this is why i like tune-o-matic bridges.

my roommate, i've set up his hellraiser and carvin that have floyds, and as if setting up guitars isn't annoying enough, goddamn i hate floating trems. seriously i dont think they could make it harder to adjust the intonation on floyds even if they tried.

Well my RG570 is like... 98% correct intonation. I'm tired of looking at it, and wondering why the low E string on my Talman (strat style bridge) doesn't want to have intonation. The friggin 12th fret is always 1/4th of a step above the 12th fret harmonic, the rest of the strings were fine. That one damn string just moves the harmonic/note up and down, but always with about 1/4th of a step between them.


Some things just aren't meant to be figured out I guess.

jew magic probably.

[QUOTE=Left Face Down;17695090]wondering why the low E string on my Talman (strat style bridge) doesn't want to have intonation. The friggin 12th fret is always 1/4th of a step above the 12th fret harmonic, the rest of the strings were fine. That one damn string just moves the harmonic/note up and down, but always with about 1/4th of a step between them.


Some things just aren't meant to be figured out I guess.[/QUOTE]

crappy asian build quality. i had a prblem like that on an epiphone. it sounds funny but the bridge needs to have been put in differently. or the nut is filed wrong. something like that.

if anyone has anything to say about how ibanez's are awesome and the talman is a great guitar or something, well, **** off. if it was so great it would be able to intonate properly. good news is its not like its your high e string that you use for leads. still not good tho. whatever.

i was having prbs with my trem as well, was thinking of blocking it and putting a dtuna on it. then i fixed it, and learned to palm mute corectly, and its awesome now. other than my semihollow and tele (and maybe an LP in the near future) i dont think i could ever go back to non trems again.

the amount i use my trem now FAR outways the amount i do not use it. i can only think of maybe two songs i dont NEED to use my trem but i do anyway. but if evh can record a phenomenal track using a hardtail, maybe i will someday too (see 1984s Hot For Teacher. custom gibson explorer. dont believe me? where are the whammy runs?)

Sup lod. Studying Calc all day makes me want to kill myself.

[QUOTE=TriggerNYC;17695182]crappy asian build quality. i had a prblem like that on an epiphone. it sounds funny but the bridge needs to have been put in differently. or the nut is filed wrong. something like that.

if anyone has anything to say about how ibanez's are awesome and the talman is a great guitar or something, well, **** off. if it was so great it would be able to intonate properly. good news is its not like its your high e string that you use for leads. still not good tho. whatever.

i was having prbs with my trem as well, was thinking of blocking it and putting a dtuna on it. then i fixed it, and learned to palm mute corectly, and its awesome now. other than my semihollow and tele (and maybe an LP in the near future) i dont think i could ever go back to non trems again.

the amount i use my trem now FAR outways the amount i do not use it. i can only think of maybe two songs i dont NEED to use my trem but i do anyway. but if evh can record a phenomenal track using a hardtail, maybe i will someday too (see 1984s Hot For Teacher. custom gibson explorer. dont believe me? where are the whammy runs?)[/QUOTE]

you are a gigantic tool

So over night I guess the strings on my RG570 decided to settle or something. I don't know, when I stopped trying to get intonation perfect at about 4 a.m. this morning the low strings were a hint off because I did the intonation on the high strings. Plugged it in today, and everything checked out except the 2nd strings was like a fraction off. Not even enough to really care to adjust it really.


Every time I play my Tone Zone after playing the Norton or Super Distortion for a while. I just sit there and say to myself, "best pickup EVER".


[QUOTE=TriggerNYC;17695182]or the nut is filed wrong. [/QUOTE]

I had the nut worked on a few years back because the low E was giving me fret buzz. So that is probably why. :upset: ... and don't hate on Ibanez, good cheap guitars and just about anything that comes out of Japan is gold. Just because I have one of the Korean Talmans don't hate. I actually love my Talman past this stupid little problem. If I had a damn allen wrench small enough I'd adjust the height of the saddle and hope that fixes it.

Sadly I don't, and the screws are like rusted or something in place on that one saddle only.

