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This one does not have a huge neck. Very comfortable medium C.

This one has a monster neck

I keep thinking about a Jazz box. My guitar teacher has a Herb Ellis and I keep thinking "maybe I should have one of those". I'd probably only put 11's on it, as somehow I think i'd end up also playing more blues stuff on it. Man these are some nice looking guitars in here.

Ahh, I didn't notice that they were stacked humbuckers. Looks like even the "vintage stacked' set has quite a bit of DC resistance. They just use a different type of design than the Dimarzio stacked single coils, which have a much lower DCR. My experience with the stacked pickups is limited to a Dimarzio Paul Gilbert "Injector" set in a G&L legacy I picked up years ago. I do think they have a really nice sound, definitely a bit more bark than regular single coils. Regarding P90s, I thought I would chime in with Lindy Fralin pickups. I picked up a set used to put in a Hamer P90 special, and I love them there. The stock pickups were the Seymour Duncan Hot and Custom P90 pickups, which are BEASTLY, but also do sound quite good. You just really need to plug into the low gain input or you're gonna get nothing but Mississippi queen all day long.

Since we are sharing H550 pics....My 550.

There is a trick for pickup rings. Tape a piece of sandpaper on the top, gently glide the pickup ring back and forth until it makes the curve of the top. The tailpiece is also original.. Fine guitar all around. Hows the neck shape?

Right. Very little bending in my playing. Slides, and hammer on, yes, but almost no bends.

I have found Lollar's P-90s to vary from set to set and also to sound better in different guitars. I loved the Lollar P-90s in the 535 P90 guitar I sold to Daniel Rockabilly and the Lollar p-90s that came in my Collings gold top City Limits. I tried a couple different sets of P-90s in the Collings, and to my surprise the Lollars sounded the best. My personal favorite P-90s are the Throbak '52/'54 P-90s with plenty of grit and growl. But Throbak's prices have really increased since the pandemic and they are quite an investment now.

In Jazz guitar, there really aren't any bending or vibrato. Usually, bends, and especially vibrato, is discouraged to frowned upon in "classic" jazz guitar playing. Some of the more contemporary jazz guitar artists are doing more bends/vibrato, but they are using lighter strings. It just a matter of personal taste and playing style.

That's exactly what I thought of their P90s and I tried muiltiple winds. Too polite, too hifi! I like Gibsons too, and Wolfetone Mean and Meaners.

Oh Okay.....Thanks so much Bolero....I was totally wrong about you.

And he continued on to answer such a basic question. Every guitar player I interact with consider your query fundamental. It has been addressed here multiple times which is precisely why I wholeheartedly agree with bolero’s frustrations. Sit back, take a deep breath and consider thanking him for sharing his knowledge and experiences. You got far more than you paid for.

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Make it a nice one. Not too big or ostentatious

I really like it. The sounds I can get out of it are easily as good, or better, than my analog pedals. The computer interface is intuitive. You can use drag and drop on the screen on the unit. It's like having 170 pedals in a 7 pound box that fits in a backpack and has only one thing to hook up. There's no way I'd go back to analog. This was not the bottom of the line. It was $400 + tax. Thankfully, I got 0% financing at CME.

I did not have a problem with the info. It was the "Are you serious?" part of the response. If I were asked a question about why a Cmin7#11 chord resolves into an F7+11 I would give a polite answer and not "Are you serious?" (Which has an implication.....) followed by the answer. I was raised that there are no dumb questions but plenty of dumb insensitive answers to good questions. I know a butt load of stuff about music and guitar playing and not ashamed to admit very little about the electronics of guitar playing. You're welcome.

There are loads of discussion threads that "debate" the concept. What Bolero said is part of the equation. The difference in cabinet size will alter the frequency response of the system, which might affect how you perceive the sound. Mathematically, if you put 1 watt into a 100dB efficient speaker, you get 100dB. If you put 1 watt into 4 100dB speakers wired to the same impedance, each speaker will get 0.25 watts. Thus each speaker will be putting out 94dB (3dB for halving the power, 3dB for halving THAT power.) But then you had 4 times that 94dB and you get back to 100dB. The difference will be more in tonal balance that actual sound intensity, which might be measured at 1 frequency. I've seen discussions where they say the increase was larger with 2 speakers rather than one, but the problem with this is that the impedance won't be the same between a single and a dual speaker setup. If you have a pair of 8 ohm speakers, and only use one, it's 8 ohms. If you add the second in parallel, it's now 4 ohms, so your power usage is different at the "same setting". Put them in series and you have 16 ohms, which could lower your output. When you use a 4x cabinet, with two in series and the series in parallel, the impedance can be the same as a single speaker. Identical power is distributed evenly. Jim Lill did a Youtube video where he compared lots of difference cab configurations and how it affected the sound. It may not change the dB reading but it changes the perception of the sound.

I was being serious. If you are offended that isn't my fault, it wasn't my intention either. You are reading far too much into that statement. I would have said exactly the same thing to any friend I was having that discussion with. Not only that, but I went to the effort of additional details that likely affect your perception of sound & volume. You are welcome.

My old H-137 had Lollar P90s. Too “polite” for me. Wonderful HiFi sound, but they didn’t punch very hard. I prefer the Gibson variety. edit: Lollar has multiple winds available for their P90s. Truth be told, I don’t know what they were.

When I had an H550 I used nothing but flatwound 12's, and it sounded great. Since 550's are plywood/laminate top guitars, shouldn't they be durable enough for 13's or 14's? I miss this big blonde gitfiddle.

I know crazy resistance values, but the output doesn't reflect that. It's more of a medium output due to the stacked coils and different size wire than a conventional humbucker.. I have side by side coil humbuckers with much lower DC resistance and a much hotter output. I would like to try the Hot Chicken bridge pickup. I think I'm going to put one in my custom shop Deluxe Tele which currently has a BG1400 in it. I think the Hot Chiicken might blend better with the Duncan "Vintage Stack" I have in the neck. The Vintage Stack isn't hot enough to get a good middle position with the BG 1400. And since I have the BG1400 in two other Teles, I think it would be nice to have a slightly lower output in one guitar. Beside I can stick the BG1400 I pull into the Esquire that I built:) They do sound like a single coil, but I'm more of a fan of the Duncan's tone for getting the Tele tone. I do like the Area T DiMarzio stacked humbuckers which I think get great Tele tone.

I think the tuners were the only original part. Certainly all the wiring and pickups were non original. I had a set of Throbak pickup rings laying around so I installed those when I put the burstbuckers in. The rings have a decent amount of “flex” and grip the body nicely. Time will tell if they crack or not, I suppose. One original pickup was included in the case, a standard Shaller pickup they were using at the time with a 3/85 date stamp on the bottom. I replaced the knobs to with top hats you see on it now. But the ones that came on it were non original.

Nice looking guitar. I've also contemplated the full multi-effects route as I had a pedal board that was way too heavy and had a couple of failures that took way to long to figure out. I've simplified a lot of it and sold off a bunch of pedals to use mutli-purpose pedals. (Not really "multi-effects") How does this unit compare tonal-wise to what you had before? Here’s my slimmer board, I have swapped the Timmy and the BM so I can use the BM as a volume/clean boost. The Wampler has two inputs and two outputs so I can save presets as either a preamp effect or use in the effects loop.