Guitar Discussion Thread V7 - More strings the better - General

I started carving the neck for my cigar box today, and wired up the pickups to mah cigar box. Quite fun working with such primitive materials. The pickups are some no-name single coil I bought for ten dollars from my tech and a squier single coil I've had sitting around.

[QUOTE=LasGunz;29252735]Just priced all the parts I'll need for my partscaster.. It's about £200 for all the bits I need and I'm painting the body tomorrow! :D So in total I'm building a guitar comparable to a fender (in terms of parts by price:quality, not in terms of excellence of build and shit :p) for about £250. I mean it's got an Alder body and a lot of Fender or outsourced Fender parts and the pickups aren't being skimped on either, I'm thinking about chucking a set of Lace Sensors in them but that ups the price a whole lot, to about £300-350[/QUOTE] Try out Dimarzio Injectors [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9C-WtDjq1s[/media] They sound great.

I'm not entirely sure why but you guys seem to be suggesting a lot of high-gain/humbucker pickups. I don't mean it in a dickhead way.. but that's nothing like what I'm after and I also didn't ask for recommendations :p - I play blues.. and I have pickups in mind.

[QUOTE=LasGunz;29258028]I'm not entirely sure why but you guys seem to be suggesting a lot of high-gain/humbucker pickups. I don't mean it in a dickhead way.. but that's nothing like what I'm after and I also didn't ask for recommendations :p - I play blues.. and I have pickups in mind.[/QUOTE] buying pickups? pussy mode, wind your own

[QUOTE=LasGunz;29258028]I'm not entirely sure why but you guys seem to be suggesting a lot of high-gain/humbucker pickups. I don't mean it in a dickhead way.. but that's nothing like what I'm after and I also didn't ask for recommendations :p - I play blues.. and I have pickups in mind.[/QUOTE] I suggested the Injectors because they sound like really dynamic pickups and manage to sound different and modern while still retaining the single coil sound. You already seem to have a classic strat sound in your G&L so unless you are going to use your next guitar as a backup to that it would make sense to get something that'll give it a different tonal quality. ...Plus I am a dimarzio fanboy.

[QUOTE=ButtsexV2;29258707]buying pickups? pussy mode, wind your own[/QUOTE] I would but I'd rather pay a british dude $350 to do it for me.

[QUOTE=ButtsexV2;29258707]buying pickups? pussy mode, wind your own[/QUOTE] This.

single coils are extremely easy to make, and since he's playing blues that's probably what he wants

Don't be silly. [editline]18th April 2011[/editline] The guitar will have a different tonal quality.. it will have Lace Sensors in it which have a great glassy blues sound.. where as my other guitars, while single coils, all sound different.

I do like lace sensors, that's a tougher pickup to make yourself

Indeed.

Alright, so my V-Picks came in, and while I've got a camera on me (taking pics of the shit I'm hawking to pay for the rest of my pup order) I decided to take stupidly high-res pics of them. And I mean stupidly high res. Probably want to open these in a separate tab. And just because everyone hates size reference shots when there's nothing near the object to compare it to, there's a guarantee you own something in these pictures. Be it the Clayton 1mm triangle, Fender medium triangle I mistook for a dorito, V-Pick 5.85mm [highlight][b][i]PSYCHO SHREDDER[/i][/b][/highlight], 3 mm Stubby Triangle and Big Stubby, Dunlop 1mm nylon, Fender medium, Ultex 1.14mm sharp, Tortex 1mm, V-Pick 2.75mm small pointed, Maxgrip jazz 3, Ultex jazz 3, Delrin 1.14mm, Maxgrip 1mm, crystal ball, Nerf gun, or clipboard. [media]http://img854.imageshack.us/img854/2791/dsc06039b.jpg[/media] [media]http://img863.imageshack.us/img863/7879/dsc06041.jpg[/media] They do slip as easily as any other pick, really, though despite that I had an easier time holding them solid and loose because of the size. Because of that and the sharper tips (finer than anything else in there) they're pretty fucking perfect for my ludicrously high attack downpicking and general rhythm alternate/gallop stuff, though for anything with a lot of chords I'd rather have something broader than the Psycho just because playing them becomes a chore. And as somebody who plays bass with a pick...the Psycho feels (and sounds) kinda horrible. Which is odd considering they suggest it as a bass pick. For alternate picking or chords it feels really, really wrong and the string size combined with the point "catching" makes it want to rotate a lot.

