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    "Real amps" vs Modelers

    SIDE NOTE: There's a recording below if you don't want to read anymore about this. I just listened to John Petrucci speak for about 40 seconds, essentially "the biggest challenge for modellers is not the gain, it's how the amp physically moves air through a cab." I agree. I have been busting...
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    Anyone using Floyd Rose titanium insert blocks?

    That's a big thing I noticed with my entry-level Ibanez Jem. The metal is soft, it's been about 15 years since I've purchased an electric and I don't remember the metal feeling this cheap. I've already stripped the truss-rod, I have to be cautious when tightening the nut screws, I bought a...
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    Favorite plugins for post production and how do you use them ?

    I'm currently trying out Amplitudes speakers and mics and rooms, I like them a lot. I'm running two xlr's from the Axe 3 into an audio interface into laptop number1 which has Amplitudes speakers in a daw, and laptop number 2 is connected to my Axe 3. Yet another reason I love the Axe 3, the...
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    Copy a very old cassette tape to digital

    I had 30 yr old Ampex reels converted 2 years ago. The business was called "The Tape Farm" and the address was ... Chicken Road! lol. Guy charged me very little and did a great job.
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    Tonewood doesn’t matter

    This is just ... too easy. Greg Koch, a master Telecaster player ( not my style, but I love his observations and playing ), tries 4 different Telecasters. My ear went, "the Select Wildwood "10" 1951 Nocaster Heavy Relic" is what I'd buy. and in the comments "@waawaaweewaa2045 6 years ago The...
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    Tonewood doesn’t matter

    15 yrs ago, myself and a superb musician went to a music store to help a friend buy her first serious rock guitar. He grabbed different guitars to hand to me, to hand to her, as she played. We went through about 10 and somewhere in those 10 myself and my friend said "that one !!". Point is...
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    AFIII House of Pain clip - for Phil X

    Thanks, here you go, https://ml-sound-lab.com/products/mega-oversize
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    AFIII Tweaks and tips I use to get a tight, responsive, high-gain tone

    A high-gain lead-tone video containing tweaks, tips and tricks I use. ( YMMV ) I'd consider the Cab after another Cab the most meaningful element in controlling nasty sounding high end. ( begins at 7 minutes if you want to skip everything else ). I had to speed up parts where I spoke in order to...
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    Question about Shreddy Death Metal tone "fizziness"?

    I've spent 2 years trying to get IR's to sound right, can't do it, yesterday I spent four hours trying to get one little passage to sound right, I gave up. I thought about what a real speaker might sound like and just as an experiment sent a feed to my little Marshall. It sounded great. There's...
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    AFIII AC/DC - "Back In Black" Tone Match

    Pfft, it's perfect, great job.
  11. M

    AFIII Poly-rhythms and smoking Marshalls.

    That was absolutely fantastic, great job!
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    AFIII House of Pain clip - for Phil X

    The EQs in the Axe 3 are really powerful, the first take can be imitated pretty closely ( I think ) by taking the patch and notching up somewhere around the 500 to 1k region and reducing around 100.
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    AFIII House of Pain clip - for Phil X

    I used two Cabs, one cab going into another, this gives the tone 'girth', I used to do this when I used Amp Sims, in other words, anything modelling based I found I'd have to follow one cabinet with another to gain girth, and reduce the brittleness. The 3rd party IRs were an ML-MS-OS-Rugged...
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    AFIII House of Pain clip - for Phil X

    Thanks Romo82, I thought there was too much bass so I've adjusted it a little.
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    AFIII House of Pain clip - for Phil X

    This is an adjusted preset using stock IR's, hopefully it'll work out, if it sounds whack please let me know. ( It's on scene 3 ) 2nd version with stock IR's
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    AFIII House of Pain clip - for Phil X

    Thanks for the kind of words guys, I'll try finding the preset on Saturday. One question though, I'm pretty sure I was using third party IRs, if I save the preset with those third-party IRS, what happens on your end when you import the preset?
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    AFIII House of Pain clip - for Phil X

    Thanks Warlock.
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    AFIII House of Pain clip - for Phil X

    Phil X, who I love! ... said a while back that the Axe FX 3 lacked "Violence", huh??. Listen to this admittedly sonically imperfect clip of Van Halens House of Pain, it doesn't lack "violence" to my ears, maybe you want less 500 or 5000 hertz, ok, just EQ to taste, maybe widen the tone etc, etc...
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    AFIII RedSeven D100 Pre with Axe FX III as power amp.

