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I love the Suhr Aldrich pickups in my LP. I like a hot modern pickup, but I want the pups in a LP to sound like an LP The Aldrich balance this perfectly for me. I’d describe them as vintage warm, modern hot.

If you don't want tubes hanging off a pedal on the floor, the JHS @T pedal does a similar thing with solid state components.

Yup, his solo was always my favorite on it. I think Yngwie cuts a good track here though.

Wicked Sensation s/t for me. Lynch’s best tone with the SLO before he added the loop. George told me personally he liked the earlier SLO, which was before the loop. I modded a loop bypass switch in my SLO clone for that reason. Ratt‘s Invasion... is probably second. (Assuming EVH is off the...

Man I miss my red stripe III. Played that amp for a really long time. The band I was in was really dynamic so I wanted something that did clean, crunch, and lead all well. Replaced it with a IV, which had better versatility, but the sizzle on the lead channel was never quite there. The presence...

About 5 years ago I kept hearing about this band, and couldn’t get into them. Then on a flight to India I had Spotify on shuffle, a woke up in a delirious state to the opening track for Ghosts. That drudgy Big Muff slow bend downtuned intro, then breaking into that bright Cornell-esque verse. A...

I can vouch for Reverb’s insurance. Shipped a EBMM JP15. Thing walked at the shipping hub—crazy for $2400 guitar to just disappear. Reverb covered the sale no questions asked. All it took was a 10 minute text chat with the rep. Alternatively, dealing with UPS and Fedex claims for damaged...

I had a Suhr Aldrich in the Neck and a Afwayu in the bridge on a Custom Shop LP, and always felt the Afwayu was colder, more modern and hot, and just lacked the vibe of a LP. And they were horribly mismatched. Put a Suhr Aldrich bridge in to match, and haven’t looked back. Perfect mix of modern...

What went on with Surreal? I had some exchanges with Jerry in 2008 on metroamp chasing Sykes tones and he was pretty helpful.

My Boogie MkV:35 usually plays through a EVM12L cab. In the day, it was a MkIII or MkIV and Boogie metal grill 4x12 with 2 EVMs and 2 C90s. Amazing. Sounded like a blanket was lifted off my V30 cab in prior. Today I swapped cabs on my MkV and Soldano SLO50 which has an Orange PC212 (v30...

I miss my MkIII red stripe. The presence knob on that thing was so versatile. Put it into EVM12Ls and weeee! Sold it for a MkIV since R2 never played nice due to volume issues and the shared EQ, and struggled to get a good clean and lead at the same time. As a 1 or maybe 2-channel amp, it was...

G Major was the standard rack effects unit in the 2000s, save for anyone that could afford an Eventide (which I never saw in the club scene outside of pros). I remember struggling a bit with clipping on the GMajor but it was into a Boogie Mark III which doesn’t have a great loop. When I got an...

I remember back in around 2005, Wes touted a new band and there was a clip with drippy saturated high gain tone. Believe it was a Diezel amp. I don’t recall anything coming of that project, though? Not that I was following it closely though. Some have said he has jazz chops? Has he released...

Had one in a basswood HSS strat that I unloaded about 10 years ago. Was awesome in that. Pretty punchy bass, chewy high end. A bit of a scooped sound with a mid range notch in it somewhere to give punch. Cool sound—miss selling that guitar. Way better than a Duncan Custom I had in a bridge that...

I had an Aldrich in the neck and Afwayu in the bridge of a LP. Loved the Suhr neck's sweetness, but switching to the bridge Afwayu was a stark contrast. I remember it being boomy and overpowering overall. Maybe in a PRS or a Ibanez with a hotter neck for a high-gain metal situation only it would...