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Bravo .... gotta try this !!!!

Epiphone has surprised many, including myself.Back in the 1970's, Burnt, Greco and Nokia guitars were scoffed at and not given the respect they deserved.Ten years ago, my Gal gave $ 700.00, as a birthday present, I went to GC, looked at the many guitars, tried out some Gibsons, Fender and fell in love with the Epiphone LPC.I added some of my favorite pickups and a bridge with fine tuners, just like my 1974 Gibson Les Paul Custom. My Epiphone is just as good as the Gibson Les Paul, at a fraction of the price.Epiphone's quality has sure gotten better over the years.I'm very glad that you gave attention to those guitars, in a few years, many of today's gear snobs will recognize Epiphone's place as great instrument makers, along side the "Big Boys" .

I use a VHT Valvulator as the first thing my guitar goes into to lower the impedance before going into my effects board and i have on at the end of my board too, It restored my dynamics lost in the effects chain and put some analog tone to my multi effects floor units. This article, is to me, a very ignored issue to us guitar player .... great article !!!!

When you lower or raise the whole pickup or just only the pole pieces, you can hear the difference. I assembled an S,S,H configured guitar, to play 1980's Metal. I put a Carvin M22SD in the bridge position, it had too treble. I lowered the poles and raised the whole pick up .... and with a few minor adjustments, the guitar was perfect. Having great tones when it comes to pickup, is like that saying about business .... " It's about location, location , location.

He created some of the most unique sounds ever. I love the sound he achieved on "House Burning down" on Jimi Hendrix's , Electric Lady Land. The two swirling Flangers ( one negative, the other positive) swirling away and canceling when they meet, only to swirl way from each other.Engineers like Eddie Kramer, not only made music sound better ..... he inspired great music !!!!

I bought this pretty prestine condition , early 1980's 4x12 cabinet and opened it up last weekend, that I bought in 1997. The slanted cab was larger than the ones made after 1985 , then I found a perfect streight cab to mount my slanted. The slanted one had the classic Celesion Greenbacks that are 30 watts each with 16 ohms resistance. For years I noticed that the streight cab had more upper mids and better bass capacity with the same specs as the Celesion Greenbacks. Those Fane speakers, in my opinion, sound better than the Greenback, by a mile. Has anybody ever tried Fane speakers and What's you opinion of them ?

Congrats, that in my opinion is success, even if you don't have platnium records on your wall or do you ? When I moved to the Fairfax district in L.A. , I met great people like Michael Fell and Gina Zamparelli ( God Rest that Angel's soul ) , they introduced me to world class Rock musicians to play with I didn't become an MTV star, but I had great Musicians to play with / learn from, had a car with a full tank, a fridge full of food, rent paid on time and blessing of a Life time .... To me , I was fulfilled and happy. The most I hoped for was to make a living as a hiredgun Guitarist.

I use 46-10 on my Floyd Rose trems with three springs. Lately, that guage of strings are feeling like speggetti under my fingers, I'M thinking of loading up my Floyd Rose guitars with 11, 14, 18, 28, 38, 48 or 52 on my low E I do 2 whole step bends and I need more resistance.

Harmony Central should have a room to play with others .... it would be ground breaking.

Artec is South Korean, not Chinese.

GFS's prices have become outrageous in the last few years, due to the success of the Mean 90's, Fat Pats, VEH, Dream 180's and Crunchy Pat pickups. I own Bare Knuckle, Dimarzio, Seymour Duncan, Carvin and 1970's - early 1980's Bill Lawrence. GFS, Dragon Fire ( TnT Guitars) , Guitar Heads and Tone Rider, even though much less expensive than the established brands, have comparable pickups to the " Big Brands" , without a doubt. Like beauty, good tone is in ear of the beholder.

I ordered this exact set, a year and a half ago on the recommendations of a fellow forumite and the set has a very Mark Knopfler sound .... I agree with Phil, they should remove " set " from the discription. Luckily, I've have had great shopping experiences and service from them. ​​​​

I wonder if they will ever show their results. The survey was very fast and easy.

I bought a couple of 2x12 Behringer amps off a gear snob buddy of mine. He came over and he was amazed on how good I made them sound and I could see the regret in his eyes. Bugera amps are good sounding amps, but the customer service is practically non existent, from what heard and read from people and online. Bugera has a bad wrap like Carvin, Burny, Edwards, Epiphone, Squire, Tokai and others. I tried a Bugera amp, I think it was 333, I could be wrong, but anyway, the amp had some great drive to it, on the two overdrive channels, but if you put a overdrive pedal up front, you better lighten the gain on pedal and the clean channel was great. Overall, it was a good amp for Hard Rock / Metal.

Great stuff here !!!!

I own over 10 guitars, I order in bulk. Many times, I have to buy 12 sets of 10's, 13's and 17's gauge , because I like the tone of aged low E, A and strings ( more bass) and I change the G, B and high E every two weeks.

I wanna enlist !!!!

I'm in lust with that guitar !!!!

The White one has a maple / maple fret board Mite Mite neck, a 1979 Fender Strat body, Fender Custom Shop "69" pickups ( Neck / Middle), a Schaller S6 pickup in the bridge ( rated at 13.09k ohms) with a Wilkinson tremolo. The Sunburst Strat has a Stew-Mac Ash wood body, a Squire maple / rosewood fret board ( best neck ever), Fender Texas Specials ( Neck / Middle), now has a Dragon Fire Duo Rail pickup ( 11.97k ohms) in the bridge with a Wilkinson tremolo. One of my guitar students gave me a left handed Squire neck with a 70's style ( large) head stock. I may go hunting on evilbay to get me a body and build another Frankenstrat !!!!

I'd post something, but my wife would be elbow deep in my 4$$, pulling my lungs out .... it must be the Aztec in her

I love the Wilkinson tremolo, I have them on one Squire and my home assembled Strats !!!!

I have a couple of Squire necks in a box. The only funny thing about Squire, is how gear snobs cry, when their high end guitars don't measure up , playability or sound wise to a hotrodded Squire

Love the 1970's large head stock Strats !!!!

I've always copyrighted my original music. Back in the 1980's some local idiots that I played with took some of my music and tried to play it off like they wrote. I went to their gig and told them to stop playing it or I would take action against them. They were part of the local "Hick Clique" music scene and kinda blackballed me. I didn't care. I moved to the Big City and they had the nerve to try to be friendly with me, since they seen I was playing in one of the more prominent bands in the city ..... I told them to F' off and I would do them a favor by ignoring them .