Guitar(ist) Thread

[aMpT Mike]

[Kenny]

I love standard 4/4


Also to ask:

Which is better, Ibanez INF1 and INF2 pickups or IBZ designed by EMG pickups?


Process of picking one guitar right now (and don't worry I have a metal effects pedal)

[aMpT Mike]

those are shitty pickups. Just spend a little extra and you get wicked sound. Go for some Dimarzio PAF Joe in the bridge and PAF Fred at the neck. Or evos, those sound great. So I guess, your lame metal pedal would sound less lame.

[Kenny]

Yeah except I don't have the budget. From the pricing in my country those 2 cost me about an extra 250 dollars which I do not really have to spend on pickups.

[Eric]

those are shitty pickups. Just spend a little extra and you get wicked sound. Go for some Dimarzio PAF Joe in the bridge and PAF Fred at the neck. Or evos, those sound great. So I guess, your lame metal pedal would sound less lame.

Don't tell him that, dont you know that your amp is 90% of your tone?

Dont worry much about the pickups now, what kind of amp do you have? if its a tube amp, then yes go ahead and upgrade your pickups or pickup an EHX Metal Muff (great overdrive/high gain pedal). In case you dont, then save up for a decent tube amp, doesnt have to be very big, in fact most small tube combos are louder than most solid state amps and sound better, how big is your budget?

[aMpT Mike]

there's no such thing as a budget. you cant afford something you want, save. It's not a hard concept, you get a job and earn money which you can either spend or save. Yeah the pickups are kind of expensive but they're worth the price. Good pickups with a good amp > shitty pickups with a good amp. You can add all the effects you want but the clean, crisp sound comes from good pickups. I could add all the distortion in the world and my guitar still produces great clean sound if I play chords.

[Eric]

there's no such thing as a budget. you cant afford something you want, save. It's not a hard concept, you get a job and earn money which you can either spend or save. Yeah the pickups are kind of expensive but they're worth the price. Good pickups with a good amp > shitty pickups with a good amp. You can add all the effects you want but the clean, crisp sound comes from good pickups. I could add all the distortion in the world and my guitar still produces great clean sound if I play chords.

You're missing the point dude, the tone comes completely from the amp, the pickups just help shape it, why do you think the amps have built in distortions and cleans? So that the pickups can build around that and help shape your tone, if it was the other way around, I could have an EMG 81 installed into my LP and have it sound like Zakk Wylde during the No More Tears era, with my shitty 15W combo, why? because he used EMG 81's. But no, his tone came from his overdrive pedal and his old Ampeg amps. Of course having a nice tube amp and nice pickups would be nice, but I'm not sure in Thailand (please excuse me if I'm ignorant here) the concept of simply getting a job and saving up is not as simple as it is in the U.S.A or Canada, if it was, would there be such a high poverty level? No there wouldn't.

[Kenny]

This is true. Most places I know (minimum wage) require you to have atleast a high school degree before trying to get a job.

[Kenny]

ALSO: Average minimum wage per DAY in Thailand for lets say, a fast food chain: 6 dollars.


6 dollars per day? What the fuck.

[Tackleberry]

During the summer people from Thailand come all the way to Sweden to pick berries. Swedes don't even do that, cause it's not very lucrative. So yeah, Eric got a strong point there, Mike.

[MaCi]

During the summer people from Thailand come all the way to Sweden to pick berries. Swedes don't even do that, cause it's not very lucrative. So yeah, Eric got a strong point there, Mike.

In Örnsköldsvik we heve NO berries left.

[aMpT Mike]

I dont give a fuck what eric has to say, he's a liar and he's proved it in the past. I dont associate with liars. Poverty is just a term for lazy people. If you're life is so hard take a boat ride across the atlantic and live out the American Dream. You people should read the book Ragged Dick by Horatio Alger. If everything is so corrupt in Thailand then join the dark side. Deal heroin or something. I'm sure you could make stacks of money.

I have two guitars, an ESP Dave Mustaine DV8-R with Seymour Duncan pickups and an Ibanez JS1200 with Dimarzio Joe Satriani signature pickups. If I play both guitars on my amp with the exact same settings, the JS1200 sounds much better, more crisp, clean sound with a metal tone. Why is that? Because they're really good quality pickups and even though the Seymour Duncan pickups are good, they're not as good and you can tell from the sound.

