Amp Mad Scientist
Ambassador of Heresy
I think the neck dive of an SG is minor.
Just get a better strap and it probably won't.
I barely notice the dive.
What's great about an SG?
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Just get a better strap and it probably won't.
I barely notice the dive.
chilipeppermaniac
Ambassador of Decibels
Or flat out hold the guitar with fret hand and muting, strumming hand pressure like any other guitar. Don't walk around not holding on. Play it.
chilipeppermaniac
Ambassador of Decibels
Oh yeah,. Another thing that makes SG's great. Robert Herndon is choosing to custom build one. If it was a piece of junk design,. he'd be building a Hellraiser Schecter instead.
Amp Mad Scientist
Ambassador of Heresy
With "low gain" they are acceptable.
But with all the "gain boost," noise becomes a bigger problem. The more boost,the more noise.
The people who designed P90 never considered how much gain would be boosted
nor did they even dream of such a thing.
Gain boost didn't exist when the P90 was invented / built.
Distorted guitar didn't exist.
The Charlie Christian PU sounds really good too.
Probably sounds better than P90.
But same problem w noise.
I have to make a lot of improvements to the original design. Gibson never did anything like this.
Roger that. I’ve said it here before. My youngest is a pretty good guitar/bass player. He can take any one of my electrics. Plug it into the board into the amp. A few minutes of tone tweaking….. and I’m going, “so that’s what it’s supposed to sound like!!”
I pickup same guitar. (Mine) Same pedal board (mine). Same amp. (Mine). Change absolutely nothing….. and I still sound like crap. So it doesn’t take much to convince me what comes out of the amp is majority player….. minority gear.
SG John
Ambassador of Cool Guitars and Amps.
You might be better off finding a hole-in-the-wall type place that deals in mainly used gear. Those are the kind of places that cash is king, and haggling is part of the experience.So I decided to head up to Nashville tomorrow to check out some guitar stores and this is what came up when I googled it! Good grief, a guy could spend a week checking them all out! I guess I'll start at Guitar center and see how far I get. It's going to take me about 3 hours or so to get there from where I am now so I'll have all afternoon, but it's a big town with lots of traffic and I have chronic anxiety to slow me down so I don't know if I'll get very far.
jtcnj
Ambassador of the Crossroad
The neck dive issue is partly objective and partly subjective.
Some guitars balance well, others may have varying degrees of neck dive.
Whether it does or not, or how severe, varies by individual guitar.
Whether this is an issue to the player is subjective.
To many here, it is not an issue.
For me, I'm just more comfortable with guitars that balance well.
It's really up to you.
Some guitars balance well, others may have varying degrees of neck dive.
Whether it does or not, or how severe, varies by individual guitar.
Whether this is an issue to the player is subjective.
To many here, it is not an issue.
For me, I'm just more comfortable with guitars that balance well.
It's really up to you.
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DirtySteve
Ambassador of Hold My Beer
Well it turns out I'm not going to make it to Nashville anyway, I ran out of time today and I'm headed back home tomorrow. Probably better to plan a trip just for that if I decide to do it. Problem I'm having is there are no decent guitar stores where I live (Johnson City TN) except one and they only sell Fender, Gretsch and a few Ibanez guitars. PRS, Gibson and ESP are the guitars I want to check out and nobody has them except we just got a (pretty small) GC last year and they only have Classic LPs and mostly EPIs...(not that there's anything wrong with that). There is one place that has a few PRS guitars, but only low end stuff.
bea
AmBASSador of the F Clef
SG John
Ambassador of Cool Guitars and Amps.
I can't even fathom how much work it is to bend the wood for the beveled parts of the body that covers the bracing. The compound angles and radii, along with getting everything to fit correctly is a sign of a completely mad artist of the highest caliber. Can't wait to see the finished guitar.
bea
AmBASSador of the F Clef
Maybe, Daniel is really mad. That's his stuff as well:
Or follow that link to many impressive pictures (handcrafted in every detail): Barockgitarre (~1650) – 13 Custom Instruments
Or follow that link to many impressive pictures (handcrafted in every detail): Barockgitarre (~1650) – 13 Custom Instruments
SG John
Ambassador of Cool Guitars and Amps.
I have seen Baroque guitars and Citterns as on his page at The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, as well as other Museums in Germany and Italy. The intricacy of the patterns inside the sound hole is truly mind blowing. Absolutely beautiful instruments.Maybe, Daniel is really mad. That's his stuff as well:
Or follow that link to many impressive pictures (handcrafted in every detail): Barockgitarre (~1650) – 13 Custom Instruments
chilipeppermaniac
Ambassador of Decibels
That is the Australian Gibson model.
Clockworkmike
Ambassador of STACKS in WV SHACKS
I see what you did there lol
bea
AmBASSador of the F Clef
Well, they did with the Thunderbird. And of coruse they should do this with their other models. But then some religious purists start whining that these guitars were not the real thing .