Mr.Churchyard

I have used this analogy in the past to great affect, The tone woods are to a guitar (electric or not) what a filter is to a camera lens. The original "signal" is the same but it is modified or conditioned by the filter. The final output is the result of the original sonic value after "conditioning". You gots your daylight filters, your overcast filters, your white-balance filters, your long-exposure f-extending filters, etc. That be what tone woods do. SHIELDS UP, Mr. Spock!!!!!!!    IMHO

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Hey doc, what a great comparison! Like it very much...

You are really really wrong and I suggest you first go and

There is lots of interesting stuff to be read on the main site and others,

and while you're at it, get Hiscocks book...

And, there is a search function on this forum..

And the pickups are not there to make the vibration stronger, but to convert it into an electric signal...

how much do one of them go for?

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Don't know right now, but a metronome is absolutely essential! And those "something has survived" mechanical ones are too imprecise...

Btw I was joking about getting it now, but a digital metronome or a simple drum machine are absolutely essential to develop a good steady timing and a solid rhythmic foundation. DO get one and don't listen to those who say they "don't need" a metronome...

sorry, never mentioned the amp, i will also buy a 100+ Watt amp with my first paycheck, but if i cant afford it quite then, i will use a 75W peavey backstage amp. the reason i said about being a poser is because my buddy here has 3 really good fenders worht like $1000 each and he isnt good, and i hate that. but i will only have one so yeah, im gonna go ahead and buy an NJ Series becasue i will end up with one anyways. thanks guys

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But you could buy right now a digital metronome and do some rhythmic exercises with feet and stuff...

Hi Hughes...

First off, did you think of the AMP? You did not say anything about the amp...

There are starter packages by B.C.Rich with a Bronze Warlock and a B.C.Rich Amp (BCL-10), and to tell you quite frankly, I HATE the sound. It's really awful. Granted, it's only a practice amp, but it sucks nonetheless.

If you are serious with guitar playing, you will outgrow that guitar after two years at the latest, probably sooner.

I mean, I love the shape. When I first saw it, I felt I just HAD to start on that guitar.

I can tell you about the Warlock Bronze that it sucks. The pickups are awful. The bridge is of poor quality, in fact it will lose some of its chrome color if you scratch it and so. The nut is of plastic. The tuners aren't that bad I must say. For the rest, it has an agathis body.

It seems to me that you are starving for a B.C. Rich. Great, ok so. If you are also dead sure you'll play seriously (and I mean DEAD SURE), then I suggest to wait a bit and get the better guitar. And stop thinking whether people will think of you as a poser. Most won't know the difference between a Bronce and a NJ anyway and if they do they will more likely appreciate it than anything else.

And, what about the amp?

EDIT: If you are planning to buy a Bronce Warlock and to mod it, you'll have to mod it damn much. At least both pickups and the nut. Perhaps also the bridge although that's ok for the moment, and if I were at it, I would also get better tuners just for the sake of it :-P

Oh, when you remove the nut, you'll probably find out you'll have to clean the routing there and sand a bit. Same goes probably for the neck pocket.

Glow paint is expensive and a major pain in the arse to use, but it's kinda cool

Lights on  http://www.lgmguitars.com/images/guitars/f...uitar_light.jpg

Lights off

http://www.lgmguitars.com/images/guitars/f...guitar_dark.jpg

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Awesome as always Jeremy... Did you explain how to do it in the other topic? Will have to search it then...

One more thing, some pictures from Gibson's site

All For Paul

George

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Ha, the picture of the Gibson Chairman giving Les a new guitar is just great, Les Paul seems so utterly uninterested as if he was about to fall asleep...

*** is MDF?

Where you speak of the JB, there are soundclips right there on the Seymour Duncan site.

IMHO the basic problem is the idea that pickups do have an own sound, which they have not - they have different transfer characteristics. On different built guitars with different wiring and so on the sound will be different. Not to mention the impact of the amp (which should not be used in these cases). A sound clip by someone won't help you that much. To compare pickups you should use always the same guitar with the same settings and stuff and just the different pickups.

craptivarium

 

imho all downhill after awake.  they need kev back.

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talent for talent sake is great, but writing good songs is another thing.  i think they have progressed yes, but i think they are spreading theirselves too thin on side projects.  and do we really need a 28 minute long song?  guys too each his own, some of my favorite bands have released some clunkers lately, ie King's x.

Oh yeah. And do we really need yet another 4 minute standard length song?

I wish also those crappy guys - what's their name... hadn't written all those boring long instrumentals... Oh yeah... Vivaldi was one of them, innit? Who listens to that stuff??? Wait - aargh I've put that stupid guy Mahler on again... I should hit myself.

if you have watched the liquid drum theater dvd with portnoy, he at one point is charting a song, showing how it changes time signatures like 30 times in a minute, which for technical sake is quite an achievement, but does it make a great song?

If you would have listened to the actual albums, you would know what song it was. It is a great technical achievement, and by the way it is a great instrumental (it's not a song). The question is not whether changing time sig 30 times a minute makes a great song, as the answer obiously is NO. The same goes for playing straight eights powerchord riffs punk style and every other technical aspect of a song. NO!

The question is: Does changing time signature 30 times in a minute PREVENT a song from being a great song? By the way there are certain parts in Awake that change time sig at that pace... Like Erotomania (instrumental again).

not bashing guys, just giving my opinion.  awake is probably one of my top 5 albums of all time.  i think with the bar set so high, it's hard to top it.

