I'm BACK!

Hi.. I’m BACK!.. Anyone missin’ ME??.. ;-)

Upgrading my screaming machine!

Hi there!... It’s been a while i didn’t enter the world of blogging. Well my fingers nowadays more on running through my guitar fretboard rather than writing a blog.. in other word, a bit procrastinating on posting a new entry.

This time around i’m gonna tell you about my recent activities especially onto my musical instrument. I bought a new stompbox- BOSS Super Chorus CH-1 to replace my previous BEHRINGER Chorus Orchestra C0600.

BOSS Super Chorus CH-1

This is due to dissatisfaction towards the Behringer C0600 in terms of tonal characteristic. I’m not saying that Behringer C0600 is not good.. It is a good stompbox for beginner and also can be use for pro. and it is much cheaper than BOSS CH-1. But in term of tonal characteristic you can find that BOSS CH-1 gives a wide range of chorus tone compare to Behringer C0600.

After playing guitar for many years, i’ve intended to explore some of the popular guitar pickups like Dimarzio, EMG and Seymour Duncan. Those are 3 popular brands and most desired types of pickups by our local musician/guitarist in upgrading their guitars.

I’ve chosen Dimarzio pickups merely because Dimarzio got a wide variety of tones in each individual pickups from high output, medium output to vintage output. For my tonal arrangement i installed a high output pickup at the bridge and medium output on the neck. This arrangement is usually preferred by most guitarist that endorsed by the guitar maker for their signature series guitar. For example; Paul Gilbert of Mr. Big use Dimarzio pickups for all his signature series guitars (endorsed by Ibanez for his PGM series guitar).

Paul Gibert with his Ibanez PGM300

I’ve installed 2 of my favourite guitars that is Ibanez PGM3 and Ibanez RG320FM with Dimarzio pickups. My PGM3 is installed with Dimarzio Evo 2 (bridge), Super Distortion S(mid) and PAF pro(neck) and the RG320FM is equipped with Dimarzio Crunch Lab(bridge) and Liquifire(neck).

Ibanez PGM3 and Ibanez RG320FM

Before this I don't really care about upgrading my guitars as for me there is not much different in tones compare to high quality pickups. But I was wrong.. there are much different in tones and sustains if u change the stock pickups to high quality pickups. And now it is never feel the same if i play the guitar with stock pickups compare to upgraded pickups.

Of course, in terms of pickups selection, one must look into what type of woods of their guitar because this affects a lot in terms of tonal characteristic and sustain. Types of strings also affect the tones of guitars. I use the string gauge 0.09 – 0.42 and my favourite brand of guitar strings is ERNIE BALL and ELIXIR.

PGM3 - Dimarzio Evo 2, Super Distortion S n PAF pro.

RG320FM - Dimarzio Crunch Lab(bridge) and Liquifire(neck).

Ok guys, i guess that is all for now.. till we meet again in my next entry..

Have a blissful day wherever you are ;-)

Wat's new in da house!..

Hello guys, it’s has been such a long time I didn’t update my blog.. ;-)
Sorry if u miss me.. hehe… I admit tat im getting lazier in updating my blog eventhough I have tones of stories to tell.. haha!XD. Just kidding!

Anyway, by uploading new pics will do the story for me ;-)
Here are some of my new items and my recent activities with my family.. Don’t meant to be boasting, just to share some of my interest in music!

here goes the story :..

my new Ibanez PGM3. fake smile or what?..hehe

Yamaha PSR E323. My wife luv to play it.. not me ;-)

I bought this Yamaha keyboard in September coz i wanted to learn to play keyboard beside improvising my guitar skills.. Actually my wife is the one who really insisted to have a keyboard in the house, so i bought it and she really does play it more frequent than me.. haha XD

BOSS ME-25 multieffects processor.

This is a great multieffects. It's interface is easy to operate, fast tweak and desired tone storage! Beside the stompboxes that i've used, this is the lighter and smaller version compare to my current pedalboard. I need this one to lighten my instruments weight carriage to jamm studio.

Practice session with my son, Daryl..
eventhough it's not up to 10 mins session!.. haha!XD

New shirts of my kids..Same design, only different sizes! Haha XD

Ok guys, i guess tat is all.. Till my next post!
Have a nice Friday and happy weekend ;-)

Anything will do..

I’m back after a long break for myself (free from updating my blog.. hehe).. It’s seem that now i’m updating my blog once in a month *sigh*.. but anyway it’s better than never right?..

This time around anything will do in my entry.. Well i would like to share my story on my electric guitars or in other name, we call it axe (not the axe that we use to chop down trees or woods ok..)

