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Traynors can be found for that price, but they are going up in price as people are starting to figure out how good they are. I found my Mesa Boogie Subway Rocket for 400 CDN used, so there are good deals out there, but you won't find anything new other than a low wattage Traynor which has a...

I've settled on Power Slinkys for my Ibanez because they just sound amazing on that guitar. For my SG I'm still undecided, I'm going to try some Dean Markleys and then maybe Boomers. One thing is for sure though, I have yet to play a guitar that sounded good with D'addarios, but I'm really picky...

If I remember correctly the JB was designed to give a Les Paul the same bite as a Tele. A couple of months ago on the Seymour Duncan forum a representative of the company posted the origins of the JB as a direct quote from Seymour himself. "Hi Evan, here's my info...I designed the JB for...

That is true, by the specs the SG standard bridge pickup does seem similar to a JB, overall its noticeably muddier than the JB but eq-wise they are atleast close; I think the JB is a little brighter if not in the treble range than certainly it has more upper mids. IMO if a pickup is bright and...

If someone was making an informed decision to buy Gibson pickups and thats what they preferred then thats fine. From the overall tone of his post I'd guess he hasn't tried too many pickups and I'm trying to educate him. Even from the fact that he was thinking of Dimarzios as a comparison for the...

Or he's just not used to using anything better the cheap pickups in his Gibson Faded and the Standard pickups seem so much better. I'm simply trying to help him out by telling him that there are much better pickups out there than that. IMO those Gibson pickups are never the best option.

The stock pickups in a Gibson SG Standard are no comparison to the tone you'll get out of a Seymour Duncan pickup. Besides Gibson pickups are overpriced and overrated. I like Dimarzios as well, but if you want the same type of sound from that SG standard pickup just in a better sounding...

Aged is different than Reliced. I love an aged looking guitar, like worn nickel hardware looks better to me than chrome does, not everything has to be shiny all the time. Having chunks out of the paint though... thats a waste of a guitar. EDIT: I admit I like the look of reliced Fenders...

Damn, beat me to it.

I used to use the volume knob only to kill the noise between songs when using medium output pickups. Now I've been using the Dimarzio Evolution in the bridge slot of my Ibanez and I pretty much have to turn down the volume to tame the aggressiveness of that pickup. It's not huge output but its...

I believe the new highway 1 strats have the 70's headstock, nitrolacquer finishes and upgraded hardware. They just changed them recently, so if you're shopping around make sure it has the 70's headstock otherwise you're paying the same amount for an inferior guitar. The new ones really are an...

Being a guitar player isn't measured by what song you can learn to play but instead by what song you can write. Even if its technically horrible if you're able to write a song that satisfies you then you're a guitar player.

I'll take it one step further... You know you're a guitar player when you catch yourself looking at the guitar in your bedroom while you're gettin' it on.

Hell no, an amp is designed to run at a level that won't destroy itself. In Mesa's the tubes are factory-biased colder than they should be, meaning lower current at the output tubes. Of course running it wide open will wear the tubes faster, but it won't damage anything. Unless you're idea of an...

I read the title of the thread wrong, I thought it said hackysack, needless to say I was disappointed. Nice work. You'll never catch me cutting through the neck heel with a hacksaw though. :rolleyes:

Thats surprising that the Santanna SE wasn't to your liking, and especially surprising that you noted a lack of quality. Although I've never played a Santanna SE I have played almost all the other SE models from PRS: standard, singlecut, soapbar, all of which I found to be very high quality at...

Go over to the Seymour Duncan Forums and just run a quick search for some reviews on both the JB and Custom. You don't have to register to do the search and theres lots of very good reviews there.

Seymour Duncan Custom I noticed that the stock bridge pickup is ceramic and 17k ohms, thats pretty hot for classic rock. A JB won't help you much with classic rock, it can be muddy at lower gain settings. What I recommend is a Seymour Duncan Custom. It's not as hot as the stock pickup or the JB...

I suppose if its a covered pickup or an extremely well-potted pickup it really wouldn't hurt. However there is a very small possibility that it could not be good for the pickup. My advice: if its a stock pickup don't worry about it. If you spent extra money on a certain pickup to put in that...

I only think what Outlaws programs me to think... that is correct.