Official: New 24-fret JS on the way!

[Tank]

Originally Posted by BowlSnapper

Yes Sir. JVM410H. One of the best Marshall heads to date. Read the reviews!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It is not the 410, you can see that from 2 miles away... plus the JVM line is hyped, but does not live up to it in the real world.

Also you guys should get over it what artists display on the stage. It is like with the past Satch Tour, he played his effects rack into the clean channel of his peavey... All distortion came from Satchurator and proto DSes....

Some artists even now have AxeFX backstage and a few endorsement stacks not even hooked up...

[Myst and rain]

Originally Posted by frantick

Looks like a rip off of the Vigier Bfoot to me, but I suppose all guitars since the beginning, ie LP and Strat, are rip-offs of some sort.

-cp

Yeah, it certainly bears a resemblance judging by the pic.

http://www.guitariste.com/img/articl...-bfoot-big.jpg

[jono]

Originally Posted by Tank

Some artists even now have AxeFX backstage and a few endorsement stacks not even hooked up...

sorry to hijack, but...

I'm curious as to how confirmed this is? You hear of so many people doing this, but I've not seen one shred of evidence other than "a guy I know saw one at *insert name of band* concert" Which counts for very little...

[Zgicc]

Originally Posted by Myst and rain

Yeah, it certainly bears a resemblance judging by the pic.

http://www.guitariste.com/img/articl...-bfoot-big.jpg

Doesn't look at all like the Vigier. But that's just me....

[Tank]

Originally Posted by jono

sorry to hijack, but...

I'm curious as to how confirmed this is? You hear of so many people doing this, but I've not seen one shred of evidence other than "a guy I know saw one at *insert name of band* concert" Which counts for very little...

I am not allowed to say who does it as I signed an NDA as I do stage security. Rest asured I saw it first hand even at one of the guitar heroes (not Satch, but equally well known) and several VERY well known bands. Of course it gets worse with the more POP focused commercial bands or solo artists that have the musicians only for display on stage and rest is playback or loop inserts by a backline arranger.

[Myst and rain]

Originally Posted by Zgicc

Doesn't look at all like the Vigier. But that's just me....

That's right: it's just your opinion.

Imo, there's a clear, obvious resemblance.

[jono]

In that they're both 24 fret superstrats with an HS configuration?

[jono]

Originally Posted by Tank

I am not allowed to say who does it as I signed an NDA as I do stage security. Rest asured I saw it first hand even at one of the guitar heroes (not Satch, but equally well known) and several VERY well known bands.

Exactly what I mean

As curious as I am though I know you can't breach the NDA you signed, but that's all folks are saying. Did you confirm that they're using it for their amp sounds and maybe not just effects? I've heard (amidst the rumours and counter-hype) that folks are using amp sounds and Axe FX for effects...

That said I don't care what they use as long as it sounds great. What bugs me is the "fake endorser stacks" you mention.

[frantick]

Originally Posted by jono

In that they're both 24 fret superstrats with an HS configuration?

OK, yes, just that. Now I suppose I'll get flamed cuz there are a million HS strat-style configurations out there! It's the way the pickup is slammed up against the neck too. Oh, and because I've been eyeing a Vigier lately. YOU GOT ME!

[Myst and rain]

Originally Posted by jono

In that they're both 24 fret superstrats with an HS configuration?

Come on man, the cutaways and/or horns look so much alike... It's in plain view. Add the neck pickup and you've got a guitar that certainly is reminiscent of the Vigier.

[jono]

I think pretty much all suprstrats with the same pickup configuration and 24 frets look fairly similar.

The Vigier Excaliber with it's HSH configuration is just an RG clone by your reasoning then?

[Zgicc]

Originally Posted by jono

I think pretty much all suprstrats with the same pickup configuration and 24 frets look fairly similar.

The Vigier Excaliber with it's HSH configuration is just an RG clone by your reasoning then?

+1 my initial reasoning. Being superstrats with same pickup configurations doesn't really hit me as being similar...

With that reasoning all guitars are basically clones of each (which they are.. roughly)

/sarcasm.on

http://www.espguitars.co.jp/original/images/mv_hfbk.jpg

Oh dear another similar guitar... and they also ripped off the finish!!! What has the world come to?

/sarcasm.off

[Myst and rain]

Originally Posted by jono

I think pretty much all suprstrats with the same pickup configuration and 24 frets look fairly similar.

The Vigier Excaliber with it's HSH configuration is just an RG clone by your reasoning then?

All I meant to say was that I agree with frantick that it has a resemblance. I never said I agreed it was a rip-off/clone.

[frantick]

OK, rip-off was a bad choice of words. "It looks like" should've said. And yes, there are probably a million HS's out there, for sure there's a million HH, HSH, and SSS's out there.

But that ESP has a slanted pickup and what looks like 26 1/2 frets, so it's WAY DIFFERENT! ;-)

-cp

[II Hamish II]

There is definitely a resemblance, but really as Joe said, it is the Radius body with a deeper cuttaway.