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I have a SuperChamp XD, the 1st iteration. Great sounding little amp, but with some frustrating limitations...and not particularly reliable for gigging.

Thanks, good luck, and please comeback and tell us about the Tanglewood once you get time with it!

I strongly suggest you take someone with you who is far more experienced in determining the condition, quality and playability of the instrument. If that is not possible, see if you can get the current owner to agree to having the guitar checked out by a local shop.

dang...just looked and agree, just a 2 con/shield and hot, standard Gibson ...your eye, bp, was better than mine...it does appear in that pic that the Neck volume is mis-wired.... lots of messy solder/wire work in there...no offense, but as a [formerly] NASA certified solderer, I am picky....😉

but that is the essence of a solo gig...everything else is just 'lipstick on the pig'...IMHO...

I don't dispute that. As I said, I have imported guitars from Asia, and some were outstanding. I still have one a/e and one hollowbody jazz guitar from my attempt. I sold the rest...my former partner still has a couple too. But that said... My concern is the guitar's current condition. If it is over 15 years old, has it been properly 'stored'? Is it dried out? Is the neck okay? Is the bridge still properly attached to the body? I can't tell any of that from the pics on Fb. The owner in the Fb ad obviously knows NOTHING about the 'care and feeding' [let alone playing] of an acoustic guitar, therefor I would be somewhat concerned. 😎

you may have better luck asking Fishman if by phone, ask for 'Larry'...

apparently your google< my google😉 https://www.tanglewoodguitars.co.uk/ "If you can’t find your model listed go to our FAQ page and send a request via “Identify my Tanglewood” and we will get back to you with the details." http://tanglewoodguitars.com/ [USA] Okay, so these are essentially Asian made 'Martin-wannabes', based on the head stock appearance. Nothing wrong with that. I have had some made..still have one from my 'importer/wannabe guitar mogul' days. Since this is a used guitar, condition is important, and from the Fb pics, it looks okay. £150? That's about $200 [US], and with a case? Probably a good deal...but without hearing it/playing it? Hard to say.

I heartily and respectfully suggest you do not 'open' the pickups. Many possible issues, some less likely than others. More probable: How many leads come off your humbuckers? 3? 4? 5? If there are 4/5 leads, you may have inadvertently 'coil tapped' your humbuckers. https://www.fralinpickups.com/2018/08/03/choose-correct-humbucker-lead/ Possible: Have you checked the toggle switch contacts? Why? Because if they are not disengaging correctly, they can produce the sound you are describing...thinner, out of phase...basically, you don't get a discrete one pick-up tone, but both p-ups, out of phase. Least likely: Depending on the age of your SG, the bleed caps may have degraded. I can't say for certain that this is causing what you are hearing [or, not hearing], but it can mess with your overall tone in strange ways. If you could post a pic of your control cavity/wiring, that may be informative

got a pic of it?

why? Because sooner or later, one of you would come ask for it anyway...

'breaking up is hard to do...' Having left my band of 20+ years[a record for me] in early 2020 [just as covfefe arrived], I understand what you are dealing with. My personal take is either find all new people, or take the ones you know and trust, and see if you can all make something new work. Losing a lead singer should not stop a well put together band, unless it was that person's name on the letterhead. Even then, change the name, find a new singer, and look forward. Don't lose your momentum, and don't assume the prime attraction, or the prime driver musically, was the singer. Back in the past millennia[1999], the lead singer in our relatively new [year old] band decided to go back to school at night to finish a degree. There was some blaming, derision and acrimony, and I had the remaining members of the band meet at my house to rehearse [they asked me 'why?' 'because we ain't done yet' I told them, and I was correct]. We had no gigs lined up, but I knew that was easily fixed, and in many respects, not being tethered to the lead singer's reputation looked like it could actually be a plus, even though he was fairly well known in the area. In the course of the meeting and rehearsal, four members out of six stepped up to sing lead. Four. Myself included. Which was what I had suspected, knowing that at least two of the other guys could sing [we sang backups all the time], and by the time we finished running through new material the four of us could sing, we had two sets in decent shape. We realized we didn't need a front person. The musicians would make it work...and we did. A week later, we reconvened and cut a quick live 4 song demo in my dining room. We came up with a new name, and off I went to get bookings, touching places we had played with the lead singer, and a few other places I had done recent side work for other groups, and had done some 'glad-handing' with the bookers [always let them know you have other 'product'!]. Three weeks later we were gigging..every weekend for the next four years...and on to the 'premiere' clubs, big stages, festivals, etc. Twenty years later, looking back...losing the 'front man' was the best thing that could have happened. We made personnel changes along the way..and those people are as you said...people I can sit down with and talk to, but I would never be in a band with again...even though I was the one who 'fired' them. Two were original members who, over time, demonstrated a certain lack of commitment and/or were not grasping the direction the band was headed. Neither are 'bad' people, or incompetent musicians, just not reliable or forward thinking enough to be involved with again.

