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40 minutes ago, challenger70rt said:

Those look like Vader sticks, someone should tell him to frig off so Adler can steal the show!

 

Nice demo, I like the melody and structure.

I'd say work a bit on the guitar tone (unless this is exactly how you want it) I just think the distortion gets a bit muddy and kinda all blends together with very little dynamics. Also the guitar solo could use a bit of vibrato on at least some of the notes to add a bit of 'feel' to it. Other than that I'd just say you could work on the mix a bit ( I think some of the levels are uneven)

Of course this is all in my own opinion and should be taken as some sort of constructive critisism I guess...

I'm not saying it's impossible that they ripped him off, but every so often in music there's going to be similar things written. I mean, there's only 12 notes, a couple octaves.. Joe Satriani is sort of a niche sort of artist... I mean he certainly has a lot of fans, but I think it could easily be an honest thing. I don't know... law suits like this always seem lame.

Well numbers add up...12 notes lets say seven octaves...and all the timing options available leads to close to endless variations in wich music can be written. Not gonna do the math..but I think you get the point, the number of variations will be extremely high (infinity).

I myself rather listen to music you have to concentrate on and listen to a few times to understand it, because these guys really have understood the whole thing that is called music.

Getting a little pretentious here maybe?...but then again you're a fan of Yngwie

Understand it? I think the part that you're not getting here is that all the million hours of practicing in the world don't make these people better artists.

Well...I can be impressed with guys like Usain Bolt who's the best in the world at what he's doing. Still, I wouldn't probably like him as a painter. Technique can onlý take an artist so far, and it's basically a tool to create the art but it's not art in itself. Artists can be helped by good technique, but technique doesn't make art.

I own a Boss ME-50 multi effects pedal with wah but want to upgrade the wah part of it. I am thinking about getting either a Vox or a Dunlop Crybaby and keep the effects pedal for other effects and distortion. My question is what pedal would be good for an SRV meets Hendrix meets Hammett meets Slash wah tone? A crybaby? Vox? What?

i hear the vox wah is good but iv also heard that its not great with distortion? id probably go for a dunlop wah, the one witht he silver buttons on the side, cant remember if its a 535Q or something like that but i hear thats a good one, i have the slash wah and its worth the extra money just for the nice shade of red

I own the 535Q and I find it good. It gives you the ability to tweak the behaviour of the pedal.

Muse...pick any album

Easiest way to go would probably be to just flip the nut (assuming a standard Fender nut that can be installed either way). You should be able to tap it out sideways and then reinstall it the proper way around. After taking the nut off, make shure the groove is clean, and there is no residue left in the groove or on the nut. Then install the nut the other way with some CA glue.

probably part of his community service hours

he's a loser anyways

Wow, guess that makes us even worse than losers, is there

a word even worse than worse?

Worst

maybe some of the falsetto parts...but his voice is nowhere near as strong as freddie's was.

nice sig...

monsters in my closet

monsters under my bed

id think about running away

but my magical powers

Dropped the monsters dead

That's some quality shit right there... And posting under 3 different usernames in the same topic highway_blues...must be some kind of record...

Let them do the bridge for you if you don't feel comfortable doing it.

I wouldn't pay them to do the electronics since it's piss easy.

Anyway just realize that you have to change the bridge and route for the humbucker before painting

Well I am going to assume you have a router, if not, that would be the first thing you need to buy if you want to convert it to a humucker and add a floyd. Guitarfetish.com has some cheap licensed floyd's wich works just fine.

What pickup cavities do you have on your strat?

Considering you're probably gonna have to do a bit of routing for the humbucker, and later for the floyd it, it would be advisable to wait until you install the floyd before you paint it.

So exactly what are you gonna do?

Paintjob?

Floyd installation?

Humbucker...don't go with the 10$ crap from you local store, check out www.guitarfetish.com, they're got some priceworthy pickups.

Take away both tone knobs?

cut pickguard?

The quarter is there to stop the floyd from pulling backwards...

Really you can get most sounds out of a Gibson Les Paul.. take a listen to something like "Diary of a Madman" or something like that, with Randy Rhoads, and then obviously you've got the classic "Slash Tone".. and you can do some really heavy stuff like Zakk Wylde's style of music.

What if they want a trem?

You cant get those sounds out of a Gibson Les Paul, unless you spend LOADS on one with a bigsby, or get one fitted, which I dont recomend.

And why is it that you wouldn't reccomend this?

They kill the tone and devalue the guitar.

Oh they 'kill' the tone do they? Care to post any evidence of this speculation?

a bigsby has nothing like the versatility of the edge pro 2 bridges on the ibanez. bigsbys aint for squealing and getting crazy ass sounds out of a la dimebag. its just to add a bit of vibro.

