NGD 1961 Guild X175

[die Bullen]

I did call the shop where the X175 is having the work done and I am definitely going the treble bleed route. I also specified that I need a full range of tone so please select proper tone pots to allow full tonal range for jazz to rockabilly.

I also asked them to throw in a sound post. This is really for 2 reasons:
1- this guitar will be gigged with regularly and I wanted a little more stability "just in case"
2- This will be played at louder volumes so I'd prefer to reduce potential feedback. My X150 feeds back very easily- I sent this to the tech before I really determined feedback but I doubt that a 1" dowel (or whatever they use) is going to ruin the sound of the guitar.

 

[Walter Broes]

No feedback trouble with both of my 62's, and I usually play through 2X6L6 Fender amps turned up a little past halfway. The guitars are rigid enough not to have trouble with body feedback.

Potting the pickups in mine wàs absolutely neccesary though, because they'd whistle and shriek well before you reached stage volume, but a little wax dip took care of that.

this clip is not my regular band, but a reunion of my teenage band, and I'm playing through two blackface Fender Super Reverbs here, so that's a hundred watts and eight 10" speakers blaring at me, no soundpost! :wink:

 

[die Bullen]

the 60's Hoboken models are probably more rigid than the 50's NY models. The '61 I have did feel pretty beefy compared to the '53. Can't wait to get this guy back from the shop! The sound post is a nominal charge so I am not so bothered about it- if I don't like it I will just remove it.


BTW great video!

 

[Ravon]

Walter, that was great man! You've got a great sound 8)

 

[Walter Broes]

Thanks guys!

 

[die Bullen]

man I just changed the tubes on my Peavey Classic 30 to put a NOS USA Tung sol 12at7 in the v1 position to fix the crappy lead channel and swapped out the other 12ax7's for other ones I had lying around and when I tried the Peavey at 4/12 (where I what I usually keep the volume at with the big band) I had to disconnect the x150 because of the feedback and plug in my tele. You can't even stop it by holding the strings! Maybe that's the one that really needs a sound post! (no not the tele!)

 

[Walter Broes]

Try to find out what kind of feedback though - a soundpost is not going to stop a microphonic pickup from feeding back, and every unpotted Franz pickup I've played was so microphonic you could talk through them!

 

[die Bullen]

oh yeah- you think the pickups needs wax potting (or whatever they do to them)? That's very possible- the '53 is a very crude guitar compared to the '61. Actually I kind of like the crudeness- it gives it a real character and it is my "play at volume 2 or 3 at home guitar" anyway. I haven't even had it that long and it is like an old friend!

 

[Walter Broes]

Are you getting high-pitched shriek, or a howling rumble? The first would be microphonic feedback.

 

[die Bullen]

howling rumble- I can feel the guitar vibrating with the strings. I don't think anything is actually wrong with it- I've seen the same thing with an ES-150 (late 40's/ early 50's?) I played a few months back. The x150 almost acts like a carved top guitar in its feedback sensitivity, although I am positive it is laminated.

Like I said it doesn't really bother me because it isn't what I gig with. At a jam session a few weeks back I was playing it through my '67 Gemini and the volume was up around 7/10 and I had to be very careful not to let it feed back. But the PV seems to be generally much louder than the ampeg.

 

[AlohaJoe]

Great clip Walter... you sound great and I love that bass player!