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Also investigate 3nps using economy picking, might be the answer?

how about Money for nothing by dire straights?, ok he never touched it but a wha never the less

Wish i hadn't read this thread as it led me to youtube to see if there where any lessons on the solo. Jeez Put a f'in shirt on.

Sweet We had the Gary tribute to Jimi on TV a few days ago ,great player

I saw Jeff back in the nineties in Liverpool from what I remember it was a great show. The main memory that sticks out was a girl in the front row who was in love with him and between each song she would tell him so. His reply was "I get the feeling this girl hasn't had it in a long long time" Best line / Scene from that movie was "Your gonna be my regular Saturday night", something like that anyway Geoff

Good luck guys. Link Doesn' open on the ipad by the way had to fire the laptop up to look. Geoff

Well its advertised as "Studio Quality" and I must say its sounds pretty good to me. It all depends on what you throw at it with Jamup. Up to now I would recommend it no problem. For a bedroom/Living room its plenty loud enough. Regarding the circuitry not being the iRIG HD I cant comment as I've never heard the HD version. To me its perfect for my situation as I dont gig and just play at home. Geoff

I use an iLoud from IK with jamup it's a small portable speaker with an irig circuit built in. Footprint of the iloud in about the same as the ipad. It has inbuilt rechargeable batteries so is truly portable. It's great when I have to make the long journey from the bedroom to the living room on weekends (I'm up early with the dog so I get a good two hours in before the rest of the family wake up ) Great piece of kit and jamup is the best out there I believe. Geoff

So I'm guessing this is the diablo pickup config http://www.seymourduncan.com/support/wiring-diagrams/schematics.php?schematic=2h_1v_1t_3w So the red and white are soldered to the free outside lug of the tone pot? I'll have to look at this more. Geoff

Wow that's interesting, any diagrams for this? I've never had the cover off my diablo in 21 years so I would like to get it right. Geoff

I have a 93 diablo with a 59 and a jb, one vol, one tone and a three way switch. Is it worth investigating if I can get some more sounds from these. I do miss the sound of a strat I once had using the bridge and middle pickups together. So I've been looking at coil splitting options. Anyone done anything like this with a jb and 59? Geoff

Billy G rough boy, love the intro, love the tone.

I totally got your point. You are missing the OP's point. We don't want spec built guitars from China. We're talking about a quality built, USA made instrument. ...built BY the OP. Oh man! I give up

I totally got your point. You are missing the OP's point. We don't want spec built guitars from China. We're talking about a quality built, USA made instrument. Does this line not mean anything to you? "I was not suggesting for one second we can all get our guitars made in China "

Same here.Besides, all things China have the prerequisite lead filling. Yeah, like I said above your post.

No you miss the point The theme of this thread was to get peoples ideas for a WMG. That's what chapman does, so I thought Maybe the same process could be used here. I was not suggesting for one second we can all get our guitars made in China Jeez Geoff

How about this http://www.chapmanguitars.co.uk This guy started on YouTube teaching and stuff, got a shit load of followers then decided To let his followers vote on what they wanted in a guitar. He got them made in China then Recently made in Korea , he's still doing it (see link). Seems like a great model for a business to me. i would interested to see what a vote here would produce? Geoff

Ahhh ok Surprised to see this from Hamer, looks cheap to me and easily sorted by making the logo smaller? A small detail maybe but comparing my diablo against it the diablo looks much much more professional. Which is what I expect from hamer. I'd still have it though! Geoff

What's up with the Hamer logo? Never seen one like that before with the tail of the R running off the black? The black edging also looks tatty, bad day at the shop? Geoff

No head shaking man -- the neck of the guitar is a wonderful puzzle and you'll spend your whole life learning how to coax out its secrets and mysteries. Your next challenge is modes. Figure out where the Pentatonic scale and positions super-impose over the modes --- wait till you figure that one out.... My dad exposed me to modal, be bop jazz from when I was a kid. I liked it, but wasn't familiar with modes until I watched the Charlie Parker movie. I have looked it up, but I still can't grasp exactly what it is in it's simplest nature. Any help appreciated. This video sorted my modal questions out straight away, it's all about drone notes. Drone the first note of the major scale then play the major scale and you have Ionian, now put your drone note on the second note of the major scale and play the same major scale as before, you have dorian etc etc, great video. Just search "rob chapman modes" into Google, it's the first hit Geoff