I use an Axe-Fx for everything now but Highwind Amplification makes a Voidcaller pedal that a friend of mine uses and it sounds pretty dang sweet. That's all I know though, it sounds good. I don't know if it has the features you may want but check it out.
I thought those were "fixer upper" style guitars as well. Actually, I pretty much put Harley Benton as the over-the-pond equivalent of Agile.
Also (small rant), if people are going to doing more headless designs, they need to stop making them where I can't put them in my guitar stand. lol
Well the neck is exactly the same on both sets so take that out of the equation. It's all bridge. Even then, the Merrow is just a tweaked Classic according to official statements. I find the Merrow set to be a tad too fizzy for me but I haven't tried the Classics so I don't know if it's worse...
For the import model, yes, the plan is to keep it near that amount (in USD, of course). I haven't heard what our estimated pricing is going to be on the US line yet.
I think it's pretty much the headstock design (or at least afaik)
Blackmachine's were ridiculously expensive yet they were nothing fancy at all really. Some people still swear they're the utmost in craftsmanship but others on here who have also played them have said otherwise. I never...
I have tons of different picks and regularly use a handful of them (one at a time of course). They each do things a little differently than others. Super important to me overall.
Not a total fan of my Focusrite. It's a bit noisy. Had some Windows + Focusrite drivers issues a while back where my audio would drop out and stay out until I re-plugged in my interface.
These are without a doubt the most comfortable TOM bridges I know of. They feel so much better than the ones I've used in the past that have sharp enough edges to make you bleed. lol
Basically what everyone else here has mentioned. It destroys the pickup but there are metal covers that can be slid over normal passive pickups to make them work in a soapbar route. Sometimes the baseplate edge will be soldered to the metal cover in those cases. I'm not sure how it would affect...
You'll need new pots and a ground wire to the bridge (sometimes it's already present though like it was on my Schecter Hellraiser Hybrid PT-7).
Several manufacturers have soapbar-size passives too. It's quite ugly to stick anything but soapbar-sized ones back in. I debated doing that myself...
The "headstocks" on these are way too large to look not-embarassingly-hideous imo
GOC vs Agile? The GOC headless hardware isn't great although I don't imagine Agile's would be either since that's all relatively new "tech" so to speak. My fixed scale GOC's hardware was on-par with Agile's.
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They are based off of Dale's (the original founder of The Guitarmory) guitar design (which yes, was a Blackmachine-esque thing) and then some tweaks and such that we've added. We decided we wanted to bring the "Guitarmory" guitars back and this is the result of that. We're not touting this as...
I ordered a $1299 model, checked out price was $1379.34 due to whatever fees they add on and then the import tax fees were about $75. I ended up paying $1454.34 for a $1299 model.
The narrow string spacing makes getting an 8-string enticing. Anyone know a reputable place to get a tight-spaced 8-string other than Abasi Concepts? What I have now is an Agile Intrepid Pro 828 and the spacing is rather wide. I actually had to use the stock baseplates because of the difference.