Tech Talk
EC-1000 Toggle and volume question
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I have an ltd ec-1000 in black cherry and I have a question about how the toggle/pickups/volumes are supposed to work. when the toggle is down the first volume works, when the toggle is at the top the 2nd volume works and the...
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Pickup for maple body ?
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Need some advice on a pickups for my ESP Kami style please.
I am finding it too bright with the screaming demon in, would a TB-4 JB or and TB-6 distortion sound less bright and give more output. At the moment I am leaning...
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mahogany neck+body too muddy?
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Hi there
I am trying to decide the neck/body wood combination. The guitar itself is a custom neck thru body Phoenix II with a green burst finish, 24.75" scale, ebony fretboard, and floyd rose trem system. the pickups are:...
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Cheap Chinese FR Special
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I was just tuning my m300fm and two of the locking nuts just stripped out
real easy, talk about quality! My question for the board is what would be
the smartest thing to do at this point, buy a replacement OFR nut? Or...
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Ibanez Edge pullup choking
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Hi guys got my 550 all sorted pickups and everything wired, however I do have a minor problem with the A and G strings choking out when doing extreme pullups I have the action where I want it which is propbably higher than...
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Help, Floyd Tuning Issue
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Hey all, I've run into a problem on my 99, LTD M-300, which is stock outside of SD pups. I took it into a store that was having a promotion that if you buy 2 or more sets of strings they would install one of the sets and do a...
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Guitar Set-up Guide
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I need some help setting up my guitars. Seem to know the methods but fail (or too scared) to implement. Most of my guitars have high action and get out of tune easily.
I have the tools, I even bought a book (Dan Erlewine's)...
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Issue with ESP Eclipse
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The other day I went to pick up my ESP eclipse from getting a setup and was told that there was a major problem with it. Pretty much I was told that when the guitar was made the saddle has been screwed into the wrong ...
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LSR Tuners with floating floyd Rose HALP
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Long story short
I own a custom Jackson RR that I ordered with LSR tuners and a floating floyd rose. Ive had it for years, but it seems like my process for restringing it every time either ends in success, or complete...
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MH-1000 Restoration Project Help
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I'm picking up a MH-1000 used for cheap because the previous owner didn't maintain it very well and am going to do a full hardware strip and replace, minus the frets and pickups.
Which bridge, nut and tuners (pref locking)...
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help tuning down, string gauge up
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So i have a Horizon with Floyd Rose that i want to tune down from E standard to Db-Ab-Db-Gb-Bb-Eb, but go up a gauge in strings from the standard 9-42 to 10-46 - what is the best way to go about this, just change the strings...
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EMG 81/60 installation
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Hey guys,
so I took all the electronics out of my LTD Explorer, and replaced the duncan designed with EMG's. New pups, jack, vol/tone control, new les paul style switch.
I got the 81/60, new logo used, but they weren't...
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Do you guys set your floyd at neutral?
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Lately after all these years I've got to where I like my truss rods a little bit loose so they have play in them, so that got me to thinking: Do you prefer to have your floyd set at neutral and parallel with the body? Or do...
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EC-1000T Switching Volume/Tone Pots
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I am changing my EC-1000T over from EMG's to passive humbuckers. I need to replace the pots. I was thinking of switching from 2 volume pots/1 tone pot to 1 volume pot/2tone pots. I think that's the way it should come from the...
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