DrKev
Moderator
WOW! 
It really was that good. I cannot get over how comfortable and easy to play that guitar is. It's a guitar that really allows you to pull out your best. While the bridge humbucker is not as bright as I'd like on clean sounds when you give it drive, it just blooms into some sort of amazing synesthesia inducing mind control device. I'm not kidding! My first solo of the night, I just tapped my Radial overdrive and notes just leapt out of the amp and it was all rich, beautiful reds and blues and greens flying around! It was an astonishing experience! It's like some sort of B&W filter was lifted off the amp.
And my fingers just moved and all this stuff just came out effortlessly. The audience loved it. And the band looked at each other and gave each other "wow, I think Kev likes his new guitar" nods and smiles.
I know it's nearly 4 am and I've worked a lot of gigs in the last three days (St Patrick's week is my busiest week of the year) so I'm really tired and it's all fresh in my mind, but in 10 years, and close to 1000 gigs, from big stages to small bars, that was definitely one my personal most memorable gig moments.
I still have some work to do dialling in the pickup heights and such. Aside form just spending some time getting to know these particular sounds, I have the the neck and bridge nicely balanced and they come through the mix nicely but the others are a little quieter and get a little lost in the mix. That needs to be rectified, as I really do like to use the full tonal palette of the guitar.
Being a St Patrick's gig, I was playing mandolin for most of the evening, so when I did first reach for the guitar, Charlie, the singer, introduced the 'new' guitar, which was met with a quite a round of applause, much to our surprise! It seems the guitar might now also be called "Michelle".
I love my buttercream baby!
It really was that good. I cannot get over how comfortable and easy to play that guitar is. It's a guitar that really allows you to pull out your best. While the bridge humbucker is not as bright as I'd like on clean sounds when you give it drive, it just blooms into some sort of amazing synesthesia inducing mind control device. I'm not kidding! My first solo of the night, I just tapped my Radial overdrive and notes just leapt out of the amp and it was all rich, beautiful reds and blues and greens flying around! It was an astonishing experience! It's like some sort of B&W filter was lifted off the amp.
And my fingers just moved and all this stuff just came out effortlessly. The audience loved it. And the band looked at each other and gave each other "wow, I think Kev likes his new guitar" nods and smiles.
I know it's nearly 4 am and I've worked a lot of gigs in the last three days (St Patrick's week is my busiest week of the year) so I'm really tired and it's all fresh in my mind, but in 10 years, and close to 1000 gigs, from big stages to small bars, that was definitely one my personal most memorable gig moments.
I still have some work to do dialling in the pickup heights and such. Aside form just spending some time getting to know these particular sounds, I have the the neck and bridge nicely balanced and they come through the mix nicely but the others are a little quieter and get a little lost in the mix. That needs to be rectified, as I really do like to use the full tonal palette of the guitar.
Being a St Patrick's gig, I was playing mandolin for most of the evening, so when I did first reach for the guitar, Charlie, the singer, introduced the 'new' guitar, which was met with a quite a round of applause, much to our surprise! It seems the guitar might now also be called "Michelle".
I love my buttercream baby!
