Oh, yes and a Power Kemper!!!
I just love the thing!!!!
Show your latest guitar
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@db9091 You are so right about strats. I´ve got a 94 Japstrat and it does´t have the sparkle. I´m not sure why. So I suffered from player´s demotivation when I started to play again after a break of nearly 15 years, ´cos this Strat just didn´t have it. I also had a 50 watt valve state and that didn´t help either. I then got a LP and an H&K Tubemeister and bang! I was back to business. Now I´ve profiled the H&K, got Matthias Jabs´ (Scorpions) old stage Mastercaster a Martin and a PRS408 and I´m flying.My LP was the first guitar that had such a commanding tone I was in heaven. It's not great at staying in tune, but it's always a joy to hear when playing. Easy to bend (I love the scale)
If you can't get back into music with a good Gibson, as you did, IDK what will work!
Fenders were NEVER a love affair with me. When you pick up your Strat, you never know which one you're going to pick up. The one you played last time? Or the one now that has action like it's a friggin slide guitar. But the struggle makes you respect a Strat when you tame it. After the LP I thought maybe I didn't care for the brighter single coil tones. Well, was I wrong! And I kinda knew. I love ZZ Top, but I listen to Clapton 1970 Strat jams, Knofler, all kinds of blues strat players (i.e. Robert Cray) and dig them tones.
So you can love many tones all at the same time.
You can only marry one woman but you can own all the guitars money can buy (and then some!)In keeping with the OT:
Larrivee RS4
I love this guitar. It's not as bad-assed in it's distortion as my LP, but it's cleans are much more musical (LP has more rocky cleans). It's definitely a "better gibson" in the sense of action and staying in tune and workmanship. I may put this on the auction block since I have to pay for the Thorn. The better LP would be this guitar physically but that sounds like my LP exactly.[Blocked Image: http://i1339.photobucket.com/albums/o713/YelloBeard/15217157018_04d8dbb3ed_k_zpsqptpe37d.jpg][Blocked Image: http://i1339.photobucket.com/albums/o713/YelloBeard/15403426702_16bffa287f_k_zpsqyn0wnwl.jpg][Blocked Image: http://i1339.photobucket.com/albums/o713/YelloBeard/15403755145_80778aa2fd_k_zpsmd4jab28.jpg][Blocked Image: http://i1339.photobucket.com/albums/o713/YelloBeard/15217006549_c067cbcdf1_o_zpsgon8a5sx.jpg]
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Ready for summer,,
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My LP was the first guitar that had such a commanding tone I was in heaven. It's not great at staying in tune, but it's always a joy to hear when playing. Easy to bend (I love the scale)
If you can't get back into music with a good Gibson, as you did, IDK what will work!
Fenders were NEVER a love affair with me. When you pick up your Strat, you never know which one you're going to pick up. The one you played last time? Or the one now that has action like it's a friggin slide guitar. But the struggle makes you respect a Strat when you tame it. After the LP I thought maybe I didn't care for the brighter single coil tones. Well, was I wrong! And I kinda knew. I love ZZ Top, but I listen to Clapton 1970 Strat jams, Knofler, all kinds of blues strat players (i.e. Robert Cray) and dig them tones.
So you can love many tones all at the same time.
You can only marry one woman but you can own all the guitars money can buy (and then some!)In keeping with the OT:
Larrivee RS4
I love this guitar. It's not as bad-assed in it's distortion as my LP, but it's cleans are much more musical (LP has more rocky cleans). It's definitely a "better gibson" in the sense of action and staying in tune and workmanship. I may put this on the auction block since I have to pay for the Thorn. The better LP would be this guitar physically but that sounds like my LP exactly.[Blocked Image: http://i1339.photobucket.com/albums/o713/YelloBeard/15217157018_04d8dbb3ed_k_zpsqptpe37d.jpg][Blocked Image: http://i1339.photobucket.com/albums/o713/YelloBeard/15403426702_16bffa287f_k_zpsqyn0wnwl.jpg][Blocked Image: http://i1339.photobucket.com/albums/o713/YelloBeard/15403755145_80778aa2fd_k_zpsmd4jab28.jpg][Blocked Image: http://i1339.photobucket.com/albums/o713/YelloBeard/15217006549_c067cbcdf1_o_zpsgon8a5sx.jpg]
That is one beautiful guitar. It would be such a shame to auction it off as it will be a bugger to replace if you suffer seller's remorse. -
Very nice looking guitar Db. And yes it sucks being a Lefty
So play a right handed guitar!
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Just do what Jimmy H did - string it for a lefty!!!
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Jimmy had large hands and a long thumb so he could do things a typical person cannot. Heck, he could use his thumb as a capo!
But there is something to having the wrong-handed guitar in your arsenal. It not only gives someone who plays the other way a guitar if they visit you (be a good hostess) but also playing a guitar that way gives a new sound and some inspiration to some of you songwriting if you do that.
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Haven't been on here in a while but got this a week or so ago. Schecter KM-7 MKII
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Haven't been on here in a while but got this a week or so ago. Schecter KM-7 MKII
You sit obviously in the right train
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That picture reminds me of a Bugs Bunny cartoon:
"Wiley E. Coyote... Super Genius! Yes, I rather like the sound of that, WILEY E. Coyote... Super... Genius..."
(he's mixing up a bomb from dynamite in a shack and Bugs moves the shack onto the train tracks)
YOU, sir, got Dynamite there! BLAM nice guitar!
I like the subtle inlays. Good work.
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Haven't been on here in a while but got this a week or so ago. Schecter KM-7 MKII
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I must say tho. I was never satisfied with Kemper profiles of Fender amps.
They just didn't have the sparkle, chime, etc I have known. And the coincidence is, my guitars, pickups, etc all changed around the time for my Stratocaster when I got the Fender. So I went in circles buying pickups, soldering pick guards, and dropping $300-500 each time to alter the tones to get what I wanted (Knofler, Clapton, etc)
Well it apparently is the guitar. My Fender American sounds nice, but it doesn't sound great. I think it's the wood, not the pickups. It's a heavy Strat. Heavier than what I'm used to. As heavy as my LP.
But this Thorn sounds like exactly what I expect. All those Fender profiles now are OMG in varying degrees.
So the good news is, it was never the Kemper. How did I ever have this heretical thought? But it shows you, all Fenders are NOT created equally. The American Series with SSL-1's and other boutique pickups. I know it's not the pickups. Wow. What a lesson.
Bottom line: Very happy with this guitar and the new groups of profiles that before just were dull and now are sparkling, chimey, etc.
problem is those thick polyurethane paint jobs kill the tone of t guitar that is my opinion, I do not wish to argue about it as I've been down this road before but I've compared, tried strip guitars and I know it changes the tone
And those thorn guitars have ...envelope please .....a thin nitro paint !!! Hence why the sparkle is there.That is a small part of the equation,having a good sounding body and neck also , everything is put together is a factor . But those thick poly pain't jobs do suck the vibrant tone of a guitar
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Last guitar purchased; RG852MPB
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Just ordered a Fender Strat though for product demos. Pics soon.
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Here are my babies !!
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Here are my babies !!
Les Strato-sphere!
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Here are my babies !!
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2004 CS Mockingbird in silver sparkle. Lovin this guitar, plays effortlessly and the lower horn is perfect to rest on your leg when playing sitting down.
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I hate your guts. I've been looking for one of those - albeit in pelham blue - for years. Nice piece.
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