I was starting to think I'd dreamed that beast. But it's real, isn't it.olegmcnoleg wrote:Here's mine, for the eagle-eyed, it has quite a few changes.
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Gibson Goldtop -- that's two 'G's and the wrong colour. i can feel your revulsion from here, Conway
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olegmcnoleg wrote:Here's mine, for the eagle-eyed, it has quite a few changes.
For me, thats about as good as it gets.
Tube amp and guitar tones straight from 1958… amazing how believable the sounds were back then, even without the modellers...
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Cheers SB, you just made my daysizzlingbadger wrote:olegmcnoleg wrote:Here's mine, for the eagle-eyed, it has quite a few changes.
For me, thats about as good as it gets.
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That R7 does look great.What pickups? Those aren't Gibson covers from what I can tell.
Here's another take on an R7 - ex RSole above.
Here's another take on an R7 - ex RSole above.
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Shouldn't you be somewhere else, like http://swimmingpools.com/ ?Conway wrote:Nightmare.Slowy wrote:I was starting to think I'd dreamed that beast.
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And in a similar vein, an old R4 ('73)...but possibly blurring the technicalities of "R" series.
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I'm wondering if it's a byproduct of the wraptail humbucker combination. My R4 Oxblood is the same and while I've never found a wraptail with P90's to be particularly aggressive maybe the piano like twang with the extra pu juice is what does it. Scary through anything Marshallesque, tameable through other amps..GrantB wrote: The R7 is aggressive and big sounding, the R9 is articulate, honky and very responsive. Given the pickups are the same every other difference is in the guitars...design, wood, etc.
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So much want...GrantB wrote:And in a similar vein, an old R4 ('73)...but possibly blurring the technicalities of "R" series.
Just sayin'. Change those pickups immediately.MrDINO wrote:R7 with Z90s. Perfection imho. This is a 95 early Yamano import. Ive had it for ages.