whitestrat
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Seriously. Why?
This guitar is still every bit the guitar I fell in love with at first strum. I've been thinking of getting another 7, but I really can't find anything else better.
I took this thing to a blues jam, and was amazed how well it fit in.
The neck tones are so piano-like, that I didn't sound like anything else in the mix. The bridge was bright and fat, so it did have a nice LP-ish vibe to it. The floating trem made the chords pretty interesting on clean. Then there's the piezo. Oh wow.
And get this. The best bit of the guitar in the jam was the fact that it had a 7th string. The low B was very frequently used in the rhythm sections, where instead of playing the same chords over and over again like the 3 or 4 other guitarists in the band, I'd be buddy-ing up with the bass player, and doing a groove like him. Imagine a similar bassline groove, but played 1 octave higher, and complimenting the bass player rather than just having the same "duuuh, duuuuh, duuuuh" bassline over and over again. At the lower end of the spectrum, there's more complexity going on now. So while I could still play the guitar like a regular 6 string, I had an extended musical palette at my disposal now.
On certain songs, where most people would be playing usual 7th chords, I'd be on the piezo, strumming in full acoustic mode. 90% of the guys there were wondering where the acoustic came from. In a piezo/mag mix mode, shuffle riffs would have a bit more bite, and it made the tones a lot more interesting.
The LF/CL combo running through a Twin Reverb and a TS808HW is so sweet, that you'd hardly believe you were listening to a "metal" guitar. Really, there's so little ground that this guitar cannot cover. And the JP7 neck is small enough to still use the thumb, though that takes some getting used to.
It also sustains so well, that most of the LP guys were stunned. the floating trem is useful on clean chords, and adds an unoften heard dynamic in the usual blues band mix.
Now, imagine a JPX7 with a gamechanger? Damn... I might as well sell off everything! The JPX7 is probably the best guitar I have owned thus far in terms of utility. Nothing else covers this much ground.
*patiently awaiting NAMM 2011
This guitar is still every bit the guitar I fell in love with at first strum. I've been thinking of getting another 7, but I really can't find anything else better.
I took this thing to a blues jam, and was amazed how well it fit in.
The neck tones are so piano-like, that I didn't sound like anything else in the mix. The bridge was bright and fat, so it did have a nice LP-ish vibe to it. The floating trem made the chords pretty interesting on clean. Then there's the piezo. Oh wow.
And get this. The best bit of the guitar in the jam was the fact that it had a 7th string. The low B was very frequently used in the rhythm sections, where instead of playing the same chords over and over again like the 3 or 4 other guitarists in the band, I'd be buddy-ing up with the bass player, and doing a groove like him. Imagine a similar bassline groove, but played 1 octave higher, and complimenting the bass player rather than just having the same "duuuh, duuuuh, duuuuh" bassline over and over again. At the lower end of the spectrum, there's more complexity going on now. So while I could still play the guitar like a regular 6 string, I had an extended musical palette at my disposal now.
On certain songs, where most people would be playing usual 7th chords, I'd be on the piezo, strumming in full acoustic mode. 90% of the guys there were wondering where the acoustic came from. In a piezo/mag mix mode, shuffle riffs would have a bit more bite, and it made the tones a lot more interesting.
The LF/CL combo running through a Twin Reverb and a TS808HW is so sweet, that you'd hardly believe you were listening to a "metal" guitar. Really, there's so little ground that this guitar cannot cover. And the JP7 neck is small enough to still use the thumb, though that takes some getting used to.
It also sustains so well, that most of the LP guys were stunned. the floating trem is useful on clean chords, and adds an unoften heard dynamic in the usual blues band mix.
Now, imagine a JPX7 with a gamechanger? Damn... I might as well sell off everything! The JPX7 is probably the best guitar I have owned thus far in terms of utility. Nothing else covers this much ground.
*patiently awaiting NAMM 2011
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