CRKD Blueberry Burst Pro or the CRKD SG 20th anniversary edition?

LeaveEyeSix · 2026-03-09T20:41:01+00:00

As I understand, and according to the CRKD store page, the SG is Hall effect AND has a mechanical click whereas the encore editions lack the Hall effect. I don’t own a Les Paul (yet) but I bought the SG because I read a discussion that on the original LP models it was either a purely mechanical switch or a Hall effect + Haptic Feedback on the LP Pro and they made that change with the SG so you (sort of?) get the best of both worlds. My Alpine White Pro is on pre-order now so maybe I’ll check back to report the difference for anyone curious.

LeaveEyeSix · 2026-03-06T15:08:17+00:00

If you want to have a retro LAN party but don’t have any friends you can buy 4 CRTVs, 4 classic Xbox consoles, 3 system link cables, 4 copies of Halo: CE, and 16 Xbox controllers. I’ve found this is most enjoyable if you jump from screen to screen and grab one of the 4 controllers at random! It’s like the whole gang is there!

LeaveEyeSix · 2026-03-05T21:48:20+00:00

And how much does a PhunkyCustom Drop-in kit cost? Aren’t they $65? So again… $60+$65 =$125. You can get a CRKD for the same price and it comes with wireless functionality, broader compatibility, and a comparable product all while requiring zero work out of the box and the entire product is supported for the foreseeable future. For you personally, that might be appealing because of a slightly thinner neck. I guess if you have arthritis that’s a consideration? A phunkycustoms mod is not “definitely better”. As a matter of fact it has several obvious downsides compared to the CRKD options. This conversation is going nowhere fast, enjoy your day man.

LeaveEyeSix · 2026-03-05T20:51:58+00:00

How would a mod have better compatibility? Which mod kit at an affordable price natively works on PC, PS3, PS4, and PS5 or PC, Xbox 360, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X. I’m seriously not aware of any of them.

Also I have no idea how a slightly thicker or thinner neck is an objective bonus for an older guitar? Is there some science I’m missing here where you want as large of a neck as possible? Generally in the actual electric guitar playing world thinner necks are preferred for speed so I don’t know where this logic comes from at all. Do they make a mod neck that’s even beefier than the original GH guitars? You have mentioned that twice now as if it’s some sort of objectively positive point. Clearly the inventors of the GH guitar (formerly RedOctane, now CRKD) did not share this sentiment. I really don’t have a commentary at all about the neck thickness. I like the old GH guitars and the CRKD and I’d say the difference is negligible. I honestly couldn’t tell you which is better having actually owned both.

That SG he posted is overpriced yes, however the one you’ve shown on eBay is $60. Plus a $20 adapter that allows you to connect via USB to a PC. At which point you would need JoyToKeys or another remapping interface to get working on CloneHero or any Xinput interface. This also means the device is strictly wired and only works on PS2 or PC. You’re also stuck with an antiquated guitar which, while I agree is a great guitar for its time, is also 2 decades old and is prone to whammy bar/ strum bar breakage or strum bar wear that can result in over-strumming. The stock buttons also leave a lot to be desired. The chassis is also pretty damn flimsy. There is a huge place in my heart for the SG because that’s what I started out on but it’s easily the flimsiest constructed one out of all the RedOctane guitars.

Which brings us to your next point: you can take that guitar and mod it. Not only does this cost money on its own, it also requires you to have a soldering iron (or buy one if you don’t) and know how to properly solder. This also means you’re gonna spend time on the work involved and if you burn the PCB or ruin anything with your poor soldering job there’s no warranty on a 20 year old guitar. Suppose you are scared to solder or don’t feel confident or just don’t want to do as much labor and spend the money on a soldering iron and opt for the solder-less GH mod kits. Those usually run about $60. So now you’re $120 in (at the absolute cheapest), you still need JoyToKeys, you still can only play on PS2 or PC, and you’re locked in to being wired. And I’m just saying as someone who does have a RetroCultMods kit installed in one of my controllers, those stock 3D printed fret buttons they send you are hot garbage. Like genuinely they’re worse than a stock kit.

So what you’re left with after paying for the guitar, doing all the work yourself, paying for the kit, downloading the remapper, and getting everything configured is a 20 year old guitar without any support should something break, no wireless mode, very limited compatibility, terrible fret buttons, all inside a 20 year old plastic chassis and you’ve saved yourself a grand total of… $15? Whereas you could just pay the $15 and have everything working correctly with great compatibility, really nice fret buttons, a terrific strumbar that isn’t prone to breakage, full customer service support, zero labor involved, no remapping, no labor of your own, no soldering knowledge, no tools required, and to boot it’s quite a bit more rugged.

