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On Monday I brought home this beauty.
Really nice guitar store about an hour away. I sat down with this, a PRS McCarty and a used but excellent condition R8. They hooked me up with a quite decent sounding Supro combo and left me to it.
I still love my Standard 60's, but wanted something with a bit more chonk to the neck to keep the rheumatism from making my hands ache. The PRS was beautiful, but just not my jam. The R8 was sweet but I just did not like the pickups or frets
The Custom just blew me away. What I thought might have been a flaw in the binding was just a little leftover polishing paste and came off easily. The only odd thing was the bridge saddles were installed facing the wrong way (easily fixed). It was even €277 cheaper than online.
It was brought home, bridge saddles corrected, wiped down and strung with some fresh Ernie Ball Hyper Slinkys. It just absolutely rips and keeps tune perfectly. It's wonderfully resonant and sustains for ages. It's even fairly light at a hair under 4.5kg/10lbs (I don't mind a heavy guitar). The neck is somewhere between a '59 and a slim taper with no sticky feel (unlike my Standard).
My only negative thought is that the 498T bridge pickup is a bit hotter than I'd prefer (measured 13.47 on the multimeter) and doesn't clean up with the volume pot as much as I'd like. (yeah, there's an EVH 5150 Stealth on the rack, but I don't tend to use mega amounts of gain on the reg). I'll consider replacing it in the future - maybe with a Bareknuckle Riff Raff. I'll probably fit some locking tuners too, because I'm lazy.
Bridge snafu aside (must have been a Monday morning before the coffee kicked in), everything else is flawless. Just a great, great guitar.
I don't gig any more and my neighbours dislike me enough without trying to get a JCM800 up to cooking temperature through a 4x12.
Two Notes let's you audition their IRs before you buy. Personally, I stick to a Creamback for cleans and V30s or Greenbacks for dirt. Find a speaker type that works for what you like and stick with it. You'll get much better tones than trying to make 500 different IRs fit. I literally have about three IRs on the preselect knob on the Captor Xs that I really use.
Also, bear in mind that playing by yourself at bedroom levels has completely different requirements than playing as part of a group or at higher volumes or for recording. Finding a few IRs that you can really know intimately will make changing things around much more straightforward.
Thank you. There's a load of stuff that isn't visible. Axe-FX III, Helix Rack, Victory Duchess pedal amp, etc.
I'll be moving over the summer, so I'm thinking of selling off some stuff. My EBMM Majesty 7, RG550, my Tele and one or both of my Charvels.
I wanna put a KHE amp switcher in my rack and maybe add a Suhr Classic T, MIJ Wolfgang (I'm on the wait-list), a Victory Super Sheriff, a Friedman JEL-20 and possibly upgrade the Focusrite 18i20 to a Clarett .
I've heard Two Notes are working on a rack version of the Captor X, so that might replace those.
The endless upgrades and tweaks, eh?
This is my only real hobby, so it's where my money goes.
I used to have a Marshall 4x12 with V30s (around '97), but it'd be useless to me now. Those days are gone (unless you're regularly playing arenas). Just the amps into the Captor Xs and straight into Logic Pro. Get some good IRs (Two Notes have some excellent ones) and you're good to go.
Epiphone make some great guitars.
My LP Standard has been modded with jumbo stainless steel frets, bone nut and locking Gotohs. I think of every guitar as a bit of a modding platform. There's almost always something you want to change (my Suhr Modern Plus being the exception).
I think some clearer, milder pickups and locking tuners would see this one just right.
Now I need to sell some of my other guitars that just don't make it into regular rotation any more.
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Fair. Their marketing speak is a little tiresome.
That said, I've seen $30k motorcycles - from a manufacturer whose whole brand revolves around their racing success - with the back tyre mounted backwards on the rim. Humans are flawed creatures.