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Such a great collaboration history made when the king of pop Michael Jackson meet Eddie van Halen in one stage and performed "Beat It". Yes, that song is legendary and Eddie van Halen was the guitarist who fill the guitar solo track for that song.and you know what? EVH and the frankenstrat guitar appeared on MJ concert. The frankenstrat has magic spells which brought guitar into new steps and inventions. Here's Kramer 5150 frankenstrat variant appeared on MJ's concert Eddie Van Halen and Michael Jackson perform "Beat It" well, surely it brings back some memories. i just wanna say: Happy birthday Michael Joseph Jackson   (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009)

This question is bothering me sometimes. I'm sort of a retro-music style fan and likely I'd like to have a set of vintage guitar equipments which i can bring them on stage and meet these days' standard live performances. Reason i have for this is Legendary songs were built in old times with that times' technology. Old Amps and cabs, old guitars, old pickups .(while I know nowadays the old equipment is aged by time and some of their quality are decreased) So I made a simulation with old and rusty stuff, and i only have an old guitar pickup, a 1x10" cabinet and a my tiny Xenyx 502 Behringer mixer for this purpose. here's my old cabinet And I installed the old pickup to my first guitar now it's ready for shoot out. here's the video: now, here's the thing. I use Boss GT 8's preamp modeler which i shouldn't in this shootout, but i made no equalizer setting for this, so i guess it's fair enough because i meant to...

well, this is embarrassing. i read some pickups modification and had decided to do pickups wax potting. actually it was my fault. i just didn't get the thermometer and my wax was overheat. here i share you the pics: they are destroyed Fernandes pickups. the plastic shrunk and i totally fucked up this time. they are not in reversible shapes. but one thing that interested me. Fernandes pickups destroyed after wax-potting, only G&L pickup were survived from all those destroyed pickups, there is one survivor. i have a G&L pickup which is not affected by the heat.. it is in great shape and ready. it was the same process since I've put them together in the same time and duration. from this DIY guitar stuff this is my worst ever. actually i kept the wax in moderate heat.. but the pickups plastic material just couldn't stand up against the heat. well, thanks to G&L pickup which stand by my side. it is tough enough to defend me against the shrunk pickups ...

what makes me wonder is, how all virtuosos can be hum-free? i have an old 90's Fernandes guitar which has noise-pickups. it is HSS and still i couldn't find solution possibilities for this until couple hours ago. this is what i got so far in searching the hum problem for my guitar Fernandes FR-55. it's been over a year ago and finally i got the closest possible solution on this. at very first i thought it was the circuitry. so i learn about soldering the components and find out what caused the hum. as far as i could get before the next one is 60Hz cycle hum. It's called "60 Hz cycle hum" because it's a signal that oscillates at 60 Hertz - sixty cycles a second. too complicated, why is it audible, since 60 Hz is so low in frequency range? here's why. we can hear it because it cycles, its harmonic notes is what we heard. 60, 120, 240, 480, 960, 1920, 3840, 7680, 15360, 30720,.. there we can hear them all ringing loudly. creating ground loop is the ve...

 this post is dedicated to my inspiration and my idol Robin Williams. what inspires me beside guitar are movies and actors. somehow the stage performance is related to film acting. every each of learning and guitar exercising are elements of our stage act. you need to read the scripts, practice them, and act them naturally as the story need. you will see some great virtuosos are similar to Oscar winner actors such like Robin Williams. it's a sad news came couple hours ago, Robin Williams died at age 63. He is my favorite actor and comedian. i laughed at every of his jokes and get fascinated to his acts. name them, the hilarious Jumanji to the cold-blood killer Insomnia . Robin Williams and Al Pacino "Insomnia" so there's August Rush. there are scenes those made me feel deeper fans-to-idol connection with him. he and his appearance, holding guitar, somehow made me me give him a big respect as guitarist. his play is totally hypnotized me. it's like ...

Fernandes Sustainer 101 Sustainer kit Recently I installed the 101 sustainer kit by Fernandes in my self-build guitar made from an oak coffeetable. I've made another of these guitars and I wanted this one to be as close to the original only with an added sustainer pickup and circuit. However, I had to compromise on some things: The original features Ibanez V7 and V8 pickups with their RG 5-way switching allowing the following pickup combinations: 1. Bridge humbucker 2. Bridge and neck pickup splitted 3. Bridge and neck humbuckers 4. Neck pickup wired with parallel coils 5. Neck humbucker I Mostly use setting 1, 2 and 5. To get those 3 pickup configurations I need both pickups to be splittable. The biggest problem is that everything runs through the PCB circuit board which makes it nearly impossible to trace the signal path and therefor come up with alternative switching. The instructions only feature schematics for a Les Paul type guitar with 2 humbuckers (no coil sp...

For us guitarists, there are lot of ways in introduce our music to world. this time I'm using soundcloud instead of YouTube to share what really a Marshall MS-2 sounds like. i made a playlist about this, not too deep in details since this mini pocket amp (?) is simple gear for our needs in practicing our guitar learning. but this mini amp somehow satisfies me inside my room (this marshall ms-2 rocks ! ). so here they are, some Marshall MS-2 sound samples:  Marshall MS-2 clean set 1 - volume at 9 o'clock, tone at 12 o'clock , clean mode  Marshall MS-2 clean set 1 Marshall MS-2 clean set 2 - volume at 12 o'clock, tone at 12 o'clock , clean mode Marshall MS-2 clean set 2 Marshall MS-2 clean set 3 - volume at 5 o'clock(full), tone at 12 o'clock , clean mode Marshall MS-2 clean set 3  Marshall MS-2 OD set 1 - volume at 9 o'clock, tone at 12 o'clock , OD mode Marshall MS-2 OD set 1 Marshall MS-2 OD set 2 - vo...