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--- supertwangreverb <> wrote:
>
>
> Does anyone know what that karate sticker is?? I
> remember seeing 70s
> Elvis with the same sticker on his black gibson.
>
>
>
>
> --- In , "ipongrac"
> <ipongrac@g...>
> wrote:
> >
> > 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
>
>
>
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