drumuitar
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Boise, ID
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Posted on May 31 2006 02:26 PM
Here's my Gretsch 5120 Electromatic. Mine is the 2005 model with humbuckers, which I'm probably going to swap out for TV Jones or maybe the GFS Retrotrons. I replaced the flat arm with a Chet Atkins arm.
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butchdelux
Joined: Feb 26, 2006
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Port Fierce, Florida
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Posted on May 31 2006 02:52 PM
That's a very cool Gretsch man...is that the stock color or a refin?
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drumuitar
Joined: Feb 28, 2006
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Boise, ID
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Posted on May 31 2006 04:15 PM
thanks, it's the factory finish. The pic doesn't show it well but it's basically like the tennessee orange.
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Anonymous
Joined: Nov 10, 2000
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Posted on Jun 01 2006 05:28 PM
Okay here is the incomplete rig, took me forever. Not shown is my DaArmond, Hot Rod Deluxe, and my Girfriends Mexi Strat that I steal from time to time.
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BillAqua
Joined: Feb 27, 2006
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Chicago IL.
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Posted on Jun 01 2006 07:51 PM
stigger108
Okay here is the incomplete rig, took me forever. Not shown is my DaArmond, Hot Rod Deluxe, and my Girfriends Mexi Strat that I steal from time to time.
Les Paul Studio? I got a late 90s Les Paul Studio Gem with p90s and it's a really well put together guitar. I've been thinking it needs a Bigsby.
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Anonymous
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Posted on Jun 01 2006 08:23 PM
Bill, yes it is an early 90's studio. Its a true diamond. Somewhere down the road, I will try and get a gibson LP with p90's installed, and maybe get a bigsby custom installed. That would be a sweet guitar.
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holikujak
Joined: Apr 03, 2006
Posts: 107
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Posted on Jun 01 2006 10:34 PM
yea its a G5129 i think, its gets that nice gretsch snap pretty well especially once youve cranked the pole peices dangerously high, although ive found that i dont really like the neck pup sounds on gretschs in general. Ive been thinking of selling it and getting a ES-335 copy and putting a gfs retrotron in the bridge and a benedetto b-6 in the neck, which would hopefully give me more of the melow jazzy neck/nice snappy bridge combo that i want.
WR
holikujak
and my gretsch which was absent when i took the rig shot:
H-jack, is that one of those new electromatic gretsches? how do they sound? do the have that growling snappy sound of the 'unaffordable' gretsches.
If I 'm not istaken those are the DeArmond 2K pups - I had them ona DeArmond solidbody, but I didn't really like the sound of that one.
WR
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JakeDobner
Joined: Feb 26, 2006
Posts: 12159
Seattle
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Posted on Jun 02 2006 03:58 AM
My taste in which Gretsch pickup I like changes every week or so. My Gretsch has a tone switch which I really like. If it didn't have the switch I would never play with the tone. It isn't the greatest thing ever for very trad surf though.
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holikujak
Joined: Apr 03, 2006
Posts: 107
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Posted on Jun 02 2006 09:35 AM
i dunno, i really like the bridge for surf, that snappy thwack sounds great especially through huge amounts of reverb, and i think that gretsch style guitars really make phenominal surf guitars albeit not the most traditional. bigsbys are the perfect surf trem imho, i think if i sell my gretsch ill have to put one on my dano
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drumuitar
Joined: Feb 28, 2006
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Boise, ID
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Posted on Jun 02 2006 08:39 PM
Don't sell it man, you'll regret it I just ordered a set of GFS Nashville Retrotrons for my G5120. I have yet to see a truthfully negative review of any of the GFS pups and, for the price, it's worth a shot trying them. I love the GFS overwound staggers that I have in my Fernandes. I couldn't force myself to pay $120 a piece for the TV Jones Filtertron clones.
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holikujak
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Posted on Jun 02 2006 09:17 PM
haha, well i just jumped on this sweet deal: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7418304084
i guess it wouldnt hurt to keep both
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ZoukBoy
Joined: May 04, 2008
Posts: 80
Lubbock, Texas
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Posted on Oct 01 2008 04:01 PM
Found this two year old thread when I was searching and thought I'd reply and bump it up.
Guitars:
Yamaha SGV800 w/SGV300 pickups (Red Sparkle)
Yamaha SGV300 w/SGV800 pickups (Gloss Black)
Jerry Jones Electric Sitar (custom model w/o sympathetic strings)
Amps:
2 late '80s Fender Princeton Chorus (ganged in series with an Alesis Nanoverb between them for a slight amount of delay)
Effects:
Dunlop wah/volume/boost pedal
Fender tuner
Danelectro Surf'n'Turf compressor
Danelectro FAB distortion
Danelectro FAB echo
Danelectro French Fries auto wah
Danelectro Chicken Salad vibrato
Ampeg Sub Blaster octave pedal
Behringer Ultra Tremolo
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zak
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Posted on Oct 01 2008 04:11 PM
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Kman1
Joined: Aug 29, 2008
Posts: 694
Surf City
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Posted on Oct 01 2008 04:29 PM
Deluxe Reverb amp, soon to be '57/ or '62 Strat, 50s Classic Series Strat, or '62 Jazzmaster. Strings: 11s, just to get my treming down, which it is, will put something heavier, Fender Heavy picks.
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I also like to think that all early 60's fender equipment is happy to be playing surf music again. After all, its the music it was meant to play.
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WR
Joined: Feb 27, 2006
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netherlands
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Posted on Oct 01 2008 04:40 PM
zak
ZoukBoy
Yamaha SGV800 w/SGV300 pickups (Red Sparkle)
Yamaha SGV300 w/SGV800 pickups (Gloss Black)
Huh?? May I ask...why? What's the advantage of that particular swap?
Zak, I bet he really liked the pups on the 800 but hated the butt ugly sparkle finish. (and I would totally agree with him! )
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ZoukBoy
Joined: May 04, 2008
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Lubbock, Texas
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Posted on Oct 01 2008 05:54 PM
zak
ZoukBoy
Yamaha SGV800 w/SGV300 pickups (Red Sparkle)
Yamaha SGV300 w/SGV800 pickups (Gloss Black)
Huh?? May I ask...why? What's the advantage of that particular swap?
Actually, I loved the 800's body and neck but much preferred the 300's pickups. Funny, thing... after making the swap, both instruments sound better!
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zak
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Posted on Oct 01 2008 06:00 PM
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ZoukBoy
Joined: May 04, 2008
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Lubbock, Texas
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Posted on Oct 01 2008 06:06 PM
zak
That's really interesting. Not trying to be sarcastic at all...do you find there is a noticeable acoustic difference between the two SGVs when you play them unplugged? Do you find that the angled 800 headstock affects the string tension vs. the more Fender-like 300?
Yes, the 800 is more "alive" but they both sound pretty good unplugged. I don't think that the 800 has more string tension just that it's stiffer. I also prefer the Sperzel locking tuners on the 800, and it seems to have stiffer springs on the vibrato (whammy arm is higher off the top so more usable).
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Mr_Reverb63
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San Pablo, CA
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Posted on Oct 19 2008 12:09 AM
finally.
i thought i'd never pull it off. but i got Zak to thank. thanks u old grumpy bastard you
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zak
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Posted on Oct 19 2008 01:57 AM
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