    Beautiful, the intro was so perfect for Thom Yorke to sing over, then your picking at the end was fantastic.
  20. M

    AFIII Noodling over Linley Marthe

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    Modding an Old Ibanez

    I just tried this myself ( and failed), don't bother if it's a 5 position selector switch and you want to split the pickup into various configurations. Just save yourself the headache and take it to a tech. Ballpark? around $50 to $100. Personally I've ruined my guitar, which is no big deal...
  22. M

    Seymour Duncan Hyperswitch?

    Thanks I'll do that.
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    Seymour Duncan Hyperswitch?

    This is really interesting, I paid about $80 u.s. for a Seymour Duncan Triple Shot, what. a. joke. It's plastic junk, the wiring to the switch broke off easily, the whole thing must equate to $10 max in parts, and they charge $80. Not happy. I tried to re-solder the wires back but they are just...
  24. M

    Deluxe! Vid and free patch.

    Sounds incredible with David Gilmour EMGs. Thanks !
  25. M

    AFIII Suhr Badger 30 - Tube vs. Fractal Shootout

    I'll try picking number 1 as the 'real' Badger from just looking at the waveform.
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    Nuno

    At 2:01:18 in, that's "Bounce" dude! haha.
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    AFIII Trying for upper register semi-mute bounce

    Thanks man. The whole thing was played with fingers. I'm trying to get my tone first and then bring a pick back into things, reason being, the tone oftentimes dictates the way I pick, and also the kind of pick used. I love Greg Koch btw, criminally under-rated guitarist. Yes and no. I know...
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    AFIII Trying for upper register semi-mute bounce

    Ugh ... it's 5 hours later and I'm burnt, I was playing with the dynamics comp from your post. Thanks a lot for this! gave me a bunch of ideas. I ended up using it in front of the Amp.
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    AFIII New Fender FSR American Strat Ultra demo with Axe-Fx III

    How did you get all that sustain? Is that the Axe only or do you have a pedal in front of it? That is unbelievable.
  30. M

    AFIII Dm7 Dorian Improvisation Lead Gtr Tone 2023

    That was wicked. Are you using the humbucker or the single coil for this?
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    AFIII Trying for upper register semi-mute bounce

    The lick in my clip is from your recording!!
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    AFIII Trying for upper register semi-mute bounce

    Spent 4 hours trying to get the notes at the 15th fret to bounce or pop out when semi-muted, it was hard to get this, maybe it's my guitar? who knows. Anyways, I played this really quickly over a funky bass thing by a wicked bassist named Linley Marthe, added the drums and just noodled around up...
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    AFIII Riffing with the dynacab again

    Caught Al, John and Paco in the 80s with Steve Morse as the opener. I know how good McLaughlin is but never was taken by his electric stuff, that said, "Shakti" is one of my all time favorites by him and some Indian musicians, unique, trance-like, with blistering chops. Same with Al di Meola...
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    AFIII Riffing with the dynacab again

    Thanks Freds55 Glad you liked it, I haven't heard that name in years. John McLaughlin is a legend.
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    AFIII Riffing with the dynacab again

    The music is from a drum clinic by a sick drummer named Sean Rickman. It was a bit of a challenge to get my guitar to sit in a somewhat busy and somewhat live mix.
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    Anyone know how to produce these sounds?

