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Everything you wanted to know about .... / Re: Air Classic
« on: May 21, 2020, 07:22:39 AM »
I would love to see Air Classic Neck in RAIL !!!
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The Pickup Place / Re: Everyone is a professional pickup winder these days
« on: March 10, 2020, 11:31:50 AM »
Like anywhere in world, we are mixed.
There are people who do their job honestly and without need of scamming people.
And then we have those who do bullsh1t.
There will always be this 2 types of people, where-ever you go.
But I can say few things.
We have like, good collages, they are super hard to get diploma on.
We have like, high unemployment rate, like right behind Spain.
So people, either like, go outside to world, or stay and open home work.
We have those who work honestly without cr4p, and those who do sh1t.
And in terms of like music gear, we don't have like , 5 guns in house live avarage family in USA. xD
Only police here have guns. xD
So when we need something, we like, find people who have it in local 2nd hand market place.
And they like, gave us time to show stuff.
Tons of times I was in situation what I was interested in some stuff, and I didn't want to buy them on blind.
And there were tons of people with messages like; " My friend has XXX part of music gear, I can message him and tell him to show that piece of gear to you. ".
I was tons of time in situation like that, were people from local music community did let me in their house, and show me pedals / amps / guitars .....
In my country, cases where someone would take a gun, and like kill half of country is extremely rare. 1 case in like 100 years so ....
Lastly I did wanted to try one guitar model, and one pickup, few of very kind people did show me that piece of gear.
Same goes for like this pickups replicas .... If I wanted, I could try all of them in next 15 minutes. XD (Okey, not in 15 min, but in next few days - but you get the point).
The problem with that replica stuff is simple.
Like anywhere else, some of them are good, some of them are bad.
But they have no name. And if you want to sell them, you need to put them in like 1/10th of price, and you still won't sell them.
Some of custom made guitars are like on market for like 2 years straight .....
There are people who do their job honestly and without need of scamming people.
And then we have those who do bullsh1t.
There will always be this 2 types of people, where-ever you go.
But I can say few things.
We have like, good collages, they are super hard to get diploma on.
We have like, high unemployment rate, like right behind Spain.
So people, either like, go outside to world, or stay and open home work.
We have those who work honestly without cr4p, and those who do sh1t.
And in terms of like music gear, we don't have like , 5 guns in house live avarage family in USA. xD
Only police here have guns. xD
So when we need something, we like, find people who have it in local 2nd hand market place.
And they like, gave us time to show stuff.
Tons of times I was in situation what I was interested in some stuff, and I didn't want to buy them on blind.
And there were tons of people with messages like; " My friend has XXX part of music gear, I can message him and tell him to show that piece of gear to you. ".
I was tons of time in situation like that, were people from local music community did let me in their house, and show me pedals / amps / guitars .....
In my country, cases where someone would take a gun, and like kill half of country is extremely rare. 1 case in like 100 years so ....
Lastly I did wanted to try one guitar model, and one pickup, few of very kind people did show me that piece of gear.
Same goes for like this pickups replicas .... If I wanted, I could try all of them in next 15 minutes. XD (Okey, not in 15 min, but in next few days - but you get the point).
The problem with that replica stuff is simple.
Like anywhere else, some of them are good, some of them are bad.
But they have no name. And if you want to sell them, you need to put them in like 1/10th of price, and you still won't sell them.
Some of custom made guitars are like on market for like 2 years straight .....
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The Pickup Place / Re: Everyone is a professional pickup winder these days
« on: March 10, 2020, 10:42:36 AM »
I'm more on guitar side.
I did try instruments from 2 guys, which I think they are super good.
They cost like Gibson USA Les Paul Studio Fadded, but they are way better instruments in terms of quality.
I'm not soo much into like pickups clones, cause I can find myself in Duncan / DiMarzio so I don't feel need to go to them.
But I've heard really a bunch of great stuff about 2 of them.
I have some "gear friends" which did try some of them, and they are extremely picky in gear.
And I know them in real life, so I guess they didn't lie.
Again, I stand behind 2 guitar guys, which instruments I did try.
But pickups, I know few people in real life who tried in, didn't say anything bad about it.
They were actually pretty impressed.
I know few guys who did swamp like Texas Specials for one of this guys pickups, they were pretty pretty impressed.
On the other side, one of PAFs guy, I've never heard a bad word about him so .....
On the third side, I've heard that some of them will kinda .... you know .....
