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Post by chromedinette on May 27, 2017 19:13:57 GMT -5
After years of sitting in a closet with strings and no pickups, I got my Parker back into playable condition:  |
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Post by Infinite Ego on May 27, 2017 19:20:24 GMT -5
cool, those are great guitars.
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Post by sonicdeviant on May 28, 2017 11:48:42 GMT -5
Looks gorgeous. How's it sounding?
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Post by asb on May 31, 2017 7:12:58 GMT -5
I kind of like the black/white motif. Looks nice.
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Post by Infinite Ego on May 31, 2017 7:35:31 GMT -5
I kind of like the black/white motif. Looks nice. I thought that said "black meatloaf"  |
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Post by asb on Jun 1, 2017 16:24:47 GMT -5
I like the black meatloaf too.
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Post by chromedinette on Jun 1, 2017 18:43:50 GMT -5
This guitar is nice to play, but is a lot warmer sounding than any of my other guitars, to the point where I don't think I can use it in the band.
This may explain why I used to like it with EMGs.
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Post by asb on Jun 1, 2017 20:07:56 GMT -5
That's really surprising - warmer sounding - who knew? - maybe you need to pop some EMGs back in there.
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Post by chromedinette on Jun 2, 2017 6:01:57 GMT -5
I'm thinking I have a wiring issue. Those pickups that are in there aren't dark sounding, typically.
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Post by mirth on Jun 2, 2017 9:43:51 GMT -5
If they only made these guitars lefty. I'd totally have an older parker now.
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Post by asb on Jun 3, 2017 15:42:41 GMT -5
Maybe you could duplicate the wiring for this in a circuit - "the jazz switch" makes it all smooth.
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Post by chromedinette on Jun 4, 2017 17:07:14 GMT -5
This is nuts. I was having fun playing my NiteFly around the house and I took it to practice. After playing with my main guitar, a Fender/Warmoth Tele Frankenstein thing, I switched to the Parker and just disappeared. I had to drastically turn up my amp and increase treble and midrange to get close to the other guitar. I assumed it was a pickup or wiring issue. I had different pickups in the guitar, but based on experience, they should have been close enough. I rewired the guitar yesterday, and also put the same pickup in the bridge of my Parker that is in my Tele, matching the pickup height with a ruler, etc. Just now, I recorded clips with both guitars. The amp and recording setting were identical. I recorded a series of parts on one guitar, plugged the other in and played the same parts. I chopped them up , so that you hear the same part on one guitar and then the other. In the following video, the Tele is first, then the Parker, for each lick. The difference is quite shocking to me. You can see in the screen cap of the waveform how much quieter the Parker is. Apparently, the chassis itself sucks energy out of the strings, moreso than my other guitar. FWIW, I never had trouble switching between my other guitar and a variety of normal guitars, Suhr, etc.  |
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Post by Infinite Ego on Jun 4, 2017 20:20:48 GMT -5
This really is nuts. Wow, my NF sustains longer than just about any guitar I've ever owned and is quite 'loud' unplugged and is quite vibrant. It appears yours is just a sink hole where frequencies go to die.
I wonder if you don't have a truss rod issue or, literally, a screw or bolt loose somewhere decisive.
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Post by asb on Jun 4, 2017 22:10:07 GMT -5
Wow, something HAS to be wrong structurally. How unusual.
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Post by chromedinette on Jun 5, 2017 7:26:13 GMT -5
This really is nuts. Wow, my NF sustains longer than just about any guitar I've ever owned and is quite 'loud' unplugged and is quite vibrant. It appears yours is just a sink hole where frequencies go to die. I wonder if you don't have a truss rod issue or, literally, a screw or bolt loose somewhere decisive. Is your neck mahogany or basswood? |
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