    What strikes me is almost an absence of attack, so the percussiveness I love in attack doesn't seem to be there. I used to play around with the ADSR section in a drum sampler, off-setting the A, or attack for a kick would remove some of the click of the attack. I'm wondering if something like...
  37. M

    AFIII Classical Prog Fusion w/ Far-Field IRs

    Astonishing work, really incredible, I can't imagine how many hours you put into this.
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    What studio monitors are you using

    Adam A4V - Was going to buy the Adam T5V, fortunately at Long and McQuade they had all the usual entry-level monitors on a shelf ready to be listened to. No contest, the A4V provided missing musical information that the others lacked. I used Van Halens 'Hot for Teacher' as a reference because 1)...
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    Changing Resonant Frequency instead of Changing Pickups

    I thought I'd share this in here since I wouldn't have gotten this if it weren't for this thread. It is a perfectly explained lesson ( with pictures ) of what Pots are and what they do. Nice and simple and clear. https://www.fralinpickups.com/2017/03/03/volume-tone-pots-101/
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    Amp block tweaks for more punch, openness, rawness, ripping attack, less compression?

    Thanks Randalljax, much appreciated. Imagine I did this with a SD PRails ( hardly a Metal pickup ) on a 24 fret guitar with a floating bridge, if you have the proper guitar for this style with the proper pickups and a stiffer bridge setup than mine, I'm positive a metal guy could get the results...
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    Amp block tweaks for more punch, openness, rawness, ripping attack, less compression?

    Glad you enjoyed it, love the enthusiasm in your response! haha. It's not exact of course, but the main tip I can give you is to play with the Q on the EQ, it is very sensitive and produces great results. After listening back now ( hours later), I'd lessen the Q in the Eq a touch to mellow out...
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    Amp block tweaks for more punch, openness, rawness, ripping attack, less compression?

    This is so not my style but I had to give it a shot. Here's the preset if you want to tweak it some more
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    Amp block tweaks for more punch, openness, rawness, ripping attack, less compression?

    I'm trying for a few of the same qualities, mostly it's openness and less compression. Try these settings. On some amps the master volume can sound like a towel thrown over the speaker, maybe for leads that's good but for open rhythm I like 4 to 6. The cut is on, this clears things up to. Also...
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    AFIII Noodling with the new dyna cab

    Sorry, it is scene 1.
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    AFIII Noodling with the new dyna cab

    I don't know. lol. I don't know about scenes yet. I know it goes by block as such- input, drive, amp, cab, cab, delay, reverb, eq, comp, out. I am away from the unit so going from memory. Pretty sure its scene 2.
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    AFIII Noodling with the new dyna cab

    Thanks for the feedback. If someone out there could do some fast alternate picking with this preset and their guitar, I'd be curious to hear it. I only have one guitar, so, maybe other pickups respond better. A simple lick like, 12th fret, 13th fret then 15th fret on the B, then same on the E...
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    AFIII Noodling with the new dyna cab

    Thanks Rock Chalk, only took me about 40 hours to get to this point. I basically had to learn what effect every component of the amp block does to get that "bounce". I still am fighting with the high b and e strings when using a pick, it's just too scratchy, but if I back off on the highs I lose...
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    AFIII Noodling with the new dyna cab

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    Adam A7x discontinued. What about the new model (A7V?)

    I sold my HS8s after using them for 10 minutes, lost $500 on the sale. : ( Took advice from in here on getting ribbon tweeters like the Adam T5V, went to get them, the store had all sorts of monitors on a shelf, ready to try, heard all the entry level stuff then noticed a small Adam A4V at...
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    P-Rails wiring help?

    I'm going to keep all 3 controls ( volume knob, tone knob 1 and tone knob 2 ) plus the 5 way Fender style switch. The 5 way switch is how I'll be switching, so position 1 ) the Bridge Prails, in whatever configuration I have it in via the Triple Shot, 2) position 2, the typical blend between...
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    P-Rails wiring help?

    So I ordered a set of Prails today, the only set on the web I could find! They're for guitars with tremolo bars and are white so they'll match up with my pick-guard nicely. The cream p-rails I have doesn't look right, and a set of them come to about $100 more than I pay for only one, I noticed...
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    P-Rails wiring help?

    No it doesn't, I'll make it work somehow, it doesn't look complicated, I might have to carve-up the pick-guard some more, but that's nothing after all the hacking away I've done to my poor guitar.
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    P-Rails wiring help?

    That's what he does in the video above at 13:25, he invokes the treble bleed with a push/pull pot.
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    P-Rails wiring help?