If this was directed at me I know fully well the ups and downs of the different systems, I read the post as if he didn't reccomend someone to fit a bigsby on a guitar that hasn't got one from the factory and wondered why he thought so.

fender wins

Really you can get most sounds out of a Gibson Les Paul.. take a listen to something like "Diary of a Madman" or something like that, with Randy Rhoads, and then obviously you've got the classic "Slash Tone".. and you can do some really heavy stuff like Zakk Wylde's style of music.

What if they want a trem?

You cant get those sounds out of a Gibson Les Paul, unless you spend LOADS on one with a bigsby, or get one fitted, which I dont recomend.

And why is it that you wouldn't reccomend this?

This is what I'm using ATM, gonna build a board and a versatile power supply that I can build into the board.

Guitar: Mainly one of my two latest creations at the moment, a red custom design, and a black tele deluxe replica (pics can be seen in the post a pic of your guitar thread)

Effects: Crybaby 535Q wah

T-rex mudhoney

Treblebooster that I built myself

Boss phaser clone that I built (99% finished)

Compressor built by me

Lovetone meatball clone I built

Boss metal zone that I've had for ages, gets used rarely

Amp: Vox ac30

fuzzy picture of axl signing a pickguard?...'Certificate of authenticity'?

thanks

Here's a couple of my guitars, hand-built from scratch by myself.

1:st one is a custom design

25.5" scale 24 fret maple neck with ebony fingerboard and scarfjointed headstock.

Ash body.

Body and neck finished in nitrocellulose laquer

OLF tremolo with locking nut.

GFS pickups.

3-way pickup switching plus two push/pull knobs for coil-splitting and coil-selection

Wilkinson EZ-lock tuners

So here it is.

Here's the most recent addition, it's a replica of a 70's telecaster deluxe

Ash body finished in black nitro with white binding front and back

25.5" scale 22 fret maple neck with maple fingerboard and plain black dot inlays

Vintage style tremolo and graphtec nut

Kluson style Wilkinson tuners

GFS Split humbuckers

I say that because they are useless!

I play Gibson and Fenders myself. And I've never played a Ibanez which feels right. They feel like utter rubbish.

Let's start with the most important piece of the guitar; the body. I'm found one piece mahogy, with a maple top,

which is the classical Gibson combo. I can fancy guitars with premium ash, or alder bodies aswell (strat and teles).

Ibanez guitars feels like carbonfiber. It doesn't give you any tone at all.

The tone and the playability is what the guitar is about. Ibanez guitars has no tone at all. They even manage to kill

the little bit of tone the body has left. They strap on rubbish tremolo-systems, and ridicules cold and rubbish pickups.

I'm a found of good old baseballbat necks. Gibson 50's profile and Fender V-shape. That's why I've recently bought myself

a '52 Telecaster. The neck is fat, and has a great tone. The Ibanez neck-profiles are way too thin. It's pure rubbish.

Your attempt to sound cool here really does come off as sounding lame and uninformed. I'm not gonna say I am that fond of Ibanez style guitars either, but to say they're rubbish is just plain stupidity. You're also slightly comparing apples and oranges, since they're not really constructed to perform the same task. If you like traditional style guitars fine, so be it, gibson however has had some quality issues and are hardly worth anything close to the asking price, fenders as far as the standards go are more reasonable. These two brands still focus on keeping close to construction teqhniques and designs from the 50's and if that's what you're after they're good. These designs are however no way near perfect in any way and to say that another company is putting out rubbish because they try to improve on these designs to improve playability, tuning-stability etc is just a lame, uninformed attempt to come off as a cool "I-know-more-about-this-shit-than-you type of guy.

You don't believe Ibanez pickups sound good, well sound is subjective my friend, and since you're going for vintage stuff I don't even think these pickups are designed for your type of music anyway. They do the job that they're designed for good, just because you don't like the stuff they're made to perform for doesn't make them rubbish.

Rubbish tremolo systems? That's also a load of bullshit, the ibanez edge pro's and low pro's are widely regarded as some of the best floyd rose type tremolos produced. Again if you don't like double locking tremolos that doesn't make them rubbish. These tremolos are made with excellent quality and excel at the task that they're supposed to do -that is not equivalent to rubbish. Ibanez neck profiles are way to thin?...again quite the uninformed statement, ibanez necks range in size from the ultra thin to larger size necks. And to say that they're rubbish based on the fact that they are thin is again ludicrous. They also performed the task they're designed to do better than most of their competitors.

You think Ibanez guitars feel like carbon fiber? Now this is the most bullshit out of all, Ibanez makes both alder guitars and mahogany/maple combos. 'Premium' ash or alder....I'd like to see you spot those in a blind test.

I can't believe no-one has mentioned avril lavignes cover of kohd as worst yet.