Prophecy Victory

The Victory model is now offered in the Epiphone lineup under the Prophecy Series. The body is not as curved as the Gibson version & it features an FR1000 bridge. Not my thing. Hopefully there's a simpler fixed bridge version along the way.

Pic: Epiphone

 

Break

Was at Malacca the last couple of days. Came here intentionally on a weekday to witness the quieter side of things. Had a great night walk by the river.

Main intention was to visit the Art Museum to get ideas for next year when I return to work (hopefully).

Managed to track this store down but they didn't have what I wanted. Had been a good time, walked a lot, clocked more than 20K steps each day. Tiring but enjoyable.

Rectify (3)

After rectifying the bridge saddle issue & looking into the bridge pickup height, I spent a few days playing this one. I like the Telecaster body outline, 22 frets & fixed bridge. These are simple features that help me focus on my playing. Pickups in there are the Super Distortion S models. The neck version has a wonderful grittiness that prevents notes from sounding too rounded & muddy.

A fresh set of strings before play. Someone was asking me why I keep playing cheap strings. Well, these are good strings which happen to be affordable - why not?

MoMM (68)

This is an under-whelming release. The closing number was annoying & uninspiring (> 11min). It's like they ran out of ideas for a song & it was stretched using minor changes to buy recording time. I actually look forward to this one but I guess the band's undergoing a downturn.

Rectify (2)

The pickup cavity is too deep for the pickup screws. Those wooden pieces were added to raise the surface. I had an unused wooded keychain lying around. Problem solved.

Ibanez RGR8270

Another October release by Ibanez but it's Japan-only in the mean time: RGR8270. I'm still not into the tree-of-life inlay; too excessive for me, will confuse my fretting hand movements. Also, I'm bothered by the covered bridge humbucker but the neck counterpart remains exposed. The neck humbucker there is a PAF 36th while the bridge & middle are True Velvet & Tone Zone respectively, the usual Ibanez favoured DiMarzios. 

Also not my thing - locking tuners when there's already a locking nut.

Pics: Ibanez Japan