    So this P-Rails installation I did was 7 months ago, and yesterday I figured out that I wired it up wrong. I was getting a humbucker sound, but then when switching to either the Rail pickup I could hear the P90 was still alive, it's not supposed to be, it's supposed to be cancelled. So I did a...
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    Axe-Fx III Firmware 22.00 Public Beta (Beta 6)

    Complete opposite for me. Picked up my Axe 3 last year after coming from Amp Sim software where you could position mics in different rooms, it was so easy, then the static IR's? : ( I gave up after wasting hours and hours and hours scrolling through 100s of IRs over the months I had the unit...
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    Changing Resonant Frequency instead of Changing Pickups

    Thanks for this, there are definitely volume imbalances I'd like to even out, not to mention the tonal variations possible.
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    Changing Resonant Frequency instead of Changing Pickups

    So would you have to have a separate volume pot for each pickup to attach a trimpot to? I have a humbucker, single coil, humbucker configuration with one volume pot for all 3 pickups, if I put a trimpot on the one volume and tune the bridge pickup I'm guessing the other two pickups will be...
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    Axe-Edit III 1.13.00 (supports fw 22.00 public beta 6, 9, 10, 12)

    Thanks! That was fast ...
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    Changing Resonant Frequency instead of Changing Pickups

    Ha. You just described me for the most part. My Jem Jr $700 u.s. approx. has gone through hell and back, I wouldn't do this with a $3000 guitar. I love the idea of trim pots. I want to have a tech redo all of the wiring. I want to buy all the stock first and then have the tech do the soldering...
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    IRs are 90% of the sound

    So because of the comments in this thread I sold my Yamaha HS8s 6 months ago. I decided I was going to buy the Adam T5Vs. I went to Long and McQuade and noticed a shelf full of speakers, asked the sales rep if I could hear them, luckily it wasn't busy and he spent a full hour with me going back...
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    Conference Championships Gift Of Tone

    Okay. Good to know.
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    Conference Championships Gift Of Tone

    I think ownhammer puts their OH at the beginning of an IR. The overhead mic, I believe is signified by OH at the end of the IR. I'm not near my fractal right now so I'll have to check that out. But what I think is an overhead mic is clearly a big difference in sound from the other impulse responses.
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    Conference Championships Gift Of Tone

    I purchased some tone packs from third-party vendors and noticed at being quite a few of their presets they used the overhead Mic on a cabinet. I was just thinking now that I would love a whole pack of IR's done with only overheads. I wonder if the mystery Mic is a Coles?
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    Any Physicists Here?

    I took some potent LSD 30 years ago, I saw a subtle vibrational energy in the trees, long grass, soil, everything, everything was energy, it was magnificent, really beautiful. I realize I sound like a bit of a nut-job, but, I did see it and I've heard the same from others. Does this help?😜
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    Axe-Edit III 1.12.13

    Thanks for this!
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    Bryan Adams and Keith Scott!

    Sure, from 1989 ... he used a stock '59 strat with a maple neck as his main guitar, the only change was fret replacement to Dunlop Jumbos. His amp was built and designed by a San Franciscan named Jim Palermo who was a Hiwatt amp distributor at the time. He took a basic 50 watt Hiwatt's preamp...
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    Bryan Adams and Keith Scott!

    Sometime in 1989 I actually wrote Keith Scott a letter asking about how he got his tone because I liked it so much. I was completely blown away when I received these three pages! of hand-written notes about his gear from him. What generosity, Canadians Rock. His tone is something else, this...
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    AFIII Working on a solo tone

    This was done about a year ago with a Nalex Amp Sim( JCM 800) and I forget the cab, if I could get this tone out the the Axe 3, I'd be happy. Can't figure out how to do it though. The highs are nice and singing, and the lows are articulate and squishy, the run at 34 seconds is something I'd like...
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    Mic Preamp Test - Free IRs

    I like preamp B the most, all the highs are balanced, preamp C was a bit spiky, preamp D is a bit louder than the others so this can throw you off. Do you have a Coles microphone? Every time I've heard it on an IR it sounded really good, a friend of mine who has a few albums under his belt...
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    Axe-Fx Firmware Version 21.02 Public Beta (Beta 2)

    Just finished playing for 6 hours straight, my fingers are killing me. The new Overdrive and the new compressors are amazing. I've always wanted to put a compressor before the Amp block, but there was always something I couldn't put my finger on that made me not use them. The new compressors...
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    AFIII Dream Theater - Pull Me Under

    Great job man!
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    Does weight training mess up your guitar skills?

