Recent content by andy474x

I’ve seen this proposed as the technology powering the “sphere” UFO’s that Navy pilots have encountered in the east coast training zone. Could be a very developed version of it already out there.

Well, thanks to COVID, many pieces of gear have appreciated, for example, a 5-10 year old used PRS 10 top that might have sold in the high $3K to low $4K range new, are now being sold, or at least trying to be sold used for almost $5K. Although I suppose the real question is are they...

If you have an SE from before 2010, I believe most of those were the wide-fat profile, which is now the pattern profile. So actually, the McCarty would have had that profile (unless it was a 594 model). Perhaps if you can tell us what you didn’t like, or would like more than that, we can...

My skill as a player benefited immensely from getting an interface and starting to record at home - even just as a way to create song demos, and then was very useful as a self evaluation tool, as well, listening back to my playing. And, of course, you can use that to create backing tracks...

Love it!!!

Has been my workout jam for the past week, best money I’ve spent in a while! Thanks again for sharing.

I suppose, to expand on my previous comment - in the past I have been a very emphatic supporter of the SE line, but recently I went to the shop and the majority of the SE’s they had, had some obvious fretboard/fretwork issues. A brand new DGT SE with a nasty couple of cracks in the rosewood...

Most excellent score!!!

S2, used and mod or new and good to go, sounds like what you need to do.

I had a set of the Grover mini-rotomatics, which used to be the go-to for SE locking tuners, on my SE CU24, they traveled in tune better I suspect due to the smaller size of the keys, not getting jostled in the gig bag as much. Someone needs to come up with a 3D-printed, padded tuner protector...

Used to be, you had to look pretty hard to see the seams on an SE back. My flat top CU22 SE (one of the OG SE’s), you literally couldn’t see it looking at the back, only at the end, strap pin area. Now, whether it’s proper for an entry level guitar to have a really nicely uniform back, I’m...

Huge. HUGE. Dirt texture has been a big deal to me for a long time - I’m always trying to find it, tweak it, etc. I don’t know if it is strictly a function of an EQ curve, or if it has to do with gain staging and actual sine wave and clipping shapes - I feel it’s the latter, but I don’t know...

I might be the odd man out in this one, but I suspect that different mahogany is being used on SE and S2 lines. I’m not even going to venture a guess as to whether it’s different species, or just different grades or quality, but where the rubber hits the road is this: every SE and S2 I’ve laid...

Excellent!!!

If you like the 594, and based on what info you’ve given, I’d recommend going all-out and getting a wood library version. I got one a few years back and nothing else can touch it, in terms of an SE or S2 - I even put USA pickups in an S2, and don’t get me wrong it’s great, but nothing does it...