This is really impressive, thank you for sharing! Going to have to get some real practice in. That is incredible that you prepare a bunch of these with just OT p-locks and rec trigs and then play live. Basically makes the OT some sort of weird black box function that takes guitar in, and outputs a full track!
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Thanks everyone! I have a new power supply incoming so will be able to use the compressor soon 
Guess Iāll just experiment with some subtle settings first. Stoked to try it with some tapping as well
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Youāll definitely like it for tapping. Same benefits that folks were mentioning with fingerstyle playing.
Iād put compressor on any electric guitar style I think. 
Always first on the chain for me.
Maybe not after guitar volume / swell fx.
Any example of 2 compressors in fx chains?
Maybe one at first and one last as limiter?
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Just over a year later, Melanie finally has a course on Pickup Music. Sheād been offering private lessons via video conferencing but I didnāt go for that, because I feel like I need to have something specific to ask the teacher before private lessons can be justified. Itās just my personal view that if I go to her or any other teacher for a one-on-one lesson, it should be because thereās something that I just canāt figure out on my own, after repeated attempts at analysis.
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Wow, nice! Will look into it. I only have a classical guitar in Crete though. Thx gor the update!
Did you have the trem-lock button engaged 
No seriously, Iāve done that more than once and been like WTF?
I really have to swap the trem socket/arm on my mk1 AmProJazzmaster for the socket type. Iāve now threaded two of the damn things.
Iāll check when I get back home.
My impression from the instructions provided with the guitar was there was no quick solution to get the whammy to pull up more. I just remember reading them then concluding ānah, not worth the effortā
The lock button is best left OFF, in my opinion. Mostly because itās a bother to get everything in the right spot to be able to lock it accurately at the right spot.
Anyway, just pulled my jazz out for a look and remembered that one of the main limitations to pulling the trem up is the string bobs! They get jammed between the body and moving assembly.
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Thanks for the heads up about the trem lock button! You were right, it was stopping the trem from pulling up. Now I can pull up a whole step.
I guess Leo F. intended this button for make string changes easier or something - assuming what I read wasnāt fake news. I dunno, Iāll live with the button disengaged for a while. Iāll just flip it back if the thing starts going wildly out of tune more often than it did before.
This reminds me, I need to get one of those smaller screwdrivers so I can lower the bridge pickup. The V-Mod2 pickups are plenty loud - thereās no reason for the bridge PU to be as close to the strings as it is right now. The sustain is ok at present but Iām sure itāll be better with the PU lowered.
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Leaving the lock in off position wonāt affect the tuning at all. Youāre correct, itās for keeping the rest of the strings in tune if one breaks. Has absolutely nothing to do with tuning stability related to the trem.
Thread winnerā¦
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My report so far: Tuning stability seems the same as it was before I disengaged the trem lock. Meaning, it goes a little out of tune after some playing time, at roughly the same rate all my other guitars go out of tune, due to neck wood responding to temperature changes.
Except the Eric Johnson Thinline Strat. After I tune it, it pretty much stays in tune until I put it away. Some people say its because of the thick baseball-bat quartersawn neck. I once read through a thread discussing quarter sawn vs. flat sawn necks which was amusing as guys argued against actual luthiers who said thereās no difference if you know how to dry wood properly.
quite high pickups. allow me to reflect on that.
Reflect away. I know the original owner who purchased it in 1961.
Happy to send you pics of slab neck with date, body date and pic of the pots too.
Iāll also add that the light from the window is casting a shadow on the pickups that makes them look higher. If you zoom in the pic.
Well fancy that. Get your Kev Shields grove on.
I had the factory specs for the height somewhere, Iāll chase them up. I love the meaty sound of mineā¦ dirty echo into a flanger into overdrive into an Orange Bass amp with built in guitar bi-amping 
not to mention Iām using the heaviest flat wounds I can get my hands on
Iāve been enjoying lurking in this discussion about jazzmaster trem systems as theyāre one of the few I havenāt spent any time messing with intimately. Question for you; being a floating trem, are they similar to a Floyd system in the sense that the compensation springs should be adjusted for different string types and gauges to maintain tuning stability and proper action? Obviously it would be to a lesser degree if so due to the difference in potential range of motion, I just wonder if the same general principle applies.
Oh, and re: quarter vs slab sawn necks. Speaking as a life long woodworker and former luthier, it makes a difference but isnāt even close to the whole picture. Itās really just the tip of the iceberg. Hypothetically, if you had two pieces of wood that were exactly the same except for that factor (which is literally physically impossible) the quarter sawn piece would be more stable along one of its three dimensionsā¦usually, but not always.
Craig Anderton on pickup height: