That's the bridge ground wire and in my opinion you should rewire it back with actives also.
But my experience with actives is non existent..
Let the RG8 Mods begin...
- Thread starter M3CHK1LLA
- Start date
This site may earn a commission from merchant affiliate links like Ebay, Amazon, and others.
That's the bridge ground wire and in my opinion you should rewire it back with actives also.
But my experience with actives is non existent..
This site may earn a commission from merchant links like Ebay, Amazon, and others.
FromTheMausoleum
That one guy
Just impulse bought bareknuckle aftermaths...
m4rK
Well-Known Member
Painted the Fret board black with....
BEFO'
DURIN
My lovely girlfriend helping me
After!
Looks great man! Glad to see someone else have good results with this onyx. Did you get it on pretty smooth? Its thick stuff and easy to get streaks in it..
I was really easy to do. I only squirted a little bit onto a paper plate and it was enough for 2 coats. I didn't Have trouble at all and I'm very happy with the result!
Edit: PS it covered the fret markers on the sides and finger board itself, can't even see a trace of them.
Edit: PS it covered the fret markers on the sides and finger board itself, can't even see a trace of them.
... good for you... I am waiting for white DAs...
Hyacinth
Ghostmaker
As far as I know you still need to ground active pickups, right?
Metal_Maniac
Well-Known Member
You will still need to solder that wire to the pots! That wire comes from the Bridge and grounds the whole guitar. Otherwise you will get the ungrounded buzzing sound until you touch the string with your hands completing the circuit and the buzz will stop.
Don't throw away that wire!
CrashRG
I'm Back Bitches!
I'm not saying the tone is great, but in defense of all us broke-asses here, not all of us can afford to drop 3 digits on emgs, bare knuckles, Duncan's or dimarzios or pod hd's right off the bat......and since tone is personal preference, maybe to some guys, just maybe, these sound great.
berzerkergang
Banned
Being that the RG8 has passives, itd cost yah less than 100 to drop a bridge pickup in there to start with. I didnt mean to act high and mighty, but there's a difference between keeping them while you save for better pickups and them actually being a good pickup.
MikeH
Bring the gain
Just set up the RG8 for Drop D. Holy dickballs does it sound good.
FromTheMausoleum
That one guy
Just bought a Misha modded version of the DeadHorse pedal to go along with my Bare Knuckles... I'll be sitting "patiently" by my door for the next few weeks waiting for them to get here. 
berzerkergang
Banned
Curiously off topic,,, why does the deadhorse that merrow demos have a cow skull and the one being seemingly found everywhere else has a skeleton riding a horse. Any diff here? PS whered you pick up yours? PM me if youd prefer
FromTheMausoleum
That one guy
They change up the paint on their models every now and then to spice things up I guess, I ordered the Misha custom right from the ProTone site(that is currently broken due to insane amounts of traffic from Perifairy™
here is a link to the thread he made. 
http://www.sevenstring.org/forum/ge...dition-misha-mansoor-signature-overdrive.html
berzerkergang
Banned
Yeah after watching the merrow demo, I am going to buy one. I love when Keith demos stuff, he always stretches the use of the products with his playing. Ive seen some other demo guys that really do nothing to showcase the product and seem like they just do it for the free/discounted gear.
MetalBuddah
0000 00 0 0 00 000
EDITED AS PER REQUEST
On a more related note, I got tired of the vinyl on my RG8 so I took it off. I will be removing the tone pot this week. Apparently it opens up pickups a little bit and makes them sound better.
On a more related note, I got tired of the vinyl on my RG8 so I took it off. I will be removing the tone pot this week. Apparently it opens up pickups a little bit and makes them sound better.
berzerkergang
Banned
Merrow makes me want to buy everything he demos lol .... STAHP
Hyacinth
Ghostmaker
Hey so earlier Minwax wiping stain was mentioned, so I looked it up because I planned to ebonize my fretboard, but then I saw that they offer different colors and it got me thinking: 3 or 4 coats of the indigo stain might look awesome on the black RG8 fretboard but I don't want to try it, just in case it ends up looking retarded.
