Guitar Trends you think need to go away.

[ryan summit]

abalones
i never wanna touch anything theyve touched
ever agian
including a guitar
and the ocean

[Mudfuzz]

Also speaking of the Albert.. why has no one done the Electric Dragon 80000V jag?

[Achtane]

Man I was thinking the same thing.
I really like the rebuilt one too...but it doesn't look playable

[greyscales]

Push-pull pots. Just give me a toggle. It is so much easier to flick a switch than grab and pull a knob (and yes, that's what she said).

[Gearmond]

i think for some situations, push pull pots are ideal in that they save body real estate, and i think the level of difference in ease is generally a moot point because you seldom need to go from single coil to humbucker fast enough to necessitate a switch.

also, theoretically push-push pots would be even quicker than a toggle switch.

actually come to think of it, why the fuck dont push pull pots work like soft switches? someone get on that.

[IEatCats]

i think for some situations, push pull pots are ideal in that they save body real estate, and i think the level of difference in ease is generally a moot point because you seldom need to go from single coil to humbucker fast enough to necessitate a switch.

also, theoretically push-push pots would be even quicker than a toggle switch.

actually come to think of it, why the fuck dont push pull pots work like soft switches? someone get on that.

Fender used something like that in a couple of their weird guitars (that stupid MIDI one had them, I think). The had a center soft touch switch in them, at least, I think they did.

[greyscales]

i think for some situations, push pull pots are ideal in that they save body real estate, and i think the level of difference in ease is generally a moot point because you seldom need to go from single coil to humbucker fast enough to necessitate a switch.

also, theoretically push-push pots would be even quicker than a toggle switch.

actually come to think of it, why the fuck dont push pull pots work like soft switches? someone get on that.

Maybe on back-routed bodies it would be ideal, but on top-routed guitars real estate can be changed. And switching from single coil to humbucker quickly could really be important in, for instance, a solo or verse/chorus change. I don't mean mini-toggles either. More like a pickup selector. Plus push-pull pots don't have a great taper IMO. They are not nearly as consistent as a regular pot (much higher tolerances).

Soft switches wouldn't be bad, but they would have to be active to do the switching. Personally I hate the idea of having to worry about switching batteries (which aren't cheap) just to change coil splitting. But that's kind of a personal preference.

[metalmariachi]

Chocolate syrup is messy
Relics, put your own playing wear on them you lazy fuck.
Artist models that are just the standard with a different pickup.
90% of artist models in general.
Any more reissues of the guitar/bass you reissued last year.
The same freaking colors from 1957
Changing the pickup and calling it a different model.
MM

[Fuzzy Picklez]

For the actual guitars:
- Strat input jacks
- offset bridge systems (love the sound, hate how fragile they can be)
- 8-12 month minimum wait times for rickenbackers (at least in Toronto)
- gibson pricing
- really pointy guitars
- "modern" pickup voicings

For guitar players:
- people who expect me to share gear with them
- people who act as if I owe them something, and want me to share my gear with them
- people who ask to use my amp after i said no, and then they show up to the gig without an amp after me telling them over the internet I wouldn't let them use it and then getting mad at me, and i laugh at them, make them run it through the board and sound like horse manure
- insincere bands who have insincere members
- the forum hive mind that manifests itself in all of us

[myrrh]

Squier versions of Jazzmaster. It waters it down and makes it less special.
This probably makes me a snob, but so be it.

[bob the r0bot]

For some reason the trend of, "all pickups need to be hum cancelling otherwise their pieces of shit," really infuriating.

[cheesecats]

you keep all your smart modern guitars
i''ll take fender, gibson, martin, and rickenbacker

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCs4XzQpxrU[/youtube]

[Mudfuzz]

after waiting @ GC for two hours waiting on my amp trade...
Anything that is at a GC... needs to go away..

[schrodingersgoldfish]

I don't mean mini-toggles either. More like a pickup selector.

And what you want can't be done by a super-switch?

[greyscales]

Mo' toggles, mo' fun. I'm not a huge fan of strat-style switches. Again though, this is just personal preference. The main point was down with push-pull. No pun intended.