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Roasted maple is a horrible idea and a way to ruin good timber. It's weak, brittle and soft all at the same time... vile.
Middle pickup alone is the best sound on a SSS Strat.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Just because I don't care, doesn't mean I don't understand." - Homer Simpson
a) alternate tuning
b) fundamentally different type of guitar e.g. switching to an acoustic or a 12 string
c) broken string or guitar malfunction
Find a good gigging guitar and stick to it.
Whether on 2 Boss Pedals and a Peavey Bandit or a Line 6 Helix..
Or maybe I am just chasing me and other people aren't..
When we get very different equipment,we are often actually trying to find very similar sounds..
A different journey to the same destination,,sometimes a complicated journey to achieve the simple....
So we are best to buy the equipment that works as an extension of us to do that....
This has either came to me via a hard search,or just luck..
With me,It can turn out with pickups to affect how obvious I hear certain chord types,,
How obvious those interval pitches pitches are,,for me this is huge,but I haven't heard others mention it..,Or how responsive we can find pickups to our playing touch..
Most Strat pickups are fine to listen to other people playing on,when I'm playing them, 99% of them sabotage me..
I didn't realise this for decades..
There was a time I just made do with what I had,but as I developed and had financial access to more gear, I realised these subtleties and not so subtle things too..
So many Strat Pickups go Plunk before you get anywhere near your highest dynamic range in your playing..
If you are going to do a spanky rhythm with accents,are these plunky pickups any use..?
Too low output,you get thin with no presence or sizzle..
It is the exact same with Telecaster Pickups..There is only one set I actually like..
Are they boutique ?..nope...Am I fussy,if I have that opportunity,damn right I am..I know what I want..
So many products offer,but don't deliver..
Humbuckers, I can get into more of,but many that are very expensive and also many actual Gibson ones I think sound beyond awful and don't respond dynamically,or I can't hear the part of the sound that helps he identify intervals resonating with each other..Or just thin,lacking mid,,or where I like mid to bloom,,not at 1 Khz by the way..
Even my plectrum choice changed and is not just chosen from how I pick but also the plectrum to me makes a big difference to guitar tone,I realised for me,too thick when playing rhythm was making chords sound like big congealed,claustrophobic lumps,,they were shouting,,Give Me Air,open up my sound..I don't care what works for Yngwie or Schenker..
Yes they have more shred ability than me,I can still love what they play,but my ears,hands,arse etc respond differently..
When I fire up my Headrush Pedalboard,I can get totally lost,but not one drive pedal model really works as an extension of me..
Yet I use the original pedal of one model and an update of another and wouldn't be without them,
to me they are part of how I get my set up to work for me....
Models may sound really close,but they respond to your touch very different..
It was obvious 20 years ago,it has got better but I think we are still decades away..
We can do an approximation of our heroes tones with these things..
We can kind of do a homogenised sounding version of us on them,
but are we in synch with them..
A simple TS9 Tube Screamer can work with my hands and brain beautifully,
yet lots of boutique trendy pedals I don't connect with..
Can a Headrush Pedalboard truly give access to do me.
I know I may sound up my own arse,but everything is a matter of degrees and that answer is no..
Ever so often,I try a bit of gear and genuinely go,,where have you been all my life..
It could be a plectrum,but be monumental and 50 pence..
I have my definite favourite Pedals,Picks and Pickups etc..
WHY ? because they work..
Or they do for me..
But maybe not for anyone else..
Now the question is how similar was that sound in my head in 1990 4 years into my playing compared to now..?
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Just because I don't care, doesn't mean I don't understand." - Homer Simpson
It's only a strat if it was made by Fender (or squier).
Ernie Ball Super Slinky 9s are the best strings.
Offsets are just plain wrong.
Trading feedback here
The finest guitar solo of the 20th century was Louis Shelton's solo on "Hello" by Lionel Ritchie
You virtually never come across a good slide guitar player who can't also sing.
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Ritchie Blackmore
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Just because I don't care, doesn't mean I don't understand." - Homer Simpson
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Just because I don't care, doesn't mean I don't understand." - Homer Simpson
2) Bands that build their live sound from the rhythm section first always sound better than those who try to build it around the novelty acts out front.
4) People who tune to D-D (or any other equally transposed tuning) but still use the same chord names as when using E-E should be forced to run a recorder and use group for 5 year olds.
5) There should always be 2 types of rehearsals. One is the performance rehearsal. The other is a technical rehearsal where the focus is getting the gear working right. This is getting more important as more bands go ampless and instead have a modeller with 300 sodding channels.
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Fortunately not true,because you get some really thin cheese wire sounding strats..
Kateskogs said: I would say I was mostly a peaceful chap..But the addition being out of pocket because of some loud mouthed A-hole knackered your guitar is not a nice feeling..Especially the ones who can't possibly be in the wrong..Some jobs are beyond me unfortunately..I can set up guitars,but I am very far from a Luthier or even a Tech..I set up for friends etc,but I don't charge...
I was offered a job as a repairman and said no,,because I am not a Con Man..
There are jobs I just can't do and don't want to learn on the job on people's prized possessions,I am not a bastard..
Also Techs who don't listen to what you want,,they know better,,even to the point of getting competitive..
I have had to pay for the same job twice from different sources so many times..
Some of these people have been at it decades..
You have to learn who you can trust the hard way it seems.
One of Scotland's leading repairmen can't solder..
I am not able to re fret a guitar,but neither were some of the people who confidently,bordering on arrogantly told me they could,,charged going prices and above,,then fucked my guitars..
There are people out there that are great at the job..I feel so sorry for them because of the people fucking it up for them..