Dangit, you guys got me GASing for a 720B now
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i got the brick burst (due to lack of alternative), would have liked the green one but def needed to try first, the whole feel is super sleek, that satin finish might not be my thing but I do like it as is -its not overly satin and seeing some flame helps. Back of body and neck are typical gloss. (I had a lespaul special with p90s on my wishlist and the revstar was surperior in all all aspects - at least to my ears/hands). to me it appears more like 2k$ guitar and the american licensed big player competitors have nothing on these. Mind you - of course this is only my uneducated opinion
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So I went for a 502T in the end. Just got it back from being set up by my local guitar repair guy (it hadnāt been set up at all by *ndertons, the intonation was all over the place and the factory nut was super high) and itās unreal. Plays so well, Iām no virtuoso but Iām blown away. Amazing value.
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awman, what a beaut. really wanted this one. I see it has the pretty binding on the neck.
How are you liking the P90s? those elixier strings really turn you into a shredder eh?
iām still super stoked on my 620, had to fiddle around with the nut and intonation too though, despite receiving an initial āset upā at the local. loving the clean sound of the humbuckers. best purchase in years
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Ha, I swapped those strings out for DāAddarios when I had the setup done.
Iāve not owned a guitar with P90s before and they are loud. Iām impressed with the range of tones I can get too, the ādry switchā HPF is very subtle compared to a humbucker split but I can tell itās going to be useful.
Beautiful looking guitar! I think youāre going to love it.
I love P90s. Perhaps my favorite pickup. I used to have a Gibson Les Paul Special with two P90s, basically the Bob Marley guitar, and thatās really the only guitar I regret selling, and Iāve own quite a few over the years.
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Iāve had my Epiphone SG for about 20 years now, itās had numerous stripdowns, clean-upās and set-upās over those years, i pretty much know it inside out by now butā¦i wouldnāt say iām an accomplished player, iām certainly adequate and can hold my own but iām not what you would call āTechnicalā.
I use it more for when iām producing my music on the Mac, itās a part of the arsenal that doesnāt get used as often as it should do.
I bought a Line6 Pod Pro rack unit and itās a decent bit of kit and you can get some weird sound out of it, so now that i have more time to work on my music, which has been neglected lately due to other projects not involving music, i plan to devote my time to getting the album done, after years of producing for others, itās time for me.
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I play guitar in a drone metal two-piece, an ESP LTD Viper-201B.
I like the Half Japanese method of guitar playing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=kt1At1Fq8dE&feature=emb_title
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At 1:50, does anyone know how to achieve that sound on a bass guitar? Itās almost synth-like.
Not positive of course but it sounds like a frettless with a little overdrive. It could be a synth but it sure sounds like a string to me. I know they used a Yamaha cs5 a lot. Iāll see if I can replicate it on mine when I get home.
No chorus on it? Just overdrive? Iām pretty certain itās a bass guitar, not the CS-5. It just has a synth-like timbre and sounds great.
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You beat me to posting. Now that Iām home and listened with better speakers Iām thinking thereās a little more going on. When I posted earlier I was listening on my phone speakers while at a noisy job site. Could be chorus, subtle if so. It almost sounds double tracked but I really doubt they did that. Maybe a teeny tiny delay? Either way would produce a chorusing effect. I think youāre on the right track. Iām hearing a little bit of pitch modulation which is why I was thinking frettless but it could just be normal note bending. The overdrive sounds pretty natural like hitting a preamp a little hard rather than a pedal.
Despite being convinced it was a bass upon more critical listening, I played around with replicating it on my cs5 and couldnāt even get very close.
Love that track (and that era of the band in general) by the way. Their drum parts have always been an inspiration to me.
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kinda sounds like the (distorted) guitar and bass are playing the same line, no?
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Sounds maybe layered with a synth bass.
Love Steve Sevrin. The talent behind S&TB.
Itās distortion going thru an octavider or harmoniser.
Mostly he played thru chorus, so there might be that in there too?
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Close. See above.