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I've just finished to install this heavy modded UOA5 Ant set and man, is this something or what...? It sounds completely and absolutely gorgeous!
The guitar is a MIK early '80 Tamaki 335 copy made at the Samick factory. I've paid next to nothing for it and it 's the liveliest guitar I own. Maple body, mahogany neck. Spot-on 500K CTS pots, Mojotone.com Vitamin Q PIO caps, Switchcraft toggle and jack.
The Ants have been modded to 4-conductor and short-legged baseplates, as the instrument can coil-split, producing a very interesting and usable sound, semihollow tele-like, just a little darker.
I took off the cover's relic'ing, plus I've changed the keeper bar, screws and slugs for new ones.
It's got a kind of masculine tone, commanding, assertive and detailed as no other set I've worked with in the past.
Plus, it took me five minutes flat to nail the "sweet spot"... fastest ever!
They produce a very different tone than the one I'm used to, I'd swear I can hear Larry Carlton's 335+Bludotone live tone, it makes me play differently, lead lines over changes, jazzy-fusion-boppy kinda style... something I don't play that often anyway.
Weird how tone can affect your playing, uh? Can you call it "inspiring"?
What I find it the weirdest, is that while feeling like a fish out water, by no means I feel lost at all... is hard to explain. Let's see how it goes after the honeymoon period.
HTH,
The guitar is a MIK early '80 Tamaki 335 copy made at the Samick factory. I've paid next to nothing for it and it 's the liveliest guitar I own. Maple body, mahogany neck. Spot-on 500K CTS pots, Mojotone.com Vitamin Q PIO caps, Switchcraft toggle and jack.
The Ants have been modded to 4-conductor and short-legged baseplates, as the instrument can coil-split, producing a very interesting and usable sound, semihollow tele-like, just a little darker.
I took off the cover's relic'ing, plus I've changed the keeper bar, screws and slugs for new ones.
It's got a kind of masculine tone, commanding, assertive and detailed as no other set I've worked with in the past.
Plus, it took me five minutes flat to nail the "sweet spot"... fastest ever!
They produce a very different tone than the one I'm used to, I'd swear I can hear Larry Carlton's 335+Bludotone live tone, it makes me play differently, lead lines over changes, jazzy-fusion-boppy kinda style... something I don't play that often anyway.
Weird how tone can affect your playing, uh? Can you call it "inspiring"?
What I find it the weirdest, is that while feeling like a fish out water, by no means I feel lost at all... is hard to explain. Let's see how it goes after the honeymoon period.
HTH,
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