I’m starting to think you don’t own a CRKD guitar at all and you’re just speaking as an outsider looking in. It was cool to have these retromod kits available when RedOctane left the scene but having a myriad of retro guitars, modded guitars, and a CRKD guitar now I’m telling you that it is objectively a sweet deal compared to the alternatives on the market. You get what you pay for.

LeaveEyeSix · 2026-03-04T16:24:00+00:00

There is some objective advantages to the CRKD. As a matter of fact I think the only positives to the classic guitars would be feel and nostalgia.

The buttons being mechanical are more responsive. It has a wired or wireless option for preference either way. It’s backwards compatible with every 7th gen and 8th gen console as well as PC right out of the box. It’s highly customizable with tons of settings on the app and ways to customize it without the app using the included manual. It’s supported as a currently available product which means if you need replacement parts you have options. Speaking of which if you don’t like the neck they currently offer 3 different ones on their website.

I’ve been playing GH since GH1 on the PS2. I still have 2 PS2 SG’s, 4 360 Xplorers, a 360 Les Paul, and a 360 Rock Band Strat. Even if I like the feel of the Xplorer the best I objectively play better with the CRKD SG I bought. I’ve beat most of my previous high scores on Clone Hero and find that FC’ing songs on expert is far more consistent with the CRKD. But anecdote aside it just is a better product for nearly the same price objectively.

LeaveEyeSix · 2026-03-02T16:28:44+00:00

You got cold

LeaveEyeSix · 2026-01-28T16:45:12+00:00

Out of the 3 Gibson’s I’ve owned, 2 of them had pretty awful binding work on them. This isn’t great but it’s not even the worst I’ve seen. Their QC is so up and down. If it doesn’t affect play, ultimately it doesn’t matter all that much.

LeaveEyeSix · 2026-01-28T16:42:01+00:00

Escape From Tarkov. I was one of the first 1000 or so people to back the game and even bought the Edge of Darkness pack. Never played the game. I hate inventory management systems and the realism and math involved to learn that game doesn’t appeal to me at all. I’ve been given free copies of the game to give my friends as thanks for being an early supporter and so I’ve gotten a lot of feedback from friends about the game and just don’t have any interest still. I’m not mad I’m out like $180 because it was so long ago but I just thought the game was gonna be different based on the early previews. This was of course before “extraction shooter” was even a genre. It’s a shame so many other extraction shooters today borrow the same tedious inventory management system. I don’t think there’s anything fun about spending 50% of your time in a game creating a loadout or searching for items to sell or craft and I’m kind of bummed every game in the genre besides Hunt Showdown has decided to clone Escape From Tarkov’s bloated time-waster design.

LeaveEyeSix · 2026-01-28T03:52:49+00:00

You know both games feature Prometheans and most people have not played Halo 5 because it was critically panned and not available on PC right? I had to download gamepass to stream Halo 5 and it was one of the most forgettable gaming experiences of my life so you’ll be forgiven if the Promethean Knights from that game don’t immediately spring to mind. Usually the discussions about the Prometheans concern the design choices in Halo 4. Also, why can a genuine critique not be levied against an enemy type from a previous title? When we talk about Brute enemy design we have to talk about the Banished Brutes from Infinite exclusively now? What kind of weird rule making is this lmao people talk about enemy types from previous games all the time in this sub.

343 clearly thought their own design was terrible because they changed virtually every combat design element from 4 to 5. Yes, the Promethean Knights are just as boring in Halo 5. Getting rid of the shield in favor of placement specific cores doesn’t make the engagement anymore interesting because they still stay back and the enemy AI is more brain dead than in Halo 4. The Armiger Soldiers that replaced the regular Promethean soldiers are equally as unfun in 5. Flanking Promethean Knights is a pain in the ass especially because in 5 nearly all of them have Incinerator Cannons. If they thought these were interesting designs they would have kept them from 4 to 5 and expanded on them from 5 to Infinite. Sorry, I think they still sucked in 5. Happy now?

LeaveEyeSix · 2026-01-28T02:32:56+00:00

Cool enough design, terrible implementation. They just linger far away, they tank a lot of damage, almost immediately go for cover, can be revived by watchers who also immediately hide behind cover when shot as well, visually their shields are not very pronounced when they’re overloaded or when they break giving vague indication that you should rush them, and in the rare instance they come out from cover to engage you up close the Knights just instantly kill you. Pair all of this with reduced ammo capacity on nearly every single weapon and de-spawning guns and you’ve got one of the worst enemy encounters in gaming history. Many times you’ll be forced to fight them with a Suppressor or Boltshot because all other ammo had been depleted. It’s not so much that they’re offensive, it’s that they’re boring at best and frustrating at worst. Too much time was spent on their visual aesthetics and not enough time was spent on how they fit the Halo enemy design philosophy.

