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Paul Riario from Guitar World talks to Larry Dimarzio

Paul Riario talks to Larry Dimarzio on the inspiration on these new pickups and about his legendary Les Paul. He was almost in Gene Simmon’s band

 

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Yahoo SEA

Yahoo! has recently introduced Sponsored Search to Southeast Asia. Sponsored Search delivers highly targeted customer leads to large and small businesses by showing their ads within paid search results across Yahoo! and the Web. The new search advertising product allows businesses to target their search ads to the entire Southeast Asia market (which includes Singapore, Malaysia, Philipinnes, Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam) or narrow their audience to specific countries. In addition, advertisers can take advantage of new features such as ad testing, campaign optimization and advanced forecasting tools.

Fender VG Stratocaster vs Gibson Les Paul Robot (the Dark Fire) vs Line 6 Variax

Hey Dude and dudettes,

In the battle for the virtual guitar, you have the three big names duking it out.
1) The Fender VG Stratocaster is a regular Stratocaster but with an extra Roland pickup. It has 37 modes where you can choose what type of sound you want (single coil, humbucker, acoustic,….) and 6 tunings. If your battery runs out, there are always the three single coil pickups for those classic strat tone.

Fender VG Stratocaster

2) The Gibson Dark Fire is a continuation of the Gibson Robot guitar where you get the classic Burstbucker 3 humbucker for those classic humbucker tone, a P-90 pickup for those classic single coil tones and a Piezo pickup for more acoustic tones. With the Chameleon technology, you get more tones by mixing these pickups. It also comes with the auto tune and intonation technology so you don’t need to fiddle with your tuners in the middle of the show. This ensures true organic tones.

It is due to be released 11th of December so book early.
Gibson Dark Fire

3) Then comes the grand daddy of the virtual guitar. The Variax comes with a plethora of classic guitar tones and some other tones which are not to common, like the sitar. It can be switched with the foot controller and if you need to, can be transplanted to another body style supplied by Warmoth guitars. Check it out.

Line 6 Variax

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Installing P-rails pickups experience

Continuing on the post of from my Youtube Video on installing the pickup, I’m going to share the experience of installing these pickups. Before anything, you will need to look at the wiring diagram of the type of connection you want to do. Plenty of options can be done from here.

http://www.seymourduncan.com/support/wiring-diagrams/

I’m using

http://www.seymourduncan.com/images/support/schematics/2_prails_2v_2t_tspp.jpg

From the diagram in the above link you will need 2x 500k push/pull pots, connector cables and some solder wire. Also you will need to have a soldering iron and basic tools (screwdrivers, pliers, wrenches….) and some experience in soldering. If you haven’t done much soldering, don’t worry because it is as easy as using a glue gun, only you’re sticking metal with metal and its hotter.

You should check the pickups if there are any defects or loose cables. Once you are satisfied,you will need to first remove the strings, then open the pickup and control cavity covers. Next comes the part where you will need to dismantle the connector cables of the pots. Heat up your solder iron and once it is hot enough, touch the tip of the solder to the cable and the pin until the solder becomes loose and you will just need to pull the cable free. When all the connectors are free, you can pull the pickup out from there respective cavities. Repeat for the second pickup. Replace the volume (or tone) knobs with the push/pull knobs.

The next step is to install the P-rails pickups. This is the most difficult part in the process as you will need to thread the cables through a hole the width of a pen and the length is the same as a pen (very long relatively). The default pickups comes with only two conductor cables whereas most new pickups comes with four. I still haven’t found the best way of doing this except pushing the cables with your pliers very, very slowly. This took me a couple of hours.

Once you get those cables through, just solder them as illustrated in the wiring diagram. It is recommended to have a multimeter to check for conductivity but if you don’t, you can install one string, pick it and hope that it sounds on all the coils and humbucker configurations. This may take some time but once it is completed, string up your guitar, pat yourself on the back and jam. This is the most flexible pickup there is and you will only need this guitar for any style of music. Cheers.

For people who would like to have a ready made P-rails guitar, check out the LTD PB-500. Be sure it’s the one with the P-rails as they have others without.

PS, if you have a P-rails installed, post them here

VG stratocaster with Greg Koch

The VG Stratocaster is one of the most modern guitar around. 37 sounds,6 tunings and with working a tremolo. Demonstrated by the hilarious Greg Koch, there are no short of laughters. Check it out here

Cool Music T-Shirts

I’ve searched and found these cool shirts if your a guitar gear head, like me. Check it out here

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Johnny Hiland PRS guitar

This is a cool video on the Johnny Hiland Signature PRS guitar. If you search on Youtube on Johnny Hiland, he has the fastest fingers in the west. The guitar caters for his needs and for most guitarists. You get solid humbuckers and clear single coils tones. Bolt-on neck with 24 frets. PRS tremolo. The finishes are legendary PRS and comes in a variety of finishes such as quilt, flamed and clean colors. You can check out the video here

Here is a sample from Musician’s Friends.

You can check it out here at these Musicians’Friend , Music123, ZZsounds or Woodwind and Brass . .

Good support, for peace of mind

The mark of a good hosting server is that they will support you in your time of need. I have had a bad experience with my previous hosting server where it said it had a mysql database ready for my account and when I wanted to configure, I could not connect to the darn thing. When I emailed them for support, guess what … no reply. After seeing out my contract, I changed ISPs and the difference is like night and day. All you need to do is go to the www.hostgator.com main page and click on the support button on top.

A new window below will pop up and they’ll ask for your account information. Once it is ok, you can just continue asking the questions and you should get good answers. Till next time, cya