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    Summer

    in The Gibson Lounge

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    6 hours ago, merciful-evans said:

    Sorry to be the voice of descent, but I have some negatives.

    1/ Summer is noisy. Loud music in gardens, the street, from cars with windows down, shrieking kids, drunks walking home etc. I am over sensitive to noise. I wish I wasn't. 

    2/ The deluge experienced so far has likely trebled the unwanted growth in my garden. Weeds and hedge are out of control, and I will struggle to cut it all down, especially as I am still anemic ATM. 

     

    Some people live life, some live to complain.

    Sorry gramps.

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    New cabinet

    in The Gibson Lounge

    Posted

    Nice. I've had my Dual Rec for like 15 years and the whole time have played it through an old Ampeg stereo cab. I like the way it sounds but I still wonder how it would sound with a matching cab.

    Nothing like plugging in a Les Paul, cranking up 100 watts of rock and blowing out an ear drum. Never gets old :)

    Guitar Stand and Hangars Damage Gibson Nitro Finish

    in Gibson USA

    Posted

    I put cotton cloth on my wall hangers. Since they are hands, the cloth looks like a bandaged wounds. Maybe I should put an MJ Glove on them?

     

     

     

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    If I were to choose 4 guitars to own, they would be exactly what you have hanging in this picture!

     

    Anyways, someone on here recommended cutting the finger off of a white cotton glove and sliding it over the String Swing.

     

    Others have mentioned that the String Swing actually does not damage nitro, but I play it safe with the fingers....plus now I have a cool fingerless glove to wear.

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    Epiphone ES-339 Pro - volume controls

    in Epiphone Electrics

    Posted · Edited by deeman

    Hi, I'm a newbie, as a guitarist starting in February and on this site starting two days ago. After looking at many reviews on starter guitars I bought a Squier Fat Strat and Im very pleased with it. I guess everyones pleased with their first guitar.

     

    Id already seen comments about buying guitars becoming addictive so I wasnt surprised to find myself quickly looking for another myself. After watching many more video demos and reviews I decided to buy an Epiphone ES-339 Pro VS recently, not least because of the positive reviews, its size and versatility due to the twin humbuckers and coil tapping feature.

     

    I'm well pleased with this guitar. However, I was surprised to discover that with the selector switch in the middle position, if EITHER of the volume controls is set to minimum there is no output at all. I expected that if the neck pickup volume was set to minimum and the bridge volume increased from 0 to 10 the output would be that of the bridge pickup, with volume increasing continuously as the bridge volume control is rotated to maximum. What I see is that maximum volume is reached when the bridge volume reaches about 2 and it does not increase after that. And vice versa.

     

    Thinking I might have a Friday afternoon guitar I watched all the videos again to try and determine if this is normal, but it was impossible to tell what positions the volume controls are in at any given time. I contacted the seller, who confirmed that my guitar is operating as normal and I see from posts on this site that it is so, although apparently it does not occur on the Gibson ES-339.

     

    Does anybody know why the Epi works this way when the Gibson doesnt, and whether there is a fix worth doing to to the Epi?

     

    Ignore every post above. Here is the short answer :)

     

    This is normal for your guitar. It is a function for how it is wired. You could go through all the trouble or cost re-wire it, but if you are on the middle selector and zero out the volume of one pickup, why not just switch to the pickup you want to use.

    Gibson Epiphone SG 'Neck Dive" Poll

    in Gibson USA

    Posted

    Thanks everyone for your thoughts and comments on this.

     

    I'm going to make a sweeping statement and say that I think that around 90% of all SG's suffer from neck dive.

     

    Yes there are ways of dealing with it like wide straps with suede backing but I'd be willing to bet that around 90% would drop with a simple vinyl strap. No an issue for most people but such a pity IMO as it could maybe be addressed by Gibson with design and could wood selection on the SG.

     

    [sad]

     

    My G400 has some neck dive, but it's never really been much of a problem for me. I just use a regular strap.

    First Gibson - 1993 Les Paul Studio

    in Gibson USA

    Posted

    If you are leaning toward the 490/498 pups, you can probably find a set with the gold covers (that would have been originally on the guitar) being sold on ebay. You could probably get a pretty good deal. It seems people either love or hate that pairing of pickups so you can take advantage of someone who is not a fan and selling theirs. I happen to be a big fan of those pups. [thumbup]

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    Supreme 90th Signed Gold Top

    in Gibson USA

    Posted

    A guitar is not a good investment.

     

    I imagine these guitars would be worth just a little more than regular run of the mill mid 00's supreme would go for.

     

    I may be wrong and there may be a huge market out there, but I just don't think so.

     

     

    It is a nice looking guitar, but not $10,000 nice.

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