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  1. JediMasterThrash

    8-string multiscale tremolo hantug vs agile vs kiesel

    For the longest time, the only multiscale trem options were the kahler (agile) or hantug (aristides). Just recently it seems, agile has created their own 8-string multiscale trem to replace the kahler. And then I just saw Kiesel did their first 8-string multiscale trem offering, and it also...
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    Floyd Rose question -- returning flat or sharp

    Check your butterfly action. Pluck the vibrato bar both up and down and see if you get good bufferfly flutter with sustain. If not then there's wear on the edge/posts. And that's unusually with a "real" floyd unless it was mistreated. Any real floyd with a good install should return to tune no...
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    Tremolo deadlock - how to lock a trem in style

    Sure a real drop-tune is best. But when I got drum and bass and an audience and hit the pedal for Sad But True nobody knows the difference. And I'd say it's at least 90% of the way to a real drop-tune. Leagues above all other pitch shifters I've tried in terms of polyphonic drop (lots of pitch...
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    Tremolo deadlock - how to lock a trem in style

    Digitech Drop. Seriously though, fixed bridge guitars are cheaper, why would anyone bother with permanently locking a trem? And a Drop is cheaper than a new gutiar still.
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    How often do you tune your guitar?

    Couldn't be any more wrong there. The double-locking system is amazing at keeping you in tune for weeks or months. I've got 4 guitars with floating vibratos. Two OFR, an edge III, and one with a 1000. The original floyds and the edge iii are rock solid. I literally play on them for weeks or a...
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    Dealing with neck dive

    I have one guitar with serious neck dive. I got Guitar Gummy, it's a stick-on strip you put on the strap right over your shoulder. Works great. Doesn't pully my shirt off. And works with any strap you already have.
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    Pick an Album to Re-record

    I don't quite get the Symphony X V comments. I think that's one of their better recordings. At least for guitar tone. I feel the bass guitar is doubling the guitar a lot and mixed too loud, and this causes it to mud out, but I don't think the guitar is the problem. It's kind of AJFA in reverse...
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    Pick an Album to Re-record

    There's a few albums that actually had terrible production issues that some how made it to pressing (not just artist choice of tone). Tony MacAlpine's Master Of Paradise was somehow mastered at about 10% volume, you have to dime your car stereo just to hear it, and the loss of bit depth really...
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    Choosing speakers - is it super important, or can you EQ enough to get them to sound good?

    ears tell the full story, but if you go by the posted frequency response on celestions website, the CL80 is more evened out than the redback or K100, while also having less >10lk content. THe EVM12k specs show it to be quite narrow banded with heavy low and highi pass. Though I will say by my...
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    Choosing speakers - is it super important, or can you EQ enough to get them to sound good?

    Another train of thought. The reason it's so hard to EQ out the speaker differences is that you're choosing speakers with specific spikey peaks and cuts (::cough:: v30s ::cough::). And EQs are usually quite broad, even a 31-band EQ affects about half an octave per band. And same with those...
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    Home practice - amp head/combo guys, how do you listen to what you're playing at home?

    Yamaha THR is all you need. It has aux/usb with independent volume control to play along with, and FRFR speakers so you can get IR guitar sound and backing track sound out of the same speakers. Otherwise, when I want a separate speaker for backing tracks along with my main guitar cabs, I use an...
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    Cool interview with Devin, Tosin and Petrucci

    The air/randomness argument is so dumb. You can take a modelling amp and still run it through a tube poweramp and speaker cabinet. And you can take an IR modeller and run it through a FRFR poweramp and speaker. Nothing about modelling inherently prevents feeling the speaker push air randomly.
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    Do cobalts wear SS frets? And other string tech

    I guess about every 2 years I gotta re-investigate guitar strings. I've been really happy with EB Cobalts for a while. But it seems nearly every cobalts vs. NYXL thread says cobalts wear down your frets. I was wondering if that's true for stainless steel frets, or just regular nickel-silver...
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    Stereo multi-voice chorus for high gain metal

    That does sound great. Too bad it's mono-input. One thing I've found, specifically for t metal, is that chorus that sounds great on leads or chord work can sound too swooshy on palm-muted thrash riffs. When you just PM at 150bmp, you instantly hear the swooshing around of the chorus phases and...
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    Stereo multi-voice chorus for high gain metal

    Looking up the Digitech CR-7, seemed familiar. Lo-and-behold I totally forgot, I had bought a Nautila a couple years back to try out. Just found it fresh in the box untouched lol.
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    Jackson Audio Broken Arrow vs. Boss SD-1 / MXR CBMOD

    So far for high-gain metal (non-djent) boosting, it seems like the Boss SD-1 (and clones) are the king go to. I tend to agree, I found the MXR CBMOD the best out of many I tried (for this task. For other lower-gain tones I've picked different pedals). But just was reading about the Jackson...
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    Stereo multi-voice chorus for high gain metal

    Free the tone chorus looks great, but is mono-in. Dr. scientist doesn't appear to have a chorus. Yeah I always run my chorus in the loop so it won't get gained up. But will still have to deal with a full frequency range of harmonic distortion so circuit quality needs to be there. The rocktron...
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    Stereo multi-voice chorus for high gain metal

    I just found the new Jackson Audio NewWave which regenerated an itch to try out some chorii pedals. My primary usage is thickening up high gain metal. I've found standard chorus is too warbly. At a minimum a tri-chorus is needed to start to make it swirl vs. warble. Stereo in and stereo out...
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    Boutique cables

    Speaking of companies that just take OEM cables and slap neutrix connectors on them, that's exactly what I use. Pro Audio LA. I find the prices actually very reasonable, a third the cost of buying a branded "mogami" cable, and you can configure them to any length, any straight/right angle/TS/TRS...
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    Boutique cables

    Even sound quality being equal, I think the biggest reason to pick a cable is durability. Anytime I bought the standard cheap cables, the stress release is bad, causing the cables to pull out from the connector. The solder joints from the tip to cable go bad over time, causing a slow degredation...


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