Just looked through the new Guitar world and seen one of the tabbed songs is tears in heaven, reminded me how much I love Clapton,
Anyways I picked up my acoustic and tried to muddle though the song and realized that I have,t played in over a half a year and I suck at guitar all over again. Time to start practicing a lot more.

Sup LFD live journal

LFD I need you to transfer your calculus knowledge to me via telepathy tomorrow. I've been studying for 10 straight hours and I have a feeling I'm gonna get to the test tomorrow and ****ing forget all of it...

I'll see what I can do, but I can't guarantee I'll be awake before noon. I stayed up all last night setting up my RG570 from scratch, and tonight it is the RG1570s turn.


On a side note, finding women attractive with your same last name (if there is a relation it is s[size=2]h[/size]it far back and no one knows about it) weird to any one else? Seriously, friend has a friend and I'm like she's hot. Then he tells me she has my same last name and I'm like... she's... hot?

[QUOTE=Left Face Down;17695465]and don't hate on Ibanez, good cheap guitars [/quote]

im not hating on ibanez. i like them. but a lot of times guitars slip through the cracks and it happens most often with esps, epiphones, ibanez, squier, and less often with schecter (who are also asian) hagstrom, and for some reason jackson. just my experience.

[QUOTE=Left Face Down;17695465] Just because I have one of the Korean Talmans don't hate. I actually love my Talman past this stupid little problem. [/QUOTE]

thats like saying i love my girlfriends big fat [butt], except for all the hair on her lower back. yeah i guess its not that big of a deal but still.........

Lol NYC.

Also LFD I once dated a girl with the same surname as me, and I wasn't weirded out by it. Although it's a VERY common name, kind of like chang/wang is in china. I'd hit it tbh.


NGD today by the way, but can't be bothered to create a new post about it:

[IMG]http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y293/Skogferd/ESPM-II.jpg[/IMG]

Looks wayyy better than my other M-II, which has a rosewood fingerboard. Gonna spend the night getting it set up, cos the guy who owned it before me tuned it to Eb with .56 gauge strings... Ah well.

edit: dunno if I've posted this also, but OMG I GOT MYSELF A WARWICK CORVETTE!

[IMG]http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y293/Skogferd/275490.jpg[/IMG]

FNA Jazzman, sounds ridiculously good.

Calc final done. Much easier than expected.

[IMG]http://i48.tinypic.com/330vh9w.gif[/IMG]

Any one have more issues with thinner strings going out of tune compared to thicker ones? As you all probably know, I set up my RG1570 last night, the RG570 and Talman the night prior. Due to issues with the bridges taking pissy fits I changed back to 9s on the RG1570/RG570. Even though I gave them way more stretching, as the process in it self was longer to string and tune them, they are the ones which are screwing up on tuning. I mean, bad... I don't remember 10s giving me so much issues.


That and the Talman seems to be holding tuning about 99%.

[QUOTE=E.S.P.;17697297]
NGD today by the way, but can't be bothered to create a new post about it:

[IMG]http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y293/Skogferd/ESPM-II.jpg[/IMG]

Looks wayyy better than my other M-II, which has a rosewood fingerboard. Gonna spend the night getting it set up, cos the guy who owned it before me tuned it to Eb with .56 gauge strings... Ah well.
[/QUOTE]

Looks beautiful. I've thought about ESPs before, but I've only ran across one store which stocks them (and that was in a city I was only in for a day or two). So I haven't really ever been able to get my hands on one.


When I get a job, if I have some free money, I want to track down a HH/HSH guitar that has a hard-tail and maple fret board. I'd rather something like an RG style guitar super strat, but something tells me I'm going to end up with a strat. If only ESP made one with a hard tail of the M-II. :upset: Last resort I'll get a Fender fat strat.

