Von Herndon DoubleNeck Clean Tones:

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A couple of quick, rough I-Pad videos of the 12 and 6 string sides played clean.

Guitar Used:

Von Herndon Double Neck - Thro Bak SLE-101 Pickups Adjusted 4/32" from Ernie Ball .010" Strings Fretted @ the 20th Frets - Pickups are Neck 7.6kΩ, Bridge 8.1kΩ, long A2 magnets, Plain Enamel 42AWG magnet wire, custom milled Michigan hard maple wood spacer, Butyrate bobbins, Nickel Baseplates & Covers, 2 Conductor wire with Braid...

Large CTS Pots, 500kΩ Volumes, 300kΩ Tones, K40Y .033uf Bridge Side, K40Y .015uf Neck Side, Switchcraft Jack & Switches

Amplifier & Equipment:

Marshall DSL40C on "Clean" Channel, Genelex Gold Lion T12AX7 in V1, TAD 7025 WA in V2, V3 & V4, Genelex Gold Lion KT88 Power Tubes, Weber Mass 100 Attenuator, Boss CS-3 "In Front" and Boss DD-3 in Effects Loop.

I begin on Bridge Pickup, switch to Middle and then to Neck Position.

Six String Side Clean:


Twelve String Side Clean


Thoughts???
 
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It sound fabulous. Great tone and clean, intonated, buzz freenotes. I must say, it is very cool to have a 12 string right there. If I had one connected to my 6 string, I would use it more!!
 
RVA said:
It sound fabulous. Great tone and clean, intonated, buzz freenotes. I must say, it is very cool to have a 12 string right there. If I had one connected to my 6 string, I would use it more!!
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Coming from you that's quite a compliment!

Should've worn my Dragon Pajamas!
 
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Nice video, and great sounds.
Since doublenecks are very useful I recently purchased a Burny from Kyoto in Japan. I tuned it up slightly different and made a little Iphone-clip:

guitar by stefan thorpenberg

I have now changed the pickups to a Burstbucker Pro in the neck of the 12-string, and a 57 Classic in the bridge. In the 6-string I have put a set of High Order Alnico 2s, but I still have no clip with the new pickups.
 
Wilmerthewhite said:
Nice video, and great sounds.
Since doublenecks are very useful I recently purchased a Burny from Kyoto in Japan. I tuned it up slightly different and made a little Iphone-clip:

guitar by stefan thorpenberg

I have now changed the pickups to a Burstbucker Pro in the neck of the 12-string, and a 57 Classic in the bridge. In the 6-string I have put a set of High Order Alnico 2s, but I still have no clip with the new pickups.
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Very nice! That's fantastic!

Thank you, Wilmer!
 
Wilmerthewhite said:
Nice video, and great sounds.
Since doublenecks are very useful I recently purchased a Burny from Kyoto in Japan. I tuned it up slightly different and made a little Iphone-clip:

guitar by stefan thorpenberg

I have now changed the pickups to a Burstbucker Pro in the neck of the 12-string, and a 57 Classic in the bridge. In the 6-string I have put a set of High Order Alnico 2s, but I still have no clip with the new pickups.
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Don't you just love the 12 string sound??? And you have great tone in your video!
 
Thanks. :)
My doubleneck has a nice sustain overall, guess it has to do with the mass of wood? I have the original pickups in that clip, don´t know what they are; Burny has no information on their web-site. I sent a email and asked, but no reply, since it is old, built in 1991. Sounds very good, though. But since we are tone nerds, I changed all the pickups - I had some I liked lying around, no biggie. The Burstbucker Pro shines in the neck of the 12-string, it´s bright and clean with the Alnico V-magnet and unbalanced winding, can be a problem with muddy pickups in the neck of a 12-string.
The 12-string sounds really nice, IMHO, and I have tuned down all the octave-strings five steps. So the upper E has its parallell string tuned down to B, B-string has a Fiss, G has a D, and so on and so on. It gives a very nice and jazzy vibe, perfect as a background for a jazz soloist, and also nice for playing solos. All chords sounds strange, one doesn´t know what is coming, and that´s nice since I´ve been playing for 55 years now. Seems that I need something that surprises me. :(
 
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Wilmerthewhite said:
Thanks. :)
My doubleneck has a nice sustain overall, guess it has to do with the mass of wood? I have the original pickups in that clip, don´t know what they are; Burny has no information on their web-site. I sent a email and asked, but no reply, since it is old, built in 1991. Sounds very good, though. But since we are tone nerds, I changed all the pickups - I had some I liked lying around, no biggie. The Burstbucker Pro shines in the neck of the 12-string, it´s bright and clean with the Alnico V-magnet and unbalanced winding, can be a problem with muddy pickups in the neck of a 12-string.
The 12-string sounds really nice, IMHO, and I have tuned down all the octave-strings five steps. So the upper E has its parallell string tuned down to B, B-string has a Fiss, G has a D, and so on and so on. It gives a very nice and jazzy vibe, perfect as a background for a jazz soloist, and also nice for playing solos. All chords sounds strange, one doesn´t know what is coming, and that´s nice since I´ve been playing for 55 years now. Seems that I need something that surprises me. :(
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Interesting tuning!!!!! I'm intrigued!!!!!
 
Sustain is remarkable on the Double Neck's in general. I think you are correct that its in the mass of the guitar body...
 
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