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And he continued on to answer such a basic question. Every guitar player I interact with consider your query fundamental. It has been addressed here multiple times which is precisely why I wholeheartedly agree with bolero’s frustrations. Sit back, take a deep breath and consider thanking him for sharing his knowledge and experiences. You got far more than you paid for.

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Make it a nice one. Not too big or ostentatious

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.

I did not have a problem with the info. It was the "Are you serious?" part of the response. If I were asked a question about why a Cmin7#11 chord resolves into an F7+11 I would give a polite answer and not "Are you serious?" (Which has an implication.....) followed by the answer. I was raised that there are no dumb questions but plenty of dumb insensitive answers to good questions. I know a butt load of stuff about music and guitar playing and not ashamed to admit very little about the electronics of guitar playing. You're welcome.

There are loads of discussion threads that "debate" the concept. What Bolero said is part of the equation. The difference in cabinet size will alter the frequency response of the system, which might affect how you perceive the sound. Mathematically, if you put 1 watt into a 100dB efficient speaker, you get 100dB. If you put 1 watt into 4 100dB speakers wired to the same impedance, each speaker will get 0.25 watts. Thus each speaker will be putting out 94dB (3dB for halving the power, 3dB for halving THAT power.) But then you had 4 times that 94dB and you get back to 100dB. The difference will be more in tonal balance that actual sound intensity, which might be measured at 1 frequency. I've seen discussions where they say the increase was larger with 2 speakers rather than one, but the problem with this is that the impedance won't be the same between a single and a dual speaker setup. If you have a pair of 8 ohm speakers, and only use one, it's 8 ohms. If you add the second in parallel, it's now 4 ohms, so your power usage is different at the "same setting". Put them in series and you have 16 ohms, which could lower your output. When you use a 4x cabinet, with two in series and the series in parallel, the impedance can be the same as a single speaker. Identical power is distributed evenly. Jim Lill did a Youtube video where he compared lots of difference cab configurations and how it affected the sound. It may not change the dB reading but it changes the perception of the sound.

I was being serious. If you are offended that isn't my fault, it wasn't my intention either. You are reading far too much into that statement. I would have said exactly the same thing to any friend I was having that discussion with. Not only that, but I went to the effort of additional details that likely affect your perception of sound & volume. You are welcome.

My old H-137 had Lollar P90s. Too “polite” for me. Wonderful HiFi sound, but they didn’t punch very hard. I prefer the Gibson variety. edit: Lollar has multiple winds available for their P90s. Truth be told, I don’t know what they were.

When I had an H550 I used nothing but flatwound 12's, and it sounded great. Since 550's are plywood/laminate top guitars, shouldn't they be durable enough for 13's or 14's? I miss this big blonde gitfiddle.

I know crazy resistance values, but the output doesn't reflect that. It's more of a medium output due to the stacked coils and different size wire than a conventional humbucker.. I have side by side coil humbuckers with much lower DC resistance and a much hotter output. I would like to try the Hot Chicken bridge pickup. I think I'm going to put one in my custom shop Deluxe Tele which currently has a BG1400 in it. I think the Hot Chiicken might blend better with the Duncan "Vintage Stack" I have in the neck. The Vintage Stack isn't hot enough to get a good middle position with the BG 1400. And since I have the BG1400 in two other Teles, I think it would be nice to have a slightly lower output in one guitar. Beside I can stick the BG1400 I pull into the Esquire that I built:) They do sound like a single coil, but I'm more of a fan of the Duncan's tone for getting the Tele tone. I do like the Area T DiMarzio stacked humbuckers which I think get great Tele tone.

I think the tuners were the only original part. Certainly all the wiring and pickups were non original. I had a set of Throbak pickup rings laying around so I installed those when I put the burstbuckers in. The rings have a decent amount of “flex” and grip the body nicely. Time will tell if they crack or not, I suppose. One original pickup was included in the case, a standard Shaller pickup they were using at the time with a 3/85 date stamp on the bottom. I replaced the knobs to with top hats you see on it now. But the ones that came on it were non original.

Nice looking guitar. I've also contemplated the full multi-effects route as I had a pedal board that was way too heavy and had a couple of failures that took way to long to figure out. I've simplified a lot of it and sold off a bunch of pedals to use mutli-purpose pedals. (Not really "multi-effects") How does this unit compare tonal-wise to what you had before? Here’s my slimmer board, I have swapped the Timmy and the BM so I can use the BM as a volume/clean boost. The Wampler has two inputs and two outputs so I can save presets as either a preamp effect or use in the effects loop.

I used to put the single coil sized humbuckers in my Strat's for year, that sounded good, but never quite what I wanted. When I got a Tele style guitar (Reverend Buckshot), I did the same thing again. Still sounded okay. My last Reverend was a Trickshot which again, I used a ZexCoil in the bridge. Sounded okay again. A couple years ago, I bought a used Highway 1 (1st Gen) Strat that had a single coil sized rail in the bridge pickup. That sounded awesome! I've since starting using a Dimarzio Chopper T in the bridge of my Am Pro II Tele and I absolutely love it. Its noiseless, has some great spank, but still sounds like a single coil. I've since converted both my Strats to Dimarzio single coil rail pickups. A Chopper in a Player Series Strat and a Fast Track 2 in a "vintage" American Standard. Both sound great; just another option if you want a noiseless option that still sounds like a single coil

I was asking a serious question and it wasn't very nice of you to answer in that manner.

Nice score. What did you change on it or what did the previous owner change? Those old 140's have a seriously deep dish carve on the top, so much so, the pickup rings would crack. Hard to tell if the pickups were swapped, but the rings are new(er) and I think the top-hat knobs are also a replacement part. Only other thing I saw was the screws for the tuners were black. Nothing wrong with any of that, but if you paid a higher price then you'd like, I hope it wasn't sold as an all-original with a repaired headstock.

Wowzers, that's some series string gauges. I used 12's on an acoustic, but I'm basically strumming chords. On any electric, there is just no way I could do that when it comes to vibrato, bends, etc. Hats off to you!

Have you tried that yet? It seems relatively new which may explain why I really haven't seen anyone talk about it.

You can bet any guitar from 2015 or earlier that has a huge neck, it was most likely neck carved by Marv with his famous "Marv-Carve". I know there was a unique H157 that Marvin did several years ago from the neck carving to the paint. Maybe others would know this, but I also believe any unique custom one-off may have been worked by Marv.

Pressure, you haven't changed a bit. And those are pretty decent guitars, I'd say. My 1996 H535's label has Marv's signature, along with all the other owners of the day, and Ren. Don't know why they all signed that one, but it's a neat feature. Thoroughly lousy pic below...

Thanks Steiner, That's just the kind of harsh talk and punishment that I ni, ni, kneeded. Now off to find a nice shrubbery to appease the admin.

Wow, I was just checking out the DC resistance for those pickups. 17.7k for the neck and 29.2k for the neck. That's a lot of turns! I also noticed the "Hot Chicken" set with Neck: 15.8k, Bridge: 26.46k.

No. Eagles were Classic, Golden and Super. Never a number that I saw.

For having made such a silly, ridiculous error you must remove the offending finger, preferably at the shoulder. Do not concern yourself with such an action, ‘Tis but a flesh wound. Now go away or I shall taunt you some more.

And last but not least the Heritage Millie SuperLight. Hand built by Master luthier Mr. Pete Farmer at the Heritage factory with the new guard.

Here is the cavity of the H170 Heritage built for me with all the Heritage signatures on the label.