[GoldBoost]

	Originally Posted by Bluestreak To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
	Assuming all Govan has is a switch to quickly bypass the tone knob and change to the neck p/u, yes - it's just an exercise in soldering. Govan is a professional, most of whom have preferred specialists who modify their guitars, amps, and effects. It may be more complex than just a switch, some wiring and solder to produce his signature sound.

Oh yeah it'll definitely need some soldering and moving around some wires or even installing some new ones. I was just wondering if you had a schematic or something to work off of. I still have to get a soldering iron anyways.

[Bluestreak]

	Originally Posted by GoldBoost To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
	Oh yeah it'll definitely need some soldering and moving around some wires or even installing some new ones. I was just wondering if you had a schematic or something to work off of. I still have to get a soldering iron anyways.

No. Unless you're a dealer, you aren't going to be able to find wiring schematics for most guitars. Even if it is pretty ancient technology at this point, for some reason, you can never find original diagrams. Google it, you might get lucky. Realize that guitars also go through many revisions (Ibanez RG's are famous for this) over the years. I usually have to have the guitar physically present. With paper and a digital multi-meter, I can reverse-engineer the wiring diagram and modify it from there. It's all variations on the same theme... after you've seen one, you've pretty much seen 'em all. Different manufacturers add little touches to give their guitars unique sounds, that's all.

The only guitar you listed I could help you with is your RG-3770Z, but the newest schematic I have is for a 2004 RG-2770 model.

[lancelot]

Interesting thread, I have been collecting vintage guitars for about 8 years.

I'm interested in older stuff, these are the guitars I have aquired thus far:

Martin 0-42 1907
Martin 0-17T 1957
Ephiphone Triumph 1934
Epiphone Sorento 1961
Danelectro 1960s not sure exact date
Kalmazoo KG-2 1966
Vox Superlynx Delux Cherry finish 1960s
vox Superlynx Delux Sunburst finish 1960s

Like everyone else my dream is to get a 1954 strat. or a No caster and a Broadcaster.

Perhps I a dream a bit too much.

[deconspire]

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Used to be a big fan of Jackson, but after I started playing ESP I've been hooked. Never much cared for either Fender, or Les Paul, or Ibanez, although the JagStang has a really cool tone.

[Shinganist]

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Cadillac Green Gretsch Duo Jet

And I use a Vox AC15 with Alnico Blues.

Next guitar will probably be a Les Paul Black Beauty or Gretsch Black Penguin. I want to play some Deftones and Mastodon. Looking at also Getting SH-6 Duncan Distortion Pickups.

[GoldBoost]

If you want some awesome high gain pickups I'd recommend you look into bareknuckles. Those are some powerful sounding magnets.

[deconspire]

	Originally Posted by GoldBoost To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
	If you want some awesome high gain pickups I'd recommend you look into bareknuckles. Those are some powerful sounding magnets.

Those are awesome. Better than EMG and most all of the Duncans.

I prolly have about 5 or 6 different sets of pickups laying around. I love swapping them out from time to time. Except my pots are paying the price now.
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[Shinganist]

	Originally Posted by GoldBoost To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
	If you want some awesome high gain pickups I'd recommend you look into bareknuckles. Those are some powerful sounding magnets.

I will. I thought I'd get the SH-6 because that's what Bill of Mastodon uses.

[Fishism]

I've been playing off and on for roughly 12 years now...and I'm a lefty.

My electric is a simple Peavey EXP in a transparent blue and plug it into my Roland Cube 30 amp. I don't feel I deserve better gear quite yet. I don't want to insult the rock gods by playing badly on a good guitar.

I also play a Taylor 210 acoustic. Play it much more than the electric.

Kind of stuck with my development. I can learn anything I devote the time to as my chord alphabet is solid, but will need to take lessons on lead and theory to get any further.

[Firebrand]

	Originally Posted by GoldBoost To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
	For the metal guys pointy guitars were like, the ideal shape. Haha those were the days when the quality of a guitar was based on how well it could split a head open.

They call them "weapons" for a reason. You were going to war. Come armed.

That said, all my guitars now are nice $1000+, neck-through, with quality SD pickups. I worked through my cheapshit already. No more crappy guitars or equipment.

	Originally Posted by Bluestreak To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
	I'm sure someone knows the guitar I've replicated. To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

I've seen it before, but I can't for the life of me recall where.

Edit : Ah yes. Vinnie Vincent.

[deconspire]

	Originally Posted by Fishism To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
	Kind of stuck with my development. I can learn anything I devote the time to as my chord alphabet is solid, but will need to take lessons on lead and theory to get any further.

Or you just need to say fuck it and decide to create every time you pick it up.
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[GoldBoost]

	Originally Posted by deconspire To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
	Those are awesome. Better than EMG and most all of the Duncans.

