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GS500 = awesomeness personified .

love those big fat early ibanez pu's. they put that in the first version of the iceman iirc. super kool guitar.

so what do the controls on the GR500 do?

BTW, there's a cool guitar-fakery trick to get a koto effect with the guitar which i got from Guitar Player back in the 70s, from one of the back-matter columns...if you take an adapter nut of the sort folks use to play dobro-style on a standard guitar, place it partway down the fretboard (say, about the 5th fret), and tune the guitar to a fairly low-pitched pentatonic scale you can get a decent simulation of the koto's twang, and bend behind the nut to get the vertiginous multi-step swoops characteristic of the instrument. you can also use other objects, e.g. a guitar slide, but the nut extender keeps the strings in place best. youll want to pad the bottom of the extender so you don't fuck up your fretboard.

I'm sorry; "adaptor nut"?

Neat. Thanks DK.

np...i've spent ages collecting all this information, and i know folks here are of a disposition to use it. one of these days we'll have to have an extended techniques/prepared guitar/ethnic simulations thread, because i've got a few of these and i'll bet other folks do too. you'll like the talking drum.

now, you KNOW you're going to have to play "Green Plastic Trees" on that.

dubkitty wrote:now, you KNOW you're going to have to play "Green Plastic Trees" on that.

I think it is a bassiest guitar I have ever played

Wow, I'm definitely gonna have to give that a shot, dubkitty. Interesting indeed.

That guitar is green as fuck. Awesome. Is it heavy?
Reminds me of those transparent LEGO radar dish things from my old starship.

Fuck, so good.

It is very heavy. and I love it. It is just like that color. I changes depending on the lighting though... I think I want to put my Bass VI tele's neck on it... but not sure yet..

Mudfuzz wrote:It is very heavy. and I love it. It is just like that color. I changes depending on the lighting though... I think I want to put my Bass VI tele's neck on it... but not sure yet..

i almost bought that same guitar a few years ago for the color. turns out acrylic is really fucking heavy tho. also, i love how there's a ESP neck even though it's a BC Rich

My main workhorses. The gold one is a Squier classic vibe duo sonic, stock hardware. Fell in love with it at my local guitar center, bought it as a backup/secondary guitar for studio and live use. Has a cleaner tone than the other Tele. The Tele has a bit of a story to it: I at one time had this epic strat that was my #1 guitar, but when I gave it to a buddy of mine to fix up, it somehow got let in a trunk and got warped beyond recovery. all I have left are the electronics, so hopefully one day I can have that installed in a new guitar body and have my strat back Frankenstein style. The reason I didn't strangle the guy is he gave me the Tele as collateral. Its a custom job he had been working on for a while and had recently completed, it has seymour duncan classic styled tele pickups, and was relic'd by the guy. standard tuners. not sure what the body is exactly but from the weight id guess Alder, but I could be wrong. It plays like an absolute dream, does all the things my strat could do and more with a much punchier sound. Also worth noting that when the pickup selector switch is flipped all the way towards the neck, it does something in the wiring that changes the phase (?) and makes the pickups sound like humbuckers, with all the added gain. Nice little mod the guy did. That Tele is definately my go to for most everything.

madmax1012 wrote: i love how there's a ESP neck even though it's a BC Rich

well that is because I put it there... I have a beast neck but all the info on the net is all jumbled so what I thought would work did not... turns out they basically take a start neck... so..

Mudfuzz wrote::evil:

i think i wouldn't have the balls to rock that out live - but Mud, you must even cooler than i thought