El Toro's Official Guitarded Thread...

[ElToro]

Has anyone played one of Grover Jackson's new guitars?

[hendrixstrat]

Picked up one of these.

Need some better pickups..Thinking of going for some P90 tones. Any suggestions?

[Sleek]

Picked up one of these.

Need some better pickups..Thinking of going for some P90 tones. Any suggestions?

Wow! I hope that was cheap, the paint is all fucked up!

[Captain Morgan]

Picked up one of these.

Need some better pickups..Thinking of going for some P90 tones. Any suggestions?

I'd probably do a Duncan Phat Cat in the neck. For the single coil bridge, a Little 59 from Duncan can get surprisingly fat like a P-90 with the tone rolled down.

[hendrixstrat]

Picked up one of these.

Need some better pickups..Thinking of going for some P90 tones. Any suggestions?

I'd probably do a Duncan Phat Cat in the neck. For the single coil bridge, a Little 59 from Duncan can get surprisingly fat like a P-90 with the tone rolled down.

Funny, after checking out all the boutique pickups, I'm pretty sure I will be going with that exact combo..I have Duncans in all of my other guitars, why change now right?..I only paid $200.00 for the guitar, so I'm not going crazy on upgrades..Maybe some Sperzel, or Grover tuners, new nut, and pots/pickups.

[Captain Morgan]

Picked up one of these.

Need some better pickups..Thinking of going for some P90 tones. Any suggestions?

I'd probably do a Duncan Phat Cat in the neck. For the single coil bridge, a Little 59 from Duncan can get surprisingly fat like a P-90 with the tone rolled down.

Funny, after checking out all the boutique pickups, I'm pretty sure I will be going with that exact combo..I have Duncans in all of my other guitars, why change now right?..I only paid $200.00 for the guitar, so I'm not going crazy on upgrades..Maybe some Sperzel, or Grover tuners, new nut, and pots/pickups.

I have tried EVERYTHING, from the cheapest to the most boutique, and somehow I keep coming back to Duncans and DiMarzios.

[ElToro]

Duncans are my go to, but MadHouse is making some amazing stuff these days.

[grishnak boss]

Gonna get a nitefly for traveling purposes - I'm not taking my classic fly with me!

PD.- If someone has one that they wanna sell, send me a pm.

[PrÎck]

molesting a tele

http://youtu.be/NOm27O_sgYw

[ElToro]

I gotta get my son to post more YouTube stuff...

[PrÎck]

Does he have a copy of Guitarpro? If not, I have a copy with a keygenerator i can load on yousend it. Or if anyone else wants it.

You can find the sheetmusic to just about anything for it. but unfortunately, I can't seem to find "Entrance of the Gladiators,"

[ElToro]

Yea, he's got tons of stuff.. the kid is a MONSTER! He's nailing John Pettrucci and Rusty Cooley stuff like there's no tomorrow.

[PrÎck]

That's awesome. For difficult, I usually go after nerdy stuff.
http://youtu.be/hw7Qk0tCLno

I love the electric sheetmusic. Enough to give away a wopping shitload of paper.

Especially since you can hear it when it's something you're not familiar with. When you have the prasing of something slightly um, wrong.

Although the most embarassing was learning Rock & Roll Hootchie Koo, and them assuming I would learn the Johnny Winter version.

[ElToro]

Fun stuff! Hit that thing with a compressor and you'll get exactly what you are looking for!

[feds]

Anyone play or own the Laguna Greg Howe guitar? Thoughts or opinions?

[Hungwell]

[xwhiskeydustx]

Has anyone logged any time with one of the Line 6 Spider Valve combos? Have an opportunity to pick one up on the cheap and it'd be nice to have a smaller practice amp that won't piss off the neighbors.

[ElToro]

Is that the Bogner version?

[xwhiskeydustx]

Yeah, it's apparently Bogner designed or something, I guess. It has a Bogner badge on the grille cloth. The reviews I'm reading seem kind of all over the place.

[ElToro]

They are pretty damn cool actually for a multi purpose amp.. if it's cheap, do it.

[Sleek]

If it ain't cheap, get one of the little Voxes I keep pushing like heroin and thank me later.

$100 of happy making:

http://www.voxamps.com/mini3/mini3/

[ElToro]

Those little Voxes are great too! If they had cheap awesome toys like this back in the day, I can't imagine ever leaving the house!

[xwhiskeydustx]

Thanks for the feedback/recommendations. I went ahead and picked it up - it was only $90 (Craigslist score), so figured what the hell. I haven't had more than 20 minutes or so to mess around w/it so far, but the first thing that struck me is how ungodly loud this little 1x12 combo is. It appears to compete with my 5150 2x12, volume-wise. So much for a humble little practice amp, I guess. Still, it sounds good at bedroom volumes and definitely didn't take long to dial in a good DeMartini-esque sound as well as very convincing 80's thrash tone. It took well to active EMGs but my Strat sounded very nice (Noiseless PU set), too. I didn't get any of that 'fizzy' digital amp modeler sound that I generally associate with Line 6 stuff. The reverb is sensitive as hell, though.

One odd thing I noticed - so it's equipped with a Celestion V30, but it says "Made in China" on the speaker. Since when are V30s manufactured in China??

[ElToro]

For several years.. $90?! on the tube one?

[T.O.N. of green]

I took the plunge and bought a bunch of fretting tools. Also built a neck jig that I saw some guy on youtube using. I did a complete level/crown/polish on my warmoth strat neck and it's playing pretty awesome now. Here's a pic midway through the job.

[ElToro]

That is awesme!

[ElToro]

I am having a Dallas Rangemaster clone made with both an on/off and a momentary switch.. should be fun!

[ElToro]

[ElToro]

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