Recent content by cardinal

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...

It's confusing, but NAM is open source I believe and is not the proprietary capture tech of Neural DSP.

NAM support will be nice. Waiting to see how well the new Helix does with its capture/profiling.

One of these two.

Congrats! Love Ibanez guitars. It's nice knowing that you can always pick up a Japanese Ibanez and know it's going to be a great player.

I tend to use JMP 2204s. Had an early 80s cab with the 65s and it was fine but seemed a little dull compared to G12Ms or V30s. Fwiw my preferred speakers with them are V30s so my hearing may be damaged haha.

I use to have a 4010 combo with that cap and a few 2204 heads without it. Each one sounded a bit different into the same cab, but I'm not sure how much of it was from that cap (IME some 2204s are just bassier or gainier etc than others for reasons that I can't explain). Seems with lifting one...

I love the newer Gibsons except for the fret size. Wish they'd go back to at least whatever they used in the 90s. Or just limited runs with larger fret sizes instead of dumbass different colors. I'd think a lot of folks would jump at an LP Standard or Explorer with 6100-style frets.

VH4 for me. I've had several and I like them (and Peter) but eventually something about that amp just bugs me.

I've been very impressed with the E-IIs I've had. I prefer them to the old Standard Series and they hold up fine compared to the Original Series, especially considering just how expensive the Original Series stuff has become. Just have to get over the logo and the use of veneers.