Lol, Pics or it didn’t happened.
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Sweet! Looks pretty good too. What kind of pickups are that?
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I believe they are vintage profile. It feels pretty good, a little fret sprout to take care off but every thing else feels really premium.
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Love that pick guard!
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So here is a demo of the different pickups on the Race Green Strat. I think that the middle pickup might be a little bit too high but I like it a lot, just a little setting. Not so sure about the bridge pickup, it’s an excellent pickup but it sounds a bit too thin to me. I will probably release yet another video to compare it with my Esquire to show the difference.
Also I start with a very light crunch (gain at 2/10) and finish a bit higher (gain at 4/10). About 4/10 is kind of typical of my amp setting, I can do all my post-rock things and still clean up with the attack and the volume pot.
Also it’s recorded with my smartphone in one shot, and the master volume was pretty low on the amp (1.5/10) … so, yeah, keep those parameters in mind … 
Please feel free to comment !
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Sounds great. The neck is much less bell-like than I was expecting for it to be, it sounds a bit different than I normally think of a Strat neck. I like it better actually.
Another thing I didn’t expect was that I liked the middle pickup the best. That’s never been the case for me before with a Strat.
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Yeah currently the middle pickup is my favorite too. I like middle pickups on Strats, but this Rio is kinda wild
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Something about the neck seemed a little flatter than a usual Strat neck. Less chimey, to use the cliche term. But it kind of tamed it nicely with that level of crunch.
BTW, I literally fear your amp. If it was doing that at 1.5… 
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yeah it’s violent 
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Here is another cut where the goal is to compare the bridge pickup on the Strat (FBS custom Alnico 2) to the middle pickup (Rio Grande Halfbreed) and to the pickup of my Squier FSR Esquire Classic Vibe 50, which sounds and behaves very much like what we expect from a 50’s Tele.
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Wow, the Squier really holds its own there. Sounded great.
Still liking the middle pickup on the strat a lot.
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That’s a gorgeous Green for sure. It would aged even more beautiful. It sounds like a Strats so you are safe there, lol.
That’s a nice Tele setup only bridge pickup. Very Southern Rock and a little of country.
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I rebuilt the space ship yesterday. Not that there isn’t still plenty of overlap, but I eliminated a couple of pedals, changed a few out and did some dialing in. Been sick for a week and haven’t been able to play anywhere. Waste of my vacation but it was a still a break from work. Hopefully get to play it out next week and see if all my mental concepts work live. Today will be a little cable management underneath to call it done.
This may belong in a different thread but since this is guitar specific I thought it best to share here with the other Heathen.
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Here we go again. Talked him down pretty far. I can see a big brass trem block inside and I’m pretty sure the pickups are already upgraded. I’ll get under the hood tonight to see what’s what but I love me a good Pacifica. There might be a pair of EMG 81/85s waiting to go in it.
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Such a great line.
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Not new, I bought it in 2018 I think? But it’s been at my friend’s house since around October 2019 and I just brought it back home 
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So how is it? I hear so many bad things about Epiphone but the SG is just a classic shape
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The Epiphone SG’s and LP’s are really highly regarded. Based on the examples I have seen I simply don’t get why, but I am willing to believe if you get a good one they can be great.
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I have had both great and terrible Epiphones as far as quality. Just as hit and miss as any Squier. The notorious dig is how dark the stock humbuckers are. I’ve upgraded many but in all honesty, get an eq pedal and dip the low frequency/frequencies until the sparkle pokes through. Works like a charm. Until I want new pickups.
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I love the fat neck, it’s super comfortable to play but it’s got crazy neck dive! I put the strap over my head, sat down and hadn’t even plugged in and 
other than that, i like playing it more than all my other guitars
I got it almost new from a guy who worked at the local music store, it would go sharp all the time but i reworked the nut a bit, lubed it and it stayed in tune nicely after that. I was going to make it my slide guitar but i like playing it enough that might have to move the strap button and see if that fixes the neck dive
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