Ergo design archtop from Victor Baker

**Jazzpunk** · 04-21-2012, 01:58 PM

Originally Posted by marcwhy

It's finished: Inside Victor Baker's Shop Very cool.

Sweet! Hopefully he'll do a demo before shipping it out.

**Steve Z** · 04-21-2012, 04:45 PM

That Baker is incredible!

**marcwhy** · 04-22-2012, 10:55 AM

OK, click back to the link -- Victor added some clips of him playing the new ergo!

**Jazzpunk** · 04-22-2012, 10:33 PM

Originally Posted by marcwhy

OK, click back to the link -- Victor added some clips of him playing the new ergo!

Hmm... kind of disappointed in the 'tone rolled off' quality of those clips. Not my favorite jazz tone though I know a lot of people like that.

I'd prefer to hear some clips with the treble in tact to really hear the unique characteristics of this model. I did see that Dan was very pleased with the clips so maybe Victor was going for a tone he knew Dan would like.

On another note, I read that he made swappable center blocks to change the semi-hollow tone of the instrument. That is very cool!

**Soco** · 04-22-2012, 10:40 PM

Originally Posted by Jazzpunk

Hmm... kind of disappointed in the 'tone rolled off' quality of those clips. Not my favorite jazz tone though I know a lot of people like that.

I'd prefer to hear some clips with the treble in tact to really hear the unique characteristics of this model. I did see that Dan was very pleased with the clips so maybe Victor was going for a tone he knew Dan would like.

On another note, I read that he made swappable center blocks to change the semi-hollow tone of the instrument. That is very cool!

It sounds like there is some kind of chorus or some other modulation effect on there that I could do without. It is a bit hard to tell how the guitars natural sound is. Guitar looks great.