BroKen_H
Re-member
Well, maybe toys...
After much deliberation and looking, I decided on the following purchases:
Schecter Guitar Research Bass. Back of the guitar has a plastic strip that says "Set Up To Play". After a few minutes of playing it, I decided I needed it set up to work. Don't get me wrong, I don't mean it doesn't work, but their idea of play meant matchbook clearance all the way up. Need more height for my heavy-handed playing.
The strings that shipped on the bass were junk. One string did not even sound like it belonged in the set. D'Addario to the rescue. Had a set of XL Half Rounds (ENR71-5) sitting on the desk and voila! Decent sounding strings. One big plus: The tones are extremely versatile. It does however have a slight problem with the pickup blend knob. It seems to phase deaden when sitting in unity. Just a little to either side of center fixes the problem, but I'm wondering if I should rewire for a volume control on each pickup instead of the blend.
BC Rich Guitar. Right out of the box this thing is killer. The tones it makes are so much more varied than my Hamer. The playability was amazing. Set my Extra Slinkys on it and just took off. Few things I didn't realize about FR tremelos: 1) you have to guess at intonation...took me a few tries to get it close and I still haven't hit "perfect" yet. 2) They are REALLY touchy. If you hit it just a little too hard, it sounds like you're trying to dive bomb. Need to get used to that. 3) Drop tuning is not simple. Originally put some new strings on and tuned to E just to play around with the thing. I knew tuning was a monster with FR, but it wasn't too bad. THEN I tried to tune down to D#. Man what a nightmare. Have to totally retune the guitar and then lock down and retune the fine tuners and then there were intonation problems. My Hamer, you just tune er down and it still sounds great. Intonation doesn't change much. Guess I'll use it to learn songs with and then play whatever I need the tone of
Hopefully the two pointy bits won't make it sound too awful...
Anyway. Very happy with both purchases.
After much deliberation and looking, I decided on the following purchases:
Schecter Guitar Research Bass. Back of the guitar has a plastic strip that says "Set Up To Play". After a few minutes of playing it, I decided I needed it set up to work. Don't get me wrong, I don't mean it doesn't work, but their idea of play meant matchbook clearance all the way up. Need more height for my heavy-handed playing.
The strings that shipped on the bass were junk. One string did not even sound like it belonged in the set. D'Addario to the rescue. Had a set of XL Half Rounds (ENR71-5) sitting on the desk and voila! Decent sounding strings. One big plus: The tones are extremely versatile. It does however have a slight problem with the pickup blend knob. It seems to phase deaden when sitting in unity. Just a little to either side of center fixes the problem, but I'm wondering if I should rewire for a volume control on each pickup instead of the blend.BC Rich Guitar. Right out of the box this thing is killer. The tones it makes are so much more varied than my Hamer. The playability was amazing. Set my Extra Slinkys on it and just took off. Few things I didn't realize about FR tremelos: 1) you have to guess at intonation...took me a few tries to get it close and I still haven't hit "perfect" yet. 2) They are REALLY touchy. If you hit it just a little too hard, it sounds like you're trying to dive bomb. Need to get used to that. 3) Drop tuning is not simple. Originally put some new strings on and tuned to E just to play around with the thing. I knew tuning was a monster with FR, but it wasn't too bad. THEN I tried to tune down to D#. Man what a nightmare. Have to totally retune the guitar and then lock down and retune the fine tuners and then there were intonation problems. My Hamer, you just tune er down and it still sounds great. Intonation doesn't change much. Guess I'll use it to learn songs with and then play whatever I need the tone of
Hopefully the two pointy bits won't make it sound too awful...
Anyway. Very happy with both purchases.
