Thu Mar 31, 2016 7:56 pm
doommeow wrote:chutneyfarmer wrote:Any thoughts on the Gretsch Baritone? Thinking about picking one up so I can get my David Lynch on.
Bigsby, black sparkle, and mini humbuckers. Seems like a sweet guitar.
Play it before you buy it. I've shopped for a Grestch twice in past few years - not the baritone - and come away disappointed.
Sat Apr 02, 2016 11:09 am
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Sun Apr 03, 2016 6:48 am
ognoy wrote:I have had baritone guitars as my "preferred instrument" for about 6 years now,
and have owned/played these guitars:
Danelectro 63:
First baritone I got, and our singer owns it now so I still play it sometimes.
Sounds like a Dano baritone. Twangy, little sustain.
Danelectro 67:
Sounds/feels similar to the 63, but has vibrato and is solid body.
This was my main axe for about 1.5 year, then turned it into a Bass VI.
I like the Danelectros for their sound, but got tired of using them as the only guitar in a 1 hour set.
Mine was badly set up, so I wanted a guitar that was easier to play. Then got a:
Fender Blacktop Tele:
Did not like this guitar. It was comfortable to play, but I never bonded with it.
Tried it with both .14-.68 and .13-.72 strings, but none of them felt right.
Maybe it was going from 30" to 27", or lipstick to humbucker, I don't know.
But I sold it after trying to make it work for about 6 monts.
Hagstrom Viking Baritone:
Bought this after I sold the Blacktop Tele, and this was the guitar I was looking for,
sort of. It felt and played great. The stock bridge pickup was not really inspiring, so swapped it for a
Lollartron(and later on a GFS Surf90), which, both, worked great. Perfect balance of twang and balls.
Also added a Bigsby B7 and removed the neck pickup..
And of course after all this mods to make it perfect, some douchebag broke in to our van and stole it(and some other gear as well).
But it is a great guitar, specially with a couple of mods.
Squier VM Jazzmaster w/ Warmoth baritone neck:
Put this thing together myself.
Cool guitar, horrible setup job(by me).
Sold it to get money to buy my Traynor YBA-1.
Partso Baritone Esquire:
Bought this second hand, but according to the guy who built it it had a
70s Fender swamp ash body, Warmoth baritone tele neck and a Lollar 52T pickup in the bridge.
Loved this guitar. Was the main guitar when recording our latest(released yeasterday!) album.
But this guitar was also stolen when our van was broken in to.
Eastwood Sidejack Baritone:
The one without trem. Bought this cheap second hand when both my guitars where stolen.
I liked to play it and it looked cool, but it felt a little cheap. If I had kept it, I would change the pickups and add a bigsby.
Electrical Guitar Company TT2 Baritone:
This is the only baritone I got right now, and I love it!
Sounds great, feels great, looks great. Heavy as shit!
And expensive! But worth it.
Other baritones I have played:
Gretsch Electromatic Jet Baritone:
Lent this from a friend right after my guitars where stolen.
Cool guitar, was a little weird going back to 30" scale.
The pickups where dull, so if it was my guitar I would have swapped them for something else.
Ibanez MMM-1:
The guy from Staind signature guitar.
Nice to play, weird bridge, and ok pickups.
Fender Special Jaguar(the black one with buckers):
Tried this it in a studio, but it was badly intonated, so did not use it on the record.
But it felt nice, so it could probably be a cool guitar.
Sun Apr 03, 2016 10:45 am
Disarm D'arcy wrote:Great post dude, super interesting stuff. I have been meaning to get into the baritone game but can't quite test them in the shop as they rarely keep some available for demoing.
Sun Apr 03, 2016 1:29 pm
ognoy wrote:Electrical Guitar Company TT2 Baritone:
This is the only baritone I got right now, and I love it!
Sounds great, feels great, looks great. Heavy as shit!
And expensive! But worth it.
ognoy wrote:But it depends on what kind of music you want to play with the baritone.
There are some models that is aimed towards metal players which doesn't interest me at all.
I use my guitars in a rock band setting most of the time, but also doing the doom/drone/noise/ambient-thing when I got time for it.
Sun Apr 03, 2016 2:01 pm
codetocontra wrote:Of coarse EGC! Pics?
codetocontra wrote:This is hard for me. I normally play drop D, so playing drop A on a baritone would be natural. Unfortunately all my heavy handed doom riffs will end up in Korn territory, which is a bit unpleasant. Then there are bands like Isis that sound nothing like that, so really it is how you play what you play.
Is everyone playing "standard" baritone tunings, such as B E A D F# G? I feel inclined to alter that.
Sun Apr 03, 2016 2:07 pm
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Mon Apr 04, 2016 7:09 am
neonblack wrote:I play noisy Sonic Youth/Fugazi/Shellac kinda stuff
Mon Apr 04, 2016 11:43 am
Mon Apr 04, 2016 11:50 am
Bon Hoga wrote:neonblack wrote:I play noisy Sonic Youth/Fugazi/Shellac kinda stuff
link(s) pls!
Mon Apr 04, 2016 4:07 pm
doommeow wrote:It didn’t turn out exactly the way I planned, but - for the moment anyway - she’s done.
Maybe not the prettiest girl at the dance, but that's partially by design - read, built on the cheap.
Somehow I ended up buying pickups that are out of phase with each other and with a neck pickup that’s internally grounded - so that means no hum cancelling in the middle position and no 4way switch. A disappointment, and my own damn fault, but thankfully the pups are quiet enough that noise cancelling isn’t an issue and she generally sounds great. I’ll have a certain amount of builders remorse about not having the 4way option - will probably have to go with different pickups at some point in the future.
Surprised that the extra low frequency range seems to be more than my Superego and Boss OC-2 can handle, but still having a damn good time.
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