think I am going to build an 80s shred guitar

I am not a huge shred fan, nt a big EVH guy, was always a brian may and slash guy as a little boy, but for some reason iw ant a poodle-metal super strat. Anyone try the EVH frankenstein humbucker? Or I could get one fo duncan's classic EVH/lynch type pickups I guess. Or stick with my favorite hot bucker, the custom/59 hybrid.... that EVH brand frankenbucker is pretty hot by mys tandards and the shred tone I like is kidna early EVH. Not sure that shit was 14k dcr back then in the 70s.... although i really like anama's sound, that soung is a guilty pleasure....

anyone know about floyds? worth it these days? or should I do like a babicz and locking tuners? I really hate the way floyds decimate your bass response, so if a shred guy thinks the floyd is not eneded I don't wanna floyd!

I'm just going to throw someparts together and see what I get, but I don't know a ton about this and even after reading about EVH, the progenitor, there's so much misinformation that the only think I get is that Ed liked superleads turned all the way up before he went soldano and then had his own knockoff soldano made and I'm not stranger to the giant marshall sound with everything near 10 LOL

i dont play shred trype stuff but i know the dimarzio super distortions are pretty popular

as for trems i dont play shred so im basing off my friends rig and what ive seen other metal bands in the area use, i know everyone and there brother has a floyd rose and my friend uses it mainly for dive bombs since it holds its tuning but ive also seen a lot of hipshots scattered throughput the mix, not sure how you feel about hipshots they tend to be as con troversial as floyds, ive not seen or used a babicz but when i looked them up id say its comparable but heavy usage probably would cause it to go out of tune quicker then the floyd, but if anyone says anything otherwise take their advice over mine

I just got rid of 2 vintage super Ds in 2016, hate 'em, no articulation, definitely not like the better 80s tones.... i am not talking METAL

i ahev a babicz on an oddball gibson, but I didn't put locking tuners on that guitar, it already had grovers I liked, so I its not stable for extreme stuff, hwoever the babicz is very, very good and soudns better than any other trem system i've heard.... people claim that you don't need a double locking system these days if you have a trem system that's fairly stable already and get locking tuners and keep your nut deburred and lubricated. But I don't know anyone who ahs actually gone that route. I know friends of friends and wouldn't know how tor each out to them.

I will take your advice notto take your advice, soudns like you know as mucha s I know about the shred stuff... I was kinda hoping to hear from some shred loving Van Halen or Dokken nut. You know the kidna guys I mean.... if they don't wear a headband ons tage they tiea a bandana into a ehadband and their drummer wears a headband or some of those tennis sweat absorbing fuzzy rbacelets and drumming gloves and shit. I need that guy to answer my questions LOL

like i said its all from what ive seen im more into new wave and alternativbe/indie obviosly but i didnt know how much of it translated to 80's style shred other than i know the hipshot was popular then and you need like Russ Parrish from Steel Panther to hook you up

that guy's named Russ Parrish, I am totally going to try to fnd that guy on social media and pick his brain.... I wanna build more of a van halen frankenstein guitar. maybe I should just work with my Gibson All American as the base to be different. Hmmmm

yea he's the guitarist for steel panther they are like a satirical hair band but they are actually crazy talanted

I'm aware of their wasp/warrant thing. Just not super hip to them otherwise. I am shooting for like an EVH thing. I can pull that VH1 thing surprisingly well off my matchless through low wattage ceramic celestions. I think the VH1 chasers discount those early G12m greenbacks and G12s speaker he used to cut volume. They play a big role as does a fet with a smidge of boost out front and some mid/treb shaping. I don't know what's come over me except getting ym chops back I realize I could easily cop that stuff i just didn't. I kinda want to now and be in a cheese ball power trio and do some doom suff and like early van halen and just that alte 70s thing before it turned into hair bands. Just ebcause its aprty music really and it might be fun as a weekender. I really like my Greco for non-trem stuff, the stock PAF copies are not high output but they tend to drive an amp powefully in certain frequencies thata re so RIGHT for that sort of thing... I wanna do a trem guitar like it though for silliness. I think the all american might be it, SG-like fret access, already routed for a strat trem.... locking tuners and a humbucker might finish it. There's not really a lot to that EVH sound as it turns out. I got it ltos of tiems touring with a plexi. Not every superlead does it but a 69/70 one or the right RI does it. Isued to abck off and tweak controls to reduce the EVHness and be mroe alt rock on stage. Now I wanna embrace it or a flavor of it. My traynor does it too.