Saturday Night Specials question - which guitar?

[NotCardio]

OK, this is somewhat of a reversal of the usual question.

Mostly, guys ask 'what pickups for this guitar?'

My question is, if I wanted to get SNSs for 'that' sound, what would be the best guitar to put them in?

LP, V, SG, Explorer?

Or, given those choices (and the fact that I couldn't recreate the rest of the correct signal chain anyway), does it even matter?

 

[OsvyRock]

Re: Saturday Night Specials question - which guitar?

Amazing question!
I have a Gibson Flying V and sg that could use new pickups.
There's a Youtube demo with a guitar player named Doug playing the SNS set installed on a SG Guitar.
They sound mighty fine there.

 

[beaubrummels]

Re: Saturday Night Specials question - which guitar?

Korina Explorer would be awesome. But what exactly is 'that' sound?

 

[Chris Pile]

Re: Saturday Night Specials question - which guitar?

Korina Explorer would be awesome. But what exactly is 'that' sound?

Listen to "Saturday Night Special" by Lynyrd Skynyrd and you'll have THE classic tone so many of us lust after. CRANK IT UP!

 

[Mincer]

Re: Saturday Night Specials question - which guitar?

The sound that sticks in my mind is Doug's demo with an SG.

 

[daenius]

Re: Saturday Night Specials question - which guitar?

Any 24.75" set neck guitar!

 

[Wattage]

Re: Saturday Night Specials question - which guitar?

So does anybody here have a set in something yet?

How are they?

 

[beaubrummels]

Re: Saturday Night Specials question - which guitar?

So does anybody here have a set in something yet?

How are they?

One guy did and wrote a review, but he's on 'forum vacation'

 

[NotCardio]

Re: Saturday Night Specials question - which guitar?

Well, I was just thinking of Skynyrd in general, as most of them aren't that different in tone (except of course for SHA).

I've got an EPI LP, SG, and Explorer GT (somewhat smaller bodied explorer - I love that thing!). No V, but I've kinda always wanted one, and I'm going to be getting rid of some stuff, so I might be able to swing a cheap one.

I just wondered if they were supposed to be modeled after the ones in the LP, the SG, or the V. All are mahogany, but does the body thickness make that much of a difference? I figure the 'maple cap' (let's face it, it's veneer) on my Epi LP doesn't account for much.

 

[NotCardio]

Re: Saturday Night Specials question - which guitar?

And on that video, I don't have the Duncan pedalboard, or the Friedman!

 

[voggin]

Re: Saturday Night Specials question - which guitar?

I don't think you could go wrong, but my instincts (for all their worth) tell me to go with the thinner, all mahogany options, rather than the LP.

 

[PFDarkside]

Re: Saturday Night Specials question - which guitar?

I'd love an SG with some SNS!

 

[BluesGuyJ2]

Re: Saturday Night Specials question - which guitar?

are these based on TTops? That's what I hear in this demo by Doug... reminds me of my early 70s SG

 

[Mincer]

Re: Saturday Night Specials question - which guitar?

I don't know for sure if these were based on anything officially. They sound like 70s Gibsons to me, though.

 

[NotCardio]

Re: Saturday Night Specials question - which guitar?

Well, in the 70s, so many guys were playing 50s Gibsons, were the guys in Skynyrd actually playing 70s Gisons in the 70s?

 

[PFDarkside]

Re: Saturday Night Specials question - which guitar?

I have absolutely no evidence to back it up, but by the later 70's people were surely using aftermarket Duncans and Dimarzios and Seymour was rewinding pickups for artists as well.

 

[JeffB]

Re: Saturday Night Specials question - which guitar?

Well, in the 70s, so many guys were playing 50s Gibsons, were the guys in Skynyrd actually playing 70s Gisons in the 70s?

No. They were playing 50s and 60s Gibsons or Fenders.

To the general topic. They don't sound like T Tops at all. At least not the bridge. Too much output and not as balanced eq...they seem very thick in the mids, which is definitely not like a T top. A tarback is more midrangey, but still not like that. I think, like the Whole Lotta set, they are throwing out alot of non-specific buzzterms in the marketing speak to get people to make assumptions and make purchases. 9.75k a4 mag? Never going to sound like a T Top with that much wire and that magnet.

There is a fellow over at MLP who posted a demo song clip of a set in a PRS Core SC250 in one of the SNS threads. Bridge sounds like a Custom Custom "lite" to me. Plenty of Mids, pulled back treble and bass, just not so hot or muddy like a CC

 

[NotCardio]

Re: Saturday Night Specials question - which guitar?

I have absolutely no evidence to back it up, but by the later 70's people were surely using aftermarket Duncans and Dimarzios and Seymour was rewinding pickups for artists as well.

Going by that logic, Seymour should certainly be the one to know whether or not they replicate the pickups accurately, and which guitars' pickups they replicate.

Hey, SD reps, how about a little digging for info? :help:

 

[Riley]

Re: Saturday Night Specials question - which guitar?

The SNS set isn't meant to be a replica of the T-Tops. We consider it more of an idealized version of a PAF set, tweaked to add more power in the bridge and warm clarity in the neck. In a Gibson (or similar style) guitar they do the 70's and southern rock thing really well, which is where the name came from.

 

[JeffB]

Re: Saturday Night Specials question - which guitar?

The SNS set isn't meant to be a replica of the T-Tops. We consider it more of an idealized version of a PAF set, tweaked to add more power in the bridge and warm clarity in the neck. In a Gibson (or similar style) guitar they do the 70's and southern rock thing really well, which is where the name came from.

Thanks for the clarification!