Photo album 2010 (Guitar gear)
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junkiemanxl
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Talking about swamp ash, this baby seems much heavier than my American strat.
Its a G&L comanche.
Great deal from Ram - Woodworx.
Nice!
What pups are those?
RicFreak
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Hmmm, good question. If I remember correctly , they are z-buckers or maybe z-coil buckers.
faizal_rocks
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Thanks for the suggestions on the pickups, fgl bro..
will consider those models u mentioned..
will consider those models u mentioned..
fgl
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http://www.dimarzio.com/site/#/pickups/
http://www.dimarzio.com/site/#/pickups/
thenoiseless dimarzio tele pups - I used b4 - ok but modernsounding & a bit sterile
http://www.dimarzio.com/site/#/pickups/
thenoiseless dimarzio tele pups - I used b4 - ok but modernsounding & a bit sterile
Ized
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I haven tried the noiseless tele pups but the dimarzio areas were the best strat pups i've played....it really sounds and feels like a single coils, but noiseless. And I've tried Bill Lawrence, Fender (vintage and hot), Duncan and some more I cant remember....
Would love to try kinmans but the price and reviews make it difficult to justify me getting those instead of dimarzios. Alot of ppl on tgp have commented that the dimarzio areas really nailed it for them.
Would love to try kinmans but the price and reviews make it difficult to justify me getting those instead of dimarzios. Alot of ppl on tgp have commented that the dimarzio areas really nailed it for them.
penta-tonic
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thats a huge misconception bro. maple is actually darker and more controlled than rosewood. i found all the guitars i had with rosewood boards to have a very shrill high end and very flubby low end. maple solves this problem for me by having a super tight response and quicker attack with everything rather flat eq across the board.
faizal_rocks
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Oh really? I didn't know that..guess I'm just saying based on the common facts as stated by most people. Now when I start to reminisce on the guitars that I used to own with maple and rosewood fretboards, I dun remember myself hearing any differences between the 2. That's just my opinion. I choose rosewood as of now due to cosmetic reasons..;P
Ized
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Thats a pretty good observation. Come to think of it thats also why I have a fond preference for maple boards as well
penta-tonic
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yeah damn, always much easier to clean maple boards, could never truly scour clean a rosewood board no matter how much lemon oil and how much rubbing i do with a flannel. with my maple board, i can clean it with my fingers without even the use of any fabric or cleaners.
yeah most pple perceive rosewood as warmer as the attack is not so obvious. notes have this very nice bloom to it and plenty of overtones. but i suppose it all depends on situation. for a true blue clean spanky strat tone something with a slow attack would definitely do better. maple has more fundamentals and less of that overtone chime.
body woods also play a big part for this fundamental and overtone thing. with the vintage woods such as ash and alder theres plenty of overtones and less of the fundamentals. with basswood theres almost no overtones to be had but the fundamentals are nice and thick providing lots of cut. somehow the more i play the less i gravitate towards the overtones as i find myself using higher gain settings. my ears dont seem to like all that distorting going on in the upper registers and now ive fallen back to basswood and an all maple neck combi to provide me a nice full fundamental. overtones just seem to get in the way of what im playing.
yeah most pple perceive rosewood as warmer as the attack is not so obvious. notes have this very nice bloom to it and plenty of overtones. but i suppose it all depends on situation. for a true blue clean spanky strat tone something with a slow attack would definitely do better. maple has more fundamentals and less of that overtone chime.
body woods also play a big part for this fundamental and overtone thing. with the vintage woods such as ash and alder theres plenty of overtones and less of the fundamentals. with basswood theres almost no overtones to be had but the fundamentals are nice and thick providing lots of cut. somehow the more i play the less i gravitate towards the overtones as i find myself using higher gain settings. my ears dont seem to like all that distorting going on in the upper registers and now ive fallen back to basswood and an all maple neck combi to provide me a nice full fundamental. overtones just seem to get in the way of what im playing.
MadWerewolfBoy
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lol vic's tele prompted me to upload pics of my guitar too because of the similar colour schemes.
Here's me one and only axe since 2004. It's a Yamaha Pacifica 312 Mk II bought from Beez back when he was still at PS Yamaha.
Made in Taiwan, Alder body, translucent red Ash top, swimming pool cavity.
It has been modified time and again since, and now currently here are the changes:
Wilkinson locking tuners
Graphtech nut and saddles
Dimarzio electronics (push pull pots, 5 way switch, mono jack)
Orange drop cap (rewiring redone by beez)
Neck: Dimarzio Air Norton S
Mid: Dimarzio Virtual Vintage '54 Pro
Bridge: Dimarzio Air Zone
My push pull configuration is as such:
Lower pot makes my neck Air Norton S from series to parallel.
Upper pot makes my Air Zone always on.
I get quite a variety of sound from this axe. Apart from the standard humbucker sounds for neck and bridge, and strat bell tone from mid, there's also a fat clean sound when my neck's in parallel and also a mellow tele twang with my parallel neck and series bridge and a sharper tele twang with my strat mid and series bridge.
