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I have the original 3-position switch that came in my 62 reissue somewhere, I was thinking abotu throwing in in there. I hate the 1-2, 2-3 positions on the 5-way. I had an old saga strat kit that I bought when I was a kid and it had a 3-way. I swear it sounded better in the 1-2 position than...

Guilty as charged.... So, I can figure out how to make sure the saddle bone is flat on the bottom, but how do you measure/interpolate that the slot is flat? Or does it matter tons and tons? Do you use a drill press or tire tread gauge? As far as "tone" goes, I'm not really hung up on it. I...

That looks pretty cool. I don't knwo if I mentioned, I rarely play acoustic guitar out. I just went to a friend's jam and thought it would have been much simpler to have a transducer on my acoustic than screw around with my phony electric piezo thing. If you don't like the piezo quack, that...

Are iBeams any good? Are they better than a under-saddle piezo? http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Electronics,_pickups/Pickups:_Guitar,_Acoustic/3/L_R_Baggs_iBeam_Pickups_Systems.html

I have a sort of shitty yamaha acoustic. I have had a few occasions lately where my life would have been easier if had a pickup. I already have a decent fishman preamp, so I was thinking of something like this...

Oh, you're fucking awesome! That is more absurd than anything I could ever concoct. I'm not worthy.

I think it's Fender's display of how impressive their relicing methods are. It really looked like it was old and fucked up. But check the reviews: http://www.musiciansfriend.com/product/EVH-Eddie-Van-Halen-Frankenstein-Replica-Electric-Guitar?sku=513703 Only in LA can a 17 year old save up...

There is one of those $25000 fender relic EVH guitars in the samash in columbus, OH. I looked at it closely, but it was in a glass case. Their relicing process is pretty impressive. The neck pocket is way bigger than the neck. The pocket is strat-shaped, but the neck looked tele shaped. The...

No need to call anyone names. Let's face it, it's alot cheaper to make a fender-style guitar than a gibsoney one. So, at a given price, you have to figure there is a tiny bit more in the budget after meeting the MSRP for an extra thirty cents a day for the indonesian artisan. If you are...

Are all lead-position stock strat pickups hotter than the middle and rhythm? Are they all the same pickup just in different positions? THe reason I ask is because I've had the stock lead position 62 RI (~1988-ish) pickup in the middle position of my jambolin for a long time. I have been...

The dd20 only records for so many seconds. The new RC 20 is like 16 minutes or something crazy. DO these things have onboard memory? Like you can put together a few verses/choruses and stomp your way to a one man band? This guy I was talking about played Use me last night and he would cut...

What about the Boss RC-20. I know a guy that has one and does a solo gig with it. He plays the first verse recording it, then when he goes to the second verse he plays back the first verse so he can add a part. It's not super obvious, which makes it especially cool. He uses an older 5-minute...

I play with a really short slap-back and a tap tempo wouldn't work at all for ~50ms delay. I have an old ibanez digital delay that is a piece of shit. It's good enough for me.

I bought the platinum, too. But I never used it with an acoustic. I use it with a piezo strat bridge (lr Bragg x-bridge) and it makes it sound like an acoustic.

I thought this was about the beatles song. There is a cool video of adrian belew playing it on youtube, but it's blocked from work now. "Within without you".

When I was younger, I liked being able to make one trip in from the car and be able to open doors by myself. Taking 2 strats, an amp and a duffle bag up a couple flights of stairs would suck if the guitars were in those huge rectangular hard cases that the feet always break off of when you...

Aside from the obvious, I like not having a bunch of cases to stow beofre the gig. It's nice being able to carry multiple guitars or a guitar gigbag and amp in one trip from the car, but after years of doing that, my strat's body looks like a golfball. Gigbags offer little protection. I use a...

Claw hammer is that old grandpa jones shit. I think the Dueling banjos/bluegrass style is called "scruggs style" isn't it? It's where you wear a thumbpick and two fingerpicks and play patterns all the time. Claw hammer is like playing a uke or something. Sort of a pick strum thing...

Those deering ones are supposed to be cool. I defintely wanted a resonator. I never really cared for the maple, cosmetically (I'll admit it). Unless something breaks or I absolutely need something else, I will be buying a banjo this year. I'm lucky because I can play well enough to pick out...

I play. I have a rather shitty banjo. I've rented/borrowed nice ones to play for shows. I think there are some decent ones in the $3-400 range. The sub $200 ones are mostly shitty. I looked at the Fenders, Epiphones and washburns in that range and I thought they all were adequate. The...