gary_dizon's Reviews

Clear, even pickup tone

This is a great pickup that has clarity and can be a rounded tone. I prefer the neck pickup Jazz as one of my standard choices. This pairs well with a JB, Custom, Custom 2, Custom 5, Pearly Gates, or hot version of PAF pickup in the bridge. There is enough bass to resonate and have a solid rhythm tone or even "woman tone", but it isn't a muddy bass heavy pickup. The mids are a little scooped and there is enough treble for the clarity and singing quality. This pickup works well with low gain or high gain amplifiers and is not as throaty as a 59 or JB.

This is one of my Swiss army knife delays

This is a great modeling delay that can cover analog, tape, 2290, digital, dynamic, reverse, and modulated delays. The looper is functional and works well. I need to use the Tone Print more...

This is one of my favorite humbuckers. Great tone and string pull isn't ridiculous like the distortion

The output is balanced and it is a rude version of the classic PAF tone. This was modeled after Billy Gibbon's 1958 Gibson Les Paul Standard named Pearly Gates. Billy gave a friend a car so she could go to California and seek fame and fortune. She drove to California and sold the car and sent him the money. He used it to buy the guitar.

This was the guitar that was supposed to be the Eddie Van Halen signature guitar

This was a super strat guitar that was supposed to be the signature model for Eddie Van Halen. Kramer originally started with aluminum neck guitars like Travis Bean and started to make wood guitars that featured the Rockinger Tremolo and Schaller Pickups originally. Later, they started to feature the Original Floyd Rose Tremolo and had Eddie Van Halen as an endorsee. The original guitars had Fender Strat shaped headstocks which were later copyright infringing to Fender. Eddie Van Halen hated the Rockinger tremolo and they started to feature Floyd Rose Tremolo bridges and later Seymour Duncan Pickups. The original humbucking pickups were spaced like Gibson guitars which have a narrower string width spacing than Fender guitars. Eddie slanted the pickup to make the polepieces match up to the strings. The original Pacer Specials had the humbucker parallel to the Floyd Rose bridge. The original necks were wide and had 1 3/4 or R5 spacing. Later models had R2, R3, or R4 which were 1 5/8 or 1 11/16 widths. The original guitars were maple bodies.

This is a comfortable shred guitar with simple electronics and a cool look.

The neck is a compound radius ebony fretboard reverse hockey stick neck with dot inlays that curve from the sixth string to the first string back to the sixth string with 24 jumbo nickel silver frets. The bridge pickup is the Vivian Campbell Seymour Duncan Full Shred Humbucker and the middle position is a Seymour Duncan JB. This was the first guitar with a compound radius mass produced. The body is mahogany and the upper horn has enough carve to fret all 24 frets without issue. The body is smaller and this guitar is Gibson 24 3/4 scale unlike the other guitars that were Fender scale at 25 1/2 scale. The neck was shallow and the guitar had one master volume and one 3 way switch. The guitar was later phased out when they started to make the Pro-Axe which was actually less successful and less popular.

I have a Performance Custom guitar

It is a stratocaster type guitar with a Floyd Rose, Bill Edwards Locking Nut, and EMG Pickups. I have upgraded the pickups to EMG 89 in the bridge, SA in the middle and an S in the neck position. The Afterburner preamp allows the guitar to have 20 db boost. Performance guitars are well crafted and hand carved. The neck on my guitar has a flat spot that is perfect for the thumb in scalar runs. The necks have NO dead spots and the guitar stays in tune. This is a warm guitar even with a original Floyd Rose Bridge and EMG active pickups.

I have a 1983 Pacer Deluxe with 2 single coils and 1 bridge humbucker with a Original Floyd Rose Tremolo bridge

This is a "B" serial number maple body super strat. The guitar originally came with 2 Schaller single coil pickups with a Floyd Rose spaced Alnico 5 humbucker in the the bridge with a 3 way selector that could have the coils tapped, in parallel, and series. It is a heavy guitar with a rosewood fretboard and 22 frets. It can get the classic Stratocaster tones, but also can get that heavy humbucker sound. The original Floyd Rose is reliable and stays in tune. Upgraded the bridge with a heavier brass block & stainless steel screws and there is a significant change to quality of the tone.

I loved the 2 single coil and humbucker bridge pickup on this super strat

I had a flip flop white to blue to purple. The guitar was very flexible. I loved the Seymour Duncan Pickups and the Original Floyd Rose with the Floyd Rose Trem-setter. This kept the guitar in tune really well.

I love the Ebony fretboard and the feel of a Gibson Les Paul Custom

My Custom was a little different. It was all mahogany without a maple top. Binding on the top and bottom and it was a Norlin period that rocked. The neck was mahogany and the ebony fretboard gave the guitar brightness. This was a guitar with sustain and clarity and worked for any genre of music.

This is a dynamic chorus. You can set it for either a low dynamic or high...

The chorus is creamy. This is functional for keeping on when you want to have it turn on when it you play harder or even lighter. I have been a Roland Boss Chorus fan forever and used to always have my Roland Jazz Chorus - 120, Boss Digital Dimension, Roland Chorus Echo as a point of reference. I have used and owned the Super Chorus and the Chorus Ensemble plus other brands. I prefer the warmth for this over the DOD Stereo Chorus. The delay is a functional improvement for this chorus.

I love this pedal so much that i removed my Carbon Copy from my board

The delays sound like an old Maestro Tape Echoplex. I lived and died by my Echoplex and also my Roland Chorus Echo for tape delays. The problems that developed with the tape delays were due to capstans hardening or wearing physically. This delay does that with age setting without the hassle the tape delays where physical vibration disrupts live performance.

I this pedal. It not for everyone.

This pedal makes the guitar sound synthetic. The effect can "chop" notes and chords with different attack and modulate the notes. This isn't just a tremolo effect with an auto wah. It can make a guitar sound like an arpeggiated keyboard.

This is amazing analog delay

The delays sound great. The tone is warm and lush and completely functional with the light for tempo. The rate and depth gives more texture. This is one of my favorite analog delays of all time. The tone is very pleasing. The light makes it easier to perform live.

The parametric mid is the secret to this pedal

The pedal can do a lot more than just super metal tones. There is the ability to get the scooped midrange, but the boosted midrange can drastically change your tone when you change the frequency for the mids.

This is the best cabinet

The half back is a great cabinet. The top is open and it is a big open combo sound with high wattage speakers. The bottom part of the cabinet is closed and the low end response is tight and also focused bass. The midrange is clear and the clarity of the speakers is crisp. There is no distortion with the high wattage speakers.

This is the George Lynch signature pickup

This name is misleading. This is not a super high output pickup. This is a scooped midrange variation of a PAF.

This is the perfect Gibson Les Paul pickup

This is my "go to" pickup. There is enough brightness in the bridge position. The midrange gives this pickup depth and substance. The bass is thick enough without getting muddy. This is my preferred output, not too hot with enough sustain.

This is a great sounding pickup

This pickup is articulate. There is a brightness that isn't overtly bright. This is clear and there is enough bass and mids.

This is my standard neck pickup

This is a clear pickup. The pickup is even. The output isn't too hot and also has good sustain.

this was the classic Tube Screamer tone.

The compressor is underrated and is very clean. It isn't as punchy as the Boss CS-2. It is very musically. The pedalboard is so functional. I wish I still had this pedalboard. This effects loop was great and the Tube Screamer is the classic version that has a great tone. I would use the loop with another distortion, flanger, analog delay back to the return. The Chorus has a nice warble, but it isn't an extreme chorus. It gets closer to a subtle range.

It was very analog sounding and the master button was so functional.