Just about anything is better than EMGs to me
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[Bluestreak]

	Originally Posted by Firebrand9 To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
	I've seen it before, but I can't for the life of me recall where. Edit : Ah yes. Vinnie Vincent.

Correct.

We didn't have cable TV at my mom's house until 1986. When we finally got MTV (back in the days when MTV played music!)... I turned it on, and the first video I saw was Vinnie Vincent Invasion's Boyz Are Gonna Rock, and Vinnie himself was playing that twin-V guitar. I knew from that day forward I wanted to play guitar.

There are only 32 known REAL Jackson Vinnie Vincent guitars in the world, and at last check, Vinnie Vincent owns 20 of them. The remaining guitars trade for more than $4,000+ when they DO come up for sale. So... for about $750 and a lot of hard work, I made my own.

	Originally Posted by GoldBoost To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
	Just about anything is better than EMGs to me To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

Really? I always liked EMG's, particularly Zakk Wylde's sound. I used an EMG-89 when I built my flying V (with push-pull single-to-double coil switch). With the EMG pickup, that guitar is only good for ONE thing: ripping your face off with screaming, high-gain riffs and old-school chunky metal rhythms.

[deconspire]

Not a fan of the EMGs either. Too...cold i guess. Like when you max your treble and low settings and then cut the mids. Too sterile sounding to me. I love chunky palm mutes like nothing else, but i couldnt vamp with them well using the 89s. Not enough tonal variety. I would also like to say that outside of a good distortion pedal, everyone should have a EQ pedal.

[GoldBoost]

	Originally Posted by Bluestreak To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
	Really? I always liked EMG's, particularly Zakk Wylde's sound. I used an EMG-89 when I built my flying V (with push-pull single-to-double coil switch). With the EMG pickup, that guitar is only good for ONE thing: ripping your face off with screaming, high-gain riffs and old-school chunky metal rhythms.

EMGs sound too compressed for me, and don't really have any dynamic qualities to them. They're not really ideal if you want to do anything that doesn't call for high gain with an ENGL invader and the gain up at 5 o clock. But that's just me, I'm more of a vintage/vintage hot output pickup guy myself, the wood tonality comes through a little more.

	Originally Posted by deconspire To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
	Not a fan of the EMGs either. Too...cold i guess. Like when you max your treble and low settings and then cut the mids. Too sterile sounding to me. I love chunky palm mutes like nothing else, but i couldnt vamp with them well using the 89s. Not enough tonal variety. I would also like to say that outside of a good distortion pedal, everyone should have a EQ pedal.

Never tried an EQ pedal except a digital one on my Line 6 M13. It was fun to play around with but I didn't come back to it. Maybe I'll find a use for it in the future :D

[deconspire]

	Originally Posted by GoldBoost To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
	Never tried an EQ pedal except a digital one on my Line 6 M13. It was fun to play around with but I didn't come back to it. Maybe I'll find a use for it in the future :D

Sounds like it would be up your alley. Nothing else can really finish shaping your tone like it does. If your amp, pickups, and guitar are coarse sandpaper, then the EQ pedal is fine sandpaper.

[GoldBoost]

Yeah I might look into if I have the need for extra tweaking, but I've got the amp, the guitar, and if a pedal is activated I have that too, that's a lot of tonal variety right there

[HackerX]

	Originally Posted by deconspire To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
	then the EQ pedal is fine sandpaper.

That's a great way of putting it. I loved the warmth and smoothness you can add. And the little gain slider most would have is nice subtle bit of boost too, if you're sitting right in the edge of a tube amp's breakup point.

[SirJamesIII]

	Originally Posted by GoldBoost To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
	Two more Guthrie Govan fans :D This thread just got more awesome

Make it three! Saw him with the Aristocrats a few months ago. Will see him at a clinic this summer. I have a Cornford Roadhouse 30, which he occasionally uses. I enjoy it very much. Very touch sensitive.

I play with a Carvin DC127. I'm too lazy to upload a picture, but this is the closest to it I could find on the internet (they are custom order so mine's one of a kind)

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Mine has a bird's eye maple fretboard, a reverse headstock and a floyd rose tremolo though. It's a thru neck as well and it feels amazing at the upper frets. Mahogany body, quilted maple top, and a 5 piece maple/walnut neck. I also have a piezo pickup in the bridge and locking tuners. Amazing guitar. Feels like it is worth twice as much as my 2000$ fender. Only paid about 1500 for the Carvin and I could still smell the finish drying when I first opened it.


Me and my fender:

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Dave murray sig strat. Signed by Paul Gilbert, John Petrucci, and Greg Howe.

And I got an Axe-Fx. You jelly?

[Bluestreak]

	Originally Posted by HackerX To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
	That's a great way of putting it. I loved the warmth and smoothness you can add. And the little gain slider most would have is nice subtle bit of boost too, if you're sitting right in the edge of a tube amp's breakup point.

