Ironic that you should say this, Jed, given what a posted just 10 minutes ago in response to something you said about experience. I had no idea you were a fan of Bert's stuff:
FWIW, I purchased Bert's "Full Pack" sounds unheard (as opposed to sight unseen) based strictly on all of the positive things I've read here on the forums. At this point, it's going to be sometime in 2050 before I get through all the damn profiles I've purchased and actually start recording anything. 
Display MoreShe has seen better days, but at least she's back in my hands.
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It's a 1989 Fender HM (Heavy Metal) Strat. 24 frets, maple fretboard, Kahler Spyder bridge. Once the signature model of the great Greg Howe.
I bought it second hand in really bad condition, and over the years had it repainted and replaced the bridge and locknut entirely. I was also forced to replace the Super Distortion in the bridge after an evil tech who I gave it to for the repaint job tried to palm off some generic pup in place of the original article. It now has an Invader in the bridge.
I had left it with my brother for some time, but was really yearning to get this one back in my hands again. Probably get him a regular Strat as a replacement.
It's got a very odd radius that just feels great. And the guitar "talks" for some reason, when it's around my chest and it's plugged into an amp, my voice gets picked up by the pup.
Very cool! I have the 22 fret MIJ version with the "Modernized" "Fender" logo. But I subbed out the original pickups to mimic John Petrucci's "Images and Words" era setup with a Tone Zone bridge and Humbucker from Hell neck... with a bonus HS-2 in the middle position. I've got the black crackle finish, as well. It was my first "real" guitar... as my first guitar, a cheapo Cort Strat copy, got stolen from a locked locker at the Art Design school at the University of Cincinnati where it was hung up to dry from being repainted and having the neck scalloped and stained. Bastards.
Thanks, Dylan!
Thanks for sharing!
Never had the chance to test a guitar with Fishman Fluence but they seem to sound more or less like a pair of EMG in active mode. At least when I listen to YT clips.
I've played a couple guitars with EMG's and the Fluence, even in active mode, don't really "feel" the same to me. I can toggle back and forth between Active and Passive mode and while there IS a difference, it's not night and day like switching between a real passive and something like an EMG, at least to my 47 year old ears. FWIW, I don't have any high frequency hearing loss yet... and used to have to do auditory testing for lossy compression and lossless compression audio codecs (MP3, AAC, ATRAC, etc...) so I'm hopefully not on the "terrible" side of the "golden ear" spectrum... though I am by no means the best ears in the biz. As always, YMMV. 
Interesting. I don't have EMG's, but I'll have to see how things sound when running my Ibanez S7320 with EMG Blackouts into the Kemper. Thus far, I've only had time to mess with running my custom Ibanez with Fishman Fluence pickups into the Kemper and those sounded great, although they are not a traditional active pickup. Glad you seem to have solved your issue!
Welcome!
Jeff in Houston
Welcome!
Jeff In Houston
Welcome aboard!
Jeff in Houston
This is by no means recent, but it IS my latest purchase. This is a custom body and headstock logo and paint job for my old Ibanez RG7620 neck. The EMG Blackouts have since been replaced with Fishman Tosin Abasi 7-String Fluence pickups with a push/pull volume pot and 3 way toggle.
Jeff in Houston
Oh yeah! I kinda ditched that yahoo email - to much junk to pick thru. basically Mike get's an early SD Custom, and I think changes the magnets (or something) I can't quite be sure, but they sound KILLER. As you know, he's very particular about it. He might be willing to do one and mail it to you - worth a shot!
Very cool! Can't wait to try it! I'd love to nail the Morin tone from XYZ's "Hungry" cd!
Thanks for sharing!
Jeff in Houston
Wet farts sound awesome Jeff. Don’t often smell too good though ?
I think you've inspired me to compose a new tune... "Shart Attack!" 
Jeff in Houston
Wow. That's really odd. My Kemper sounds fantastic using its headphone out and Sennheiser HD280Pro's. I'd definitely follow the suggestions from the other responses, as everyone's ears are different. My "sounds amazing" may be "Sounds like a wet fart" to someone else.
Good luck!
Jeff in Houston
Haha busted yep the river dragon has come , the RHY parts has some balls no?
Well i want the fishmans that you have so we are both in the same boat
Ash
Great job, Ash! Love me some Nevermore. Loomis is awesome. Saw him live for his second solo cd tour and it made me want to burn all my guitars because I am not worthy. 
As for Fishman's, I put the Tosin Abasi 7-string version in my customized 7-string and it RULES!!! Up next is a pair of the open core Classics in my cheapo LTD Les Paul clone.
Jeff in Houston
Matt,
Haven’t had a chance to play around yet. Dealing with some family health issues, so I hope to get through my purchase stuff tomorrow or later next week. I’ll chime in when I have feedback for you!
Jeff in Houston
HOLY FRIGGIN' SHITSNACKS!!!! I just finally fired her up and, at least listening through headphones, the first 20-30 patches on my Kemper are already exciting me beyond belief. I still have all the rest of the ones already loaded in the Kemper to play with, plus the 4634 ones I loaded into my local library, so I know what I'll be doing in my freetime! I'm so happy! I haven't found my DREAM TONES yet, but there was already some seriously good stuff in those first 20-30 presets. Thanks again for everyone's welcoming messages and answering my nagging questions!
Regards,
Jeff in Houston
Thank you, Bommel!
Regards,
Jeff
Necrobump just to say that I snagged the full ADA MP-1 +45, Soldano X88, and Bogner Fish packs, yesterday and I cannot wait to try them! The vids with you playing through some of them sounded AMAZING! I own an actual MP-1, so it was very cool to hear damn near the same tone coming out of those vids!
Regards,
Jeff in Houston
Snagged this amazing pack, yesterday! I can't wait to try it out, as I'm a huge Sylosis fan and all of your vids are just a huge inspiration to me to get back to playing again after a long hiatus!
Regards,
Jeff in Houston
Snagged this yesterday! I can't wait to put it through its paces and hopefully sell my rackmount version of my ancient X100!
Thanks,
Jeff in Houston
