I was just about to buy a fend when Jackson came back into my life.
mantis
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Man let me stat off by saying buying gear sucks. It's fun and all but so hard to find that "right guitar for you".I played so many guitars I started getting to a point to just "pick on already". But eveything I played had some I liked and something I didn't. I could not find the right one. Untill now.
I went to Sam Ash in Cherry Hill New Jersey where I used to shop many years ago. The store changed but the excellent service remained. They built a Guitar Center 4 doors down. I thought **** the store is probably empty. Low and behold the store was packed. I'm wondering if the Guitar center helps there bussiness??? Anyway I'm a metal first guitar player and love drive and crunch. I like power and responsiveness . I have been looking around for a Jackson that could sound as good as a Strat but also have a bit more drive to it. I found it. A jackson SL3 soloist in clear red. Solid body and neck.2 hot rail design semour Duncan neck and middle position pickups (hot rails are humbuckers in a single coil space) and a humber Semour Duncan in the bridge position. It also has a floyd Rose bridge. 24 fretts with shark peal inlays.Man without playing it I feel in love. I researched it online before I ever held or played it. And alot of things told me "this is the one". From the 80's where I did most of my serious playing, I owned a Charvel model 3 and really loved it. But I always wanted a Jackson. Back then money wasn't as easy to come by and I wanted more then just a great guitar for metal playing. So the Charvel was more in my budget. It was only like 699.99 back then.That worked will for a kid who was in high school and had a part time job.Today money isn't as hard to come by and I was able to spend the extra cash where I wanted 2.
After about 1 hour of playing, I couldn't put it down and the salesman knew he had me. Without any help from him I was sold. I had nothing bad to say about it and I could find any flaws. Clean it sounded beautiful, heavy it crunched better then anything I ever player except my Gibson Les Paul deluxe and that was even debatable.I had to have it and it was all over.
Now back to the damn amp. The Twin reverb is still king to a degree. I do however like the Fender Hot Rod series Deville amps. All tube with the twin sound but also has a drive channel. The reverb is very powerful and the amp in general has alot of bottom end. I like that. The highs are a bit backed off. Not that much but the Twin has a bit of brightness that is nice . Hard to describe guitar amp tone but it is what it is. If you play both amps , you will hear it for yourself what I'm trying to talk about. I also tried Mesa Boogie again to see if now that I found a heavy Metal guitar, why not mate it with a heavy metal amp, No man no not today not next week na no na not never. I really hate the clean channel on the Mesa amps Reko 2 it didn't matter compared to Fender amps, the suck. For driving , hell yeah they rule but thats it for them. I'd rather have a versital amp then on that can do only 1 thing great. Fender does everything great. I like that.
Here is a link to my new guitar
http://www.jacksonguitars.com/gear/gear.php?partno=SL3_Soloist
Dan
I went to Sam Ash in Cherry Hill New Jersey where I used to shop many years ago. The store changed but the excellent service remained. They built a Guitar Center 4 doors down. I thought **** the store is probably empty. Low and behold the store was packed. I'm wondering if the Guitar center helps there bussiness??? Anyway I'm a metal first guitar player and love drive and crunch. I like power and responsiveness . I have been looking around for a Jackson that could sound as good as a Strat but also have a bit more drive to it. I found it. A jackson SL3 soloist in clear red. Solid body and neck.2 hot rail design semour Duncan neck and middle position pickups (hot rails are humbuckers in a single coil space) and a humber Semour Duncan in the bridge position. It also has a floyd Rose bridge. 24 fretts with shark peal inlays.Man without playing it I feel in love. I researched it online before I ever held or played it. And alot of things told me "this is the one". From the 80's where I did most of my serious playing, I owned a Charvel model 3 and really loved it. But I always wanted a Jackson. Back then money wasn't as easy to come by and I wanted more then just a great guitar for metal playing. So the Charvel was more in my budget. It was only like 699.99 back then.That worked will for a kid who was in high school and had a part time job.Today money isn't as hard to come by and I was able to spend the extra cash where I wanted 2.
After about 1 hour of playing, I couldn't put it down and the salesman knew he had me. Without any help from him I was sold. I had nothing bad to say about it and I could find any flaws. Clean it sounded beautiful, heavy it crunched better then anything I ever player except my Gibson Les Paul deluxe and that was even debatable.I had to have it and it was all over.
Now back to the damn amp. The Twin reverb is still king to a degree. I do however like the Fender Hot Rod series Deville amps. All tube with the twin sound but also has a drive channel. The reverb is very powerful and the amp in general has alot of bottom end. I like that. The highs are a bit backed off. Not that much but the Twin has a bit of brightness that is nice . Hard to describe guitar amp tone but it is what it is. If you play both amps , you will hear it for yourself what I'm trying to talk about. I also tried Mesa Boogie again to see if now that I found a heavy Metal guitar, why not mate it with a heavy metal amp, No man no not today not next week na no na not never. I really hate the clean channel on the Mesa amps Reko 2 it didn't matter compared to Fender amps, the suck. For driving , hell yeah they rule but thats it for them. I'd rather have a versital amp then on that can do only 1 thing great. Fender does everything great. I like that.
Here is a link to my new guitar
http://www.jacksonguitars.com/gear/gear.php?partno=SL3_Soloist
Dan
Dan
My personal quest is to save to world of bad audio, one thread at a time.
My personal quest is to save to world of bad audio, one thread at a time.
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I don't know squat about guitars, but it looks cool...Source: Bluesound Node 2i - Preamp/DAC: Benchmark DAC2 DX - Amp: Parasound Halo A21 - Speakers: MartinLogan Motion 60XTi - Shop Rig: Yamaha A-S501 Integrated - Shop Spkrs: Elac Debut 2.0 B5.2
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Man, what a disappointment, I thought this thread was going to be about Michael Jackson...
Nice looking guitar!
madmaxVinyl, the final frontier...
Avantgarde horns, 300b tubes, thats the kinda crap I want...
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Definitely going with a faster guitar there. I have never liked Fender, but that's not a quality issue that brought me to my opinion of them.
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Demiurge wrote:Definitely going with a faster guitar there. I have never liked Fender, but that's not a quality issue that brought me to my opinion of them.
I assume it's the damn single coil pickups that are so noisy? thats the one thing that turned me off this time around. I hate the noisy pickups. My jackson is dead silent as it's completely equiped with humbuckers. The Hot rails are something else. dead quite. I love it.
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