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Originally Posted by wengr
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04-09-2020 01:30 AM
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Their flat top acoustic models are excellent as well. Great bang for the buck. And their customer service has a good reputation.
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Eastmans keep getting better every year! My favorite one I owned was the 810CE which I replaced the pickup with a real USA Kent Armstrong PAF floating pickup.
This design was made on the blue prints of Bob Benedetto archtop book design.
It definitely has a brighter tone than say a Johnny Smith or L-5 construction.
More highs and lows and less pronounced mids. Neither better or worse ,just different. These in my opinion are the best deal out their for a new modern archtop.
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Brilliant Toronto jazz guitarist Reg Schwager also uses an Eastman guitar. I think his main guitar used to be an ES 175 but he had to retire it as it developed unrepairable problems (according to a google jazz guitar group post) more than 10 years ago. Then he switched to a carved Eastman.
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Sometimes Eastman take a step backwards and shoot themselves in the foot.
Here's the older Eastman 503CE with the Kent Armstrong pickup in. Sounds much warmer, less glassy and a sweeter sustain.
Here it is with the newer Seymour Duncan Seth Lover.. where it sounds thin, flatter and cold like an ordinary acoustic guitar. Quite an irritating sound actually.
Definitely a huge mistake for Eastman to replace that pickup.
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To be fair, different players, different amps with different settings. It's hard to compare sounds done at different times and places by different players.
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Originally Posted by Maxxx
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Today I play on T64v Eastman
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Originally Posted by John A.
On another note, I do like the gold trimmings on the old model vs silver on the new.
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I have a new AR503CE and that second video is a bad representation. One guy is playing misty and the other doing generic demo noodling. Who do you think knows how to get the right sound out of this guitar.
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Originally Posted by chris32895
For a long time they came stock in many D'Angelicos and other Korean guitars as well as most Eastmans (and still do in some), so they're also pretty easy to find used.
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Originally Posted by John A.
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I was a bit leery of posting in an old thread, but I see the last post was just a month ago so I feel better.
Originally Posted by sgosnell
Some have mentioned feedback being an issue. I had mine up at “jazz combo with drums” volume, thru a Marshall amp (set for clean tone) and it was clearly audible with no feedback. I can see where it might be an issue on a larger stage, but in an average jazz club feedback problems would be unlikely IMO. And the current stock pickup is more than good enough for me.
**Perhaps that’s due in part to the solid carved mahogany back and solid mahogany sides?
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Awesome.. Enjoy. (To my limited knowledge, Eastman typically has really good PUs. I think they use Lollar often in their archtops). I am surprisingly happy with my Eastman.
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Originally Posted by st.bede
I was planning to sell it because I hardly played it for some time. I bought it brand new at the height of the COVID panic, but then got my Gibson Citation and the FV-880 languished in its case. I had decided to sell it, but had the bright idea to get it set up at my favorite shop for that work (St. Paul Guitar Repair) and now I play it often and no plans to sell it. Acoustically, I much prefer the mellower and fatter sound of the Citation to the brighter, possibly thinner sound of the FV-880, but plugged in, anything can sound good depending on the pickup, and both the Citation and Eastman sound quite good.
Tony
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Words are funny when it comes to sound description. I've had my Pisano 880 for about 7 or 8 years. A few years ago ago I got an archtop with a thicker top and a more 'Gibson' sound. To me it sounded 'bigger'. I think what I mean by that is the fundamental tone is stronger: it has a stronger 'singing' voice for single notes.
I've been married for 45 years. My wife has heard me play a lot of different musics on many different guitars. I played these two unplugged for her and asked which she liked better. She liked the Eastman. I asked what's the difference. To my surprise she said "It sounds bigger." We discussed it. To her it was 'bigger' because it has more overtones going on. An expanded range if you will. Bigger in a different way.
It's been said a lot (maybe even earlier in this thread), but one man's 'thin and nasally' is another man's 'articulate and acousticy'. And one man's 'thick and woody' is another man's 'muddy and dull'.
These days I enjoy both sounds and I'm happy to have access to each.
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I found a new Jazz box with P90 PU
Mine here !
Last edited by Room135; 05-20-2023 at 05:15 AM.
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Originally Posted by ccroft
RIP Nick Gravenites
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