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Okay then, my Band Slavantas is busy recording our debut album "The Last men standing" and today was my turn to do redo my tracks or overdub some stuff when needed. I brought along my trusty London City "Bulldog" Tube head, my Boss GT5 effects processor, My old faithful 1989 Squier Stratocaster "the Veteran" and my newly acquired Modified seventies SG Custom.
Now I had used my SG on the last rehearsal and everybody was raving about how good it sounded, unfortunately it had an issue with staying in tune and the neck and middle pickups were way too close to the strings so they sucked out all the sustain. So I lowered the neck and middle pickups until they were virtually flush with the surface of the guitar, I then bolted on the double locking Washburn "Wonderbar" cram trem bridge which requires no routing to be installed and I fitted a top lock. It works a charm, the guitar sounds better than before and stays in tune.
But when I got it out at the studio, the engineer looked at me with a "Are you kidding me?" look on his face but our lead singer who was also there shushed him and said "You'll be surprised."
I ended up using the SG on the whole thing and the engineer said that he'd love to have that guitar in the studio and asked me if I were interested in selling it, I went "Nope, I'm really enjoying the ownership of this guitar, I'm not gonna sell it."
But as good as the SG sounded the tediousness of having to play several parts over and over and over again got to me at one time. And I asked to have a small break, our lead singer smiled and told me that I had every reason to be tired, I had been playing for over four hours.
I'm glad that I'm done there, I'm exhausted, Jack T. our other guitarist will have his turn next Friday and after that my bass playing brother will be up.
Now I had used my SG on the last rehearsal and everybody was raving about how good it sounded, unfortunately it had an issue with staying in tune and the neck and middle pickups were way too close to the strings so they sucked out all the sustain. So I lowered the neck and middle pickups until they were virtually flush with the surface of the guitar, I then bolted on the double locking Washburn "Wonderbar" cram trem bridge which requires no routing to be installed and I fitted a top lock. It works a charm, the guitar sounds better than before and stays in tune.
But when I got it out at the studio, the engineer looked at me with a "Are you kidding me?" look on his face but our lead singer who was also there shushed him and said "You'll be surprised."
I ended up using the SG on the whole thing and the engineer said that he'd love to have that guitar in the studio and asked me if I were interested in selling it, I went "Nope, I'm really enjoying the ownership of this guitar, I'm not gonna sell it."
But as good as the SG sounded the tediousness of having to play several parts over and over and over again got to me at one time. And I asked to have a small break, our lead singer smiled and told me that I had every reason to be tired, I had been playing for over four hours.
I'm glad that I'm done there, I'm exhausted, Jack T. our other guitarist will have his turn next Friday and after that my bass playing brother will be up.
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