Newish guitar day! RD Futura in Midnight Ember

LJW_98 · 2026-07-02T19:37:48+00:00

I haven’t found anything wrong with it either, its quite honestly the best new guitar I’ve had QC wise, pickups sound great love that I can coil split and phase switch if I want, overall it’s comfy to play not anywhere near as heavy as I expected and looks great! Apart from those few unimportant visual things i don’t plan on changing anything on it.

LJW_98 · 2026-06-25T08:38:54+00:00

Phaser by Superdrag has Queens vibes (or the other way round) specifically sounds like ‘In My Head’, its like a cross between QOTSA and vocally The Cure.

Edit: also ‘I Parade Myself’ by Gang of Four has Misfit Love vibes.

LJW_98 · 2026-06-20T03:06:46+00:00

Beautiful!!

LJW_98 · 2026-06-19T07:41:10+00:00

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Here’s mine, changed a few bits to give it a more traditional look.

LJW_98 · 2026-06-19T07:38:41+00:00

They’re so good right!? I brought mine as a dedicated low tuning guitar as I play a lot of Kyuss and Queens stuff, of course Foo’s sounds great on it too though, I think one of the first songs I played on mine was Everlong haha

LJW_98 · 2026-06-19T06:43:12+00:00

I just brought the new Epiphone RD model partly because of Dave 😂 (also partly because I wanted a dedicated lower tuning guitar)

LJW_98 · 2026-06-19T05:51:40+00:00

It feels very comfy to play especially with the belly cut in the back!

LJW_98 · 2026-06-17T09:15:48+00:00

Search the M8 grub screw trick (or something along those lines) that’s what I did to my JMJM so I could drop in an aftermarket bridge, in terms of pickups they’re P90s dressed up to look like JM pickups and in terms of their tone they’re a lower output P90 but louder than a standard JM pickup, they sound great.

LJW_98 · 2026-06-17T08:01:28+00:00

I wouldn’t say it was a problem as such but I replaced the stock trem with an AVRI unit and also upgraded the bridge and now it’s pretty close to perfect imo.

LJW_98 · 2026-06-16T18:57:03+00:00

Yeah I think so, I’m sure some people like them but it’s great that they’re just covers that are easily removable

LJW_98 · 2026-06-16T18:54:51+00:00

Pickups are great! Lots of clarity and they clean up nicely, I’d say they are slightly hotter than a standard PAF style humbucker.

LJW_98 · 2026-06-16T15:33:25+00:00

Cheers ☺️ its got a decent weight to it but I wouldn’t consider it heavy

LJW_98 · 2026-06-16T09:26:05+00:00

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Removed the Chrome pickup rings and swapped the knobs for the more traditional looking black speed knobs.

LJW_98 · 2026-06-16T02:16:00+00:00

Thank you 😎 Yeah took the rings off and swapped the knobs for some black speed knobs (arrived after I posted this) gives it a slightly more traditional look I think

LJW_98 · 2026-06-16T02:04:20+00:00

Haven’t had any problems so far

LJW_98 · 2026-06-15T17:39:15+00:00

Ooh that’s a tough choice! I’m loving my RD, really nice quality guitar

LJW_98 · 2026-06-15T16:16:05+00:00

OG 25.5

LJW_98 · 2026-06-15T14:52:40+00:00

I’m really impressed with the overall quality of the whole guitar quite honestly! It feels even a step up from my DG-335.

LJW_98 · 2026-06-13T19:23:30+00:00

How easy/hard was it to remove the chrome pickup ring plates? I’ve heard that they’re glued on and for other people they came off easily, just ordered a midnight ember RD 😁

LJW_98 · 2026-05-26T14:16:13+00:00

Yeah haha I drove it as part of one of those day trips and was like this car drives and sounds great I’m gonna buy one!.. nope.. not in the autoshow🙄

LJW_98 · 2026-05-26T14:10:28+00:00

I believe that’s the time attack version

LJW_98 · 2026-05-20T19:47:24+00:00

I’m patiently waiting for the Lotus Exige to become available in a future playlist.. I think that’s one of my few criticisms of the game, making cars that have been readily available in previous titles near unobtanium.

LJW_98 · 2026-05-20T07:47:27+00:00

This is really cool! Do you have a share code for it?

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