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  1. Hey guys, I just got my first tele about a month ago. Its a squier classic vibe and it plays and sounds great! But I need a guitar with a humbucker so I'm thinking about putting a Dimarzio T Tone zone on the bridge coil tapped. So here's the deal, is a humbucker going to "twang" on a tele? If not, do I still get that classic twang when I coil tap the tone zone? I'm thinking it has something to do with how the tele is specifically built and its not just the single coil because if its all in the pickups then wouldn't a strat twang as well? Thanks guys! The bucker will totally kill the twang. Tele bridge pickup is very different from a strat. But put a metal baseplate on an overwound Strat pickup and it'll get pretty close.
  2. I have one of the DC p90 Goldtops and a 90s Classic with Burstbuckers. The experience of playing them is different - the GT is lighter, vibrates much more and is balanced quite differently - the Classic has that wonderful LP solidity, but they both sustain about the same. The most striking thing about them is how similar they sound. The GT has a little more bite and a more pronounced bottom end, but fundamentally they are remarkably close.
  3. Welp, just pulled the trigger on the LP. I've wanted a p90 Goldtop since the Carter administration, and if I have to settle for one with better upper fret access, lighter weight, and a warranty just to save hundreds of dollars, I'll just have to grit my teeth and bear it.
  4. They're both great. I much prefer the studios with the glossy finishes and hotter pickups. They're still available new, but they cost about $400 too much, and good used ones are common as dirt. The Highway One is an excellent guitar. I don't like the rough finishes at all, but an hour with 2000 grit finishing paper and a buffing wheel fixes that nicely.
  5. Mojo sent. Hopefully by now she's turned the corner and will be feeling better soon.
  6. - White collar Caucasian males playing "blues" on ultra-expensive guitar and amp reissues. - The lack of adventure and experimentalism in modern music (there are few exceptions) - Stale old codgers who refuse to acknowledge there's great music outside of the Beatles, the Stones, and Zeppelin. - Top Ten Greatest Guitarists Lists.... how many more times and by how many more "experts" can Jimi Hendrix be voted as "the greatest"... when he clearly isn't? - Vampires If you had asked me in 1980, this would be almost exactly what I'd have said.
  7. Here's another try for my Guild Blues 90. Sold. M I was this ][ far from pulling the trigger on that Guild. That was a steal.
  8. I have made some very nice recordings with the $40 MCA SP-1. If you can get your room quiet enough, and stay 4-5 feet away from it, it's excellent. "Skyrockets" on my Myspace page was recorded with a single SP-1 about 5 feet away, with a little of the guitar's onboard piezo mixed in.
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