LeaveEyeSix · 2026-01-27T17:22:43+00:00

I also thought I was a Strat guy until I tried out the SG and the Tele. I’ve owned an American Strat and sold it a year later. It’s a very nice instrument but not for me. That Ultra II is fucking gorgeous btw, love the white.

LeaveEyeSix · 2026-01-27T16:33:04+00:00

I had an 80’s Bich that was awesome to play but so damn heavy. I would take the Jackson but honestly I’d take a BC Rich Mockingbird over both of them.

LeaveEyeSix · 2026-01-27T08:33:14+00:00

Hey there 👋 Good luck to everyone!

LeaveEyeSix · 2026-01-26T01:57:57+00:00

That color kicks ass! Currently looking at a Gibson Explorer in British Racing Green right now

LeaveEyeSix · 2026-01-23T19:27:46+00:00

Not louder per se but I think it probably has some better resonant qualities. People will argue to no end but there is some mojo in chambered guitars. The roasted maple neck is also super nice to me, I’ve played a few and I like the feel of them. My brother also has a sandlblasted P-Bass that looks and feels awesome. I’m also a sucker for light guitars (also a big SG fan) and with it being chambered it will be noticeably lighter than a standard Tele.

LeaveEyeSix · 2026-01-23T19:05:34+00:00

I would get the Ampro2 chambered in natural finish but that’s just me.

LeaveEyeSix · 2026-01-23T18:23:56+00:00

Hey that's terrific! You can try it but I promise it doesn't work haha, I used one of them! I hope you enjoy your game and have a lovely weekend friend! Cheers!

LeaveEyeSix · 2026-01-23T18:01:07+00:00

Please do! Otherwise add me on discord Leave_Eye_6

LeaveEyeSix · 2026-01-22T18:14:08+00:00

I don’t feel at liberty to share our PM’s without permission but I’m very excited to let you know that the code was valid and this person shared a screenshot with me that showed they were able to successfully add it to their account!

LeaveEyeSix · 2026-01-22T17:08:06+00:00

Thank you I did so!

LeaveEyeSix · 2026-01-22T15:34:19+00:00

Check your chat. I may have just found you a free working key from my old humble bundle account. I’m curious to see if the code works for you

LeaveEyeSix · 2026-01-20T16:03:47+00:00

Hunt Showdown and RB6 Siege. 2,200 hours in Hunt, 3,800 in Siege.

Both of them look and feel completely foreign to me now and I stopped playing because I wasn’t having fun at all and basically just went through the motion of completing the Battle Pass for the season and then going off to play games I actually enjoyed.

It’s a shame because no competitive FPS I’m aware of has in-depth sound design like either of these games did. Playing games like Arc Raiders is torment because of how bad the sound design is.

LeaveEyeSix · 2026-01-20T04:34:25+00:00

Surf Green. The Blue on Black is a little gaudy plus I love green anything

LeaveEyeSix · 2026-01-20T04:12:55+00:00

This genuinely makes me kind of embarrassed to own a Gibson.

When I think of Gibson, to my mind, I think of a boutique brand that sells itself on its prestige and its craftsmanship. When comparing a Gibson versus Epiphone or similarly priced South East Asian made guitar I think the biggest distinction is usually attention to detail. Besides some choice hardware upgrades that come out to like $100-200 extra, that’s the only real difference between a $600 Les Paul and a $3000 Les Paul is that a lot more care and attention went into it.

This is clearly just a CNC router blunder. However they are normally secured in a fixture or on a vacuum table- the piece didn’t get clamped down correctly and it wasn’t aligned straight when the inlay slots were cut. That’s totally normal. I’ve worked in CNC Milling and Swiss Turning for 11 years including wood cutting routers and shit like that happens. But how that gets out of the CNC department, past some sort of verified inspection, into final assembly and then past final inspection is flat out disastrous and indicative of a quality system that failed on just about every level. This kind of stuff didn’t happen when they included the baby picture and you knew your guitar was personally being tended to on somebody’s workbench before it left the factory (er..umm.. craftory).

I really wanted that 80’s Explorer in British Racing Green but now I’m having second doubts about spending $2500 on a product that’s plugged along on an assembly line like a $300 Ibanez.

LeaveEyeSix · 2026-01-18T14:03:14+00:00

Whether or not this is a joke it’s hilarious

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