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I’m sure that’s right but it is true it sounds like shit. Every recent live video I’ve seen has the worst guitar tone I’ve ever heard from them. They used to have MONSTROUS live tone. They need to hire someone like Leon Todd to help them dial those fucking modelers in.

Their new lineup seems to have a lot of cool options in it but they’re kind of hard to keep straight. I think it’s the Jet Black that I have been real impressed by as a versatile rock amp. The Lynx has not sounded good to me - too woolly and fat for what it seems to be aiming for. The Cougar I...

This has always bothered me, especially on ESP Eclipses with that look which will even have the side of the neck binding yellowed but the top that you see when looking at the guitar straight on pure and bright white. I can think of guitar models from other makers that are similar, but at least...

Saw Isbell a few months ago - awesome show.

I never followed up in this thread with my experience comparing the two but found the same - defeating the internal load resulted in a more natural result through good IR's. But as you say it's also defeating the purpose I have for the thing, which is working silently when I just want to...

Yeah maybe they redid it to focus on retards who listen to music primarily through a tiny mono speaker. Welcome to the future!

Yeah talk about a totally unnecessary remake. Actually I don’t think there has ever been a necessary remake. Remixes/Remasters are usually bad enough.

My buddy’s band Construct of Lethe’s new album: Red Clay Strays: Revisiting some classics from The Reverend: Also revisiting a southern hero:

It is, but better than a Super Distortion to me because like most Dimarzios I always found them a little too compressed and soft sounding, a little too fat in the low mids and upper bass territory.

So a little while back I bought both the 1300 and 1400 from Fiesta Red (great deal btw). It took a while but I recently got around to trying them each out in the bridge position of an HSS partscaster I put together. I started out with the nominally higher output 1300. It really does live up to...

If they CAN get moist.

I used to make fun of them back in the day but I’ll take Stapp’s mouth full of marbles vocals over most of what’s popular musically today. I saw some live videos captured from some concert cruise they did recently and they sounded pretty damn good. Tremonti’s tone is pretty massive and you could...

Maybe a combo of hand conditioning exercises and stretching could help if you foresee these marathon sets continuing. With stretches you could learn some that you could quickly do at some points during the set to just try and keep things loose and limber. That and concentrating on relaxing the...

Yeah this is why I don’t get along with Ibanez. Flat + thin + wide = hand cramps to me. I’m sure if my fretting hand technique was very different and more like the guys who look like they barely touch the thing I wouldn’t have that problem, but it is what it is.

Some people are talking about the picking hand but it sounds like OP got a fretting hand cramp? I have had my fretting hand cramp primarily from a neck profile that felt wrong for me and my “technique.” I also have had that tendency to apply too much pressure to the strings which can cause...

you don’t want your tone to evoke the idea of a semi-soft erection?

I don’t know, it isn’t particularly “sexy” but the Boss RV-6 is kind of hard to beat IMO if you want a variety of very good sounding reverbs without a bazillion parameters to mess with or Strymon levels of bullshit (not to mention footprint).

I think the closest thing to the Blisterbucker I have used was an SH-5 Duncan Custom with an Alnico 8 mag swapped in it, for whatever that’s worth.

Not Canadian but bought both corner bass traps and various wall absorption panels from GIK and they all made a huge difference. My studio space is two separate roughly 10’ x 12’ rooms, which are not ideal dimensions. One room is my mixing/computer room and that’s where all the corner bass traps...