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The Guitar Topic
jeph:
I've been pretty much obsessed with the instrument for about 15 years now. I was seriously considering becoming a luthier in high school and college. I've read virtually everything there is to read about the electric guitar, and have played more than I can count.
Ballard:
About the same, 'cept I've been playing for a year and a half, I've been completely obsessed since the first day, I'm still in high school, and still seriously considering being a guitar technician or luthier.
It's a passion. I'm as interested in the workings of a guitar as in playing one. I am a complete nerd for this stuff and spend countless hours researching it.
I stay over at my drummer's house a lot on the weekends and once his dad caught me up at 3 AM after everyone had gone to bed using his laptop. He was all "DUDE WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT?" and I told him I was reading up on how to wire a pick-up and he gives me this look like "DUDE IF YOU'RE LOOKING AT PORN JUST FESS UP TO IT" and I made him check my browser history, and to his chagrin he found a bunch of diagrams of a single coil pick-up.
FireAarro:
--- Quote from: KimJongSick on 28 Nov 2007, 11:32 ---If you want Yo La Tengo, :-D Jr. or Sonic Youth sounds, get a Jag. Seriously, the guitarists from EVERY ONE OF THOSE BANDS uses a Jaguar. Too bad the damn things are a grand and a half.
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Hmm... Sonic Youth don't use Jaguars very often, actually, they're known for their modified Jazzmasters, aka "Jazzblasters", which have those 70s Fender Wide Range Humbuckers in them (from the Tele Deluxe and Custom guitars).
J Mascis used a Jaguar occasionally, but is also better known for his Jazzmasters. In an interview, he said that most of his rhythm guitar tones on record are P-90 equpped guitars, and he likes to use a Jazzmaster for solos. Live he almost exclusively plays Jazzmasters.
I'm a huge Jaguar fan. The short scale, bright, plonky sound, and lack of sustain, I really dig.
You can still get Japanese Jazzmasters and Jaguars imported new from Japan for pretty cheap. Great guitars, though IMO not up to the same standard as the AVRI ones. The main points of difference are the pickups, finish, body shapes (the edges on the AVRI and Vintage ones are more rounded), and the vibrato tailpiece (which is far superior on the American models). You can occasionally pick up a good deal on an AVRI on eBay too- every now and then $900 BIN comes up.
Christophe:
--- Quote from: Ballard on 28 Nov 2007, 20:57 ---single coil pick-up
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So that's what the kids call 'em these days.
These days, I've grown up from obsessing over guitars that I don't own and can't afford to obsessing over recording equipment that I don't own and can't afford.
GAS is a bitch, no matter what it's about.
Right now, the guitar nerd in me is torn between taking my old squier strat, exercising my non-existent wood-shop/luthiery skills and chopping off the top horn and carving it until it's symmetrical and then hot-rodding the shit out of it (which I sure as hell don't have the technical expertise to do), and just buying a new guitar (which I don't have the money for).
Wayfaring Stranger:
--- Quote from: jeph on 28 Nov 2007, 15:53 ---
I recorded a song on it already!
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I feel like that song is awesome.
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