Unpopular opinions on gear

[4Eyes]

I kind of like multiscale PRS design more, than 8string they did for Tosin, that looked way worse, that multiscale IMO

For the most part, everybody's always used the same tone as everyone else. Nowadays it's Fishmans and the same models as everybody else, back in my day it was EMGs and the same 6505/5150 settings as everyone else, and back in the 60s and 70s, it was PAFs and roll your hand to the right on a Marshall...like everyone else.

I know this is a very hot take on a guitar forum, but if your shit actually is good, does it matter if you used the same shit as everyone else to record it?

Exactly...that's the point! Does the band sound tight, do riffs make you bang your head, is the song memorable instead of "as many notes as possible competition"?

 

[BornToLooze]

I kind of like multiscale PRS design more, than 8string they did for Tosin, that looked way worse, that multiscale IMO

Exactly...that's the point! Does the band sound tight, do riffs make you bang your head, is the song memorable instead of "as many notes as possible competition"?

Exactly. Like with the I don't care about specs things I posted earlier, you write a breakdown that slaps harder than a drunken stepdad...I don't give a shit what you used to record it...just

 

[T_Gobbs]

P90s are the only valid pickup route.

 

[TedEH]

Did anyone yet mention that floyds suck? Not floating trems as a whole, but specifically floyds. Even the "good" ones just feel wrong - like there's no proper place to rest your palm, and you have to re-adjust how you mute. And so few floyds are really properly stable without blocking them in some way.

 

[odibrom]

Did anyone yet mention that floyds suck? Not floating trems as a whole, but specifically floyds. Even the "good" ones just feel wrong - like there's no proper place to rest your palm, and you have to re-adjust how you mute. And so few floyds are really properly stable without blocking them in some way.

The FRX is pretty damn cool as a floating FLOYD unit... other than that, LoPros are the way...

 

[Metropolis]

Don't know if this is unpopular or been in this thread before, but I can't stand any other string brand than D'addario.

 

[HeHasTheJazzHands]

Don't know if this is unpopular or been in this thread before, but I can't stand any other string brand than D'addario.

That's not opinion that's just fact.

 

[gunch]

I am based and elixir pilled

 

[Seabeast2000]

P90s are the only valid pickup route.

Routing for P90s or pickup option?

 

[odibrom]

Don't know if this is unpopular or been in this thread before, but I can't stand any other string brand than D'addario.

I've tried other brands in the past, but some how I always gravitated to D'Addario... Why fight the obvious?

 

[wheresthefbomb]

Routing for P90s or pickup option?

I think yes.

 

[LiveOVErdrive]

I am based and elixir pilled

If I use anything other than elixir, I have to change strings every like three days cause they rust from my sweaty, caustic hands.

 

[4Eyes]

Another one that comes to my mind - clean channel doesn't matter. In a sense, people chase clean channels on amps for the most pristine clean tone. But the ugly truth is, that you can work out usable and nice clean tones from virtualy anything - just add bit of compression, bit of dirt, or roll of volume on guitar on a crunch channel, add some delay or reverb and you're in clean tone heaven no matter what the amp is.

 

[coffeeflush]

> Another one that comes to my mind - clean channel doesn't matter. In a sense, people chase clean channels on amps for the most pristine clean tone. But the ugly truth is, that you can work out usable and nice clean tones from virtualy anything - just add bit of compression, bit of dirt, or roll of volume on guitar on a crunch channel, add some delay or reverb and you're in clean tone heaven no matter what the amp is.I see where you come from, though I take the opposite approach.
Clean channel on my amp, distortion via a pedal. I prefer it that way to be honest.

Lot if players whose playing and sound I love do the opposite, as your suggestion is.

But I like the volume matching that clean amp + pedal allows me.

 

[dr_game0ver]

P90s are the only valid pickup route.

Dog ear or soapbar?

 

[4Eyes]

Lot if players whose playing and sound I love do the opposite, as your suggestion is.

Call me mad, but one of my all time favourite (pushed) clean tone is slo/recto based higain, with coil tapped neck pickup and guitar volume rolled down, because I'm lazy to switch channels. I'm not that fancy about uber cleans, because they don't cut through the band mix as soon as other instruments start playing

 

[StevenC]

I don't care where they're made or what they used to be, all E-IIs suck.

 

[budda]

I don't care where they're made or what they used to be, all E-IIs suck.

(never picked up an EII) ok but why?

 

[BenjaminW]

Ernie Ball is the way >>>>

 

[budda]

Ernie Ball is the way >>>>

If you like thin nut width and small necks, yep.