I have a dimarzio area set in my strat (58 neck, 67 middle, 61 bridge) and I gotta say the 58 in the neck is my favorite of the pickups. I dont think you can go wrong with that in the neck honestly. As far as the pots go I am not too sure, mine are 250 and sound great and I only think it matters for...

My friend Craig has one of those mockingbirds, a higher end one. I remember thinking what the hell is this shit when he got it, until I played it. It really is hands down one of the nicest guitars I ever played.

Never seen one of those before but I like it. If I had the loot I would probably want to go for it but I cant stand floyd rose's.

I really wish all the reviews I ever seen on youtube and places were as good as his. He really goes into a good amount of depth in them which is really cool rather than just plugging in and going at it.

Nice. I have always liked the look of this one for some reason: http://zharth.tenjou.net/pinkpaisley/strat/strat4.jpg

Sounds awesome. By the way that is one of the best band names I have heard in a long time.

awesome. also it would probably benefit you to practice alternate picking with a metronome as well, slow and build to speed. that and when you get better at alternate picking and triplets and whatever it would be wise to practice things like economy picking, string skipping, etc. because there might...

My 2 favorite albums he is on is Frank Zappa's "Sheik Yerbouti" and King Crimsons "Discipline". How much of the stuff he contributed on the Zappa album I dont know considering Frank wrote most of his music and just had others play the parts but I am sure he had a good deal to do ...

If you got a metronome just practice triplets to the click and keep bumping up the bpm after you get more comfortable with it. I know for me its easiest to practice it a certain way. Like barracuda for example the picking pattern thats easiest is down down up, down down up, down down up, etc. rather...

Do you know anything about where the notes are, major vs minor chords/scales, chord spelling, how to read music? I know you said you have no formal training but there are people who dont have it and know the stuff. I would say if you do it shouldnt be too hard to teach considering most people going ...

Posted many a time, but awesome all the same. And Belew is certainly not a cock; what's wrong with stating that certain sounds use a certain technique? It's not like he's saying "YOU NOOBS NEED TO HAVE MEGA CHOPS TO DO THESE RIFFS LOL" or anything. I was thinking the same exact thing. Plu...

http://www.shortscale.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=36246 I knew I seen one for sale on here. who knows if its still up for grabs but its worth checking.

A friend of mine has the Catalinbread super chili picoso. He likes it alot and I think its one of the better boosters I tried.

The fact that boutique companys put out pedals meant to give you the sound of a discontinued pedal is great I think where they go wrong is pricing said pedals at a price level that matches the discontinued pedal it copies. I totally agree. I think the whole "boutique" thing is great becau...

I don't believe all this crap about the "magic" ramshead or triangle muff transistors that skreddy and his ilk spew out, its all bullshit. Thats why I appreciate coming on here and talking to all the builders because none of them here pull your chain or blow smoke up your ass; everyone is...

[/quote]Got a link to this so called "mythbuster'D Big Muff" thing?[/quote]


Here is the video I was talking about. Its not really about the muff but just op-amps in general.

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Interestingly enough I sent a few clips to my dad just as an experiment to see what he thought as it would be an unbiased opinion being that he doesnt play guitar or anything. And he said the same, they all sounded similar however slightly different. He liked the Civil War among all the transistors ...

I actually read an article about a famous guitarist (I think Eric Johnson???) that would get like 10-20 muffs at a time and pick out about 3-4 that sounded the best and return the rest..... this just shows how they use to vary Then again Eric Johnson also believes that by putting his tubedriver on ...

Thanks for all the diagrams but honestly that shit looks like chinese to me haha. Yeah that was my argument with my friend. Alot of the time most of the muffs sound similar to my ears except the Civil War one which sounded much lower and heavier for some reason but the Op Amp sounded completely diff...

Recently I was having a convo with someone regarding the op-amp versions versus others and if there really is a difference. I mean the pedals StompUnderFoot make really sound different to my ears. Now I have seen the video that visual sound did regarding the op amp myth busting and understand where ...