{"id":1589,"date":"2020-10-06T16:28:57","date_gmt":"2020-10-06T16:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twistedapplerecords.com\/?p=1589"},"modified":"2020-10-08T03:13:02","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T03:13:02","slug":"tuning-up-the-hot-rods-vol-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/twistedapplerecords.com\/index.php\/2020\/10\/06\/tuning-up-the-hot-rods-vol-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuning Up the Hot Rods, vol. 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"491\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/twistedapplerecords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/1-491x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1590\" srcset=\"https:\/\/twistedapplerecords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/1-491x1024.jpg 491w, https:\/\/twistedapplerecords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/1-144x300.jpg 144w, https:\/\/twistedapplerecords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/1-768x1601.jpg 768w, https:\/\/twistedapplerecords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/1-737x1536.jpg 737w, https:\/\/twistedapplerecords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/1-982x2048.jpg 982w, https:\/\/twistedapplerecords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/1-scaled.jpg 1228w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 491px) 100vw, 491px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Next up is my trusty Vox Standard 25 (or what used to be Standard).  This is the first really good guitar I owned, purchassed from a friend in High School.  It started life as a stock Vox Standard 25 which could best be described as &#8220;if a Strat and a PRS had a child that traveled in time back to the mid-80s&#8221;.  It was my main guitar through the end of the 80s and into the early 90s.  Not sure if it&#8217;s just long term familiarity but it is one of the easiest and most comfortable necks I have played.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"604\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/twistedapplerecords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/10399151_136676043208_2876248_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1591\" srcset=\"https:\/\/twistedapplerecords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/10399151_136676043208_2876248_n.jpg 604w, https:\/\/twistedapplerecords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/10399151_136676043208_2876248_n-300x215.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><figcaption>A long time ago&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>It was also the first guitar I played around with modding.  It&#8217;s been through several personality changes and the current set-up is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>all the usual (straplocks, locking Neutrik output jack, graphite string trees)<\/li><li>custom cut pickguard<\/li><li>single coil Dimarzio in bridge position<\/li><li>Gibson Bill Laurence humbucker in bridge position<\/li><li>Roland GK midi pickup<\/li><li>momentary stutter button <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The Dimarzio single coil was the original on the stock version, the humbucker came from a mid-80s Les Paul I did some work on for a friend (and the pickups that were replaced were given to me as payment).  The wiring is a mix between custom and accidental:  the first (volume) pot was replaced withthe momentary button, the third pot is a tone control exclusively for the single coil (this makes going back and forth between the e-bow and regular playing super-easy).  The middle pot was supposed to be a master volume but somehow just rolls off some of the overall high frequencies.  I&#8217;m not sure where I messed up but it&#8217;s been interesting playing around with this configuration.  One of these days I might correct it, but for now&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"757\" src=\"https:\/\/twistedapplerecords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/a-1024x757.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1592\" srcset=\"https:\/\/twistedapplerecords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/a-1024x757.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/twistedapplerecords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/a-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/twistedapplerecords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/a-768x568.jpg 768w, https:\/\/twistedapplerecords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/a-1536x1136.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/twistedapplerecords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/a-2048x1515.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next up is my trusty Vox Standard 25 (or what used to be Standard). This is the first really good guitar I owned, purchassed from a friend in High School. It started life as a stock Vox Standard 25 which could best be described as &#8220;if a Strat and a PRS had a child that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twistedapplerecords.com\/index.php\/2020\/10\/06\/tuning-up-the-hot-rods-vol-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tuning Up the Hot Rods, vol. 2&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gear","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/twistedapplerecords.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/twistedapplerecords.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/twistedapplerecords.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twistedapplerecords.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twistedapplerecords.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1589"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/twistedapplerecords.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1594,"href":"https:\/\/twistedapplerecords.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589\/revisions\/1594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/twistedapplerecords.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twistedapplerecords.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twistedapplerecords.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}