OMG ... NGD

[littlejohnny]

o.k. there had to be people out there who like the vos finish, otherwise gibson would stop makin' it. guess my comment came out a little too rude.

 

Whatever, I cleaned & polished my guitar with gibson polish and its all fine for me now.

 

I also changed out the truss rod cover, just because I like the plain ones better.

 

 

As far as strings go, I never had 80/20 strings on a guitar ever. so I was very curious how the git would sound with PBs. Changed the strings yesterday and the PBs changed the sound quite a bit. Guitar has more bass now and different mids and is overall louder.

 

I settled on DR Pre Alloy strings on my j-45 pretty fast. The last half year I was kind of unhappy with its sound, cause it kind of sounded overpowered, especially in the low mids. I changed to gibson PB stings and though my first impression was: "they are much to quite" ,but in the end I found them to be overall smoother and more natural sounding then the DRs.

From my fist experience with 80/20 vs. PBs I draw the conclusion, that PBs are better for new guitars and 80/20 are better for well broken in and matured instruments, so for now the PBs will stay on the bird, but next string change my j-45 will get some 80/20!

 

As far as the sound difference between the bird and the j-45 goes, which with the same strings on now seems to be more comparable:

J-45 - thumpy, dry, midrangy and raw

bird - clear highs, deeper Bass, reverby but very clean at the same time (string/note separation is a good term)

still they both share the overall gibson warmth

As I said before, I feel very blessed to call both my own now.

 

One last thing: The bird ain't no cannon ( as is the j-45)

 

back to playing!

[E-minor7]

From Built to Class

 

 

back to playing!

Hope you get some intense A/B goin', , , always a trip. .

 

Apart from that I put on a set of Masterbuilts ph. b. 12-54 on the Bird the 6th of Jan.

Have tried different other brands and wanted to recreate the sound I fell for in the shop.

Didn't work at all - they were much too raw and didn't bring out the nectar whatsoever.

In fact second time I experience this since I bought the Bird in April last year.

Maybe it was a load of bad Masterbuilts or else the 20/80 is the answer. Anyways, , , off went the ph.b.'s and instead some Newtone Master Class ph. b.12-54 was tried.

Totally changed the sound. These are like made of gold in comparison - really make that guitar fly and I wish they stay after fading.

 

12-16-24-34-44-54 / Notice the difference to Masterbuilts

 

12-16-24-32-42-53 / same as D'Addarios both bronze and ph.b.

 

12-16-25-32-42-54 / Martin SPs and fx Flexcore

 

Not sure about the Gibson 80/20 - can't find them right now