7/4 Posted March 30, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 30, 2008 The Gretsch Synchromatic. Cropped. Perfect for the desktop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7/4 Posted March 30, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 30, 2008 400C SYNCHROMATIC 400 CUTAWAY Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7/4 Posted March 30, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 30, 2008 400C SYNCHROMATIC 400 CUTAWAY back Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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7/4 Posted March 30, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 30, 2008 Gretsch Synchromatic 'Cat Eye' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFrank Posted March 31, 2008 Report Share Posted March 31, 2008 So, what are all these guitars? Is there a theme? Or just cool looking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7/4 Posted March 31, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 31, 2008 So, what are all these guitars? Is there a theme? Or just cool looking. All of them were photos that were sitting on my hard drive that I thought were cool in some way, they're all archtops - jazz guitars. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7/4 Posted March 31, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 31, 2008 Danelectro with custom paint. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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7/4 Posted March 31, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 31, 2008 Ren and Stempy Stratocaster. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7/4 Posted March 31, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 31, 2008 Epiphone Recording style B, ca 1929. I've never seen one of these. Looks real modern, in fact. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFrank Posted April 2, 2008 Report Share Posted April 2, 2008 Another nice, black Tele. This one is not quite available yet, but is due out soon. It's a "Jim Root" model. Love that black hardware. Seems to be retailing for about $900. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn Posted April 2, 2008 Report Share Posted April 2, 2008 A tele with EMG pickups...hmmm....now you've got ME interested in the thing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AllenLowe Posted April 2, 2008 Report Share Posted April 2, 2008 too much ceramic in them there pickups - it's why guitarists tend to all sound the same today - beat 'em with mids and distortion pedals - Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn Posted April 2, 2008 Report Share Posted April 2, 2008 too much ceramic in them there pickups - it's why guitarists tend to all sound the same today - beat 'em with mids and distortion pedals - I play without distortion about 90% of the time, the EMGs I have sound really nice in my old Gibson. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7/4 Posted April 2, 2008 Author Report Share Posted April 2, 2008 too much ceramic in them there pickups - it's why guitarists tend to all sound the same today - beat 'em with mids and distortion pedals - I play without distortion about 90% of the time, the EMGs I have sound really nice in my old Gibson. I play without distortion about 99.99% of the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AllenLowe Posted April 2, 2008 Report Share Posted April 2, 2008 well, no offense intended, guys - and I do like distortion, but the kind you get by playing too loud - and not pre-amp distortion, which is, to me, just annoying buzzing - gotta hear it from the power tubes - Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzbo Posted April 2, 2008 Report Share Posted April 2, 2008 I've got an EMG Select "J" pickup on my "Wishbass" built by Wishnevsky, really nice pickup! Hey there's good preamp tube distortion too (imo), there's a place for it all in making sound. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7/4 Posted April 2, 2008 Author Report Share Posted April 2, 2008 well, no offense intended, guys - and I do like distortion, but the kind you get by playing too loud - and not pre-amp distortion, which is, to me, just annoying buzzing - gotta hear it from the power tubes - No shit speedo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimi089 Posted April 2, 2008 Report Share Posted April 2, 2008 well, no offense intended, guys - and I do like distortion, but the kind you get by playing too loud - and not pre-amp distortion, which is, to me, just annoying buzzing - gotta hear it from the power tubes - Right, which is why I prefer lower wattage amps so you can get the power tubes really cooking. Also, let's make a distinction between overdrive, which is what you're getting when you get the tubes hot and push them, with a distortion which can really just be signal processing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AllenLowe Posted April 2, 2008 Report Share Posted April 2, 2008 (edited) don't get mad anybody, but I pre-amp distortion annoys me no end, and at the risk of offending the few people here who still like me, I'll tell you why - to me pre-amp distortion is the sound of a certain kind of non-funky suburban rock, a middle-class version of real tube distortion, because it allows you to get noise at polite sound levels, since it's so much easier to overload the pre-amp tubes; and this kind of distortion is mono-chromatic, it doesn't breathe like true over-drive, which is a wonderfully compressed, bottom-up sound. Pre amp distortion is is from the top down sonically; it's cold and, to my ears, lacks the courage of its own muscial convictions - going after power tube distortion, on the other hand, feels, from my musical point of view, like Ornette summoning up the Southwewestern blues cries of the past in his alto tone - to me power tube distortion done right conjures up Pat Hare and Hubert Sumlin and Willie Johnson - I do, however, like old-fashioned fuzz - and watch what you say about my speedo - Edited April 2, 2008 by AllenLowe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn Posted April 2, 2008 Report Share Posted April 2, 2008 What type of music you're playing I believe is also a factor for this. If you're playing blues then overdriven tubes would fit the bill...but if you're playing thrash or something then signal processing is what you want (distortion, compression, boost highs, boost lows, cut out all midrange, etc). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AllenLowe Posted April 2, 2008 Report Share Posted April 2, 2008 (edited) and just to add, Danimal, I agree, though when I say distortion I am referring, as well, to that produced by driving the amp's power tubes - though of course there is the kind produced by pedals through a bumping up of certain (mid) frequencies - Edited April 2, 2008 by AllenLowe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AllenLowe Posted April 2, 2008 Report Share Posted April 2, 2008 (edited) I do like thrash, which to me at least tries to push the envelope - and does use the forbidden (pre-amp) distortion) - so I guess there are exceptions - though there's still nothing like the real thing, which would probably work great with thrashers of the world - Edited April 2, 2008 by AllenLowe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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