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Yeah it'll be fine.
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and they're going on a bit crooked. god, i hate being a crazy person.
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Feb 14, 2023 14:12
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this is cool, thanks for sharing it!
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Feb 14, 2023 15:28
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landgrabber posted:i did, also, because i'm a certified brain genious, immediately lose one of the springs that it came with (the screw fell on the floor and i found it but it lost its spring). going to assume it's just be panicking to assume i can't simply use one of the ones from before, right?? ... yeah, long as it fits in there okay, I think you're good what style of saddles did you wind up picking?
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Feb 14, 2023 15:44
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Blotto_Otter posted:*glances over at the cheap affinity tele on the wall with a hacked-up bridge drilled with extra holes and an ugly collection of chopped-up springs mashed together* these graph tech ones https://www.amazon.com/Graph-Tech-String-Classics-Spacing/dp/B000LCNT28 hoping the lack of curved edgy and relatively flat contact point will make right hand muting easy. i'm a disgusting emo player so i like palming stuff
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Feb 14, 2023 16:12
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I play metal and half of it is palm muting. Those types of saddles are comfy.
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Feb 14, 2023 16:33
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Spanish Manlove posted:I play metal and half of it is palm muting. Those types of saddles are comfy. for me a lot of song structure poo poo i do is like, loud parts have extended chords and riffs and stuff strummed, and then quieter parts are just playing an interval muted as the melody elaborates
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Feb 14, 2023 16:41
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Non-stop melodic chaos here baby
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Feb 14, 2023 16:52
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I have either those saddles or very similar (mine are all grey-black, not silver) on my Tele and I love it
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Feb 14, 2023 20:46
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New guitar arrived! Needed a little work as the control knobs aren't properly centred and one was rubbing against the lacquer while another was twisting as I turned it, but that's all fixed. The tone pot doesn't do very much, particularly to the neck pickup. It's a bit more noticeable on the bridge but not by much. I'll contact Thomann tomorrow and see if that's normal. Otherwise it's great as it's lighter than my Washburn, the smaller scale lets me make stretches i couldn't quite manage before and generally it's a lovely guitar.
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Feb 14, 2023 21:59
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Also a NGD for me  It's a rebranded Hondo, made by Samick ~1978-1980. I have one of those I've posted before and this one is basically the same. ~7.5lbs, ash body & top, set neck, and...  Factory DiMarzio Made in USA K-10 Humbuckers.
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Feb 14, 2023 22:08
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widefault posted:Also a NGD for me this is sick dude
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Feb 14, 2023 22:15
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widefault posted:Also a NGD for me magnum guitar for your monster tone
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Feb 14, 2023 22:34
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Lungboy posted:New guitar arrived! They may have installed the wrong cap value. Take a peak at the control cavity: should be 500k pots and 0.047uF cap. If they used a 0.022 it will do what you describe.
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Dang It Bhabhi! posted:They may have installed the wrong cap value. Take a peak at the control cavity: should be 500k pots and 0.047uF cap. If they used a 0.022 it will do what you describe. The pots don't have anything on them other than "made in Korea". This is a photo i took of the pot earlier, I'll check the cap tomorrow. 
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Feb 15, 2023 00:07
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That red-brown button cap is going to be the real factor.
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magnum LP
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still have some fine adjustments to make to minimize buzzing but these new saddles are sick. definitely much, much comfier for palm muting, at the very least!
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Feb 15, 2023 04:24
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Quick video showing my tone control https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qq9hTkzbF1A
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Feb 15, 2023 11:03
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Lungboy posted:Quick video showing my tone control If its new, just send back to thomann or get a partial refund. Nothing majorly wrong, but at that price point it's a ballache to have to take it to a tech and thomann have a very lenient return policy on HBs.
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Feb 15, 2023 15:11
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Lungboy posted:Quick video showing my tone control yeah that thing is dead, get a replacement/refund
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Feb 15, 2023 15:57
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Ok, glad to know I'm not overreacting and that it's actually not supposed to be like that.
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Feb 15, 2023 16:42
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I know that there’s probably a bunch of good HBs in the wild but the amount of “This Harly Benton Sucked me Off” YouTube videos the algorithm serves up have made me so wary.
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Feb 15, 2023 19:39
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I think they're largely very capable instruments for the price and for how much is available, and they're great building blocks if you want something that is very modifiable.
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Feb 15, 2023 19:41
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Baron von Eevl posted:I think they're largely very capable instruments for the price and for how much is available, and they're great building blocks if you want something that is very modifiable. Yeah I’ve heard QC across the board had fallen off with the amount of stuff companies have to get out the door. It doesn’t affect me because of how I play but I’m pretty sure both my guitars have fret sprout.
