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Guitar GAS is something I definitely don't have. Quite the opposite; I have 7 of them, and honestly, I'm not sure how that happened. I would love for 5 of them to disappear; these are the 2 I'd keep. An '87 Rick 330, and an early (late '90s?) Eastwood Sidejack Baritone. The others are nice - very nice, in a couple of cases - but I wouldn't miss them ...
I’m very happy with my electric guitars, amp, cabs, pedals, etc. I would like to get a nice acoustic someday, probably a Martin. In the meantime...
I have large hands which can make playing a guitar, especially an electric one, problematic. My acoustic is a classical with a nice, wide, flat neck and nylon strings. The only electric guitar I've ever played that felt "right" to me was a Navy buddy's 1957 Gretsch Tennessean. Looked exactly like this one and almost had me believing I could play guitar. If I could afford it, I'd get one.
I tried to like Floyds, bought my son one. Couldn't quite figure it out, so I guess I'm a Kahler guy....
Didn't help that he was playing Rocksmith alot, and therefore retuning every other song......
Any double-locking system is no fun if you keep changing tunings.
I already have an old Washburn acoustic guitar and three electrics -- two MIA Strats (one an HH hardtail) and a G&L Comanche. Those are more than enough, but as we know the GAS never stops, and I freakin' love guitars even though I'm not much of a guitarist. So, with unlimited storage and cash, I'd want:
Telecaster, both regular and Thinline
Jaguar
G&L Doheny
G&L Fallout
DiPinto Galaxie
PRS (both HH and triple mini-bucker models)
ES-335
Les Paul goldtops, one with P-90s and one with mini humbuckers
Gretsch semi-hollow
More Strats (Like Jazz basses, it's difficult to have too many Strats. I used to know a fantastic player who had 15.)
Top of the list would probably be the G&L Doheny. I recently tested one, and loved it for both feel and tone. It's also quite different from my current guitars. Next would be a conventional Tele.
Telecaster, both regular and Thinline
Jaguar
G&L Doheny
G&L Fallout
DiPinto Galaxie
PRS (both HH and triple mini-bucker models)
ES-335
Les Paul goldtops, one with P-90s and one with mini humbuckers
Gretsch semi-hollow
More Strats (Like Jazz basses, it's difficult to have too many Strats. I used to know a fantastic player who had 15.)
Top of the list would probably be the G&L Doheny. I recently tested one, and loved it for both feel and tone. It's also quite different from my current guitars. Next would be a conventional Tele.
It's a shame they went to the trouble of building such an awesome guitar & then put in only a 3-way switch for the pickup selector.
Ibanez used to do some pretty cool switching with push/pull pots, but apparently they've stopped on everything but the most expensive Prestige line.
I wish they'd make a S series Premium, but all the Premiums are RG series
I'm with you on the lameness of conventional three-way pickup selectors for HH guitars, unless they have other switching via pots like you said. My HH Strat is a 2001 American Series that came stock with Seymour Duncans and a five-way switch with the following settings:
1. Full bridge humbucker
2. Inner coils, hum-canceling
3. Both full humbuckers
4. Outer coil of neck humbucker
5. Full neck humbucker
It's awesome. The Duncans provide excellent humbucker tones, and the split positions sound great. Plus, you can use the selector as a volume boost/overdrive by having a clean single coil tone in position two or four, then flipping to a full 'bucker to drive the amp with additional output. I usually prefer my Comanche and other Strat, but this HH is so good and versatile that I think it's my lifetime HH guitar. If I ever play guitar in a band, I suspect it would get heavy use.
Fender used the same switching on the HH Blacktop Strat, but some of their HH models don't have it, which is a bummer.
My LTD is wired similar, with two Duncan humbuckers (including a JB bridge), but one position is neck in parallel vs. series. You can still get that Strat quack with both inner coils.
For inexplicable reasons I have always wanted a ~1972 Gibson L-5S, from the first year they were made when they had the low impedance pickups and trapeze tailpiece:
No idea why I yearn for one so hard...other than because they're gorgeous, and kinda unique/rare. Meh, I guess that's enough reason.
No idea why I yearn for one so hard...other than because they're gorgeous, and kinda unique/rare. Meh, I guess that's enough reason.
No, it doesn't only have a 3-way switch. If you care to open the link I gave on the model name to open the specs sheet, you'll learn that they put in also push/pull knob for the different voicing of the Fishman Fluence pickups.It's a shame they went to the trouble of building such an awesome guitar & then put in only a 3-way switch for the pickup selector.
Ibanez used to do some pretty cool switching with push/pull pots, but apparently they've stopped on everything but the most expensive Prestige line.
I wish they'd make a S series Premium, but all the Premiums are RG series
I did open the link & this is what I saw:
OK, so what does the Fishman Fluence Voice Changing switch do?
OK, so what does the Fishman Fluence Voice Changing switch do?
Don't remember exactly... I first learned about them from Tosin Abasi's Youtube clip describing his new Ibanez fanned fret guitar which has Fishman Fluence pickups.
They probably don't include a 5-way switch for the same reason that no one uses a 5-way on active EMG humbuckers. Apparently they don't split very well.
