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re: How do you buy guitars?
Posted on 5/26/22 at 4:20 pm to AlxTgr
Posted on 5/26/22 at 4:20 pm to AlxTgr
The best strat-style guitar I've ever touched in my life is my 1996 G&L Legacy. I am so lucky to be its owner. I overhauled the electronics (my Carondelet S trio w/Gilmour switch), I refinished the neck in Danish oil, and I refretted it with the biggest jumbos in existence.
I used to say G&L was Fender Custom Shop quality at Fender USA production line prices, but I haven't checked new prices or tracked used prices in ages and I don't see as many new USA G&Ls as I used to. I mostly see Tributes in recent years and for good reason, they are excellent instruments in their own right and great values at their price points.
The pros for G&L USA are neck contours to absolutely die for comfort-wise and the Dual Fulcrum, which is among the best feeling and operating non-locking vibrato systems to be found as stock equipment.
Cons are G&L's proprietary electronics (me and many others find them very bright, borderline icy) and weights that can be all over the place. If you are fickle for your guitar's weight, ask before you commit to any G&L, particularly their ash bodied guitars.
I used to say G&L was Fender Custom Shop quality at Fender USA production line prices, but I haven't checked new prices or tracked used prices in ages and I don't see as many new USA G&Ls as I used to. I mostly see Tributes in recent years and for good reason, they are excellent instruments in their own right and great values at their price points.
The pros for G&L USA are neck contours to absolutely die for comfort-wise and the Dual Fulcrum, which is among the best feeling and operating non-locking vibrato systems to be found as stock equipment.
Cons are G&L's proprietary electronics (me and many others find them very bright, borderline icy) and weights that can be all over the place. If you are fickle for your guitar's weight, ask before you commit to any G&L, particularly their ash bodied guitars.
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Posted on 5/27/22 at 3:42 pm to TheFretShack
Why do you like Jumbo Frets
Posted on 5/27/22 at 8:43 pm to The Dunder Mifflin
I browse Sweetwater, buy the ones I think I like, play the one I really like, and hang the rest on my wall to look cool. True story.
The last time I walked into a Guitar Center looking for nothing specific but just in the mood to find a guitar to buy, what I found was basically a Walmart for $200-300 guitars. It was sad.
The last time I walked into a Guitar Center looking for nothing specific but just in the mood to find a guitar to buy, what I found was basically a Walmart for $200-300 guitars. It was sad.
This post was edited on 5/28/22 at 6:36 am
Posted on 5/28/22 at 5:49 am to TheFretShack
Do these stiffen a neck like bar frets on an old acoustic? Or more about feel, play ability or tone?
Posted on 5/28/22 at 3:32 pm to awestruck
I like jumbos because you can get super low action for effortless fretting and still get your fingertips "under" the strings a little for big bending and aggressive vibrato.
Posted on 5/29/22 at 8:42 am to AlxTgr
They have a music store in Pineville?
Posted on 5/29/22 at 9:40 am to TheFretShack
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w/Gilmour switch),
See this all the time? Forgive my ignorance. Is it a treble boost, bleed, allows you to play neck and bridge together, or does it involve anything that needs a battery?
Posted on 5/29/22 at 11:09 am to LSU alum wannabe
The Gilmour switch (called that because he made it popular) turns the neck pickup on, regardless of where the blade switch sits.
That allows two pickup selections a normal five-way blade switch cannot do ...
* bridge position on blade + Gilmour switch makes neck + bridge pickups. To get a Telecaster's "both pickups" tones) and
* bridge + middle on blade + Gilmour switch gets all three pickups simultaneously. Which gets the cleanest of cleans with an almost acoustic-like timbre.
You can add the switch discreetly with a $10 push-pull pot if you don't want the extra $4 switch on your guard. Either way, it's two jumper wires and four solder joints under the hood. Totally passive, no battery.
This is by far the best bang for the buck and subsequently the most frequent modification I do on SSS guitars in my shop.
That allows two pickup selections a normal five-way blade switch cannot do ...