Depends on guy.
But I strongly suggest, strongly really.
Stick to usual names.
If you are not like happy with DiMarzio / Duncan.
Get Fralin / Lollar / Bare Knuckle.
Edit:
Unless ofc, you are son of Bill Gates, and you have tons of money to waste on "stupid things".
I did try instruments from 2 guys, which I think they are super good.
They cost like Gibson USA Les Paul Studio Fadded, but they are way better instruments in terms of quality.
I'm not soo much into like pickups clones, cause I can find myself in Duncan / DiMarzio so I don't feel need to go to them.
But I've heard really a bunch of great stuff about 2 of them.
I have some "gear friends" which did try some of them, and they are extremely picky in gear.
And I know them in real life, so I guess they didn't lie.
Again, I stand behind 2 guitar guys, which instruments I did try.
But pickups, I know few people in real life who tried in, didn't say anything bad about it.
They were actually pretty impressed.
I know few guys who did swamp like Texas Specials for one of this guys pickups, they were pretty pretty impressed.
On the other side, one of PAFs guy, I've never heard a bad word about him so .....
On the third side, I've heard that some of them will kinda .... you know .....
Depends on guy.
But I strongly suggest, strongly really.
Stick to usual names.
If you are not like happy with DiMarzio / Duncan.
Get Fralin / Lollar / Bare Knuckle.
Edit:
Unless ofc, you are son of Bill Gates, and you have tons of money to waste on "stupid things".
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The Pickup Place / Re: Everyone is a professional pickup winder these days
« on: March 10, 2020, 10:15:43 AM »
One of which was mentioned in 1st post.
I don't know how long you in USA wait for pickups.
But in my country, when we order DiMarzio in local shop.
We need to wait for like 10 freakin months to get in shop.
10 months. -.-
That is how that all trend started.
I don't know how long you in USA wait for pickups.
But in my country, when we order DiMarzio in local shop.
We need to wait for like 10 freakin months to get in shop.
10 months. -.-
That is how that all trend started.
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The Pickup Place / Re: Everyone is a professional pickup winder these days
« on: March 10, 2020, 09:52:49 AM »
This is popular in my country.
Some of them are good, some of them are cr4p.
Some of them are in range of Mighty Might Indonesian cr4p.
Some of them are like Lollar / Fralin.
We have like guy, who makes Fender Texas Special looks like cr4p.
We also have a guy who makes amazing PAFs in range of Lollar / Fralin ....
On the other side, we have guy who wants like 150$ for pickup rewind.
And makes your pickups sound like sh1t. XD
Luckily we have like, local community with names, and bunch of people who tried them.
So we have evidention of good onces and cr4p onces.
Edit:
Same trend with guitars.
We have like guys who make instruments in range of like USA PRS guitar.
And we have guys who make like instruments in range of cheapest Squiers , and they want 1500$ for it. xD
We also have names of good onces and cr4p onces. XD
Some of them are good, some of them are cr4p.
Some of them are in range of Mighty Might Indonesian cr4p.
Some of them are like Lollar / Fralin.
We have like guy, who makes Fender Texas Special looks like cr4p.
We also have a guy who makes amazing PAFs in range of Lollar / Fralin ....
On the other side, we have guy who wants like 150$ for pickup rewind.
And makes your pickups sound like sh1t. XD
Luckily we have like, local community with names, and bunch of people who tried them.
So we have evidention of good onces and cr4p onces.
Edit:
Same trend with guitars.
We have like guys who make instruments in range of like USA PRS guitar.
And we have guys who make like instruments in range of cheapest Squiers , and they want 1500$ for it. xD
We also have names of good onces and cr4p onces. XD
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The Pickup Place / Re: MOD Idea! 1/4 Air mod!!!
« on: March 01, 2020, 03:20:00 PM »
I'm not sure why, but I would love to hear your resaults on mods like; 1 coil of "X pickup" and 1 coil of "Y pickup".
I'm way more interested in that.
I'm way more interested in that.
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The Pickup Place / Re: JP Neck Pickups
« on: February 21, 2020, 02:50:53 AM »
I had something similar to Air Norton .... Complete mudfest.
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The Pickup Place / Re: MOD Idea! 1/4 Air mod!!!
« on: February 21, 2020, 02:50:24 AM »
If I would ever have tons of money to waste on stupid things .... I will do this mod.
One coil of AT-1 , and 1 coil of PAF Pro.
