KVR Audio

susiwong · Post by **susiwong** » Thu Jul 01, 2010 10:05 pm

Re P-Rails, I wrote a detailed description here when I put them in:
http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=255014
Still true, except that I'd put the 3 rail-tones more into the "useful" category than "authentic" now. The P-90s still are spot-on (I have several "real"P-90s in guitars) and both HB tones are wonderful, but don't necessarily expect PAF clones.

That very Schecter actually was the covergirl for their catalogue back then.
A custom shop one-off I bought straight from the booth at Frankfurt.
That's where getting along fine with the distributor and a few Mai Tais help ...

They did a few chambered guitars back then, the CET-H line (contoured exotic top-hollow).
Unfortunately soon afterwards they went the far-east route and stopped doing the wonderful custom shop guitars.

Lol,
susiwong

Eric, I'm pretty sure the concept of the rosewood Tele will work out great.
More musical than the original for sure, though there's something unique about the original RW Tele that could maybe make Mike Campbell use it for one song ...

zerocrossing · Post by **zerocrossing** » Thu Jul 01, 2010 10:24 pm

hibidy wrote:Oh wow, that's a trip!

I'm from the future!

Uncle E · Post by **Uncle E** » Thu Jul 01, 2010 10:39 pm

susiwong wrote:Re P-Rails, I wrote a detailed description here when I put them in:
http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=255014

Very nice, thanks! It sounds like the P-90 position is their strong suit so I'll probably pass, only because I need noise canceling pickups.

btw, you probably know about these already and it sounds like you don't need them, but just in case:

http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Electronics ... Model.html

http://www.seymourduncan.com/products/n ... _duncan_9/

Unfortunately soon afterwards they went the far-east route and stopped doing the wonderful custom shop guitars.

ESP has some very nice Korean models but all the Far East Schecters I've tried have those thick poly finishes and EMG pickups. :-/

Eric, I'm pretty sure the concept of the rosewood Tele will work out great. More musical than the original for sure

Hopefully! I've never played a rosewood guitar so it's kind of a gamble! Actually, the rosewood I used is a type of Indonesian jacaranda, which is supposed to sound in between Brazilian rosewood and Indian rosewood, although it just looks like a really purple Indian rosewood so I don't know how Brazilian it'll sound in the end.

susiwong · Post by **susiwong** » Thu Jul 01, 2010 10:58 pm

Uncle E wrote:It sounds like the P-90 position is their strong suit so I'll probably pass, only because I need noise canceling pickups.

Same here normally, but I haven't heard a half-way convincing noiseless P-90 yet. And I can't get by without P-90 tone ...
Btw, just saying :

'nuff said.
Ymmv,
susiwong

Dean Aka Nekro · Post by **Dean Aka Nekro** » Thu Jul 01, 2010 11:01 pm

Uncle E wrote:
NEKRO.MACHINE wrote:On the Tom Anderson guitar subject - anybody tried his collaberation with Line-6 on the newly designed models?
You're thinking of James Tyler. The Les Paul-style model looks nice:

http://www.jrrshop.com/catalog/advanced ... riax+tyler

Yet again my bad

so thanks for the correction man

Regarding the foam: not really and the foam in question is StudioSpare's own brand, but /Yes i can see Cork being obviously better suited and if a problem crops up then i will hunt down some corkboard and use that i think - thank you for the tip Eric

As said on my stuff which apart from one Ibanez that is to be collected tomorrow and has an Edge III, all have Floyds or Licensed ones and i never have any issue so for my needs i don't foam them and i have only foamed 3 IIRC for other people. Its 9 different guitars, 10 including the Ibanez all with Floating trem systems

(and i have recently spotted an 80's Krammer in good condition for under £400 which is tempting me alot!).

I do intend on getting one guitar at some point with a simple tone pro's bridge/tail-piece equiped electric simply for ease of rapid re-tuning, a shorter scale-length than all the 25.5s and i think basically im describing an SG

As each of the floyd equiped are setup and tuned down specifically for various dropped tunings, when it comes to time to re-string i simply do one string at a time starting with the highest, then lowest, then second-highest, second-lowest, middle two (a lock after each string and then more than a ample stretch in, retune, lock and then onto the next). It may sound an odd way to do it admittedly but over the years it just has worked and kept each the same once setup to taste so there is method to my apparent madness

All the best

Dean

Edit: The 'Shred' one looks ok, still not sure about the variax technology and the one old one i did try felt strange as it was down-tuned but had 10 - 46's on it which felt all wrong and it glitched/tracking wasn't as good as it was described. Still if i notice one of the newly designed and improved versions i will try again with it and without the bad vibes round one gave me/clean slate

xtp · Post by **xtp** » Fri Jul 02, 2010 8:08 pm

susiwong wrote:
Uncle E wrote:It sounds like the P-90 position is their strong suit so I'll probably pass, only because I need noise canceling pickups.
Same here normally, but I haven't heard a half-way convincing noiseless P-90 yet. And I can't get by without P-90 tone ...

susiwong

Sometimes the noise is worth it.

Dean Aka Nekro · Post by **Dean Aka Nekro** » Fri Jul 02, 2010 8:45 pm

Got my Ibanez and man am i happy with it. Second-Hand superb deal. Love second-hand and ex-demo

Dean

hibidy · Post by **hibidy** » Fri Jul 02, 2010 9:11 pm

NEKRO.MACHINE wrote:Got my Ibanez and man am i happy with it. Second-Hand superb deal. Love second-hand and ex-demo

Dean

pics or stfu

susiwong · Post by **susiwong** » Fri Jul 02, 2010 10:59 pm

hibidy wrote:
NEKRO.MACHINE wrote:Got my Ibanez and man am i happy with it. Second-Hand superb deal. Love second-hand and ex-demo

Dean
pics or stfu

True.
Especially since he recently acquired a camera.

Lol,
susiwong

Dean Aka Nekro · Post by **Dean Aka Nekro** » Sat Jul 03, 2010 1:43 am

Coming v.soon - promise

Nekro > Vapour(hard)ware

tapper mike · Post by **tapper mike** » Sat Jul 03, 2010 4:04 am

zerocrossing

save a few more pennies together and get a Z5
You know I like my BabyZ but a z5 is more guitar like in regards to the feel. It's got 24 frets the baby only has 16.

Unless you expect to do what I do (90% of my playing is tapped) the other i0 tappinking/knock%roll) you are going to regret not having strings on the body.
Trust me it's not a yrg A z5 is completely playable.

Also the tweak freak in me died about 2 months into playing. You prolly aren't going to use all those knobs. You'd be better suited with the joystick.

Unless you are doing mpc type stuff in albeton you won't need the 32 zones on a baby. I've only ever used 3 zones on mine.

hibidy · Post by **hibidy** » Sat Jul 03, 2010 4:29 am

I'm still tripping on the starrlab stuff.

I've never seen them.......very intriguing

rectus_dominus · Post by **rectus_dominus** » Sat Jul 03, 2010 7:12 am

Yay, just upgraded the knobs to chrome on my Z4! Will change screws and pickup holders too. It'll look totally different in an evil way

tapper mike · Post by **tapper mike** » Sat Jul 03, 2010 8:16 am

I want this so, so very badly

Add another joystick, three more pots, a neck sensor strip and a nice x/y touchpad and ofcourse airpower wireless midi.
I think I would be the happiest cat in the house.

susiwong · Post by **susiwong** » Sat Jul 03, 2010 8:59 am

My cat says:

Add some of these and you'll be an even happier cat !

Lol,
susiwong

Your next guitar?