the mh 1000 with emgs is much better,without the crappy abalone binding.

yeah, esp and emg go hand in hand...

i really love my active 81/85 emgs in my esp ltd! they sound awesome,just perfect if youre into metal/hardcore/grind/...

on another note, i should use the 85 more often,it has a beautiful clean sound. shame on me.

going from mex to american is a huge difference that isnt visible (except in the sunburst finishes). the wood quality is a lot better, the pickups are of much higher quality and the americans are build with more care.
all in all comparing a mexican to an american is like comparing a squier to a mexican.
dont the americans also come with s-1 switching?
also look into the highway-1 teles, they are build in america but cheaper because of the satin finish and other things, but the wiring they use (i forgot what they called it) makes the pickups sound amazing... i would by a highway 1 over an american standard anyday of the week.

does anyone have experience with sperzel locking tuners? worth the money? because im thinking of getting sperzels.

Im looking for a new amp.

any suggestions?

Ive been playing through Marshalls but part of me is wanting to try something new.

I'm a Peavey fan. I get to play on a JSX at a church once in a while, and it's pretty awesome if you're looking to dial in that kind of melodic hardcore sound.

Thanks for the advice. Ill keep it in mind.

Anyone know anything on "Orange Amps" ?

Does anyone know if Gallien Krueger does 410 bass cabs? About how much would it roll for?

I have a 210 GK combo amp right now, but I'm hoping to save up for a cab this summer. I thought about a 115 or something, but eh.

So cost and quality... what's more worth it: Ampeg 410 or GK 410?
GK's are like steel, and sound great upright or electric, but I've never tried a 410 and never used an Ampeg at all.

They are good if you wanna pay the price.

I like grovers myself just because they are cheaper but to me they stay in tune just as good as anything else.

I just built the best sounding tele ever. it's a 71 MIJ with custom shop pickups, and a 4-way switch. it's freaking incredible....

They are pretty good, I havent actually played one personally, but i have friends who played them and were pretty impressed. Aparently they have a lot of diversity, if you can afford them, I would assume they are good.

Orange amps are pretty sweet. They don't have very good shielding so it's really easy to get lots of feedback. the AD series is a lot more raw sounding, and the Rocker series has more of a modern sound. I prefer the AD.

I kind of hate ESP right now.

First they drop the price of my model of guitar because they came out with a new 500 series guitar, thus killing the resale value on my 400AT. Then I find out my "lifetime no exceptions warranty" is void because I didn't mail in the warranty card within 10 days of buying the guitar. Awesome.

hmmm,never really bothered to do the warranty card thing.

Yeah. The input piece on my 400AT is a piece of garbage, because the whole unit rotates when you adjust the nut that holds the whole input piece in place, thus causing the wires to twist and eventually rip. That just happened to mine. So I'm taking it to my local place to get the whole thing replaced with a better part.

I want an EC1000.

there isnt a huge difference between 400´s and 1000´s. the 400 series are quality guitars.

do you like the ec1000 with seymour duncans or emgs?

I'm a JB/59 fan. My friend has an Epi Les Paul copy, one of their highest quality models with EMG's in it, and I really can't say I'm a fan of the tone he gets. I'm sure it varies from guitar to guitar, but his tone just sounds lifeless to me. I like my 400 a lot. Don't you have a 1000, Dio?

Like I said, overall, it is all about your budget. I am going to get the hughes and kettner triamp, which is really expensive, but is amazing (saosin uses it).

Well guys, potentially awesome and sad news at the same time. My uncle passed away about three months ago, which sucks because he was a really awesome person, but I found out today that me and my brother were left a truck, a car, an antique gun collection and supposedly a knife collection in his will. So hopefully, thanks to him, I will be getting some awesome new gear from selling this stuff (minus the antique guns, I'm keeping those).

sell off memories of your uncle so you can shrrrreeeeddd harddderrrrr.