    Interesting that you should notice this. Bruce Lee experimented on himself in many ways to get the best results, while weight-training he noticed that he did in fact lose speed? I love boxing and the first thing all boxers say, like the insane Roy Jones Jr., is the first thing you lose when you...
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    FM3 Long Story Short - my new funk tune inspired by Mark Lettieri

    Here's one of his funky compositions...there's space to jam over this track also.
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    Can't find a Truss Rod Nut for my Ibanez Jem Jr.

    No problem, we'll let this go for now then, the neck isn't bad at all to be honest, but I've now learned from you and others through fighting with it. Thanks Andy for all your responses, much appreciated!
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    FM3 Long Story Short - my new funk tune inspired by Mark Lettieri

    Very very nice, if those are programmed drums ... great job. There's a bassist named Ed Poole whose compositions I think you'd love, he has a taste for groove like yourself.
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    AFIII Vengence (Yngwie Malmsteen) w/OD250 Gray+Plexi 50w+Some Greenback IRs

    That was great man!
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    AFIII Jeff Beck tribute - "Diamond Dust"

    Beautiful
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    Any examples of how to cut the shrill highs of just the B/High E strings?

    A few places to try calming the shrillness that I've found. Reduce the Bias in the preamp tube, or/and power tube section, in the preamp section there are frequency cuts for lows and highs, try reducing the highs to around the 5k to 7k region, if this doesn't feel right, go to the Cab Block, in...
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    Can't find a Truss Rod Nut for my Ibanez Jem Jr.

    I'm assuming that I'm supposed to compare the height of both the high E string and G string when they are fretted at the 1st and 14th fret? When I compare, the G string is a hair away from the fret, the high E string looks like it's lying on the fret. I received an email from Ibanez about the...
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    AFIII Working on a solo tone

    Todays racket-making ... still trying to get a tight singing tone.
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    Can't find a Truss Rod Nut for my Ibanez Jem Jr.

    I was tightening it when it stripped, I was trying to get the strings as close to the 1st few frets as possible since the tuning issues when fretting near the nut were driving me bonkers. My hearing is pretty good, I'm sure anyone in here can notice when a string is 10 cents sharp or flat, plus...
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    Can't find a Truss Rod Nut for my Ibanez Jem Jr.

    Thanks a lot for your all your help, I really appreciate it. I was curious about the nut not following the radius, it doesn't as you can clearly see here This is what the grooves look like when the nut is bolted in place. Anyways, after getting the trust rod nut unlocked earlier today and...
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    Can't find a Truss Rod Nut for my Ibanez Jem Jr.

    Yes I do know how to do intonation, I removed the shims also. I feel you may be right about the nut, it's a stock part, but something about the depth of the grooves doesn't seem right. One of the intonation screws is stripped also. I've never had these issues before, my acoustics I adjust the...
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    Can't find a Truss Rod Nut for my Ibanez Jem Jr.

    It was the technicians tool, so I have to go and purchase one myself to say whether or not it'll come undone completely. I'm 50 something years old and don't make much money, I've spent so much money on technicians I'm fed up. Plus it takes 2 hours to get to the guy, then he charges twice as...
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    Can't find a Truss Rod Nut for my Ibanez Jem Jr.

    I'm sorry I don't know what relief means. The good news is I managed to get it unstuck. I work in a big building and technicians come in for the heating system, I caught a guy and asked him if he had something called a Dremel, he did, and luckily he plays guitar, so I explained to him that I...
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    Can't find a Truss Rod Nut for my Ibanez Jem Jr.

    The adjustment right now is so close, that is what is frustrating. I just need to do a quarter counterclockwise turn for the nut to raise itself just a hair. I'm getting some spitting type sound out of the small e and B strings from about the second to 5th fret. For the moment I put in a couple...
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    Can't find a Truss Rod Nut for my Ibanez Jem Jr.

