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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,684 ✭✭✭david


    i still have the grx. but the rg 3 sumtin or other is on the way. its black with sharktooth inlays and all black hardware. like yours except black


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,684 ✭✭✭david


    at the moment i'm either getting a h&k warp 7 combo, fm212r, line6 spider2 or keepin the old mg100dfx


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 23,361 Mod ✭✭✭✭feylya


    Keep the MG and save up for a new guitar.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,684 ✭✭✭david


    im already gettin a midrange ibanez. i have that just about paid off


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,684 ✭✭✭david


    i'll post a poll in a new thread i think


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 23,361 Mod ✭✭✭✭feylya


    I wouldn't consider the RG 300 series midrange tbh. The 570 is mid range in my eyes...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,034 ✭✭✭✭It wasn't me!


    Forgetful are we? Mine is Black! :p


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 23,361 Mod ✭✭✭✭feylya




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,684 ✭✭✭david


    i thought it was green/grey weird fecked up colour?! ah well yours is 270dx? i think mine is the new version of that with better hardware. rg370


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  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 23,361 Mod ✭✭✭✭feylya


    Hmm, maybe it's not too bad so. Decent trem.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,684 ✭✭✭david




  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 23,361 Mod ✭✭✭✭feylya


    Not a huge fan of the Wizard II necks tbh.

    And it needs DiMarzio's or Emgs :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,684 ✭✭✭david


    the original plan i had was to get a cheapish ibanez and stick some decent p-ups in it, then i decided to upgrade the amp instead. i think i may stick to the original plan and do up the guitar


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,684 ✭✭✭david


    chances are, when i play live i'll be playin someone elses amp so the mg will be suffice for rehearsal.


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 23,361 Mod ✭✭✭✭feylya


    SSSSHHHH. Don't let Doctor J hear you say that.

    Guitars are cheap for a reason...


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,684 ✭✭✭david


    the neck was a bit slim but i liked it. so..... Pickup suggestions anyone?


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 23,361 Mod ✭✭✭✭feylya


    DiMarzio's or EMG's :D

    Air Norton, Tone Zone and a Tone Zone Single.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,684 ✭✭✭david


    yes but any models? i dont really need actives so thats the 81's out of it. something good and distorted for the bridge. i quite like the ibanez powersound neck p-ups

    edit: sorry i didn't see the models on the bottom of that post


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,034 ✭✭✭✭It wasn't me!


    For now, yeah, the 270DX By this time next year though I intend to have some kind of LTD or somesuch. Pickups the DiMarzio's would suit your style better than the EMG's. Or possibly some Duncan's.


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 23,361 Mod ✭✭✭✭feylya


    LTD M-100 is lovely imo. Especially with EMG's.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,684 ✭✭✭david


    hmm... yer man in musicmaker seemed to think that you get far more ibanez for the money than you do ESP.maybe thats because they dont stock ESP's though! tryin to flog off cheap ibanez crapocasters i'd imagine


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 23,361 Mod ✭✭✭✭feylya


    ESP's are quality machines tbh. I really want a M-II neckthrough custom. About €5000 though <_<


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,684 ✭✭✭david


    yeah. im temped by a second hand neckthrough LTD explorer with emgs in carlow. feckin 850 euro immaculate condition


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,684 ✭✭✭david


    i got a pretty good deal on my ibanez though.... 470 with a free case. 400 on thomann+shipping with no case


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 23,361 Mod ✭✭✭✭feylya


    Meh, don't like the new style ESP EXP's


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,034 ✭✭✭✭It wasn't me!


    I'm not a fan of Agathis. It pretty much sucks out half of the available tone as far as I'm concerned, though the EMG's would go a long way to remedy that... Anyhoo, I was thinking more along these lines:

    http://www.netzmarkt.de/thomann/thoiw6_artikel-172248.html

    or possibly

    http://www.netzmarkt.de/thomann/thoiw6_artikel-169743.html

    Y'know, something like that. ;)


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 23,361 Mod ✭✭✭✭feylya


    I was thinking of getting an LTD H-302 but I think I'll get an Ibanez instead


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,684 ✭✭✭david


    i like the first one but im not too gone on the second one


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,684 ✭✭✭david


    http://www.ibanez.com/guitars/guitar.asp?model=RG370DX
    http://www.ibanez.com/guitars/guitar.asp?model=RG1570
    whats the difference between these two apart from the pickups and slightly different neck


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,684 ✭✭✭david


    and the price of course...


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  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 23,361 Mod ✭✭✭✭feylya


    Better pickups
    Prestige neck
    Better trem
    Just better worksmanship.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,034 ✭✭✭✭It wasn't me!


    Those two necks are incomparable. Putting the wizard versus the Prestige is like pitting a crippled jack russel against a champion greyhound!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,419 ✭✭✭nadir


    well I was on budget , and I just recently kit myself out

    I got a ibanez edr 170 from thomann for 388 , I got some extras, a bag and stuffs and it came to 450 total
    I also baught a cube 15 in dublin for 140

    so about 600 , Im pretty happy with it anyhoo


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 23,361 Mod ✭✭✭✭feylya


    Eh, the microcube is better :( It has delay and chorus. The 15 doesn't...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,419 ✭✭✭nadir


    cube 15 has an equaliser, and i'd prefer to use pedals for effects, rather than be pissing around at the amp. The only effects on the cube 15 are different distortion/metal settings, which is cool. Anyway im just learning so it does me for starting.


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 23,361 Mod ✭✭✭✭feylya


    TBH the single tone control on the microcube is more than enough for me.

    I think the gf is getting me one for christmas so I reckon that'll be my lazy practicing amp. Getting a ME-50 and FM212R for jamming and hopefully gigging.


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