Guitar heaven

[Paul P]

I just finished playing my H-535 for a bit and what an experience !

 

I've loved blues all my life and started on a quest to be able to play

some maybe five years ago when I bought an acoustic and started

to learn some Delta Blues.  My idea was to start at the beginning and

work my way up to what I really wanted to play, Chicago 50s style

electric blues and then maybe onto some early rock.  I've spent a lot

of my spare time putting together my gear and haven't really been able

to play as much as I'd want to until now.

 

I put on a BB King greatest hits CD that I've had for a year or so but

had never played along with.  Wow !  I sound almost the same as he

does.  No, not the music, but the tone !  I couldn't believe it.

 

I'm playing through a 10-watt single ended Fender style tube amp and

used quite a bit of spring reverb, and played through the neck pickup

(I have the standard Schaller pickups).  The speaker is a 12" Eminence

alnico Red Fang.  I'm getting all these sounds that I've always heard but

never had a clue of how they were produced.  And there seems to be no

end to the number of different sounds.  Just play a bit different in some

way and a whole new sound come out.  Amazing.

 

And my guitar is so easy to play.  I had 12s on my acoustic and 11s until

recently on my 535, and just put on some DR Pure Blues 10s.  It's so easy

to bend the strings all of a sudden and the action is so low that I hardly

have to press on the strings to play a note.  It's like the guitar plays itself.

 

I love my guitar.  I love my amp.  I don't even know how to play and I

sound great  8)

[tulk1]

Most excellent!!!

[yoslate]

Congrats, Paul!  I think your post is just a slight variation on the theme we're all pursuing, each in our own way.  Well done!      8)

[shook494]

Nice to hear you're happy with the sound.  I'm still searching   I'm getting closer though

[High Flying Bird]

....... and just put on some DR Pure Blues 10s.

 

I have used those strings for years.  I love them too.  They fit real good on my 535. 

[brentrocks]

I love my guitar.  I love my amp.  I don't even know how to play and I

sound great  8)

 

Good for you Paul!!!

 

i am in the same boat...i cant play either, but at least we have good taste in guitars ;D

[Kuz]

Semi-hollow heaven!!! 8)

[pjoshh]

I play my H535 through a Fender Champ 12 valve (tube) amp and she sings like a bitch.

Crank up the volume and the sustain and tone are second to none.

My H535 has HRWs and I find that they need to be pushed quite hard but having only 12 watts means that the punters are not blown through the wall!!

Welcome to the club Paul P.