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Thanks Rich.I’ve been in love with Steve Stills’s tone from the CSN tour of 1994. Tele through a 4×10 Deluxe. Fat, rich tone with the perfect amount of break-up when pushed.
But I need something smaller and more sonically versatile for gigging.
I’ve learned in my travels that power conditioning helps solid state tone. A high quality transformer will take away a lot of the coldness of solid state tone.
I might end up with a Line 6 Pod and a small ‘personal monitor’ but I was hoping for a proper amp. 🙂
May have to ask the local guy to build me something!
Daniel
Hope all of my California friends are safe.
I know Paradise and I’m deeply saddened not only by the devastation but by certain responses to it.
Watch out for people with respiratory issues in the Bay Area!
Daniel
Howdy Ramble.
Start by picking a string gauge you like to use as a rule (light or medium). The SCGC strings are good place to start because you know SCGC guitars are meant to sound good with them.
As you bought used, I would suggest taking the guitar in to a luthier/repair person who does acoustics well. Have him or her look at it carefully and do a set up. All guitars need set-ups from time to time. Consult with SCGC for the nearest suggested luthier.
Never fear the sound is in there, it just may need some TLC to come out.
Daniel
Tony is suffering from Dysphonia (I think that’s what it’s called). It also affects Linda Thompson.
I had not heard about arthritis.I hope he’s able to play, as Les Paul was, even with arthritis.
Daniel
Has he let you in the front door yet, or do you still come through the kitchen door? 😉
Looking forward to your work!
(Would you like free accommodation in France?)
D
Address sent.
I guess you’ll need to put the Mauel on the band saw and whack off that headstock overlay, then. Shame. I like it. Oh well!
Don’t forget to take the tuners off first! 😉
Thank you!
Daniel
Yep. Heard more than once that someone was looking at a Collings or a Taylor or a Martin, A-B’d a Santa Cruz, and then got the Santa Cruz. 🙂
I got mine back in 2002 from Steve Swan when he was in Burlingame and still carrying SCGCs. I played every guitar in his shop. Took home a dinged SCGC custom dread because it was the best sounding guitar in the place with one exception: a $7000 SCGC TR Pro in Adirondack and Brazillian which I simply could not afford.
Thanks for sharing!
D
Welcome Erik!
Yes, please do tell. More photos and full specs. We’re junkies here, vicariously enjoying your purchase as if it were our own. 😉
Microsoft used to say “It’s a feature not a bug”, but in this case the saddle angle is indeed designed and built in. So it is really a feature rather than a problem.
Enjoy your picking time!
Daniel
(resident mandolin player)zorro my friend, if you’re not looking for an electric that matches the feel of your acoustics like Tadol, then electrics can be had cheap! The issue won’t be $$ it’ll be space to store it all! 🙂
Daniel
Look at it this way zorro… Now your family will have a record of you doing something. They’ll know that’s you when the play it.
I was adding an emando part to a track a couple months ago. Just a little harmony part. Didn’t even go into the Studio. Sat in the control room. Oh man. Talk about red light fever!
I had to pretend I was on stage to let go of the fact I was sitting in the control room!
You can pretend you’re anywhere you want to be when you record.
🙂
Daniel
Indeed. That’s yummy.
I spent an hour playing my 1980s Japanese made Squier Tele the other night. It has a 1 11/16″ nut, which I find a bit big, being a mandolin player. The radius on the fingerboard is also a good match for my SCGC dread. So it feels very acoustic-y in my left hand.
I couldn’t tell you what the saddle distances are. Standard Fender I imagine (if there is such a thing).
After feel, you’re looking for sound. As an acoustic player I am actually enjoying –after all these years– the stacked humbucker I put in the neck pocket back in the early 1990s. Really fat sound. Takes well to a little bit of break-up in the preamp and some tremolo.
Enjoy the search!
Daniel
