KlanKaos

You see the words '...during the last 22 months, and a total of 2112 deaths...' about Iraq, and the first thing you think is... you guessed it... '2112?! What about Rush?!' or something along those lines.

I love this show just for the YYZ/2112/TS medley, and the Finding My Way/In The Mood medley. Those are two of my favourite Rush live tracks from any live album. I don't like the rest of the setlist as much, but that first medley is the most badass group of songs ever to be strung together.

Yeah, DigitalMan, my pickup in my hollow-body isn't fantastic. It's just not a great guitar overall. But my new plan is, instead of buying my own guitar, a friend and I are going to build one (from scratch! We're doing our homework! =P) and I'm going to put in EMG S pickups. It's going to be a high-quality guitar, and I'm going to get a GK 2000CPL as well, so I'm really going flat-out on guitar gear this year, since hockey isn't happening for me and I have time to get a job to pay for my dream gear =) Also, where you were talking about the 'chime', I think it has lots to do with the choruses, yes, but I also think that throwing a lot of the 10K boost we were talking about earlier would help with that tone as well. Try it with just the GK's built-in chorus and the 10Ks pushed up high.

QUOTE (red sector animal @ Sep 21 2009, 01:43 PM) I have this $199 (new) Ibanez GIO series guitar. Like many new 'discount' guitars. It actually looks excelent. And plays pretty good. But the tone sucks so bad its pathetic!!! The overtones you can hear when playing say a High E or F note would make you vomit. Then the rest of my rig is another mess.. a Tech 21 That never plays clean, its always modeling another amp. Its fair at best. the good news is its pretty loud. I just got an RP350 processor, that I'm happy with, although its just more modeling and processing. I like that I can kereoke with backing tracks through my amp, thats cool. Sorry for hijacking the thread. Seems like if you just get a PRS and a GK amp, or HK zentera, your in...no? Not quite, apparently the pickups are a big deal too. As discussed earlier, the EMGs or the Evans seem to be your best bet. Also, check out the list DigitalMan posted of GK amps that he thinks are good earlier in the thread.

Not that I don't love Fountain of Lamneth, but I honestly don't appreciate it as much as 2112 or Hemispheres. It just lacks the finish of the other two. It's not as polished or refined. I also agree that it doesn't seem coherent - transitions between chapters are often harsh in that song, and sometimes it just doesn't seem to make sense. It's still fun to listen to, but it's not as great as it could be.

QUOTE (SignatureAurora75 @ Sep 20 2009, 05:01 PM) For KlanKaos don't fret! Unbelievably another 2000cpl just went up for sale on Ebay. 0.0!!! I'm lucky, or I've got good karma going on, or something. Anyways, I'm not gonna risk this one getting away like DigitalMan's did =P Buying it now, hopefully in about two hours when I can get out of school and home to get my dad's credit card set up on PayPal and buy this thing. Also another stroke of good luck - my dad's buying a quad from the States soon and he can go in and pick up my preamp from an address he has in the States, so I'll hopefully have this baby by the end of the week =) Now for a guitar. I'm thinking Epiphone Les Paul with the Evans in, but I'll look into the EMG S&Hs as well, thanks for all the tips there guys =) Kinda want a Floyd Rose though... maybe I'll get one put on. Either way, that's a ways away yet, but I'm on track to building myself a serious rig here =)

Yeah, me too. I meant to say that. That'd be AWESOME.

Aww... However crushed I am, thanks for all the info! It's great to know I won't have too many problems finding something similar. I knew I should've bought it last night >.< Damn. Either way, I'll be sure to get Craigslist Reader, and hopefully I can find something similar within a couple weeks. I think I might actually look for the 100MPL - the MIDI could be nice =P Either way, I guess the hunt is on again... I'm kinda glad you got it, because after all, I've only been looking for a few days, and you've been hunting for a year =P I hope you have fun with it, and if you decide to sell it, throw a PM my way on TRF and I might take it off your hands =)

I'd say Signals, personally. Some songs aren't that dark, but to me, that album is characterized by the Subdivisions intro.

I took it as a joke >.< I thought you were taking offense to the idea that someone was asking for more information, WC. =P

QUOTE (WCFIELDS @ Sep 17 2009, 08:31 PM) QUOTE (SignatureAurora75 @ Sep 17 2009, 04:49 PM) QUOTE (bigmoney2112 @ Sep 17 2009, 03:24 PM) those guitars are crap MF please! Idiot, if you make a statement like that you need to back it up. Tell us why you think they're crap. You ever played one? Why does everyone have to prove to you why they don't like his guitars/tone (or backup their opinions)......do you own the f'n company or something? If people say they don't like it, they don't like it, move on........and for the record I dislike the tone during that era also, and I'm not saying it's solely the guitar either, but part of it obviously is Because he wants to know exactly what they don't like about it? Nothing wrong with asking questions. If you have an opinion, you should be prepared to back it up against people who have differing ones.

I'm really going to look for those Signatures now... they sound so great. But so hard to find... And I am getting the GK 2000cpl as well. Hopefully it works out with my hollow-body - either way, the distortion will be better than the Fender I have right now =P

K, pretty much decided. I've been reading reviews and shopping for the last hour, and every review I've read has mentioned 'that Alex Lifeson sound' or something to that effect, which is TOTALLY what I want to hear. Now I just need to scrape together $120 in the next week. Damn.

Thanks man. My problem is I'm DEFINITELY not going to be able to scrape together the money for both the preamp and a new guitar, and I need a new guitar... I'm using an Epiphone hollow-body right now, and it's not suited to hard rock at all. Now my dilemma... do I borrow money from someone and buy the preamp, or do I work my ass off for a month or two and buy a new guitar first? Decisions...

Damn. Yeah, that's definitely the guitar I'm thinking about, and it sounds, from the page you linked me to, unbelievable. I'm REALLY looking more into this. Thanks also for the preamp tip, I'll check that out as well. The sound he has on that video is the best thing I've ever heard. EDIT: Goddamn, these things are going to be VERY hard to find and VERY expensive. I have no idea where to even START looking for the Aurora...

So I was watching A Show Of Hands the other day, and I've been shopping for a guitar. Alex is a huge deal for me when it comes to playing guitar, so I want to get something versatile that can match his live tone fairly well. Anyways, while I was watching, some of the rhythm and lead lines in Manhattan Project (and a few other songs at that point in the video, I can't remember which they were though) seemed like exactly what I was looking for in a guitar. So the question I ask now is: what guitar is Alex using at that point of the show? It looks kind of like it might be his Tele - it has the Fender-style tuning heads - but I'm not sure because I've never really looked at the Teles from that era, and I figured someone around here might know.