Fender announce David Gilmour Sig

[MetalHeadMat]

I think it'd be pretty neat if they released different models with the different pickups he used.

[Endrik]

According to my good friend and Gilmour fanatic, he only EVER used EMGs when the light show and massive tour setup Floyd played with induced noise into the guitar signal. Otherwise, he plays custom and vintage passive pickups exclusively on the recordings.

that's true, in the studio he uses vintage passives but live actives because his live rig is monstrous with shit loads of signal processing units... the signal from the passive pickups would get lost.

[MetalHeadMat]

Is it Mexican or American made?

[toejam]

Is it Mexican or American made?

USA Custom Shop for both the NOS and Relic models. http://www.fender.com/customshop/instruments/

[shobet]

that's true, in the studio he uses vintage passives but live actives because his live rig is monstrous with shit loads of signal processing units... the signal from the passive pickups would get lost.

I thought he used Pete Cornish designed gear which is all buffered so the there shouldn't be any signal loss or dramatic change of tone? The Cornish stuff is also supposed to be resistant to external noise as well because of the use of a pre-amp with filtering before the effects.

However reading the book about his black strat, it says that the red strat and others he used suffered from RF interference and excessive noise from the lighting rigs, pedals and high gain stage. So much so that their original passive pickups were changed to EMG-SAs to try and lessen the interference and noise.

I'm going to take off my anorak now.

[Endrik]

I thought he used Pete Cornish designed gear which is all buffered so the there shouldn't be any signal loss or dramatic change of tone? The Cornish stuff is also supposed to be resistant to external noise as well because of the use of a pre-amp with filtering before the effects.

However reading the book about his black strat, it says that the red strat and others he used suffered from RF interference and excessive noise from the lighting rigs, pedals and high gain stage. So much so that their original passive pickups were changed to EMG-SAs to try and lessen the interference and noise.

I'm going to take off my anorak now.

yeah, noise was one of the reasons but look how many processors he has in his rack... that will affect the signal pretty seriously no matter how good the interface system is.
folks who had racks as big as refrigerators and controlled it with Bradshaw systems had some pretty serious tone loss, Cornish is an improvement but it can't keep the signal 100% pure due 50 units of delays, effect processors, compressors etc. etc.

[Aaronharmon]

i tended to agree with this statment until i played the eric johnson sig

Aesthetically the are all the same though. I just took a little 800 grit sand paper to my strat to get the neck I wanted. With a simple electronics swap, you could mimic the sound of of any CS Strat for a lot less money.

I guess the thing that bothers me is that Jackson customs are, generally speaking, pretty obviously custom. Fender costums are difficult to tell from anything else that came off the line. Unless of course they are relics, which is assinine as far as I am concerned.

I do think that new electronics package on the USA Strat Deluxe is pretty interesting. I cannot remember what it is called at the moment, but it looks interesting.

Sorry for the rant,

Aaron

[Super_shredder]

Aesthetically the are all the same though. I just took a little 800 grit sand paper to my strat to get the neck I wanted. With a simple electronics swap, you could mimic the sound of of any CS Strat for a lot less money.

I guess the thing that bothers me is that Jackson customs are, generally speaking, pretty obviously custom. Fender costums are difficult to tell from anything else that came off the line. Unless of course they are relics, which is assinine as far as I am concerned.

I do think that new electronics package on the USA Strat Deluxe is pretty interesting. I cannot remember what it is called at the moment, but it looks interesting.

Sorry for the rant,

Aaron

i see where you're coming from , but ive also seen some really custom pieces from fender like the rocket one a while back that someone had on this board.

[pjg]

Here's one for sale..

http://www.napervillemusic.com/preferred1108/Fender-Gilmore-Signature.html

[GuerillaPete]

$4k for it is crazy. Not as crazy as the $10k+ for the Yngwie. Doesn't even come with donuts.

Getting back to the Gilmour sig. I've read the book about it "The Black Strat". If you want to have some fun, buy a Charvel so-cal black w/ pickguard and make your own Gilmour.

[Endrik]

Aesthetically the are all the same though. I just took a little 800 grit sand paper to my strat to get the neck I wanted. With a simple electronics swap, you could mimic the sound of of any CS Strat for a lot less money.

I guess the thing that bothers me is that Jackson customs are, generally speaking, pretty obviously custom. Fender costums are difficult to tell from anything else that came off the line. Unless of course they are relics, which is assinine as far as I am concerned.

I do think that new electronics package on the USA Strat Deluxe is pretty interesting. I cannot remember what it is called at the moment, but it looks interesting.

Sorry for the rant,

Aaron

the biggest difference is what materials are being used... expensive custom shop ones get the best wood available which have been specially aged etc. etc.... that makes a huge difference in tone.

[Bryan]

As a Gilmour nut myself, it hurts me that I don't have this guitar. However, not having the 4gs it takes to get one has a little something to do with it.

I still wished that they had priced this out the door at around the $2500 mark. I could have lived with that.

[Joe_Steeler]

As a Gilmour nut myself, it hurts me that I don't have this guitar. However, not having the 4gs it takes to get one has a little something to do with it.

I still wished that they had priced this out the door at around the $2500 mark. I could have lived with that.

The NOS version is not far from that if you talk to the right people and say the magic words.

[Bryan]

I wish I knew the right people and the magic words, because NOS is defnitely the one I want.

While I admire the relic, I kind of like the idea of letting the guitar tell my story with it. A relic, especially one pattenered after the use of another person, feels kind of like starting your story at the end of someone else's story. Just don't seem right to me.

But if I was getting the guitar as a collector's piece only, I would definitely get the Relic.

[GuerillaPete]

Dudes! Make your own Black Strat. And relic-tha-fukk-outta it. That's the fun stuff.