I have finally cleared my Credit Card bill and have ordered the ESP SC-607B! Alongside this I have also ordered a Line6 PodXT, this will allow mess around with tones and effects. It will also connect directly into my PC allowing me to record at a reasonably good quality, so no more placing a mic in front of my amp and hoping I get good results.

My little guitar operation didn’t end well. I went to re-wire it once again as per the previous blog entry on this subject and now it just won’t work. I’m probably going to give it another stab at a later when I don’t feel so demoralised about the whole thing.

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It was all going so well!

The bridge pickup sounded awesome, too bad I managed to accidentally read the wrong diagram. I wired up my bridge pickup to the instructions of the neck pickup. At first I shrugged it off and stupidly continued wiring the other way round only to find that when I switched on my amp it sounded like it was underwater. Much to my dismay I undid everything and wired it to the diagram’s specifications, after three quarters of an hour everything is now where it should be, it should work fine now, yes? WRONG!

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I finally decided last week to replace the stock pickups on my Ibanez RG7321. After a hell of a struggle on Thursday night trying to install the Blaze Customs that should’ve “just slot in” I left it until today to do the rest. At the moment I have successfully installed the bridge pickup and it sounds crisp and meaty in comparison to the ones I yanked out – I’m pleased.

Now all I need to do is wire up the neck pickup and hope that I don’t undo all of my good work…