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plester1 posted:Oh poo poo, I've been looking at buying these exact ones myself. Gonna need a demo once you get them installed. I'll sure do once I get the conversion rings to put them in active pickup routes (EMG's  ). I'm pumped.
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It's a good thing these are pretty inexpensive individually... I picked my favorites: Snake Pointed Buffed, Diamond Pointed Buffed, Dimension Buffed. I asked about getting a thicker version of the Snake Pointed Buffed, and it turns out that I was basically asking for a Psycho, so I figured in for a penny, in for a pound... Or at least however many ounces a 5.85mm pick weighs. Okay, that's a badly mixed metaphor. Here's the collection so far:  Bottom row, left to right: Dimension Buffed, Psycho Buffed, Diamond Pointed Buffed Second row, same: Dimension Buffed, Snake Pointed Buffed, Diamond Pointed Buffed Third row, same: Dimension Unbuffed, Snake Unbuffed (standard rounded), Diamond Pointed Unbuffed Top two: Medium Pointed, Medium Rounded - the 2.75mm picks that sold me on the concept in the first place. The Psycho is a fantastic pick. It doesn't have any more chirp than the 4.1mm picks; I figure with hard acrylic, 4.1mm might as well be infinitely thick as far as capability to sound a temporary note/chirp on impact, and adding an extra 1.7mm isn't going to change it. But it feels fantastic, it's just super, super comfortable to play. I don't think I would want to go thicker, but this is an awesome width for quick and articulate playing. It's actually really easy to play softly or dig in because the thing is just so massive that the string feels practically connected to your wrist. You don't have to choke up on the pick in the slightest. That's true of the 4.1mm picks, too, but it's really apparent just how effortless the 5.85mm pick feels. It's kind of weird that I've got a pick that makes 4.1mm picks feel just a tad small, now, but there you go. If he offered more of the picks in 5.85mm, I'd get a Dimension Buffed and a Diamond Pointed for sure. I'll ask and see if it's something he can do, I'd pay for that if it's not too much of a hassle for him. I also want to try the Psycho Shredder now, never had a triangle pick work for me but I like the form factor of them and at this point I kind of feel like why the hell not. Agreed fucked around with this message at Mar 11, 2011 around 19:12 |
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Paramemetic posted:The action is low and uniform, with a controlled bowing as should be there. The action couldn't feasibly be lower without creating buzzing problems, and I'm amazed at how low it is. I find it very playable, with a neck that fits excellently in my hand. It's a slim neck relative to a lot of guitars, but that doesn't get in the way of my relatively large hands, so that's good. The fretboard goes to 20, but only goes to 14 before it hits the body, and with no cutaway it's difficult (for me) to play higher than the 16th fret. I think their setup quality has gone up recently. I had a student get one of these a few years back, and have seen a handfull of Epi Les Pauls and they were pretty carelessly set up. A couple of the LP's had build problems as well. The few I have seen this year though are pretty well done. I'm wondering if they are taking better care now or if it is just luck of the draw. Glad that yours is a good one - enjoy.
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rio posted:I think their setup quality has gone up recently. I had a student get one of these a few years back, and have seen a handfull of Epi Les Pauls and they were pretty carelessly set up. A couple of the LP's had build problems as well. The few I have seen this year though are pretty well done. I'm wondering if they are taking better care now or if it is just luck of the draw. Glad that yours is a good one - enjoy. I can only speak anecdotally, but my Epi SG is amazing. I've had it for a year, abused the hell out of it, and it's still in awesome shape, sounds amazing, had zero problems. Only mods I had done with it, I replace the nut with a bone nut, and swapped the bridge pickup to a DiMarzio Super Distortion.
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Epiphone in my eyes actually beats Gibson as far as qc and overall build quality goes a lot of the time. Most midrange epiphones I see are pretty impeccable quality wise. Gibson on the other hand lets some pretty inexcusable things slip by them- Wavy orange-peely finishes, poor fretwork, ugly setups, and sloppy inlays just to name a few.
