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Post by grayn on Feb 1, 2024 8:24:15 GMT
Nice one delb0y. Let us know how it goes and perhaps a recording?
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Post by grayn on Feb 1, 2024 8:21:30 GMT
Love that Yammy. Love to hear that, tuned down to D-standard, on a big, open chord.
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Post by grayn on Feb 1, 2024 8:15:54 GMT
I remember him at Hebden. Lovely guy. Great guitarist and a very decent voice, too. RIP Paul.
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Post by grayn on Jan 29, 2024 19:04:06 GMT
Looks like a shredding machine for sure grayn I was getting a bit worried and was beginning to wonder if we would have to wait until February before you popped up with a NGD thread Phil It is getting a bit ridiculous. One thing I have learnt is that I enjoy these low-mid priced guitars as much as the high end stuff I used to buy and the the quality difference is a lot less than you'd think.
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Post by grayn on Jan 29, 2024 16:07:23 GMT
About 4 weeks ago I acquired a Cort G300 Glam, from Reidys in Blackburn. I am super impressed with it and have been playing it every day. I had been wanting to get a guitar for Drop-C tuning but I liked the G300 in standard so much, that I decided to keep it there. So I was still looking for a down tuner and had remembered playing the Cort KX500, whilst trying the G300. So I went back to Reidys today, to have another go on this hard tail, metal style guitar. I'd rung ahead, as they'd sold the one I had tried before and had to get one into the shop, from their warehouse. It was being opened, as I arrived and it went straight from the cardboard box, into my hands. And a big thumbs up to whoever set this guitar up. Unbelievably it was in tune and set up beautifully. Nice low action and good intonation. Well, I had a play at the shop and wanted it, brought it home and had another good session, through my set up. I'd not previously been overly impressed with Fishman Fluence pickups, but on this guitar, they do sound really good, pushing high gain very nicely indeed. Clean, they sound pretty good, too. You get 1 volume knob, 1 tone and a 3-way selector switch. But the volume knob is push/pull, to change the humbuckers from classic to modern sounding (these are active pickups) and the tone push/pulls to give you single coil options. The design and build quality is good on the KX500. The mahogany body, with burl ash top and maple/purpleheart, 5-peice neck are very comfortable and very solid. Very fast playing and all nicely balanced. I do like the matt/satin finish and etched, violet top. The only thing that lets the guitar down a tad, is the finishing is a bit scrappy, here and there. Just above the nut, on the front of the head, it is poorly finished, as are the indents, where the pickups are sunk into the body, with some bare wood to be seen. Overall though, this is so much guitar for not a lot of cash. Reidys were doing a good sale price too. It is lovely to play, with a great feel. Looks pretty cool and sounds just as I'd hoped. Yes, it's a guitar aimed at the hard rockers and metal players, for which it is spot on. It can do a fair bit more though. Worth checking out.
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Post by grayn on Jan 22, 2024 7:32:32 GMT
Any chance of a pic or 2?
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Post by grayn on Jan 11, 2024 7:00:26 GMT
What a beauty. The low strings sound really nice.
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Post by grayn on Jan 8, 2024 9:13:09 GMT
Cool instrument. I remember reading, when a kid, that the Rickenbacker "Frying Pan", steel guitar, was the first ever electric guitar.
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Post by grayn on Jan 7, 2024 18:11:39 GMT
Not a big fan of Phil Collins, he turned Genesis from a musical adventure into a middle aged pop band.
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Post by grayn on Jan 6, 2024 17:57:17 GMT
good looking wee guitar, bit of heft to it with the mahogany wood?--was it much cheaply? & presume 3 way selector? Guitarguitar Glasgow had them in for about £700 jimmys but seen them 2nd hand, minted for around £500 Not a heavy guitar at all. 5-way selector, 2 & 4 being single coil options. I got it new for a good chunk less than £700. Playing it a lot and it really is a top class "super-strat" style guitar. IMO it's a lot nicer than the G300 Pro. They do a G300 Raw, if you prefer a more satin, natural wood look.
