Author Topic: busted valve? please no.....!? (Read 7659 times)

sambo · « **Reply #30 on:** January 16, 2007, 08:21:09 AM »

lol,

well the build quality is f*cking awesome!!!

and the neck is absolutely stunning...

EMGs im not too keen on after playing it quite a lot last night... although for some reason i loved the clean tones i got from the neck pickup... which i thought was odd seeing as EMGs are meant to be metal-monsters :?

and there was a little bit of buzz so i raised the action (i prefer higher action anyway)

now its pretty much perfect for me... although its gonna take a little while to get used to the slightly longer scale length...

i might take it to a luthier/guitar shop (feline...?) at SOME point and get a set-up/fret dress e.t.c. just to try and get rid of the little bit of buzz that there is....

Kilby · « **Reply #31 on:** January 16, 2007, 10:39:17 AM »

Nice one sam,

I'm not a pointy guitar nut, but that looks good

dave_mc · « **Reply #32 on:** January 16, 2007, 03:31:54 PM »

^ ^ are you sure the truss rod doesn't just need a minor tweak?

sambo · « **Reply #33 on:** January 16, 2007, 05:31:23 PM »

cheers rob.

and i have NO idea Dave...

anything past the action is way beyond me in terms of how a guitar is set-up...

what would adjusting the truss rod actually do then?

dave_mc · « **Reply #34 on:** January 16, 2007, 06:40:17 PM »

^ probably remove the buzz.

Luckily I have a kramer I'm not too fussed on so I can experiment on that, lol. I wouldn't try it on a brand new expensive guitar, lol.

Dakine · « **Reply #35 on:** January 16, 2007, 09:00:34 PM »

Sam, don't do eeeet :)
If ya not sure about it leave it alone, esp. as it's set neck?

BTW, WTF with the evilbay name!?!?!?!?!

Oh, and my next axe will have 81/60n EMG's which I will play alot other than metal on, Southern Rock/Blues stuff. It's all good bud.

HTH AMPS · « **Reply #36 on:** January 16, 2007, 10:29:52 PM »

Quote from: sambo

lol,

EMGs im not too keen on after playing it quite a lot last night... although for some reason i loved the clean tones i got from the neck pickup...

is the neck pickup an EMG60 ??? - they are VERY nice pickups in the neck, I really like 'em. Hetfield (apparently) used to have 'em in both bridge and neck ('some' of Puppets sounds that way)

Are you going with some suitably metal pickups or something more restrained?

:twisted:

sambo · « **Reply #37 on:** January 16, 2007, 11:57:33 PM »

yer i wouldnt touch the truss rod myself... but something to consider having looked at by a luthier i guess..

its an 81 and an 85...

as for pickups if/when i replace them... i would probably go with painkillers...

(suitable for an all mahogany guitar???)

or nailbombs...

i love the cleans of the EMGs so can kinda understand why you say you'll be wanting to play a lot of stuff with your next set Nick...

i will definitely get rid of the active circuitry though as i am cr@p at anything replaceable... i just KNOW that the battery will run out on stage when i dont have a replacement... and im really not too keen on the idea of that happening lol.

HTH are 60's passive?

if so... might go for a combo of EMG + BK????

what do people think of EMGs vs. BKPs in general?

cheers,

sam.

sambo · « **Reply #38 on:** January 17, 2007, 12:41:12 AM »

HTH again... just to ask a more detailed question...

would you say it would be a stupid idea to mix a EMG 60 neck with say a painkiller or nailbomb in the bridge?

i say this mainly because i need a really nice clean tone (which the EMG would (hopefully)) give me in the neck, but also a very orangic heavy distortion sound... which the painkiller/nailbomb would hopefully provide from the bridge...

the EMG 81/85 / their distortion in general seems to be almost fizzy-ish... ? maybe not fizzy as such but a bit too metally for my tastes...

dunno... just not too keen on it really, but as i said before LOVED the clean tone of the neck.... played it to my mate through the engl today and he was blown away... said it sounded like an acoustic almost...

dave_mc · « **Reply #39 on:** January 17, 2007, 08:13:18 PM »

60's are active, far as I'm aware.

HTH AMPS · « **Reply #40 on:** January 17, 2007, 08:33:52 PM »

EMG60s are active. You can mix active and passives no problems IF you have seperate volume pots for each pickup since EMGs use 25k volume pots and passive humbuckers use 500k.

I wouldn't personally mix 'em though, there are neck pickups that BKP offer that will give the same clarity. Talk to Tim and tell him which EMG you liked in the neck position and he'll suggest something suitable.

:twisted:

sambo · « **Reply #41 on:** January 17, 2007, 08:53:02 PM »

ahh i see.

well that would be a problem for me then as the jackson only has a single volume pot.

would it actually be worth gutting all the electrics and switching back to passive for the sake of getting BKPs?

ive never tried a BKP humbucker so have no idea what they are like actually play/hear in person...

youve obviously had experience of both HTH... is it worth ripping out the EMGz altogether? does it depend on what particular sound im after?

cheers for the info so far.