    I was just thinking of ideas along the lines you have posted. Surely there's a way to solve this problem. One thing I was thinking of was buying a tapping die, I think that's what they're called? Then just putting a regular screw in there and securing it with Loctite, I've put too much Loctite...
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    Can't find a Truss Rod Nut for my Ibanez Jem Jr.

    I found out about trust rods through this error, I didn't know that many of them came with a removable, therefore repairable nut on the end of them. I also wondered how I was going to get this thing out, came across some YouTube videos of an old guy who repairs guitars, he's really good, what he...
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    Can't find a Truss Rod Nut for my Ibanez Jem Jr.

    I stripped it. Checked with the main Ibanez parts dealer in the U.S. , he said they no longer make them, checked Stewac and Allparts and they only carry Fender and Gibson nuts. The Ibanez Jem Jr is apparently a 7mm hex nut, does anyone have any idea where I can find one of these things? My...
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    Drop Top

    This sounds like a theory, nothing wrong with that of course, but you need to see me work a tremolo, I can be very aggressive and without any solid data proving my point I can only say that I will abuse the thing in a way that I'm almost sure you don't. This said, the plumbers tape works just...
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    Drop Top

    Plumbers tape is to hopefully prevent pitting in the knife edge of the tremolo. I've seen pics of pitting and since I'm aggressive with the bar I'll try anything to keep the life of the unit as long as possible. Don't know why my wound strings pop out when I'm stretching them ... but ... they...
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    Drop Top

    Haha. I wanted one in the 80's but the only ones available were the Floyd Roses with those "Whale Tails" where the Micro Tuners are. Couldn't mute properly, got in the way of my particular way of picking, so I dealt with non-locking bars for years. Last year I bought an Ibanez Jem Jr, I liked...
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    The Complete Fractal Audio Master Class Series with Cooper Carter

    I usually don't write reviews, but I will for this product. I hemmed and hawed over purchasing the course for the Axe III, I've been disappointed by products about 50% of the time I purchased them, so was quite reluctant to drop the money for this. Instead of saying it's really good or any...
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    One expensive guitar or several inexpensive ones?

    Umm, yea, huge understatement. Want proof, watch Greg Koch try out some high-end guitars from Wildwood Guitars on youtube. Even over the internet, with little earbuds, I could tell a good guitar, anyone in here could, it's so obvious. He'd be trying a Strat for example, and I'd say "yep, good...
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    One expensive guitar or several inexpensive ones?

    One great one, and a cheap one that you don't mind chopping up. I have a Yamaha Pacifica that I love to experiment on, I drill it, chop it, try all sorts of things on it, this process has taught me a lot.
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    Need help from Luthier with floating trem knowledge

    Good Lord I must have been drinking when I posted that. Duhhhhhhhhhhhh. I just raised the right side screw by a lot, I had a feeling it wouldn't do anything because the saddles are off on this Bridge. I'm not sure why, all the screw holes lined up perfectly when I put it in. I'm going to try...
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    Jcm 800 mini game : helix or axe ?

    Funny. I made some discoveries this weekend with the Axe that have modified my opinion, not changed it. I did prefer A at the time, it is smoother, it is the Helix. The presentation of all the notes is more even sounding which appealed to me at the time. Can this be done with the Axe? Yes. I...
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    Need help from Luthier with floating trem knowledge

    One of the height adjustment screws is higher than the other indeed, it's the Right One ( from a photo perspective ) meaning I'm trying to correct for the error ... it didn't work. You can clearly see the right adjustment screw is a few threads elevated from the left one.
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    Need help from Luthier with floating trem knowledge

    Thanks for the response, I'll give it a shot.
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    Need help from Luthier with floating trem knowledge

    Along the same lines as the OP, the G string is off center on the saddle here. I just purchased this Standard Fender Bridge ( $35 ) and dropped it into my Yamaha Pacifica. It doesn't feel or sound different, I'm wondering if I can just use the guitar with the g string sitting as it is? Is there...
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