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Hink · Post by **Hink** » Thu Jul 21, 2011 10:41 pm

Uncle E wrote:
hibidy wrote:These places wouldn't stay in business if they were always that bad, BUT it always happens to me.

Suhr is in Lake Elsinore so you just send your guitar back to them when you want a setup.

as good as that sounds unless it's driving distance and in the same climate that's not a selling point. Whether it's a little truck, big truck or an airplane anything you ship is subject to some extreme temps in both directions, then of course there are the people who pack the trucks and delivery vans that toss cartons around without a second thought...it might leave their shop with a great set-up but there is no way of knowing whether it will arrive the same way. And probably one of the more critical things most people are afraid to do one their own (the trussrod) is one thing you really have to worry about from temp changes

I'm not putting down the guitars at all, I'm just saying 'sending' my guitar out via shipment with any carrier to anyone is not imho the best way to be assured of a good set-up

hibidy · Post by **hibidy** » Thu Jul 21, 2011 10:56 pm

Uncle E wrote:I have this exact model:

It and my Ibanez RG 3120 TW are my two best playing guitars:

drool...... er, um, how much did that suhr cost........

Hink · Post by **Hink** » Thu Jul 21, 2011 11:13 pm

http://www.suhrguitars.com/proSeries.aspx

hibidy · Post by **hibidy** » Thu Jul 21, 2011 11:33 pm

@uncle e : What pups are in that ibby?

Uncle E · Post by **Uncle E** » Thu Jul 21, 2011 11:48 pm

Hink wrote:I'm not putting down the guitars at all, I'm just saying 'sending' my guitar out via shipment with any carrier to anyone is not imho the best way to be assured of a good set-up

See, you say that because you live somewhere where the temperature can vary wildly. In California, the weather is always perfect.

Uncle E · Post by **Uncle E** » Thu Jul 21, 2011 11:52 pm

hibidy wrote:drool...... er, um, how much did that suhr cost........

It was around $2K used. I just decided one day that I deserved the *perfect* guitar and that was it. Of course, as so often happens, while it sits pampered in its velvet-lined case, it's the guitar lying on the couch (your PRS these days) that actually gets played.

Uncle E · Post by **Uncle E** » Thu Jul 21, 2011 11:54 pm

hibidy wrote:@uncle e : What pups are in that ibby?

Tone Zone in the bridge (I prefer the Air Zone) and PAF Pro in the neck (sounds super cool with this maple top!).

hibidy · Post by **hibidy** » Fri Jul 22, 2011 12:48 am

Uncle E wrote:
Hink wrote:I'm not putting down the guitars at all, I'm just saying 'sending' my guitar out via shipment with any carrier to anyone is not imho the best way to be assured of a good set-up
See, you say that because you live somewhere where the temperature can vary wildly. In California, the weather is always perfect.

*grumble grumble LA people grumble grumble*

However, I'll take what I've got here over anything east of Denver (and that's being generous)

Hink · Post by **Hink** » Fri Jul 22, 2011 1:51 am

Uncle E wrote:
Hink wrote:I'm not putting down the guitars at all, I'm just saying 'sending' my guitar out via shipment with any carrier to anyone is not imho the best way to be assured of a good set-up
See, you say that because you live somewhere where the temperature can vary wildly. In California, the weather is always perfect.

okay I'll explain this one more time and prove our weather will always be better than yours. You see we have 4 seasons and of course each one is different, when you grow up here you come to appreciate each season for the beauty they each have and also because of the contrast between seasons.

So by the end of each season a true New Englander is ready for the next season and it's always an improvement over the end of the last season. Naturally as that season starts to wear thin the next season starts to look better and this cycle has continued 4 times a year for 1,000s of years.

Therefore if each season the weather always gets better than the last then it can be said that in my life the weather is 208 times better than it was when I was born and your weather is still the same as it was when I was born. As there is no such thing as perfect and given the 1,000s of years this has gone on our weather is better by lightyears and yours has been left in the dust (or smog as it were)

Uncle E · Post by **Uncle E** » Fri Jul 22, 2011 4:20 am

Hink wrote:You see we have 4 seasons and of course each one is different

By your previous logic, this means you need to have different guitars setup to accommodate each changing season. You need 4x as many guitars as we do!!!

hmm, come to think of it, that's starting to sound pretty good.

hibidy · Post by **hibidy** » Fri Jul 22, 2011 4:28 am

Uncle E wrote:this means you need to have different Gibsons setup to accommodate each changing season

fixed!

hibidy · Post by **hibidy** » Fri Jul 22, 2011 4:33 am

I really wish you wouldn't have show me all that suhr stuff, you know I'm a junkie don't you ????

My digging didn't get much info on the rasmus, but I haven't really dug deep.

@pickups: I'm concerned now because of my ultra curse with local techs and not quite sure I can diy. Emgs? Yeah, those are easy

but wiring (especially when I don't want the "stock" wiring.........

susiwong · Post by **susiwong** » Fri Jul 22, 2011 5:29 am

Apparently EMG and BadCat are working on a "Curse Edition", connecting wireless to your BadCat amp. No soldering necessary !
Only system requirement is a BadCat amp and a working internet connection with full access permissions to the data folders on all your PCs.

Lol,
susiwong

hibidy · Post by **hibidy** » Fri Jul 22, 2011 5:33 am

(thought secretly I wish it was true

)

Emg is going to be at summer namm.............should I hope?

susiwong · Post by **susiwong** » Fri Jul 22, 2011 6:00 am

You know how to take these remarks ...

You can be sure to have full support from all of us in case you decide on trying some mild DIY, including no jokes about eventual mistakes.
All of this is not too hard to do, EMG really offer a no-solder version afaik, but this will probably "limit" you to the standard wiring.
Don't know myself as I don't use EMGs, Dean or Hink will know for sure.
Cheers,
susiwong

Edit : From what I see on the EMG site, the no-solder thing is a bit misleading, you still have to solder the switch and the output jack ...
Unless you buy a complete pickguard, which probably won't fit your guitar.

Correct me if I'm wrong, I don't have hands-on experience with newer EMGs.

Your next guitar?