The Amazing Invader !

[Coma]

Re: The Amazing Invader !

Having used an Invader for the past eight years or so, I would highly recommend installing a push-pull and wiring it for series/parallell. The parallell mode gives it a really nice, strat-type single coil sound. Great for improved clarity during heavy distortion too.

 

[NecroPolo]

Re: The Amazing Invader !

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.

Its clean sound is never clean really but it is very useful. It reminds me of having sex with a just decently attractive but very-very mean girl


@Coma: Good call on a phase switch. I wire mine the regular way and I wire it in parallel with a regular '59 in the neck position. The result is a twangy and gentle sound with character.

 

[FretFire]

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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.

Uh, what? Ever heard "Midnight" by Satriani? It's *all* tapping with two fingers on each hand, with a very clean tone (especially the album version). This is him playing the song on a practice amp in a hotel room, so a very quiet clean sound, and his tapping sounds fine. Good technique is all you need.

 

[80's_Metal]

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You think one sounds good...you should hear two of em!