Agreed. I had a DOD FX-40 at first, but I traded it for a used a Boss GE-7. I like the Boss much better. I'm bidding on a second unit on evilBay to add to my pedal board to run one for clean(er) sounds, and a second one for distortion channels.

[Firebrand]

	Originally Posted by Bluestreak To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
	Correct. There are only 32 known REAL Jackson Vinnie Vincent guitars in the world, and at last check, Vinnie Vincent owns 20 of them. The remaining guitars trade for more than $4,000+ when they DO come up for sale. So... for about $750 and a lot of hard work, I made my own.

My Jackson Dave Mustaine Sig is similar. Very rare. It was my mightiest of dream guitars and took me 15 years to get my hands on one, and I had to do a complicated export deal out of Argentina to get it.

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I tried Ebay for nearly a year first, but this was fruitless. Even if one was sold and it was in even close to ok condition, the listing was invariably taken down before the auction ended; probably with someone local or via PM offering a deal that alleviated fees. So, I literally looked through all 50 pages of Google search results to find the listing, and had to convert it from Spanish to English, and then convert any posts I made to the owner similarly. It was a colossal pain in the ass. Eventually, the owner just said "why don't we just speak in English" lol. I'm sure I butchered Spanish converting it the way I did. The guy went on vacation halfway through setting up all the nuances of it, including a business account with UPS, finding out what the owner would need to do on his end in Argentina and guiding him on it (UPS is not at all "United", at least not internationally).

When he got back I followed up with him, and we proceeded to complete the deal, including a $2000 wire transfer to Argentina. When I asked my bank if I could revert the transfer if I didn't get the guitar, they laughed and said no. I thought about the shipping cost versus just flying to Argentina for the weekend to bring it back firsthand. My friend at work thought this was hilarious saying "This is how you know Firebrand9 is not married. He's thinking of going to Argentina for the weekend to buy a guitar".

I was determined and persevered keeping him on his end of the process including the export tax laws in Argentinia. I should note that I've never done this complicated of a deal prior. Six months later, I got the guitar. Afterwords the previous owner told me he didn't even think this whole thing would've been possible and he's surprised and happy that it worked out so smoothly. But boy was it work. In total the guitar cost me $2500 and six months of concerted effort. And was totally worth it.

	Originally Posted by Bluestreak To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
	Really? I always liked EMG's, particularly Zakk Wylde's sound. I used an EMG-89 when I built my flying V (with push-pull single-to-double coil switch). With the EMG pickup, that guitar is only good for ONE thing: ripping your face off with screaming, high-gain riffs and old-school chunky metal rhythms.

EMG's are very highly regarded by many, but I think they sound a bit sterile and nonorganic. I also don't like to having to replace batteries on my guitar.
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	Feels like it is worth twice as much as my 2000$ fender.

The problem with Fenders is that a $2k one feels the same as a $200 one. I'm happy both my King V's are from before Fender took over Jackson.

[GoldBoost]

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Make it three! Saw him with the Aristocrats a few months ago. Will see him at a clinic this summer. I have a Cornford Roadhouse 30, which he occasionally uses. I enjoy it very much. Very touch sensitive. I play with a Carvin DC127. I'm too lazy to upload a picture, but this is the closest to it I could find on the internet (they are custom order so mine's one of a kind) ( Show Spoiler ) To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. Mine has a bird's eye maple fretboard, a reverse headstock and a floyd rose tremolo though. It's a thru neck as well and it feels amazing at the upper frets. Mahogany body, quilted maple top, and a 5 piece maple/walnut neck. I also have a piezo pickup in the bridge and locking tuners. Amazing guitar. Feels like it is worth twice as much as my 2000$ fender. Only paid about 1500 for the Carvin and I could still smell the finish drying when I first opened it. Me and my fender: ( Show Spoiler ) To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. Dave murray sig strat. Signed by Paul Gilbert, John Petrucci, and Greg Howe. And I got an Axe-Fx. You jelly?

I was on the waiting list for the Axe FX II
but the European shipped was based on the concept that only one person lives in Europe, thus taking it almost a year to get one. Fuck that.
Also, I decided I wanted real tubes instead.
Also got my old Schecter signed by Paul. That guy is TALL

[SirJamesIII]

	Originally Posted by GoldBoost To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
	I was on the waiting list for the Axe FX II but the European shipped was based on the concept that only one person lives in Europe, thus taking it almost a year to get one. Fuck that. Also, I decided I wanted real tubes instead. Also got my old Schecter signed by Paul. That guy is TALL

I bypass the power amp sim and run in through my own power amp. I have a Marshall 9200.

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[deconspire]

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	My friend at work thought this was hilarious saying "This is how you know Firebrand9 is not married. He's thinking of going to Argentina for the weekend to buy a guitar".

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That's fucking awesome.

[GoldBoost]

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Beautiful