New Dean day

ehdwuld

ehdwuld

A Ficus
Well maybe this will be the one

Feels right







Controls are kinda like the Dean Colt
Well it's just like the Colt just smaller LP size

Does a jangly acoustic as well as the humbucker
Let's you blend them together or separate them to separate Jack's

Master tone I think
With one volume for the pickups and one for the piezo
 
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Looks very cool, how about some P-Rails in that !--wait, nevermind, I think you can split the coils?
 
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Aceman said:
Rock on!


So what made you go with that?
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Well my original plan for my Vanity guitar was to get an archtop, thanks Jerry
Then to put a transducer under the top and get a single guitar to do electric and acoustic tones

But the Signature Vanity guitar just wasn't made that way.
While scrolling thru Amazon, I discovered the Shire
It did all the things I wanted. Archtop, piezo, LP size

And that one awesome Seafoam color was 4 bills to the house
They had a more common red at 5 bills and a black, yuk, for 437


Lucky me

While setting it up The Fishman bridge.is set as low as it will go
And the strings are still a bit high
I think when I swap the tens with nines that may changes

The piezo has a lot of finger noise when sliding Barre chords there's a loud screech
That, again, should change with the flat wound nines

Jerry the pickups may have to change
They are the Dean designed.

I'm thinking about cream triple shot rings
The last set of Duncans I have is a heavy reliced double black TB4 & SH2

Double Cream P Rails would be awesome

I just put my straplocks on and next will probably be locking tuners

I really dig the planet waves that I put on the Vanity Signature
 
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So.i think I need to adjust the truss rod
Which way removes the bow?

Got it . It was on the paper with the wrench

Tweak is all it needed

Awesome tones in this
The Dean humbuckers are a bit ,.... meh

The finger noise when sliding diminished greatly by rolling the volume down
Just a bit

Love this thing
The mixed tones alone are awesome.

The piezo tones are a bit brash but mix in a but of wooly humbucker and it's pretty great

This is what I wanted
 
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FINALLY you are getting the satisfaction you been looking for… That’s awesome, congratulations!

I have P-Rails in my semi hollow (yup, cream with cream triple shots [emoji41]). I really like them in that guitar, but the idea of adding a piezo to the whole thing would be AWESOME!
 
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BriGuy1968 said:
FINALLY you are getting the satisfaction you been looking for… That’s awesome, congratulations!

I have P-Rails in my semi hollow (yup, cream with cream triple shots [emoji41]). I really like them in that guitar, but the idea of adding a piezo to the whole thing would be AWESOME!
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For years I wanted an upscale Parker Fly. The the Taylor T5z, all for the same reason
The idea of sending separate signals to amp and PA

Let me explain
In the 70s and eighties those big arena rock songs were double tracked in the studio with an acoustic
Sometimes because the scratch track was acoustic. And was dubbed over

This made the sound huge

If I can run the acoustic signal with a short delay
It should sound like a doubled track

Maybe chorus instead of delay
But slightly different sweep of chorus than the electric signal

There are so many possibilities
I am excited and stoked . It's gotten late so I had to set it down for tonight
But I have played tonight more than I did all last week when I was on Vacation

I think I have found it

On a side note ,

I lowered the action and while it plays better
The piezo picks up a fret rattle now when I strum hard

I like it , it's kinda like rim click . Loud and percussive

Getting in touch with my inner Buckingham
 
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One of the most bad@$$ jazz tones I ever heard was a guy playing an Epiphone Ultra with a Piezo all blended perfectly....
 
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I have P-Rails and Triple Shots in my Dot and it's a killer. I absolutely recommend doing that. And while I agree that cream p'ups and rings would look amazing on that seafoam top, if the pickguard is black, you should probably stay with black. I did on the Dot I just mentioned.

And I agree on the desire to have that mix available in a guitar. I'm currently building a Tele-ish body that will get an all rosewood modern Strat style neck, a pair of Bare Knuckle Mules, and a piezo bridge. It was going to just be mags and piezo. But now I'm thinking midi, mags, and piezo. .

I might need an intervention.
 
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bard2dbone said:
I have P-Rails and Triple Shots in my Dot and it's a killer. I absolutely recommend doing that. And while I agree that cream p'ups and rings would look amazing on that seafoam top, if the pickguard is black, you should probably stay with black. I did on the Dot I just mentioned.

And I agree on the desire to have that mix available in a guitar. I'm currently building a Tele-ish body that will get an all rosewood modern Strat style neck, a pair of Bare Knuckle Mules, and a piezo bridge. It was going to just be mags and piezo. But now I'm thinking midi, mags, and piezo. .

I might need an intervention.
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It's only wrong if you can't afford it

They don't make you get tags and insurance like cars
It's not like guns either, where modding them is frowned on
 
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Ok so this evening I was checking out the piezo
As is my way

Pulled the back cover

Apparently there is no pre amp or battery for this thing

So as I was putting the cover back I noticed that the tone control was a switch
Push pull

Why is there so little documentation on these
Went to the website, it said nothi g about this

Ok it's a coil split,

I plugged it to test this
And an hour later I had to stop.
Goodness that blended piezo is addictive

This guitar is the most inspirational of the bunch

My Signature is better sounding

But that jangle is soo much fun
 
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