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    What Pickup For Swamp Ash Strat w Roasted Maple Neck ?

    no wonder tone specific makes nice sounding pickips! yowza!!$$$ https://www.ebay.com/itm/204750510430?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=lkzDvSs3SA6&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=2Q7TkCeqQxC&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY
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    Any tone talk watchers?

    the premise is good but all of the previous comments are on point. i made mention about ways to improve and better manage the structure of the show on another forum—MH should focus exclusively on managing the technical side, screen sharing to cutaway to product images, superchats and live...
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    Mesa Mark III

    is there any one universal od/boost/eq pedal that mark III users must have?
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    Favorite VH brown sound in a pedal solutions?

    even if you aren’t using the Lion for VH tone it does some pretty nice classic marshall plexi sounds.
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    What Pickup For Swamp Ash Strat w Roasted Maple Neck ?

    that would make perfect sense and i think i remember hearing that too, although the gtr specs don’t call out arcane by name.
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    What Pickup For Swamp Ash Strat w Roasted Maple Neck ?

    he is truly incredible. not only is he just the best guy for blues rock fusion guitar product demos because he perform perfect tracks knowing how to showcase the strengths (chords and solo note sustain and response, clean to dirty dynamics, string to string articulation, chug) letting that...
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    What Pickup For Swamp Ash Strat w Roasted Maple Neck ?

    Luxtone Choppa S is typically a swamp ash body https://www.infinityguitars.com/store/p1413/Luxxtone_Choppa_S.html and uses their in house pickups that sound pre-tty darn great in a certain someone’s hands: he ran the gamut of great strat tones on that one! i swear his demos are songs i...
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    What Pickup For Swamp Ash Strat w Roasted Maple Neck ?

    i had a duncan 78 that sounded pretty nice in an alder/rosewood ltd ed. 94 am. strat that pickup reminded me of an original duncan pearly gates i had, in that there was almost a single coil nasal twang and snarl with a fat hummer fullness to it. which always fed into the rumor of eddie’s...
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    So what’s the new synergy module gonna be??

    how do you think a cameron atomica and ccv module would sell?
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    NEW UPDATE! CAB INCLUDED!Time for another giveaway. Raffle 4 kids fighting cancer. This time will be epically different. UPDATE: WIZARD CONTENT!!!

    i like that it isn't overly saturated and that you can hear notes and chords evolve in a universal rock tone way versus just metal.
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    Anyone ever play this Rivera?

    my experience with the TBR-1 i owned. i used it exclusively as a 60 wps el-34 stereo power amp. i traded it in at this used gear dealer way back when for a mesa 395, and when he plugged in his guitar with a hot EMG pickup test the rivera, the dirt channel sounded great! i also played some other...
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    cheap rg550 alternative?

    agreed - mine was a beater for the most part and had to do alot of stuff to that low budgie RG to make it shred. my last mod went awry when i tried to install a 2 post trem to replace the stock creaker and over time, one of the posts pulled through the tender b-asswood to the trem cavity cause...
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    Favorite VH brown sound in a pedal solutions?

    my friend Dan has a great boutique guitar shop in Honolulu worth the visit if you’re in town. lotsa new and used amps, guitars and pedals!
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    cheap rg550 alternative?

    speaking of vai and ibz is this something cool for jem aficionados?
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    cheap rg550 alternative?

    i probably shoulda bought this when i had the chance. thing played and sounded awesome. modeled after his red grover designed charvel. the bridge was worn and likely hard to replace thus the reason i passed. the first new store bought gtr i purchased was an ibby rg140 “asswood” exactly...
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