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Post by grayn on Jan 4, 2024 12:13:03 GMT
I popped over to Reidys (Blackburn), yesterday. After a look round their large showroom I decided to play two Cort electrics. A KX500 and a G300 Glam. I picked up the G300 Glam first. Now I'd played the G300 Pro a few months back and was surprised at how different the Glam felt. Different in a good way. The Pro is an excellent guitar but the Glam immediately felt more solid, with a much nicer, to my hands, profile on the neck. The neck is African mahogany, which is Ergo V, Graphite Bar Reinforced, with an ebony fretboard. The Pro's are both roasted maple. The Glam's body is also mahogany, with a 1/4 maple cap. The Pro's is basswood, with the same cap. Both models have Graph Tech Black TUSQ nuts, 24 Stainless Steel Frets, Luminlay Side Dots, Staggered Locking Tuners, excellent Cort CFA-III Tremolos and Seymour Duncan SH2N & TB4 Humbucker Sets. The G300 Glam is very well specced then, and genuinely has a real boutique guitar look and feel to it. I have owned a Tom Anderson, a Suhr and a BFR Musicman, so I do know what these guitars are about. And for a very small amount of cash, the G300 Glam comes pretty close. And to my thoughts, the Glam is definitely a step up on the Pro. It came well set up, with a lowish action. Though it does have 9s on it, which for me, need to be changed to 10s, or 11s if down tuned. The KX500 is very much a "metal" guitar. It's design, woods and Fishman Fluence pickups will definitely impress you, particularly if you love to chug and/or widdle. It has very low but solid action, and a flat radius to the fingerboard. The other thing that comes to your notice, after the initial balls out sound and feel of the KX500, is that is in no way close to the G300 Glam, for build and finish quality. It has a far more basic, workmanlike look and design. So, as you may have worked out, the Cort G300 Glam came home with me. It's overall quality, tasty Duncan pickups and very smooth, traditional floating trem, really do make life easier for you. I guess Cort chose the Glam suffix for the Polar Ice Metallic Burst finish to the front of the body and headstock. Yes, it is a tad glittery but only from close up and this "Glam" finish is actually really nice.
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Post by grayn on Dec 26, 2023 6:56:12 GMT
It always seems to be one more to complete the collection, with me. If only. :xmas10:
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Post by grayn on Dec 10, 2023 18:26:10 GMT
Over 9 years ago, I posted this thread: acousticsoundboard.co.uk/thread/3364/waking-semiAs I have owned a lot more of these lovely electric guitars, over the years and have 3 in my present collection, I thought it would be worth revisiting the subject. Excluding my present semis, the highlights for me were a Gibson ES335, a Duesenberg Fullerton Elite and a Gretsch Tenessee Rose. My wife will shout "what about the White Falcon?". Well yeah, it was an awesome semi but I never could get on with it's "Rhinestone Cowboy", looks. One simple fact I have learned is that I don't really get on with the larger, double-cutaway models. The ES335 being a prime example. My old Gibbo had a fantastic neck and lovely pickups but I always found it too bulky, particularly on a strap and in the case of that particular guitar, too heavy. However, with a single-cut semi, even with a thicker body, I get on fine. I am including hollow bodied electrics in this discussion. OK they don't have the centre block, running down the middle of the guitar's body, that some people would say is the defining element of a semi-acoustic. But they still have other strengthening wood and as they rely on magnetic pickups to generate sound, they are not totally acoustic and are therefore, in my book, semi-acoustic. In my experience, I have found that whether the guitar is a hollow body, a semi-hollow body, or even a chambered body, an airy quality is added to it's tone. I guess the more air within the body, the greater the effect. Unfortunately, the more air in the body, the more likely the guitar is going to suffer from feedback, at higher volumes. But of course pickups and design also have a big effect on tone and feedback. My 3 present hollow bodies, 2 slim line and 1 fuller bodied, all have different pickups. The Guild X-175 Manhatten Special has a fuller body but unlike it's predecessor, the X-175B, that had large P90 style pickups, this has DeArmond Dynasonics and is less prone to feedback. Although not immune, of course. I am very impressed with these Dynasonics though, their tone is so clear, with plenty of body. My 2 slim line semis do feel easier to play, with them feeling closer in to me. And of course, they don't get much in the way of feedback. When doodling or working on new material, I often play unplugged and the semi does give you that bit more feel and volume. I have owned some great solid electrics that had a natural vibrancy, which IMO really adds to the pleasure of playing. But with a good semi, all this is even more so. I do love a good Les Paul, one of which, I am lucky enough to own. But overall, it is the semi that attacts me the most. The semi that got away: I was going to go and try and hopefully buy one of these, some time ago. But unfortunately it sold over night, on the 'net, just before the morning I went over to the shop. Les Paul and a semi. One day.
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Post by grayn on Dec 5, 2023 11:24:49 GMT
Congratulations on both counts. I also have a supportive wife when it comes to my guitars. You should try a ES335, I could easily live with mine as my sole electric. I have owned a Gibson ES335, some years ago. Wonderful neck and great pickups but I find that body type too bulky. I prefer single cutaway semis and hollow bodies.
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Post by grayn on Dec 5, 2023 6:34:31 GMT
This is all well and good. But what guitar did you buy for her? Mrs grayn's favourite guitar is a Gretsch White Falcon. I offered to get her one but she settled for jewellery. BTW, this was our 40th.
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