The Amazing Invader !

MetalManiac

MetalManiac

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I was going to wait till I got the Duncan SP 90-2 for the neck to post this, but cannot wait!
I've been toying around with this cheap Basswood body Squire for quite awhile.
I've tried several pickups in this. I Had a Blues Pickup in it for awhile. It was still a thin and plinky sounding guitar.
I yanked all of the pickups, and thought about the Invader.
YES! BINGO Folks! Fat thick thick highs from even a cheapo Basswood body! Big impressive and textured lows.. and all this playing clean! I have been getting off to noodling with this thing now!
You'll notice the old brass hardtail bridge. That obviously doesnt hurt either.
Listen , if your thin sounding guitar needs a shot in the arm, Give the Invader a try for certain!

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A little of both maybe..hopefully its mostly the pickup. I hadn't noticed.Thanks for pointing that out.
Actually, upon further review, looks like its a regular spaced pickup in a F-spaced place. Not a huge concern here as it turns out, as the Invader still packs a big bass wallop even as is...maybe even a blessing here.
 
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Andrew Lamprecht said:
yeah...... that bridge looks off
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Hmm.. yeah. Thats beyond my skills. Might have to get that filled and redrilled by a pro. Thta would account for the problems Ive been having with some thudding out of the low strings.

Anyway, all this is in the lime-light of the amazing Invader! Previously there was only one other pickup I know of to add a fat sound to a bright or icepicky guitar, and that was the TZ, and the cleans are basically non-existent with that.
What I have discovered here is so huge, you don't even know! A Pickup to add fat thick highs to a icepicky/thin guitar and also big palpable lows that plays well clean ? Beyond amazing actually! I'm flabbergasted.
..it aint just for modern metal anymore.
 
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What is thudding out and what impact does a crooked bridge have on thudding??

It being crooked and having all 6 saddles set almost the same might account for it not playing in tune...does it play pretty badly out of tune?

I know you're all about the invade in this post but a guitar that won't play in tune is no good no matter how good it sounds...
 
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its kind of a mess. I had a Fender Robert Cray bridge, and it played better, but when I put in the old vintage brass Charvel I guess it is , hardtail, which has much thicker baseplate , the already bad break angle on the strings at the headstock casued me to have to higher the action a bit, and move the string tree placement.
The Tuners werent helping, having a relatively high string heigth, so i've bought some used Grover Lockers..hopefully this will lower the strings on the headstock some.
This is all cause of the mish-mash of parts , especially the no-name neck, with the Squire '51 body.
 
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the bridge is close enough that you should still be able to intonate it properly....

sure looks funny though
 
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the bridge is crooked. It's pretty obvious once you compare the bridge to the neck heel.

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JOLLY said:
Let's hear it. Make another video for us.
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Ya know..I get the feeling my playing dynamics are lost to the Metal Crowd here, but Its really different. Most young guys will here that there are a lot better /quicker sounds , but tahts with tapping and tons of compression. Yeah, I kind of once bragged about razor sharp licks, but obviously it needs work. Its a lot of finesse with a clean amp and no smear tactics( tapping). You can finesse the low notes, but I should have hammered a bit harder on some of the higher registers. Also, I was trying to work the pinky, when the third digit comes more natural. ALL the notes were actual fingers plucked with fingers on string and not cheated wiht tapping, and like I said, i doubt anyone but the perfroming artist knows or hears the difference, but ya can't tap clean, trust me on that .
Tapping requires distortion, or a very loud clean sound on the verge of breakup, and as you can see, I'm noodling on a 10 watt practice amp on clean.Tapping doesnt give the dynamic attack on the strings as a fingerpick-even a hammer on/off which is mostly what I do..it only seems like that with oodles of compression and/or volume.


Also yes, its out of tune. My style requires ten gauge strings downtuned, so I cannot use a tuner. I have to tune by ear, and I dont have the best ear for tuning.

Anyway Jolly , this is the guitar, but with the old pickups, the Bluesbck'er and the stock P-90. I know playing clean all the time will make me a better player, but I used to think that when I cranked up my '73 Superlead, it would instantly make me a better player on high gain, but no way- its even more difficult if anything to get the space between notes.;


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pgID7iB-aQ&feature=context-gau
 
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Nice axe, man! I'm a fan of the '51 and a lifelong Invader user.

I've been using it since the early '90s and I stuck with it. I like to have other options in other guitars for sound variety and I like gentle pickups with classic sounds etc etc but the Invader has always been my main pickup. Nothing else has that kind of punch. I start to miss it whenever I play something else for long.
 
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NecroPolo said:
Nice axe, man! I'm a fan of the '51 and a lifelong Invader user.

I've been using it since the early '90s and I stuck with it. I like to have other options in other guitars for sound variety and I like gentle pickups with classic sounds etc etc but the Invader has always been my main pickup. Nothing else has that kind of punch. I start to miss it whenever I play something else for long.
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And what blew me away was it responds to the volume knob so well -who would have thunk it? It has a very dynamic architecture, and gets a really good clean tone with the volume knob dialed down! As if that wasnt enough, it mixes amazingly well with a good neck pickup for excellent between position tone.
All this and can it can still do its famous Brutalz duty.
 
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I picked up a used Epi Dot a few years back and it had an Invader in the bridge.
I was amazed that I actually liked the sound of it!!! Very nice clean tones which really
blew my mind!
 
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