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Whatever the job is, it would beat my first job out of High School at the sewage treatment plant. I was in charge of poking the floaters. Anywhooooooooooo, mine actually would be the computer data geek thing. It's what I did. I loved to do it. I didn't even want to do any GUI work. All data. Data-mining, storage, report data design, etc. Especially something along the line of complete end to end business like this one. Manufacturing to sales to distribution and on and on. The next to last gig I had was like this and I loved it. I was sad to see us sell off. Yeah, I admit - I'm sort of strange. Might be because I spent first decade in career on business side. I knew what my users wanted before they did.

I wrestled a bit with the same question. There is lots of Martin love here, too. 🙂 Congratulations! Looks like a player.

I enjoyed watching your video, Jinder.

I put those on my SJ-200 Standard a couple months back. I like them quite a lot.

I wasn't making any sort of point, rather just curious. I just got my first Rosewood B&S'ed guitar a couple weeks ago (D-41) and noticed early on that changing picks made even bigger differences than I was used to with my current guitars. I've actually been thinking of trying the Bluechip and/or Wegens. Again, curiosity.

Guys, is it Rosewood that makes it so responsive to pick changes, or the J45 design?

Early congrats, Sal! I'm looking forward to hearing it in your videos.

I don't normally post links from wandering around this big picture-book we call the internet, but this maple-backed Hummingbird is making my mouth water. I found this just nosing around the AGF forum's classified. No affiliation or anything. Just some drool. go to picture number 7

Very well done, Doug! It's always nice to see and hear an SJ in skilled hands. You and you wife perform well together, too. Very fluid and natural.

The A&H looks like an impressive unit. I've never used a sound-card interface. My set up is conceptually similar, just more of what you see on you A&H is in software form. I use a Universal Audio Apollo x6, which is the first one out of four purchases over 8 years that didn't have a major flaw. I do like to do complete mixes, but it's taken me too long to learn how to do it to the point where it is at least not awful. That's only gotten to this point within the past year or so. I realize now that I bit off more than I could chew. It was mostly fun. 🙂 Plus on days where I can't play guitar, I can sometimes work on the digital end of things. Keeps my out of trouble. Mostly. 🙂 The VE8 is 20 according to the Boss site. I agree with Murph. All of your music sounds great. Well tracked, played and mixed solidly enough to enjoy.

BK, Great stuff and great points. The AD-10, FWIW, is 10M Ohm. Half that of the VE-8. I do wonder if the VE-8 has some better signal management to handle such mismatches. (After some mind numbing research) According to LR Baggs technical guy(s) in their forum, they've suggested more times than not that the output of the Anthem is 3.6k Ohms. Sooooo, on the assumption front, a huge mis-fire on my part would be to assume that the old interface contributed as much noise as I had thought, though it certainly amplified it in addition to adding some of it's own. I would have to assume that the signal coming from my Anthem is just as overloaded as it was for the purpose of the AD-10, and that feeding the output from the AD-10 to the new interface will only marginally decrease noises at best. In short, nothing changes on the incoming signal. If this is correct, then other improvements made in my "studio" would be relational at best. I will certainly try, but only because I own it already. If it does not, I only have two passive resonators that would be any good with it, so may sell. On a positive note, I am encouraged to try the new interface's Line-In ports with the Anthem plugged in directly. The Mic-In ports, too, as I have some good EQ/Comp/channel strip emulation software. (API, Manley, Neve, etc) The same ones I use when I mic the acoustics these days.

You know, I'm not at all sure how you got from me saying things about my situation as they minimally relate to your situations as being me trying to get the "same" results as you. I've put a ton of work and money into my studio room since I have tried my Anthem AND my AD-10. This includes a new interface with highly improved and far less noisy power supply, in/out converts and very low noise floor. Add the work I've done to the room where I've gone a long way to fixing 400Hz and up early reflections, fluttering and other nastiness that was happening. New monitors and cans so that I can hear the differences. All of this is happening, and you're making an assumption I think my none-Dove will sound the same through my anthem and AD-10 and who knows what else is in the stream as your Dove's sound through your Anthem used with a different boss product. Did you really think I was trying to be the same as you? I'm just trying to have a conversation about these things. You're ahead of me at your stage than I am at mine. Be really silly to think I couldn't learn something from talking to you and then use/apply any information gain to my own situation. So if you want to have conversations about this, fine. If not, just ignore me and I'll go away.

Now, now, let's not go making too many assumptions. 🙂 Oh man, however nice it was to finally sell a slow moving guitar had to be a bit tough when having a salesman get to prove himself right. LOL

That's probably why my story songs are not good. I end up describing the tires on the getaway car for 3 verses and run out of time.

The nasty strings at one of our local GC stores is doubly awful when they don't care enough to set up a guitar to anything near playable. Cost them any chance at selling me an SJ sale last year. A recent journey to try out an HD-28 and a D-28 ended similarly. One of them I simply could not get into tune. Then the guy offers to go get me something to clean the strings with. I couldn't make this up if I tried. Same bad strings as they were 6 weeks prior - just older and worse shape. I digress. I've got a Boss-AD10 that I'm not going to give up on just yet. I have not tried it with just the UTS element in my 'bird. The The full Anthem on the SJ proved to be better without the AD10 for me, but there were interface issues in play.

I'm a year away from getting a Gibson ES of some sort, so not an urgent question by any stretch. That said, I'm still curious to know what makes this new guitar a $10k guitar? Did I miss something in the specs? I see a sub - $6k guitar, which is still not a shabby zip-code to reside. Chuck Berry ES-350T

BK, I thought this was a very nice performance with equally nice laid-back warmth of tone with the guitar. I'm tempted to re-introduce my anthem UST to my SJ after listening to about 2-3 of your efforts with it on your Dove. If I wasn't really digging how it sounds with these D'Add nickel bronzes, not to mention the saddle on wood thing with no UST.

Nicely done, David. I sensed a little bit of that Lucinda Williams irreverence* right at the end. Not a bad thing. Your guitar looks and sounds nice, too. (* = for lack of a better word) For conversation sake only, do you think an element of time would help the story? I am awful at these types of songs. Again, well done and add a couple of bravos while I'm at it. 🙂

Oh no, that's awful! I'm sorry to hear that.

While you have their attention, perhaps you could email them back with the link you showed us as a cross-check. In the very least, it'd be great to ease any pending nagging thought that might creep up.

I put them on my SJ-200 for a very short period of time. I do not recall if they were the retros or a different from that string lineup. I felt the tension increase was too intense for it. All kinds of creaking noises I did not feel comfortable with. They were the lights - .012's. I did use them on my bird once, but it was nothing like how the SJ felt. The other factor in play was that I could have been chicken-sheee-ite and acted out of over-nervousness instead of logic. I figured getting them off of the SJ was safest and they were gone within a day or two at the most.

I agree with the heavy-handed thing, but was too chicken to suggest such a thing earlier in the week. (Sometimes I can be too forthcoming.) I stopped worrying about the occasional heavy-handed buzz on the E-A strings when I saw Neil Young videos from the early 70's. Heck, done like he does, it sounds energetic, as if really getting into the music he's playing.

I switched from Nano to Poly's to reduce the brightness. I was a big fan initially, but they felt stiffer and uncomfortable after 4-5 months on both the 'bird and SJ.

OHHHHHHHHHHHH!! I get it, now. I can be taught - it just takes a while.

DD . I can't help you with the price. I do wish more good days than bad days in your fight. Best wishes and all, and I hope you can do something musical each day. Roy