Heritage HS-535 with Okko Diablo & Fender 1966 blackface Vibrolux Reverb

[SouthpawGuy]

Gregor Hilden demos a 535 with D-VIP.

 

 

Gregor has amazing feel and tone, the hair is still standing on the back of my neck after seeing that clip !

 

I wonder if he is a Heritage artist ?

 

He should be, he has had clips of a 525 before on YouTube, that clip was posted on June 2, so he is still using Heritage guitars.

[Horace]

He also does a nice job with an H-137 demo...

 

 

Tal

[SouthpawGuy]

He also does a nice job with an H-137 demo...

 

 

Tal

 

So he does indeed !

 

The look on his face at the end of the clip, you know he's really getting into that tone !

 

[Dick Seacup]

Wow, great clips. Wish I could play like that. Maybe more guitar, less Internet, hrmm?

[fxdx99]

Good stuff - hadn't seen that one before. Thanks.

[Jazzpunk]

With all of those great guitars, how does he ever leave the house?!

[JeffB]

Nice playing and tone on both those clips.

Dick Seacup Posted Today, 05:33 PM

Wow, great clips. Wish I could play like that. Maybe more guitar, less Internet, hrmm?

I tried to make that a new yrs res. Didnt work out. Maybe I need to dig in a bit more.

[Wolfi]

Gregor Hilden demos a 535 with D-VIP.

 

 

Gregor has amazing feel and tone, the hair is still standing on the back of my neck after seeing that clip !

 

I wonder if he is a Heritage artist ?

 

He should be, he has had clips of a 525 before on YouTube, that clip was posted on June 2, so he is still using Heritage guitars.

 

Gregor is a good guy. He lives about one hour away from my place. Beside beeing a very good guitar player, he trades/sells guitars, mostly vintage g brand etc.

 

Two weeks ago he played on a fairground on saturday morning. Good stuuf.

[SouthpawGuy]

Gregor is a good guy. He lives about one hour away from my place. Beside beeing a very good guitar player, he trades/sells guitars, mostly vintage g brand etc.

 

Two weeks ago he played on a fairground on saturday morning. Good stuuf.

 

Sounds good ! I have a couple of his albums, they are both excellent.

[Wolfi]

Sounds good ! I have a couple of his albums, they are both excellent.

 

 

I didn't know they are available in Ireland. He's more the guy to play smaller clubs. He even owns two Dumble's...

[guitarjb]

Looks like he is using the stock Schaller pickups- sounds great!

 

-Joe

[DCA]

Not to mention what looks like a stock nut. There's no way I'd be able to get away with that series of bends without discovering an interesting new open tuning.

[Kuz]

Not to mention what looks like a stock nut. There's no way I'd be able to get away with that series of bends without discovering an interesting new open tuning.

 

 

Here we go again...

 

Stock nuts on all 8 of Heritages. Just use a little Vaseline, pencil graphite, or Bi Bends Nut Sauce and they are quite acceptable (not perfect but certainly playable).

[Kuz]

I didn't know they are available in Ireland. He's more the guy to play smaller clubs. He even owns two Dumble's...

 

 

All, or at least most of, his albums are available at iTunes.

 

Also some cool "live band"(not just the demoing guitars for sale backing track stuff) footage of Gregor on You Tube.

[SouthpawGuy]

Not to mention what looks like a stock nut. There's no way I'd be able to get away with that series of bends without discovering an interesting new open tuning.

 

My 535 is completely stock, and I bend strings a lot. I don't have any problems with it going out of tune.

[JeffB]

Here we go again...

 

Stock nuts on all 8 of Heritages. Just use a little Vaseline, pencil graphite, or Bi Bends Nut Sauce and they are quite acceptable (not perfect but certainly playable).

Ive used nothing. I just pulled the guitar out of the case in early Feb 08 and have been playing it ever since(except for food work and a bit of sleep etc). No work except string changes. I dont think Im just one of the lucky ones. None of the Heritages that have passed through my hands have had any nut problems. Maybe they take extra care if they know it is a guitar to be exported(doubt it).

 

Recently did some work on a Tom Anderson with tuning issues. Lovely guitar and well looked after but all of a sudden it just wouldnt stay in tune after a bend or light trem use. All the problem turned out to be was crud build up in the nut slots. When the owner wiped the guitar down after use he wiped from the bridge to the nut along the strings. 6mths of doing this filled those nut slots with all the crud that goes with playing guitar and tiny bits of fluff that came off the cloth.

I simply cleaned the nut. No filing. It works perfectly.

The owner was initially angry at Tom Anderson Guitar's and posted on a few forums how his expensive guitar was useless etc.

Clean your nuts and change strings regularly and often.

[DCA]

Ive used nothing. I just pulled the guitar out of the case in early Feb 08 and have been playing it ever since(except for food work and a bit of sleep etc). No work except string changes. I dont think Im just one of the lucky ones. None of the Heritages that have passed through my hands have had any nut problems. Maybe they take extra care if they know it is a guitar to be exported(doubt it).

 

Recently did some work on a Tom Anderson with tuning issues. Lovely guitar and well looked after but all of a sudden it just wouldnt stay in tune after a bend or light trem use. All the problem turned out to be was crud build up in the nut slots. When the owner wiped the guitar down after use he wiped from the bridge to the nut along the strings. 6mths of doing this filled those nut slots with all the crud that goes with playing guitar and tiny bits of fluff that came off the cloth.

I simply cleaned the nut. No filing. It works perfectly.

The owner was initially angry at Tom Anderson Guitar's and posted on a few forums how his expensive guitar was useless etc.

Clean your nuts and change strings regularly and often.

