How are those Vigier guitars treating you? Is it strictly for shredding? I’ve always wanted to try one, especially that Shawn Lane model Marshall Harrison has/had.
The specs aren’t quite as extreme as the Shawn Lane model - 12" radius rather than infinite, and the necks are a touch thicker than say an Ibanez Wizard so no I don’t think they’re just for shredding. Versatile all round guitars in my view.
The extreme tuning stability of the Vigier non-locking tremolo/locking tuners/teflon nut combo is what drew me in in the first place, previously I’d never found a guitar without a locking trem that would completely stay in tune after really large bends, G string especially.
1 Like
My last serious guitar teacher used a Vigier- really nice guitar.
Primary guitar for me is a 1989 PRS custom 24 through an ADA MP-1/peavey power amp or a JCM800
Another thing, to tie in another thread - no truss rod, the neck is permanently stabilised in a fixed position with a carbon strip, so no seasonal fluctuations of relief.
My current go-to guitars are;
-Ibanez knock-off pink-on black paint job with BKP nailbomb pups, I use this as my main writing/recording instrument. The necks real Ibanez from an rg5xx but everything else is aftermarket parts.
-Fake Ibanez Jem I bought for 100 quid on ebay, literally the worst built instrument ever made, even the pups are painted using what I can only assume is green nail polish, but it’s so ugly and beat up that I can’t help but love it. I use this for practicing technique mainly at the moment.
-Schecter blackjack, the version that comes stock with sustainer, for live use. I bought this when visiting the US because the store had the wrong sticker price on it and so was a ridiculous steal 
Amps wise I use plugins for writing/recording/practice. Mostly helix native now, some amplitude 4.
Live I use a very mistreated Laney ironheart half stack and a pod hd500.
Hi, no worries, do type your quetions in here, would be good to get more info on all the gear user here.
I have a parker fly mojo I rebuilt and modified from scrap, a schecter deluxe 66, and a hosono tele with a jackson style 24.75" scale neck. For amps I have an 15w engl gigmaster head, a 20w randall diablo, and a 15w evh lbxiii all bought used on CL for relatively cheap. They go into a 1x12 with an off brand speaker I can’t remember much about. I build my own stomps for fun but don’t use much fx beyond a fixed wah, riot od, and some delay here and there.
Depends on the tune! I run everything through my Line6 POD HD500x into a PA
Fender Strat for Yngwie Eb tunes
Agile Baritone Les Paul style for E stuff. Baritone is so comfortable for those tight patterns higher up on the neck
Schecter Km-7 for 7 string tunes
Agile Intrepid 828 for 8 string tunes
Primary guitars:
- Charvel Guthrie Govan signature model
- Ibanez JEMV7 (the white one)
- EVH Wolfgang
- Da Voe archtop (when I’m jazzing)
As for amps, I made the switch to a Kemper Profiling Amp a few years ago and never turned back. I hung on to my amps and gigantic pedalboard for about a year before I was confident that the Kemper would handle all of it. Then I just had a big Craigslist fire-sale and did a massive gear-purge. I’ve never regretted the decision.
First post, but as good a place as any to start.
My primary guitar is a 2016 Suhr Modern Pro, and I’ve never enjoyed playing a guitar so much. It’s modified only slightly with a push-pull tone pot to split both humbuckers.
My secondary guitar is a Schecter Damien Platinum with an EMG and a Sustainiac.
I have a couple amps but don’t use them. I plug into my audio interface with studio monitors and use either S-Gear or TH3 for an amp sim.
2 Likes
My guitars are mostly from Warmoth, with scalloped necks and EMG pickups, and my favorites have a Flying-V body (very ergonomic to sit down with). I tune in 4ths, EADGCF, except one semitone flat, and use 8–38 strings. My “amp” is an Axe-FX 2 (XL), it is usually pretending to be a Mesa-Booglie Dual Rectifier. I just run this into a mixer and then a pair of loud powered speakers.
The only thing that I might do is create a balanced set of strings with more even tension, the default 8–38 set is actually pretty terrible in terms of uneven tensions.
GTRS: Strats, Les Pauls, Superstrats, Telecasters.
AMPS: Marshall DSLs, Fender Twins
FX: These days its '78DOD250 w/1458 chip, custom built MXR Dist+, TC Electronic Mojomojo, Klon Klones, '92 Dunlop Wah, and a dizzyingly large set of gear that gets rotated in and out.
1 Like
Hey code crackers 
saw this post and thought I wouldn’t mind hearing folks opinions on the setup I run. Never been a big gear head or sonic aficionado, my basic outlook on tone shaping is to work with what I can afford (which ain’t all that much), or whatever I can salvage. I’m a more or less home player type so dont have to worry about portability. Now that’s out the way, here goes.
