What Guitar Are You Playing At This Very Moment...

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I am seriously torn about this guitar ('78 Ibby Musician MC500). I'm not a guitar collector at all (I've never owned more than three electrics at once) but I wanted one of these for a decade based purely on aesthetics and Church of Magic Japanese Weirdness, and it came up locally this spring. Bought it from the first owner. All the insane onboards work perfectly. I love the look, I love the idea of it, but I'm meh on the sound and it plays like a guitar from 1978 because, well, it's a guitar from 1978. It dooms harder than two ancient wizards with a Circle of Dooming (I took it to rehearsal and the other guitarist kept telling me to take off my shirt and play Dopesmoker) but i'm a solo-transcribing tech-death weenie at heart. I don't even smoke weed.
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I’ve always been curious about these. What is it about the sound you’re “meh” on?
 
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I've been playing my partscaster Telecaster for a while now. '93 MIJ '52 Reissue body and American Elite compound radius neck with an ebony board and locking tuners. Fender N4 Noiseless pickups, S-1 series/parallel switching, and a heavier Gotoh brass bridge.

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metropolis_4 said:
I’ve always been curious about these. What is it about the sound you’re “meh” on?
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Under gain it's a huge, sustain-y doom roar with a real mid-heavy cello sort of thing for leads. The EQ and boost is very cool for what it is but it's all "more" when what I really want is a little less. It is absolutely glorious if that's your thing, I've heard people call these guitars sterile and I have no idea wtf they are talking about. It's an absolute monster, ten feet thick, bass, low mids and sustain for days. Infinite options for cleans with all the pickup settings. But I have a Yamaha SG 1500 which has a slightly more refined version of the same core tone and, um, my actual favorite guitar is the soulless perfection of my EMG-loaded USA Jackson Soloist. So it's definitely a case of it's not the guitar, it's me.
 
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Back to this one. Haven't played it since winter, so it needed a tweak, and oh my, is the action LOOOWWWW! I love it!

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I like the bridge better than the one on the Majesty, because that back plate is lower, which allows me to get what little meat I have on my hand down onto the strings a little easier, for palm mutes.

Had a tiny bit of fret sprout since the humidity was so low this past winter, but they self-corrected, and are back to being flush.

I think I'll be playing this one for a while.
 
TSJMajesty said:
Back to this one. Haven't played it since winter, so it needed a tweak, and oh my, is the action LOOOWWWW! I love it!

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I like the bridge better than the one on the Majesty, because that back plate is lower, which allows me to get what little meat I have on my hand down onto the strings a little easier, for palm mutes.

Had a tiny bit of fret sprout since the humidity was so low this past winter, but they self-corrected, and are back to being flush.

I think I'll be playing this one for a while.
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Beautiful.

What does the extra switch do? Also, are there 2 output jacks?
 
ghostrider said:
Beautiful.

What does the extra switch do? Also, are there 2 output jacks?
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Thank you!

It's a one-off JP15, so one switch controls the humbuckers, and the top one switches between magnetic PU's and the Piezo, or both.

As far as the outputs go, one is mono, and the other is stereo, so you can send the piezo signal to a separate rig, while sending the magnetic PU's to another.
 
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Just finished running through a few tunes for a solo guitar set I’ll do in early September. Haven’t decided which guitar to use yet, and was playing this new member to the stable moments ago:

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That's a 1978 Gretsch Chet Atkins Super Axe. I was visiting some friends in Tokyo in May and we came across this in a large music shop on the Ochanomizu "guitar street." It was love at first sight!

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The previous owner had swapped out the stock PAF pickups for a set of Lindy Fralin humbucker sized P90s. The original pickups were included in the guitar case, but so far I like these pickups.

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But for me the best part is the on-board effectors. I've always had a thing for that, and this is one of a few that I picked up over the years. It has a compressor and a two knob phaser that's kinda vibey.
 
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