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I use an AV with an old 2204 and a Recto. My favorite cab. It sounded awful brand new but broke in nicely. I have a AC with greenbacks and prefer the AV, which is more "syrupy" and tighter. It's brighter I guess than the AC but also more polished sounding if that makes sense.

I'm not sure going back and forth on this is helpful. You seem to be confused: the Kahler saddles do not move, but the strings are anchored in the cam that does float and is balanced by the strings tension on top and the spring tension on the bottom. If tension on one string changes, the rest of...

It does balance. There are springs underneath it and you set the point by adjusting the cam set screw in the center of the cam that Kahler calls the Spring Tension Adjuster (just like adjusting the spring claw on a Floyd).

Schecter USA stuff is top level. They tend to use Jescar nickel frets by default (they call it German nickel silver or something odd). If it's not advertised with stainless frets, I would assume it's nickel.

I don't see how that's possible. It's a floating bridge?

Dive only lets you drop tune with the fine tuners but still be able to dive bomb.

I don't mind a Kahler but there's much less range and it's harder to block it into a dive-only state.

sorry but 1) is this thing out yet and 2) does it have the profiling tech or is that coming only at some point after launch? I'm interested but not until it can profile.

Killer amp(s)!

Wow that action is about as low as it can get since the bridge is bottoming out on the top. Beautiful guitar.

Congrats! I've been wanting one of these. How tall are the frets really? I can see they are wide, but I'm not sure how tall they are.

Looks great. I kinda what a Hydra, which imho seems the best implementation of a headless guitar. I normally play LPs, but a Hydra would be kinda nice to bring out when I'm afraid an LPC could get damaged (the Hydra has no headstock to break!).

That's just insane. Many years ago I imported an amp (Bluefaced VH4) and for the import company to release, I had to go to company to pick up documents, bring them to customs, then take documents from customs back to the import company. Wish I'd thought of just starting with doughnuts haha.

That's wild. I've recently used DHL for imports from Japan and they at least cleared customs quickly and arrived. But they are not getting the tariffs correct. One thing I got was a Les Paul, which should not incur duties re-entering the US. The other was a small thing and the charges ended up...

I've had a lot of 2204s from different years. Generally they sound about the same, but I've had some that imho are far too bass heavy and boomy (to me), and they tend to me JCM era (though I had one JMP that was like this). The most aggressive one I've played was a JCM from 1990 that had tons...