My new guitar.

[osvi]

Hi friends,
I have the new arch top guitar, replacement my ex '91 Gibson 175.
My new baby is the Heritage '91 Eagle, single floating pick up, venetian cutaway, 17" lower bout, 25.5" long scale.

The acoustic tone is fantastic, very "woody" and "mature".
The amplified sound is more difficult... with my Fender Concert the treble tones are very cold and sharp.
Surprisingly, coupled with Phil Jones AAD Cub 100 is perfect ... low, medium and high are all ok, very beautiful.
But the best is coupled with my pre Ultrasound DI Plus and Fender Concert ... bass strong and controlled, mid fluid and harmonically rich and very very sweet high frequencies. Gorgeous!!!!

Some photos:










Osvi

[Kuz]

Congrats and Well Done!!!!

I have a 575 and two Golden Eagles myself. Heritage makes incredible handcrafted archtops!!!!!

[mark105]

Nice, I always hear good things about Heritage.

[Franz 1997]

Great guitar - has a golden eagle myself in the 90s. The issue may be that the heritage pickup on these guitars is very difficult to get a ''typical''electric archtop sound with; on my guitar at least, there was a quite low impedance pickup, wound as as a centre-pointed humbucker ( i.e. magnet in the middle) which produces a great acoustic sound, but not at all a 'fat'' electric sound. In my case I found it so frustrating that I installed a conventional humbucker, which totally changed the sound into the L5 zone. I'm not recommending that necessarily, but I think the electrics on earlier eagle/golden eagles were intended to produce an acoustic sound, only louder. Through a fender amp, with its scooped mids, that sound is not satisfying, so I'd suggest an amp with some kind of mid boost, e.g. Polytone.
The eagles are great value, and fine guitars, but their electric sound is not for someone looking for ''fat'' in their tone. Also IMO a pickup without adjustment screws is an unnecessary nuisance; never had a guitar yet that didn't need some B string adjustment with 12s

[morroben]

Very cool!

[osvi]

Originally Posted by Franz 1997

Great guitar - has a golden eagle myself in the 90s. The issue may be that the heritage pickup on these guitars is very difficult to get a ''typical''electric archtop sound with; on my guitar at least, there was a quite low impedance pickup, wound as as a centre-pointed humbucker ( i.e. magnet in the middle) which produces a great acoustic sound, but not at all a 'fat'' electric sound. In my case I found it so frustrating that I installed a conventional humbucker, which totally changed the sound into the L5 zone. I'm not recommending that necessarily, but I think the electrics on earlier eagle/golden eagles were intended to produce an acoustic sound, only louder. Through a fender amp, with its scooped mids, that sound is not satisfying, so I'd suggest an amp with some kind of mid boost, e.g. Polytone.
The eagles are great value, and fine guitars, but their electric sound is not for someone looking for ''fat'' in their tone. Also IMO a pickup without adjustment screws is an unnecessary nuisance; never had a guitar yet that didn't need some B string adjustment with 12s

Frank,
thanks for sharing your experiences ... for me is very important. My priority is for the acoustic sound and the two possibilities of amplification (Phil Jones AAD Cub100 and Ultrasound DI plus + Fender Concert) are already very good.

Ciao from Italy,
Osvi

[AlohaJoe]

Those folks sure know how to do a nice sunburst! Beautiful.

[Jweele01]

That's a beautiful instrument, would love to try one of those, myself!

[Kuz]

My Heritage Golden Eagle which is tap tuned with a floating #3 Heritage pickup sounds very woody. I agree it is not the "rolled off" jazz tone, but very consistent across all strings and perfectly balanced. My GE also sounds even better with Thomastic GB Flatwounds which help "round out" the tone when amplified.

[bigdaddyguitar]

Beautiful Guitars !!! Thanks for sharing .