Jeff Seal
New member
First off...the pic...
...and a few things to note...
Although I knew this was only 20 fret and really only "managable" to the 18th fret, that part really came as no surprise. I had purchased this guitar with the full intentions of leaving it on a "Gracie" stand, thus having my trusty 6 ready for "battle" behind it. There were a few issues, exclusive to these...
Straps are very hard to come by, I finally found one that didn't slice into my shoulder and was "short" enough!..(although I could handle the weight for a few tunes, definitely not an "all-night" guitar....the whole stand idea seems to be the best route!).......(oh, and the guys at GC acted like they've never even seen one of these before.......of course, I was proud to show it off!
!)
Strings are a liitle hard to come by....for the 12
The stock PU's are "managable" and I've decided to replace both bridge PU's with my favorite...(SH6's...mostly because they have killer coil tapped response!) and leave the neck PU's alone...for now anyway!
The only real drawback to this guitar is the switching system, the sw. between the necks is the PU selector, while the one at the bottom is the neck selector, and while it works flawlessly....there is room for improvement here....(easy enough for me to remedy!)
The single coolest thing about this guitar is "symapthetic resonation" which allows the vibrations from the strings on one neck to "transfer" to the other neck. This creates this the most killer guitar/organ tones! (reminiscent of Zep's sound!) However it is rather limited to only the first through fourth order harmonics of the tuning used... I used standard tuning with a drop D low string, thus the major scale of D resonates almost instantaneously, moreso in the higher registers. This does rquire some "finesse" as the lower notes will tend to overpower the higher ones, it took probably less than an hour to "get the hang" of it!......while this is not overly "useful", it is way cool!
And one last thing, there is nothing in the world like a Drop D'd 12 string through a modded Marshall....serious vibes!
Jeff Seal
...and a few things to note...
Although I knew this was only 20 fret and really only "managable" to the 18th fret, that part really came as no surprise. I had purchased this guitar with the full intentions of leaving it on a "Gracie" stand, thus having my trusty 6 ready for "battle" behind it. There were a few issues, exclusive to these...
Straps are very hard to come by, I finally found one that didn't slice into my shoulder and was "short" enough!..(although I could handle the weight for a few tunes, definitely not an "all-night" guitar....the whole stand idea seems to be the best route!).......(oh, and the guys at GC acted like they've never even seen one of these before.......of course, I was proud to show it off!
!)Strings are a liitle hard to come by....for the 12
The stock PU's are "managable" and I've decided to replace both bridge PU's with my favorite...(SH6's...mostly because they have killer coil tapped response!) and leave the neck PU's alone...for now anyway!
The only real drawback to this guitar is the switching system, the sw. between the necks is the PU selector, while the one at the bottom is the neck selector, and while it works flawlessly....there is room for improvement here....(easy enough for me to remedy!)
The single coolest thing about this guitar is "symapthetic resonation" which allows the vibrations from the strings on one neck to "transfer" to the other neck. This creates this the most killer guitar/organ tones! (reminiscent of Zep's sound!) However it is rather limited to only the first through fourth order harmonics of the tuning used... I used standard tuning with a drop D low string, thus the major scale of D resonates almost instantaneously, moreso in the higher registers. This does rquire some "finesse" as the lower notes will tend to overpower the higher ones, it took probably less than an hour to "get the hang" of it!......while this is not overly "useful", it is way cool!
And one last thing, there is nothing in the world like a Drop D'd 12 string through a modded Marshall....serious vibes!
Jeff Seal
