Godspeed64
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RG350 is too cheeep lar.
cheap but good! haha.. an ibanez fits his bill lah..
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cheap but good! haha.. an ibanez fits his bill lah..
haha. nope, i'm not tiny and i'm okay with standard size guitar. its just that i find that a smaller guitar = better maneuverability and image, which is *what i really want*. And yeah, a Gibson for Instrumental Rock is totally fine, but i think majority may find it kinda improper and uncomfortable for this style of music. Man, imagine Michael Angelo Batio playing a Gibson...
Anyway. Nah, an RG is quite thick and heavy for me. Hmmm. I think an Ibanez S Series will suit me. But i think i may want to get the S Prestige/24-fret 2008 model. Thanks everyone! :-D
Btw, Can anyone pls tell me whether the ESP Horizon FR-II is light/thin???
Here's a bit about the guitar: http://www.bmusic.com.au/prod3284.htm
Whitestrat
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Ernieball Musicman John Petrucci
Nuff said!
www.ernieball.com/mmonline
With a bridge like this, who needs a floyd rose???
Go to sinamex and check out the Candy Red one there...
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HarrisonYeo
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rg too heavy and thick ? wtf ! get a parker fly then .
Godspeed64
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RG.. Too thick.. And heavy?
Wow.. So what is a gibbie les paul? Colossal?
Wow.. So what is a gibbie les paul? Colossal?
xklusivly4u
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you might like ESP KH Junior
HarrisonYeo
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i lol-ed to the kh junior . the kh model is just like a RG anyways , if u wan a light guitar there's parker , jackson rr's , wangcaster (LOL) .
haha. nope, i'm not tiny and i'm okay with standard size guitar. its just that i find that a smaller guitar = better maneuverability and image, which is *what i really want*. And yeah, a Gibson for Instrumental Rock is totally fine, but i think majority may find it kinda improper and uncomfortable for this style of music. Man, imagine Michael Angelo Batio playing a Gibson...
Image?
You want image?
Then... okay....
Actually, I recently tried a JS100, the weight was rather shocking... it was heavy, almost as heavy as my own guitar, which has a mahogany/maple body.
Anyway, you're very right on the pickups - they should be swapped out, at least the bridge humbucker. The bridge has poor clarity, often muddy.
optisailor2002
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i thought the js series sounded pretty dead to me. both the js100 and the js1000 that i tried at swee lee sims. maybe its just me =/
optisailor2002
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perhaps, since most of the time swee lee's strings are rusty. however i have tried a les paul studio (the one that almondx talked about in another post) that sounded great even with strings that were probably weeks or months old. issit possible that its due to the wood of the body? cos i think the SZ prestige that i tried at sims also sounded pretty good even with dead strings as well. haha sorry for noobish questions, im just a noob trying to learn as much as possible xD
Let your ears tell you so...
Over time, your hearing will become more "used" to the tones you are looking out for... so yeap, just go along with that.
When someone tells you xxx sounds bad, make sure you get the fella to explain why... get him to describe it.
I think that's a great way to learn about tone, I learnt a lot from asking people and really, till today, I get the ocassional surprise when I learn about an aspect of tone I never considered/knew.
About the guitars you mentioned sounding better, note they are fixed bridge guitars where the JS uses a floyd rose type. In the FR equipped guitars, I would think the tone is affected by the bridge a fair bit more than say a TOM, since a FR is like... well, point of contact to the body is just 2 metal poles and some springs. Ibanez uses some weird alloy (probably cheap) for their trem blocks and that's a rather dull sounding metal.
Over time, your hearing will become more "used" to the tones you are looking out for... so yeap, just go along with that.
When someone tells you xxx sounds bad, make sure you get the fella to explain why... get him to describe it.
I think that's a great way to learn about tone, I learnt a lot from asking people and really, till today, I get the ocassional surprise when I learn about an aspect of tone I never considered/knew.
About the guitars you mentioned sounding better, note they are fixed bridge guitars where the JS uses a floyd rose type. In the FR equipped guitars, I would think the tone is affected by the bridge a fair bit more than say a TOM, since a FR is like... well, point of contact to the body is just 2 metal poles and some springs. Ibanez uses some weird alloy (probably cheap) for their trem blocks and that's a rather dull sounding metal.
Sorry. Cuz i have an ibanez SA120, so i think i already got used to it's light weight, and its thinness. Then when i got the GRG270, i was quite shock at how heavy it was, and how thick it was. It was like twice as heavy and twice as thick as my SA120. So now, i think a light and thin guitar is wat i'm really comfortable of after all.
Hey dude, after all it's going to be my last guitar! It's image on me DOES of course matter a lot. C'mon!
haha!Shred, have you ever tried the ESP Horizon FR-II before? Is it light/thin/comfortable? I love the guitar's appearance and maybe i'm probably going to go for it instead of the Ibanez S series.
Anyone?
http://www.bmusic.com.au/prod3284.htm
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if you can wait, the 2008 s-series are rather impressive at a glance:
1. the S is going 24 frets
2. for those of us who prefer a non-locking whammy bridge, the SV:
1. the S is going 24 frets
2. for those of us who prefer a non-locking whammy bridge, the SV:
Whitestrat
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No. you're right. That's EXACTLY what it's supposed to be: Dead. Because that's what Joe Satriani wanted. He wanted a guitar which was acoustically dead. But in his hands... Heheheh...:twisted:
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