Hey, how about a competition for best collection of Warmoth Instruments?
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i heard that some guy in austin, texas is killin' it right now.
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I do remember you having a ton of LP's, my favorite would be top row left... :kewlpics:Orpheo said:At the max, I owned an odd 30 or so Warmoth's. I sold off the majority and I'm now down to 13 exactly.
Some of them. not all:
I don't think I even have a photo of ALL of them.
DangerousR6 said:I do remember you having a ton of LP's, my favorite would be top row left... :kewlpics:Orpheo said:At the max, I owned an odd 30 or so Warmoth's. I sold off the majority and I'm now down to 13 exactly.
Some of them. not all:
I don't think I even have a photo of ALL of them.
I sold that one 2 years ago. I now simply play my 'own' guitars. The stuff I build from scratch
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Orpheo said:At the max, I owned an odd 30 or so Warmoth's. I sold off the majority and I'm now down to 13 exactly.
Some of them. not all:
I don't think I even have a photo of ALL of them.
They say variety is the spice of life, but I guess you can just like one spice a whole lot more than any other spices. Like, having every type of mustard at the supermarket. Rember when Jack Links came out with spicy "burrito" flavored jerky? Burrito isn't a flavor its a food. What's their next flavor gonna be, 'lunch'? Speaking of jerky, You know Slim Jim's slogan, "made from stuff guys need"? Well my doctor doesnot think thats true and says if I don't start eating rabbit food like soup and lettuce that i'm "in for a life altering stroke" which sounded exciting until he explained it. Really tired of hearing this bull---t from my doc. Not trying to cuss, but if it was bullmeat I wouldn't complain, I'd eat it like a man.
I only even went there because of my athletes foot but said "hey you re not an athlete." I asked what that means then and he said "that means you just have a bad case of foot". He also didnt like it when I walked in and said "not to brag, doc, by my insurance is gonna cover like 45% of this".
i should post a photo of my surf green Strat but I haven't taken one yet. I just got it and will be putting my dimarzio Injectors and neck from the Big W on it from my old Strat (I'm giving it to my nephew he doesn't need nice things, he's annoying. the OG neck and pupps will be fine ).
BroccoliRob said:Orpheo said:At the max, I owned an odd 30 or so Warmoth's. I sold off the majority and I'm now down to 13 exactly.
Some of them. not all:
I don't think I even have a photo of ALL of them.
They say variety is the spice of life, but I guess you can just like one spice a whole lot more than any other spices. Like, having every type of mustard at the supermarket. Rember when Jack Links came out with spicy "burrito" flavored jerky? Burrito isn't a flavor its a food. What's their next flavor gonna be, 'lunch'? Speaking of jerky, You know Slim Jim's slogan, "made from stuff guys need"? Well my doctor doesnot think thats true and says if I don't start eating rabbit food like soup and lettuce that i'm "in for a life altering stroke" which sounded exciting until he explained it. Really tired of hearing this bull---t from my doc. Not trying to cuss, but if it was bullmeat I wouldn't complain, I'd eat it like a man.
I only even went there because of my athletes foot but said "hey you re not an athlete." I asked what that means then and he said "that means you just have a bad case of foot". He also didnt like it when I walked in and said "not to brag, doc, by my insurance is gonna cover like 45% of this".
i should post a photo of my surf green Strat but I haven't taken one yet. I just got it and will be putting my dimarzio Injectors and neck from the Big W on it from my old Strat (I'm giving it to my nephew he doesn't need nice things, he's annoying. the OG neck and pupps will be fine ).
you're absolutely right. However, nowadays I try to use the same bodyshape and tack on a pickup setup of another shape: Tele-Paul, Strat-Tele-Paul... I just like the shape a LOT. But I am also moving towards the Bich shape, a regular strat and a tele. I'm not that much into SG's, PRS, V's or explorers. Or superstrats.
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Yes I have a favorite way of wiring a 3 pup LP. It's either with a master volume and master tone plus a 5 way (B, B+M, B+N, M+N, N), or something totally different.
The 'other' wiring I use, has the same switch options, but with 2 sets of volume/tone controls. They assign themselves to whatever pickup is selected: top set goes to the pickup that's engaged closest to the neck, bottom set engages set pickup that closest to the bridge. To say it differently: the bridge and neck pickups have the usual controls, as on a regular LP, but if the middle pickup is engaged, it gets the 'other' pot set that's not in use at that moment. One push pull pot to split the coils of the humbuckers, the middle is a custom-designed p90 (only the bobbin is p90: it's designed for maximum clarity, chime and sparkle, to work in those cleaner tones).
