Saul Goodman

Thanks, yes, I've raised and lowered the pickup, pole pieces. I haven't changed the strings since I bought it but I have a set of D'Addario XL slated for later today. Amps are, Cali Tweed, Tone King Imperial Tri-Tube, and handwired '64 Deluxe Reverb clone. There isn't enough wood in the SG to mount the pickup right against the bottom of the fretboard like in my LP and 335 so I'm wondering if that can contribute to the midrange I'm hearing. There is a lot of conversation out there, some saying tonewoods don't mean anything, but, the guitar is much thinner and no maple on it. It has a distinctive sound but what I'm not hearing is the clarity or "bell" tones I hear in the others with similar pickups. More experimenting to come but the string change is first and rain is in the mix today so is a good day to do that.

I found a video of a comparison. I like this guy's stuff because he doesn't use a mic on the cone. Just a room mic. Maybe just his phone. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgDrtVY-u8Q

I got an Historic Gibson '61 SG/LCP before spring. It has the Gibson '57 pickups. Three of them. I don't care for the neck pickup sound. Or maybe I'm just used to what other guitars sound like in the neck position. There is no chime in the SG even with the volume and tone all the way up. I've raised and lowered the pickup. I haven't changed anything in the control cavity (yet) because it's all original. So my question is, is there something about the SG that makes it more mid-rangey? Less chimey? I don't dislike the sound. And it's good that I have at least one double hum guitar that sounds differently from the pack in the unplayed pile. So is this what a SG does? Kind of like the Tele does what it does? This is my first experience with a SG.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcHXVf26z3M

YouTube isn't allowing embedding on some videos it seems. Maybe it's all of them now. I'm having the same message. Link is clickable though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1013X_fXy0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EqyobxlPlE Another part: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oD1Tokzymy4 Another part: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VytNfpc0TCk

Damn enabler. I didn't know shipping was included. Doh!

There was a show, possibly a movie, back in the early '90s, possibly before that, probably a VHS we rented from Pharmore, where blue men, before the Blue Man Group, would get the set ready for the subjects of the story would go. Like living in a simulation. But, say someone forgot their keys and couldn't find them and they knew they laid them on the coffee table. Well, the blue man, or men, would have to sneak back to the last set and place the keys somewhere for the subject to find them and then sneak back out undetected. It was pretty funny. I still blame the blue men whenever I lay something down and an instant later I can't find it. I'll look on YouTube and see if the video is out there. ETA: Found it. Twilight Zone 1986 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9XFRfeGBVI

1. Choose a blood-sky morning. 2. Observe the in and out plug holes. 3. Plug them in correctly. 4. Plug in the proper power source. 5. Turn it on. 6. Turn it up to eleven. 7. Brace yourself for 12.

Always searching for the rainbow's end.

Well damn, and here I was just saying I didn't need more guitars.

That was almost tempting to me at 4:45 this morning. Then I figured it would sit in the stack of unplayed Hamers I already have.

Well they sure confused my young mind and way back when, my first "real" amp was a Peavey Classic 50 with a tremolo. Like you, I wanted all the distortion I could get back then and I was like, "What the hell is this stuttering tremolo thing?" and thought it worthless. I traded it back in for one that had a phase shifter which I found I could use for the style of music I was after. This was around '77 when I was listening to KISS Alive! and the Alice Cooper live album with Dick Wagner on guitar. Man, what a killer tone he had. If only I had known he was using a Wah.

To be fair, I also read your post at 4:45 this morning with the morning news in the background so I didn't quite get what vibe you meant as in, "I get your vibe, man." Also, back when Fender introduced the tube driven tremolo they did call it Vibrato. And that circuit was correctly named. The future circuits were also called Vibrato when in fact, they are more tremolo. The Vibrato is actually a change in pitch where tremolo is a change in volume. I went down that rabbit hole for a few weeks recently when I thought I wanted another amp. Thankfully I remembered the "Tremolo" on the Tri-Tube TKI before I made that mistake.

Did you get your Uli Jon Roth flo on, @Dutchman?

I love my Tri-Tube Imperial Tone King. I have it plugged into the Cali Tweed mostly and it sits in front of me on my desk for easy access. It's a game changer in so many ways. I have been playing the hand wired Deluxe Reverb I got from @Dutchman for some time now (it doesn't have a FX loop so the TK wasn't used) and got up to put the guitar cable back in the TK. I was blown away once again as I picked up a Strat for the first time in a minute. I have been playing the SG/LPC almost exclusively as I do when I get great gear. So I plugged in the Strat and was blown away once again. After about 45 minutes I shut it down and marveled over the great tone. I went about my business and a few hours later I realized I had left the Tchula on from the Deluxe Reverb session. It was then that I realized I had never plugged anything in front of the TK. I also haven't plugged anything in the TK FX loop. So now I have a project in front of me to put a delay in the FX loop and more dirt in front. The TK has a perfect reverb and tremolo that can be used even when the TK is bypassed. If you haven't tried the tremolo yet, @LucSulla, it is remarkable and is designed after a harmonic tremolo. So you don't need a reverb pedal or tremolo pedal in the chain with the TK. The options are endless as @LucSullahas pointed out. Cray Cray.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1Bebf3Y2rk

It gets complicated.

When I was in MA for my son's wedding we were talking about Corey Taylor and he asked me if I'd heard this song. I forgot about it but now I think I'll have to fry some bacon tonight.

Fryin' bacon tonight.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/obituaries/bonnie-tyler-singer-total-eclipse-heart-dies-rcna353636

Reduced to $1495. Better jump. Going fast.