Primary guitar - Brian may red special (not a burns).
Secondaries - sterling ax40 (with tone zone and air Norton dimarzios).
Ibanez rg1570 prestige ( dimarzio 36th anniversary paf bridge and mo Joe neck).
Running into a pod hd 500x and out to a, wait for it, technics a+ hifi amp outputting to 2 100 watt pioneer hpm speakers.
I’m curious to know what some more knowledgeable folks might have to say about potential drawbacks or benefits to a setup like this, all I can say is it sounds massive and I’ve spent a long time with the pod unit and dont suffer the problem I’ve heard before about digital effects units clipping low end and sounding too thin.
In fact I dare anyone to stand in the room with it even half cranked while I play a low e, be a booming experience to say the least 
. Anyways appreciate any input, keep on rocking, jazzing, swinging and bluesing folks 
2 Likes
Blue, sounds like you got some awesome vintage wattage going on there, they just don’t build stuff like that anymore these days unless you pay a premium. I can totally understand the SPLs with your rig turned up. Joyous and thumpalicious.
Your processor is a widely loved unit, mated with your vintage analog gear I can only imagine good things.
I miss the 80/90s era audio equipment, we’re devolving en mass!
Gibson Custom Shop Flying V has been my main guitar since I just got it. I’ve also got a EJ Strat from 2006, and a Brazilian Rosewood tiger inlay PRS. Amp is a Marshall JTM 40 that I run thru pedals for gain.
1 Like
Indeed @Twangsta, not so cheap to get this kinda amp these days, was an inheritance of sorts with lots of sentimental value, very first hifi I ever heard and the first thing I wouldve heard music through at a young age (queen greatest hits album on tape ).
Although I believe it’s the speakers making the difference, they’re apparently not so great according to audiophiles, but as I say I know what I’m hearing and compared to the few more modern setups I’ve had in the past, laney and vox valve amps, vox valvetronix and a Marshall head of which the name escapes me, this just sounds like what I’d expect to hear on albums from 60s and 70s rock bands.
Would no doubt get a more authentic tone using all analog pedals but that’s a very expensive hobby (pedal collection) and honestly to my ears phasers sound like phasers and a flanger a flanger, I’m of the belief that much more of what’s coming out the speaker is derived from the players hands then the instrument they’re playing on, what comes after is additional tint to the colour presented.
I had a RG1570 - the crappy silver finish one. Great guitar!
Yeah @mrrstrat they are! The one I have was picked up from Ebay 2004 zinc blue, only one year run of that finish and after that they changed the neck profile and hardware such as the bridge, the neck on mine is pretty much the same as a full fledged jem far as I’m aware.
Only let down was the pickups hence the change to the more vintage sounding ones I’ve installed, I never really play anything that chugs, think Billy Gibbons, Brian may hell even ace frehley and I’d say that’s what I like to hear, something that growls but maintains clarity, also Eddie van halen of course, the man who convinced me to begin this endless endeavor 
.
Mine was this cruddy silver that I had to research to verify that is WAS an official Ibanez finish. It looked like it was painted on with a spray can. But the neck was bound and it had the Edge Pro on it plus a Team JCraft plush case. I found someone to that made custom pic guards for the 1570 on eBay and then I was able to take pickup height seriously with it.
I got it early in my endorsement years with Dimarzio and I think they were sending me humbuckers for a couple months to get a set I liked. I tried them all and gravitated on a PAF pro in the bridge and a PAF Joe in the neck. I put a Heavy Blues II in the middle.
The PAF Joe and Mo Joe differ inthat the PAF Joe is voiced to have this midrange honk (kinda like a constant formant vowel filter) - incase you were wondering.
These days I use 36th Anniversary PAFs for live and studio work and having these put on a wicked Michael Kelly HEX shredtastic guitar I picked up. The 36s have the tone, clean up great, take pedals great, and heavy up nice. For shreddy work I like them as the bite and response is great. I never used the neck version before but can’t wait to try it.
My normal shreadly-force guitar is a totally customized Fender Strat with a 36th Anniversary PAF in the bridge, Area 61 in the mid (I think) and my working sweep-a-matic pizzicato machine pickup in the neck: th Heavy Blues II. That pickup in particular is great for sweepy and shreddy work. But like anything else everyone has their secret sauce recipe for guitars.
I have been trying to get the guy I traded my 1570 for a bass to sell or trade it back lol. I have been trying for over 4 years now and I am thinking he will never get rid of it.
The Michael Kelly HEX XLT is darn close and every bit the detail and quality of the Fugigen RGs I owned over the years. A nice sleeper shredtastic machine!
1 Like