Pretty cool. As for playing a V sitting down, imagine it's a young lady, reverse-cowgirl-style straddling whichever knee is best suited for right - or - lefty feeling up.
Just like being a kid again...
Well I bought it this afternoon and it sounds great.
The finish looks much nicer in real life too.
Glad you like it! If you do find the bass lacking, get a A8 magnet from addiction-FX on Ebay...5 bucks (or whatever after the conversion rate - specify a "charged" one) and you've got a whole new pickup (the C8) that absolutely kills.
Last edited by jhale667; 08-25-2012 at 06:31 PM.
Here's the official 59/Custom Hybrid & STK-S7 review...
http://www.seymourduncan.com/blogdev...stk-s7-review/
and the JB/STK-S6 set...
http://www.seymourduncan.com/blog/ti...-jbstk-s6-set/
Next up, on my Sunburst 3-pickup, vintage trem Strat... a full set of Stack Plus pickups... STK-S9 in the bridge, the STK-S4 Classic Stack Plus in the middle, and (again) the STK-S6 in the neck. I love the STK-S6 in the neck of my Koa Strat, but I want to see how well it works in a circuit w/ a tone control since it sounds that good on "10".
In the studio this week finally recording the album thing and I'm working between this new Schecter and my old Ibanez that I stuck a DiMarzio Tone Zone in and I have to say at this late time in my life I've discovered I was completely wrong about 2 things.
1) I've always thought DiMarzio pickups are better, the SD Custom Custom is owning it.
2) I didn't think it made that much difference which pickup you used compared to the amp and your fingers as long as they were good quality.
I was an idiot hole.
I had also forgotten about how difficult proper studio recording is compared to playing live or fucking around with home studios...
I've always thought SD humbuckers kicked the crap out of Dimarzios (long before I started doing the review/blogging thing for SD); I kinda though Dimarzio had them beat on the stacked single-coil thing but I'm reeeeeeally impressed by the Stack Plus series judging from the 2 I've tried so far...hoping these next 2 models are equally as cool...
I'm gonna do a completely separate pickguard assembly for this test too, I've got my buddy at GC setting aside a black pickguard and hardware set so I can just wire the new ones up and drop them in, will keep the Virtual Vintage set currently occupying it intact for a rainy day....
My main guitar for many years was this beautiful hand built thing from a boutique local maker which I got for a song second hand back in the due to a mistake by the shop I think but it only has space for a single coil bridge pickup and I'm loath to change that. I put a DiMarzio Super Distortion in it but it's not good enough in comparison for what I'm doing here so it's been left at home.
I'm using a 100 watt Orange Rockerverb and it's sounding awesome. Producer wants me to put a second rhythm track with a Messa Boogie.
Good idea...they'll sound cool layered together...
M'kay, next up is the aforementioned SD STK-S9B, STK-S4 and STK-S6 set review, also doing a tandem review of the FU vintage-style Brass BB-equipped bridge in my Warmoth Sunburst Strat. Since I like the Charvel-style 22nd fret extension you have to pull the neck to take off the pickguard, but I don't mind the extra 5 minutes it takes (especially if you have a powered screwdriver...lol). I'd wanted to try the Strat blocks for a while, and I was going to have the thing apart anyway...why not?
Doing the Eric Johnson tone control mod, and I may enable true single-coil operation for giggles (and the review) too....
Last edited by jhale667; 09-23-2012 at 04:49 AM.
Taking this a little off topic, I now officially hate playing guitar solo's after this weekend.
That's the album thing finished and now getting mixed, I'm very happy with it but fuck I had really forgotten how much work recording guitar solos is. I would really like to read an honest account of how these are recorded in the studio by proper musicians because I found it a bit stressful and tiring. Do people sit and do this for days?
After 25 minutes not only was the engineer getting bored but I started to want to kill myself and I would compromise a bit...
It really highlights the difference between an amateur and proper professional people.
Little bit of video the singer took of this yesterday, 10th take or something and it's quite typical. It's close to correct but then you stub a note or whatever.
There is such a gap between playing live and recording...
Gear is a Jap Ibanez RG550 with a DiMarzio Tone Zone going into an Orange Rockerverb plugged into a Marshall 4x12 (in a different room).
http://s231.photobucket.com/albums/e...pseb6d8b9b.mp4
Last edited by Seshmeister; 09-23-2012 at 09:37 PM.
