Electronics, The Use Of...

Doctor J · 2008-06-13 17:54:16

It seems the vast majority of modern guitars are still shipped with electronics from the 50's, whereas the electronic options on a lot of modern basses are almost endless. Guitarists, what is your attitude to the use of active pre-amps in your axes, have you ever considered it? Is it a case of the amp providing the tonal…

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#32 17-06-2008 01:41PM

Karl Hungus

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Yeah but can't they just do that without putting the celebrity's name on the headstock and charging for the privilege? By all means, great guitarists should be giving a lot of feedback (both in terms of ideas and guitar noise) to guitar companies and getting more out of instruments. I don't these innovations only have to be on celebrity endorsed guitars.

The way it seems to me is that most guitar companies aren't bothered to innovate without an artist kicking them up the butt, so to speak. I remember asking on the Ernie Ball forums if they'd ever introduce another 7 string, and the answer was that they wouldn't even have a 7 in their lineup at all if it wasn't that Petrucci wanted it.

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