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Feb 15, 2023 19:45
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TheMightyBoops posted:I know that there’s probably a bunch of good HBs in the wild but the amount of “This Harly Benton Sucked me Off” YouTube videos the algorithm serves up have made me so wary. They've had a couple pretty big misses in the youtube reviews recently; in particular KDH got a stinker that Thomann said was normal and Spectre Sound Studios basically discovered that for their low-end ($100-200) guitars with black hardware, they used non-conductive black paint on all the hardware, meaning nothing is grounded properly so it buzzes like all gently caress unless you scrape away a bunch of paint. AFAIK they're still selling them like that. They're still really, really good for the price though.
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Feb 16, 2023 00:57
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Lmao all they had to do was not paint the bottom of the bridge. Also that KDH microphonic pickup is hilarious. I don’t even think non-potted pickups are normally that microphonic.
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Feb 16, 2023 01:00
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I had a brief flirtation with the idea of getting a Harley Benton LP Junior and doing some upgrades on it and the last page of the thread has me off of it completely.
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Feb 16, 2023 01:07
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I had heard nothing but good things about HB until this thread. Maybe they fell off, some of their stuff is stinkers, or they've got an unearned rep. Maybe they're the european Agile, lol
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Feb 16, 2023 01:31
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My SX (the shittier agile) is pretty great after I replaced every single aspect of the electronics, the pickguard, the tuners and string trees
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Southern Cassowary posted:I had a brief flirtation with the idea of getting a Harley Benton LP Junior and doing some upgrades on it and the last page of the thread has me off of it completely. I got a Jr in Worn Brown second hand and it's been a solid mod platform. Frets were fine, neck is nice, nut was loose so needed a dab of glue but that might have been the last guy. Finish is thin but looks really good. Fretboard is clearly stained darker and they haven't covered the side angles so that's a little messy if we're picking. The Badass style bridge is too tall for the neck angle so I switched out a cheap lightning bar I had sat around which I would have done anyway. Electronically the P90 was surprisingly beefy and the wiring was the neatest I've seen in a while; they even tidied up the loose wire with a cable tie. Full size pots. Overall I wouldn't recommend if you aren't happy with doing your own setup but if you want a Jr shaped object for not a lot of dough I'd recommend it over most stuff. If you can track down a Vintage V120 they're not much more and come with way better hardware (also in classic white finish which is better sounding).
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We have some Vintage brand guitars at work for testing and they are really good. The Les Paul is better than most Les Pauls I’ve played.
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Baron von Eevl posted:My SX (the shittier agile) is pretty great after I replaced every single aspect of the electronics, the pickguard, the tuners and string trees i've had some agiles that were super dope and some that were stinkers and there was no way of predicting which would be which. was basically random
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Southern Cassowary posted:I had a brief flirtation with the idea of getting a Harley Benton LP Junior and doing some upgrades on it and the last page of the thread has me off of it completely. Especially if you’re planning on upgrading it anyway, I’d really urge you to reconsider - just understand that a $125 guitar is probably going to be pretty poo poo even if it’s “really good for the price”, the most important parts - the neck and frets - tend to be in good shape even if there are problems with the hardware, and the upper end of the line, above like $300 or so, seems to have way fewer QC issues than the real low end models.
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I'm not sure if I'm understanding you correctly but I wouldn't hedge my bets on fretwork being good on a cheap guitar in my experience. I actually returned a Harley Benton because the frets were janky as hell and unlevel(tested with a straight edge and rocker and everything) to the point it felt like crap to play. One of the main reasons I go with Korean/Japan made guitars is I've been more consistently able to slam the action low on them.
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Should I route out my 2005ish affinity Strat for a Floyd’s rose and try to install a Floyd rose on it? I think I should.
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Dang It Bhabhi! posted:We have some Vintage brand guitars at work for testing and they are really good. The Les Paul is better than most Les Pauls I’ve played. A Vintage V624 was my first guitar! I still play it a lot, though the frets are basically razor blades in my dry Minnesota winter basement. Biggest dislike is having to say "no no, Vintage brand, it's a brand called 'Vintage,' oh nevermind" every time I talk about it.
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TheMightyBoops posted:Should I route out my 2005ish affinity Strat for a Floyd’s rose and try to install a Floyd rose on it? I think I should. you should definitely do this, anybody who tells you not to is a coward e: I just had my first experience with terrible frets. The first guitar I ever bought was one of those horrible epiphone les paul specials they sell to suckers and even the frets on it were flat and smooth and fine. This Jackson dinky 7 string I got was the first time I ever felt a fret be scratchy and rough and actually get in the way of bending notes. Who knew! I got some fret erasers but I'm waiting to take off the strings until the tuners and pickups come in and that could be months from now. Stalizard fucked around with this message at 03:22 on Feb 16, 2023 |
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Stalizard posted:you should definitely do this, anybody who tells you not to is a coward I looked at how you’d go about doing it and I think the answer is to buy an Ibanez or a Jackson.
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I have an Ibanez with what they call a floyd rose and some seymour duncans I'll trade you if you have a semi hollowbody What do you guys think the odds are there's someone out there with like an epiphone casino and a need to shred
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