One very cool feature i just found out about my guitar is that it reproduces some kinda reverb tone unplugged. I suspect this might be caused by the hollow swimming pool cavity that's giving it this sonic quality. =D
My cheap guitar (i think it's about $600+) feels good and sounds good. I rikes!
lazy3yed
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Interesting! I've never really thought about it this way : overtones and fundamentals. Thanks for sharing! =)
penta-tonic
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most welcome! realised its been a long time since i contributed.
penta-tonic
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i dunno, doubt there are videos online about the comparison. id suggest starting with either acoustic guitars or playing your electrics unplugged. for woods with more overtones, theres this really nice harmonic complexity going on, almost as if there is some reverb happening. prob really pleasant to the ears. id recommend picking up a guitar made of basswood say and ibby and picking up a strat made of ash. i know it isnt a totally fair comparison due to the fact that not all things being equal but it should give u a rough idea. basswood will have this almost dull and not too responsive tone as compared to the bright chimy and shimmery ash tones. however diff strokes for diff folks and diff woods for diff apps. with my acoustics i go with rosewood rather than mahog as i feel that for cleans, alot of overtones and complexity is needed. if i played more cleans, id buy an ash bodied strat. but when drive comes in, it distorts everything, and woods with overtones to me tend to sound really icepicky and shrieky in the top end, like theres too much to overdrive. whereas to me stuff with very strong fundamentals get a really good 'gary moore' like tone, one nice bigass kick in the midrange balls to cut thru the band.
try this, get a strat say either alder with rosewood board or an ash with maple board and compare with with an ibanez of basswood body whether maple or rosewood board. with distortion somehow the ibby will sound more recording quality with a really nice focus to the tone while the strats with traditional woods will sound hairy and possibly even shrieky on the high frets. (note , try playing around with tone controls on pedal and highs on the amp and see which is the one with the true high end spike, most would realise after this that rosewood has more highs than maple) then switch over to clean and suddenly the ibby will sound uninspiring and droll while the ash and alder strats will start to shine with all the chime and quack and all that stuff. esp the ash, thats like the top of the heap for overtones. anyway i started a separate thread in the mains so as not to hijack the photo gallery. we could continue discussion over there.
try this, get a strat say either alder with rosewood board or an ash with maple board and compare with with an ibanez of basswood body whether maple or rosewood board. with distortion somehow the ibby will sound more recording quality with a really nice focus to the tone while the strats with traditional woods will sound hairy and possibly even shrieky on the high frets. (note , try playing around with tone controls on pedal and highs on the amp and see which is the one with the true high end spike, most would realise after this that rosewood has more highs than maple) then switch over to clean and suddenly the ibby will sound uninspiring and droll while the ash and alder strats will start to shine with all the chime and quack and all that stuff. esp the ash, thats like the top of the heap for overtones. anyway i started a separate thread in the mains so as not to hijack the photo gallery. we could continue discussion over there.
junkiemanxl
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Fender Deluxe Stratocaster / David Gilmour Black Strat Project
Here is my American Fender Deluxe Stratocaster / David Gilmour Black Strat Project
Originally it was all stock some weeks back:
Project Completion:
Actually this is my first DIY Strat as i usually like my guitars to be kept stock. I changed quite a number of things cosmetics wise to get that Gilmour Black Strat look. It wasn't easy finding the S1 Knobs in white here in SG. Had to order them in along with a Warmoth single ply full black pickguard directly from warmoth and ebay. Maintained the S1 function for more tonal options. Even the fender custom shop 69's and SD SSL-5 could not be easily found here hence it was ordered in as well.
I personally copper shielded the cavities, swapped the pups, Added some orange caps, leveled and crowned the frets. Took me quite a bit of time to get her ready.
Changed the pups to:
Neck: Fender Custom Shop 69
Middle: Fender Custom Shop 69
Bridge: Seymour Duncan Pro Shop Custom Staggered SSL-5
These fender custom shop 69 pups are just brilliant sounding. I have yet to cut a shorten trem arm and all but i think i will give those a miss as I might end up messing up the guitar if i get overly anal about every detail. So far it's good enough for me.
Here is my American Fender Deluxe Stratocaster / David Gilmour Black Strat Project
Originally it was all stock some weeks back:
Project Completion:
Actually this is my first DIY Strat as i usually like my guitars to be kept stock. I changed quite a number of things cosmetics wise to get that Gilmour Black Strat look. It wasn't easy finding the S1 Knobs in white here in SG. Had to order them in along with a Warmoth single ply full black pickguard directly from warmoth and ebay. Maintained the S1 function for more tonal options. Even the fender custom shop 69's and SD SSL-5 could not be easily found here hence it was ordered in as well.
I personally copper shielded the cavities, swapped the pups, Added some orange caps, leveled and crowned the frets. Took me quite a bit of time to get her ready.
Changed the pups to:
Neck: Fender Custom Shop 69
Middle: Fender Custom Shop 69
Bridge: Seymour Duncan Pro Shop Custom Staggered SSL-5
These fender custom shop 69 pups are just brilliant sounding. I have yet to cut a shorten trem arm and all but i think i will give those a miss as I might end up messing up the guitar if i get overly anal about every detail. So far it's good enough for me.
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