Post by blinddrunk on Aug 26, 2019 18:09:11 GMT
I've had my new 12 fret MM Blues for nearly a week now and I'm loving it.
Michael wrote to me the day before it was delivered to inform me that he had fitted a nickel/brass coverplate because the original steel one had been chipped during set-up but he would include the original plate with the delivery. I visualised its appearance, dismissed it, and resolved to reinstate the original plate as soon as practicable. However, when I opened the case and saw the guitar in the flesh, it was love at first sight and all thought of altering it disappeared - it is truly stunning.
Until the MM arrived, my only experience of resonator guitars was with my '32 Style 2 Tricone which has a very sweet and refined sound. By contrast, the MM is brash and wild. It's a completely different resonator experience and I can't get enough of it.
I was expecting to use the MM to play slide, Blind Boy Fuller and Bo Carter style fingerpicking and such like. The big surprise was that the more lyrical Mississippi John Hurt type stuff sounds good on it, too. But, as with all resos, it is with the slide that it really comes into its own.
I also gave the fitted Sixtus humbucker a workout. First I hooked it up to a clean channel on my acoustic amp and it sounded divine - much the same, but louder. Then I plugged it into my Blues Junior, cranked the volume up until the amp was just on the cusp of overdriving, played a few blues licks - and it all got real low-down and dirty. Marvellous sound.
A big "thank you" to Michael for his sound advice, superb highly personal service, and for creating this excellent machine.
It's the most enjoyable money I've spent in a long while and it is my firm belief that anybody who has six hundred odd quid lying around who doesn't buy an MM Blues guitar is an idiot.
This instrument has exceeded what were already very high expectations.
Lionel
Michael wrote to me the day before it was delivered to inform me that he had fitted a nickel/brass coverplate because the original steel one had been chipped during set-up but he would include the original plate with the delivery. I visualised its appearance, dismissed it, and resolved to reinstate the original plate as soon as practicable. However, when I opened the case and saw the guitar in the flesh, it was love at first sight and all thought of altering it disappeared - it is truly stunning.
Until the MM arrived, my only experience of resonator guitars was with my '32 Style 2 Tricone which has a very sweet and refined sound. By contrast, the MM is brash and wild. It's a completely different resonator experience and I can't get enough of it.
I was expecting to use the MM to play slide, Blind Boy Fuller and Bo Carter style fingerpicking and such like. The big surprise was that the more lyrical Mississippi John Hurt type stuff sounds good on it, too. But, as with all resos, it is with the slide that it really comes into its own.
I also gave the fitted Sixtus humbucker a workout. First I hooked it up to a clean channel on my acoustic amp and it sounded divine - much the same, but louder. Then I plugged it into my Blues Junior, cranked the volume up until the amp was just on the cusp of overdriving, played a few blues licks - and it all got real low-down and dirty. Marvellous sound.
A big "thank you" to Michael for his sound advice, superb highly personal service, and for creating this excellent machine.
It's the most enjoyable money I've spent in a long while and it is my firm belief that anybody who has six hundred odd quid lying around who doesn't buy an MM Blues guitar is an idiot.
This instrument has exceeded what were already very high expectations.
Lionel
