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11-28-2020, 10:46 AM #1Dutchbopper Guest
After all this love for the Tal Farlow it is time to compare it with the "original" Tal Farlow, the Gibson ES 350.
Recorded through a Mambo 10 jazz amp. All EQ totally flat, both on the guitars and the amp. Same settings on the amp.
DB
Last edited by Dutchbopper; 11-29-2020 at 10:13 AM.
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11-28-2020 10:46 AM
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They actually sound quite similar to my ears .. I like the 350 better, but that is probably cause P90s just sound fuller/warmer in a context like this.
Also I'm guessing you didn't touch the amp setting, but pushing it ever so slightly more with the Tal would probably make it slightly fuller/warmer as well.
But end of the day my thoughts are that they're surprisingly close in character .. it's kinda a potato potata thing ... How do they compare in the drivers seat?
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Great playing as always. They sound amazingly similar to my ears. Considering that they have such a difference in years / mileage and P90 vs. humbucker it's quite astonishing...
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Ok now i want a pickup thats a p90 for the first 3 strings and a humbucker for the bass strings.
I prefered the tal altough it was clipping a bit if i really had to choose one but that p90 sounds so sweet in the upper register.
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Hmm... I would be hard pressed to hear the difference in a blind fold test.....
Kind of makes you wondering why one would need both guitars....
(Don't tell my wife I said this, or I would need to sell 75% of my guitars......... )
Both sound equally great!
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I could find little difference possibly a bit more edgy to Tal on the bright side. The 350 possible a bit rounder in tone but we are spitting atoms at this point. Super playing and sound.
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1st off excellent job. It takes a lot to do something like this and you should be commended for it.
Sound wise, I can’t find an appreciable difference between the 2 guitars. Blind folded, I would have insisted it was the same guitar straight through.
There is no way for me to be certain, but to my EYES, you look more comfortable playing the Tal. Maybe it’s just my imagination.
In any case, great job DB.
Joe D
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Both are pure ear candy. Tone Heaven for sure. Thanks Dick !
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You have a beautiful touch, which makes the comparison fun to listen to - I was surprised by how similar the guitars sounded. Both sound great.
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Through headphones I hear a little more projection and clarity from the 350, a little more thunk from the Tal.
Both spectacular. I would be thrilled to own either.
(Though I would rather just have a little of DB's playing skills!)
Thanks for the video!
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DB, I played your video back through my Bose speaker system
the two guitars sounded similar, on several hearings I detected
slightly more brightness from the TF , and lyrical ,nevertheless
the 350 with P90's has a great Jazz tone quality compounded
by its 46 extra years of having been used, your playing as ever,
exemplary,Last edited by silverfoxx; 11-28-2020 at 04:01 PM.
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11-28-2020, 05:32 PM #12Dutchbopper GuestOriginally Posted by silverfoxx
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11-28-2020, 05:34 PM #13Dutchbopper GuestOriginally Posted by Flat
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11-28-2020, 05:47 PM #14Dutchbopper GuestOriginally Posted by Lobomov
I like the vintage vibe of the 350. The Tal is a heavier guitar but still sounds great. Gibson did a very good job as you can hear.
So far I have only used the 350 at home and not in my trio. It is a dream guitar.
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11-28-2020, 05:51 PM #15Dutchbopper GuestOriginally Posted by deacon Mark
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Both sound great, to me they sound very similar in the upper register but on the low notes the Tal has a kind of ‘woody’ sound that I like.
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11-28-2020, 06:18 PM #19Dutchbopper GuestOriginally Posted by Little Jay
I am neither a collector nor an investor but owning a few guitars like this seems like a better idea than saving ROI wise.
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Originally Posted by Dutchbopper
You have a valid point though, with the current interest rates it is much more lucrative to put your money into something that gains value over time (and even better into something that you can enjoy playing ). And the market is going rather crazy right now - any Gibson labelled ‘vintage’ is gaining value like crazy, at least in the minds of a lot of people. There is an ES-125 on Marktplaats they ask €3500 for! (So my 125 gained 350% in value in 5 years time? That’s even more than my house, hahaha!)
I still have a weak spot for player grade guitars though, they speak more to me. But they are less suited as investment.
At the moment I am very surprised how similar I can make my €200 chinese ES-330 kit sound like my 1950 ES-125 (although they both have P90s of course). I should do a similar comparison video!
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I prefer the 350 by a little. The Tal sounds slightly compressed in comparison, but it's very difficult to tell the difference. I think the 350 has a subtly greater dynamic range, a little more open, probably because of the P90. I once was a confirmed humbucker fan, but over time I've come to prefer the single-coil sound, although it's still very close. Anyway, great playing on both guitars, and great tone on both. I'll take either off your hands if you're desperate to get rid of one. But I suspect that has about the same likelihood as the sun coming up in the west tomorrow.
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The first time through, I scroll down and read the comments while listening to the playing so as not to be "listening with my eyes." I wasn't sure when you were switching guitars except for being able to hear the overlap, but I didn't know which was which. This of course was limited to some extent by using my iPad and listening with earbuds.
One of the two instruments had just a little brighter "ping" on the attack of the notes; then I watched the clip again so that I could see which guitar was which. Gibson really engineered the TF to sound like the ES-350, presumably with Tal's input. Even the difference between the P90 and humbucker pickups is pretty minimal; I think the difference in sound that I was hearing was the wooden bridge saddle versus the TOM.
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11-29-2020, 08:49 AM #23Dutchbopper GuestOriginally Posted by Cunamara
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I think one thing that makes these guitars sound so very similar is, of course, Dick is the guy playing both of them. I am not someone who constantly harps on "tone is in the hands" but still, we know accomplished players tend to be able to bring their own distinct tone out of almost any instrument, given at least adequate instruments (not cigar box guitars). The quality of the playing in this video is outstanding, and so the full quality of each instrument comes out as well, but both are also fully under the control of the musician. That being the case, the slight differences we do hear are pretty significant.
I have often wondered about the difference between TOM and wooden bridges on guitars, but every time I've experimented with my own guitars, I've just not heard that big a difference. Since I really grate on poor intonation, I tend to gravitate toward the TOM bridges.
This is a great side-by-side and another chance to hear some really nice bebop playing from one of our own!
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My 175 came with a wooden bridge, but I found it a bit ‘muddy’ sounding so I replaced it with a tuneomatic one. Also I wanted the precision of tuning, the wooden bridge never seemed to be quite right in that regard.
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