Recent content by darknailblue

Don't go with a USB interface. They are a lot slower than firewire and you may notice latency issues. Do a search on google to see what firewire ports are and what they look like (most importantly) Also don't get a PCMCIA firewire card. That will be firewire but since it is going through the...

Remember... Let your ear be the judge of what sounds good to you. As far as what you would need; if you are practicing at home you don't even need an amp. Get an amp modeler!! I have one and its great! For practicing with my band I use a 100watt tube amp and its perfect. It sounds good with...

I'm looking into getting a pedal power supply for my pedal board. Right now I am using 9 pedals that require power and a passive volume pedal. I am also using george l's cables on the board and in the fx loop on the amp. I am noticing that I have several NOISY ASS pedals. When I say noisy I...

2 mil? wow.... thats pretty amazing... maybe in about 300 years a gibson les paul will be worth that much... I'm going to have to agree with Light saying that everyone is bitching too much. I just paid 2,600 for my PRS and maybe its overpriced, but I love it. I love the way its sounds, the way...

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Depending on what your looking for, you might want to invest in humbucker pickups. The "cheap white ones with holes in the middle" are called single coil pickups. Humbuckers are essentially two single coil pickups in one. When you put the pickup selector on any single poisition... ie all the...

If inserting a good EQ is key to doing this, then it is very questionable as to how good your box idea sounds. ~darknail

If the strings break at the bridge constantly its probably the saddles. If they break randomly its probably a bad set of strings. Usually its the saddles... if you have a fender guitar I reccomend a bad ass bridge.... another option that you have is to use graphite saddles, but you'll lose...

It all depends. By definition I am a shredder. I can alternate pick 16th notes at around 180bpm. Some things I can play faster, and some I can't play fast at all. When I do Vai and van halen esque tapping lick I don't measure it because it's insanely fast (vai is a better tapper by the way)...

Save and buy a tube amp!! Modelers are great but, are MODELERS still!! With everything thats out now, nothing beats a good tube amp. If you're playing in a band nothing else will give you the dynamics and clarity you'll need to cut and sit properly in the mix. ~darknail

I haven't used either and won't. I use a J-Station for recording and it sux, but now since I have an awesome guitar setup, I'm going to record using my amp. From what I've heard other people say, the POD has been the flag carrier of the amp modelers. Solid state programming will come close to...

I just bought a PRS Custom 24 3 whole days ago. ~darknail

Fender Deluxe 1x12 Peavey XXX w/ Bogner Ubershall 4x12 (need 3k for the Ubershall Head) ~darknail

Cool... I haven't heard that yet.... I'll have to give it a whirl. Have you tried any of the others that I've mentioned though? ~darknail

Any opinions on good guitar chorus pedals? I have a marshall (i don't know the model #) an ibanez chorus/flange and a boss ce-5. I am looking at a fulltone choralflange. Any Ideas? Lemme know. ~darknail