Trisonic

Peter Crossley

Peter Crossley

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A good mate of mine is a Brian May freak, and he hand wound these Trisonic puppies, so I thought I would build a guitar around them

They sound interesting, good clarity, nice in parallel

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Very nice!
One of my clients has a Brian May guitar with the Burns Trisonics, and they sound great - especially in some combinations.

When I was a kid I had a Burns Bison with the "Wild Dog" setting on one of the switches (out of phase), but I got rid of it because it had the weirdest vibrato system ever that slid back and forth in a channel. Never would stay in tune.
 
Love the headstock shape (my Brian Moore is similar).

So, does it sound a little like Dr May?
 
Mincer said:
Love the headstock shape (my Brian Moore is similar).

So, does it sound a little like Dr May?
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Not really sure, I would have to put it through a bunch of treble boosters and a bank of AC30's...
sounds pretty nice through what I test bench..
Very clean Reynolds handwired 50 watt combo with an Alnico Gold
The clean channel of a MI Iron Duke into a single 12 Eminence Wizard
The green channel of a MI Revalation into 2 single cabs with Wizards
Also a Helix running a Fender Deluxe clean into stereo Yamaha HS8's on -10db
but I always sound exactly like me..
 
thats the curse isnt it? i always sound like me too :D looks amazing as usual peter. are the pups built like the old trisonics?
 
jeremy said:
thats the curse isnt it? i always sound like me too :D looks amazing as usual peter. are the pups built like the old trisonics?
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I believe so, the guy that wound them has built quite a few red specials, and is a total stickler for authenticity.
I cant remember what the original Burns ones sounded like, a friend of mine in the very early seventies had the Burns Bison, Wild Dog setting, haha.. but that memory has been dragged from the deep mists of time, and is therefore flawed
 
So is this a guitar someone commissioned, or is it something you wanted to build yourself?
 
The Wild Dog setting on the original Burns guitars is middle/bridge out of phase. Clean it's quite squawky and lo-fi, but with drive/fuzz it comes to life.
 
Not a big fan of the pickups, gonna be honest.

But the guitar???? My GOD I want to hump that!!!!!!
 
GuitarDoc said:
Gorgeous as usual, Peter. Always amazing inlay work.

I thought you were getting out of the business.
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I am, just getting a few bits and pieces out of the way, got a commission to finish, and a few bits of wood that I will probaly throw together..its slow process this giving up..
 
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