I have several axes in my collection and mostly are Ibanez axes, as you know i’m a die hard fan of Ibanez axes ;-)

My 1^st axe was Ibanez GRG270 which has been use for jamm and stage performance. In 2010, i’ve sold my axe to my close friend, Chris. Sadly to let go but due to so many axes and some of them are under utilized, so i’ve decided to let it go.

There are 2 more axes to let go that is Epiphopne Gibson SG and Squier Fender Affinity Series. Those who interested can leave your message in my chatbox! TQ.

( Please bear in mind tat this is not a commercial break.. haha!XD )

Ibanez GRG270

The new owner of the GRG270! Mr. Chris.

Axes for sales!

Epiphone SG

Squier Affinity Series (Pickup mod. Dimarzio-Neck & Bridge)

Ok enough of guitar stuffs.. We go on appearance! Below is the picture of me and my colleague wearing jackets. Me & him are one of the staff who loves to wear jackets during workdays especially when it's raining..

Well.. wat da ya think?..

And it's time to break from writting this new entry.. need a chilax!

* Chill n Relax *

Take a break! Have A Kit Kat! ;-)

Kit Kat!! me n my son loves it..

Well.. Anything will do guys! Have a nice day and great weekend ;-)

My August activities..

Hi all, It’s been quite sometimes that I haven’t go through my bloglist and read some of my friends’ blog here. I’ve been quite buzy with my daily activities and workload. But one thing for sure.. I’ll find a time for me and my bandmates to jamm during night time and spend my time with my kids and wife.

On the 6^th to 8^th August, 2010 I was attending a Team Building course at

Grand Borneo Hotel, Kota Kinabalu. Me and several of my colleagues were selected for the course which was conducted by the company from Peninsular Malaysia called Success Touch.

It was a great course, everybody were having fun. Eventhough the course took place at the hotel and we had our early morning exercise at the hotel courtyard, but still it was fun thing to do.. ;-)

Here are some pics:-

Jesselton was a former name for Kota Kinabalu as being told.

enjoying my fresh lime juice... slurrppp!... ;-)

One of the activity during the course: to form a Formula 1 pit crews

We had our bowling tournament at 1 Borneo Hypermall

Saturday nite out at the open air market

The consultant : Success Touch

One of my leisure time at home is riffing my guitar. Sometimes my

son, Daryl accompany me and interrupt my playing by requesting to play

the guitar. He is getting expert in handling the electric guitar nowadays. Now he can hold and play my another Ibanez guitar beside the Ibanez S420. This time around is my adorable Ibanez guitar, the Ibanez JS100.

The Ibanez JS100 has sleek design and not heavy due to the body is

made of Basswood. A bit lighter than Mahogany wood. I’m sure for the guitarist, they know by what I’ve meant. You can look at the glimpse of his face showing his confidence and progress in learning to play the right tone! ;-)

see.. he is so confident!

I believe one day, he's gonna be an expert in guitar! ;-)

I got so many pics to download but as you may know, blogging is quite time consuming.. hehe

Till next post.. Have a nice day!..

Like Father Like Son

It’s been a while since my last post in May 2010. I’ve been quite buzy lately and one of the channel that keep me attach to my friend is through FACEBOOK. Thanks to Facebook for keeping me in touch with my friends and colleagues. One of the reason for being procastinating in updating my blog hehe..

I have lots of activity in the month of July. Moreover the Rainforest World Music Festival (RWMF) is still going on while i’m updating this new entry. Which is held on 9,10 & 11 July at Sarawak Cultural Village, Kuching. I never attending the RWMF and one of my determination is to attend the event at least once or for one night event that if i have the time and chance.. haha! XD

Anyway that is not my highlight for this post. I’m sure most of you or we can say all of us ever heard of this quotation “Like Father Like Son”..

Well of course it’s about my son Daryl who is 5 years old now. As me myself is fan of electric guitars, I always teach and show to him the way i play guitar and the functions of each stompboxes (guitar effect pedals) everything he is sitting next to me watching me plucking and riffing my guitar.

I am a die hard fan of “IBANEZ” guitars and usually i will teach Daryl on how to play the Ibanez S420 guitar. It is because of all the guitars that i own, Ibanez S420 is the lightest guitar that Daryl can hold and play. Moreover its sleek design and slim body provides him easy to handle it, despite he is playing an adult instrument!

The Ibanez S420

Daryl enjoying strumming the Ibanez S420!

" Like father like son"... that's what they say ;-)

Eventhough he still don’t know the basic guitar chords but eventually he is enjoying strumming and riffing the guitar as he knew how to create a melody of his own and he also know how to play with the tremolo bar. He seems very much interested in learning guitar and someday I hope he can be a good guitar player for both acoustic and electric guitars!

" Like Father like Son!..." ;-)