A third humbucker in the middle is not really that useful unless you only use it as two individual coils (so you have to choose a right pickup for that middle spot). But since I can pick whatever I want, I tend to not use a humbucker. It just makes things more difficult down the line.
I surely can use a 5 way with an auto-coilsplit but then I loose the automatic assignment of pots and I kinda like that (I need 4 poles for that to make that work: really, I tried everything).
As for my favorite pickups: YES I do have a few favorite sets. AxesRUs from the UK is one of my favorite pickup makers, and I love all of his pickups. The most allround set he makes is the Model24 bridge + kneejerk in the neck (I believe that pickup is either discontinued or renamed recently).
If we're talking known brands: I never gel with BKP, don't like 'm. Dimarzio is not my thing, I don't like their recurring base tone on which their pickups are built upon. I am a Seymour Duncan fan, if we're talking big brands, all the way, but almost never their main pickups. I always use two pickups to make a hybrid out of those.
My recent favorite Duncan (Hybrids) in bridge position:
SH6N (Distortion Neck) + Screaming Demon (thick ceramic and alnico 5)
Parallel axis 1 & 2 hybrid (alnico 5!)
JB/Fullshred Hybrid (alnico 5!)
Pearly Gates/Custom hybrid (alnico 2 and alnico 5)
Seth Lover/Pearly Gates (alnico 2)
Custom/Pegasus (ceramic and alnico5)
Seth Lover
JB (yes, the simple, classic JB is one of my favorites: in the right guitar the JB is so, so good)
Custom Alnico 3 (not a standard pickup but MAN that pickup is good)
My recent favorite Duncan (Hybrids) in neck position:
Seth(neck)/59(neck) Alnico 2
Seth (bridge)/59(bridge) alnico 4
59n/JazzN (alnico 2, 3, 4, 5; doesn't matter, all is amazing in their own rights)
59B/JazzB (Alnico 5)
Sentient/JazzN (alnico 5).
Using two different bobbins like that opens up the tone tremendously. Even if the wire gauge is the same, my hybrids are almost always using different insulations or are wound to a different wind count. That way you have less cancellation but more... tone. It's more open, more dynamic, better harmonic content...
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I'm with you on the JB. Whenever I don't know what to do or can't make up my mind, throwing one of those in a guitar is guaranteed to be at least acceptable, if not great. If I was an OEM, not knowing who was going to get an instrument or what was going to be done with it, that's what I'd put in.
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Cagey said:BroccoliRob said:
Nice
Orpheo said:
Nice
Cagey said:
Am i the only 1 who thinks the JB is too #bright and #shrill af???
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To me the JB is supremely neutral in sound, which means it goes with everything like chicken.
Orpheo, thanks for the rundown, I really like your idea of putting in a P90 as the middle PUP, I hope you don't mind if I borrow that. Also, your observation about splitting up the middle humbucker makes sense.
Thanks!
Orpheo, thanks for the rundown, I really like your idea of putting in a P90 as the middle PUP, I hope you don't mind if I borrow that. Also, your observation about splitting up the middle humbucker makes sense.
Thanks!
Rick said:
you can surely use that idea. However, keep in mind that I mod a stock p90/phat cat or get one custom-made to my specs to get a more usable tone out of that pickup. I drill out the bobbin to accept 5mm alnico slugs, remove the bottom magnets and add a nickel silver baseplate if it comes with a brass base.
About the JB: The JB and Jazz were made to be telecaster-voiced pickups, but hotter. In the early 70ies, when Seymour made these, hotrail style pickups weren't invented yet so he had to make due with what he had or what he knew. If you look at the JB/Jazz set like that, and perceive them as such, the tones suddenly make so much more sense. A jb/jazz set in a tele works incredibly well, imho, but in a LP: not so much.
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Cagey said:
Sure but y spend $80 on a pickup you might end up needing ta EQ around? Just get one with a sound profile you like in the 1st place. For me it's the Invader, but I know I'm weird (i don't know if you guys have picked up--no #pun intended--on that yet).
If it's the JB then hats off to ya. some of my friend dunk on fools with a tone zone which to me is the inverse of a jb - ballsy and warm and fat (I.e. Good sounding naturally)
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