Your next guitar?

[Dean Aka Nekro]

a) I like your "blah blah"

b) I can't WAIT to hear you shred on the new ibby!

Thanks mate, I will definately do a track when I get it It might be sooner than I though because...How mad is this for a really awesome coicidence or destiny...maybe?


So thats what I'll be doing tomorrow

When I ask around no one is ever usually up for driving but this time I didn't even ask!!!

[hibidy]

Sweet dude! yeah, it's destiny!

[Uncle E]

Hi Uncle E, how do these P90's humbuck I thought you needed two coils for that.

The Lindy Fralin's are stacked pickups, similar to the Seymour Duncan's that Hink pointed out. The Kent Armstrong's and Lace's are side-by-side coils surrounding the poles, which is a new design that I believe is completely unique to these two models.

[Hink]

Sweet dude! yeah, it's destiny!

funny how that works out with ibbys lately eh?

[hibidy]

We should buy stock!

[Hink]

We should buy stock!

[tapper mike]

I just wanted to say Dean thanks for the video's as well as everyone elses comments.
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Re sidewound lace pickups.... yeah/no I've got the original golds *standard single coils (not the later ones) on my 80's strat. While... no noise also no life. They have an "acoustic" vibe happening with them that is okay for cleaner settings but the really lack when you want some edge to the sound.

[Uncle E]

Re sidewound lace pickups.... yeah/no I've got the original golds *standard single coils (not the later ones) on my 80's strat. While... no noise also no life. They have an "acoustic" vibe happening with them that is okay for cleaner settings but the really lack when you want some edge to the sound.

Agreed on their single coil pickups. I like them for bridge pickups, just like I like Fender Noiseless and Dimarzio HS-3's, each of them is smoother than a single coil and more focused than a humbucker. I learned that the first time I played an Yngwie model strat, which is absolutely killer for soloing.

With all that said, people on the various forums seem to think that Lace nailed it with P90's. Maybe the fact that traditional P90's are darker than other single coils makes them well-suited to Lace's technology.

[tapper mike]

Good point. I think people are too obsessed about no noise. I could see it if you were playing infront of CRT monitors or neon signs where the noise gets out of control. But just like aliasing concerns with synths. Some prefer the raw edginess over the pristine.

Everytime I hear the super pristine of digital (say the latest line6 hd's) they seem to cut out as opposed to trail off. Then again I'm not a supershredder who uses noise suppression as a means of expression.

[Hink]

Good point. I think people are too obsessed about no noise. I could see it if you were playing infront of CRT monitors or neon signs where the noise gets out of control. But just like aliasing concerns with synths. Some prefer the raw edginess over the pristine.

Everytime I hear the super pristine of digital (say the latest line6 hd's) they seem to cut out as opposed to trail off. Then again I'm not a supershredder who uses noise suppression as a means of expression.

any noise that emanates from your guitar pick-ups will go through many stages and processes along the way (amp, fx, pre-amps, interface etc) and each process will add more noise so imho there is no such thing as being to obsessed about the noise of pick-ups. Of course perfection is impossible, still I believe that it's essential that the signal starts out as flawless as possible...that doesn't matter what style you play, noise robs from the signal whether it be hi-gain or very clean tones

[Uncle E]

Good point. I think people are too obsessed about no noise. I could see it if you were playing infront of CRT monitors or neon signs where the noise gets out of control. But just like aliasing concerns with synths. Some prefer the raw edginess over the pristine.

Personally, I'm not so obsessed with noise that I'm using EMG's but I'm right at the level below that. I'd sacrifice a bit of single coil tone to have it be hum bucking. The HS-2 is a great neck pickup for me in that respect because it sounds excellent split, providing pristine SRV neck+middle tones when split and used together with standard single coil middle pickup, and then can be hum bucking on its own.

I don't do aliasing synths, either, for that matter.

Everytime I hear the super pristine of digital (say the latest line6 hd's) they seem to cut out as opposed to trail off. Then again I'm not a supershredder who uses noise suppression as a means of expression.

Well, that's a good case for hum bucking pickups, they don't need noise suppression or gates.

[metalifuxx]

My friend is letting me use/borrow this sexy thing while he does a setup job to my LP and Strat.

Guild SF-4 arch top semi-hollow with added Graphtech graphite saddles and carbon composite nut




It sounds as good as it looks. You want sustain, resonance, and feedback, stand next to your amp/cabinet with this thing

My friend wants to replace the stock pickups with some TV Jones Magnatron pickups for more jangle. Although the stock humbuggers are still warm and punchy, more on the mellow side, but it works perfect on a higher gain setting with a brighter setting.

Me want. But I am happy getting to borrow it for the time being, or getting to use it when we jam at his place.

[Dean Aka Nekro]

Nice. Have those buckers off his hands if he changes them for shittytrons dude

Speaking of hollow or semi-hollow in this case the LTD xtone model, This one:
http://www.espguitars.com/guitars/ltd-guitar/pc-2.html
Is a wolf in sheep's clothing for same reasons as the above you wrote metalifuxx, Except its got pretty high output humbuckers on fitted already.
I was impressed with that one. It can sound as nice as pie to plain br00talz but doesn't feedback out of control.

Enjoy it whilst its in your grubby mits dude and all the best

Dean

[metalifuxx]

Nice. Have those buckers off his hands if he changes them for shittytrons dude

Speaking of hollow or semi-hollow in this case the LTD xtone model, This one:
http://www.espguitars.com/guitars/ltd-guitar/pc-2.html
Is a wolf in sheep's clothing for same reasons as the above you wrote metalifuxx, Except its got pretty high output humbuckers on fitted already.
I was impressed with that one. It can sound as nice as pie to plain br00talz but doesn't feedback out of control.

Enjoy it whilst its in your grubby mits dude and all the best

Dean

He has a '81 LP Custom with HB '57 classics, or a higher end Ibanez 7 string model and Ibanez Iceman if he wants the heavies. He is also a big Brain Setzer and Beatles fan, so wants to have that hollow body Gretsch sound if he is doing some chicken pickin rockabilly country jazz rock stuff.

But yes, the hollow body can get a real heavy and still articulate resonant high gain sound. People often associate them with mellow jazz blues clean tone stuff, but this thing can get very evil when the gain is cranked for metal. It is in fact pretty awesome for controlled held out feedback notes that you can actually "play". Harmonics and pinch harmonics are increadibly easier to do with a guitar like this too, that is if you know how to harness and control the feedback, which is an art in itself when using a guitar like this. If you're not careful to re-mute a string afterwards, that one string will feedback and ring for days.

[Hink]

My friend is letting me use/borrow this sexy thing while he does a setup job to my LP and Strat.

Guild SF-4 arch top semi-hollow with added Graphtech graphite saddles and carbon composite nut




It sounds as good as it looks. You want sustain, resonance, and feedback, stand next to your amp/cabinet with this thing

My friend wants to replace the stock pickups with some TV Jones Magnatron pickups for more jangle. Although the stock humbuggers are still warm and punchy, more on the mellow side, but it works perfect on a higher gain setting with a brighter setting.

Me want. But I am happy getting to borrow it for the time being, or getting to use it when we jam at his place.

wow, love the finish