I’ve always had a soft spot for these since a teenage bandmate bought one in walnut brown new in around ‘72. Thick chamfered slab SG body, no neck angle (so the neck sits high against the body), pretty weak logo-embossed single coil melody maker” pickup but a huge neck with a fantastic action. On the downside, typical early 70’s “paddle” headstock.
These sound similar to G&L S-500 pickups, both in terms of construction and tonal quality. It would cool to see a comparison between these the S-500 MFD pickups.
Whoa, I haven't heard Dim in a minute. For those who don't know, Dada's album Puzzle is full of amazing tunes like that. The dream of the 90s is still alive!! (both pedals sound great too)
Hey thank you for noticing! Yeah, those Dada albums were great and Michael Gurley RIPPED. He was like an early 90s alt/pop version of Vito Bratta. Great change-of-direction lead player.
677 total were made, even though the labels were printed out, before the guitars were made, and the label says the guitar # out of 1000 guitars making the guitar even more interesting.. I still have the email from Taylor stating this information. The production was stopped at 677 because the source they had in South America wouldn't sell Taylor any more Satinwood. If you have one of these, you are a very lucky person. I own #52. Purchased in Rochster NY in year 2000.
"Before my amp" I like to do a little bit of shaping. On one board I have little room to do so.. a great fuzz facey type pedal that cleans up into defined crsytally cleans is a nice way to improve the voice of the guitar- thinking of the fuzz as part of that voice. But more often I think of a preamp as a sort of foundation gain stage that's always on and ruling over the sounds before it with a stylistic fist. I'm often gigging my AC15 and having to run it too low for it to really wake up in the tubes.. so when I can get something to impersonate that drive sound of it cranked up.. maybe do a little EQ fine tuning... that's a great preamp in application. Subdecay Stupid Box for whatever reason is one of the most perfect pedals at this for my strat and AC. Klonny type pedals seem to do a nice job of this as well. Sorry long comment, impassioned about this topic
Ground FX / Kodex Audio Burning Sunn is a great one, you must try it as well as a Delcam Audio California Doom, and don´t forget Ananashead GT73. Also Kuro Custom audio with Exegol and T120. Awesome preamps too. Ah! and Blackhawk Mjolnir JFET Preamp MKII, and Hel JFet Preamp MKII. Cheers!
i want to learn enough about electronics to rip the preamp out of my old fender rocpro combo. the "yellow channel" distortion is the greatest in the world.
Eae stuff just rules. Had the citadel for my direct solution for a while, but recently swapped to his collab with science on the mother Preamp and it's unreal. I love having different outputs, one to used as a direct solution and the other moreso as a normal drive pedal so you don't get double scooped if you run it in front of an amp. Need to try the others here as well. Fun video all around and let us know how those stocks work out for you
Fun thing about citadel, John mentioned the old trick of basically cutting low out all the way, cranking mids all the way, then using the treble as more of a tone knob. I found that was a good starting point in my use with it.
It would probably have to be renamed to whatever the fourth best waiter is in Europe - that's a long list to go through. The regular shige can be modified for lower gain to sound more like this one but it will have brighter treble content still. Their cannonball pedals while they don't have the upper octave in them they do a nice similar op amp clipping sound. Wish you luck!
Cool ax. I always liked these Jake ESPs but never got a chance to try one. I had a number of kit builds I had slapped together in sort of a Jake style. Strats with hard tails, one volume, a bucker and a slanted single coil or two buckers, or just one. I like the simplicity of it. You get a tone, resonance and sustain with hard tails that you don't get with trems.
He’s using an ESP in this video - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-wyNDyW6wGVM.htmlfeature=shared - and I’m old and gray enough to remember him doing a guitar mag interview where he’s photographed with an ESP Strat style guitar.
I have a similar guitar, an inexpensive Strat-style unit at 24.75 inches. It is a lot of fun, a bit easier to play than than my 25.5 inch versions of the same thing.
@@jamesraymondsmithI would put it to better use than you would I'd atleast keep it in tune I checked out your channel ya you ain't much to be laughing at anyone
@@wickedbishop i was laughing because i thought it was only one old guitar theythought was rare thinking it would cost someone an unfair fortune. i see now they are mass producing them. i dont really give a ferret shit what you think about my humble youtube channel. i see the price now at the bottom. so i looked at your site and marvel you not only have a hole in your shoe but in your head also. lol
@@jamesraymondsmithjust as I thought just a idiot you make no sense at all just so happens I've been looking for a jake e lee signature model go freaking practice
