put a new bridge on my Godin 5th Avenue Kingpin

[mr. beaumont]

Hey Jeff - sounds great!

I'm not sure what you mean by "footless" bridge tho - I checked out the ultimaguitar.com site and couldn't find that exact phrase.

Do you mean one with a (relatively) flat bottom vs. one with the two "feet"?

thanks!

Yep, that's what I meant...didn't really know what to call it!

[Hoji]

Jeff,

You said you wanted a "Footless bridge" - Any particular reason for that? Do they sound different?

[jazzkatten]

How about a video? You can barly see the bridge, but it doesn't look that different anyway! But the sound is quite different--granted I'm playing more agressively, but if you listen to the video of "Misty" I did a few weeks ago with the old bridge I do think you can hear the difference....

and Misty again, for comparison:

Nice playing, I was thinking to buy a artcore, now I get a kingpin instead

[mr. beaumont]

I'm sure some folks can hear a difference, but I chose it specifically because I already had an "under bridge" pickup I wanted to try on the Kingpin that was specifically designed for a single foot or "footless" bridge.

Of course, I haven't installed that yet...life gets busy, and I'm on to a love affair with my Kay Archtop this week...oh, the guitarist's fickle fancies...

[robertm2000]

From an audio standpoint it sounds like the guitar you play in "Misty" has a very midrangey response, but the new bridge in "April Kisses" has a wider range sound - "flatter response," to take a term from loudspeakers. How close is that?

[mr. beaumont]

Yes, that's a very good assessment of what I'm hearing-- I'd say fitting the new bridge increased both the top end and the bottom, and left the middle where it was.

[ruger9]

I FINALLY got to play a Kingpin - the CW- today. And my first thought was "wow, this thing sounds pretty good (acoustically), considering it's not a spruce-topped acoustic". My second thought was, "hey- this bridge is plastic (tusq apparently), and I'll bet this thing would sound even better with a nice rosewood bridge."

This thread is exactly what I needed to read today... now I have to figure out a way to get away with buying it...

The P90s do sound really good, and the tone control is very functional- seems much more functional than most- it's useable thru it's entire range- making the neck pup do good "mellow" jazz tones if wanted.

The neck is a bit chunky for me, it would be the chunkiest neck of all my guitars, that's my only hesitation. I wasn't quite "comfortable" on the neck, because I'm used to thinner necks.