ok. Ive had a night to sleep on it. yesterday, I played Water (the larger body 10 1/2 resonator) through a Vox ac15 in my little one-room-suburban-shack... *cranked*. that means loud. really loud. the only changes were fixing the problems caused by shipping - level the rim of the cone so it sits on its plate properly, align the tailpiece, add a wooden washer under the biscuit to raise the action a bit (turned out I didnt really need to do that), reglue the biscuit and mic on the cone... and thats it. in other words, I just returned the guitar to the state of playability that it left my hands in. and yes. I can *make* that guitar do the bad squeeling out of control feedback. I played it through both channels at full with the master volume at about 1 oclock... then 2 oclock. then 3 oclock. you amp nerds will know that this is most likely louder than you will ever play it on a gig. yes, it squeeled at those levels, but even then some simple adjustments of the controls on the guitar brought it under control and I was able to play - wicked tone obviously driving the amp *hard* - and gobs of the good kind of feedback, but under control. playing at *normal* volumes did not produce squeeling at all. in other words there is not a damn thing wrong with this guitar. any competent guitar player would be able to gig with it. however... Im going to add the option to cut the microphone out of the signal anyway... just in case. and, Im going to turn it over to a couple guys who can play the crap out of it to get more sets of ears on it. but Im telling you right now - theres nothing freakin wrong with this guitar.
Posted on: Sun, 27 Oct 2013 15:44:41 +0000
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