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Yeah to each his own fav DT album. For some it's When Dream And Day Unite, for many it's Images and Words, for some less it's Awake, for some it's Falling Into Infinity (strangely there are some), for many it's Scenes From A Memory (probably mine too, not so sure about it) and so on. And for some "craptivarium" as you called it, is the "sixtine chapel of music". Mah.

I highly recommend the Planet Waves Trim-Lok tuners... They're absolutely great.

I got it today, haven't gotten all the way through it yet but I have to say that they really piss me off when they use parts of old songs in new ones.

Track 1 in particular

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Well it's Mikes project of a collection of songs going through all the twelve (?) steps of the anonymous alcoholics program... The Glass Prison on SDOIT, This Dying Soul on TOT, and The Root Of All Evil on Octavarium... So it is all one long song in the end, and you can count The Mirror as part of it too...

But I must say that this far this CD has been a pleasure. Now I need some time to get to know the songs better, but I guess I like this already better than Train Of Thought and Falling Into Infinity, and probably also SDOIT.

Oh wait, it is time for me to go and get Octavarium... Well must be off. Later!

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Jeez!

I went to the record store, it was one hour after it had opened, and Octavarium was sold out... Luckily I got to a store where they had still four copies left...

Now I have to rip it and put on my mp3player becuase I have got no discman with me...

Anyway... Seems as there is an orchestra...

But I'll tell you when I have heard it.

Anyway, I'm looking to expand my library further than Octavarium, any of you buffs got any suggestions?

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Liquid Tension Experiment I & II (Portnoy, Petrucci, Tony Levin and Rudess who at the time was not in the band)

Have you heard The "A Change Of Seasons" EP by DT? And "When Dream And Day Unite", the debut album?

The new James LaBrie album "Elements Of Persuasion" as already mentioned is really cool

I love the "John Petrucci & Jordan Rudess - An Evening With" CD. It is an acoustic performance with much improv of only JP & JR and I think it is incredible. I used it to gently wake up the people and they stood up with a smile on their face saying it was really beautiful... Great, great stuff.

Well then there are many other side projects of DT members... Like: Frameshift, Transatlantic, Office of Strategic Influence (O.S.I.)... Worth to check them out.

Beyond DT and side projects... Well...

Oh wait, it is time for me to go and get Octavarium... Well must be off. Later!

Thanks Mr Churchyard, for clearing that up..

Now us old-timers know where Petrucci comes from...see his name a lot..

I've heard a bit of Dream Theater a few years back, my brother was playing bass in a band

doing some DT covers.. I thought is was quite good..but a bit epic-serious sorta.. I preferred

Fear Factory...now those guys are funny... I bought the album..heh

 

Not many get the humour in this stuff...but I like it..then again, I think Pantera are pretty funny...

I think it stems from being a King Crimson fan...mock evil with machine-gun guitar...heh

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Oh, don't you think... Like in "In the name of god" with the lyrics all about very serious stuff (killing... in the name of god...) at a certain point the drummer plays a morse code that says "Eat my a** and balls"... Sometimes they would play the theme from "tom and jerry" in songs, or switch instruments and perform as "Nightmare Cinema"... Heh!

I think Manowar is the funniest band ever...

Does anyone know what the US Tele was called that was bright orange from the factory? Like as in what series that is was?

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I don't understand your question... You want to know the name of a certain "bright orange" color?

Seems that if the Tele had a hb in bridge or neck positions, you could tell by looking at the routs... right?

Unless it was a mini-humbucker, but it seems weird to have one of those straight out of the factory instead of a normal one.

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It is a normal size humbucker.

Oh! In my terms they are very known...

But probably it just isn't your style... The shredders on the forum probably all know it because of the guitarist John Petrucci.

When it comes to technical abilities, this band is top.

Mike Portnoy, the drummer, is just nuts.

John Myung is a really great, though underrated (and under-mixed ) bassist.

Jordan Rudess, the keyboarder, is really incredible. Got classic technique written all over him.

John Petrucci, the guitarist, is also very fast, precise and when he doesn't feel the need to show off sometimes also got nice ideas.

James LaBrie, singer, is also a great singer when it comes to technique, but some people dislike his voice immensely.

Their genre is Progressive Metal: They're the flagship, so to speak. Influences are Rush, Yes and so on, combined with Metallica, Maiden... And many others.

Some great songs I would advise you to check out:

The Dance Of Eternity

Another Day

Peruvian Skies

Hollow Years

Erotomania

Voices

A Change Of Seasons (fantastic 24 min epic)

A Fortune In Lies

and so on...

Everybody agrees that they are incredibly talented when it comes to technical ability, when it comes to songwriting, the public is split in two.. You either hate them or love them...

Are these guy's any good?

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Are you pretending not to know them? Or do you really not know them?

Sometimes people could do the googling for themselves...

The California Fat Telecaster had a singlecoil in the bridge position, the humbucker was in the NECK position! You can see a picture here, first pic, or here

and some review here. In one review Tex-Mex pickups are mentioned. Didn't bother to find more detailed info though.

For those of you who don't know what I am talking about:

Octavarium

Still three days to go... And I have already dreamt of it (no wonder considering the band )

DROOL!

I am still thinking whether going to the Metropole Orchester show... Ah, For The Love Of STEVE, if you know what I mean...

I love a wise use of pedals.

Pedals are to the guitarist what spices are to the cook...

A bit of fx is great, just like a bit of good spicing is great...

If you really overdo, both are crap.

Both change the natural taste/tone and can be used to hide flaws...

Myself, I've got no money to buy pedals, but I love to try them. I own a Korg AX100g right now and am quite happy with it. Not that I play much in public, though.

Nothing to say except...

I'd love a fanned fretboard with those...