[ofthemountain]

OK I dunno where this has gone, browsing through all I can see is shit about berries and wages...

Anyway, in response to some stuff Eric was saying, I don't like to take theory too seriously. I agree it gives you a lot of scope for creativity but sticking to it harshly cramps it too. I write stuff based around keys but add in other weird chords/melodies that are keyless if they sound good. Bands like Lamb Of God and Opeth get really cool stuff out of the Chromatic scale which I like.

At the end of the day it's all about how it sounds and I find it's easier to be more original if I'm fairly loose with theory. However I can see why other players find theory (particularly complex theory) a necessity when writing or whatever. As long as it sounds good, it doesn't matter right?

[Eric]

I dont give a fuck what eric has to say, he's a liar and he's proved it in the past. I dont associate with liars. Poverty is just a term for lazy people. If you're life is so hard take a boat ride across the atlantic and live out the American Dream. You people should read the book Ragged Dick by Horatio Alger. If everything is so corrupt in Thailand then join the dark side. Deal heroin or something. I'm sure you could make stacks of money.

I have two guitars, an ESP Dave Mustaine DV8-R with Seymour Duncan pickups and an Ibanez JS1200 with Dimarzio Joe Satriani signature pickups. If I play both guitars on my amp with the exact same settings, the JS1200 sounds much better, more crisp, clean sound with a metal tone. Why is that? Because they're really good quality pickups and even though the Seymour Duncan pickups are good, they're not as good and you can tell from the sound.

Dude why dont you shut the fuck up and go away, none of your posts matter anyway so why waste it? So I lied in the past, big fucking deal, get over it, seriously, all you ever do is fucking spam the forums, I'm getting really fucking tired of your annoyance, you're a nuisance on the forums and I dont give a fuck about what you've done in the past for the forums, you're a dick and its been proved by how you react when you know people are right. Go play a 6505 and then tell me what a real amp sounds like, oh and btw, the JS1200 sounds different because of the basswood body, not the pickups, the DV8-R has a Mahogany body, which is a darker sounding wood, so shut the fuck up, get a new amp and hear what real tone is like.

And the theory helps, I dont let it affect my creativity, remember dissonance is bliss

[aMpT Mike]

I dont give a fuck what eric has to say, he's a liar and he's proved it in the past. I dont associate with liars. Poverty is just a term for lazy people. If you're life is so hard take a boat ride across the atlantic and live out the American Dream. You people should read the book Ragged Dick by Horatio Alger. If everything is so corrupt in Thailand then join the dark side. Deal heroin or something. I'm sure you could make stacks of money.

I have two guitars, an ESP Dave Mustaine DV8-R with Seymour Duncan pickups and an Ibanez JS1200 with Dimarzio Joe Satriani signature pickups. If I play both guitars on my amp with the exact same settings, the JS1200 sounds much better, more crisp, clean sound with a metal tone. Why is that? Because they're really good quality pickups and even though the Seymour Duncan pickups are good, they're not as good and you can tell from the sound.

Dude why dont you shut the fuck up and go away, none of your posts matter anyway so why waste it? So I lied in the past, big fucking deal, get over it, seriously, all you ever do is fucking spam the forums, I'm getting really fucking tired of your annoyance, you're a nuisance on the forums and I dont give a fuck about what you've done in the past for the forums, you're a dick and its been proved by how you react when you know people are right. Go play a 6505 and then tell me what a real amp sounds like, oh and btw, the JS1200 sounds different because of the basswood body, not the pickups, the DV8-R has a Mahogany body, which is a darker sounding wood, so shut the fuck up, get a new amp and hear what real tone is like.

And the theory helps, I dont let it affect my creativity, remember dissonance is bliss

I still have fans here. Shut your piehole you dirty immigrant. And dont tell me to get a new amp to hear what real tone is like. I've played on my buddy's Peavey JSX head through a marshall half-cab, on both my JS1200 and my buddy's JEM and Universe. I think I've heard quite good tone. hey remember that fancy studio you were always playing at and making recordings? haha yeah, shut the fuck up.