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Post by bikerboy94 on May 5, 2016 4:15:21 GMT
I just picked up a used Squire Strat great price with awesome setup plays like a dream. Love the HBs but being a lefty I'm limited to the TE20 for strats. Will be adding a CTS 24T to my SC450+ soon.
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Post by salteedog on May 5, 2016 14:24:25 GMT
I'm a Lefty like yourself and as you know we don't get much choice. I'm grateful for Thomann offering a variety of lefty models but I'm very disappointed that they decided to add a 24% Lefty premium to the TE-90QM - a great looking/specced guitar that I would probably have bought otherwise.
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Post by Deleted on May 5, 2016 18:09:37 GMT
I'm a Lefty like yourself and as you know we don't get much choice. I'm grateful for Thomann offering a variety of lefty models but I'm very disappointed that they decided to add a 24% Lefty premium to the TE-90QM - a great looking/specced guitar that I would probably have bought otherwise. I know it cost more than the righty but man its worth more than they ask in any case. This guitar sounds awesome no matter what kind of pedal I throw at it, both neck and bridge pups sing beautifully and the pots respond really well. If you look at the Swedish affordable brand Green Guitars, they sell this same model (Wilkinson pups) for 535 Euros! |
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Post by salteedog on May 5, 2016 19:26:13 GMT
I know, I know, but it galls me to pay a premium over what rightys pay. As far as I can tell it's the only HB guitar with such a premium. At practically €230 it puts it in a slightly different price range for me where its competing with guitars I wouldnt consider otherwise. Its almost €100 more than the nice P90 JA-60 jazzmaster shape that I ordered.
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Post by Deleted on May 5, 2016 21:45:56 GMT
When you get the JA-60 please check if those P90's are stacked humbuckers or true single coils
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Post by bikerboy94 on May 7, 2016 19:38:32 GMT
I just picked up a used Squire Strat great price with awesome setup plays like a dream. Love the HBs but being a lefty I'm limited to the TE20 for strats. Will be adding a CTS 24T to my SC450+ soon. Pulled the trigger on the CST-24T LH. |
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Post by Lm2 on May 8, 2016 19:37:16 GMT
I know, I know, but it galls me to pay a premium over what rightys pay. As far as I can tell it's the only HB guitar with such a premium. At practically €230 it puts it in a slightly different price range for me where its competing with guitars I wouldnt consider otherwise. Its almost €100 more than the nice P90 JA-60 jazzmaster shape that I ordered. It sure is a pita but the problem is not 'premium' but an economic one. There are less left playing people, therefor less production and therefor more expensive/piece. That's why this happens in ALL price ranges. |
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Post by salteedog on May 8, 2016 20:44:35 GMT
I understand that but a 25% uplift for the lefty model is well beyond what one would normally expect. And its a precedent for Harley Benton models that I'm not going to encourage with my custom.
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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2016 7:42:27 GMT
I understand that but a 25% uplift for the lefty model is well beyond what one would normally expect. And its a precedent for Harley Benton models that I'm not going to encourage with my custom. Fair enough  but its still a fine, fine instrument I must repeat (you will hear me saying this many many many times  ) Just yesterday I plugged in my L-450+ and played it and thought "boy oh boy do these humbuckers sound awesome" then I plugged in the TE-90QM and man it sounded 10x better, yet still the L-450+ is a great sounding guitar. That semi-hollow in combination with the alnico P90's and likely the 9 gauge strings is just pronouncing each string so well even when playing whole bare chords with overdrive, such richness. The only issue is the tuners dont hold tune well or the neck is "working" because its on the thin side but nothing major, I just retune each time I pick up the guitar. And because this guitar articulates well its important all strings are in perfect tune otherwise you can easily hear it. Will change tuners at some stage in the future. I am so happy with the guitars I have at the moment; I have awesome sounding humbuckers for some serious distorted sound, fantastic sounding P90's for some lovely cleans and overdrive and alnico single coils for more cleans (still would love to get the ST-62). I have all the tools I need for recording  But please do look under the P90's of your new jaguar guitar, I think they are humbucking P90's so not real single coils (NAppel has them on his HB JA-60) This means you will not have the same tone as I have on this one. Also Im not sure why people want those stacked P90's because my single coil P90's have no hum at all, not more than the humbuckers on me L-450+ |
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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2016 10:00:35 GMT
Single coils papache!!  What more can I say. Actually I'd really love someone to divest me of my humbucker dread and show me some gloroius ones that articulate cleans as well as cheap alnicos do (or even the two remaining Chinese ceramics on my favourite Squier strat) I'd try some like a shot. I was just watching a YouTube vid of a guy playing some intricate jazz nonsense on an HB35 and thinking "that would sound so much less clinical if you had some P90s on that". |
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Post by salteedog on May 9, 2016 12:32:22 GMT
papache - I'm sure the TE-90QM is a great guitar - and indeed it ticks many of the boxes for me since Tele's are my favourite shape and I really would like P90s. I'm not a fan of thin necks though - is it much thinner than your ST or L450? Regarding P90s I am looking forward to checking out the JA-60. I hear the pickups are great even if stacked. I do intend to replace the stock ceramic humbuckers on one of my other guitars with humbucker size alnico P90s. I'm agonizing about which one I'll do it to though?... - THe L400 ...probably the most unrefined pickups but the fact that they are a bit hotter than say PAF mean that they give a great crunchy tone that I like a lot. Uncovered though so noisy... - S-380 - SG shape - vintage voiced I guess. A bit 'meh' but works for me (I rarely go very high gain). - HB-35 semi hollow. Vintage voiced but a little brighter than the ones on the S380 (Thomann confirmed these have a scooped mids and bass) Like all my humbuckers I feel I improved them with very careful height adjustment and pole piece adjustment (even going so far as to use a spectral readings to ensure string volume levels were balanced the way I like). Still this could benefit from a switch to a pair of P90s but I'm not sure I'm up for the 'ship in a bottle' exercises required to do such a switch out a this stage. Also I've got those cheapo Alnicos coming for the ST-20. Same ones you ordered Che....looking forward to seeing how they are.
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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2016 12:47:38 GMT
I'm with you there salteedog. I've agonised over which of my dreaded humbucker guitars should get a drop-in replacement and one of the reasons for the agonising is that I don't much like the look of bucker sized P90s! AAARRGGHHH! There's always one of my strats or a tele though, I suppose, with a proper soapbar. Looks like I'd better go YouTube hunting for the best candidate. |
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Post by salteedog on May 9, 2016 13:26:14 GMT
@defjef I'm pretty sure I'll buy a pair of the Warman HBP-90s. But I may end up putting one of each into the L-400 and the S-580. Won't have the classic P90 look but if the tone is decent I won't complain. Neck P90 with bridge humbucker in my black L-400 and it'll be the closest I care to go to my own version of Neil Young's Old Black (or Daniel Lanois's version for that matter).
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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2016 13:35:43 GMT
Yes the neck is much thinner than St-62 or Sc450. It's similar to the St-20.
Beware! I'm not sure Warman has alnico P90's. Check that. I know Tonerider cost more but could be a better option sound wise.
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Post by salteedog on May 9, 2016 13:59:22 GMT
Yes the neck is much thinner than St-62 or Sc450. It's similar to the St-20. Beware! I'm not sure Warman has alnico P90's. Check that. I know Tonerider cost more but could be a better option sound wise. Once again papache you are correct. I was thinking of the Vanson HB90s. |
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