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The best masking tape I've used is by 3M corp. , the blue stuff. There is blue, green and white masking tape out there. White masking tape is the worst for leaving sticky residue behind but has the greatest adherance. The green tape is middle ground for both functions. The blue tape has adequate adherence and leaves behind the least glue residue, but is the most expensive.

The Duck Brand blue masking tape is almost as good as the 3m stuff but a lot cheaper. I've used it and the 3M blue masking tape when refinishing necks and what not and it's worked great.

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Nice. I'm a huge McFarlane fan and had all the #1 covers for that issue. As long as that orange peel in the pictures isn't under the clear, that's going to be an awesome looking guitar!

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Don't use olive oil. If you want to use an oil other than lemon for your fretboard, get bore oil for woodwind instruments. It lasts longer than lemon oil and it doesn't get sticky.

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They're nice guitars. I've only seen one in person in my life, and they're not common as was mentioned.

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Well, doing a quick search at newegg, it's going to cost me at least $189 for a SPDIF equipped SoundBlaster. That plus the cost of the V-Amp is enough to pay for a Bass Pod. Decisions decisions.

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I clean mine about once every 6 months for the guitars I play often, and I change strings on them at least once a month if not more often. I use bore oil instead of lemon oil when oiling.

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There saying it dosn't match my billing address and it does . I have given it to them 2 times over the phone and 2 times through Email. The credit card company has never missed sending me a bill yet,you can set your watch by them.

I've had that happen before with my Visa check card. Turns out that while they were sending the bank statement to my new house, they still had my old address online somewhere. I found out about it 3 years after I bought a house and moved, and it took forever to fix because no one knew where to look to find the wrong address in their system.

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You guys all know that Musician's Friend is owned by Guitar Center, right? I know there are more than a few people here who have expressed a dislike or the local mega guitar mart. I'm tired of them because I've got 3 of them within a 50 mile radius, and there are less than 10 Ibanez guitars on the rack between all of them.

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Hi guys and fellow fine guitarist i would like to know what is the brand of MR Rob johnson's guitar posing when he did his cover page for his first solo alumb titled guitarchitecture?? i am not sure if is a tokai japanese made guitar?? please correct me if i am wrong

It's a custom Greco 7-string. Here's a better picture of it from the inside of the Guitarchitecture lienr notes at http://www.guitar9.com/aghtml/image/guitarchitecturealb7.jpg

He endorsed Ibanez in the past, and I think still does.

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Excellent. I was considering picking up a Bass Pod, but the limited time I got to spend with one (about 30 minutes) wasn't enough to get through more than the presets. Still, they all had very similar sounds to me, which didn't inspire paying the high cost of entry. I think I'll have to pick up the Bass V-Amp. Does it support recording over USB?

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Was the pickup working when it was removed from the epiphone? Do any of the wires have metal shielding? If so, that's your ground. Can you post pics of your wiring setup?

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there is no "omega" sing by them or numbers. all it says is loudspeaker outputs and there are 2 for the left and 2 for the right. then it says 100 watts 4 ohm per channel and 80 watts 8 ohm per chanllel.

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Omega symbol = Ohms, so 8 Ohms = 8 Omega Symbol.

What is your cab rated at? That should determine what output on the amp you're using.

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I have been curious about the Schecter but never got my hands on one.

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I like the feel of the Omen 7's, but as you stated about other 7's, they need pickups.

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Not a matter of distrust, I just cut to the chase when processor instruction set differences come in to play.  Both games and audio software engines are extremely resource intensive and have been coded sometimes for optimization at a processor level in assembler.  The foundation of the 8x88's (intel) instruction set hasn't changed and is still most often covered, AMD's is covered more so than ever but not universally and when you have many software processes talking to a processor, you want them to speak the same language, so to speak. 

