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Help with flabbyness on a 0.13 stringed Ibanez B tuned
« on: February 17, 2007, 03:25:34 AM »
Hails Guys!
Do you have any Solution for the flabbyness and smoothness of a dimarzio X2N bridge into a IBANEZ S1220 WNF PRESTIGE 25' scale and 22 frets tuned to B standard with 0.13 standard Daddario Strings?!



the string height are pretty high, something like more than 2 Milimeters
and it still get muddy and Smooth .
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its giving me problems with either my 5150 or the crate(that i repaired a few days ago and itīs working very good)

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Help with flabbyness on a 0.13 stringed Ibanez B tuned
« Reply #1 on: February 17, 2007, 08:16:17 AM »
smooth? as in the distortion has no grittyness or crunchiness?  
Okay, you will notice that as you increase the gain knob on any amp, the distortion goes from clean, to crunchy, to smooth.  With high output pickups like an X2N, you should turn the gain knob lower in order to maintain the grit.

As for the flabbyness, you need to adjust pickup height.  Start by lowering all pickups as far as they can go, then increase height on bridge until it sounds appropriate. To make sure its not too high, plug in your guitar in, and sustain a chord, if its wobby sounding (like its somewhat out of phase or out of tune) you need to lower the pickup.  Best tone is usually at the height right before it starts pulling on the strings.  Then just heighten the other pickups so that they are at equal volume, but make sure they arent pulling at the strings.  

If this doesnt fix it, i'll think of something else.
my maxon OD 808 really DOES make poop sound good

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Help with flabbyness on a 0.13 stringed Ibanez B tuned
« Reply #2 on: February 17, 2007, 02:48:34 PM »
Hails Cannibal corpse Fan
Q:p
iīve Tried all of that.
Unfortunately it doesnītwork. it looks like the strings or the scale arentīlarge enough to be used on that tuning. itīs a 22 frets guitar. i think itīs definitely not made for using that tuning.
max of 012 tuned to E standard or 0.11

The Smoothness is on The Bass frequencies.. and it doesnīt have enough crunchyness
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« Reply #3 on: February 17, 2007, 08:00:38 PM »
man, 13 is fine for me at B tuning, and i have a shorter scale guitar so they're a bit looser...

Dean Markley strings tend to have higher tension than others, see if you can find some dean markley 13's

and the bleeding is a great song, what can i say? hahaha
my maxon OD 808 really DOES make poop sound good