Did you guys see the new Agile MM/Junior?

westtexasred · Post by **westtexasred** » Sat Aug 23, 2008 7:52 pm

$249 worth of P-90 fun!

Bacchus · Post by **Bacchus** » Sat Aug 23, 2008 7:55 pm

Looks cool.

Sparky · Post by **Sparky** » Sat Aug 23, 2008 8:11 pm

Both pickups should be dogears IMO.

benecol · Post by **benecol** » Sat Aug 23, 2008 8:20 pm

I very much agree. Euro shortscalers, it's worth noting that Thomann have the single pickup melodymaker reissue (sadly only the burst) on sale for Â£250.

Post by **Mike** » Sat Aug 23, 2008 8:25 pm

Why waste a P90 at the neck position?

Also I hate all Gibson shape guitars expect Prog's goldtop. So it can jump.

Bacchus · Post by **Bacchus** » Sat Aug 23, 2008 8:26 pm

Mike wrote:Why waste a P90 at the neck position?

Because its sounds gorgeous.

benecol · Post by **benecol** » Sat Aug 23, 2008 8:29 pm

BacchusPaul wrote:
Mike wrote:Why waste a P90 at the neck position?
Because its sounds gorgeous.

I thought Mike meant the total opposite of that? Anyhow, I loved my old Jr. - single pickup guitars are good clean spartan fun, I reckon.

Bacchus · Post by **Bacchus** » Sat Aug 23, 2008 8:39 pm

I hadn't noticed the dog ears thing, but when it was pointed out I thought it was fairly poor. Now, I'm starting to warm to it, because it's kinda weird. Strange, I usually hate guitars that have purposely mismatching pickups so as to look modified.

P-90's in the Neck soud class, if the Aerodyne Tele's anything to go by.

Post by **Mike** » Sat Aug 23, 2008 8:44 pm

I prefer them in Bridge positions personally, they impart more of their unique character.

Bacchus · Post by **Bacchus** » Sat Aug 23, 2008 9:02 pm

I've not played one there. I tend to prefer neck pickups anyway, unless I'm playing something heavy..

ultratwin · Post by **ultratwin** » Sun Aug 24, 2008 12:09 am

I've found that working with pickup height seems to be one of the only ways to really make a neckside P90 work really well. Too close to the strings(often when there seems to be heaps of clearance and you get the booms, back off a bit and its the sweet blues.

On the other hand (although not a model case) A Gibson P-94 in the bridge of my friend's Agile LP standard is one of the best sounding Lester tones I've enjoyed as of late. Of course, Donk has reasonably cited my flamboyantly pretentious talk of pickup tones, but I feel quite justified to say it... It sounds literally pissed off and badass, whereas the cheapo original stock humbucker gave off an indecisive "gosh...Um I dunno, fellas" kind of tone.

jcyphe · Post by **jcyphe** » Sun Aug 24, 2008 5:34 am

That guitar has too much going on. Its like part Melody Maker, part LP jr, part wanna be LP special, then it has the uggo agile headstock like a cherry on top.

It's a neat idea, maybe it even sounds tits for all I know, but visually it's too much.