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It appears you're talking about additions to the base x86 instruction set like SIMD/SSE and applications that are optimized to use them. AMD and Intel both implement a complete x86 instruction set in their past and current x86 architecture processors, and they curently both support the full compliment of SSE/SSE2/SSE3 extensions. While Intel had SSE3 support before AMD, AMD supports it now so there is no performance increase from SSE3 optimized code on an Intel P4 that isn't seen on an AMD Athlon 64 as well. So it's not really an issue of compatible instruction sets, and the list of SSE3 optimized software is still pretty short. Pro Tools HD doesn't support any SSE exentions/optimization. Cakewalk Sonar supports SSE-SSE3, but it's not processor exclusive at this point so it's a non-issue.

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How much is cheap? The Ibanez 7321 isn't bad.

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Even with the Dell, it's not enough.  I got a 6000 for my oldest for college and tried some audio work on it a bit before passing it off.  The Celeron and Moble processors are simply weak for gaming and audio production, I don't trust AMD for anything.  The worst part is the hard drives are THE SLOWEST drives you can buy, actually for a desktop you can't even buy them that slow.

If your looking for a general purpose laptop you'll be fine, but otherwise don't expect it to be happy when trying to use it for excessive processing like heavy 3D games or audio production.

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I agree with everything else you said, but why the distrust of AMD? They've been showing up intel for the last two years now, and their price points are better.

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Guitar Center does nothing to set up or rarely even tune a guitar. Go back and play some of these guitars in a shop that cares about someting other than taking your money I'll bet its different.

Honestly ship a guitar to thier warehouse and then to the store and hope it retains a good setup?

Sorry, Its a pet peeve. Everytime I go in thier accoustic room I feel like asking for arrows so I can target shoot. Maybe its just the Nevada stores.

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I understand. I went into the one in Plano, TX a while back and they had a high dollar Breedlove where the neck was bowed so bad the bass strings were flapping. The guy walks in and says "have you played that breedlove yet?" and I just laughed.

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Wow... That's all I can say.

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I like it. I'd finsh the top clear so you can see the butcherblock look, which I personally this is awesome, but paint the sides/back. I'd mask off the first 1/4" from the top on the sides before painting for a faux binding effect where the butcherblock will show through on the sides. but that's me.

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I haven't received mine yet, but I should since I'm a customer and on their catalog mailing list.

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OK. I was under the impression that the H4 was now the standard bridge pickup for all ESP LTD guitars, at least according to EMG's web site.

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Wouldn't work unless you cut the last two frets off.  With 24 frets, the bridge would be closer to the neck, so it wouldn't intonate correctly.

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And it won't work if you cut off the last two frets anyway, as it won't mate to the body correctly. Another thing to realize is even among guitars with AANJ like the RG series, the different model numbers don't have the holes in the same place. For example, an RG 300 series neck won't have the mounting holes in the same place as an RG 500 series neck.

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You could always try a Bill Lawrence and an EMG H4. EMG says it's the passive version of the 81, so you shouldn't have any impedence issues since they're both passive. Even better, they can be found cheaply if you look.

n/m, I just read your post completely. The EMG HZ that comes with your ESP is the H4 model. If you don't like the sound of it, then either it doesn't sound like the 81 in passive form as EMG says, or maybe the 81's not what you're after.

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i think he means of the hot and ground coming off of the 9v the ground isnt grounded, this is the reason it is buzzing, you need to ground the black wire, it needs to be attached to the out put jack

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+1. On an ibanez with a barrel style jack, the battery ground is wired to the shortest of the three prongs.

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OK, on the loud hum issue, I had the same thing happen to me last night when I wired up an 81 and 85 in my new S470DXQM. The wiring as all correct except for the quick connects to the pikcups. In my haste, I hooked the pikcups up with the connectors upside down, and that caused a really bad hum. Might that be what happened to you?

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OK, here's a picture of my control cavity on one of my S-470's.

Ibanez S470 control cavity

The two red wires from the pickups are soldered to the red wire from the battery clip and then covered with shrink tubing.

The black lead from the battery clip leads to the terminal on the Ibanez jack (conveniently equipped for such use).

Pickup output wires (white) have the shielding (which is ground) grounded to the volume pot, with the inner white wires running to the selector switch. The selector switch output is then wired to the input of the volume pot, and the output wired to the jack. Tone pot is grounded to the volume pot and there's a capcitor running from tone middle lug to volume first lug (not sure from the pic)

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