* bridge position on blade + Gilmour switch makes neck + bridge pickups. To get a Telecaster's "both pickups" tones) and
* bridge + middle on blade + Gilmour switch gets all three pickups simultaneously. Which gets the cleanest of cleans with an almost acoustic-like timbre.
You can add the switch discreetly with a $10 push-pull pot if you don't want the extra $4 switch on your guard. Either way, it's two jumper wires and four solder joints under the hood. Totally passive, no battery.
This is by far the best bang for the buck and subsequently the most frequent modification I do on SSS guitars in my shop.
Posted on 5/29/22 at 11:12 am to TheFretShack
Posted on 5/30/22 at 12:11 pm to TheFretShack
The Gilmour switch (called that because he made it popular) turns the neck pickup on, regardless of where the blade switch sits.
Is that a similar function to the contour knob on My Reverend Club King?
Is that a similar function to the contour knob on My Reverend Club King?
Posted on 5/30/22 at 5:49 pm to Scatback1
Googling confirmed what I thought ... nope. Reverend's contour control is a master cut knob for bass frequencies. I've had a few Revs cross my bench with it, it's similar to G&L's PTB circuit. Both are cool for coaxing Tele sounds out of a Strat on the fly.
Posted on 5/31/22 at 9:34 am to FightinTigersDammit
quote:Two actually. Nugent and B&A Music World. I got my G&L at Nugent.
They have a music store in Pineville?
Posted on 6/1/22 at 12:30 am to AlxTgr
My son got his last one from Alamo Music Center online. It was a pre-owned Taylor. He hadn't saved up quite enough for it and the guy was nice enough to hold it for 2 weeks for him.
Posted on 6/1/22 at 8:02 am to TheFretShack
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The Gilmour switch
I am intrigued by this. The majority of the time I am playing my strat its on clean setting with the neck/middle pickup. I would like to experience this Gilmour switch.
Would it be possible to have a pickguard wired in HSS with position 2 being a humbucker split and the middle pickup and a dedicated humbucker tone pot?
Posted on 6/1/22 at 5:45 pm to mwlewis
Absolutely, what you just described I do frequently. Here's some of it, what's missing is the tone control reassignment and integrating a DPDT mini switch (either stand alone or part of a push-pull pot) between the neck pickup and the hot signal chain behind the selector switch to enable Gilmour (neck on) switching.
Posted on 6/3/22 at 11:08 pm to Marco Esquandolas
Exactly. I asked for an American Ultra. $2099.00 anyway they tell me they don’t have one. I ask if they can get one from another store and again, no. I don’t buy guitars without hands on. Went to Sam Ash and they had one shipped in 4 days later. Went and played it. Sold. If GC doesn’t get some sales people, they’ll be in worse shape soon.
Posted on 6/23/22 at 4:48 pm to AlxTgr
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My kid(16) has expressed some interest in taking some lessons. I already have a decent acoustic. I would like to ad our first electric. I did some searching for educational purposes, and can't find a clear answer on used vs. new or better from bargain brand vs lower end from better brand. The sites I have read seam to list a lot of the same stuff under $400... Squier, Gretsch, Peavey, Epiphone. Any advice would be great.
I may have a couple of Epiphones available for sale soon.
A Les Paul Standard Pro (similar to this one):
Sweetwater Link
And an SG Pro (similar to this one):
Another Sweetwater Link
they are both in like new condition and have rarely been played.
Don't really know a price or what they're worth used.
purchased for my son, but he never picked it up much.
Own a couple other guitars that are mine that i would prefer not to sell, but for right price, anything is available
Posted on 6/24/22 at 8:09 am to Nutriaitch
My kid(16) has expressed some interest in taking some lessons
Lesson can help early, well, and sometimes later too, but I would suggest finding an instructor that will keep you child playing the music he wants to play. When my child took piano, she hated the lessons because she hated the music. I had to take the "lesson" and find songs she liked. That made all the difference. Good luck, and have fun.
Lesson can help early, well, and sometimes later too, but I would suggest finding an instructor that will keep you child playing the music he wants to play. When my child took piano, she hated the lessons because she hated the music. I had to take the "lesson" and find songs she liked. That made all the difference. Good luck, and have fun.
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