Other Styles / Instruments

Fender Princeton Reverb speaker choice...

Old Ibanez new Pots?

Looping Lines for Jazz Guitar (with Free PDF)

Well You Needn’t from a recent gig

How does your Atchtop play compared to SB?

I'd guess that's the reason why standard tuning became the most popular Guitar tuning. Easier for playing chords. If it wasn't for the Guitar, we could have still been playing the 6 string Bass...

Anyone tune all 6 strings to 4ths?

To put the price tag a little bit lower than for a.m. speakers: Jensen Tornado Jupiter LC 10 Both are excellent for clean sounds.

Fender Princeton Reverb speaker choice...

Sorry if someone has already shared this one, but I have to give props to "Triple Play" by Russell Malone. Definitely one of my favorite records in this ensemble format.

Trio albums (guitar, bass, drums)

I have a eminence alessandro GA-SC64 In a Princeton that is pretty nice for the money. Mine is a 12 but they do make a 10. The Princeton does break up pretty early on the dial. The GA is a bit more...

Fender Princeton Reverb speaker choice...

I have a Yamaha Pacifica that I use for a lot of gig work, in addition to two hollow-body archtops and two semi-hollow archtops. I play all my archtops amplified, so I don't see the need to raise the...

How does your Atchtop play compared to SB?

An improvisation from last night in very (very) loose approximation of Pat Martino circa “Special Door”, on one of my Les Pauls: https://youtu.be/-c0xqpdpyX8?si=f4nIW20X1uVijIwH

The Autumn of Solo Guitar 2024

What BH taught me is to divide the fingerboard in minor 3rds. What I did is add the three finger barre every minor third that creates a first inversion triad every minor third on strings 432: ...

6th Diminished - Thomas Echols

My experience is that you can setup the action on an archtop to be as low or the same as a solid body guitar. (After fret levelling and polish.) But, an archtop sounds better acoustically with a...

How does your Atchtop play compared to SB?

celestion gold

Fender Princeton Reverb speaker choice...

That triad is pretty fantastic, isn't it?

Anyone tune all 6 strings to 4ths?

Experimental/free etc music

I like those sweeps, or 16th note clusters. That's trick I'd like to get down.

Well You Needn’t from a recent gig

The best speaker I have found for my tastes in a Princeton (and indeed many other amps) is the Webers 10A125. The alnico speaker has a certain squishy thing going on with a lovely, sweet high end...

Fender Princeton Reverb speaker choice...

If you ever decide to sell the G&l Asat, let me know. I would be very happy to purchase it. -Charley

G&L ASAT Deluxe Semi-Hollow

I have a '78 Ibanez FA-100 I bought after having gone through 2 Gibson 175s in the late 80's. I got it for a Yes cover band gig and love it to death. I've never had an issue with the binding, though...

Late 1970s Ibanez hollow-body quality?

The official mad-at-JC thread

What is your primary reference for practicing improvisation?

6th Diminished - Thomas Echols

The best LOOKING guitar you own......

Chord Shapes as a basis for Improv

One octave scales - VIDEO

Experimental/free etc music

Talk me out of buying a Gibson ES-335

... But does it Jazz ??

Tonex One vs. TC Combo Deluxe '65

Anyone tried a compensated nut?

12 Hour Practice - Thoughts?

What Archtop Guitars have no binding?