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  1. I was actually ignorant and detuned it all before I retuned it, after that was when I went "ah **** I just remembered it's a floating trem"(remember I'm a fixed bridge person, never dealt with trems before!) Anyways, I figured that if it was in tune before(it was in standard EADGBE tuning) it would tune correctly again, I got the tuning no problem reading rich's site and jemsite, but when it was completely in tune, the trem angle was absurd. I'm not sure what's going on here, can you tune to standard tuning at different tensions? I have no idea, I might just block the trem and play it that way, oh well.
  2. I just recently rented a older JS signature guitar today, and well being a player of fixed bridged guitars, I had no idea what I was in for. I decided to retune it because the tuning wasn't that great to begin with. So I loosened the locking nut and began adjusting, and I had no idea that the tension on each string depended on each other... Anyways, fast forward. I found out how to properly tune it, but when I do so, the floating bridge is being pulled insanely, I didn't change the string gauge or anything though, just loosened the strings and retuned it. I read up that the trem claw needs to be tightened but it's at the point where the trem is completely pressed down... Any help guys? Thanks.
  3. Touche, but I was just curious, does he like... Use a evo in the bridge and a breed in the neck? I'm not looking for an exact sound, just a ballpark sound of what it is... If that makes sense. I do agree that the majority of tone is in the fingers, but there is an extent of which comes from the guitar and pickups, I know this is generally common knowledge, but I know that something like a Dimarzio X2N or a Seymour Duncan Alnico Pro II isn't going to yield a similar 'ballpark' sound. I can't just go out and buy Steve Vai's fingers to sound like him, not to mention that I don't necessarily want to sound like him, it's just I really like that smooth tone he uses.
  4. I recently just put a Ibanez 2170FW on order, and I'm looking to get a really extremely smooth Vai-like tone, I know most of this probably has to do with the kind of amp I'd be using, but I love his balanced tone... So would Dimarzio Evolutions suffice? Also, what would be a great PU to put in the neck position? Thanks your your help!
  5. Thanks, I'll try that. I'm curious to know do resistors/capacitors have a negative/positive end? Like do they have to be in a certain way or what? Thanks again.
  6. Hey, hey, I just modded my wah pedal with the help of this site yeah. Anyways, it sounds pretty neat, it doesn't have shrill highs anymore, but I notice that my sweep isn't very... Sweepy, when I move the pedal, it won't change the frequency until about 2/3's away, in which it changes pretty abrupt, is this the pot? Or what? How can I mod it so it modulates throughout the entire sweep? I want very wide/deep sweeps, something like that of on Angels Cry by Angra. Any suggestions guys? Thanks in advanced anyways.
  7. Yeah infact I am playing it unplugged, I'll give it a shot when I get my gear set up tomorrow. Thanks!
  8. It's funny because I checked that as well, I muted all of the other strings except the one I'm going to tap on, than when I tap the string thats unmuted it still makes that sound, howver when I mute all of the strings, including the one I'm going to tap it doesn't ring another note. It's really fustrating ugh. Thanks though.
  9. I've been learning Heroes of Sand by Angra, which basically requires all the fingers to tap a clean rythem, it sounds really cool except for my problem is that when I tap on a open string, it sounds off! It's weird because when I mute a string and than tap it, it's fine, but when I let go of it it creates that note and the note above it which is really annoying. I've intonated my guitar to the best I can get it intonated, I don't usually go out of tune often... Any suggestions?? Thanks!
  10. So I remove the the old tone pot and replace it with a push-pull pot, solder the wire that went from the selector switch to the old pot to the new Push-Pull pot, solder the pickup and the split wiring(assuming it's the wires that are supposed to be soldered together and insulated? Red and White?) all to the same push-pull pot? Does it matter which solder points I solder them to on the pot? Thanks for your replies they're appreciated.
  11. Hey everybody, I recently purchased a Seymour Duncan APH-1 and I plan on installing it in my Epiphone Les Paul studio with this schematic on they're website. Link I understand the schematic(I want a split with a push/pull pot), however I have a problem. The PU selector switch has four solder points on it? My PU selector has only has three and a ground? I'm not sure what it means, do I ground the PU selector, even though it doesn't show a ground symbol for it? Anyways thanks for your help.
  12. Alrighty.. I have a neck(bought) stripped down and ready to be bolted on, it's all good, though I don't know the scale length of the neck... I measured it to the 12th fret, and I got 29.4 centimeters, which is 11.57 inches... Which would be 23.14 full scale length? I'm confused though because I don't think thats a common scale length? Any help would be appreciated... Also, when I double the measurement (11.57") is that where I place the bridge on the body? Thanks,
  13. Hey everybody... I'm building my first guitar, and it was all going pretty smooth until I bought some humbucking pickups, the bridge was fine, but the neck(used) had a broken wire/solder to the ground... and a few moments later from stupid accidents... etc... I got two bobbins with a lot of wire on them and some poles and a magnet... I don't want to get a pro to fix it because it'll probably cost as much as I bought these... I looked at a bunch of sites with tutorials on winding/rewinding/repairing/modding pickups but I haven't found a site that explained things clearly(I guess you could say I'm pretty slow at learning) So I was wondering if there was a diagram or something that shows what wire goes where and so on... But even than, one bobbin(with the adjustable poles) I can only see one free wire, and I cant quite find the other one... The other one looks pretty fine to me... So can I like cut a wire to make another end to join the two bobbins? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
  14. Well, I live in Canada, so theres basically only one authorized dealer in Canada that does warranty for ALL Gibson/Epiphone instruments in Canada... Would that be pretty much calling Gbison up themselves? I emailed Gibson and they directed me to them, so I would figure so. Either way thanks for the reassurance everybody.
  15. It is under the warranty, and the dealer's claiming that it was mis-used, voiding the warranty, but they're gonna just glue it back together out of "curtousy." (The dude who owns the dealer has a rep for being an asshole so...) I don't know if I should just let them glue it back together or If I should expect a new guitar as a replacement. Though thanks for the info guys, helps a heap.
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