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Honestly if your looking for cheap and reliable I would go with a Big Muff, shit loads of sustain and some gnarly tones, wish I had not traded mine but it was too big for my board. I got mine new from Musicians Friend for $79 dollars year ago. Take note there is a glut of equipment with so much bought during covid, the manufacturers overproduced and the inventory is so high it is a buyers market and even more so in the coming months. I found an Erupter from EQD that is sought after being a limited run and out of production for a few years now. It is based off the Russian Big Muff the green one and if it is still around after I trade in some pedals it will be on my board real soon. Cheers

Haven't been to festival in over 30 years but I would like to go to Wacken or Hellfest or something but being older having to go to the bathroom often is a challenge, if I did I would probably rent a camper or something last gig I seen was Uncle Acid with King Buffalo a couple of years ago

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Well if your looking for tabs and lessons I would go with publications like Guitar Player etc... In our day we would learn from each other, needle drop on a LP was how we learned as we were still in the 8 track phase and cassettes were not in production yet, if you were lucky you would have a reel to reel but my uncle was the only person I knew that owned one. It was all trial and a lot of error.

I'd definitely stick with the MXR, not sure about the soldering on the Joyo as I have never looked inside an enclosure or used one.

Dobro pozhalovat, yeah I hear what your saying, as I haven't used social media platforms for a couple of years I have ventured onto a few forums like and most are pretty much dead, I think people that use SM just use the groups in their platforms as I guess it is easier or something unfortunately. Been on this one for a month and it is definitely more active than others though not ideal and wish there was more. I'm mostly into doom these days but listen to all metal some more than others and been active in the metal genre and local band scene since the 70's. There was a guitar player I remember following on YouTube from Krasnodar also, she does more melodic neo classical stuff on a Jackson V, think here name is Alyona Vargasova though I haven't seen any new material in a year or more. Whats your taste in metal any preferences?

For one you can lower the action of your guitar, there will be less tension on the strings. Another thing could be your thumb positioning on the neck. Use a device to strengthen your hands make sure you stretch your fingers well before playing for at least 5 minutes. Look for a neck with a thin radius. I have small hands so I use Jacksons and Schecters, These are a few choices I would pick, hope it help. Also suggest you spend a few hours trying out guitars to see what suits your hands best. Don't feel bad, I learned on a 12 string and it really sucked. Jackson Soloist SL2 PRS SE Custom 24 Schecter Hellraiser C-1 ESP LTD EC-1000 Gibson SG Modern

Considering how bad and inaccurate most online tabs are, something I have wondered for ages is why nobody has ever tried the marketing angle of including official tabs from the band in a deluxe album or CD format. In the past it wouldn't have been practical as most of us learned from the needle drop ( still the 8 track period ) and you would have to buy some albums a few times over by the time you ND's the shit of an album.

We have a family account, mostly used for travelling and outdoors. If I like what I hear I buy a physical copy, vinyl preferably I have disdain for compressed formats like mp3's.

Someone on a metal site suggested last month to listen to Can't Stop Doing Drugs by The Pope of Dope and the Ministers of Mayhem is the funniest thing I have heard since The Mentors straight up sleaze metal but they can actually play their instruments, I dig the riff. MOD edit: Link removed as does not work outside of YouTube.

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As FA said it is mostly the routing of the cavity so on a good guitar a lot of routing can depreciate the value, if you want to put passives back in it can look a tad gnarly but if you don't mind a Frankenstrat look I guess it wouldn't matter. Good point, it could even be a perception thing as I play the Schecter a lot more because most stuff I play now is in C or C# so I use it most and the Blackouts sustain like crazy. There could be a wiring problem in the pots of the Jackson, it is about 20 years old and 5 since the last setup.

Well for one they don't sustain to my liking and lack bite, I have to push it hard with pedals to get the tone I want and have blown tubes doing so, since it is Dinky it has Duncan Designed pickups, not sure if the bridge is HB 102 or 103 clone s as I believe the sticker is on the underside of the Pup? Pups are classic Strat setup a buck in the bridge POS then 2 singles. I had even considered a Sustainiac in the neck position but that is additional wiring. Definitely sticking with passives because I don't want to pay for the routing required for actives anyways.

