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Where is that speedo pic
Personally, looking at it from the "outside", I feel like modding is a completely different obsession that is separate from the music itself. It is like the idea of perfection is unobtainable, therefore, there MUST continue to be things done to make changes (notice I said "changes" and not necessarily "improvements"). I have literally seen people guitar shopping that are looking at a guitar, and before even making a purchase, going over all the mods they are going to do, without actually ever touching the guitar itself.
Me, I am just the opposite. I have often saw a guitar that I might have liked, but noticed that is wasn't left stock, and passed on the purchase because I somehow felt that I wasn't buying what Fender or PRS or Gibson or Schecter or even Epiphone put out. (Even if the mods were, from just about everyone's opinions, UPGRADES to the original hardware) Again....I know I am in the minority on this. But I think modding is not always improving. I think people just get stuck in a circle of needing to change things to feel complete. And what kills me, is after they make all the mods and adjustments, when I hear them play, they still------JUST SOUND LIKE THEM! And without maybe an A/B video, I couldn't even tell from what they sounded like that was any different.
For me, it's more about what if these pickups make it the holy grail?
Or....these rosewood PU rings will make it look badass.
Or......that mann one piece trem might give it more singing qualities.
I put a mann trem on my cu24 and loved the results. I had just got my ce24 back from PTC getting a refret and setup and thought that it'd be foolish to mess with it after a PTC setup........I couldn't resist.
I bought a mann trem and put it on anyway. It took me a couple months to talk myself out of leaving it alone.
It's that "what if"?