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3 hours ago, Kiwi said:

Tom Scholz from the band Boston set the company up.  He's a bit of a lectroniks wiz. X100's were headphone amps set so you could have gain, chorus delay and compression in a single unit that could fit on your belt

Are they any good or would you say it was more than a feeling?

12 hours ago, Kiwi said:

The price of Rockman X100's has exploded in recent months.  They used to be snaggable for a hundred quid but now asking prices are around £350-500.  A quick search on YouTube will reveal a slew of videos posted in the last 6 months by vloggers which will have probably been driving demand.  

Why?  

Def Leppard used them to record their Pyromania and Hysteria albums at the behest of producer Mutt Lange.  

Interestingly Mike Shipley (RIP), the engineer on those albums, has publically slated the sound quality of the units. He emphasised how much eq-ing was needed to get them to sound right. Phil Collen didn't recommend them for use live use either and this was all years ago.   But nevertheless those prices have climbed... 

... as will anything else seen as quintessentially top 40 eighties rock.  Hamer Steve Stevens signature models for example.  Prices of Fender Stratocaster Elite, Plus and The Strat models are climbing despite well documented tuning issues on the earlier versions.  

There's probably a ton of good stuff second hand but with things as they are that's not going to be doable right now unfortunately. I've never heard of Rockmans though (tnot that my opinion means much )

On 16/11/2020 at 21:14, Matt P said:

my main issue with  the trems on the pacifica and the squiers is that it is usually a 6 screw vintage style design that sits quite flush to the body so has limited up-bend (from the ones i have seen and played)

any 2 pivot trem should work great for @wishface (the one on the Ibanez SA range is a very nice 2 pivot design and sits floating above the body so will have decent travel both ways) the main reason for suggesting a slightly pointy floyd rose guitar is the fact that as they are currently out of vogue the prices are rock bottom and there are some excellent bargains to be had if you shop around. I have a handmade superstrat with a burr walnut top and an early floyd rose trem that i paid only 350 quid for, the current price for a similar one is around 2k (and a 12 month wait to get to the top of the list) it was cheap as it was out of fashion when i bought it.

now is a great  time to buy pointy guitars!

Matt

Thanks, they look nice and Ibanez are a pretty good brand I think (they were when i was a kid and was actually listening to shredmeisters all day long :D). Perhaps at the edge of my price range though. May have to wait until after lockdown so i can try and sell my xbox1. TBH, when I say i'd like a whammy bar, i don't really imagine doing any o fthe crazy tricks vai and co do since you'd likely also need a huge amunt of effects as well. I just always liked the way Zappa or Lifeson use it (say what you like about 80s Rush but Open Secrets has a gorgeous solo).

On 13/11/2020 at 15:47, ezbass said:

As far as I can see the cheaper one has all its components mounted on the p/g whilst the other has body mount controls. Perhaps there’s a difference in the p/ups too. A visit to the Yammy website might clear that up.

Is that a problem?

On 12/11/2020 at 09:00, ezbass said:

Yammy 112  all day long in that case https://www.guitarguitar.co.uk/search/?Query=112&Filters.Ordering=7&Filters.CategoryBranch=guitars&Filters.MinPrice=&Filters.MaxPrice=&Filters.Brand=Yamaha

Sounds good but there's a couple of different prices for what appears the same instrument. What are the differences?

3 hours ago, EdwardMarlowe said:

The one thing that put me off the Yamaha was always the HB in the bridge, though a HB size p90 could be nice there.... 

For something more traditionally Strat-like, I'd also look at the Squier Std, or Squier's CV range. The CVs look pricey for a Squier, but bear in mind they're aiming much higher up the tree than the standard MIMs. They're also holding use values pretty well (lefties, at least). Have a look too at JHS's Vintage Reissue and Icon series S-types. Surprisingly nice guitars, at least as good as the CV Squiers and sometimes the entry level MIM Fenders too. 

What do you mean HB?

Strat I guess, I don't really have a huge preference but Gibson styles are more or blues imo which isnt me.

I don't desoreately want to be steve vai, i just want to be able to play some stuff without the strings breaking or the the whammy bar exploding

They let me escape basschat.

I'm thinking of picking up a guitar and learning to play and to help me write some awesome tunes.

I am not a rich man, so I'd be looking to spend not much more than a couple of hundred. But I would like something that, if I pretend to be Stave Vai for five minutes, the strings won't fly off and the whammy bar won't launch into space.

Thanks