BKP's are excellent passives from the demos I have seen, considered putting them in my Jackson but kinda leaning towards Nazguls, never tried Warpig's but I will try a guitar at a store that has them loaded in a guitar, I drop into to check out gear all the time.

Got my copy of The Eve of Darkness today, a book all about the impact of the Toronto metal scene, my friend Harry contributed a lot of the artwork used in the book. Still have a lot of vintage venue ad posters from the 70's to 80's and was lucky enough to attend most of the concerts posted, good times.

There is some decent coin to be made in boutique pedals especially if you make your own enclosures, sheet metal was my first job mid 70's working on an old manual Brown & Boggs brake press.

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Mine was a combo so maybe a head with a decent cab would have better, guess I'll never know. The fact you made your amp is pretty impressive, I have problems setting up my pedalboard unfortunately My Tokai was a strat copy, great looking guitar red with black pick guard and accents but I hated the tremolo bridge. Sold it to my brother in Senile Decay who traded it with Joe Rico of Sacrifice for his Mockingbird which I hated. The bird had a sharp corner that digs into ribs when sitting, friggin hated it. Joe used the Tokai Strat in the Reanimation video you can check it out on YouTube.

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My first amplifier was a Traynor, loathed the thing and could get no useable tones but had to stick it out and got a Marshall combo a year later. Only had one modelling amp a long time ago a Peavey Vypyr which I also hated, never managed to get a tone I liked and it always sounds artificial.

Actually I love Sabbath, they were my favourite but didn't get into Never Say Die and Technical Ecstasy, had a friend that bought them but I skipped on them, then got back into Sabbath when Dio joined for Heaven and Hell. Just something about those 2 albums that didn't connect, Ozzy was spent and that last tour in 78 with Van Halen opening blew them off the stage. I even like the Tony Martin era and Gillan material better than the last with 2 Oz. Lucifers Friend had a few good tunes in 70 but that was it. Cirith Ungol had Frost and Fire and were really underground, Sir Lord Baltimore, Budgie, Accept. I think the first tune I considered speed metal was Breaker. Hellbent was Killing Machine here and in the UK, the Christian thing going on in the US at the time made them change the title stateside from what I remember. I actually overlooked Highway to Hell which was also 78 and the first metal-ish offering by AC/DC. The most glaring difference and it is something my son pointed out as well, he is also a musician into metal is that in the beginning it was obvious who the metal heads were as most of us worked out and looked like bikers, whereas these days you can't even tell who is into metal for the most part. A guy who owns a metal record store actually looks like a office worker or door to door salesman and I see this a lot, people always say " hey, I love your Amon Amarth hoodie " and stunned I say thanks I had no idea you were into metal or would even know they were. It is almost like they don't want to be associated openly with the genre whereas for us it was a lifestyle, we all wore muscle cut off shirts, owned Harleys or Stangs, long hair, leather biker jackets and jeans. It's really kinda sad IMHO opinion sometimes you can't tell the difference between metal hards and wrestling fans and not in a good way. We are a rare breed these days it seems.

I grew up in the housing projects of Toronto, from my recollection in our circle heavy metal became a thing between 77 and 78. in 78 Halen released their debut, Priest put out Unleashed in the East, Stained Class and Killing Machine, Scorpions Tokyo Tapes and Taken By Force AC/DC If You Want Blood, 77 I had bought Lights Out UFO, Motorhead, Cat Scratch Fever Nugent, and what I considered was changing the direction of metal Sin After Sin. Started playing guitar around this time. We learned songs by the needle drop back then, by the time you learned most of the songs you had to buy a new LP I remember in the summer we had the bench press int he parking lot working out while the chicks sat around and checking us out, most people wanted to hear Nugent, Skynyrd, Rush and Aerosmith while me and my friend Johnny K wanted to listen to Sin After Sin etc.. Sabbath was going in a direction we didn't particularly like. Rush played at our school and so did Triumph who lit the stage on fire with flash pots, good times.

As a child listening to my uncle blasting Uriah Heep and Deep Purple around 70-72 so long ago I can't remember