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This is my newest acquisition, an Agile 2800 import guitar from Korea. Of all the import brands, I really love these guitars and have owned several. They are made of decent wood (For the 2800: Center jointed 2 piece mahogany body, 2 piece maple neck, rosewood fretboard. The maple quilt veneer is gorgeous, and about 1.5mm thick. It doesn't really affect tone, but if one should ever desire to re-finish the instrument, there's enough there to actually refinish as opposed to remove! =^^=
When I got her, the electronics bat was a shambles, and she had mismatched pickups. The lead from the bridge didn't even reach into the electronics cavity! So I did a complete rewire. I purchased a set of Duncan Designed pickups from a local guitar store that had been pulled from an ESP. I replaced the volume pots with a matched set of CTS pots, put in some Alpha push-pull pots for tone and coil tapping and added a set of Sprague Orange Drop capacitors. My soldering is not flawless and she makes a little more hum than I think she should, but overall I'm pleased with the result!
This is a generic little riff anyone could play with a little practice in the open position, just to test the voice of the guitar. As the title implies, I'm playing using both pickups in humbucker mode.
All my tests are recorded through a Fender Mustang III amplifier plugged straight into my PC's USB port, and recorded using Audacity. The setting is stock #93, Basic '65 Twin. It is a good clean amp sound with no fancy effects to hide anything, or make anything sound better for all that matters!
*Disclaimer / common text*
This is a sound check to do some A-B comparisons between various settings on my guitars. In short this is to help me answer my own questions about what is the different tone between an El Cheapo import, versus the genuine US article.
Also this is to tell the difference between the various pickup settings, bridge vs neck. Or parallel vs series, or coil tapped where applicable.
Perhaps to put this most succintly: I'm bored and this is a way to pass the time! :D
When I got her, the electronics bat was a shambles, and she had mismatched pickups. The lead from the bridge didn't even reach into the electronics cavity! So I did a complete rewire. I purchased a set of Duncan Designed pickups from a local guitar store that had been pulled from an ESP. I replaced the volume pots with a matched set of CTS pots, put in some Alpha push-pull pots for tone and coil tapping and added a set of Sprague Orange Drop capacitors. My soldering is not flawless and she makes a little more hum than I think she should, but overall I'm pleased with the result!
This is a generic little riff anyone could play with a little practice in the open position, just to test the voice of the guitar. As the title implies, I'm playing using both pickups in humbucker mode.
All my tests are recorded through a Fender Mustang III amplifier plugged straight into my PC's USB port, and recorded using Audacity. The setting is stock #93, Basic '65 Twin. It is a good clean amp sound with no fancy effects to hide anything, or make anything sound better for all that matters!
*Disclaimer / common text*
This is a sound check to do some A-B comparisons between various settings on my guitars. In short this is to help me answer my own questions about what is the different tone between an El Cheapo import, versus the genuine US article.
Also this is to tell the difference between the various pickup settings, bridge vs neck. Or parallel vs series, or coil tapped where applicable.
Perhaps to put this most succintly: I'm bored and this is a way to pass the time! :D
Category Music / Other Music
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