Jazz guitar shootout- including Strat, tele, 6120

[ruger9]

I thought this was very well done... alot of the popular/affordbale brands (Godin, Eastman), but the classics too, different pickups, etc. At the end he does a tele, Strat, and 6120.

Altho WHY he didn't play straight jazz on the 6120... wasted opportunity, IMO.

[SteveJ]

Thanks for posting, I enjoyed that. Just goes to show you can play jazz on pretty much any guitar.

[Gitterbug]

I thought I understood German...

[docsteve]

I thought I understood German...

He is Austrian, he‘s not German at all...

I liked the video, and he confirmed the common opinion on the forum that a Tele is the perfect jazz guitar. Still, after hearing him, I‘d go for the BC Rich. Got the sound AND the looks.


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[ruger9]

He is Austrian, he‘s not German at all...

I liked the video, and he confirmed the common opinion on the forum that a Tele is the perfect jazz guitar. Still, after hearing him, I‘d go for the BC Rich. Got the sound AND the looks.


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That BCR sounded WAY better than it had any business sounding, lol...

[Bach5G]

I wish I understood the commentary. They speak German in Austria, don’t they? I think I caught ‘beautiful guitar” in relation to the Stromberg.

[feet]

i hate it when people (mis)use the mud switches on a gretsch

[Joeontheguitar]

I wish I understood the commentary. They speak German in Austria, don’t they? I think I caught ‘beautiful guitar” in relation to the Stromberg.

Yes, they do, with a huge accent though. He mentions the acoustic qualities of the Stromberg. According to him it's a good guitar to mic up and combine that acoustic sound with the amplified sound. Also he talks about the importance of lubing the nut. According to him the Stromberg is a very traditional instrument. And he says something about the combination of an arch top and a floating pickup: what it does with the individual tones. I didn't get that part completely.

[docsteve]

Germans have that thing going about Austria - we sort of treat it like a baby brother whom we indulge, but don’t take seriously. Also we think that the accent sounds funny. But actually we like them a lot.

Anyway, I’d like to follow up on the floating pickup thing. Throughout the video, he goes on about floating pickups over-accenting the high and low E strings. The logic is that a fingerboard is curved, but a pickup is flat, so the middle strings are further away from the pickup and have less presence. I should think that this isn’t exclusive to floaters - every magnetic pickup is built like that. I couldn’t really follow him why floaters should have moe issues with that than set pickups - it‘s not that they all came with staggered pole pieces.


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[docsteve]

Yes, they do, with a huge accent though. He mentions the acoustic qualities of the Stromberg. According to him it's a good guitar to mic up and combine that acoustic sound with the amplified sound. Also he talks about the importance of lubing the nut. According to him the Stromberg is a very traditional instrument. And he says something about the combination of an arch top and a floating pickup: what it does with the individual tones. I didn't get that part completely.

All true, he also says that he likes the Stromberg a lot (along with the Eastman and the Tokai).


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[ruger9]

for strictly tone, I liked the Godin best- I guess I love that P90 thing. Altho I also like mini-HBs.

[hats]

I couldn’t really follow him why floaters should have moe issues with that than set pickups

Hans says (at about 5:50), that the outer strings are very close to the floating pickup, und you can hardly adjust (that at) a guitar with a floating pickup. I think that the distance-difference to the strings is higher in percentage terms with a floating pickup, so maybe this is the reason.

[Cunamara]

Funny thing in listening to that video was that it seemed to me that the guitar sounded more the same than they did different; they all sounded like the player.

[ruger9]

Funny thing in listening to that video was that it seemed to me that the guitar sounded more the same than they did different; they all sounded like the player.

I definitely heard a significant tonal change with the P90/Godin. And of course with all the solid bodies, and the Gretsch. But as for the rest of them, yes I think they sounded more alike than different.

[teeps]

Nice video. Fascinating to hear him talk and kind of seeming to know the melody of the language but without being able to understand a single word if it wasn't for his body language in the video . Sort of ice because you have to make your own decision. I think I liked the Godin best for its tight bass and overall clarity in this setting whereas several others were boomy.
Zinkl seemed sort of inspired by the Hendrix strat

[docsteve]

Funny thing in listening to that video was that it seemed to me that the guitar sounded more the same than they did different; they all sounded like the player.

More proof that tone is between your ears. Especially with the BC Rich.


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