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I'm wondering if any of you have tried any bridge humbuckers in alder or ash-bodied teles, with a humbucker version of the metal tele bridge/bridge pickup setup. I'm looking for a low or medium output pickup with a good organic sound.

I finally got frustrated enough with the annoying rattle coming from my amp to dive in and find it. I figured out that the power tubes were rattling like crazy. They are completely fine when I put a little upward pressure on them like in the pic below. Anyone know a cure for this? I have pulled the tubes and squeezed the tube holders together in order for a more snug fit but seems that after they get hot the rattle just comes back. It's fine @ louder volumes but when playing at house volume it is annoying.
The only fixes i know of is to retention the tube socket's and/or get spring retainers like this.where would I get spring retainers like the ones on yours for my 6L6s?

I know that vacuume tubes give certain distortion charecteristics that everyone loves, and that the clipping from solid state diodes don't really live up to all that . . . but I was just wondering if there is any difference in the clean sound? Like from what I understand, the clean sound from tubes should be exactly the same as the clean sound from s.s. amps. Anyone know for sure?

hey i just had the shr-1 hot rails installed on my jackson dinky i think is what its called because i was told on the musicians friend ratings by just about everyone that they would make my guitar sound somwhat like srv's or kws's tone well i have them put in my guitar and they sound horriable!!! it sounds very muffled when switched all they way up and one down its sounds ok i dont know if my installer put them in wrong or what it said on the instrustions there were 3 different ways to connect it , also i have a marshall mg series 50 dfx , ts7 tube screamer with drive, tone, and level knobs with a optional ts9 and hot switch on it, dime custom wah petal, super octave, and the hot rails installed in my neck pick-up now is there any way i could get the srv sound out of that stuff i mentioned?

See, I bought this cheapo humbucker for my Epi strat, to give it a little more chunk at the bridge, but I'm kinda confused.

Brand New Peavey Valve King 50 Watt comboBrand New Wylde Overdrive, along with tuner and Wah pedalThe LTD is used, but it's new to me, got an Invader and Jazz goin' in that one!

on a strat. Do you do yours or just leave it? On a quot;Lilquot; bucker should you do all the screws or just the ones on the back.I am using the sreamin demons.

yeaaah I made a few threads but er... I didn't get as much info as I hoped... so I reiterate, sorry...
What pickups by SD or DiMarzio (...) have tight bass? The Full Shred I hear (which will shortly end up in my model 4) and what others? I'm interested mostly in the SC size humbuckers Thanks for any feedback.

....and for that reason, maybe many of us should look at pickups with less of an exaggerated midrange. After all, mids on top of mids on top of mids can equal a tubby mess. I think this is why a lot of guys like the C-5. It really allows the guitar to do what it was meant to do....have its natural mids shine through without a mid dense pickup coloring the tone. I have been thinking this way a lot lately realizing you can dial up all the mids you want with a decent amp and decent guitar so maybe it isn't good to rely so heavily on the pickup to provide the mids to cut the mix.....

ok I played the stilleto today and this is what I did. I put it on 50 watt, with the switch set on the punchy setting. maxed the presence and gain and high's and low's and only half (5) on mid. thats about as gainy scooped as you can get on a el34 type amp. I played thru a half stack full of vintage 30's and bent down in front of the 4 speakers instead of sitting above them on a stool and realy listened to the amp. It was both punchy and clipy and the gain was there as well but not as gainy as a recto but thats due to the el34 tubes in this amp. I thought it sounded significantly better than my old jcm 800 marshall head wich lacked gain and bottom end, this amp had bottom end with the base maxed and I could get the american fat strat to chirp and squill nicely. it does have plenty of gain but again its not as pronounced as on the recto's with there 6L6 tubes but its there and it does have that nice el34 clip. I did not try the clean channel or other settings on the amp as I just wanted to see how crunchy I could get the thing mainly useing it for distortion only. Those in the know say Bogner has the clip and the real liquad gain to match. its also more than 2000 more than the stilleto. my guess is that there are gunna be the usuall amp hot rodders out there who will add that much more gain to the stilleto to make it that much better but for how much money? anyway the gain is fine for most things anyways but now I have to hear a bogner to see whats up as those with the cash to buy anything are swearing by them. still I have to wonder, if some one could hot rod the stilleto with even more gain for people just useing it for distortion only would it be a cheaper and almost as good as the bogners distortion? this I dont know.

I just got back into town and was lucky enough that the EMB was still on my porch It looks great, the right ears were bent a bit, but I started to fix that. The build quality is superb and the insides are very tidy on a fairly small board.

Okey, I'm sorry if this has been asked before, but I didn't find anything by searching, and time is running out for me right now, so I can't search more (explanation will follow)

I'm picking up a first guitar for my 10 year old nephew. He's been playing piano for a few years now and is pretty musical, so I think he has what it takes.

I want to try some more advanced wiring to turn my JV strat into the GT (Guitar Toad) strat. Which of the following choices do you most recommend? If I need to go to a master tone control, I still want to keep the middle pup always hot and change to one master tone that will control only the neck and bridge. I'm guessin' that is easily do-able.

Just ran into this on Ebay :

What size Allen wrench do I need to adjust the saddle height on my Strat? My smallest Allen wrench is 5/64quot; and even that seems too big.

anyone asked himself why theres many kind of duncans that dont come stock on guitars,for example i never saw a guitars comes with CUSTOM or DD .....,jackson and esp making guitars for rock and metal and never use them,maybe jackson the only one who use variations of duncan and still not use a DIMEBUCKER (for example).

There's an ad in the latest Guitar Player where Eric is bragging it up. Looks like a new version of the reissue too...green magnet cover rather than the black cover on all of mine. Anyone know if this newer reissue is any differant from the G12h-30 Celestion has been making for the last few years? That one is my favorite ceramic magnet Celestion. Thanks! Lew

The first jam i recorded with my minidisc came out with none of these little skips or blank spots in the recording. But every time after that they all had little blank spots when i put it on computer or listened back to it. They are spots where its just stopped recording for a split second because the music keeps going and you can hear if you sing along to it in your head that when it kicks back in its still in the right spot, but the recording just stopped momentarily.

I was playing my schecter semi-hollow (the older with two inputs) and the volume cut off suddely (in the lower of the two inputs). I looked at the back of the guitar and the holder for the battery was open, so I closed it. However, now all I hear is a very light, distorted sound. The higher input works fine.