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I'm looking for a Les Paul and since I have to pay the left-handed tax a Gibson is a little out of my budget. I've been considering buying an Agile and throwing in some aftermarket pickups, how do they stack up to the higher-end Epiphone LPs?
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  Nailbomb neck and Aftermath bridge in a mint gold Schecter C-1 Classic I found. Oh, baby.
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Gramps posted:. Gibson on the other hand lets some pretty inexcusable things slip by them- Wavy orange-peely finishes, poor fretwork, ugly setups, and sloppy inlays just to name a few. It's sad that Gibson has been relying on their name brand so heavily that they get away with letting some of those instruments out of the factory.
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rio posted:It's sad that Gibson has been relying on their name brand so heavily that they get away with letting some of those instruments out of the factory. I got a 50's Tribute Les Paul last year that had flaws on it that would be inexcusable on a $300 Agile. The body paint was oversprayed onto the side of the neck, and what paint *did* make it onto the body was so thin that it had started to wear off in certain spots after just a few weeks of regular playing. Gibson is definitively seeing what they can get away with in the lower-end models, and I'd caution anyone who's saving their pennies for their first Gibson to seriously consider the alternatives first. And I'm not a Gibson hater at all. I'm a proud Explorer owner, and I think it's the greatest guitar ever. I would just be very careful when buying a <$1000 Gibson, because they're definitely letting stuff out the door that shouldn't be sold.
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bisticles posted:And I'm not a Gibson hater at all. I'm a proud Explorer owner, and I think it's the greatest guitar ever. I would just be very careful when buying a <$1000 Gibson, because they're definitely letting stuff out the door that shouldn't be sold. Same goes for their ~$3,000 acoustic guitars. Not that there isn't great stuff, but you've got to wade through a lot of mediocrity to find something worthy of the price tag.
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grahm posted:you've got to wade through a lot of mediocrity to find something Epi's on the other hand can be bought sight-unseen. Half because the quality is generally consistantly decent and half because they are so cheap it doesn't hurt if you get a clunker. My only issue with the three Epi's I've owned--two bought on ebay--is that the electronics don't blow me away (and my current Dot has a rattle on the neck pup that I don't feel like fixing since I'll probably replace the electronics this summer). That said, for semi-budget electric guitars, I'm completely gay for MIM Fender quality. If I didn't hate dot inlays so much...
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Gotta wonder if part of the reason Gibsons are so hit and miss these days has to do with their corporate culture being arguably the worst in America. A few years ago they put out an ad looking for a new president or CEO or whatever the hell their chief of everything is. It wasn't a joke. That said, there's a "good one" used Gibson Explorer at a shop in central AR that really wants me to buy it and it's hard to say no when I go in. Though, frankly, it is not better than the Agile Ghost III that I paid $200 for (granted, on sale from $300, if that makes any difference) in any way except the quality of the pickups, poo poo you not. But that's a combination of a really nice Agile and... a really nice Gibson... which isn't exactly a mark in Gibson's favor.
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Yo Agreed, whats the difference betwen the plextortion and super plextortion and why was the latter discontinued. What does the "modern" switch on the former actually do?
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Woah, there, sugar bear. Email me, Jeff@wamplerpedals.com?
