DetroitBlues

Baby got Back!!!!

No one will ever complain about having twin blondes!

Only person from Canada I remember being there was Bolero, but his guitars were borrowed from Pete Farmer.... Of course, there are other members too that I don't always remember where they are from....

Love the look of that new H575, the tort pickguard really stands out. Fine collection all around!

Beautiful 530! Congrats again Rich

I've sort of stopped chasing down tones in my head and chasing tones in my ears. I went down the rabbit hole for tone quests and found that tone in a room sounds different than tone on a recording. Pickups, guitars, strings, amps, speakers, microphones, where you pick the strings, how you pick the strings, post preamp equalization.... its maddening when you start to dig into it. I've only changed pickups in recent years for noise and feedback reduction. I think you'd be amazed how that beautiful H535 sounds depending on the amp and the use of the tone controls. I really love the middle position, I turn the volume on the bridge pickup to around a 7 or 8, roll back the tone to an 8. Then on the neck position, I'll roll the volume back just a touch at a time until it just adds a bit of warmth to the bridge pickup, usually it ends up around 6-7. When I need a bit for a lead solo, I'll go to the bridge and sometimes raise the volume up a bit. All this is accomplished to get a tone that I can clearly hear against the band and sounds good to me. I stopped chasing my hero's tones and just play to the song. One of my favorite tunes lately is Marshall Tucker's Can't You See. I'll play the flute and the lead guitar tracks with any of my guitars; by adjusting the controls I can make any of them sound pretty close to each other and they all have different pickups.... H150 with SD 59's, H137 with Mojotone Quiet Coil P90's, H535 with a Railhammer Neuvo in the neck and a Red Rock A3 humbucker in the bridge. I can use any of those guitars and achieve a tone that sounds good to me even if there is a slight difference in sound. Audiences don't know the difference. In other words, don't get too caught up yet on pickup being a problem, there is a lot more to the signal chain besides the pickups.

is that so you don't roll over and fall out of bed?

Hope the doc prescribed the fun meds... or is that prescribed for glaucoma?

Congrats Rich!

I think that Heritage was his reward for his internship.

Nice pics!

or quoted phrase as a matter of fact....

Hence the title, NFS. It's going to a display case, most likely in someone's office.

Didn't know it was an option, left a hole in my soul when I look at the empty space where it once shook the floorboards of the house...

May have to arrange that since I had to give up the Metropoulos back to its rightful owner.