Originally Posted by wazkelly
Doctor?.....Doctor who?.....*frantically looks around the room*....who is this famous Doctor I keep hearing about?, I must meet him....hahahaha......sorry, I couldn't resist.....lol.
Update:
I've got the guitar tuned up to pitch and it is actually sounding pretty good, sounds nice and fat through some Amp Sim plugins in FL Studio, but I'm going to try it through my Marshall shortly, will let you know how it goes, by the way, the intonation on each string was pretty close to being spot on even though I haven't done a proper full setup on the guitar yet....stay tuned for more updates.
Update 2:
Well....it actually sounds pretty good through all three channels on my Marshall amp, this guitar puts out quite a beefy signal from all three pickups, to my ears the Tonerider Rocksong Bridge Pickup seems to be balancing pretty well with the two Kent Armstrong Dual Blades, and I'm not getting that really thin sound when I switch to the middle plus bridge position, like I was with the pickups I had installed before, I am getting some hum-noise when the Tonerider Rocksong Bridge Pickup is selected, but, that also happens with my LP Studio too, so I wouldn't blame the pickup, it might be some weird earthing issue somewhere, but I can live with it though, the Kent Armstrong Dual Blades are getting that Single-Coil tone, but they sound a bit darker than the typical Strat pickups to my ears, but that's actually a good thing since you don't get that ear-piercing harshness that you can sometimes get with Single Coils being put through a distortion effect, the Kent Armstrongs stayed smooth even at the maximum gain-setting that my Marshall was capable of, even the Tonerider Rocksong sounded smooth at high gain settings, on the other hand, if I were to do the same with the Infinity pickups in my white Ibanez RG350DXZ, the amp would start to fart-out in an un-musical way, I think the reason why the Rocksong stays smooth is because it has more of a midrange focus, there is some Bass in the tone too though, but anyway, I'm happy cause I am really liking both the Kent Armstrong Dual Blades and the Tonerider Rocksong, the tuning stability of the guitar seems to be okay enough, certainly better than my LP Studio, which seems to constantly go out of tune despite having a fixed bridge system, you'd think it would be more stable.
I still haven't done a proper setup of the HotRod Strat, but I might give it some time to settle before I do, the new Gotoh Locking Nut seems to have fixed the high B and E-String Sitar buzzing, and the new Chrome Gotoh Tuners are all working fine.
While I was wiring-up the scratchplate, I found out that the 500k Log mini CTS pot I ordered, was actually a Linear pot, since I tend to leave the volume pot on full, that is not really causing any issues, but, I might swap it out for a 500k Log pot later on though.
Well, I'd call the HotRod Strat project officially completed....unless I decide to work on it some more, that is.
The guitar looks great with it's all chrome hardware, black knobs, and the newly-installed pickups, I'll post some pics of it in the morning for you guys.....stay tuned.
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