Guitar and Gear update

I think I will have to do individual posts for all the stuff to remember settings and combinations but at the moment I'm just happy about finishing another pedal board and of course the final conclusion of the neverending "Pelham Blue SG project".

Samick Valley Arts

The Korean giant Samick aquired Valley Arts guitars back in the 90's and this is one of the many variations of instruments that were built under that label.

Sadly it's quite difficult to find out the specs of those Samicks but I'll keep searching.

Scale length of 628mm oddly enough, considering the shape of the instrument.

I am quite impressed with the built quality of the guitar so putting in two DiMarzio pickups was the only upgrade I would decide upon.

I chose the DP172 "Twang King" for the neck and the DP184 "The Chopper" for the bridge position.

Richie Kotzen is a huge inspiration to me, so I tried to do a kind of tribute by choosing his pickup combination.

Of course there's no way to get his great tone by simply putting some pickups into a random guitar but I this wasn't my goal to begin with - I just wanted to be reminded of his great music whenever I grab the guitar and fool around with it.

Electro Harmonix Flanger Hoax

After concentrating on basic tones for a while, I felt the need for something more "out there".
So I dug up this beast.

Those pedals are notorious for being quite noisy, so when I found a setting that gives a nice flange without too much hiss, I had to take a snapshot of the settings.

And now back to switching and dialing at crandom - fun times!