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Just picked up a Guitarfetish case for that Subhuman I bought a while back. It actually fits into a square Strat case. With a little distorting of the interior. Surprisingly nice case, the handle's offset, and the case is balanced so that whe you put the strat in, it balances perfectly. Aaaand I noticed something while I was there. http://store.guitarfetish.com/Slick-Straps_c_314.html  Goes with  nicely. And it gets rid of that permanent half-twist the Planet Waves had, because of the peg being off 90 degrees on the Sub. Life is pretty okay. The guitar actually rests at a much more natural angle now, too, which is awesome. (Good lord, the Subhuman sustains. I caught myself doing that bit from Spinal Tap the other day.) Edit: Working on the oversize issue, imgur apparently has a little trick to it. Edit2: Hm. Timg. Got it, thanks. Warcabbit fucked around with this message at Mar 9, 2011 around 19:22 |
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Edit: ^^ no problem, they're not super intuitive.  code:
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Agreed posted:Gotta wonder if part of the reason Gibsons are so hit and miss these days has to do with their corporate culture being arguably the worst in America. Wow. I followed that through to the employee reviews of the company, and suddenly all the problems I've seen and heard about in recently built Gibsons are starting to make sense. An anonymous Gibson employee posted:Pros
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After The War posted:Wow. I followed that through to the employee reviews of the company, and suddenly all the problems I've seen and heard about in recently built Gibsons are starting to make sense. Yeah, reading through those, how in the world could you manage to give a gently caress about making guitars when you're making less than $12 an hour living in Nashville and laboring under a domineering rear end of a CEO? The COO that people were excited about got demoted, Gibson is in a friggin' nosedive. It's a wonder that there are still "good ones" to be found.
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I love how they revealed that Horrible Firebird X thing like it was the guitar of the future. It literally reminded me of the Homer car from that episode of the simpsons. Henry Juskewicz needs to go- like 10 years ago. I hope someone like Hartley Peavey or someone with their head not in their rear end buys Gibson and rescues them from themselves. They possess arguably the greatest arsenal of guitar designs in history and one of the great names- if only they could get the product in line with realistic pricing and quality...
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Yeah that Firebird X press conference was one of the most awkward videos I've ever seen.
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RetardedRobots posted:...I'm completely gay for MIM Fender quality. If I didn't hate dot inlays so much...
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Devil's advocate here, but I would imagine Gibson is under incredible stress due to a) the economy's effect on the sales of luxury items b) proliferation of high quality replicas and "me too" knockoff brands and c) relative ease of worldwide marketing for one man shop luthiers selling high quality products at or near the same cost as Gibson's. Doing cost reductions to improve profits on what's become largely a commodity item is going to piss off your workforce. The "Gibson manufacturing process" videos on youtube haven't exactly improved my view of them. That's the exact same process the factories in Korea, China and Japan have been using for at least a decade, and do even less to differentiate their product, making final setup the only major factor in considering a Gibson (besides, of course, it's resale value). Buying a properly setup Les Paul style guitar from a reputable luthier for $1500-2200 seems like a much better investment in terms of quality, at least if you plan on keeping the instrument for a very long time.
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Toxic corporate culture and workplace environment aside, they've been banking on their name and marketing to baby boomers for so long they forgot to bother with basic QC.
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"JUST THROW IT IN A PLEK" -every factory manufacturer nowadays
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DEUCE SLUICE posted:"JUST THROW IT IN A PLEK" -every factory manufacturer nowadays
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DEUCE SLUICE posted:"JUST THROW IT IN A PLEK" -every factory manufacturer nowadays That's fine, just don't charge me premium "hand-finished" prices then. Oh, wait, that's Rondo. I think I'm done with Gibsons. At this point it seems to be all about their "brand" and not their instruments and, to my mind, that's rear end-backwards.
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Yeah, Gibson's QC has gone down the shitter. Too bad I really want the latest P90 reissue.
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Is it... bad if I'm strongly considering trying to make an electric guitar shaped like an Imperial Star Destroyer? (Or a Republic version, it's got a cutaway.) I figure you could put a bridge in at the bridge, and the neck at the pointy bit, and it'd be basically a Flying V variant.
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Gramps posted:I love how they revealed that Horrible Firebird X thing like it was the guitar of the future. It literally reminded me of the Homer car from that episode of the simpsons. Henry Juskewicz needs to go- like 10 years ago. I hope someone like Hartley Peavey or someone with their head not in their rear end buys Gibson and rescues them from themselves. They possess arguably the greatest arsenal of guitar designs in history and one of the great names- if only they could get the product in line with realistic pricing and quality... I haven't seen this video, but I've heard sound samples. For the way they're marketing it, you'd like it wouldn't be so bad. I mean, let's be honest, you can buy an entire, decent setup on $4,000 and get better tone than you can with that abomination.
