A request for Rob!

[menvafaan]

Rob! I really like your videos, and they've helped me out a lot on my hunt for my next EBMM purchase!

I would love to see you do a straight comparison between HSS/SSS and rosewood/maple on the Silo Spec! It's really hard to tell the difference when every clip on YouTube are played with completely different sounds and random pickup selections.

Thanks a lot in advance, I would really appreciate it!

/Sebastian

 

[robelinda2]

Once I get my LE silo special i will have both HSS and SSS in maple and rosewood, i'll try and get some vids up then. Though I dont know how much you'll get from them, I never bother with vids or clips to guage how a guitar really sounds, you only really hear the player. Once I play it I sound like me and not the clip I heard!

 

[fogman]

08LE SILO Vid!!!
DROOOoooolllLLL!!!!!

 

[candid_x]

Nurse! Foggy needs a towel again!

Sebastian, fwiw, I have two of the four combinations (maple SSS and rosewood HSS), and my favorite one is the one I'm playing at the moment. Significantly different sound, same great playability. Generally, the maple SSS has a more vintage stratty sound, and the rosewood HSS has a more modern (fuller, warmer) sound. I personally think the stock single coil pickups are really special (no pun intended!) on either rosewood or maple, but different on each, as mentioned.

Oh, I have also had a third combo, an HSS maple board. It wasn't my preference, so I converted it to SSS, and that did it for me.

 

[robelinda2]

Yep you cant go wrong with any of the combinations. rosewood silo special gives you morth warmth and grunt, maple silo special gives similar tones obviously, but with a little more spank. most days I prefer the maple silo special, but its nice to have both!

 

[candid_x]

lol, grunt.. like that description.

 

[GuitarHack]

FWIW, I have Silo Specials in:

- SSS with rosewood board
- HSS with maple board
- HSS with rosewood board (and piezo)

All have the vintage trem as well.

If you forced just one of them on me, it wouldn't really matter which one, I'd still be happy, but that said:

- the SSS + RW has a real vintage vibe, and Positions 2 & 3 (bridge+middle and middle) are killer on this one;
- the HSS does the fatter hard rock stuff better.

All that said, I'm already planning my next SS: maple + SSS.

You can't go wrong, IMHO