One coil of AT-1 , and 1 coil of PAF Pro.
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The Pickup Place / Re: Dimarzio Super Distortion Van Halen 1 First Album Sound
« on: February 13, 2020, 11:25:37 AM »
I had their pickups, and as I said, they sounded worse then Wilkinson. XD
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The Pickup Place / Re: Dimarzio Virtual Solo
« on: February 12, 2020, 03:25:54 PM »
I did only hear that Chopper is most versatile of the 3, in Chopper, Injector Bridge, Virtual Solo group ...
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The Pickup Place / Re: Dimarzio Super Distortion Van Halen 1 First Album Sound
« on: February 12, 2020, 03:24:36 PM »
MM does have pickups now. But they are cheap stuff from Indonesia. Something like cheaper version of Wilkinson pickups.
I doubt they had USA made pickups in 1970s.
I also think most likely someone else did build them.
I doubt they had USA made pickups in 1970s.
I also think most likely someone else did build them.
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The Pickup Place / Re: Just curious: mini humbucker in HSS Strat?
« on: February 11, 2020, 03:25:05 PM »Here’s my vote based on experience:
PG13 Bridge
Injectors for neck and middle.
It will blow you away.
From Injectors neck, I've heard, on review on this forum, they are more on "modern" side, and more like "air nortonish". xD Which I don't like.
And in terms of PG13 bridge. I'm worried about pole string spacing. Since there is only 1 option for string spacing, and pickup does have pole pieces. It's not without pole pieces like Vintage Minibucker which is flat.
But I like idea of PG13 bridge. Just this string spacing stuff is worring me a tiny bit.
I was actually thinking of Vintage Minibucker bridge. Or Air Classic ....
Tim Henson from Polyphia has a Dimarzio set with a mini humbucker in the bridge and two tele neck pickups in the neck and middle and his sig sounds pretty killer - pretty much every tone on New Levels New Devils sounds crazy good.
I'm not fan of Tele necks.
And I like Scott's version more, with ofc something lower output on bridge, and noiseless neck / midd. I'm not fan of Tele neck pickups. :/
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Gear Closet / Re: Amp choices
« on: February 07, 2020, 11:40:30 AM »
I don't know why, but I adore H&K old ...... Statesman .... 50W head, with like, Fenderish clean and Marshallish crunch. Egnater Renegade is on similar level. Pretty similar amps. Same philosophy of design.
This two amps I would have if I wanted tour amps.
And in terms of cab, something like this is waaaaay tooo much awesome for me.
https://www.thomann.de/gb/blackstar_ht_212voc_mkii.htm
If I wanted to gig. I love cabs like this one.
Edit:
I did want Renegade in past. But it was way overpriced in my country.
So I ended up with some sort of JCM900 copy.
That John Frusciante cleanish funky sound, with Slash Marshall overdrive.
It was almost 50% of price of Egnater at the time.
And at the time, there was no that H&K for sale also. -.-
Lately I want to get 1x8 small combo. xD With few simple pedals.
This two amps I would have if I wanted tour amps.
And in terms of cab, something like this is waaaaay tooo much awesome for me.
https://www.thomann.de/gb/blackstar_ht_212voc_mkii.htm
If I wanted to gig. I love cabs like this one.
Edit:
I did want Renegade in past. But it was way overpriced in my country.
So I ended up with some sort of JCM900 copy.
That John Frusciante cleanish funky sound, with Slash Marshall overdrive.
It was almost 50% of price of Egnater at the time.
And at the time, there was no that H&K for sale also. -.-
Lately I want to get 1x8 small combo. xD With few simple pedals.
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The Pickup Place / Re: Just curious: mini humbucker in HSS Strat?
« on: February 07, 2020, 10:10:32 AM »
If friends Duncan 59 did work amazingly with 250k pots.
There is no reason why Air Classic wouldn't work with 300k pots.
Pretty much very similar pickup in terms of sound.
There is no reason why Air Classic wouldn't work with 300k pots.
Pretty much very similar pickup in terms of sound.
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The Pickup Place / Re: Just curious: mini humbucker in HSS Strat?
« on: February 06, 2020, 04:15:44 PM »
He did use 250k pots on Duncan 59 SSL1 , just to give you update.
Case closed, I will go with 300k then.
And Air Classic Bridge, dual Area 67s.
Case closed, I will go with 300k then.
And Air Classic Bridge, dual Area 67s.