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Markn951 wrote:

Sparky wrote:

robert(original) wrote:i have seen a couple new york pro's floating around town for a few years. they suck ass. i think i have seen 1 strat copy, and at least 3 acoustics.
all of which were crap.
one of the acoustics had some SHARP! fret ends.

Yeah, my brother's mandolin is a New York Pro. What a shitbox.

you just let sooo many people's hopes and dreams down.

lol, like thats gonna stop us.

St. Jimmy wrote:127 bucks for an archtop and case?! WTF?!

dude, how does it SOND? if it's half way decent, I found my next guitar...goddamn it...

I got it for that price on ebay when they first came out.I don't think they even had a distributor.From Whitebridge they're 229.95 or something like that.
My daughter's guitar is black w/tort pg and black hardware..It plays well after I set it up.Sounds good through many settings on my G-DEC 30.The only problem I had was the jack fell inside the guitar when I received it.The guy credited me $30 so he didn't have to deal with returning it and shit and I just got a nut for the jack and put it back in..The original price was 157.50.Well worth the price I paid and probably worth the 229.
They're made in U.S.A. South Carolina or Virginia or some other southern state..I forgot.

I think I may grab an SG junior and put in a GFS p90. Question is, do I get a red one, or a black one and put in the cream colored pickup?

damienblair17 wrote:I think I may grab an SG junior and put in a GFS p90. Question is, do I get a red one, or a black one and put in the cream colored pickup?

Why do people always expect to replace the pups... underpowered can be cooooooooooooooooool. Those pups might be unique and totally worth keeping.

endsjustifymeans wrote:

damienblair17 wrote:I think I may grab an SG junior and put in a GFS p90. Question is, do I get a red one, or a black one and put in the cream colored pickup?

Why do people always expect to replace the pups... underpowered can be cooooooooooooooooool. Those pups might be unique and totally worth keeping.

You may be right. I'm really just thinking of color combos.

I don't know they'd be underpowered. I just find ceramic PUPs have more buzz than alnico.

i want one in red and one to refin in pelham.

Will wrote:I don't know they'd be underpowered. I just find ceramic PUPs have more buzz than alnico.

yea, it's more about ceramic vs. alnico. most ceramic pickups sound pretty thin and lifeless. I think higher output ceramic pickups can sound pretty good though. ceramic P-90s can sound monstrous.

endsjustifymeans wrote:

damienblair17 wrote:I think I may grab an SG junior and put in a GFS p90. Question is, do I get a red one, or a black one and put in the cream colored pickup?

Why do people always expect to replace the pups... underpowered can be cooooooooooooooooool. Those pups might be unique and totally worth keeping.

because 9 times out of 10, its not the pickups being underpowered thats the problem. its them sounding like shit and possibly failing 2 months down the road thats the problem. If you replace those pups, replace the entire electronics, pup, wires, pots, caps, jacks, everything. Its totally worth it because the parts the Chinese use in budget guitars is 9/10 times total shit.

Markn951 wrote:entire electronics, pup, wires, pots, caps, jacks, everything. Its totally worth it because the parts the Chinese use in budget guitars is 9/10 times total shit.

Yeah....ok.










Wires? WTF?

Shaguar wrote:

Markn951 wrote:entire electronics, pup, wires, pots, caps, jacks, everything. Its totally worth it because the parts the Chinese use in budget guitars is 9/10 times total shit.

Yeah....ok.










Wires? WTF?

yes. wires. they conduct electricity. budget, shitty wire can break easily with little stress, or be "multistranded" and in reality have a lot of insulation and only a few very small wires rather then a whole lot of very small wires. They can also be made with sub-standard metals, have high capacitance, etc. WIRES MOTHERFUCKER. DONT UNDERESTIMATE TEH WIORZ.

Cheap guitars have uncomfortable necks and frets. Fix that!

Sparky wrote:Cheap guitars have uncomfortable necks and frets. Fix that!

Uhm... no... they don't. What they do have is poor QC and they do often demand a bit of effort out of the box.

Worth it for $300 saved.

endsjustifymeans wrote:

Sparky wrote:Cheap guitars have uncomfortable necks and frets. Fix that!

Uhm... no... they don't. What they do have is poor QC and they do often demand a bit of effort out of the box.

Worth it for $300 saved.

This. My first guitar was an Epiphone SG Special, and I still have only played a handful of guitars that had a neck as comfy as that one did. Soooo sexy, plus I sanded it down just the tiniest bit to rough up the gloss finish and make it ghetto satin. jeez that was something else. Otherwise the guitar was absolute garbage, though.

I've definitely had issues with cheap wiring before. In a lot of low-end guitars it's not copper, so it tends to break if stressed at all.

YEAH OK WIRES WTF?

What are you guys doing to stress wire to the point of breaking? I mean once its under the pickguard, its safe away from curious fingers and shouldnt move, even when RoxXorZing.

hotrodperlmutter wrote:YEAH OK WIRES WTF?

what do you mean by thatttttttt