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  1. alanfc

    Checklist for pedal problems

    Can anyone help me build a list? I think it would include tips on: 1-open the back, clean the contacts/jack thingie? 2- how do we see if a knob/pot is bad 3- how do we see if the footswitch/button is bad 4-how do we see if a toggle switch has gone bad (can you =see= these things?) Thanks...
  2. alanfc

    Agility ! Flexibility ! All around natural player

    Every time I'm on the boards here and elsewhere, and I see posts of some wicked fast cool guitar playing on Youtube- I get in this intense practice mode, like learning the licks and trying to work up to speed.. after about 10 minutes of this I go "and I'm doing this for WHAT? "... Its this...
  3. alanfc

    new car dance

    I'm cheap and I drive cars till they die, just got this today, needed more space for music gear (OK, just for the 4x12 ) whoopee http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v498/alanfc/newcar07.jpg
  4. alanfc

    Les Paul Studios' with the heaviest body

    hi, can you tell me if there are years or models I can seek out? Those Studios' with the heaviest bodies...? I want a heavy body... Don't want neck heavy diving guitars like the new Studios I just tried. "newer, lightweight" blah blah -- - NO So beautiful, so unplayable :( thanks
  5. alanfc

    Good thing I'm a packrat

    Because I never got rid of my Boss BD-2 (Blues Driver) !! :DR I've got a few more solos in our newer tunes lately and I used to just get by with attitude and =I-don't-know-what=. But at last practice I realized that during solos the drummer gets all excited and gets way loud. I don't mind...
  6. alanfc

    Question for tech or other wise guitarslingers

    I 'm at this point again where I usually put the Carvin away and pull out the Strat again..... I came back to the Carvin last week after deciding once again that the Strat neck width was too narrow and was bugging me. The Carvin flat radius and 24 frets are the best thing for me now. But the...
  7. alanfc

    LOVE Alnico 2

    After going back to my Carvin with the SD Custom Custom/alnico 2 mag, I know this is my thing... Ceramic and even alnico 5 are too strident/painful to my ears.... so, anyone have any experience with other Alnico 2 full size humbuckers they can share?.. Which ones you've tried, which you've...
  8. alanfc

    Thank YOU !

    Great place you have here!.... I was drawn in here by a video lesson bit I saw over at the Gear Page. I'm from Portland OR now living in Los Angeles since 1989. Been playin since 1982. Main guitar now is a 1993 Carvin dc127, amp is a Rivera into an Engl 4x12. And a few pedals. I'm in 2 bands...
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