I love the Elixirs. Perfect for someone like me who's lazy and leaves strings on for ages. Still sound great after a couple years.Originally Posted by The Dunster
EDIT: Although now that you mention it - I have heard a weird buzzing for a while not that wasn't fret buzzing, it almost sounds like a weird harmonic sound on a couple of the strings that's more pronounced at certain frets. Is that similar to what you experienced?
Last edited by Macca; 21-12-2017 at 08:58 AM.
If you can see black deposits on your strings it will be the same issue. For some people it's not a problem but for someone with OCD it's pure torture.
Do you like the feel of the Eliir Nanowebs ? The sound I'm ok with but they feel really greasy / slippery to me as well.
Made in Japan Ibanez Prestige RG. I finally managed to squeeze one into the collection. Great guitar to play, very versatile and the build quality and components are 1st class.
I played a few Fender Pro series Strats today - Conclusion - garbage. Like Gibson, Fender don't make anything decent anymore unless it's from their custom shop. Then it's $6k or more for a Strat and 9k plus for a Les Paul in a market where other brands do it better for half the price. The Mexican and Indo / Chinese Fenders and Squiers are much better value for anyone other than cork sniffers.
I played a Korean PRS SE Custom today as well - absolutely wonderful little guitar. Anyone with $1000 or so to spend on a guitar should look no further.
Last edited by The Dunster; 04-02-2018 at 07:03 PM.
Nice Ibanez mate.. (First guitar I ever bought was an Ibanez RX back as a young shiner, before I made the smart move of going to bass..)
How does it sound?
I hope you are going to get out the Boss HM-2 pedal for it..
I've been keeping an eye out lately for any Warwick Thumb basses going cheaply (which isn't happening) and stumbled across a bloke (in QLD) selling a Warwick Dolphin Pro 5.. Every review I've read has been that its one of the best basses they've played, etc.. But for that kind of cash, I don't want to buy it off of just reviews, I would want to be playing it.. Problem is, they are quite rare and its hard to find anywhere to have a go on one of the badboys..
I find with the more expensive guitars and probably basses no two are the same so you really need to play them first. Especially vintage gear where most of the "famous" models rarely live up to the hype.
Just buy the thing, sell it if you dont like it,Nice Ibanez mate.. (First guitar I ever bought was an Ibanez RX back as a young shiner, before I made the smart move of going to bass..)
How does it sound?
I hope you are going to get out the Boss HM-2 pedal for it..
I've been keeping an eye out lately for any Warwick Thumb basses going cheaply (which isn't happening) and stumbled across a bloke (in QLD) selling a Warwick Dolphin Pro 5.. Every review I've read has been that its one of the best basses they've played, etc.. But for that kind of cash, I don't want to buy it off of just reviews, I would want to be playing it.. Problem is, they are quite rare and its hard to find anywhere to have a go on one of the badboys..
I cant think of any reasons not to buy it.
Nice Guitar. My first proper electric was an Ibanez EX. It was a variation of the RG in the
Made in Japan Ibanez Prestige RG. I finally managed to squeeze one into the collection. Great guitar to play, very versatile and the build quality and components are 1st class.
I played a few Fender Pro series Strats today - Conclusion - garbage. Like Gibson, Fender don't make anything decent anymore unless it's from their custom shop. Then it's $6k or more for a Strat and 9k plus for a Les Paul in a market where other brands do it better for half the price. The Mexican and Indo / Chinese Fenders and Squiers are much better value for anyone other than cork sniffers.
I think the secret with Gibson is to go second hand. There are some good finds if you are patient. Ive played some good new Gibson, but there is a lot of rubbish with VERY obvious flaws that should never have made it out of the factory.
If you are buying fender though, Japan is the place to shop. The Japanese fenders are really good. Id elevate them above the Mexican fenders, but they are a similar price.
Bon - Buy the Warwick Dolphin Pro 5 - if you don't like it you won't lose any money or have issues finding a new owner for it.
Sammydog - Agree 2nd hand is the only way to shop for Gibson's - The later production Kalamazoo issues are still affordable - I can see them becoming ridiculously valued in ten years time and all of us wishing we'd bought them when we had the chance.
New Gibson's are essentially finished in Australia. The current distributor own's Billy Hydes and another shop in Melbourne - looks like he's going to be making himself the only place to buy Gibson / Epiphone in Australia [Not confirmed - but looks to be the case with Gibson removing pretty much everyone else from their supply chain.].
I'm a big fan of Japanese guitars. I have a Tokai Lawsuit Les Paul, a Vintage telecaster, and now an Ibanez Prestige. All three of them are better built than the US equivalents I have owned. The fret work on the Ibanez [and it's not an expensive guitar [ $1800 street price] destroys anything else I own including my Custom Shop Strat.
