Update: New Guitar

[dwenius]

Good call. This one will keep me pretty happy, as guitars go, for quite some time. It doesn't replace the Peavey, but it gives me scads of new sounds to explore. The serial coil setup is interesting, the serial and out-of-phase setup is weird, half the volume and quackier than anything. The pure humbucking sounds are marvelous, but not overwhelming; these are not the hottest pickups on the planet. The pre-amp is gritty in a good way, and has enough gain to drive a professional set of headphones! The 3 band eq I am just beginning to explore.

Two complaints, so far: First, I am having some difficulty adjusting to the 24.75" scale and the whole 24 fret thing. I keep grabbing for the octave and getting the 15th fret. Oops. Second, It is kinda heavy. I have a stretchy padded strap on it now, that is helping a lot,

All in all, a nice last self-gift before the house-poverty.

Comments

[damienw]

Thanks for that. Etys are at the top of my shopping list for the next time I need to spend more than an hour on a plane, but at the moment I am mostly interested in a set of cans for hiding away in my "study", adjacent to the music room where the pianist works. Also I am modding a theremin at the moment, and as I start to learn to play that I figure no-one else needs to hear it...