andy474x
Knows the Drill
Went with my lady yesterday to one of our favorite burger joints... which just happens to be down the street from GC... was hoping to get a glance at a new S2 Singlecut or Custom 22. No luck there, but they did have 3 SE Angelus models in, two standards and a custom. I A/B'ed them, the Standard sounds pretty good, but the Custom just has a resonance and definition across the spectrum that sounds beautiful. Lots of projection and complexity. My other half is insistent that I get one soon, I guess if she's gonna twist my arm I'll just have to do it! Played a couple SE electrics, sounded good as always, but nothing I don't already basically have in my arsenal. Then I saw someone playing an Epi ES 339 - kind of a smaller body 335. Figured I might as well give it a shot, but it just didn't have any soul. No sparkle on the higher strings, and the wound strings sounded like rubber bands. Same with a couple of Ibanez semi's that I pulled off the wall. Granted, they all probably could've used a new set of strings, but they still just didn't have it going on.
Also played my SE's at home a bit yesterday. Every time I pick them up, I'm reminded just how good they are. My CU24 was getting some great classic rock humbucker tones, backing off the volume for a crunchy rhythm, and going to 10 for some bold, cutting leads. It's not my #1, but every time I pick it up, I know I still love it nonetheless.
Then I grab my SE Akesson. Sweet. That guitar has the fullest, thickest, and yet most well defined tone of probably any guitar I've ever played. It has so much authority in its sound.
So it looks like I've gotta get an SE Angelus Custom. And of course, I'm waiting to clear out of school in a month or so, and gonna grab an SE Zach Myers as a graduation gift to myself. After that, with the plight of the millenial generation being what it is, lack of middle class jobs and all, I'm starting to feel like I need to move on to buying American made goods, including guitars. So I think it's gonna be S2's and core after that, I'll have a career job and a few more bucks (hopefully)... just in time to see what the 30th anniversary brings us!
Also played my SE's at home a bit yesterday. Every time I pick them up, I'm reminded just how good they are. My CU24 was getting some great classic rock humbucker tones, backing off the volume for a crunchy rhythm, and going to 10 for some bold, cutting leads. It's not my #1, but every time I pick it up, I know I still love it nonetheless.
Then I grab my SE Akesson. Sweet. That guitar has the fullest, thickest, and yet most well defined tone of probably any guitar I've ever played. It has so much authority in its sound.
So it looks like I've gotta get an SE Angelus Custom. And of course, I'm waiting to clear out of school in a month or so, and gonna grab an SE Zach Myers as a graduation gift to myself. After that, with the plight of the millenial generation being what it is, lack of middle class jobs and all, I'm starting to feel like I need to move on to buying American made goods, including guitars. So I think it's gonna be S2's and core after that, I'll have a career job and a few more bucks (hopefully)... just in time to see what the 30th anniversary brings us!
