PunkKitty

I just installed the 59's in my PRS SE Zach Myers (a fantastic guitar). They sound like they should. It must have been the interaction of the wood with those pickups. Wood matters.

Stock Duncan 59's. I chatted with Mike Ortiz about it. He thinks the pickups might be defective. I'm going to test them in another guitar to see what happens. Maybe it was just the combination of the guitar and the pickups. But the JS Moore's sound great.

This guitar plays with the lightest touch of any that I've tried. I love this thing. It's also light for a 150 at just 9 pounds. I installed the set of JS Moore humbuckers that I had. Phenomenal.

No problem. It's kind of hard to tell in the picture.

This one is ebony.

I received it today. It's as nice as you think it is. I'm not convinced that the pickups are original. They overdrive my tube amp at low volumes when I'm not using overdrive. I'll look at it later. I have a set of JS Moore humbuckers that are going in it.

It's ebony. Whatever the neck is, I'll adapt to it. But it's a 2022, so I'm guessing that it's fairly beefy.

For the last several months, I've been having financial issues and had to sell off most of my name brand guitars. I ended up refinancing to ease the pain a bit. Living on less than $100 a month is not fun. And I have equity in the house, so I'm releasing the pressure and living off of it. It's not like I have heirs to pass anything to. The payout will happen this week, so things will be much easier after that. I just found this on Reverb at a price too good to pass up. It's a 2022. I've been getting away from flame maple, etc. While I appreciate the beauty, I'm far more interested in function right now. So I've been looking at black and oxblood and was torn between a Les Paul Standard and an H-150. The H-150 won. I'll bring it to PSP. And I'm not rebuilding the collection to what it was before. I'm fine with what I have. The guitar should arrive within the next week.

I had to look up the H-717.

I felt the same way. But this one is really easy to program and work with. I just don't see the point of going back to an analog setup. However, this does have an effects loop for the few pedals that this doesn't have. I have some inexpensive modulation pedals from Amazon that produce some really unique sounds. They only run about $35 each. But two of those gives me most of the functions of a good guitar synth pedal. And I can add them to any patch that I want. Fun stuff.

I didn't switch to a modelling amp. I like my amps with very clean settings. I did switch to a Boss GX-10 multi effect unit that has 32 amplifier types and 170 BOSS effects. Short of some guitar synth sounds, I can pretty much get everything I need out of this and a Tele. I bought it because much of the music I'm playing now requires layers of delay, reverb, distortion, etc. And I got tired of tap dancing on my analog pedal board. With this, I line up the presets that I program in the order of the set and hit the up or down button as needed. The presets use different amps as needed. It's just much easier to deal with.

I really like it. The sounds I can get out of it are easily as good, or better, than my analog pedals. The computer interface is intuitive. You can use drag and drop on the screen on the unit. It's like having 170 pedals in a 7 pound box that fits in a backpack and has only one thing to hook up. There's no way I'd go back to analog. This was not the bottom of the line. It was $400 + tax. Thankfully, I got 0% financing at CME.

At the moment, this is my LP type. It's a MIC Burny LPC. It's also better than most LP's I've played, including Gibsons and some Heritage. I put a set of Gibson T-Type pickups in it. I love this guitar. Steve Hackett tours with these. If they are good enough for him, they are good enough for me. I'll get another H-150 at some point. But now is not the right time.

I built this one with a BG1400 and a Duncan P90. A friend lightly aged the body for me. I used a 1987 Squier MIJ neck for this build and a Allen Eden body. The BG1400 has become my favorite Tele bridge pickup.

And hello new pedalboard. I'm still around. But I haven't been using Heritage guitars much because I fell on some hard times and had to sell most of them. All that I have left is an H-137 with a badly done, but functional, headstock repair. As you know, that even though I like classic rock, I'm not exactly a classic rock person. That being said, I still listen to a lot of prog (Yes, King Crimson, old Genesis, etc). I like a lot of different music, and much of it is newer. I was recently recruited into a Boygenius tribute project. They are a band of 3 women, Phoebe Bridgers, Lucy Dacus, and Julien Baker, who do some fantastic vocals and are very gifted. They have won several Grammys, and have done very well for themselves. Julien is a multi instrumentalist (piano, mandolin, banjo, guitar) who has performed with the National Orchestra at Kennedy Center. In addition to vocals, piano, etc, she played lead guitar with BG. Lucy just released a new album that is rising in the charts. Phoebe is working on new music. Together, they formed what what was considered a supergroup. BG was a side project for all of them. I would categorize their music as sapphic pop. Let's just say that it's very... gay. Anyway, I'm playing lead in this project and have been working on dissecting Julien's solos, background guitar work, and the effects she used. She layers effects. It's not uncommon to have multiple distortion/OD, multiple delays, choruses, etc all layered on top of each other for one track. In the past, I usually used distortion/OD, and that's about it. So this is new territory for me. I was also never much of a lead player. That's changing. I'm using Strats for this project because I need tremolo bars. She uses a Tele with a Bigsby. I have Strats, so that will have to do. I was lugging around a pedal board weighing about 17 pounds for this. And tap dancing in the middle of songs was getting difficult. I almost tripped while doing it at rehearsal last week. So something had to change. And this is less expensive than the copay for a broken leg. I'll offset the cost by selling most of my analog pedals. The Boss GX-10 that I bought has 170 effects built in. I can chain up to 17 effects in one patch. I can arrange the patches into a set list so I can pull them up sequentially for a performance or rehearsal. It's a nifty little package. It's also more intuitive than any multi effects unit I've used. I can edit via the screen on the front panel or my laptop. And there are many patches available for download. I'm wondering why I didn't do this sooner. Here's a sample of some of the stuff I'm learning. This is another song we are working on. All the strange sounds in the background are Julien's work.