 

Appreciate the advice Tully. For string changes, does every two months sound reasonable to you? The guitar gets an hour or so of use each day so by two months the strings are pretty dull even after a good cleaning.

 

No solid build up in the nut (good idea, btw) just lubricant (which gets cleaned out and reapplied with each string change).

 

A series of small incremental filings did bring the A and D strings under control, for the most part. But the wound G has persisted in hanging up and going flat for nearly 10 years. The tuning machine is nice and solid so I'm fairly confident the nut is the issue.

 

Thanks again for the assitance, sure appreciate it.

[Rude Dog]

Yeah, keep ya nuts clean. I use a little chap stick on my nuts where chaffing and sticking is an issue. nut files are a good idea; I've used them on a couple inexpensive gits.

 

Gregor can play. Next time I want to sell a git I may just ship it to him so he can post a video of how god it sounds on youtube.

[JeffB]

For string changes, does every two months sound reasonable to you?

I change strings once a week on my H150. I use it every day and gigs once or twice a week.

My acoustic gets new strings once a fortnight I gig with it once a fortnight.

Other guitars that I use semi regular maybe change once a month.

My strat wont stay in tune or is hard to get into tune once the strings have been played much past the month.

Does the tuning issue get worse as the strings get older or is it a problem even with new strings?

[DCA]

I change strings once a week on my H150. I use it every day and gigs once or twice a week.

My acoustic gets new strings once a fortnight I gig with it once a fortnight.

Other guitars that I use semi regular maybe change once a month.

My strat wont stay in tune or is hard to get into tune once the strings have been played much past the month.

Does the tuning issue get worse as the strings get older or is it a problem even with new strings?

 

 

Sounds like I need to be changing strings a bit more often with this guitar. As for whether it does it with new strings, I really can't say. I've come to think of it as a personality trait of the guitar, so I haven't really thought about it in a critical way for several years.

 

This morning I changed the strings, cleaned the nut, and lubed it. When I get home from work tonight I'll give it a solid work out and see if the new strings make a difference.

 

Thanks again for your time, you've been a big help.

[JeffB]

Sounds like I need to be changing strings a bit more often with this guitar. As for whether it does it with new strings, I really can't say. I've come to think of it as a personality trait of the guitar, so I haven't really thought about it in a critical way for several years.

 

This morning I changed the strings, cleaned the nut, and lubed it. When I get home from work tonight I'll give it a solid work out and see if the new strings make a difference.

 

Thanks again for your time, you've been a big help.

These things work for me. Others will have other view points that are worth considering also. Experiment and find what works for you. Might turn out you do need some work done to your nut or even a new nut cut.

The main reason I change strings when I do is so they are less likely to break when I really dont want them to.

Ive noticed my H150 gets temperamental with tuning if I leave stings on to long but Im not sure what to long is. Like I said I change them regular.

[DCA]

Might turn out you do need some work done to your nut or even a new nut cut.

The main reason I change strings when I do is so they are less likely to break when I really dont want them to.

Ive noticed my H150 gets temperamental with tuning if I leave stings on to long but Im not sure what to long is. Like I said I change them regular.

 

Pre-emptive string changes, hehe. Being a dyed in the wool cheapskate, that's something that I don't miss about actively gigging--for that matter, broken strings in front of a crowd *shudder*. Being self taught, but respectful of theory, a broken string always induced a big messy wad of theory crashing into instinctive impulse--with the results never being pretty. Good golly, I sure know where you're coming from

 

Back to the issue: Thanks for getting me thinking about the problem in a critical manner again. The sound of new strings is obvious, but it's been a while since I've paid any real attention to the feel of new strings. There's a lot more elasticity in them and a lot less tension on the string itself. With the new set on tonight, the flattening of my G (and D also)still occured, but it did so progressively over a series of 3-4 bends. Previously, a good solid "guitar face" inducing bend would flatten the string by a full half step or so. I think you've solved half of the problem.

 

...and pointed to the other half when you mentioned that some work on the nut may be necessary. Unfortunately, that's the diagnosis that I had arrived at previous to discovering this forum. I've chipped away at the problem off and on for several years and I'm fairly certain that the guitar really does need to go into the shop. For the most part, I'm just buying time until I feel confident enough to pull off the procedure myself. I prefer to do things that way (cheapskate).

 

Again, thanks for your time and assistance. It's good to be thinking about it again as a problem as opposed to a quirky personality trait. I owe you one.

[Flat]

Just saw the clip of Gregor Hilden on the HS-535. What a great player! I loved the tone he got out of that HS-535 and old Fender blackface!

 

But what are those three little tone switches all about? For jumping to single coil or split coil mode, I presume?

 

Are those switches stock? (Is that what makes his an HS-535 instead of an H-535?) I loved the range of tones he pulled out.

 

Is that a retrofit that I could have done to my recently-acquired stock H-535? (Without messing it up, I mean!)

 

Would I need new pickups (mine are Duncan Seth Lovers) or is it just a wiring thing? Does Heritage or anyone make a conversion kit, by chance?

 

Thanks,

 

-Flat

[barrymclark]

First I have heard of this guy. What playing!

[pegleg32]

!But what are those three little tone switches all about? For jumping to single coil or split coil mode, I presume?

 

 

 

Is that a retrofit that I could have done to my recently-acquired stock H-535? (Without messing it up, I mean!)

 

In the video, he has inserted "bubble" comments telling what he is doing with the switches - watch closely and you can see him switch and then the bubble explains what he switched to.

 

Others on this site are much more versed on the D+VIP system then I am, but I believe I have read on this site that you would have to send your 535 to heritage to have it installed.