the happiness, excitement, and general contentedness thread

[Achtane]

lolwut so expensive

[adrianlee]

lolwut so expensive

dem t0anz

[Jeff-7]

RS makes some pretty badass wiring kits.

[Kellanium]

I <3 Jags.

[adrianlee]

RS makes some pretty badass wiring kits.

do you have experience?

[Jeff-7]

I've played a couple friends LPs and SGs with them, the pots are much more responsive and get some great tone. I've been planning on a kit for my SG but the AC30 needs tubes and I want some more pedals before I get it.

[adrianlee]

I've played a couple friends LPs and SGs with them, the pots are much more responsive and get some great tone. I've been planning on a kit for my SG but the AC30 needs tubes and I want some more pedals before I get it.

Well, im about to pull the trigger on one. so, ill keep you updated. Also dropping some p90s in place of these shite 490s.

[snipelfritz]

i almost never use the knobs on the guitar. i'm too uncoordinated for that shit...i can barely play and operate the pickup selector switch.

I'm constantly readjusting my volume pots for the perfect volume/fuzz saturation. I don't use the tone too much and usually just let it hang out at 7 or 8. For some reason I feel guilty leaving it at ten all the time even though I like how it sounds. That's all for the jazzy, the semi-hollow I mess with even more. For my quasi-acoustic tone, I like to play middle position with the bridge volume maxed, tone slightly cut and the neck volume cut and tone maxed out.


Every time I watch this I always note how picky he is with his guitar's volume. It does so much for your tone and it's how I get away with using dirt where most people would be totally clean (gotta have that "texture").
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLDalZ4-53g[/youtube]

[IEatCats]

True story: Santana was tripping shit on lsd during that show during that exact song, and thought that his guitar neck was a snake, and if he stopped playing, it would eat him.

At 18, he joined his family in San Francisco and became an American citizen. San Francisco in 1965 served as ground zero for a musical and cultural revolution, which came to a head four years later at Woodstock.

Santana recalls his own experience taking LSD. "My guitar is like - like (an) electric snake. So that's why you see my face, you know, like making all these ugly faces, like, 'Stand still,' you know."

"Intuitively I just said, 'God, please help me. I'll never do this again," he says.

"That was my mantra," Santana says amid laughter. "It was a very, very frightening experience. I don't recommend it to anybody."

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2000/02/ ... 3190.shtml

[dubkitty]

the thing i DO with the guitar knobs is adjust the tone in small increments to find the sweet spot, especially on the bridge PU of humbucker guitars. i often wind up with the bridge tone on the Les Paul types down around 8.5 or even 7.5. but i typically don't use the volume knobs unless i'm rolling off to clean up a dirty sound. the PU balance thing doesn't apply for me, because i almost never use the middle position and i set up the PUs so the output is balanced between them. it's just the style i've developed...if i want more volume, i pick harder.

[IEatCats]

If there's a sweet spot range you use, why not put in a trimpot before the tone pot, find the sweet spot, use an ohmmeter to find the resistance it's at, drop in a new pot with an approximate value of 500k-trimpot? That way you can stick in the range you normally use, without having to do as much tone searching.

[DarkAxel]

When it comes to tone pots, it's always full on or off for me

And i basically don't turn down my volume since i'm running my dirt into clean channel, i'm ok with that... when i'm not doing volume swells of course

[nieh]

When it comes to tone pots, it's always full on or off for me

Same with me. Which is why I put it on a switch. Full on, or full off.

[Jeff-7]

I've played a couple friends LPs and SGs with them, the pots are much more responsive and get some great tone. I've been planning on a kit for my SG but the AC30 needs tubes and I want some more pedals before I get it.

Well, im about to pull the trigger on one. so, ill keep you updated. Also dropping some p90s in place of these shite 490s.

Sweetness, and totally agree on the 49* series buckers, not my favorite. I love the burstbucker 2&3s in mine.

[McSpunckle]

TODAY IS GOING TO BE AN AWESOME, PRODUCTIVE TODAY WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT. LETS GO.

I SHIT POSITIVITY