DetroitBlues

Last nights gig…

I did Nike polo shirts for PSP VII, year or so before was a mechanic button down work shirt with a Heritage label on the back.

There was some speculation at PSP when some eagle eye observers noticed some accoustics in the plant. Today Heritage “leaked” a photo hinting towards this possibility. What is not known is where they are made or if they are Heritage or Harmony.. (Assuming Heritage)..

I will buy some bottom end guitars on occasion, usually I have a purpose, such as it a model type I am interested in but don't want to spend a lot on an occasional use or recently, its a guitar I can keep at my bassist's house knowing its going to be used and abused by him and his kids.

When Thomann can produce some excellent guitars for $160-$300 that have stainless steel frets, roasted maple necks, and decent hardware from Wilkenson, you'd think Heritage would do better. Who knows, maybe they are being made by the same people as Trump Guitars.

They came with both a Heritage hardshell case and a black Mono gigbag case. It was a rare treat and wish I'd kept the Mono Gig bag. I use a double one now for gigs. Since I play locally and load my own equipment, I don't worry about them as they protect my guitars quite well, especially the fragile headstocks.

Funny you mention that, I typically roll back the tone controls just a hair on both the bridge and neck pickups. Then roll the volume back on either or depending on what the song calls for.

Of these H137's, there are only four in existence. Five were built, but the fifth went unclaimed, so Heritage installed Lollar P90's and a normal Grover kidney-bean tuners. Unfortunately, this limited run hit right at the beginning of the pandemic. A few orders were cancelled outright and many interested parties never placed an order. Excellent guitar, especially when the price was under $2K.

Slowly, I've come to realize so much of my tone quest can be resolved with this very idea, especially when using the middle position and adjusting the controls. Haven't changed the pickups in a Heritage in years because of this. Last pickup swap with removing Seth Lovers in favor of high-gain clarity Railhammers in my H535. Hindsight was to leave best alone. Railhammers didn't solve my problem between the ears.

I really don't remember. I did put one in a Gibson Les Paul I bought from Brent, sounded pretty good, best when uncovered.

Good deal, it’s a rare model and a timeless design.

Yes. It safely guards my plectrums from the evil galactic empire.

Wampler does all that.

Just to build off my previous thread, here’s a before and after of my pedal board adventures. With exception to the noise suppressor, I am able to achieve the same tonal options with less pedals… The Wampler has a pre/post input/outputs, similar to an effects loop. I have programmed some effects like Phaser and Univibe to be in front of the amp/gain pedals. Others such flanger, chorus, etc are post gain that I have running through the effects loop of my amp. The Delay and Reverb combos also run from the post output so they are also outside of the gain stages.

I think you'd still need a bigger board! That's a lot to fill in!

Heritage brought back the H137 in a Custom Core model. Very similar to mine except the no neck binding, in-house built P90's, and separated bridge/tailpiece. Someone was selling an HOC 137 a while ago, can't remember who. But its a great deal, especially if you're a fan of the monstrous fat necks. A Custom Shop guitar without the price tag of a Custom Core.

I was lucky enough to do a tonal/sound comparison between these pickups and a SG Special Custom Shop. There was little to no difference in tone but a significant difference in noise. I don't think they are necessarily humbuckers in a traditional sense as there still was the growl and bite of a normal P90.

Bit of a teaser. I don't have any video yet, but I used my Heritage H137 HOC LE at last Saturday's gig, almost 2 full sets. Always concerned when using it for live use previously being it has P90's, a wonderfully sounding pickup, but prone for the worst of 60 Cycle hum. Although, this particular model has Mojotone Quiet Coils. Supposedly a normal P90 that has been wound in some way to reduce noise. I decided to just use it anyway. Very thankful that I did. Guitar sounded great and, being a lighter guitar, it was easier on the back. Being so well made, it felt great to play. Best of all, no noise! So glad I made this guitar happen.

Nice snatch, but I think the best looking Korina was the natural finished 357 you used to have. That was amazing!

I think I have a lot covered here without compromise now.

Right, but if I have to adjust to the venue, deep dives to change settings is difficult.

I have no doubts those are amazing, but needing a computer to set them up and if how to quickly adjust on the fly seems challenging if you aren't intimately familiar with the units. But I'm not dragging around a computer for live play. I've gone back to analog (mostly), this time I have my drive pedals going to the front of the amp and a pair of digital pedals, Wampler Terraforma (chorus, flanger, phaser, etc) and a Universal Audio Del-Verb (delay/reverb pedal) through the effects loop (there is an interesting path where as I have the phaser go in front of the drive pedals).

I've never saw the poker chips on a catalog model. Obviously, I wasn't old enough to know back when they sold new in a shop. My assumption is dealers and individual owners added the poker chip. My 1985 H140 did not have one.

I've been trying to get more versatility from my pedal board without going overboard with dozens of pedals. Thought I'd go the route of a multi-effects route so I can get different reverbs, delays, modulation, compression.... Instead I ran into option paralysis. At first I was going to use a TC Electronics Plethora X3 or X5 as it has 3 to 5 different effects you can switch on and off like an individual pedal. However, that version requires a 600mA output and the most my power supply offers is 300mA. I returned it in favor for a Boss M3 Effects Switcher. This was even worse! You can load hundreds of banks, run you own individual drive pedals in/out, decide if you want to put anything in/out before your drive pedals. But as I discovered, creating you own banks is a challenge, sorting the pedal order, avoiding switch banks if you only want to switch a pedal/effect on/off. Limited to 2 Modulation effects and 2 internal drive effects. It became too much to use. There was no way I could effectively use this pedal live. I've gone back to regular pedals. I am going to try a Wampler Terraform for different modulation effects as it seems to function a lot simpler for live use. May investigate some different Reverb/Delay units that offer more options. We'll see I guess

Would a magnet swap make a difference?