I gave Washburns a try recently, and the American-made Washburns are absolutely amazing. James Malone's signature V looks weird, but it plays and sounds great, as does the WI series. Mike Schleibaum of Darkest Hour has been playing a Washburn N4 with a clean finish rather than the worn body look, it's a beautiful guitar and it sounds great live and on record. The Buzz Feiten tuning system on all of the American Washburns really impressed me, the guitars really sound flawless. Unfortunately they're also out of my price range right now, but I went years without really trying Washburn largely due to playing in a band with a guy who made one sound terrible (for one show, nonetheless!)

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This post was edited by Zodijackyl on Jul 14 2009 12:20am

I don't have any experience with any washburns that cost more than 300, so as of now im not a fan. I can't find anywhere that carries any good ones

Sam Ash carries several high end models in their stores, at least around here.

paiste> all
a bit expensive but cymbals for all kind of music and the sound is reallly sick

i'm not a fan of paistes really.

i went and picked up my guitar from the place that was supposed to set it up for me early, i couldn't deal with my fucked up tele any longer. i'll just have to get used to the very minor buzzing i guess. oh well. i need a nice tube combo, lugging a 150lb half stack is getting old.

Yeah that's why I sold mine

i need to try out some paiste cymbals
ive only really played zildjian and sabian :S

a friend of mine has a full set of paiste sigantures
and another friend has a 13 cymbal setup of paiste/stagg/sabian


imo, zildjian a + k > all atm
but dono

try twenties

really sick sound

are the twenties like the
"2002" and the rest like that??

This post was edited by hellohal on Jul 14 2009 04:40pm

up. I can't really answer many drums questions