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Oh man guys... I've been listening to Ensiferum for a bit now, they're a German metal band I believe. Anyway, on their Tale of Revenge CD single they do a cover of Metallica's Battery (I don't think that song needs an introduction), and the tone of the guitars is amazing both for crunch and for soloing. Would anyone know what these guys are using?

Okay, I was down at the forums of ultimate-guitar, and this one guy did a cover of sum 41's hell song, jazz style. It's pretty cool, but obviously not as fast as the original version. Props to him!

Hi ho everyone,

Hey guys. I am thinking of getting a tube amp, or pretty much are, in a few weeks. Now I can't afford a Mesa, Engl, high end Peavy or any other $1,000 amp. I know that Steve Vai uses a Boss DS1 with his Carvin Legacy. Does he send the DS1 into the clean channel, or does he throw it ontop of the over drive channel? I am looking at getting a Fender Hot Rod or Peavy Valveking. I need good cleans for blues and good distortion for metal and progressive rock. Vai has a great distortion tone and if he mainly gets it through his Boss DS1, then I should have a good shot at getting a nice high gain tone through a cheaper tube amp with the right pedals. So does anyone know how he uses it? Thanks a lot guys.

I finally got my server back, so I am now ready to share with you the lovely used USA Strat I snatched up a few weeks ago. The folks in Corona did a damn good job on this one. Take a look:

While I was over at a buddies house playing his brand new Olympic While American Strat w/ rosewood board (jealously is bad, but its a strat and I want one ) he had the idea to try and make a distortion pedal so we surfed the web and found a simple fuzz face diagram and started construction with components desoldered off of the board of a broken RC car and some other random cheap electronics junk. We didn't exactly expect it to sound even vaguely good or even work but we actually got it working. It sounds like ****, takes off the highs in a horrible way (i think because we have the wrong caps), goes from no gain to total distortion in less then half a millimeter of knob travel and blew out one of the transistors the first time he turned it on but what the hell, it actually works and it was made using not a single purchased part or parts designed for the purpose by a couple of 14 year olds without much electrical experience. What would you reccomend we do from this point on because we intend to replace all of the comonents with stuff of radio shack level quality and tweak the circuit. I would love parts recomendations or pretty much anything. We arn't really going for vintage tone as we have no way of getting NOS Germanium parts anyways but some kind of vaugely usable fuzz or distortion of any type would be cool. It can even sounds nasty is its in a cool way. I'll have to ask my buddy for some pictures since i can't find my stupid camera but when I get some i'll post them, it is ghetto to the first degree lol.

Jazz neck, black, installed in a guitar for about a week or two. $55 shipped.

I know this is a forum, so it is possible the answer to my question may be somewhat biased. However, I ask you to please decide without favor or prejudice.

Ok I play mostly blues and blues/rock.
I like a lot of classic rock to and am learning different styles etc.

First, anyone have success stories buying B stock axes?
I scored a Jackson Dk2 for what I feel is a good price as long as there are no suprises