Bing-
The guitar plays like a dream. Much nicer than what I had tried out at the local Guitar Center. You know it really pains me to see the abuse they allow to happen to some really nice guitars. I looked at a fully loaded Mystic Dream and it was beat to ****. Someone had apparently played with the neck and the strings were laying on the frets from like the 10th on up.
I am really impressed with the Traynor. It sounds terrific. The clean tones are incredible. I plan on throwing a distortion pedal in front of it to help out the overdrive channel. It sounds pretty good like it is, but I'd like to have a little more growl. It's an amazingly loud amp for 40 watts. Gotta love all tubes.
I love the pickups on the Petrucci. When I split the bridge and neck pickups, it has the warmest tone I've ever heard.
The piezo is such a cool option. I'm thinking about picking up an acoustic amp and using a splitter box and volume pedal to fade in and out of the piezo. I had read about doing that on the Petrucci forum and it seems like a good idea.
I guess it's time to start looking for another one. I'm feeling a little embarrassed being a one "ball" man... Maybe an Axis or Silo... who knows. I just know that I've been hit real hard by G.A.S.
fred
