so im building my own Rhoads. . .

[-Gavin-]

Fuckin A bro!

 

[Krigloch the Furious]

fucking a peter.

 

[bobvex]

ok. . .i went to go get pickups and the pa-2 today, and the guy told me that the pa-2 only works with ACTIVE pickups. so im gonna take my 81 out of my black rhoads, and put the HZ-H4 in there, and use the 81 with the pa-2 in the White one. . .

i finished painting the white today, i will do the black pins tomorrow, i settled on #3 from the vote, because i like it more than #2

i will post more pics tomorrow after i do 3 coats of the black.

 

[bobvex]

I SAID IM ALMOST FINISHED. . .


ARENT YOU FUCKERS EXCITED TO SEE THIS SHIT? I AM!!

KTHXBYE

 

[-Gavin-]

ok. . .i went to go get pickups and the pa-2 today, and the guy told me that the pa-2 only works with ACTIVE pickups.

Dude, the guy knows shit.

For one it says on the box "for active and passive pickups"

for Two, i;m running it with a dimebucker.

 

[bobvex]

a pa-2? or an after burner?

This guy knows what hes talking about, and i also looked at the spread sheet that came wiht it, there is no "P" next to the pa-2 choice, either way. . its gonna be sick. .

 

[-Gavin-]

An afterburner is like a volume knob, a Pa2 is a swtich and i have mine (a Pa2) on a warlock running passive seymour duncans.
Dude, the guy is wrong on this one.

 

[Rubenios]

quote from www.emginc.com

EMG-PA2

The PA2 is a straight booster preamplifier mounted on a minitoggle switch. Perfect if you want to just plain overdrive the input of your amp for distortion. It has a trim pot so you can preset the amount of boost up to an additional 20 dB. The PA2 will also work with passive pickups.


The guy is wrong dude

 

[bobvex]

well if there is no preamp to boost it wont work, right?

 

[-Gavin-]

The Pa2 is an internal preamp


PA = Preamp


EMG Pre Amp 2


Dude, quit arguing and just accept that i am using a PA2 with passive duncans and it kicks more ass than with EMG actives

 

[-Gavin-]

Dude, what it is, in effect is a mini amplifier that just amplifies it by like 20db thus overloading the clean input signal and adding to the distortion.

ITs volume based distortion.

 

[bobvex]

still. . .
its gonna kick some ass with either the 81 or the H4

 

[-Gavin-]

use the HZ


Passive pickups have much more headroom for boost.

 

[AlexiFollower]

when are you are testing the sounds of them(if you are there when the guy does it for you) record the sound of the h4 and the 81 for me, so i know which one i should get

 

[bobvex]

FUCK!!!!!!

i have to repaint. . from scratch

FUCK FUCK FUCK!!!

so ill do that this weekend. . i guess. .

 

[-Gavin-]

Why?

 

[bobvex]

shit just keeps fucking up, runs and drips here and there. . .it will get dinged and dented. just rushing through it too fast. . .
i had crappy paint cans too, they leaked onto the guitar and caused runs. . .

but I will strip it again, do another grain fill, and repaint carefully. . .one coat a day, as opposed to my 3-4 a day last week. . .

 

[gregofbodom]

how do you guys get those picture previews of the custom guitars and shit like you showed at the beginning of the thread?

 

[Rubenios]

use the HZ


Passive pickups have much more headroom for boost.

that is bullshit, hz doesn't get near the 81 output

 

[xOrdinary_Storyx]

that is bullshit, hz doesn't get near the 81 output

he said it has more headroom...different than output...and it dosent need as much output if he has a a gain mod...