I would like to check your math on that one...MoreSpaceEcho wrote: Tue Nov 29, 2022 12:31 pm I'm currently in love with my phase 90, I pretty much leave the speed at 9:00 and it just works. Also have an ancient Maestro phaser that's really cool, a little more psychedelic than the MXR, adds a nice high overtone.
Anyway to belatedly answer FM Dudley's OP....I have a bunch of new guitars that all came with high gain humbuckers, and despite being the PRF's foremost Van Halen fan, I'm not really a high gain humbucker dude. So I've been swapping them out as funds allow. So....micro reviews of gear I've just bought:
Lindy Fralin Big Singles: these come in two flavors, 42 and 43, the latter are higher output. I have both, they're both killer. Just really even and balanced, they sound like a finished guitar tone on a record. High end feels like it goes on forever. They're bright but not at all harsh, the top is really smooth.
Fralin Unbuckers...low output humbuckers designed to be tapped. Unbalanced coils so there's almost no volume loss when going to single coil. Love these as well, the bridge might be my favorite of all these new pickups, just glorious.
Also have a Fralin Sunbucker and a PAF Pro waiting to go in another guitar, will report back when I get that done.
And in one other guitar I put in Dimarzios, a Humbucker from Hell in the neck and a Bluesbucker in the bridge. The latter is their PAF. They're good! Just not Fralin good.
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42As for a serious answer to the "Radiohead..." question...
While exactly what sounds like a Small Stone is kinda in the ear of the beholder?
I always thought this one was kinda in the ballpark, and seemed less likely to breakdown.
You could probably find one used?
While exactly what sounds like a Small Stone is kinda in the ear of the beholder?
I always thought this one was kinda in the ballpark, and seemed less likely to breakdown.
You could probably find one used?
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43Seems like the Earthquaker Grand Orbiter was in that ballpark too, and it might be a little bit easier to find.
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44Yeah if you want the Paranoid Android phaser sound then you want a Small Stone.
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45Yep, get a Small Stone. The different versions all sound slightly different, but all great. Not a subtle phaser. I personally like the vintage orange type one the best but it also has the worst volume drop. Hopefully the newer nano ones fixed/reduced the volume drop. The best slow phase sound I can think of. Also goes so fast it'll get into ring mod territory. I prefer the color switch in the milder (less feedback) position.Nico Adie wrote: Tue Nov 29, 2022 4:33 pm Yeah if you want the Paranoid Android phaser sound then you want a Small Stone.
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46All this small/bad stone talk led me down a small rabbit hole to compare these 2 against my phase 90, and the first sample sound for the Bad Stone on the EHX site is a clip of the beginning of "The Ballad of El Goodo" by big star, so natch I'm headed out to buy one immediately.
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47I have an early 70s Guild Bluesbird. The bridge is pretty janky. It's called a Muller bridge and is like an unreliable version of a tuneomatic. I could probably drop in an actual tuneomatic except the stud spacing on the guild is a bit wider. Does anyone know of tuneomatics that are undrilled, or could do a custom one for me?
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48I dont have the information but i'm sure its out there with some searching and reading. A preliminary skim suggested that you might want to be cautious to match the radius, and that a tuneomatic might be of a different radius than the guild.twelvepoint wrote: Fri Dec 02, 2022 8:58 am I have an early 70s Guild Bluesbird. The bridge is pretty janky. It's called a Muller bridge and is like an unreliable version of a tuneomatic. I could probably drop in an actual tuneomatic except the stud spacing on the guild is a bit wider. Does anyone know of tuneomatics that are undrilled, or could do a custom one for me?
Edit: i'd also want to know WHY its janky? Is it anything that could be repaired & improved on instead of replaced?
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49Thanks, I did poke around but nothing really popped out about doing this.Dr Tony Balls wrote: Fri Dec 02, 2022 9:04 amI dont have the information but i'm sure its out there with some searching and reading. A preliminary skim suggested that you might want to be cautious to match the radius, and that a tuneomatic might be of a different radius than the guild.twelvepoint wrote: Fri Dec 02, 2022 8:58 am I have an early 70s Guild Bluesbird. The bridge is pretty janky. It's called a Muller bridge and is like an unreliable version of a tuneomatic. I could probably drop in an actual tuneomatic except the stud spacing on the guild is a bit wider. Does anyone know of tuneomatics that are undrilled, or could do a custom one for me?
Edit: i'd also want to know WHY its janky? Is it anything that could be repaired & improved on instead of replaced?
So the Janky part is this. First, a bit of explanation about the Muller:
The bushings that go in the guitar aren't threaded and the adjustment screws just sit in them. The bridge itself is the threaded part.
So anyway the adjustment screws have play in the bushings, and the threading in the bridge is sloppy, so the whole bridge can wiggle back and forth. TBH, I can basically set it in place and it's not REALLY gonna move around. It's just that it's a nice feeling guitar but that part of it is a real drag.
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50This sounds to me like its a "floating" bridge kinda like a Jazzmaster or Jaguar. People used to do all kinds of things to get those to stop rocking, and I remember someone even selling sleeve bushings to fill the gap. Nowadays they just make snug fit cups. Would it solve your problem if the existing bridge just fit snugly in the bushings and didnt rock?twelvepoint wrote: Fri Dec 02, 2022 11:25 am The bushings that go in the guitar aren't threaded and the adjustment screws just sit in them. The bridge itself is the threaded part.
So anyway the adjustment screws have play in the bushings, and the threading in the bridge is sloppy, so the whole bridge can wiggle back and forth.