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I absolutely love the sound of a cranked half-stack, but I'm sure I'm not the only one living in an apartment with neighbors that don't take to 100+ dB of Death Metal riffs too kindly. So what are you guys' setups for playing silently through headphones? I started my journey a couple of years...

I really like my satin-finished Gibsons. They feel great, they look cool, they wear interestingly, and they have cool something going on in the sound which I'm not sure is caused by the finish, but they both have it, so I guess it is? I have a Tribute and a Modern Lite, and I love both. I reach...

Wondering if anyone is using the MBC to tame some boomy palm-mutes or something. I kinda want to have a mix-ready tone in the box. I find it very inspiring when I start jamming along to mixed tracks through headphones. Normally, I add a hint of MBC to my guitar tracks while mixing to tame some...

In the room, my favorite speakers tend to be the Classic series Greenback RI's. Not the fancy Heritage ones. Just the plain old 25W GB's with the 1777 cone. I like them being edgy and raspy in the highs and high mids while being full and warm in the low end and low mids as well. I'd love to...

I'm kinda really digging the Suhr SSH+ a lot. I have it in both my Les Pauls. I ended up liking it better than the Aldrich. Now, I'm wondering what I should pair them with. I would think the natural companion to the SSH+ would be the SSV-Neck, right? How is it? How about the Thornbucker-Neck...

I got my SSH+ into my Gibson Les Paul Modern Lite today, and my initial impression is... wow, there's definitely something wrong with my Aldrich, LOL. I just gave the SSH+ a quick spin, and I like it. It's not far from what you'd exepct from an Alnico 5 17K pickup. It's pretty evident it's a...

Any thoughts? I kinda want to move that 498T to another guitar. Since I'm moving one pickup, I might as well go the whole nine yards. I'm getting a Suhr SSH+ for the bridge and probably a Duncan Alnico 2 Pro for the neck. What color do you guys think would look best? I'm leaning the least...

Man, I'm loving this thing! So the story is I decided I just was never gonna love the tone of my Strat, so I traded it in at the store for this. This was on sale, so I didn't have to pay full price. I feel like the full price new is way too steep, but in reality, these are great guitars. Mine...

I'm loving the Aldich! I'm wondering how the SSH+ compares. Is it just an underwound Aldrich? What does that mean? Slightly less output and slightly more open top-end? Does it run on the same "Special" Alnico 5? Does it do well in non-Strat-types? Anybody got any clips of it doing teh MeTulZ...

So who has one? How is it? Kinda like the idea of one. I love my Tribute, but one thing I don't love about it is the fat neck. The Studio Modern kinda addressed that and has other features that I find appealing like the compound radius. Thoughts? Pics? Opinions? :)

To sum it up: It's not what I expected. I got the Suhr Aldrich today to drop in my Gibson Les Paul Tribute. I had a JB in it that I liked, but there was room for improvement. I thought it was a bit thin on that particular guitar compared to my other two. That Les Paul is really tight and...

I have the plain old new production JB in my Les Paul. I like it, but I like the Antiquity JB in my LTD better, honestly. The LTD is fatter acoustically, and the Antiquity is a bit smoother (and overall more interesting, TBH), so by comparison, the Les Paul, which is naturally bright with the...

Song is not mine. I remember hearing it on the Sneap Forum way long ago. But anyways, just riffing out to compare them all. They're not all JB's, really, LOL. One of them is a DiMarzio AT-1. But an AT-1 is pretty much just a DiMarzio JB, haha. So it's my LTD EC with an Antiquity JB, my Fender...

I have a DiMarzio SDS-1 in my Strat matched with a Duncan Custom in the bridge. I don't like it, LOL. I mean, on its own, it's alright. I just feel it's a little whimpy when it comes to output, and there is a volume jump when switching between them clean, unless I really crank up the height of...

I always love trying new pickups out. The Tone Zone is one I've had my eyes on since I started playing guitar. I have tried it in the past, but that was some time ago and briefly. Kinda want to get my hands on one just to see if it pulls it off. I like my JB for that Arch Enemy sound. But one...

Logic would lead me to believe it is. It is reported to be almost 1K more DCR. They allegedly use the same kind of magnet, I would assume wound with the same wire gauge (44, though I have no way of knowing for sure), and they use similar materials. The spacing is not the same, but it's not like...

Got one on my LTD EC that I love. I love it so much I'm getting one for my Les Paul. On the LTD, it's paired with a '59. It's alright. Right now on the Les Paul, I've got a Distortion Neck in there. It's alright too, but it's a bit much. Out of the two, I like the '59 paired with the Custom...

I love the TS808. I just think the SD-1's steeper low-end rolloff gets along better with certain amps like Rectos. I do, however, feel the voicing gets a little edgy and not as smooth even when you set the tone knob to (loosely) match the brightness on a Tube Screamer. I know the SD-1 is close...

Toying with the idea of swapping pups on my Les Paul. I'm enjoying the JB in my LTD. Kinda want something along the lines of a slightly hotter, tighter, and meaner JB, but not as different as a Duncan Distortion is. Kinda want something in between a JB and a Distortion leaning more towards the...

I recently got an LTD EC-400VF that I found used locally for pretty cheap. I initially got it thinking "this would make a great beater guitar", but I ended up loving it. It rings out acoustlcally, and it plays much better than my Gibson, IMO, with the thinner neck and the jumbo frets. That...