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The story
In the Nandemo Jikkyo (Anything Goes Live) forum, a user showed off a newly bought electric guitar with a neon-colored body, sparking a lively thread. The user said their mother called it a “gross color,” but other users quickly recognized it as a TAK signature model, and the discussion grew to cover topics like restringing a Floyd Rose tremolo and choosing a multi-effects unit.
Other participants also shared photos of their own guitars and Playtech (a budget guitar brand) instruments, and the conversation continued with talk about gear for recreating the sound of bands like B’z and GLAY.
What people said
Jangling and shredding is fun
What's the story there?
It's an old guitar that's not sold anymore
https://tadaup.jp/8cp3Fzqs.jpeg
That's an MG-M2!
TAK's old signature model, right?
Restringing looks like a pain — you doing okay with it?
That's the Matsumoto model!
Seriously, that's a color worth celebrating!!
Apparently every single one of them
is one of a kind
Oh, and I see you're running a Mooer GE300 down at your feet —
I saw that on YouTube and was curious about it
I wanna hear you play it
That's right, I got the MG-M2G ✌
I was pretty nervous about my first guitar ever having a Floyd Rose, but apparently with this Floyd Rose-type you don't have to cut the ball end off the strings, so it turned out to be surprisingly easy
If you don't have to cut the ball end off, that makes it easy!
Yamaha's Rockin' Magic strings
work whether you cut it or not
I really can't nail the vibrato on that riff, it's tough…
I've got a Playtech I borrowed from my brother too!
Let's see it
I've been wanting a Playtech SG lately
I hate side-mounted jacks on the body
I like top-mounted ones
so I've basically only ever bought Strats
Telecasters were nice too
but I let mine go for the reason above
It's such a convenient, easy-to-use Floyd Rose type, but it's a bummer it's not compatible with the original or GOTOH parts
If it were compatible,
Yamaha would probably get sued lol
I mean it's already over 7 years old at this point, so it's kind of outdated
these days there are better ones for cheaper
SONICAKE's QME-20 looks pretty solid, for instance
Yeah, seems like buying a newer multi-effects unit really is cheaper and performs better
It's a digital product after all,
it gets outdated fast
Honestly you're better off just buying whatever's newest at the time
If you're not playing in front of people,
do you even need a multi-effects unit?
I've got a ZOOM bass multi-effects unit hooked up to my guitar
one with a built-in looper
actually I only bought it for the looper function,
but I've never once used it as a looper lol
the presets sound really good,
so I own two of them — one just for presets
and I use the other to dial in my own tone
I polished it out with some compound and got away with it
Looks like a doorknob (lol)
I was going to take a photo, but I'd been practicing my cutting technique even though I'm bad at it, and my right hand started bleeding and got blood all over the body, making it look gross, so I gave up…
That's a shame
Is it a Les Paul?
My ID is TMG (lol)
It's a cheap little red Strat lol
I just happened to see it on YouTube — there was someone using a Mooer GE300 to recreate early B'z's Rockman sound, and I thought I wanted to copy that, so I've been going back and forth on it. But even though it's old, it's not exactly cheap either, so I'm still torn
Ah, I see
For a B'z sound, there was a video by a guy named Yuji Imanishi recreating it with a multi-effects unit
can't remember which one it was, though
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ECog4d0UcAEuz3-.jpg
That exact image popped into my head earlier when I was taking my photo lol
Isn't this the one with the Azu-nyan (K-On! character) speech pattern meme?
That's a nostalgic image lol
Ah, so it's HISASHI
I've got a 5150 II head at home, so I'll give it a shot too! Though I'm pretty new to GLAY
Background and Key Points
Buys were prompted by a fairly ordinary gear-flex thread, but the model chatter underneath it needs some unpacking for a non-Japanese reader. Posters identify the guitar as an old signature model tied to Tak Matsumoto (“TAK”), guitarist of B’z — the two-person rock act (with vocalist Koshi Inaba) that is one of the best-selling music groups in Japanese history, built around a technical, effects-driven guitar style with roots in 1980s Rockman processors. That pedigree is why the thread pivots so fast from a “gross color” joke into serious gear talk: Floyd Rose-style locking tremolos, prized for dive-bombing without going out of tune but notorious for slow, fiddly restringing since the string locks at the bridge and nut instead of just winding onto a tuning peg; and floor multi-effects units like the Mooer GE300, which model amps and stompboxes in one box, an approach much home-practice guitar culture in Japan leans on instead of mic’ing a real amp.
The actual disagreement in the thread is narrower than “the guitar looks cool” — it’s whether an aging modeler like the seven-plus-year-old GE300 is still worth owning when newer, cheaper units (posters name SONICAKE’s QME-20) reportedly outperform it, with some arguing digital gear ages out fast and you should just buy whatever’s current, and one poster countering that non-performing bedroom players may not need a dedicated multi-effects unit at all.
What’s easy to miss without band context: TAK and GLAY’s guitarist HISASHI are separate figures from separate bands — B’z and GLAY were rival chart-toppers through the 1990s and 2000s — so chasing “early B’z” Rockman tone versus dialing in an EVH 5150-based “HISASHI” amp setting are two distinct target sounds, not one player’s career. Also unstated: locking-tremolo hardware being non-interchangeable across brands is an industry-wide norm, not a Yamaha quirk, which is why a “no need to cut the ball end” convenience becomes a minor selling point rather than a given.
*This article is compiled from excerpts and a summary of the 5ch (Nandemo Jikkyo G) thread “I Bought an Electric Guitar!!!”.
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