clifftaylor
Absolutely retired!
A little light relief for Alan Holdsworth fans lol
Guitar talk: acoustic, bass, classical, twelve string? You name it! Pt II
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gavreid
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Following the NAMM show it seems that Gibson has revamped the Epiphone line, including a US made Casino, and the Texan acoustic, once again and after all this time. They now have a range that covers historic Epiphone models Casino, Sheraton etc and a separate range that are the Gibson 'clones' with a new more Gibson-esque headstock and Gibson font. It's really quite impressive for 12 months work.
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cutting42
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To be fair, the tune is incredible and a great example of Alan's work
clifftaylor
Absolutely retired!
Yeah, I like it. The first solo on Bundles is great, and Zappa rated him highly. HIs chordal theory makes my brain hurt.
-alan-
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I think the new CEO (whoever he or she is) is on the right track commercially - mix and match every combination of bodies, necks and bits to put something together in nearly every possible niche/price bracket known to mankind. Do it all under the Gibson / 'Gibson-Epiphone' branding, outsourcing as much as possible to low-cost manufacturing economies - and put the company back in the black. Fair dues to them.
The more I look at (and buy) guitars mind you - the more I start to wonder what's actually worth paying extra for in terms of functionality, and how much falls into the 'I know its expensive, but I just want it' category.
Answers on a postcard anytime please
claire.foxx
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So today this happened.
clifftaylor
Absolutely retired!
That's a whole lorra strings there!
-alan-
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Looks like the GAS is alive and well, if not actually rampant ..
As we forum guitar forum crawlers say - enjoy your NGD chaps/chapesses
Stunsworth
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I was scouring YouTube for video said of the Boss RC-10R looper pedal when I came across this from Juliana Vieira where she is playing a lovely candy apple red Fender Coronado II a guitar I knew very little about tbh.
The upshot being that I now have one of these
I'm sure it's wonderful, but I can't get over the fact that the head stock looks sooo wrong <grin>.
Tony L
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Pretty! I like thru-neck jobs, what is it?
PS Intonation looks a bit odd, is the E (assuming the extra string is a low B) in tune up the neck?
cutting42
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Very nice, what make?
I went out on Saturday to buy a new bass but very unfortunately the owner had changed his mind and withdrew it from sale. He had an excellent and rather sad reason so I swallowed my annoyance and slunk home empty handed.
palindrome
Thru a hedge, backwards and forwards.
I'm guessing a hand-made MTD 535 24. It has the same contours and similar (if not the same) knobs as the one I purchased last October. If this is the case, the pups are likely Bartolini (active?). And that neck, tho easy to play I'm sure, is the length of Heathrow runway!
Btw Claire, thought you weren't doing the 5 string thing anymo'?
John
cutting42
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Cool, we bought my son an MTD last year - not a hand made, just a Kingston but it was very impressive for the money.
palindrome
Thru a hedge, backwards and forwards.
Yeah, those Kingston models are very nice (I haven't tried one but they get a good press) as one would hope coming from the MTD stable. Bass Direct in Warwick have a bunch of tasty basses and I was tempted to pay a visit, but I was looking for an American made MTD with a particular finish.
Now the sale has fallen thru for the bass in the pic Gareth, is a fretless bass the key determiner for your next purchase?
John
Now the sale has fallen thru for the bass in the pic Gareth, is a fretless bass the key determiner for your next purchase?
John
cutting42
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The Wal is a want not a need. I have all the basses I need but have been looking for a walnut unlined fretless Wal for a long time so was very sad it fell through. He may yet need to sell and I have first dibs but I continue to look around.
claire.foxx
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I’ll sort out intonation when I get to an amp. Very often when you see this sort of adjustment it’s because somebody is using an out of gauge string in a set.
It was gifted to me because I did some data recovery for a friend out here in California and managed to retrieve about 46,000 private emails and a stolen iCloud that somebody had thought that lost because hackers had stolen their login credentials. So I hacked the hackers‘ servers and took it back; crypto-wiped their userland and shut down their servers.
Then they kind of presented me with this. But I was going to do it for free, you know?
All my basses are a want, I don’t need anything special, I’m not that kind of a player, I feel especially honoured.
It was gifted to me because I did some data recovery for a friend out here in California and managed to retrieve about 46,000 private emails and a stolen iCloud that somebody had thought that lost because hackers had stolen their login credentials. So I hacked the hackers‘ servers and took it back; crypto-wiped their userland and shut down their servers.
Then they kind of presented me with this. But I was going to do it for free, you know?
All my basses are a want, I don’t need anything special, I’m not that kind of a player, I feel especially honoured.
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myrman
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I totally agree. I'm surprised how heavy it is too but it does sound rather good.
-alan-
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On the subject of intonation..
I don't know if you guys remember but I had been looking at this interesting looking Linos guitar in the local classifieds. It's back on sale - after the buyer made a subtle but fairly important improvement:
https://www.adverts.ie/electric-guitars/linos-semi-solid-guitar/19651888
"Overall it's well built and solid and plays very well with a nice low action - the only issue I had when I got it is that the intonation was WAY off. It turns out that the neck scale length (25") meant that the bridge was located incorrectly, so I've plugged the original holes, repainted over them and located the bridge in the correct position."
I'd heard tales of some Chinese made guitars suffering from stuff like this, but thought it was just the usual guitar snobbery at play. No wonder that one has changed hands three time in the last 18 months - with a price drop each time
I don't know if you guys remember but I had been looking at this interesting looking Linos guitar in the local classifieds. It's back on sale - after the buyer made a subtle but fairly important improvement:
https://www.adverts.ie/electric-guitars/linos-semi-solid-guitar/19651888
"Overall it's well built and solid and plays very well with a nice low action - the only issue I had when I got it is that the intonation was WAY off. It turns out that the neck scale length (25") meant that the bridge was located incorrectly, so I've plugged the original holes, repainted over them and located the bridge in the correct position."
I'd heard tales of some Chinese made guitars suffering from stuff like this, but thought it was just the usual guitar snobbery at play. No wonder that one has changed hands three time in the last 18 months - with a price drop each time
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