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DD's guitar most certainly DOES have a volume control! The only
thing that's different about it is that he took off the white knob,
and there's just the plain metal post sticking out of the pickguard.
That would make it more difficult to roll of accidentally.
--- In , "Jeff" <bigtikidude@y...> wrote:
> I've seen the pictures of the DD signiture model, and I've held
> the beast before. Totally differnet guitars. The DD model is more
> like a Yngwie,model than his guitar.
Jeff, please I don't mean to offend, but that's ridiculous. I have
not compared the Beast and the DD-signature model side-by-side, so I
can't comment on the wood, weight, neck-shape, etc. differences, but
it certainly seems that they copied the electronics almost exactly,
and visually it is very close. Obviously, one is a forty year old
guitar beat to hell, and the other is a brand new guitar, so there
are going to be major differences. But to compare it to Yngwie's
guitar is just wrong: Yngwie's guitar has stacked humbuckers, tone
controls still in the circuit, scalloped fingerboard, 22nd fret,
large seventies headstock mounted on 'correctly', etc. I'm sure that
the Fender Custom Shop which makes the DD signature Strat did a great
job with capturing the particularities of the Beast, and we should
acknowledge them for it. The reverse headstock and the reversed
bridge pickup are meant to replicate the fact that DD strings his
left-handed guitars right-handed, so he gets two things: the low-E
string passing over the bridge pickup mounted closer to the bridge,
and more of the string behind the nut until it reaches the machine
head on the headstock (and the opposite for the high-E string). Some
people say that these two have a slight effect on the tone, and
therefore the Custom Shop did those two things to attempt to capture
DDs sound, which just a normal Stratocaster strung normally would
not. The only other way to get the sound of these idiosyncracies
would be to string your guitar upside down like DD does, and I don't
think many of us are willing to do that. So, give the credit to the
Custom Shop for caring more about the minutae of tone than the
looks. And BTW, in order to have it look like the Beast, take off
the volume know, put those Karate and US flag stickers on it, and
scratch the hell out of the finish and the neck varnish - voila.
Ivan
