GoDrex
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Finally finished with it and I'm very happy with it. I assembled all of it except the hard parts: the nut and the wiring. It was stressful for me getting to this point, but now that it's done I can relax and enjoy it. Got it back from the shop today and played with it for a while and it played very well. I was getting comfortable with it right away. So far the only thing I don't think I'm happy with is the Duncan Custom SH-5. From my brief bit of playing it seemed a bit harsh with high gain, though I did think it sounded better clean and very good with a lower gain. I think it's good for like classic rock sounds more than metal. This isn't a bad thing and I just need to mess around with it some more and see what it's capable of. When I was playing the guitar, it seemed like all I wanted to do was blues-y type stuff. It seems like what this guitar is made for. I think in time this guitar will really grow on me and it will be the one I pick up the most.
OK here's the specs:
All mahogany carved top LP, hollow option, contour heal, - Gold top gold paint with cream binding - trans red back
Neck is mahogany as well with cream binding, rosewood fretboard - compound radius, no inlays, medium jumbo frets, Graphtech nut - conversion scale 24.75, 1 11/16 nut width - matching trans red back and black headstock - - I just put the Warmoth dark chrome logo on today
Planet Waves locking tuners
Duncan Custom SH-5 and Jazz SH-2 - Jimmy Page wiring - split coil, phase, series/parallel - 4 push pull long shaft pots.
Gotoh TOM bridge, chrome round top knobs, Schaller strap locks, custom neckplate by DangerousR6, of my initials (my design).
About the wiring. Yeah I know it's kind of ridiculous but I like having tons of options to mess with. Just from messing with it for an hour or so I'm pretty happy about the sounds it makes. The 2 pickups in parallel, out of phase sounds great to me - much better than the normal 2 pickups on sound. I already had a guitar with coil splitting and I like that sound for cleans. For recording it will be fun. Would I use it much if I were in a band? Maybe not, but I'm not in a band so I don't care. Anyway, after playing a Strat for a while made me want some more tonal options, and I think this has it covered.
(BTW - if anyone is interested in this type of wiring, DO NOT use the diagram from seymourducan.com that says it's the Jimmy Page style wiring. It doesn't work. I tried it and it didn't work and I brought it to a tech and he tried it and it didn't work for him either. The real diagram is available at gibson.com)
My other impression of the guitar is that it has more sustain than any guitar I've had before. It doesn't really die out at all. With a little compression and some gain it just sustains forever. Pretty cool. Just like an LP should be right?
Now I have to wait until '09 for my trans green swamp ash Explorer OR a trans purple Iceman - not sure which will come first yet.
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Soundclips
Clean clips
The clean goes through the bridge, both, neck, neck split, both parallel out of phase.
Dirty clips
The dirty goes through bridge, both, neck, both series oop, both parallel oop.
High gain clips
the high gain is just the bridge and neck...
