jletria's Forum Posts

http://equipboard.com/items/orange-or15

Please replace the inappropriate image currently on the Orange OR15 for this standard one: http://i.imgur.com/DQzCKA2.jpg

While you're at it, please do the same for the ToneLab LE

http://equipboard.com/items/vox-tonelab-le

http://i.imgur.com/xk93iOE.jpg

Thanks in advance.

Thank you! :)

Please change the name on the Catalinbread RAH (http://equipboard.com/items/catalinbread-rah) to be correctly capitalized and replace the image with that awful black background for this:

http://i.imgur.com/RUSGCsJ.jpg

Thanks.

Although I fully agree with that too, I meant modern designs. Tongue in cheek, like the rest of the post. And I'm with you on active bass pups, although nothing can replace a classic P in my book.

I used to think active pickups on guitars (not bass guitars) were weird and tacky. Don't know why, perhaps the advertisements in Guitar Player magazine and the endorsing artists just weren't my cup of tea so I got bias against the technology ... really can't say. But I could care less now. They are just magnets dude. The soul comes from your hands.

Well, that's not my case. I can say. They're too hot, the signal comes out of the instrument already way too compressed. You can kill the dynamic range with a pedal if you want to, but you can't get it back. What comes from your hands gets invariably squished. The guitar becomes a one trick pony. The only active guitar I ever owned went back to the store after a week, it was driving me crazy. Of course that's just me. I'm not saying nobody else should use them. Different strokes. They do have the big plus of being absolutely silent, and they're very appropriate for some specific things. I even concede that there may be colder active pups out there that I may like, but that I just didn't happen to try out yet. Oh and active bass guitars are absolutely glorious. But pups are just magnets? Come on dude. They're magnets with very distinctive characteristics. A pickup makes or breaks an instrument.

I'm a bit stumped on these. What's your beef against active pickups and guitars after 1990?

Neither have a soul.

It's mostly bileful prejudice.

Haha absolutely

• Plays an Ibanez RG with 09 strings almost touching the fretboard, pushes the gain to 11 on both the amp and the pedals, scoops the mids, listens to Dream Theater, his idols are Vai and Satriani, claims that Carlos Santana is overrated, never heard of Frank Zappa, thinks the quality of a given piece of music is defined by the amount of notes a player can fit in a nanosecond, and can't pull a decent strum to save his life.

• Funk/Jazz bassists trying to play rock music

• People who can't see the point in replacing strings more than once a year

• The technique police

• Bad contacts (cables, instruments, you name it)

• Active guitar pickups

• Every guitar design that came after 1990

http://equipboard.com/pros/al-di-meola

Al Di Meola isn't, and was never a member of Dream Theater.