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    NGD: Ibanez RG8

    I have an RGA8 I bought like 10 years ago, after some Tyler stylie rolling on the fretboard it is super fun to play. Most fun is to use an alternate tuning, any alternate tuning really. There's creativity in that to be mined, lotsa fun to be had. I have a Kahler trem to install on it. Need to...
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    Laptop vs Quad Cortex

    Same here at first except on a Win machine, so I replaced it with a Quantum 2626 and all is gold now. Been using the TK Imperial mk II, Soldano and Fortin NoName plugins, superb every one. The Rabea is my next one just for the synth it has, soooo much fun.
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    Laptop vs Quad Cortex

    Oh, one more thing: If you are serious about going out with it you WILL need a motherboard you can disable C states on from the BIOS, you'll get clicking noise from processor core state changes otherwise and I don't know if Mac can do that. Be sure to check. At home for for just playing or...
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    Laptop vs Quad Cortex

    Laptop, for a couple hundred you can have several NDSP amp plugins and a Headrush FRFR. I do that now myself and will be using it to play out with as well. Key is low latency on the interface, I use a presonus Quantum because it is basically 3ms latency through the DAW. Several things make this...
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    Do Jacksons sound worse than ESPs?

    Yeah, no.Electric guitars only sound as good as their electronics so not really. If you are buying a guitar based on it's stock pickups and electronics you are limiting yourself to the extreme. When looking at a guitar aside from the usual visual aesthetics what you are looking for is feel, how...
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    8 string or 7 with DigiTech Drop?

    I have a cheap RGA-8 I tune standard except for 8 which gets a .098 bass string and E1 tuning (yes, I had to replace that machine head and bridge saddle with something suitable for a string that big). Get an 8 string and get comfortabe with it, if as you say you are just doing this just for you...
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    stereo 4x12 or two 2x12s?

    2 oversized 2x12's will save your back a bit and fit in the car better while sounding big. If you batten 3 sides and the back inside you can make it sound like a 4x12 cab pretty easily. Or you can do like I do, use a good sounding oversize 2x12 battened up for dry and pick up a couple of cheap...
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    stereo 4x12 or two 2x12s?

    Sorry, somthing caused a duplicate.
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    What screams "cheap" to you?

    Most of my girlfriends.
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    I find music youtubers really annoying...

    I find ALL of the people you mentioned as hating to be far more entertaining and informational than pretty much everything I get reading random who are you types on forums like this, so no. And yeah, you pretty much sound like a jerk so if that's not what you were going for try giving it some...
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    Suhr Discovery Delay

    Looks and sounds like a very nice delay, a cut above the usual for sure. But I doubt it's enough to make me part with my FTT FT-2Y and FF-1Y.
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    Is Neural Releasing an SLO?

    Grabbed it today, dialed back a tad it sounds close enough to my recording preamp, a SP-77. Cranked up it definitely reminded me of both my SLO and Hot Rod 50. I bet my old X-88R is in there too somewhere. Nice job.
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    How much do you like playing guitar?

    11. Playing guitar has been integral to my life, like breathing. When I don't play for extended periods I get itchy and start looking for ways to get my hands on a guitar. It's an obsession. And when I get that tone, mmmm, heaven. Like a drug. Perhaps you too have heard it, the one that makes...
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