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    '93 FM Special, '92 Sunburst, '98 Artist Mahogany, '92 P90 Special, '93 P90 Special
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  1. Given the size of the aftermarket pickup market I think you might want to re-evaluate the 99%. In any case, what I hear is almost all volume difference.
  2. My first question is, what pickups are in each? Without that information, the comparo is pretty meaningless as all you are doing is comparing one pickup to another for the most part. I have a number of Ibanez super strats and they sound amazing, and I use neither high gain nor any effects other than OD. None of them are basswood though, various combos of maple/mahogany, neck throughs, two bolt ons one mahogany body one alder. If the Diablo is using anything other than basswood it benefits from that, I've never liked basswood. But without keeping all other variables constant, it's hard to draw any conclusions from that. The other thing I noticed is that the Ibanez part is quieter. 90% of people pick "louder" as "better" in listening tests. If I ignore actual volume of the 2, I really dont hear much tonal difference at all. I've always found that tonal differences in wood etc, become much harder to hear with that much gain, and that was a truck load of gain, way more than I've used in over 20 years.
  3. C. Rex solves a lot of problems with a lot of amps. Love that speaker.
  4. Been gigging mine for years and its great. I mod amps as part of my living but I did not find the Bill M mods necessary. The things I did find necessary were 1) Eminence C.Rex speaker, 2) Maple cabinet. 1) will get you most of the way there.
  5. DiMarzio Bluesbucker DP163 with Nickel Cover (rare), used but excellent condition, OR Black F spaced and NEW IN BOX. Either: $45 Paypalled & shipped. Nickel one has 10.5” of wire, enough for any installation and then some. P-90 like tone in a humbucker size; has a fat single coil tone so it wont get muddy in the neck position like many humbuckers do. Discounted street price is $76+shipping for the covered version, get it for much less here. Check out the Harmony Central reviews. Here’s what DiMarzio says about it: And now for something completely different: the Bluesbucker™ looks like a standard humbucker, but sounds like a P90 and cancels 60-cycle hum as effectively as the average humbucker. This means any guitar with standard size humbuckers can now have the sound of P90s without altering the guitar in any way and without noise. Patented Virtual Vintage® and Airbucker™ technology let the Bluesbucker™ "see" a narrow string window like a true single-coil, making it extremely sensitive to playing dynamics. When a pair of these pickups are on together, they achieve the open, slightly hollow sound that two single-coils produce. Splitting the pickup produces a sound similar to that of a Strat® pickup, with very little drop in output. Recommended For: All positions Tech Talk: The coil with the 6 adjustable slotted poles is the "hot" coil. The coil with the solid poles is along for the ride to cancel hum and look cool. Since one coil is doing most of the work, the direction the Bluesbucker® is installed makes an obvious difference in the sound. When the hot coil is closest to the bridge, the sound is brighter; towards the neck is warmer. Even though the look is a little nontraditional, we like the sound of the bridge pickup "backwards" (with the screw coil towards the neck). With a Bluesbucker® in the neck position with the screw coil towards the bridge (also "backwards") the combined sound is Tele-like. With the neck pickup in the more traditional direction, the combination is like two P-90s. The Bluesbucker® comes with special wiring instructions. Wiring: 4 Conductor Magnet: Ceramic Output 265mV DC Resistance 9.85K Treble: 6 Mids: 5.5 Bass: 4.5 My ebay ID is racey-b, 425 positive 100% feedback feel free to contact me through ebay to confirm. email rcbmusic at sunflower dot com
  6. Good God Man. Stop and think for a second. I've been doing ebay since 2000, have over 1k transactions, a 100% 400 rating (only since most people dont even bother to leave feedback) and I'm a very honest seller. I'm boycotting that POS site since they did this. Why? Because there are a LOT of scammer buyers out there. I've dealt with a few. Used to be you could at least warn people about these Pieces of monkey crap via the feedback system, but now, Ebay has declared open season on sellers and encouraged frauds and rip-offs. Examples (all actual, things I personally have experienced or things people I know personally that sell a lot have seen) 1) Scammer buyer gets hold of someone else's paypal acct and wants to use "my room mates/friends/etc" account to pay but wants a different shipping address. If you send the goods, you'll get a chargeback on the credit card and be SOL on any type of recovery. 2) Grief users go around hitting Buy it Now then never pay, just to be annoying. 3) Unethical buyers hit BIN or win an auction then want to negotiate for a lower price after the fact. Now they can hold your feedback hostage and you have NO recourse. 4) Unethical people that win an item, receive it, then claim it was damaged when it wasn't and want a full/partial refund (really a way of trying to negotiate after the fact, only worse), or claim they never got it. You can somewhat avoid the latter by having a SIGNATURE delivery confirmation, but it will take you time, your Paypal account will be frozen in the mean time, and you'll get negative feedback from the A hole anyway and you cant do anything about it. For the former, you are now proper F'd because they don't have to prove a GD thing, only make the claim, and Paypal will F you and your feedback will be held hostage if you dont play ball. The end result of this retarded new policy is that a lot of sellers refuse to use ebay anymore, and Ebay has put up a big "screw our sellers, PLEASE!" sign for every two bit scammer in the world to see. If I were such a scammer, I'd be all over Ebay right now like stink on crap pulling every buyer scam I could think of. As an honest seller and buyer, I'm boycotting that idiot corporation, as many others are, til they figure it out. The recent stream of emails I've got from them offering all kinds of incentives and begging me to use Ebay shows that they are feeling the hit.
  7. They use a .050 by .100, there are a number of wires close to this and you wouldnt feel a few thousandths since 1) fretwire is not consistent anyway, it varies by a few thousandths along its length 2) It loses some height in the crowning/leveling process. My first reaction to your question is "whatever wire you like most" since there is little collector's value there, use what you like and call it a day. If you wan't to keep it close for whatever reason, Stew Mac sells a wire exactly that size, but what I'd really recommend is going with a stainless wire in a close size. I had my '93 FM Special refretted with .047x.098 stainless and its great, plus I'll never have to do anything to the frets again (assuming the neck itself doesnt develop problems) because stainless will never wear much unless you insist on playing rusty strings.
  8. Always! Only guitar I havent switched pickups in is a G&L Comanche because well, the Z coils are what make it a Comanche! Single coil guitars get Kinman Woodstocks, although the DiMarzio Area 58s have me interested. Steve Blucher is a nice guy, Kinman is sort of a dick, I'd rather give Steve my money so I'm going to check them out. My custom made guitar with a Suhr BPSSC has Suhr V60LPs which I absolutely hate, probably getting Lollar blackfaces sometime soon. Suhr makes great guitars but his pickups leave much to be desired. 2hb guitars get DiMarzio Bluesbuckers in the neck invariably, covered or uncovered as suits the look of the guitar, though I may try Fralin P92s for something a little different. Bridges get DiMarzio Virtual HoT PAFs or Lollar Imperials depending, and a couple have DiMarzio Tone Zones. I've tried literally every Duncan, Dimarzio, Kinman model, and a splattering of smaller makers over the years trying to find 'my sound'. I'm pretty happy with what I'm getting out of the combinations above. Never happy with stock pups.
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