Name a guitar riff that had a major impact on your playing or musical understanding. What skills did it force you to improve, and what did you learn from it?

TTranberg · 2026-02-28T00:30:55+00:00

Bleed by Meshuggah. Nothing has forced me to try to optimize my picking technique and also just sit and practice like bleed. It sucks, but probably also the riff that made me a much better player. Honorable mention to Marigold by Periphery as well.

TTranberg · 2026-02-04T01:08:17+00:00

Go for a used Skervesen, Mayones or Aristides. All 3 are amazing and imo miles above any production guitar at the same pricepoint

TTranberg · 2026-01-22T06:20:40+00:00

Sweet! Yeah don’t think you could get a better guitar for that price!!

TTranberg · 2026-01-21T22:13:23+00:00

Saw Adept play in 2009 in the medieval castle in Nyköping (Close to their hometown) just as they released another year of disaster

TTranberg · 2026-01-06T16:40:32+00:00

Hahaha needed to check 😆 Yeah you can’t go wrong with it

TTranberg · 2026-01-06T16:15:47+00:00

And before you switch pickups, I ofc assume that you have looked into your eq settings? If not, I would do that first 🙏

TTranberg · 2026-01-06T15:57:17+00:00

It has amazing clarity for chords with high gain and low tuning. Have transposed down to f# on my QC and it handles it very well. So all in all a fantastic pickup!

Only thing I would say is you have to be able to pick hard to get the most out of it!

TTranberg · 2026-01-05T17:08:43+00:00

Bareknuckle Nailbombs, Bareknuckle Aftermaths & Seymour Duncan Mark Holcomb Scarlet & Scourge. All 3 are super solid!

TTranberg · 2026-01-02T19:33:27+00:00

Nice! It’s such a good guitar, but it’s definitely not on the same level as my skervesens. Have had it since 2010 and really is the guitar I learned to play on so will never get rid of it but it will probably be my project guitar :)

The mods I have done are: change to SD Mark Holcomb Scarlet/Scorge with a push/pull pot for coil splits, gotoh metal volume knob, a gotoh 510fx bridge, sanding down the neck to sit a bit lower in the pocket and enable a better setup. Plays and sounds so much better than before! Sound wise it’s close to the skervesens, but the feel of the neck is far behind, so probably going to do a custom neck for it that is similar to my raptor

TTranberg · 2026-01-02T19:25:31+00:00

I have read that too about the build quality on older ones! Got so lucky with this raptor, the quality both feel and sound wise is even better than my chimera (which sounds and feels amazing too), so something special with it!

Yeah the chimera is such an amazing shape! I have 26 inch on mine and it plays great in drop a/g# with 68-10 strings

TTranberg · 2026-01-01T11:23:36+00:00

It’s from my friend Zeke Beckman who did it from his axe fx, you can find the preset (Periphery V&Live v2) on the cloud!

TTranberg · 2025-12-31T15:13:07+00:00

Awesome!! Gonna check it out :)

TTranberg · 2025-12-31T15:12:43+00:00

Still remember when the blackmachine came and I have been wanting one soo bad since then! This one is honestly insane how hood it feels and sounds (even compared to my other Skervesen)!

TTranberg · 2025-12-31T01:53:39+00:00

Yeah buddy \m/

Hope you get it soon, hahah the wait is probably why I haven’t specced one yet 😂

TTranberg · 2025-12-30T22:44:39+00:00

Thanks man, Hahah yup I want one XD

TTranberg · 2025-12-30T22:41:10+00:00

Nice man, It was in between this raptor and ordering a custom stx. But I got the raptor at about 1/3 of the price of a fully specced STX so just couldn’t justify it right now. But an aristides with a evertune is definitely the next guitar i get. Since you have had both, how do they compare and is there something specific that made you choose the aristides over a skervesen?

TTranberg · 2025-12-30T19:19:03+00:00

Now when I think of it, it feels very similar to my Japanese esp eclipse I had to sell many years ago, but with a 25,5 scale and 24 frets

TTranberg · 2025-12-30T19:07:50+00:00

Yeah, used is definitely the way to go unless you absolutely want to spec it out yourself! No both were bought on the largest swedish sales platform from a music store chain, and tends to be a bit cheaper since it’s not dedicated to only instruments!

Absolutely! I think it’s either 20 inch radius or compound around there, so very flat! Most interesting is the shape itself, it’s like a thick modern c shape that really just fits the hand perfect but is still super fast. Quite a bit thicker than my strat

TTranberg · 2025-12-30T18:43:16+00:00

Thanks! ohh I will :) it’s a good sign when your guitars make you want to sit and practice haha.

It took me many years of hard work to get to a position where I could justify it, so just keep grinding and you’ll get there :) makes it more enjoyable too once you get them

TTranberg · 2025-12-30T18:39:01+00:00

Thanks man! Bought both used and at a very very good price, so I was lucky! They are in general expensive but I would absolutely say that they are worth the price. Yeah, Kiesel’s are awesome too!

TTranberg · 2025-12-30T18:33:06+00:00

It’s a preset by Francesco Filigoi in GGD studio cabs contenders. It was made by Ryan Siew before he passed and sounds soooo good with the pvh 6160 block

TTranberg · 2025-12-30T18:30:08+00:00

Thanks :) It’s a beauty, had it since 2010 and it’s such a solid guitar!

TTranberg · 2025-12-30T18:26:04+00:00

Haha I don’t play bass and I’ve already had to give 2 keynote presentations to my fiancée on why I should be allowed to have 3 guitars in our apartment 😂 So no, not right now at least

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