Recent content by bird_droppings

Most electric guitars have two standard, magnetic pickups on them. Here and there you'll find three and in odd cases there may be one or more than three, but these are fairly rare. Most acoustic guitars these days come with a single piezo pickup that is generally part of the bridge. These...

I actually like these demos. The guitar playing is tasty, the narration is inoffensive and efficient, and the production values are good. But. You do have a point. Part of why this doesn't bother me is that nobody else is doing it. If this became a thing, the forum would lose its character.

Those aren't "dirty birds". That's just hating. They're "MOCHA BIRDS"!!!

Bolt cutters. Take the top right off those troublesome pole pieces. Works like a charm. More seriously I was amazed at what a difference adjusting the pickup heights made to my Strat. My PRSi were all good to go, but the bass side on my Strat was always a problem until I learned about this...

The problem with PRS guitars and collectability is that swine Paul that keeps making his guitars better every year. Because of that, your old guitars will generally lose value as compared with new ones. You want the best guitar, you should generally buy the latest. If Paul would just sell out...

I think y'all are crazy. When did we start getting mad at sales guys for trying to save the customer money? It's usually when they go the other way that I get pissed.

My first guitar was a Mexi Strat. And it had issues. It took three luthiers to turn it into a useful guitar. My second guitar was a PRS Mira. And that guitar was better. Yes the tonality between my Mira and my Strat was different but it was more than that. The Mira was simply better. If...

I'm with you, but this is a VERY unpopular opinion around here. They take wood more seriously around here than the Pope takes Catholicism. As it happens I had occasion to ask PRSh this exact question. I showed up at one of his guitar center visits early and he was standing around in the fancy...

Sigh. One simply does not know what to say at such a revealing post.

I didn't say not at all, but I would say very much less. Here's an interesting experiment you can do yourself. While you are playing some chords on your guitar, have your significant other wrap smartly with her knuckles on the body of your guitar and ask yourself if you can hear anything at...

What can you mean? I found it on the internet, so I know it has to be true.

Boy, I would say that we have a pretty good handle on sound. It may be for certain kinds of sounds there is a precision to human hearing not available from most test equipment. And there are all manner of perils in going from analog to digital. And part of what you are talking about is simple...

I'm not really following you here. You can always remove frequencies later, but if they're not there to begin with you lose flexibility. If you want to make a specific sound like say the sound of a strat going into a deluxe reverb, then it's certainly going to be more difficult starting with...

I have to part company here. I cannot imagine anyone going through the trouble (and risk) of obtaining a Strad just to prove the obvious: that different people like different things. As a statement, that not really in doubt really is it? But a Strad! They cost a fortune and study after study...

You probably should not have been told what to listen for. To some extent, doesn't this make it a bad example of a double blind test? Certainly an experienced ear should be able to hear compression artifacts if they are looking for them. It would be more interesting if you had not been told to...