Not certain what you 'hear of'...do you mean the 'Nashville bridge', which is a variant on the classic ABR-1?

rent a Pod and charge them for the monthly...they will get their $#!+ relocated elsewhere😉

It must be you... no one else is reporting this. Clear your cache, dump all your cookies, reboot your computer....

and to you and yours as well!

HN[U]GD....love the color, indeed! Fun guitars, to be sure, although not my cup of tea....but for under a C-note? Such a deal! 😎 Back in the mid/late 80s, Ibby Roadstars were all over the metal/hard rock scene here [So Cal], largely due to the locking nut/trem system being already built in...the p-up combos of H-S-S were favored, although I saw some H-S-H versions [mods?]...everybody wanted to be Eddie/Randy back then... A good friend, and guitar 'collector' [primarily old hollowbody Gibsons] even bought one. He didn't play metal, but was enamored of all the potential of the locking trem. About 25+ years ago, someone brought me one of the early Roadstars and asked me to mod it...not pots, trem, tuners...the body! He wanted to take the 'horns' off completely. He wanted something like the old Vox teardrop look, but I was not quite willing to go that far [because they are not good to play sitting down except in classical position], and so I gave him several sketches, with the admonishment that the balance would move to the headstock absent the removed body weight. He said he didn't care about the balance, and we finally arrived at a design that I thought would still balance somewhat, retained a semblance of the lower horn [but greatly reduced the lower horn to a Florentine cutaway] and 'gracefully' had the upper neck joint 'sweep' meet the lower body contour. I also 'squared off' the tip of the head stock; I wish I still had the pics, it came out pretty cool...had it painted a deep sparkle blue [including the front of the head stock] by one of the few guys I used to trust for 'fancy finishes'. It balanced okay, better than my old SG, for sure😉...I think the only thing that saved the balance was the mass of the locking trem....😉

to be fair...what Tim Lerch has there is not a 'Dot'. This is their 'Inspired by Gibson' line, and this is about twice the price of a 'Dot'. I have done mods on 'Dots' for a long time for folks...most of whom assumed they were getting a bargain basement ES-335...what they got was a lot of junk hardware stuffed into a decent body with a decent neck. The earlier [late 90s/early 00s]] Samick versions were actually well built [body/neck], despite cheap p-ups/pots/switch, and with upgrades will hold their own on stage, as opposed to the more recent ones [Studio Dot]. By the time you upgrade [the labor on the wiring aspect, due to the f-hole only access, is a PITA compared to a solid body] the pots, switch, wire, jack, bridge, tailpiece, tuners and p-ups the 'inspired by' version is the far better deal. I would personally do those mods to something like a Firefly, at half the cost of a Dot, than to a newer Dot...

The only reasons to install 'stud mounts' would be if the existing posts were 'bent' [does happen, but not common in my experience], but the more common reason is 'leaning', meaning the wood they are screwed into has deteriorated [which is why the insert studs exist]. Yours, as jtr and bp noted, look fine, and the inserts really won't give you more sustain; if anything, they just add another layer of 'damping' between the string and the body.

hmmm. with minihums? Most Rivieras I've come across had P-90s, some with 3 [Royale P3] or standard 'classic 57' humbuckers [like the early/mid 90s Re-issues]. I am a fan of minihums...I have one on my Epi AlleyKat. The 'Frequensanator' tail is a nice classic Epi touch...congrats on your NGD...and enjoy! Now...if that looking on-line worked for guitars...try watching some porn....😜

ooh...a kitten shaped ornament! [video format was 'unsupported'] Merry xMas, happy holidays, joyous kwanzaa...festivus for the rest of us...

15 years too late...

it is a 'feature'....

most fortunate!

you could put your eye out!