{"id":200,"date":"2007-06-25T20:11:23","date_gmt":"2007-06-26T03:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=200"},"modified":"2007-06-25T20:21:46","modified_gmt":"2007-06-26T03:21:46","slug":"lammy-gets-an-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=200","title":{"rendered":"Lammy gets an upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yay, a game! Time to play Spot the Difference:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/lammy\/blue_knobs_old.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/lammy\/blue_knobs_new.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you said &#8220;Hey, that second photo has totally bitchin&#8217; new DiMarzio blue speed knobs,&#8221; you&#8217;re right. (And if you noticed that the words &#8220;Seymour Duncan&#8221; no longer appear on the middle pickup, the selector switch is in a different position, the background towel is now a blanket, and the strings are now coated blue instead of plain silver, you&#8217;re also right on all counts, and possibly a little too detail-oriented, but your name is almost certainly <a href=\"http:\/\/reviews.teamxbox.com\/xbox-360\/1311\/Guitar-Hero-II\/p1\/\" target=\"_blank\">Andy Eddy<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>I love custom knobs and have swapped many out. I used to have custom knobs on the Strat and took them off, but all the ESP Semi-Acoustics got knob upgrades right away and it was for the better. With Lammy, they needed to stay blue to match the game, but I was never thrilled with the Strat-style knobs that came with it (especially since the middle control, which said &#8220;Tone,&#8221; became a volume knob in my custom wiring configuration). The only replacement knobs I&#8217;d ever seen looked worse. So when I spotted these knobs in a catalog, I had to get them, and they look bigger and even more cartoony than the stock ones. Plus, there&#8217;s an added bonus upon close inspection:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/lammy\/blue_knobs_new2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One louder. You&#8217;re all the way up on your guitar, all the way up, all the way up, <em>all <\/em>the way up&#8230;where can you go? Nowhere. What we do, when we need that extra&#8230;push, over the cliff? Eleven. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Spinal_Tap\" target=\"_blank\">Exactly.<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yay, a game! Time to play Spot the Difference: If you said &#8220;Hey, that second photo has totally bitchin&#8217; new DiMarzio blue speed knobs,&#8221; you&#8217;re right. (And if you noticed that the words &#8220;Seymour Duncan&#8221; no longer appear on the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=200\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}