BryanMichael

Old Skool (17 years) just stopping by for the first time in forever.

1. Retrotrons are great pickups and are jangley. 2. Split the coils 3. Boss FX processors have a pickup emulator that actually works decently. It's probably just a sophisticated filter, but it's interesting. 4. A multiband compressor 5. Boss FA-1 preamp, cut the lows. It works. 6. Change pot values on your volume control.

In defense of VHT, having you work through the dealer was actually the BEST way to handle your particular problem. That's why they have dealer networks. You return it to the dealer and get a brand new amp (you win!) and the dealer returns the broken amp to VHT as a defective product and they get their wholesale cost back (the dealer wins!) and VHT doesn't tie up their repair guys for $200 in labor costs on a $300 amp (VHT wins!)

Humbuckers without rings just look cheap. (Hey, we can save about 17c in production cost per unit if we leave these off!) Humbuckers on a strat look terrible. (Ain't no strat no more, sonny!) But humbuckers with rings on a strat is just sacrilege. (Iron Maiden. Says it all, really.) Real musicians see the instrument for what it is; a vehicle for conveying music. They will modify the instrument, add things to it, strip things away, and decorate it to suit their fancy because they know that the piece of wood and plastic and magnets and wire isn't the thing that's sacred about it. It's a divining rod for channeling forces from another dimension. That's when the sacred part comes in.

My favorite pick is made of fossilized mammoth ivory. I love it.

PRS+Agile>Les Paul

Can't say I was a fan, but they were somewhat of a guilty pleasure (as all "hair metal" music was and still is to me ) I always thought they had a good sense of melody and that Oz Fox was a really, really good guitar player. Michael Sweet's voice bordered on terribly annoying for me sometimes, it was so "Dennis DeYoung" trying to be HARD...that combined with the obvious lyrical content (although sometimes clever) and their image added up to a big slice o' cheese most of the time...but as everyone has said, no more or less than some of their contemporaries. And Oz Fox does rock - his soloing is often a bit more innovative than some others.

That's a pretty good definition of transparency, as far as "transparency" is concerned. My ignorance might make it easy to be condescending, Bryan, but it doesn't make it easy to spell it*, huh? *Some might say that looking at the spelling in the very post you're quoting, or even using spell check, is easy, but everybody's at their own level, I guess. Touche mon ami- well played sir. As for Phil's Nanny Nazi comments- I've been here a long time- 90% of the time I'm the most helpful muthaF@*kah you'll ever encounter. 10% of the time I'm gonna piss all over everything- call it old age or boredom or being tired of explaining the same ol' {censored}e. Whatevah-

Ah- the Nanny Nazi returns

Actually, I do. If it didn't have an effect on the signal, there would be no point to it. Continue to be a pompous, condescending ass! "transparent compression" doesn't mean it has "no effect on the signal"- You make it so easy to be condecending because you are so ignorant.

I don't understand the whole idea of "transparent" compressors that don't change the character of the signal, and whatnot. In that case, why not just use a tuner pedal? Completely transparent, and, as a bonus, it can help you tune the guitar. You obviously don't understand compression at all. :facepalm: Continue to prove my point!

Yeah, you better just keep on quoting yourself, because otherwise, we're just going to wind up with all sorts of "non-BryanMichael" (read: incorrect) opinions, and we can't have that. In fact, you might want to quote yourself again right now, just to obscure this post. You could always put everybody besides yourself on ignore. Maybe I should change my quote- "Most guitarists aren't smart enough to know the difference between "opinion" and "fact"... there, that's better!

I agree- I don't think most guitarists are smart enough to understand compression. On that note- compression is as much a tone shaping tool as anything, really slamming a tele or strat with compression gives you a springy/twangy tone you don't really get with out it. I'm going to quote myself again because this thread is proving my point to some degree...

Its not a crutch if you don't use it as one. I think it's just about the least understood effect out there. I agree- I don't think most guitarists are smart enough to understand compression. On that note- compression is as much a tone shaping tool as anything, really slamming a tele or strat with compression gives you a springy/twangy tone you don't really get with out it.