body, rosewood fretboard, SD Hot Tele Stack.
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Warmoth LP, mahogany/maple body, ebony fretboard, SD Pearly Gates.
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Fender Stratocaster, alder body, maple fretboard, SD Cool Rails.
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Each guitar was recorded with the bridge pickup by itself, and all applicable volume and tone controls on 10. I did my best to play the riff the same way each time. The amp is a Vox VT30 and the settings are the same for each guitar. There is no post processing at all. You are hearing the guitar with the bridge pickup full on into an amp. That's it.

Post your guess in this thread. One guess per person.

This will work the same as soso's contest. Two out of four correct gets you one entry into the draw. All four correct gets you two entries.

I will close the contest on Saturday at 12 PM Pacific Time. I will make the draw that weekend.

A prize? Oh yes, there will be a prize. The winner gets a choice between one of the following:

1. a $20 discount on either the RAPTOR (the FTL Drive Lite) or the upcoming HEART OF GOLD (a dual od/distortion currently on the drawing board).

2. a MYSTERY PRIZE!
 
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These ones are a little harder to do as the only 'conventional' pickup is the PG... thats said... kewl! I will try later!
 
Re: How Good Are Your Ears pt. 2!

Alrighty then. Having only ever heard the PG, hear goes.......

1. Hot Tele Stack
2. Crazy 8
3. Pearly Gates
4. Cool Rails
 
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Tough one, here goes:

1. Tele Stack

2. Crazy 8

3. Pearly Gates

4. Cool Rails
 
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man this is so cool
just sign me up for that mystery prize when I win

1.cool rails
2.tele stack
3.pearly gates
4.Crazy 8
 
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Nice to see the winners of the last contest up front for this one. :)
 
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Theres something weird about those guitars.... ah yes, they are backwards! :P

i have no experience with these pickups but... how about this:

1- Cool Rail
2- Crazy 8
3- Pearly Gates
4- Hot Tele
 
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ok, here it is :)

1) Cool Rails
2) Crazy 8
3) Tele Stack
4) Pearly Gates

almost sure :)
 
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Riff 1 - Tele w/hot stack
Riff 2 - Strat with Crazy 8
Riff 3 - LP with pearly gates
Riff 4 - strat with cool rails
 
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1. Hot Stack for Tele.
2. Crazy 8.
3. Cool Rails.
4. Pearly Gates.
 
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Riff 1 Cool Rails
Riff 2 Pearly Gates
Riff 3 Hot Stack
Riff 4 Crazy 8

It interesting trying to pick out the differences when factoring in other people gear. After the contest I had my wife play some of my different guitars while I wasn't looking (into my tonelab same setting everything) and I could pick out the differences in my own gear.
 
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1: tele stack tele
2: crazy 8 strat
3: PG warmoth LP
4: cool rails strat

i think. they all sound pretty twangy, but i'm just going by order of which ones sounded thickest to thinnest, assuming that the crazy 8 is the thickest and the tele is the thinnest/twangiest. btw which amp model did you use?
 
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Alright, my guess is as follows:
1 - Cool Rails
2 - Crazy 8
3 - Pearly Gates
4 - Tele Stack

The only one I'm semi-confident about is 3 - I have a PG in a les paul and that's similar to what it would sound like with a completely different amp ;)
 
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Sweet! I'll play along a little later when I have time to listen.

I love that this game is spreading!

I'm like the SDUGF Johnny Appleseed... sowing my seeds all the live long day, watching my little sprouts grow into a beautiful forest... :D
 
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