Lets look at our guitars thread

Lets look at our guitars thread

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Pib1978

68 posts

225 months

Thursday 18th December 2014
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BorkFactor said:
Nice guitars these Epiphones, I had a black Custom for about 8 years!

I found the electrics were a weak point, but it was a nice guitar. Never used to like white but yours looks great smile
I changed the standard pick ups on mine for a pair of Zakk Wylde EMG's.
Difference is night and day, she really roars now, feels really odd jumping from the LP back to the Gretsch with passive pick ups.

BorkFactor

7,258 posts

157 months

Thursday 18th December 2014
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Pib1978 said:
I changed the standard pick ups on mine for a pair of Zakk Wylde EMG's.
Difference is night and day, she really roars now, feels really odd jumping from the LP back to the Gretsch with passive pick ups.
I had BurstBuckers in mine, sounded good with them! Had to do all the wiring and pots as well.

I am yet to own a guitar with active pickups, considering a set of active EMG single coils for my Strar but that's not really the same thing wink

singlecoil

33,317 posts

245 months

Thursday 18th December 2014
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BorkFactor said:
Pib1978 said:
I changed the standard pick ups on mine for a pair of Zakk Wylde EMG's.
Difference is night and day, she really roars now, feels really odd jumping from the LP back to the Gretsch with passive pick ups.
I had BurstBuckers in mine, sounded good with them! Had to do all the wiring and pots as well.

I am yet to own a guitar with active pickups, considering a set of active EMG single coils for my Strar but that's not really the same thing wink
I have a Strat style guitar with EMGs, and am very happy with it, no plans to change ever.

vescaegg

25,489 posts

166 months

Thursday 18th December 2014
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Just unearthed mine. Its been in its case without being touched for nigh on 4 years. The shame!

Its a bit jazzy and I havent cleaned it up yet but I still like how it looks and it sounds amazing. Nicest guitar to play I have come across personally.

Going to get this back into regular use as much as I can!











Edited by vescaegg on Thursday 18th December 19:07

BorkFactor

7,258 posts

157 months

Thursday 18th December 2014
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singlecoil said:
I have a Strat style guitar with EMGs, and am very happy with it, no plans to change ever.
Is it the set of 3 single coils? That is what I was looking at...

How do you find them compared to the originals - any loss of tone / drawbacks that you can think of?

singlecoil

33,317 posts

245 months

Thursday 18th December 2014
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BorkFactor said:
singlecoil said:
I have a Strat style guitar with EMGs, and am very happy with it, no plans to change ever.
Is it the set of 3 single coils? That is what I was looking at...

How do you find them compared to the originals - any loss of tone / drawbacks that you can think of?
It is indeed the full set. White on a white scratchplate (the body is American Black Walnut).

What I am looking for a really clean, pure, sharp sound, the output from such a guitar can always be treated to produce any amount of overdrive or distortion but if the clarity isn't there to start with it can't be out back in.

BorkFactor

7,258 posts

157 months

Friday 19th December 2014
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singlecoil said:
It is indeed the full set. White on a white scratchplate (the body is American Black Walnut).

What I am looking for a really clean, pure, sharp sound, the output from such a guitar can always be treated to produce any amount of overdrive or distortion but if the clarity isn't there to start with it can't be out back in.
I agree, I much prefer slightly lower output pickups as it gives more scope to tweak the tone on the amp.

I will need to see if I can get a go of a guitar fitted with them, hopefully the local guitar shop will have a couple in.

Do you need to replace the battery often? Every year or so I would have thought?

Gaspode

4,167 posts

195 months

Friday 19th December 2014
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BorkFactor said:
I agree, I much prefer slightly lower output pickups as it gives more scope to tweak the tone on the amp.

I will need to see if I can get a go of a guitar fitted with them, hopefully the local guitar shop will have a couple in.

