guitrr
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Jon,
I've only had my AL HH for a few weeks, but it has quickly ascended to my "Go-to" guitar.
In addition to the AL, I own two set neck PRS that have rosewood necks, and also have owned a rosewood neck EBMM Axis Sport, a half dozen years ago. Obviously, I'm a big fan of rosewood!
I've have always thought rosewood necks add a degree of resonance to an electric. This is a little esoteric, but I visualize it as the sound waves swirling around within the neck, as they do within the body, versus bouncing off a maple neck, particularly one with a maple fingerboard. My AL doesn't have the spankiness of an ash bodied, maple necked AL, but it can get pretty darn twangy, depending on my touch, which pickup selection I'm using, and the amp settings.
I think you can set your amp to make the guitar sound big, bassy, and deep, but the guitar also does spanky pretty well, if you set your amp accordingly. I've found the AL to be a wonderful chameleon of a guitar - again, much of your tone with this guitar is dependent on how you set your amp, and the basic tonality of that amp. With the split coil settings of the HH, it is also easy to change tones dramatically just by use of the pickup selector. I can make mine sound much like a 335, open and airy, or can make it sound like a tele through a Twin. Either way, it has a wonderful resonance; notes bloom effortlessly.
The AL has endeared itself to me so much that I'm currently selling off two other high end guitars to get an AL MM, as a compliment to my HH.
Kane
I've only had my AL HH for a few weeks, but it has quickly ascended to my "Go-to" guitar.
In addition to the AL, I own two set neck PRS that have rosewood necks, and also have owned a rosewood neck EBMM Axis Sport, a half dozen years ago. Obviously, I'm a big fan of rosewood!
I've have always thought rosewood necks add a degree of resonance to an electric. This is a little esoteric, but I visualize it as the sound waves swirling around within the neck, as they do within the body, versus bouncing off a maple neck, particularly one with a maple fingerboard. My AL doesn't have the spankiness of an ash bodied, maple necked AL, but it can get pretty darn twangy, depending on my touch, which pickup selection I'm using, and the amp settings.
I think you can set your amp to make the guitar sound big, bassy, and deep, but the guitar also does spanky pretty well, if you set your amp accordingly. I've found the AL to be a wonderful chameleon of a guitar - again, much of your tone with this guitar is dependent on how you set your amp, and the basic tonality of that amp. With the split coil settings of the HH, it is also easy to change tones dramatically just by use of the pickup selector. I can make mine sound much like a 335, open and airy, or can make it sound like a tele through a Twin. Either way, it has a wonderful resonance; notes bloom effortlessly.
The AL has endeared itself to me so much that I'm currently selling off two other high end guitars to get an AL MM, as a compliment to my HH.
Kane
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