Recent content by Ian Alderman

When I want to use pinch harmonics, I can never seem to pull it off. It almost always happens by accident when I'm not trying

Thanks! I'll never forget when I was trying to learn unison bends because I always thought they sound really cool and what ended up happening was I would play the bend backwards lol Now all is good. Thing is I need to find a piece that hasn't employed them because it's easy to overdo things

It'll get better with age, I've read that there are 2 camps on the Alnico Gold; either it sounds good out of the box or it needs time to break in. I highly recommend the speaker for pretty much anything except modern drop tuned metal.

Maybe trade for the Studio Vintage head for a different Marshall flavor?

That's the only way man! What's the fun in being good and behaved?

When I had my LP stock, I was pleasantly surprised with the tones using a Wampler Dracarys going through the Low Sensitivity input on the Studio Classic, and another surprise was when I was at my local pusher trying out the Friedman JJjr combo. Stock Gibson pickups don't suck with heavy rock and...

Something I'm messing around with... Might get some more original stuff out there in the future

Tonight there's gonna be trouble

Thanks man! I need to figure out the rest of it, it'll come in time

Here's a little Foo for ya Friday

She don't skinny dip, she chunky dunks!

I think when it gets to the equation where there's gain from the preamp, the power amp, the headroom of the speaker, dirt pedals, and then start ramping up the output of the pickups as well as the type of magnet used and add all that together, it's a matter of being able to get all of those...

Thanks! This was one of those times where I listened to the originals afterwards and had a big smile

Gibson could start calling the pickups the Moby Dick or the Ahab: flubby and undefined down low, grainy and scratchy up high. I've heard nothing but good things about the Bareknuckle stuff and would like to try them out one day but I'm good with what I've got planned. I'll say this though and...

Thanks man! I really like the heavy rock that flirts with metal, but not full on Decapitated Amon Amarth Meshuggah metal, though I listen to them and other metal bands as well. The Les Paul just like any other guitar works for some people and not so much for others. It could be the model, or...