Guitar Gear Sticky [040307]

[thor666]

To new users of the soft forum - I know you all are new. and have BURNING questions about guitars, effects and amps. (we all do). And he seek the knowledge almost immediately, and can't wait for the answers to come from fellow softies.

A lot of the answers are there already. Please take the time to look through this sticky and spare the forum from duplicates of the same thing. If you need more queries, post on the existing threads.

I've subdivided the links further into sections.

Other Stickies
How-To - Guitar
SOFT Review Database

Guitars
Impressive yet affordable guitars
Anatomy of buying a guitar and pickups
Fender Highway 1 vs American Series
Fret Cleaning
Difference between Sterling Stingray and Sub
Ibanez JEM Jr - A lot of new users often ask about this guitar, so here are the comments made by some of the other SOFT users.

Amps
Where to get Celestion Speaker?
Power Attenuators
Tubes and where to get?
When to replace tubes?
Low power tube amps for practice
What is headroom?

Pedals
DD3, EchoPark, DL4, DD20 discussion
What pedals and what sounds do they produce?
Order of pedals in your guitar chain
Single vs Multieffects comparision
Digital vs Analog
Line6 POD XT
Bad Horsie 2
Wah pedal mods
Wah pedal recommendations
Wah pedals
Delay pedals
What is a booster?
GT2
GT2 & Uber Metal
GT2/ Tri-AC users
Pedalboards/Pedalbags

Bridges
Edge II vs Edge III bridges
Introduction to locking trems
Ibanez Edge III to Original Floyd Rose
Floyd Rose discussion
Replacement Tuneomatic Bridges
Ibanez Edge Trem Stopper
Improving Ibanez Edge Arm Torque
Essential mod for Edge Pro users

Pickups
F space humbuckers 1
F space humbuckers 2
Coil splitting & Other mods
Pickup Configurations

Electronics
Changing of 2 pin plug to 3 pin plug(Grounding)
The Soldering Guide
Essential mods for the guitar
Good upgrades to a Strat
Guitar Shielding
ShredCow's Guitar Mod
More on ShredCow's guitar mod
Where to get guitar electronics
Parts for DIY pedals

Others
The SHARE thread
Removing guitar knobs
Cleaning maple/rosewood fretboards
Active midboost
Guitar picks
Guitar picks 2
Guitar picks 3
Removing rusty screws
Cables
Paul Gilbert's Gear
String Saving Secrets
Coated Strings
Frequency of Sounds
Straplocks

[Vaiyen]

great work. Once we feel we have a comprehensive variety of links, we will have knowledgable members sieve out the good links from the not-so-good, and then compile the final FAQ for a given subforum.

[Indigo_blues]

hey this is fantastic for new guys like me... cheers! :lol:

[Lifehouse]

I acutally wrote a guide, but my internet's pretty screwed (can't post anything 2 lines and above), so guess I'll post it sometime soon.

[Lifehouse]

thor, maybe some topics about strings, the different types, guages etc.

[thor666]

Stickied.

[moggie_54]

How about Amps?? Do we need guide a for guitar amps as well??

[Lifehouse]

That would be good. Preferable someone who knows amp well around here. I know JM knows alot. :smt002

[thor666]

All right. Finally my exams are finished. I've updated the sticky.

I'm sure there'll be a lot of omissions which many of you will find. The truth is, the quality of many threads were extremely poor. Asking whether a Marshall MG15 sounds good or not is relative - you can't expect the sound of Marshall stacks with a practice amp. Asking whether a RG Prestige would sound good is relative too - you don't expect excellent tones with a practice amp either.

Ok, that makes me sound like a grumpy old man. :roll: I'll keep quiet on that lest people start blasting me off.

As I've said, I won't be updating the sticky on a regular basis anymore. People interested to add to the Sticky, PM me with the links.

[dario]

woohoo. this thread rocks. -drool-