Recent content by cardinal

Another +1 to NYXL strings not breaking. When I played 8-strings with longer scales tuned to standard, I was having major issues breaking high E strings during bending. Happened once ot twice a week. But switching to NYXL solved it completely and I don't think I ever broke one.

I normally just play whatever and don't mind but I really dislike EB strings. Maybe they just die too quickly just they just do not sound right to me. Lack of snap/attack I think.

Song in the OP was ok but didn't make it far into it. I was not prepared for Thrill haha. That was awesome. Made me go back and listen to the song in the OP.

That's cool; had not heard of those before. Apparently two single coils under one humbucker cover.

This drives me crazy. Charvel won't take custom orders from us mere mortals because they are too busy building this shit.

I've been curious about the Raw Vintage PAFs. I really prefer an f-spaced bridge pickup with LPs, and most of the PAF clones don't come with that option (but Raw Vintage does).

I have a Dimarzio 36th PAF that I think sounds cool with high gain. I'm using the "neck" pickup in the bridge position (I think it originally was intended for either). It seems to have a mid spike around 600hz because it has a snarly, cocked-wah thing going on to me, but it sounds cool (to me)...

Hipshot or Gotoh are my preferences, though unless you're wrapping the strings in an odd way, it's hard for me to see how tuners are causing the problem. Is the tuning problem from tremolo use? Then yeah I guess locking tuners can help by eliminating any wrapping, but often the problem is...

Maybe not the question in the OP, but I wish the blade poles of the 81 etc were longer because IME they don't work well in a guitar that needs f-spaced pickups; the blades don't seem to continue all the way under the outer strings and causes me issues. For a guitar that needs f-spaced pickups...

IME if you're going to boost a Recto, nearly any of them will give you That Tone. If you don't want to boost it, you might get away with an F depending on how tight/immediate you want it to be.

I enjoy a thin neck as well, but I've noticed that thicker necks force my left hand into a posture that's better for vibrato and bending. With a thinner neck, my fingers end up flatter to the board and I lose leverage, so I have to consciously hold my hand in a certain way and do get a bit...

Guitars are strange things and not really fungible. If you played a Classic that you know you liked, I would get that.

I have one of those. Nice enough. I did prefer it to an AX cab with the newer G12Ms. The top end seemed more pleasant. Sort of a "paper" sound to the newer cab? I tend to just use my AV cab though. I prefer it. Smoother treble imho and more aggressive sounding.

I have a Horizon with a non-reverse headstock like that, just refretted with stainless Jescar jumbos. Let me know if you'd be interested in that. Happy to send pics.

I do have two other Horizons for sale (Original Series Horizon-1 Black from '23 I think; Original Series Horizon CTM from '14 I think); feel free to reach out if your interested in either of those instead.