What's your current squeeze?

Nomad

nickp said:

this - I like the Green.  Positives:  

nice neck - chunkyish but not extreme

v stable tuning straight out of the box, even with whammy bar use

v light

very middy tone which is fantastic when through an overdriven amp

negatives: - the clean tone is very middy and sounds...unusual. I need to work on getting cleans that I like as much as the driven tone. 

@nomad - what do you think about the cleans?

overall - not a one trick pony at all and worth considering, as long as it isn't in red

I like the cleans, although I'd admit that I haven't been using a clean sound much recently. I wouldn't say they're particularly Fendery cleans (if that's what people expect), but they are certainly single-coily tones in any case. If anything, the bridge pickup on its own is quite similar to a Tele bridge sound, but the rest are more this guitar in and of itself. The two 'adjacent pickup out of phase' sounds are pretty sharp and harsh, and I never rally use them either clean or overdriven, but I do use all of the other combinations.

Some of the single-pickup or in-phase clean tones remind me of some jazzy single coil sounds (eg, Stanley Jordan). Very clear note definition and a nice, balanced tone. Bridge and neck out of phase is good for funky chaka-chaka stuff, and all pickups on with any one out of phase gives varying flavours of the same sort of thing. The two 'humbucker' sounds aren't terribly humbuckery to me - they're certainly thicker sounding than the other settings, but nowhere near as thick and creamy as the Lemon Drop. Good for clean leads with more body to them, but still with a bit of twangy top end.

While I really like the range of tonal options, I would say that, in use, in anger, the switching system is a bit of a negative - a bit fiddly to use quickly, and the trem arm can get in the way. It's not complicated to use once the system is understood (for the most part, you can switch between two sounds by flicking one switch, or doing a 'double-flick' to switch two with one motion), but I'd say it's probably easier to just pick a setting and use that, and plan when to change to a different setting should a change be needed. With normal toggle switch setups, it's much easier to change on the fly and keep track of where things are at. I changed the knobs to speed knobs, and find them far easier to use - far more inclined to ride the tone and volume on the fly now.

It's perfectly okay to play a red one provided you aren't wearing a Brian May wig.

badlydrawnbanjo

I'm so fickle, back in love with my Trini tonight...
http://i1150.photobucket.com/albums/o605/banjo74/6C667AF6-F799-462C-8855-44EB2E7B5750_zpscz0pty67.jpg

Nerine

Currently I'm pretty much exclusively playing this. Although I think that may be something to do with my recently acquired Two Rock. I've been lawyering it up a bit lately.



My Les Paul Custom hasn't had a sniff recently.

My Suhr Modern Antique has had not much love recently either.

My PRS Custom 24. Well. I'll never part with it, as it was my first high end guitar I ever got. Sadly it's all but retired nowadays. It still plays and sounds pretty wonderful though. Bought it new probably nearly 10 years ago or something.

I really must get some new family pictures.

I've just realised I've got 4 different full rigs. Jesus...

Philly_Q

That is a fabulous looking relic Strat.  Black with a maple neck is such a great combination.

Nerine

Philly_Q;525259" said:

That is a fabulous looking relic Strat.  Black with a maple neck is such a great combination.

I usually don't like black as a colour for cars, guitars, clothes, whatever.
But on a beat up Strat or black LPC, it looks good. Think they're about the only things that look nice in black.
It can't be shiny though. Has to be an older style nitro finish

Blueingreen

Somewhat surprisingly, my Suhr Pro Series.  It probably has the least "mojo" of any of my guitars, but it's the best tool for the current job, edging out my Gibsons (because I'm using a trem on a couple of songs), DGT (the Suhr is lighter) and Suhr Classic (I'm doing a fair bit of bending and I prefer the jumbo frets on the Pro series to the heavy frets on the Classic).   It shows how things can change because I was thinking of selling it not so long ago and is now getting played in preference to "better" guitars.

celentium

I love the Feline's, beautiful guitars. On the other side of the spectrum, that relic strat is badass!

 Well here is my one and only squeeze:

Sassafras

Jim Bean, damn that's a lovely bottle!

jd0272

Sassafras;526249" said:

Jim Bean, damn that's a lovely bottle!

Makers Mark or Wild Turkey is FTW. Without getting further into bourbon cork sniffery.

BTW, Aldi, Jim Beam, £12.99, just sayin'...

celentium

jd0272 said:

Sassafras;526249" said:

Jim Bean, damn that's a lovely bottle!

Makers Mark or Wild Turkey is FTW. Without getting further into bourbon cork sniffery.

BTW, Aldi, Jim Beam, £12.99, just sayin'...

Wild Turkey. Sounds tasty, I'll try it.

simonk

Loving this at the moment. It's a darkback Gibson R7 Goldtop that was, until recently, owned, played, recorded and gigged by Bernie Marsden. He's banged it about a bit and the neck is a proper old school baseball bat. But man, it's an inspiring guitar to play. It practically plays 'Here I go again' on its own.

TheOtherDennis

nickp said:

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this - I like the Green.  Positives:  

I can see why. That looks waaay better in green than red, to me.

ThePrettyDamned

Phwoar. I want a Jaden rose @digitalscream, it looks like he doesn't do series two anymore

digitalscream

ThePrettyDamned said:

Phwoar. I want a Jaden rose @digitalscream, it looks like he doesn't do series two anymore

There's an Original Series in the Classifieds for £1100 - much as I love my S2, I'd always pick an OS over one. That said, my S2 feels pretty unique; there's just something ever-so-slightly different about the neck profile that I absolutely love...although the Tele is definitely my favourite right now.

Oh, and the Series 2 is - to my knowledge - making a comeback soon, in a slightly modified form. Watch this space etc