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I saw on the Reverend site that Ferenc Dobronyi plays a Reverend. I
wonder if he could supply some feedback on Reverends and the surf
sound. BTW, really love your band's web site.
Best!
Gavin
P.S. Sorry if I mispelled your name.
Gavin,
You spelled my name fine, now try to pronounce it...
The Reverend has been my main guitar since I bought it in 1997, I have played
more than 125 shows
with it a recorded 2 Pollo CDs. Great guitar.
I have always been a fan of the Silvertone concept- the lipstick pickups and the
clapboard body, but
most of the originals that I played had crummy necks and workmanship. Joe Naylor
was a guy known for
his expertice with speaker and amp construction and repair. I read that he was
going to build
guitars, and he was updating the Silvertone concept, so I contacted him and we
started talking about
guitars. I thought it was great to talk to the owner of the company-- imagine
talking with Leo
Fender about the kind of guitar you would want. So, I told Joe what I wanted-
extra large neck,
turquoise body, vibrato and I bought it sight unseen. Needless to say I was
thrilled when I got the
guitar!
I don't think the Reverend is a guitar for everybody. I have always tried to
find my own voice for
guitar tone rather than just follow the Jazzmater/Fender Amp route (not that
this setup isn't
perfectly acceptable- that is what I play with The Mach IV). I have 4 other
guitars with Lipstick
pickups- A 60's silvertone, a '94 Ibanez Talman and my bastard copy Strat (which
is guitar #2) and a
Jerry Jones Silvertone copy. There is a lot of talk here about high-output
pickups, but I prefer the
low output Lipsticks-- they make the amp work harder and you get more overdrive
at a lower volume.
Last year I bought a Yamaha SGV 800 on Ebay ($325 new WOW!!!). I really like it
but it has a bad
problem- a slightly twisted neck, not much you can do about that except take
the guitar to a
chiropractor. Its still quite playable and guitar fans always ask about it when
I play it. Though it
has single coil pickups, I don't think it is a very good surf guitar. Great
vibrato once it was set
up properly, though the springs have difficulty offsetting the 11s I use.
Beautiful sparkle finish.
My guitars:
thanks,
Ferenc
Gavin Ehringer wrote:
> I saw on the Reverend site that Ferenc Dobronyi plays a Reverend. I
> wonder if he could supply some feedback on Reverends and the surf
> sound. BTW, really love your band's web site.
>
> Best!
>
> Gavin
>
> P.S. Sorry if I mispelled your name.
>
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Ferenc,
What kind of lipstick pick ups do you have in your Strat? I love the
lipstick sound too, and was thinking about replacing the pick ups in
my Strat. What's the sound like, and where did you get them?
Nice guitar collection!!!
Mike/USK
This will sound lame but, I forgot. I have been going through some old "Vintage
Guitar" mags, from
about the time I did the surgery (late 2000), and I can't find the ad for the
company. I know they
were located in Florida, and I know the the pickups were made by Kent Armstrong,
the same company
that makes the lipstick p/u's for Reverend. I bought a pre-wired pickguard, all
I had to do was
remove the old pickguard and rewire the jack. This kit was cool because no
routing was required--
regular lipstck p/u's (like the ones in a Silvertone and Reverend) are longer
than Strat p/u's. I
see that Seymour Duncan is making a lipstick model now, I'd like to hear 'em.
It is tough to describe the sound... if you unplugged your guitar that has high
output p/u's init
and then plugged in one loaded with lipsticks, I think you would here a
noticable volume drop, and
less upper-mid attack. You compensate for the volume loss by turning up the amp
a little more--
getting more amp distortion.
ferenc
urbansurfkings wrote:
> Ferenc,
>
> What kind of lipstick pick ups do you have in your Strat? I love the
> lipstick sound too, and was thinking about replacing the pick ups in
> my Strat. What's the sound like, and where did you get them?
>
> Nice guitar collection!!!
