Recent content by MikeW

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Went by both the MXR and Victory booths as well as wandered around the floor for a few hours. I will say this, NAMM has certainly organized better than it was in the past. The app is an improvement, but it still needs to be more interactive and would be great to have a chat feature so you could...

OMW in 3... 2... 1... Well, not until the morning really, but looking forward to it. If you're curious about the rockman pedal, give the demo that Pete Thorne did a listen. He killed it and totally nailed the vibe with that demo.

Yessir!! Work has be stuck near home on Friday, but we'll be there all day Saturday. I've started helping out with a startup doing some very interesting stuff that we'll be talking with other manufacturers about, so look for me on the Guitar floor mostly. I have to swing by Victory and chat...

Killer tone man! What's your rig looking like?

I'll be there again this year and will report on what I find. TBH, I miss the days with the big showcases. It was always interesting to see what was coming next.

I got a beautiful RM/RM neck and had MOP dots on the front, but black dots on the top of the fretboard. Mistake! On a dark stage, they're very hard to see, even against a "lighter" RM fretboard. Sounds like you're having a similar experience as I have with black. I'm with Rick in asking for...

Yep, that's one of the reasons I moved it on. The Lead channel was great for the chugga-chugga, but unmanageable for anything else. I found that using the Clean channel I could get where I wanted to go. I also found that keeping the gain down and putting a booster (not OD or distortion) on the...

I just had this experience again the other day. I go into Big Box Guitar Shop or Mom and Pop on the corner. Inevitably, there is something in there that catches my eye. Pull it off the wall and play it a bit. "Sure looks nice, but ..." With a rare exception, it usually comes down to being poorly...

Our singer, a fantastic talent in general, got really into it toward the end of Somebody to Love. She started spinning for the outro and one of her hands hit my headstock knocking all 6 strings out of tune. I've got a floating bridge on that guitar... Took me two songs to get everything really...

@Mods: can we move this to the Amps & Pedals section? @OP: I don't have specifics on the footswitch since I only used the one that mine came with. I did swap the original 12AX7s for some "lower gain" ECC83's. I got them from The Tube Store as a set, and put in a set of matched power tubes at...

Personally, I love the Warmoth Wizard profile, I'm only using SS frets, and have a preference for the LSR nut, but that isn't a dealbreaker for me. So if I'm looking for something from an exotic wood, or with different material or shape for the dots, I know it'll be custom. However, the last...

Fender Acoustisonic Stratocaster. It's a hollowed out American Strat body with a carbon fiber resonator over the soundhole and a piezo pickup in the bridge.

I'd been bumping around on my Dad's old nylon string acoustic for a few months, and so my parents got me a1982 Squire Strat and a Gorilla amp as a Christmas present. It was a Blackie replica and sounded great for the level of parts that were in it. I've been a Strat guy ever since then really...

Like T-Burst, I play live and have to lug my gear on and off stages, sometimes with 5 or 10 minutes of setup before a line check. I've gone as simple and effective as I can. Here's the latest with the exception that I've replaced the Boss Tremolo with a JHS Unicorn. That dude on the left is...