Recent content by blaren

...well clearly it was due to low sales. Or maybe not so clearly? Maybe they were expensive to make (the Studio model)? Maybe just not cost effective to manufacture another bobbin and everything? I played my Studio yesterday in about 300degree direct sweat-drenched sunshine. WARNING: This is...

To the OP, thank you for calling it a fretboard and not a fingerboard. It is not a fiddle lol. I prefer the feel of ebony. Almost impossible to A/B an ebony board with anything else though. Hard to say just how much the ebony contributes to the tone. I'd say go for what you like the feel of the...

Skip the new nut. IF you are experiencing binding, file it. There is NO NEED for a new nut. It will do NOTHING for your tone. If it DID...it would only be on OPEN strings. The SE nuts are fine unless you go up to fatter strings than it came with and you get binding. Otherwise..pretty pointless.

Can anyone post some spectrum analysis or just a recording that displays the tonal difference a nut makes when strings are fretted please? Everyone claims they get this amazingly better and more resonant tone once you "upgrade" those pesky SE nuts. Sure, like any nut, they can bind if you use...

I don't mean to single anyone-out but...you guys are still "hearing" a difference in nuts? Do you all only play open strings? You do realize that as soon as you fret a note the nut is out of the equation right? If it binds, FILE it. :-)

PICKUPS and Pickup Magnets 101. Here we GO! Late to the party but... My favourite humbucker is the Duncan Custom Custom. It is nice and hot but also nice and vintage (classic) sound and they can be had for $50ea on eBay fairly easily. It will not really be what you are after though because of...

Everyone is right! It's the fingers. It's the fatter neck. It's the fingers. It's the fingers. Oopsies. The neck join..that will have an effect too if it's more like a LP than like a PRS. I am putting more and more weight (pun intended) into what the neck contributes in the tone department...

Unfortunately I cant comment on how the 59/09s compare to the others even though I have a 59/09 and a 57/08. The 59/09 is a neck/bass pup and the 57/08 is a bridge/Treble pup. They were also in different guitars. I love a good neck pickup. Has to be nice and warm and womany but not undefined...

Isnt a Les Paul Studio even CHEAPER than an S2? AND it's made in the USA. Workmanship is good on the ones I've seen and tried. The Koreans DO do a great job on the S2 and SE lines though. The Bernie Marsden SE (as was mentioned earlier) gets pretty Les Paul-ish and it IS less than a LP Studio...

I'll ask it again. WHY do you want a new nut? Is the stock one binding and causing tuning issues? If so, thats what nutfiles can be used for. As for any tonal difference...the second you fret a string the nut id out of the equation. Nuts dont make tone. Maybe on the open strings...slightly...but...

Don't have a ZM but I definitely have a #1. A couple of them actually and tied for that #1 slot, even though I have US PRSs and other American and more expensive guitars....is probably my Tremonti SE Custom. AMAZING. And me too ...I love the WT carves.

Would have posted this in the amp forum but that is for discussion of PRS amps and...ok so.. I played my first Marshall in like '83 or '84. Until then I had played pretty "normal" amps. Actually it turns out that a lot of them were very cool amps. Some early Traynors and Fenders and...

Hands, hair and Canada Dry!

Ziptie anchor points? lol. Anyway...I don't know man. My pedalboard is really heavy. Those look kinda flimsy...or like they would be if you connected 3 of them side by side. Do they have modular cases too? How do you pack those 3 or 4 odd shaped/oddly arranged modular boards into something...

Yeah it does. It's too bad I think. Wouldn't mind sticking a P90 in one of those NF slots. In the end though...I do love them as hey are. One day a 3D printer. First thing I might make with it... black NF rings. Maybe lol.