[QUOTE=SolidSnake52;29216206]Being an American company, they charge more to international buyers (the stores that sell the strings overseas), and then there's taxes and exchange rates and any import taxes... Though I do have to say my current set put me back nearly ten bucks - which IS more than my usual DR's cost, but I really wanted to try the EB Titanium-coated set. I like every string EXCEPT the 6th. I have problems with how the 6th sounds out, and some of the lower-fret pinch harmonics don't want to sound out. Even tried changing my battery to a brand new one just to make sure it wasn't a bad battery issue. Ah well...it works great for chording, but single-notes and some harmonics just don't seem right on the 6th string. Aside from that, though, the Ernie Ball titanium-coated strings are great so far! [editline]16th April 2011[/editline] I've never really liked Marshall. Or Fender. My dream amp has pretty much always been a Mesa Rectifier. Or the Mark IV, but I really would prefer a Rec. But that is the one and only amp I have ever wanted that has no imitators. At least, none that I've heard of, which means the few that may exist probably aren't any good at it. I am very interested in finding a Bugera 6262 that I can try out, because I want to see how it handles the way that I play (varies from progressive/power/thrash/death metal, to a David Gilmour kind of bluesy tone) with my guitar. I love the 5150/6505 series to death, but they can be quite pricey.[/QUOTE] Dude, I have a bugera 6262 and It fucking blows my mind. I play death/thrash metal and it fucking rules. But I also use a 10 band eq in the loop and a noise gate in the front.

Taking an old 20ft guitar cable and turning it into about 30 six inch patch leads and 3 or 4 twelve inch leads just incase. Yay :D

I started a new band today, we're doing our first practice on Thursday. The other two guys are rich, but very good at drums/bass, and they want to play blues with me since I have a poor background with a musical dad. I'll follow this band through if they can keep up >:D

they must really be rich if they think just being poor makes you good at the blues I suppose they think any black guy can rap too

[QUOTE=LasGunz;29223009]I thought most local guitar shops would sell single strings.[/QUOTE] I figured no, but I'll check in with them next time I'm there. Been playing without a high E for about one and a half months because I cant be bothered to buy another pack. It's really fucking hard to have to slide up 5 frets on the G to play some fairly basic songs Oh, before I forget. the AC50 setting on my vox sounds exactly like a good Marshall when I crank the gain (not the desired effect, but just as good) any good pedals that would push it further and get me a good beefy overdrive?

[QUOTE=Unreliable;29261757]I started a new band today, we're doing our first practice on Thursday. The other two guys are rich, but very good at drums/bass, and they want to play blues with me since I have a poor background with a musical dad. I'll follow this band through if they can keep up >:D[/QUOTE] Best of luck, man :buddy:

EMG humbucker in the bridge position Floyd Rose vibrato Ebony fretboard I love how on paper Mark Knopfler's Suhr sounds like a Schecter sig for a guy from a post hardcore band

This is probably very rare, but are there any 7 string guitars with atleast one single coil pickup? Preferably under £400, but that might be asking too much. :v:

I've got one. It's an eBay brand and it's a piece of shit, but it's well below £400 :v:

[QUOTE=Shibbey;29264476]This is probably very rare, but are there any 7 string guitars with atleast one single coil pickup? Preferably under £400, but that might be asking too much. :v:[/QUOTE] You could easily get a Japanese RG7x2x and replace a humbucker with singlecoils where you desire, then you could put a pickguard on it to hide the ugly holes. £400 should easily cover the guitar and mods.

I tuned my guitar to AADGBE playing tesseract songs fuck yeah

AADGBE is pretty sweet. I formed a one practice djent band last year and jammed out a song in that tuning :v:

What string did you use for the low A?

I'm thinking about getting a kahler 5-string bass tremolo, anyone have any experience with them? I want one so I can finally play Les Claypool riffs properly. [editline]18th April 2011[/editline] actually I just want one because bass tremolos are pretty fucking cool and I don't need any other reason

lasgunz, if you want a damn good blues pick up, get these. [url]http://www.seymourduncan.com/products/electric/stratocaster/vintage/alnico_ii_pro_s/[/url] i have one in the middle position in my strat and it gives the best clean sound i have ever heard and im sure you would benefit greatly from it.

[QUOTE=TheGuru;29265002]You could easily get a Japanese RG7x2x and replace a humbucker with singlecoils where you desire, then you could put a pickguard on it to hide the ugly holes. £400 should easily cover the guitar and mods.[/QUOTE] Swapping out pickups sounds difficult.

currently learning and playing along to phantom of the opera by iron maiden. such an epic and fun song to play got to the second solo so far.

Sanding the poly finish off a guitar is a cunt and a half. [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/pnSmL.jpg[/IMG]