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Warcabbit posted:Is it... bad if I'm strongly considering trying to make an electric guitar shaped like an Imperial Star Destroyer? Yes
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Bad, in a bad way.
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You must learn the Imperial march if you do. =========================================== I played a Mesa Single Recto head today. I really liked it with one slight problem. The cab was a bit too middy for my likings. I was using the Roadster 2x12 cab and the bass when chugging on high-gain metal was bottoming out a bit\flubbing and there was a bit of high-end fizz. I was playing at low volumes. Now I know nothing about cabs. I've been a combo boy my whole life. I think I need something with a bit more bass than what this cab was putting out. I only have room for a 2x12 though. http://www.mesaboogie.com/Product_I...ster2x12-LG.htm This is the cab I was playing http://www.mesaboogie.com/Product_I.../RK-2x12-LG.htm This is the cab I'm thinking of getting. If somebody can give me a quick run-down on tone characteristics with cabs, that would be awesome. Or a good website for me to look up.
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Hammer Floyd posted:You must learn the Imperial march if you do. It will be the only thing it plays, put a webcam on it and it will automatically play it itself and upload it to youtube.
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Just came from stringsandbeyond (love that place, they are so fast with shipping): Being somewhat new to electric bass I haven't tried TI's strings yet, but I love them on my guitar and upright, so I am expecting good things and a ridiculously long lifespan where they just sound better and better every year. Also My Cat thinks there is something awesome inside and has been chomping on the packageing for like 5 minutes now.
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Hadlock posted:Devil's advocate here, but I would imagine Gibson is under incredible stress due to a) the economy's effect on the sales of luxury items b) proliferation of high quality replicas and "me too" knockoff brands and c) relative ease of worldwide marketing for one man shop luthiers selling high quality products at or near the same cost as Gibson's. Doing cost reductions to improve profits on what's become largely a commodity item is going to piss off your workforce. Gibson's biggest problems predate any economic concerns by a great many years. Chinese knockoffs only became remotely worth a gently caress in the last 6 or 7 years. Juskewicz and his crackhead random method of pricing is the main problem, and has been since he got the gig. Gibson really hasn't been the same since the company changed hands the first time, but especially since they closed the original Kalamazoo plant. Nobody is pining for the Norlin era to come back, but christ almighty Juskewicz has to go. Apparently the last time there were offers out there to buy Gibson he wrote in a clause naming himself CEO for life. Yeah. OK- gently caress Gibson- I have new gear to babble about!  Not my actual guitar, but I got an Ibanez AW3000 not to long ago. All solid wood- Englemann top, Mahogany back and sides. Bone nut and saddle, pretty nice Grover tuners with brown pearloid buttons, and really well done wood binding all over the place. For a guitar that hits the street for under 600 bucks with a featherweight case these things are amazing. Check one out if you want a whole lot of guitar for not much cash. I also installed one of these-  Pretty neat- it actually made my guitar a little louder and clearer. Definitely worth 25 bucks or whatever they sell for. Mine was free since I work at a shop. Yay Daddario!
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poo poo, they oughtta give those away with the players points crap. If D'Addario did like Camel cigarettes and offered a speedboat I got more than enough of those things saved up to buy a goddamn fleet.
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cheap sunglasses posted:poo poo, they oughtta give those away with the players points crap. If D'Addario did like Camel cigarettes and offered a speedboat I got more than enough of those things saved up to buy a goddamn fleet. I hate that poo poo I sent them an email one time asking why I basically couldn't get anything useful (strings, accessories, not d'addario mugs and tshirts) with my gagillion players points and I got a reply that basically said 'durr then people wouldn't buy as much stuff'
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Finding a friendly solidworks professional and a CNC operator that will work for beer has brought me one step closer to completing a dream project. I'm having LMII ship out a bloodwood fretboard this week and I should be able to share some finished pictures soon after that, but for now here's a teaser: 26"-28.625" scale, can't decide if I'm going to go with a headless design or have a locking nut machined out of brass.
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Got a new guitar today Plays beautifully
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northward posted:Got a new guitar today 
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