The Secret Room

Since January 1st, we have had people discover great treasure from Schecter, Seymour Duncan, Cort, Richmond, Guitarings, Jarrell and US Music Corp. We’ve had ten winners who have won sweet new gear that will help them improve their tone in the coming year. In the final voyage of The Great Tone Treasure Hunt, we set sail for ‘The Secret Room’. A place where you can share and discover some amazing tone secrets, and where some famous musicians have shared their closely guarded secrets.

By sharing your tone secret, you will have a chance to win this beautiful Godin Summit CT and several sets of Seymour Duncan pickups as runner-up prizes.

Click here to share your secret and access The Secret Room.

3 Comments, Written on January 31st, 2012 , CLUE Tags: , ,
Treasure Found – Richmond Guitars Canada

John Baum Wins!

Congratulations to John Baum who has won a Belmont from Richmond in the Great Tone Treasure Hunt. The Belmont features 24 3/4″ scale, two Seymour Duncan Lipstick Tubes, a ’59 in the bridge, bolt-on neck, 5-way selector switch, Ergocut rosewood fingerboard, high-ratio tuning machines, a chrome roller bridge with fixed tailpiece and a Nordic white pickguard and truss rod cover. Click here for more information on the Belmont.

Here are the answers to the clues:

Clue #1: Best in show, retro, bolt on-neck, Nordic pickguard. — This refers to the Dorchester, selected Best in Show at NAMM and featuring cool retro styling. It also has a bolt-on-neck and a Nordic pickguard.

Clue #2: Rock like ’59 and 5-way. — This refers to the prize guitar (Belmont), which features a Seymour Duncan ’59 pickup and a 5-way selector switch.

Clue #3: Command an audience under a single supreme authority and a silver maple leaf.  — This refers to the Empire, with the first line being a standard definition of the word Empire and the silver maple leaf being a feature of the guitar.

Thanks to everyone who participated in the hunt. Be sure to check out the Richmond website and ‘like‘ them on Facebook. Our final and longest voyage begins tomorrow and we hope you will come along!

 

 

 

 

 

Written on January 30th, 2012 , Treasure FOUND! Tags: , , , , , , ,
The Great Richmond Guitars Canada Treasure Hunt

Welcome to the Richmond treasure hunt! Answer the three clues below in order to get your chance at winning this beautiful Belmont which features a bolt-on-neck, 5-way selector, and 3 Seymour Duncan pickups. Once you have found the answers to the three clues, submit them on the ‘Dig for Treasure menu‘. Remember, the ‘Tone Carta‘ is a valueable resource to help narrow down what the clues might be.

Clue #1: Best in show, retro, bolt on-neck, nordic pickguard.

Clue #2: Rock like ’59 and 5-way.

Clue #3: Command an audience under a single supreme authority and a silver maple leaf.

Don’t forget to check out Richmond’s website to research what the answer might be.

Rules: Open to USA/Canada. Contest runs until 1/30/12 at 10 am. You may update your answer at anytime. Winner will be selected at random among those who got the correct answers.

Written on January 25th, 2012 , CLUE Tags:
Treasure Found – Seymour Duncan

Congratulations to Osvaldo Torres of Puerto Rico for winning a set of pickups in The Great Tone Treasure Hunt. He followed the link back to the Seymour Duncan forum and correctly found the three pickups David Orpheus was looking for. The Seymour Duncan forum is a great assest for anyone doing research, or wanting to discuss pickups, guitars and gear. With nearly 30,000 users, you are sure to get a wide variety of opinions from people who share similar music tastes, guitars or have dealt with wiring issues that you are experiencing.

Here are the posts from David Orpheus and the answers:

CLUE #1: Maybe I’m just indecisive, but I’m having a hard time deciding which SD replacement pups I want to put in a funky old Aria Pro II I just picked up at a yard sale for fifty bucks. I was thinking P-90s, but I’d hate to give up a full humbucker sound. And I wouldn’t mind if there was some way to get a cool single-coil split. I wish there was some way I could get all three tones! Any advice, guys? – The Seymour Duncan P-Rails is a full-size humbucker that splits to either a “real deal” P-90 or a traditional single coil.

CLUE #2:  PANTERA RULEZ 4EVER! THERE NEVER WILL BE ANOTHER DIMEBAG! EVERYONE WHO TRIES IS JUST A PENNYBAG! HOW CAN I GET HIS SOUND??!? — Dimebag Darrell of Pantera used the Dimebucker in the bridge which is a hard-hitting high output pickup.

CLUE #3: My uncle Pete just GAVE me his 40-year old Gibson SG! Can you believe it? It’s not exactly perfect — he sanded off the finish, painted it fuchsia, and lacquered it up with the safe varnish he uses on his boat. The original pickups are long gone — he traded them for some super-mega-distorto crap back in the ’80s. I want to restore it to its original glory, though it’s never gonna look new again. What’s a good old-school pickup with a cool aged look? - A good fit for David would be the Antiquity series of pickups which combine the vintage tone of the ’50s and ’60s with the aged look of vintage pickups.