Do you need to replace the battery often? Every year or so I would have thought?
I've got a set of the David Gilmour EMGs on my US Roadhouse Strat, and I think they are excellent, you can get a really good range of sounds out of them. A battery lasts a bit less than a year, obviously it depends how much you play it. If you leave the lead plugged in, the battery flattens very quickly of course. They are very definitely high output though, you don't need your amp gain up much at all to get nice drive - but to me that means you have more scope for tweaking the tone, not less.

I have to confess however that since I got my PRS I rarely play the Strat, which is a shame as it's a lovely guitar.

BorkFactor

7,258 posts

157 months

Friday 19th December 2014
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Gaspode said:
I've got a set of the David Gilmour EMGs on my US Roadhouse Strat, and I think they are excellent, you can get a really good range of sounds out of them. A battery lasts a bit less than a year, obviously it depends how much you play it. If you leave the lead plugged in, the battery flattens very quickly of course. They are very definitely high output though, you don't need your amp gain up much at all to get nice drive - but to me that means you have more scope for tweaking the tone, not less.

I have to confess however that since I got my PRS I rarely play the Strat, which is a shame as it's a lovely guitar.
I noticed he uses them, thats what put me onto them in the first place! Interesting that you think it gives you more scope, I would have thought it is easier to dial more gain in to a lower output pickup than reduce it for a cleaner tone from a higher output one?

Sounds quite similar to me, my Dad had had my Strat for most of this year and I have been playing my Les Paul!

Do the EMGs still give you the distinctive "Strat" tone from the neck pickup? This sort of thing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ab_k6ZrCPmw

(Not that I can play as well as that frown )

Gaspode

4,167 posts

195 months

Friday 19th December 2014
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BorkFactor said:
Do the EMGs still give you the distinctive "Strat" tone from the neck pickup? This sort of thing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ab_k6ZrCPmw

(Not that I can play as well as that frown )
Pretty much. I just did a quick back-to-back check between my EMG Strat and my other Strat (Texas Special SCs) and with the SPC mid-boost wound back on the EMGs it sounds pretty similar to me.

Note to self: it's a bad idea to have guitars within easy reach when you're supposed to be working smile

dinkel

26,889 posts

257 months

Friday 19th December 2014
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Mate has a Tokai LS 1000 Les Paul anniversary Limited edition Japan & Greco Es 175 (FA175) semi acoustiche gitaar Vintage Japan for sale.

Anyone interested? Both are on eBay.

BaronVonV8

397 posts

183 months

Friday 19th December 2014
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What's he asking for the Les Paul?

dinkel

26,889 posts

257 months

Friday 19th December 2014
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Bidding is up to 1100 eu now.

DeuxCentCinq

14,180 posts

181 months

Monday 22nd December 2014
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Christmas present to myself.

catso

14,772 posts

266 months

Monday 22nd December 2014
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Just got this for my Son;


B17NNS

18,506 posts

246 months

Monday 22nd December 2014
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Lucky son. That's a lovely looking thing smile

catso

14,772 posts

266 months

Monday 22nd December 2014
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B17NNS said:
Lucky son. That's a lovely looking thing smile
It's his first acoustic (acoustic-electric actually) as up to now he's only played electric.

It's got a nice sound, especially when plugged-in. It's also very slim and so quite portable which suits him as he's a student and lives wherever... smile

SonicShadow

2,452 posts

153 months

Monday 22nd December 2014
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I have one of these:



Not played in a long time though. I really need to pick it up again!

Driller

8,310 posts

277 months

Tuesday 23rd December 2014
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I rather like that, strangely BC Rich-ish (still wish I'd never sold my USA Gunslinger frown). What is it?

W124

1,497 posts

137 months

Wednesday 24th December 2014
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Here's one of mine. Custom Tele. Built and maintained by Chris Slack at Tobacco road. Custom wound Oil City Nightfighter at the bridge. Naked Angel at the neck. Not sure about the neck PUP yet as it's a bit high in output. Nickel Strings. The bridge pickup is utterly incredible. The body is Alder, old and battered, the neck is fairly new. It's been hacked about a lot, had loads of different PUP configurations. I feel daft with any other guitar.