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Vintage Reissue Rickenbacker

2008-03-18T22:50:00.000-07:00

Rickenbacker reminds me of the old slang "When only legendary sounds will do".

The vintage reissues series, guitars and basses by Rickenbacker... In homage to an illustrious past, the Vintage Reissue are faithful reproductions of the guitar that led the music revolution during the sixties. They originate from the same location, under the same management and, of course, are hand-made by many of the same skilled American craftsmen as their vintage predecessors. And they sound? Always Legendary.

Gear-Vault has a community message board

2008-03-17T18:56:00.000-07:00

Gear-Vault now has an open community forum for gearheads! Come discuss and make new friend at the gear vault. Feel free to sell your used musical equipment for free!

Sell your Guitar, Amp, and music instrument at Gear-Vault.com

2008-02-22T23:15:00.000-08:00

Sell your music gear fast for the best possible price at Gear-Vault.com for free. There are many options how you can sell your guitars and amps. You could build your own featured store, this allows you to have your own really cool store that you manage. You can write about yourself and your business, upload your banner, have sales, featured items, and it’s still linked to Gear-Vault.com for more exposure.

At Gear-Vault.com could sell your music gear through a “Buy It Now” type classified system. This allows you to set the price of your instrument, the shipping fee, and you can also entertain “Best offers” and Trades.

Another option you have is sell your music gear like eBay in auction form. Start your bid at whatever you like, have reserve if you wish, and still have “Buy It Now” if you choose, and you can also accept offers and/or trades.

Gear-Vault.com is a safe and reliable site with a tight niche community of musicians. Gear-Vault.com has a Message Board where you can receive help while making new friends with other musicians. Whether you play Guitar, Drums, Bass Guitar, or just love loud Tube Amps or Solid State Amplifiers, our message board community is a great place to correspond.

Gear-Vault.com is a powerful way to get your store and musical instruments out there. The site is hooked up to several affiliate site like GuitarFinder.net, Gear-Monkey.com, and many search engines such as Google, Yahoo, MSN, and many more.

Come join a tight niche community to buy, sell, trade your music gear such as, Electric Guitars, Effect pedals, Bass Guitar, Guitar amplifiers, Tube amps, Bass amps, Drums, PA live sound equipment and much more. The musicians choice-

Yamaha RGX 420 Guitar Review

2007-11-03T13:18:00.000-07:00

Lately I have been messin around with my Yamaha RGX420S and there is some pretty awesome features to this axe ( says the owner of www.gear-vault.com ). The direct out switch that sends signal to the bridge into the amp is by far one of the best. This feature allows the RGX420S to have great tone and crisp sound through your amplifier. Playing with the volume and tone gives fantastic control of the level of amp distortion stated on the musicians web forum, www.gear-monkey.com. Another great feature found in the RGX420S is the five way toggle switch, you have so many options with the RGX. Without the coil splitting or direct- out features, the guitar would not sound the way it does, giving that crunchy rhythm tone and attacking leads.

There are of course some things I don’t care for in the RGX420S. I have previously owned a Yamaha RGX121 which rocked. So I thought buying a RG420S guitar would be similar, expecting to upgrade to the Floyd Rose Tremolo. Well that was not the case. Both RGX420S and the RGX121 have the same neck radius and rosewood fret board. However, the RGX420 has a wider neck and bigger frets. These options make me feel like I am playing my Ibanez RG2570, RG2550, or RG most other Prestige guitars, which is not what I expected. The tone in the pickups I did not much care for, they are hot with no guts. I could not find a clean sound in this guitar due to the pickups being so hot.

The tremelo does require some tweaking and make sure you tighten the arm well. You can adjust swinging movement with the nut which you can reach from the back of the body. But all'n all the Tremolo does a pretty good job.

Construction is fine. No complaint there. Quality of body and neck is good Alder wood and nice resonance maple neck. Hardware is nice for the price range of the guitar. These guitars are not a Prestige, though it might play like one.

It could take a good few hours of setup work to get the guitar from being average to great. The neck reacted well to truss rod adjustments, I adjusted the pick-up height and pole screws, and did some work on the vibrato arm. This guitar should have been a Yamaha (and it sounds like one which is not bad) but it feels like an Ibanez with this neck. If that's what you are looking for (but maybe you can't afford an $1000 Ibanez) this is a cheaper alternative. After some setup work it plays well and it sounds really heavy! I wouldn't buy it a second time, I like guitars with a bit more personality and character.

Designed for extended rock performance, the twin-humbuckered RGX420S - also available as a features a double-locking tremolo and a direct output switch for maximum soloing power.
The RGX series has been designed to meet the demands of today’s modern and heavy rock electric guitar player.

Narley rock lines with appealing metallic and matt style finishes make these guitars stand out from their appearance. Each guitar have a hot selected pick up, so tone options are really not a problem. The 400 series features a dependable fully locking tremolo system and a "here comes my solo" direct cut switch! Which is a must have.

With its double-locking vibrato and slick two-octave fingerboard, the RGX420S comes ready for full-range action and some severe dive-bombing. Brilliant, overdrive-friendly sounds are provided by two powerful hot ceramic humbuckers, also offering combined tones via the five-way pickup selector. Added muscle comes from a direct output switch for the bridge humbucker, which bypasses the internal circuitry, running a full-on, unadulterated tone straight to your amp.

Pyrotechnic soloists will love it; so will low-end riffers,
Direct Output Switch This switch is utilized on the RGX420S to bypass the master volume, master tone and pickup selector switch. When activated it sends the rear humbucker`s signal directly to the amp. (isn’t that what we want in a guitar?)

Alternative to corporate monster; eBay.

2007-10-14T14:46:00.000-07:00

Gear-Monkey.com opened a brother site for musicians buying, selling, promoting, and trading gear... exclusively! It's Gear-Vault.com and it's totally free to list your gear, wanted ads, Demo CDs / Band promotions, services, and much more!

It's the safe way to trade your gear:

We're committed to trust and safety to prevent Internet scams and fraud. We have a thorough trust and safety checkster for buyers and sellers. And offer a verification Icon to sellers for the extra edge. Our focus is combining message board users to one exclusive gear trader site. Trust and safety is our priority! The plan all started when I was listing gear on eBay. At the end of the final sale, I realized eBay took a significant amount of my cash, not to mention their crazy listing and photo fees. After paying that kind of money, it's impossible to get in touch with a human eBay staff agent when an issue occurs. They'll send out a automated email which is totally insignificant to the problem or issue at hand. After seeing so many phishing ads on eBay, honest members relentlessly reporting it to the eBay staff, one would assume that eBay would correct that problem a.s.a.p. Not so much. EBay's safety is really sacrificing while the fees are increasing. That's why I welcome everyone to the Gear-Vault.com!

Gear-Vault.com is Free:

It's an exclusive community for musicians and music gear. Did I mention it's free to buy and sell? Why should anyone take your money anyhow? That's another reason why NOT to deal with eBay and their darn near 4% FVS fee(soon to be 8%. Gear Vault charges Nothing! This is our way to give back to musicians and message forum communities all across the world-wide-web. musicians

Sign up today and start selling used music gear!.

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