Thanks to all who stopped by the Seymour Duncan Forum. The Richmond Guitars Treasure Hunt begins tomorrow!

 

Written on January 24th, 2012 , Treasure FOUND!
The Great Seymour Duncan Treasure Hunt

The Seymour Duncan Forum has long been considered a place where you can get a diversity of experienced opinions to any of your pickup and guitar questions. One man has travelled from the far distant future to get his tonal questions answered, locate the posts by David Orpheus and find the pickups he needs. Once you have done so, submit them into the ‘Dig for Treasure‘ menu. You can use the ‘Tone Carta‘ to help narrow down what he might be looking for. The Seymour Duncan website will assist you in your research.

Start here

Rules: Open WORLDWIDE, hunt ends on 1/23/12 at 10am PST. Winner will be selected of all correct entries. You may update your answer at anytime. Pickups cannot be Custom Shop.

UPDATE: Hunt extended until 1/24/12 at 10am PST.

Written on January 20th, 2012 , CLUE
Treasure Found – Schecter Guitars

Congratulations to Doug Stewart who won a Solo-6 Black SGR. Our swag winner is Justin Kavathas who was selected at random. Here are the answers to the clues.

 

CLUE #1:

Two F-Holes, Hold the Tremolo.  (This refers to the Corsair, which has two F-Holes but not a tremolo, the only one on the Tone Carta.


CLUE #2:

The Winged Skulls on this Signature Model are a real ‘Pickup’. (This refers to the Zacky Vengeance 6661, but Zacky Vengeance works too!)


CLUE #3:

This Beauty below is ‘by Schecter’ ___ Right… From the Start. More than just ‘beginners’ luck. (The picture below was of the new SGR line by Schecter, which is also the prize guitar.)

Thanks to all who played! Go ‘like‘ Schecter on Facebook for more cool gutiars and news. Stay tuned for the next hunt  tomorrow!


 

 

 

Written on January 19th, 2012 , Treasure FOUND! Tags:
The Great Schecter Treasure Hunt

Click HERE to begin your hunt on Schecter’s Facebook page. A new clue will be posted each hour until all three clues have been posted. Once you have found and answered all three clues, visit the ‘Dig for Treasure‘ menu to submit them. Remember, the ‘Tone Carta‘ is a valueable resource to help narrow down what the answer might be. For researching clues, look to the Schecter Guitar Research website.

Rules: Open to USA/Canada. Entry period closes on Thursday at 10am PST. You may update your answer at anytime. The winner will be selected randomly among all correct entries.

13 Comments, Written on January 17th, 2012 , CLUE
TREASURE FOUND – US MUSIC CORP

 

Congratulations to the winner of the US Music Corp Treasure Hunt who discovered a WD10S from Washburn Guitars. The WD10s is a Mahogany Dreadnought style guitar with a Solid Alaskan Sitka Spruce top, die cast chrome tuners, two way truss-rod, Rosewood fingerboard and bridge with bone nut and saddle and Rosewood capped headstock with MOP Washburn logo & stylized W inlay. For more information about the WD10s, click here.

Clue 1: This clue refers to the Idol series of electric gutiars, click here to check them out.

This clue refered to the prize, a WD10s acoustic guitar. Click here to learn more.

Clue 3: This clue refered to the RX series of electric guitars. Click here to see more.

Thanks to everyone for taking part and don’t forget to ‘like‘ Washburn Guitars on Facebook! Our next voyage begins tomorrow with Schecter Guitars.

Written on January 16th, 2012 , Treasure FOUND!
The Great US Music Corp Treasure Hunt

The land of US Music Corp is one that is filled with many places musical insturment players recgnoize, including: Washburn Guitars, Randall, Marshall, Parker Guitars, Jay Turser Guitars and many more.

Ready for the clues? Head over to Washburn’s Facebook page and find the 3 photo clues (or watch for them shortly). Once you have located the answers, visit the ‘Dig for Treasure‘ menu. Remember, the Tone Carta will help you narrow down and find out what the clues might be.

Rules: USA only. Treasure hunt ends at 10am (PST) on 1/16/12 and the winner will be announced shortly thereafter. Winner is selected at random among all correct answers. You may update your answer at anytime.

Need help finding the answers? Check out the Washburn website.

Written on January 13th, 2012 , CLUE
Treasure Found – Guitarings

 

 

It didn’t take long for Al to figure out the answers to the three clues after the Guitarings video was posted. Ward got the correct answers and was selected at random among those who also got them correct. They will both be receiving a set of JB/’59 or a similar set of their choice. Here is the original video below which had the clues.

 

Here is the answer to clue #1:

Here is the answer to clue #2:

Troy Gentile: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1795630/

Here is the answer to clue #3:

Custom Agent was a line of guitars created by Ibanez. Don’t forget to check out more of John Konesky’s music on iTunes.

Thanks to our friends at Guitarings and onward we go to our next Great Tone Treasure Hunt – US Music Corp, home of Washburn Guitars. Stop by tomorrow to join our next adventure.



Written on January 12th, 2012 , Treasure FOUND! Tags:
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