Kuz

When I was the Praise Band Director at church for 6 years, every Sunday I used my Boss M8 looper and LOVED it. I could store (on the unit and store to my computer) all my patches for all my songs. Before each Sunday, I would just download the the stored songs (and their patches) to a separate bank and the songs were done. We did a lot of songs weekly (a lot for a Praise Band) 8-11 songs each week and each bank was a song, within in song I had the 4-5 patches I would use. A bank was a one step (up or down) and the patches was one step to control 4-5 pedals all at once... NO MORE TAP DANCING. And mostly importantly, since I saved each song to my computer, the work flow was simple & easy and I didn't have to program each song & it's patches every week. Just download them from the computer and done. We did over 130 songs so having all my songs & patches saved was wonderful. Plus with the Boss M8, it acted like a muli-effects unit BUT you are using your great sounding analog pedals. Personally, I have never heard a mult-effects unit that sound good, give me my analog pedals over digital effect units anyday!

Too late, it's sold off.

Yes, most definitely. The source and the type of Magnet (A2, A3, A4, A5) is 90-95% of the pickup's tone.... BUT.... All A2 magnets are NOT the same. A cheap over sea's magnet is NOT the same as a US sourced, US made to exact specs magnet. Chinese magnets are harsh & brittle sounding and can be all over the place in terms of output. I have paid $80 for a set of USA specific spec'd magnets. I am sure many here will scoff at that, but you get what you pay for...

Boom!! This it the word. Well, said.

I have a Gibby CS '62 335 RI with their Custom Buckers that use A3 magnets for neck & bridge. I have a CS '64 345 RI with their MHS pickups (A3 in the neck, A2 in the bridge). I have also tried to use a number of Peter Florence Custom Voodoo humbuckers (A3 magnets in neck & bridge) in my Heritage 150s over the years. I do understand what he means when he says the neck is pickup is "dark". I personally would not call A3 pickups "dark", but very "sterile, flat, and anemic". The A3s to my ear don't have enough punch. I am an A2 humbucker fan. I had the Parson's Street A3 potted pickups in my Custom Core and took them out because the A3 bridge was under powered (and without any overdrive when played clean, it was kind of bright) and the neck A3 was just SO focused and flat that it had little to no bloom or overtones. But again, this has been my experience with all A3 humbuckers not just the Heritage A3 pickups. I really am just not an A3 fan. A2s all day for me.

Ha, ha,... yes, of course I mean .022 caps.

Here is what I always add/mod to my Heritage guitars (current and in the past); -Throbak Pickups -RS Guitarworks 500K pots and reissue Luxe Bumble Bee 250k caps -Faber locking ABR-1 bridge, Aluminum stoptail with Faber locking stoptail studs -Kluson (or the same looking Grover Deluxe) tuners -Poker chip (rhythm and lead) -Metal pointers under the volume & tone knobs

I got this beauty used from Willcutt's a couple of years ago. Like new, not blemish anywhere. Did I say it came with Throbak P-90s that are just f'ing INCREDIBLE!!! She was under $3K. I think my LP Jr/137 tones are covered. Heritage has lost it's way. No way a Heritage 137 slab guitar (with a stupid tuneamatic & stoptail??? wtf???) should cost over $2500.

Yep, I have Faber locking ABR-1 bridges and locking stoptails on all my Tuneamatic/Stoptail guitars. I hear more sustain (especially with the Aluminum stoptails) and all the hardware is locked down tight, the hardware won't move if you remove the strings. The Faber hardware is superior to any other locking hardware made, both in the materials used and the locking mechanisms.

I would have loved a GM Heritage 150 back in the day, even with EMGs. GREAT CATCH, Brent!!! But there is two things I wished Heritage would have changed on the GM 150; -Gary Moore is a Blues/Rock legend. I wish they would have made his signature in mother of peril inlay on the headstock. -Every GM 150 I have seen and read about are close to 10lbs or more. I wish they would have made them around 8.5lbs like the Custom Core 150s.

Use a thick shoe lace or wrap guitar polishing rag around one side under the pot, then just pull up one side, then the other. They will pop right off.

My 1965 ES-335. It played and sounded amazing in wonderful condition. I made a lot of money off the sale but it is one guitar I would love to have it back... at the original cost I paid for it (paid $1900) (sold it 8yrs later for $10,000). But once the money from the sale is gone, you can never really get the guitar back.

I haven't tried all 6v6 tubes out there, but I have tried many different brands. To my ear, the new Tung-sol 6v6 sounded clearly the best. Just my opinion, but I can't stand any JJ power tube or JJ pre-amp tube.

The Heritage Johnny Smith guitars are functional works of art. My favorite Heritage JS guitars are the "rose" colored ones (or as the owners named it "P**** Pink"). Anyone own a Rose JS that could post some pictures?

Quite frankly, I am astonished that ANYONE or ANY COMPANY could make money on a guitar that only costs $175. Honestly, $175 is less than the cost of ANY ONE pickup I have in my guitars. I think they missed the boat (no pun intended), they should have priced it at $775. How can anyone expect to get a guitar that plays OK, kind of stays in tune, and maybe sounds acceptable for $175? But, I have been wrong before.....