Questions Gibby Explorer

[Gibbyex]

Hi everyone,

 

I'm new here in this forum. I've got two questions according my gibson explorer 76. It's made 2007 in Nashville.

 

1) Do all of you, who own a 76 explorer in ebony, has got a 3ply white black white pickguard on it? I'm asking that, because I've compared my exp to the exp pic on the gibson website and there the pickguard seems to be all white.

2) Sometimes when I play powerchords containing the Low E string on High gain level it seems for one second that the sound gets a little softer but returns to heavy after a second. I play it over a Marshall MA100 Head and 1960Box. Has anyone experienced the same? And what can I do to change it?

 

Thanx for your help and best regards

Gibbyex

[capmaster]

Hello Gibbyex, and welcome to this forum.

 

The tonal behaviour you mentioned under point 2) is normal for high gain settings to my experience. Depending on guitar model, pickup design, selected pickup, amp tone control circuit and settings, and speakers this will occur more or less significantly. In particular bridge pickups put out lots of overtones which decay faster than the fundamentals. As soon as the latter predominate the signal, these and their low order harmonics are pumping up. Some guitars will do that even when amplified with absolutely clean amp settings.

 

Aluminum lightweight tailpieces strongly support this kind of compression. Perhaps your Explorer is featuring a lightweight tailpiece, too. These are ca. 30...32 grams whereas the brazen weigh 81...85 grams. Knocking them with your fingernails, the aluminum stoptails will create a dull sound, the brazen ones ring brightly and chimey.

 

Hope this helps.