That and I'm thinking about getting rid of the RG570, probably for a hard-tail. The neck was so dried out before I got it the bastard tends to play like a damn maple board I would say. The Tone Zone isn't that much higher in treble than my Super Distortion or Norton, but I mean all the pickups (Air Norton, Blue Velvet, and Tone Zone) get like a boost of treble in that guitar I swear. :lol:

[IMG]http://www.espguitars.com/images/guitars/M-1-NTB.jpg[/IMG]

Pretty sweet, or whaddaya say LFD? Ebony fb though, but it's a damn fine axe :thumb:

Maybe a little [i]too[/i] simplistic for me. I don't know, maybe I'm crazy, but I can't live with out a neck pickup. :lol: I haven't really set up my guitars from scratch since I went to college, and all three of them sound better than I remember now that I have done it.


I've never actually had very much time on an Ebony fretboard though. Only like one or two LPs I've just wanked on in a store. I'm seriously considering an Ibanez RGA32 or RGA32FM to possibly replace my Ibanez Talman. The ESP use to drool over past the M-II like you have is the Horizon NT-II. Though I'd probably swap out the pickups for DiMarzios... as I am a DiMarzio whore.

[IMG]http://www.espguitars.com/images/guitars/Horizon-NT-II_DBSB.jpg[/IMG]

Edit:
If I had $600~ right now I'd be really tempted to buy the LTD MH-1000
http://guitars.musiciansfriend.com/product/ESP-LTD-MH1000-Duncan-Pickups-Electric-Guitar?sku=423297

Im gonna be picking up an LTD MH-1000 after christmas! cant wait.

[URL]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4sS0ZCPqwQ[/URL]

Hes lost it.

[QUOTE=Left Face Down;17698132]

When I get a job, if I have some free money, I want to track down a HH/HSH guitar that has a hard-tail and maple fret board. I'd rather something like an RG style guitar super strat, but something tells me I'm going to end up with a strat. If only ESP made one with a hard tail of the M-II. :upset: Last resort I'll get a Fender fat strat.

[/QUOTE]

i LOVE maple fbs and try my best to pick up guitars with only maple fbs bc i like the way they look and they feel "softer" to me even tho they are a harder wood. rosewood feels really scratchy i dont like it.

unfortunately not a lot of guitar manufacturers make maple fbs on their guitars anymore, and if they do its for like, strat and tele copies. not really superstrats.

and before this year, no one really made any flashy guitars period. ibanez just came out with one RG this year thats yellow with a mapled fb, and esp has the mh-53 and 1003 with maple necks and tremolos, but nothing on the higher end.

edit: tell vai to kill himself

So Vai has apparently finally done too many drugs in his life time. Seriously, that video would probably be cool on LSD... which is what Vai was probably on when he wrote the song and for that matter made the video.

Man, this place just isn't the same without all the sh!t talking....


and then i make a post. interesting

Missed the boat man. This place has got a serious case of the desolate.

after i changed jobs i just didn't care anymore i guess.

if i was like 3 or 4 years ago people would just come out of the wood work

time to resurrect myself like the majestic phoenix that I am. man I'm sexy :)

I remember the mop, but not so much without the penguin. little ashamed i must say...nay, disappointed would be more fitting

my rg's tunning stability is shabby too

[QUOTE=Kurrpt;17699921]after i changed jobs i just didn't care anymore i guess.

if i was like 3 or 4 years ago people would just come out of the wood work

time to resurrect myself like the majestic phoenix that I am. man I'm sexy :)

I remember the mop, but not so much without the penguin. little ashamed i must say...nay, disappointed would be more fitting[/QUOTE]

still answering phones for a living?

[IMG]http://imagebeast.net/images/f9sbzulbenalvm7khg.jpg[/IMG]

Woah krups is back? I've been gone to long.

sup lod?

[url]http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=979598&content=music[/url]

give celestial door a listen, solo is too loud but fu[COLOR="Black"]c[/COLOR]k it, im proud of that solo

and to E.S.P. fu[COLOR="Black"]c[/COLOR]k yes man, that is all too sick! amazing bass as well, my buddy has a corvette double buck 4 string and that thing rules til the end of the earth. ive been thinkin about a warwick 5 string for myself too but no monays

also! im gonna have a NGD the day after christmas! gonna be so sick ill post pics n shi