However, not all Japanese Fenders are created equally. The good vintage ones can still cost you $5k or more - the cheaper ones are somewhere in between a Mexican and a US made Fender build / quality and price wise.
In the used market though you can get some nice Tokai LP's for under $3k - but the under $1k bargains seem long gone now
Last edited by The Dunster; 06-02-2018 at 02:05 PM.
My first guitar I bought was a Crafter acoustic for around $700, which I believe are Korean made. Pretty good guitars for the price I think. Mine was only a stage body one, so a bit quiet - but my mate bought a full body one that was I think around $1100 and its a very nice guitar to listen to and play.
While I'm here - it seems a few of you guys are quite into the electric guitar side of things which I know little to nothing about. I don't know much about either the guitar or the amp side of things - in my naivety it seems like most of the sound comes from what you plug it into, so are you mainly looking for playability and feel from the guitar (besides the pickup arrangement) or is there more to it?
If i was looking to head in that direction and start fiddling around with some more verbatim covers of rock songs and learn some riffs etc, realistically what sort of stuff should I be looking to grab since a lot of subtleties will be lost on me?
I feel like having played mainly acoustic for so long, my musical brain is so much more attuned to the melodic side of things rather than tone and the particular "sound"
Simple.
Squier Affinity Telecaster $375 or so and absolutely awesome because you can play anything on them.
Peavey Bandit 112 Red or Blue Stripe Combo Amp 2nd hand for $200 or less.
This combo will play anything you care to name from Jazz Standards, to Led Zeppelin, and back to Blues or Country.
The tone is in the fingers not the gear. Jimmy Page plays the solo in Stairway to Heaven on a telecaster in the studio and live with a Les Paul and I doubt anyone could pick the difference - and the two guitars are nothing even remotely alike.
Last edited by The Dunster; 06-02-2018 at 03:57 PM.
I have the orchestral solid top,back sides in dark timber. Timber isnt premium but does a darn good job. Smaller size lets ya sink into a lounge and learn bad habits
Any of you gents know much about shielding a bass/guitar?
I'm getting plenty of noise that I'm pretty fed up with.. Don't touch anything and its a big hum, touch the strings and it goes away..
I've been reading up on what could be the potential problem, and it seems I need to use a copper foil tape or a conductive paint on the inside of my control and pickup cavities to block out outside interference..
Has it always done it or is it something that just started happening ?
If it's just started happening you might simply have a dry joint on the ground wire - which can be easily fixed by just re-flowing the solder on it.
On the cavity side of things the conductive paint or something carbon / graphite based can work - but it can also flake after awhile which means it can foul pots and switches.
The copper foil tape can work but it can also not work as well if you have a grounding issue as mentioned previously or if you are in a room which generates a bit too much RF from lights or other objects.
My advice would be to check the grounding wire and also change rooms to see if it goes away.
Last edited by The Dunster; 11-04-2018 at 12:22 PM.
Cheers mate..
The hum has always been there, apparently its pretty common in basses, but I feel like its definitely become more prolific of late..
I'll open her up and have a look at the grounding wire when I get home..
On a side note, that Warwick Dolphin Pro5 that was going for $2400 that I was contemplating buying a while back.. Didn't buy it..
However another one has just come up for sale in Sydney, this time for $4k... Fvck..
Update for Dunster..
I took the bass to my amp/guitar man.. He's checked the insides, all internal wiring and shielding appears to be fine..
He discovered that its the neck pickup (EMG active J) that's causing the noise..
So either I deal with it, and don't use that pickup.. Or replace it..
Crazy question but are you using a stereo or mono output jack ? Because from what I remember EMG active pickups won't function correctly with a mono output jack.
Scarily, I wouldn't have a clue.. I would assume its stereo.
I'll open her up when I get home and have a look..
From my extensive knowledge (and by that, I mean from my quick googling) stereo has 3 terminals hot/ground/battery, and mono has 2 terminals hot/ground, right???
Yes.
know thy jacks
Question for the guitar/bass kids on here.. (I'm lookin' at you Dunster)
Now that I'm back from OS, finally opened up my Spector NS2J to get on to sorting out the bad neck pickup..
Both neck and bridge pickups are EMG SJ5's which I am led to believe is for a 5 string, yet this bass is a 4 string. (???)
I'm looking to buy a replacement (still not sure if I should get a replacement pair and just change out both, or only the faulty neck one)..
I can't find anywhere if these are the standard pickups that go in it, or if this is actually a customization that the last owner did..
Summing it up, I don't want to spend a couple of hundred bucks on pickups that wont work, wont fit the slots, sound sh!t, etc.. So I wanted to make sure of what I'm buying or see if you guys had any experience in this stuff..
edit: Also, with EMG I thought SJ pickups were for the neck, and LJ were for the bridge. But this badboy has an SJ5 in both..
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