this just gives me a headache.....
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It has a little brother:
I saw this picture years ago while shopping for wooden pickup rings. It has been lingering on the dark edges of my nightmares ever since. The pickup rings are nice though.
I saw this picture years ago while shopping for wooden pickup rings. It has been lingering on the dark edges of my nightmares ever since. The pickup rings are nice though.
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I'm guessing it's not that complicated once you set your mind to it, but the question is more - is it really necessary? I mean does all the options really give you that manny sounds that you'll actually use? I'm guessing no. I wouldn't be surprised if the owners of such a guitar end up using only three or four sounds.
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I've found it's usually the younger guys who go in for myriad switches/knobs in a futile attempt to "have it all", end up with some "unique" sound, and finally show all us luddites How It's Done. Invariably, out of all the available choices, a bunch will sound like crap, some will sound the same, a few will work normally, and some won't work at all. Stack all that against the fact you need a researcher on staff to look up which setting you need to get a particular sound, and the time to adjust everything to get there in between beats while playing, and you have a recipe for disaster.
The older you get, the more you realize most of that is beyond unnecessary, to the point where some guys will get to wondering if they even need more than one pickup. You never see any pros with guitars set up that way.
The older you get, the more you realize most of that is beyond unnecessary, to the point where some guys will get to wondering if they even need more than one pickup. You never see any pros with guitars set up that way.
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"how's everyone doing out there? hello, cleveland! right?
okay, this next one goes out...
...goes out to..
...
hang on, I can't find the manual for my guitar
bloody hell I can't remember whrtre the 5 position varitone knob needs to be relative to the bridge coil tap and 3 way neck selector on this song
stay with me, cleveland...
okay........and a 1, and a 2, and a.. wait, did i reverse the phase?
.............okay, yes. ......yes.
the phase has now become reversed. the phase is reversed, cleveland! let's rock!
.........
....cleveland? anybody still here?"
okay, this next one goes out...
...goes out to..
...
hang on, I can't find the manual for my guitar
bloody hell I can't remember whrtre the 5 position varitone knob needs to be relative to the bridge coil tap and 3 way neck selector on this song
stay with me, cleveland...
okay........and a 1, and a 2, and a.. wait, did i reverse the phase?
.............okay, yes. ......yes.
the phase has now become reversed. the phase is reversed, cleveland! let's rock!
.........
....cleveland? anybody still here?"
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HEHE! Perzactly.
I'm not sure how much it matters anyway, at least for live stuff. I know I've played sets that included tunes from Black Sabbath to Robin Trower to Nirvana to Lynyrd Skynyrd to Queen all with the same guitar/sfx/amp, and people still danced, clapped, bought drinks, hooked up, and wanted to befriend the band during breaks. You get done, and there's beer to drink and praise to soak up, and nobody says "What in the hell were you thinking playing "Paranoid" with a Strat?!!" :icon_thumright:
I'm not sure how much it matters anyway, at least for live stuff. I know I've played sets that included tunes from Black Sabbath to Robin Trower to Nirvana to Lynyrd Skynyrd to Queen all with the same guitar/sfx/amp, and people still danced, clapped, bought drinks, hooked up, and wanted to befriend the band during breaks. You get done, and there's beer to drink and praise to soak up, and nobody says "What in the hell were you thinking playing "Paranoid" with a Strat?!!" :icon_thumright:
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Oh no, not just for the young. This old fart loves it too, absolutely my favorite BC Rich. Double with the 10 or the single, either one. Always been mesmerized by all the knobs and switches...Cagey said:
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Yes, I would rock this...But I'd swap out Khaler for Floyd.. :headbang:
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This was designed by Neal Moser, a good friend of mine. He designed this while at BC Rich from the mid 70's through the mid 80's.
He is, quite ironically, a country player, and the 10 string was a 12 string alternative, and the switches, while ostentatious in appearance, actually do their job quite well for a studio workhorse as this was intended to be. It just happened to catch on with the rockers & once Joe Perry had a pic of it on the live record, sales increased dramatically.
While I tend to be a "volume, toggle, & the truth" kind of player, I can understand why the Bich came into being.
This is the guitar, which became the inspiration for my TFS6, which basically removed the bottom scallop for the tuners, and duplicated the dimensions of the upper wing down to the bottom so that they were both symmetrical. Ideally, my guitar is what I thought that the Bich should have been. I first drew it up in 1980, but didn't build it until 1995.
Neal and I have had numerous discussions on this topic.
He is, quite ironically, a country player, and the 10 string was a 12 string alternative, and the switches, while ostentatious in appearance, actually do their job quite well for a studio workhorse as this was intended to be. It just happened to catch on with the rockers & once Joe Perry had a pic of it on the live record, sales increased dramatically.
While I tend to be a "volume, toggle, & the truth" kind of player, I can understand why the Bich came into being.
This is the guitar, which became the inspiration for my TFS6, which basically removed the bottom scallop for the tuners, and duplicated the dimensions of the upper wing down to the bottom so that they were both symmetrical. Ideally, my guitar is what I thought that the Bich should have been. I first drew it up in 1980, but didn't build it until 1995.
Neal and I have had numerous discussions on this topic.
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Well I’ll be gosh danged...
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