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Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 5:18 pm
by taylornutt
ultratwin wrote:The more I think about it, as boring as it is in regard to some hot colors we've seen come out of the CV line in the recent past, Vintage White + anodized gold guard really is the perfect combo for this Squier model in particular. Three reasons:
1. Complements pickup covers nicely like a matched set.
2. Huge visual options from a simple pickguard switch: mint, white, non-ugly red tort, brown tort, black. Pick color and you've got a good chance you've just instantly personalized it while keeping it very classy like a vintage Fennner.
3. Anodized guard on ebay = $ for the early birds
the other obvious reason would be:
I am glad they didn't do the purple sparkle again so it's distinguished from the Fender model, though I wish it still had the 7.25" neck radius.
Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 5:38 pm
by Doog
Look at the action on that fucker, no wonder J sounds so tired all the time.
Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 5:45 pm
by Haze
He's said that tech's always think his guitars are set up for slide. do not want
Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 6:08 pm
by Fran
Doog wrote:Look at the action on that fucker, no wonder J sounds so tired all the time.
Hard to imagine how he does all that lead playing with it that high.
Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 6:16 pm
by Addam
Skinny strings is the secret, I'd bet.
9's os 10's rather than 13's
Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 6:16 pm
by taylornutt
Haze wrote:He's said that tech's always think his guitars are set up for slide. do not want
His motto is it's never too high only too low"
Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 6:25 pm
by SGJarrod
i'm just curious how hot the pickups will be, I know J likes low output pu's......
Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 6:50 pm
by hotrodperlmutter
Mike wrote:Simon wrote:Mike wrote:Wow. Way to overreact.
I said it was a stupid thing to moan about, and it is. The neckplate is touching your body the whole time you're playing it. It's invisible.
Also the MAN UP thing was clearly a (hilarious) joke with a friend of mine (Dave), you fucking mentalcase (see now I'm getting personal, I clearly wasn't before - can you tell the difference now?).
In fairness, he did say the
tremplate and not the neckplate which you suggested...
....don't shout at me please
Ah. My bad. That's pretty legit
ha ha, ahhhh mike.
it cracks me up how saying i moan about the stupidest things is not personal. MAN UP, still.
Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 9:31 pm
by rlm2112
I read trem plate as neck plate at first too. Not Squier as Fender though.
On a related note, I'm thinking about getting one of these after playing one at GC yesterday.
http://www.fender.com/products/blacktop/models.php?prodNo=014840
Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 9:47 pm
by Boab
Doog wrote:Look at the action on that fucker, no wonder J sounds so tired all the time.
Just what I thought. The E looks ridiculous.
Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 11:09 pm
by SKC Willie
what in the world is the advantage to super high action?
I guess the higher the action, the higher the indie cred.
Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2011 3:14 am
by paul_
Just because a good 3/4 of the people remarking on it genuinely don't seem to realize, he's rockin' out on the E string there so it's not nearly as high as it looks. Compare it's distance from the A string to the gaps between all the other strings. He doesn't have his action super abnormally high, people just figure he'd have it lower with all the lead he plays. You kind of have to raise it a bit playing big high string bends with vibrato on a 7.25" radius, as the notes can choke out on the curved frets more easily.
Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2011 2:54 pm
by dezb1
Higher action gives you a richer sound as the pickups magnetic field doesn't affect the string vibration as much.
Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2011 3:04 pm
by Mike
hahaha
Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2011 5:34 pm
by MikeG
I'll reckon they'll be fairly low output. He said at the time of the first model that he prefers them that way.
Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2011 5:44 pm
by dezb1
But more important than the string hight... it has an amber switch tip and you know how important they are when it comes to teh tonez.
Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2011 8:09 pm
by SGJarrod
MikeG wrote:I'll reckon they'll be fairly low output. He said at the time of the first model that he prefers them that way.
this is what I was thinking too but I did not know if Squier would just use the Duncan Designed out of the VM JM to save money as it is a low budget signature geet.....
Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2011 10:03 pm
by MikeG
SGJarrod wrote:MikeG wrote:I'll reckon they'll be fairly low output. He said at the time of the first model that he prefers them that way.
this is what I was thinking too but I did not know if Squier would just use the Duncan Designed out of the VM JM to save money as it is a low budget signature geet.....
The 'official' spec list on the site called them "Custom Vintage Style Single-Coil "
Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2011 10:25 pm
by lorez
if they are like the CV pickups they will come from the same factory as the tonerider pickups
Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2011 11:30 pm
by izodiak
I really think this guitar is nice, and if I have some moeniez,when it comes out, Ill try to get it.
The color, pickguard,etc..