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Atreyu - Suicide Notes has a pathetic guitar tone, really thin and weak. Basically spoiled what is otherwise a decent album. I see a lot of people mention In Flames - RTR and completely agree. I dont know what happened in the early 2000's but there seemed to be this really stupid trend of...

Yep, EMG's are my pickup. I have other guitars with different passive pickups that sound great, but my yardstick is always EMG for my sound. If a passive sounds similar to an 81 then I'm all good and really the only pickups I've encountered that get close to this, to my ear, are BKP Nailbombs...

Ebony is my preference, though at the moment I have majority Maple fretboard guitars 🤔 🤷‍♂️ To me, it's really an aesthetic/feel thing over anything else. I like dark fingerboards and Ebony has the smoothest feel to me though Maple is a close second in feel, I just dont like bright colour on my...

Exactly, plus it would be sacrilege to destroy a Mayones on the road.

Yeah its just a step too far and when your saying that about death vocals it must be pretty out there.

Yeah I was pretty ashamed of ESP when I saw this, this type of thing wreaks of a Gibson move. Digital snake oil and nothing more. Except snake oil at least physically existed, so its not even as good as snake oil.

Relentless Mutation intro is fucking excellent. Really not in to their vocal style though.

BTBM I just dont see why people crap their pants about them, not to say they're bad but I dont hear the "OMG" in them. Now saying that, a Dusty Waring PRS could well end up in my possession at some point ;) Tool is just too long in getting to the point for me, once they get to the point its ok...

Megadeth blows in my opinion, never understood why people like early Megadeth over early Metallica. Between The Buried and Me do nothing for me either and I struggle to get past the first 79 minutes of a Tool intro.

Ooooooof that album is going straight in my basket!

Another shout for the Jacksons, I had a MIJ Kelly with a compound neck that was really nice and thin but didn't feel "absent". If it had a satin neck finish it would have been the best neck I ever played but my current favourite is my Caparison which is very similar but not as thin as the...

I've noticed over the years that string seating in guitar nuts has gotten a lot deeper. I always thought that the string was supposed sit "on" the nut not inside it. As you say about half way to 2/3rds down the thickness of the bass string and just enough for the plain strings to not pop out of...

Man that guitar looks awesome and sounds like the build is top notch but the bad nut is a bit of a curiosity. Very strange to have flawless fret work, which is much more involved and tricky than nut work IMO, only to have a poorly cut nut. When you say they were uneven, what do you mean, width...

I've used 10-52 (EB Skinny Top Heavy Bottom for example) for drop C/C standard for years with no issues. Taught enough in the bass strings and still malleable enough in the trebles. The only caveat I've made to this is doing double duty with a guitar for C standard/drop B when I've gone to 10-54...

The best and pretty much only Dimarzios I've used to extent are the Super Distortions, Blaze II's and PAF7. Super Distortions we're awesome and sounded excellent in drop B where I used them for years. The Blaze II's I had in my old RG7620 were not bad by any means but they also didn't really...

He has a bunch of other ESP's though including a sweet Eclipse. Plus if they're willing to put that abomination Max Cavalera sig out to name just one gawdy Sig., then I dont think its an issue of shape!

I'd much rather see a Brian Eschbach signature to be honest. Thats been looooong overdue.

Just to add some info, I have Nailbombs in my C-tuned Caparison which is all mahogany body and they sound excellent. I play a similar vein of melodic Death/Thrash metal among others and they serve that purpose right on the nose. My original intention was to drop my go-to EMG 81/85 in but after...

I had an RG752AHM with PAF7's in and I hated them, so low output I just couldn't get a good tone out of them especially heavy tone. My Mayones has Lundgren M7's and they are way better. Clear output, nice bass clarity and not too trebly. Split coil tone is "Mehh" but it tend not to like split...