Recent content by booneh

Good to hear what you've been up to. The replica is getting pretty involved, which I'm pretty interested to see. I guess Karl's old info about the pickups was pretty good. Curious to hear anything else Jason said, but understand if you don't want to broadcast it. I've considered messaging him...

I don't think he ever scraped the paint off of the pickup, just the guitar body and the flat bits of the hardware. There's an "insignia" painted on the headstock that looks like Rivers tried to remove but you can still faintly see it. You can see the same white splotches on the bridge pickup in...

Hi, sorry it took so long to see this. I'm still not totally convinced it's two volumes, mostly because Rivers has stated that his guitars have a volume and a tone knob. He's notoriously cagey about certain details about his equipment, and claims it's because he's not really technical, but...

I know that the metal parts in pickups can have a filtering effect, so I imagine that using a different baseplate or pole pieces could subtly change the EQ curve of a pickup. It’s a lot more obvious now, but I kind of always assumed he was just using his bridge pickup all the time, but he’s...

I was only curious because the output is a big component of that “Only In Dreams” sound. It makes sense that it’d be according to the diagram. I’m assuming that’d be the top coil, which I think is the higher output one. Magnets do degauss over time, but I think ceramic magnets last a long time...

I heard that about Rage Against The Machine. Some of those early influences are pretty wild, like how buying the Mesa made Rivers start playing like Carlos Santana. You can still kind of hear it in the Blue era solos. That might not be true across the board, it’s just what I found in my...

The Humbucker From Hell seemed to be a big hit early on, with tons of superstrat guys replacing their neck single coils. Interestingly, the lower coil is higher output than the upper coil. It has less winds with lower gauge wire, so apparently it sounds the same. Wonder which one was used for...

Yeah, you can see the paint splotches in a lot better detail in the picture you took. It looks like he cleaned up the flat part of the jack plate but not any of the curves, which lends credence to him using a razor blade (for anyone who wants to go full relic I suppose). That’s an interesting...

I thought the chrome hardware was reflecting something yellow in the picture of them recording, but now I see that the top of the bridge, the top screw in the jack plate, and the curved spot right above the output jack are painted yellow. Rivers probably didn’t bother cleaning the jack plate, or...

That’s really cool. A worthwhile investment, certainly. I could finally see that the yellow on the output joke and the white spots on the bridge pickup were leftover paint. That answered a lot of questions. The Contemporaries only used the Rox system for part of 1983 and 1984, right before...

Thank you. That’s awesome! Where is that? Also, those saddles from the swirly paint era pin the bridge as part of a tremolo system called the Rox String Lock. It consisted of a locking string retainer, a two post bridge with hideous roller saddles, a six screw vintage bridge with those block...

Yeah, I’m definitely not saying anything for certain, but it is another option. I don’t know if DiMarzio had any low output humbuckers without their hex screw pole pieces at the time. I thought I’d consider some non-aftermarket options. The color of the hardware is uncertain to be sure. In...

The furthest I’ve been able to go back is 1999, where the neck profiles were standard thin, boatneck, and the new fat neck. So I think it’s safe to assume it was the standard thin. Rivers has called the blue Strat a “copy” of the red, so it should be the same dimensions I would think. Most of...

You’d have to wait until Maladroit for any of that. There are quite a bit of tasty octaves but that’s about it. I had a similar thing with The Corrs. I saw them hidden on a CD-ROM of some kind (I thought it was Windows 95 but apparently not…) and didn’t realize they were a “real” band until...

If you dig it, just go in album order from there.