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Thanks! With any luck it will rid this thread of some Grampas/Riff-Raff.
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CaptainWampum wrote:Nobody makes a hollowbody or semi hollow with single coils. DA FUCK.

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Yeah... but isn't it too old to resurrect it? Meh... probably not :thumb:
But- isn't it for people with.. like... ya' know... actually "good" semi hollows :lol:
Meh.. screw it! thanks for the link :hug:
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Achtane wrote:
behndy wrote:why does all this talk about tube bass amps make we want to drop a bunch of coin on one WHEN I'M THE HAPPIEST I'VE EVER BEEN WITH MY TOANZ?


Tubes look cool = yr toans...look...cool..er.


fucking YES. all the excuse i NEED.

........... actually just made some horribly awful noises with my 1x12 SS power amp home rig........ so fuck that. but DAYUM those toobies are enticing.

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behndy wrote:WHY??!?


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man. that? with bass cabs for Robo Ballz? give some guitarist that knows how not to be a wanky bitch but still needs his ego stroked the head full of cabs? and an assssss full of drummmmmer.

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I don't get why anyone buys those cheap quite/flame veneer top guitars that Schecter, ESP, etc put out. Can they not see how flat the grain looks? Then again, I hate exotic tops in general, and I don't get why people would waste that wood on a guitar when it would make excellent furniture.

I don't get why companies like Fender and Gibson can't make $500 guitars in the USA. Seagul makes cheap acoustic guitars in Canada! And I think Godin (Seagul's parent company) are all made in Canada. It really seems like an American company could do it too.

I don't get why anyone would want a 1 pickup w/ volume guitar. I get simplicity, but there are -so- many sounds you're missing out on. A couple of pickups and a few switches, and you could get most sounds out of 1 guitar.

I don't get why there don't seem to be any semi-scientific experiments on the effects of body/neck wood on the sound of an electric guitar. I just don't buy the whole "resonating certain frequencies" thing. I think some woods just absorb more vibrations, and the higher frequencies are the first to go.
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I don't understand why I'm done lusting after rig enhancers.
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McSpunckle wrote:I don't get why anyone buys those cheap quite/flame veneer top guitars that Schecter, ESP, etc put out. Can they not see how flat the grain looks? Then again, I hate exotic tops in general, and I don't get why people would waste that wood on a guitar when it would make excellent furniture.

I don't get why companies like Fender and Gibson can't make $500 guitars in the USA. Seagul makes cheap acoustic guitars in Canada! And I think Godin (Seagul's parent company) are all made in Canada. It really seems like an American company could do it too.

I don't get why there don't seem to be any semi-scientific experiments on the effects of body/neck wood on the sound of an electric guitar. I just don't buy the whole "resonating certain frequencies" thing. I think some woods just absorb more vibrations, and the higher frequencies are the first to go.


I completely agree with these three points.
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i think Godin uses a lot of Canada-sourced materials, which keeps their costs down.

you can to some extent look at the accumulated observational data of guitarists as semi-scientific observation showing that, e.g., ash is much brighter and snappier than alder for Fender-type guitars, and alder is brighter and sustains better than basswood. mahogany slabs tend to be boomy on the neck PU and sustain for a week; a maple cap chokes down the boominess but keeps the sustain. etc. It's just not quantified.
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why does everybody play dreadnought-sized acoustic guitars when they're ill-suited for so many styles of music?

and why do all acoustic guitars' built-in PUs have to have that awful fucking hole in the side of the guitar for the install? hello? low-profile pots on the edge of the soundhole?

and WHY, WHY, WHY does everyone reissue guitars that originally had the Junior-style combination bridge-tailpiece with a fucking Tunomatic and stop tailpiece? it just ain't right.
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dubkitty wrote:you can to some extent look at the accumulated observational data of guitarists as semi-scientific observation showing that, e.g., ash is much brighter and snappier than alder for Fender-type guitars, and alder is brighter and sustains better than basswood. mahogany slabs tend to be boomy on the neck PU and sustain for a week; a maple cap chokes down the boominess but keeps the sustain. etc. It's just not quantified.


And that surely matters when you run your signal through a 8m long efx chain... :lol:
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well, it changes the characteristics of the controller :)
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What's the deal with active pickups?
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Muse FTW wrote:What's the deal with active pickups?

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