I don't associate memories of my uncle with an old truck or car, asshole.

cool your jets, hombre. im just messin

i have a 400 but when i first got it i had to get used to the thick neck (compared to my old ibanez guitar) though. but its perfect now.

picked up a gibson grabber g-3 yesterday to add to my fleet...

it's a pretty sweet vintage bass

Jeremy Talley knows everything about Orange Amps

I am a Mesa Boogie fan myself, I own a dual rectifier and it slays. listen to pivovarova on my band's virb (signature), both guitar tracks are courtesy of my amp.

thanks alot for all of that info guys.

the orange AD series does not have enought gain to slaughter children, the amp cuts off at gainy blues.
the rocker series has a really modern tone to it, but the break up is to loose in my opinion
the thunderverb is trash in my opinion, they advertise that head as it would be good for metal, but it has about the same amount of gain as the ADs do. i can see it making a killer bass amp

has anyone played the new marshall jvm? looks like a budget triamp mkII to me. it is supposed to be every famous marshall tube amp all in one amp.

Thomas Erak uses an Orange AD series, which kind of perks my interest in them.

i dont know much about amps and shit but how does that work?
i think i saw some video i dont remember what band it was, may have been converge, but the bassist had a ampeg cab and from what i saw it looked like some orange amp, what are the pros in doing this and cons?

well the thunderverb was designed to be a bass and guitar amp, just an amp that can do everything. i dont like the guitar tones, but i have yet to play it through with a bass. im not a huge bass amp critic, but not many people use oranges bass stuff, i dont know if it is too expensive or it is just not worth the money.

The bass player in my band wants to get one, is it worth the one-grand?






I bet he does...

$895, i could probably talk it down some more, but is that a steal?

From what I can tell, that looks like a G1, which i think it about 1,000 or so from what I googled it. I would say it is a good deal.

What pro bass players use Fender jags? I want to hear one professionally recorded.

i used to have a fender jag bass, sounds great, the colors they offer though completely suck. i kind of like the mexican deluxe active jazz bass's tone a little better.

i just got a mexican deluxe active jazz bass :]
i traded in my aerodyne and some other shit i had lying around.
fuck yeah.

ehhh
I still play my fender precision more than any of my other basses, but I definitely think you're dude will be happy with a grabber. The only thing about grabbers is they weren't made well every year and it's easy to get a vintage grabber that for lack of a better term, sucks

im looking at getting one, but only if i cant find a killer deal on a used stingray.

I've got a crappy Peavey Millenium series bass that I never use so I ripped the frets out of it, and I've got a Mexi Fender Jazz, as well... passive, though.

I've wanted to try PJ basses, as well as Jags, but no stores around me have them. And do most PJ basses have jazz necks or p necks? I'd looove a P bass with active EMGs, a jazz body and jazz neck. I think that'd be my dream.

Hey Monty, our singer/bassplayer wants to sell his black Ernie Ball String ray. It has a paintchip on the back that is smaller than a dime and a slight crack on the finish on the front of the bass near the top strap button. He wants to sell it for pretty cheap...probably in the $600-$800 range.

i think the aerodyne has the latter two.

I've flirted with the idea of putting EMG's into my j-bass, but never had the cash laying around. I don't want to save up for it when they aren't really necessary, but it'd be nice.

they had a jag bass when i got my mexican active, it was a hard decision, but i have more trust in the jazz.
the aerodyne is nice but very uncomfortable.

How so? I've never heard/played an aerodyne, but to be superficial, I think they're hideous.

yeah everyone always told me it was really ugly, and wtf was i thinking, but i always loved it.
but i like to rest my hand on it while i play (i use i pick) and its a right angle, so the angle usually bruises my wrist pretty bad.
i hope that made sense

Yeah it did, I can understand because I wear my bass really high to that my left hand can reach all the frets right, but it sometimes hurts my right forearm because I play with my fingers, so my forearm is rested right at the top.

yeah i used to play like that too really high and instead of my wrist getting fucked up it was my forearm.

i wont be buying anything until july or august... if he still has it by then i will probably look into it