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Haha! And I thought I was on to something!

Dp100 was the DiMarzio super distortion code. Not sure if they used a sticker like that or not. Dp101 was the dualsound code. What Butcher said makes sense though.

Wow, I liked the green version the best!

Do you know of any that do that with dead phones? I took it to one of the local places but they couldn't help me. I keep my phone's too long until they're bricks and do a terrible job backing stuff up. So I lost a lot of song ideas on about 3 or 4 phones! Or, if there's any DIY tips on getting inside to the hard drive, memory to extract info? Most my problems stemmed from the PCB mounted power jack messing up, then not being able to charge things up. The problem is that everything in there is so micro it's not as easy to fix as an amp or guitar or appliance etc!!!

You've no doubt seen the little silver plaques on YouTubers videos marking various levels of achievement. Steve has one from Ticketmaster! Steve definitely is honed in on who's playing when and where! And, he's been so gracious and generous by helping me with tix in the past !!

Geoff, best of luck to you!

I guess I already gave mine away and everyone else knew before me!! 😭

I forget, is the vac 25 his first amp version? Or, after that?

I have a '95 black Duotone with Bartolini's. I use DR Zebras... Revolutionary design Every other coil is nickel-plated steel, every other coil is rare phosphor bronze Wound on round cores

Thanks for the reply but if you read the details of my post you can see that this is NOT working as a normally wired DiMarzio should. It's somehow very different and operating in some twilight zone/ x files way! I've probably installed a 50-100 pickups from many brands and never had problems just following the various wiring diagrams for each brand. That's why this one perplexes me so!

Thanks so much for taking the time to reply to my post! I'm still perplexed that I don't get any signal across each individual coil to me that would seem like something's broken. I have a JB actually tb4j that has one coil with no signal across it so when I put them in series it only picks up the resistance of the one coil that I do get a reading across, something like 7k or something like that. So that one seems to have some type of break in one of the coils. So, I guess I'll just install it and be happy that it works in series and compare the sound to my TZ that I like and go from there. Still perplexed how I don't get signals across each coil but in series it all works out fine??! Even though it originally came with Seymour Duncan's I prefer the dimarzio's and think that it's cool to have a 35 year old guitar with old pickups too. I'm just weird that way!

I have an old DiMarzio slammer humbucker I bought from someone here years ago that's acting weird! I have no problem with whoever I bought it from just trying to figure it out as it seems wired differently to what one would expect. It says Hamer U.S.A. DiMarzio on the back brass plate, and has triangular screw plates. I thought they were wired as standard DiMarzios which I believe is white and Black together, green/bare is ground, red hot or +. But, when it's red/green together, then I get a 16.6k ohms reading between b and w. But, I also get the same reading if the red and green are NOT connected. I thought g and w should be the slotted coil, and r and b the slug but I don't get any reading at all between those colors. Isn't that weird? I guess I can just hook it up red green together and use the black and white to get 16.6k for + and -. Reverse those if needed for proper phase. But, inquiring minds want to know! I currently have an all flame maple set neck 1989 Chap Custom with a DiMarzio Tone Zone and 2 old DiMarzio slammer single coils (love those!). I planned on replacing the TZ with the slammer HB. What sound difference do you think I can expect after the switch? I like the sound of the TZ but wanted to try the Dim slammer HB with the matching slammer singles. Thanks in advance!!

So cool to see the awesome talent people on this board possess!!

Loving you Sunday Morning, Scorpions. My ring tone on my wife's phone

I always stop at Goodwill to peruse their records but almost always walk away disappointed; just how many Davis Soul, Engelbert Humperdinck, Herb Albert and the Tijuana Brass albums did they press, and why are they all at my Goodwill? I even played trumpet for years but enough is enough! Some of the vinyl that looked a little promising was in such bad shape I would not play them on my equipment. Anyway, the other day I found a near mint SOR: 20 STUDIES FOR GUITAR JOHN WILLIAMS record for a buck so I finally bought one there! I'll continue my quest.

It sounds like you just need to woodshed on your picking. Start the correct picking stokes slowly and avoid the temptation to go fast. You'll lose your form and will probably be playing with sloppy technique as you're just not there yet. No use to practice anything the wrong way no matter how fast or slow it's played. When you have the right technique down the speed will come with practice. Use a metronome and your playing will sound better when playing in time and give you motivation as you see your speed increase. The only advice opposing this is what John Petrucci uses in developing speed. He says he will try a new run or lick at say 140BPM with perfect technique, but then he'll just kill himself trying at say 180BPM. Then when he comes back down to 140BPM it's easier because the speed seems like slow motion now compared to 180. Although, I probably wouldn't try that yet until your basic picking is solid. Our own Kevin Dillard (I think he's still around but haven't heard from him lately - if so say hi Kevin!) wrote a book called Intelli-shred which helped me visualize the board in a more vertical way than just the horizontal boxes. He also had another book after that about arpeggios but I don't have that one. Fretboard logic has helped me visualize the fretboard as well. The SE version has books one and two together. I tried the Grimoire series like Jettster used before (still uses?) But, I sold them because I couldn't memorize every page, scale, mode etc. to memory like Rodney did!! And finally, it might be good to practice a run from a song like "Love Gun" that's just a didley-didley run but may make practice more enjoyable. Good luck!!!

Riot also rocked!!

Started when I heard Lovedrive in high school. They use to let us bring these big ass cassette players (some were about 2'x2'!) fully cranked at lunch and between classes in CA. It was "Lovin' you Sunday Morning" Then it was the Animal Magetism album then the rest of the older Uli stuff. I held on for several more albums then the newer stuff didn't do it for me although some of it was good. They are still my fav band I've seen live. The energy that they exude on stage makes me think of a traveling gypsy show where they are playing for whatever tips they can get...weird I know!

PM'd ya! I love Mathias!

I also use an old credit card to remove stuff near the fret w/o scratching. I finish up with 2 grades of synthetic steel wool w/o iron in it. to polish things up.

Does anyone know who's coming up tonight and Friday? I've DVR'd both.

Do the new vinyls have any better qualities that the old ones had...such as less surface noise due to better (new?) materials? Just wondering.

I still have my Sansui turntable that's about 32 years old(!!)and still works great! I think I replaced a belt once. It has an EMprie cartridge that's still going strong. I had the stock one and possibly a Shure in there at other times. I also still have all my old vinyl. So, many memories!

Guy in between the two could be a roadie, or a typical guitarist with his arms crossed thinking he could play it better, or both! Nice rhythm parts and solo! I remember when I first heard that solo and said WTF!

Yeah, but I bet she'll score higher in her SAT test than you did! Man, some of these young guitarist coming up...scary.