I have have done many talks and presentations at some quite important professional events and nothing was as stressful as recording my solos for an ep we did , I couldnt let the band be there those days . I hardly slept the night before and by the first day I had become snow blind and was losing all perspective .
You become hyper critical because u know it's for keeps and your never happy .
Honestly I know how you feel am glad its not me and if it helps with time you can look back and listen to the song as it was intended instead of it being just a group of notes that you settled for with varying degrees of satisfaction.
Any way solo sounded cool and good luck with the album
fuck your fucking framing
Drink booze, wail out 5 or 7 versions and paste the best bits together man!!
Funny, that's actually going to be a topic I'm covering later... IMO it's good to had a general idea what you're going to do before you go pay for time spent tracking, especially if you're not recording at home. Not necessarily working everything out in advance, just having a ballpark idea of what you want to accomplish, and certainly what if any tonal embellishments you're going to use (wah, whatever). Unless it's a situation where you've never heard the track before and you have to do it by the seat of your pants...
If a couple of drinks loosens you up, by all means have at...
I'm a bit old school like that, J.
Hey, whatever works.
So I have a push-pull 250k pot set up to do the coil split, and two CTS 250ks for tone controls. I just went with a standard 5-way switch, didn't go all exotic with a super switch or anything.
Oh well it's all done, 20 hours of overdubs this weekend and I was traumatized.
I think next time I will have a couple of drinks to loosen me up. I did when we were doing the guides live with the band and it helped to the extent a couple of them were keepers.
There were a couple of parts yesterday where I thought 'Fuck this is the first time I've ever played this completely sober!'
It will be interesting to me to hear what I've done when I go in to mixing today, as Ash said you completely lose all perspective and you don't know if you are being over fussy or just playing shit - I think for me it was a mixture of both. Also good advice to get rid of other band members, it's bad enough without a judging panel.
I doubt I'm going to be completely happy with any of the solos but hope they are all at least passable...
It's weird because everyone else, especially stuff like vocals end up sounding at their very best, better than the demos or live but the solos won't.
Last edited by Seshmeister; 09-24-2012 at 05:04 AM.
Last edited by ashstralia; 09-24-2012 at 05:14 AM. Reason: Distracted by boobs
It turned out purty...
J, I will buy that guitar if you're willing to sell it. I'm serious.
If you were 5000 miles closer I would be hiring you to do all sorts of shit...
Very cool. digging the strat with seymours!
and Sesh's purple Ibanez with Maple neck. Looks like great playability.
I sent my hohner out for a pickup change and got a Les Paul pickup in the bridge and a big T for a neck pickup.
seymour for the middle pickup. The thing sings! What a difference.
Thanks, and glad yours worked out too! Reeeeeally impressed with the Stack Plus series - they KILL the original series (had the STK-S1N in Excalibur for a few years), and they sound way more present and less sterile than the Virtual Vintages I had in this guitar. The FU Big-Block does pretty much what I expected, but I think they give even a little mopre "oomph" with the Strat version by virtue of the fact that the strings are anchored in it. The combo was just the kick in the ass this guitar needed, and I'm kinda glad I went with the black color scheme, I'm already starting to like it better looks-wise than when it had the white pearloid pickguard on it...looked classy but tame before, now it's just like "Hey, FUCK YOU!"
Last edited by jhale667; 09-25-2012 at 11:09 PM. Reason: Added pic
Yeah it's very nice to play, a very fast neck. I keep coming back to it even though I got it cheap on Ebay. It arrived in a bin bag with a dozen dinks and dents.
It's starting to look like a home project by Ace Diamond.
Latest problem was halfway through recording the A string saddle in the FR screw stripped so now it's been replaced with one a different color.
I stuck the purple scratch plate on it a couple of months ago to make it a bit less ugly but you wouldn't want to wake up with it in the morning...
Last edited by Seshmeister; 09-26-2012 at 04:50 AM.
Man I need an eye test I thought that said give me figure so I can start starving towards .... I was about to start ashAid
Yeah, ashAid!!
I'll plug the hell out of j's guitars for free!!
There's an idea van, I reckon I'd know a few blokes who'd buy one.
:wink wink:
J's Warmouth strat reminds me of my G&L F100, which actually has seymour duncan JB's on it.
(it's much much less pretty being the go to picking exercise machine for about 15 years).
still sounds great though!
Posted this in "Show your work" too, but it IS an example of the 59/Custom Hybrid and the STK-S7 combo in action...was switching pickups fairly regularly, and notice no huge volume drops...they mesh pretty well.
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