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Post by jono1uk on Jun 14, 2021 19:46:52 GMT
no affiliation
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Post by pete1951 on Jun 15, 2021 6:51:45 GMT
Basically a 1033 with fancy electrics, this could fill a gap in the market
It sounds great with Megan playing it ( but so would almost anything)
Pete
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Post by Michael Messer on Jun 15, 2021 7:33:26 GMT
I'd stick with the Rickenbacher, if I were you. That instrument does nothing for me at all.
Shine On
Michael
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Post by pete1951 on Jun 15, 2021 9:22:25 GMT
I am surprised that this is a model that has been around for a few years and nobody has posted about it before. As with any hybrid instrument it probably has some shortcomings ( not the sustain of a solid, not the full resonance of a full bodied acoustic) but in the right hands ( and an Aura pedal and some expensive amps) I thought it sounds pretty good. But it looks as if it would cost a lot to get the tone Megan was getting.
It would be interesting to find out it she was sponsored to do the video,
Pete
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Post by slide496 on Jun 15, 2021 9:30:15 GMT
I am surprised that this is a model that has been around for a few years and nobody has posted about it before. As with any hybrid instrument it probably has some shortcomings ( not the sustain of a solid, not the full resonance of a full bodied acoustic) but in the right hands ( and an Aura pedal and some expensive amps) I thought it sounds pretty good. But it looks as if it would cost a lot to get the tone Megan was getting. It would be interesting to find out it she was sponsored to do the video, Pete Well here's one of her rig rundowns including pedal board, amp ... wonder if that's going on off camera |
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Post by jono1uk on Jun 15, 2021 9:37:58 GMT
I have seen her sister showing a couple of Beard acoustics recently .
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Post by Michael Messer on Jun 15, 2021 10:38:28 GMT
That is definitely a commercial advertisement.
There was a time when I did a few things like this, but I backed off because people thought I actually liked and used the products I promoted.
Shine On
Michael
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Post by slide496 on Jun 15, 2021 13:02:09 GMT
I've been disappointed more than once by believing the electric musical equipment - guitars, amps etc - were being demoed as stand alone (ie without additional pedalboards and digital eq adjustments). hard to know how reliant the sound is on the mic, or the pickups - where all these things stand. Sigh.
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Post by pete1951 on Jun 15, 2021 21:28:58 GMT
A little more digging and I have found 2 different scale lengths 23” and 25” , maybe there were/are 2 different models? There are certainly models with or without the ‘gold foil’ pickup.
Pete
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Post by Michael Messer on Jun 16, 2021 8:01:18 GMT
It's all so flavour of the month "brand name" and "product" based. It's got a "Gold Foil" pickup, so it's got to be good. Rowe DeArmond Gold Foil pickups used to be almost unknown, and apart from a few knowledgeable players, nobody knew about them, or were interested. I just did a Google search for "gold foil pickup" and it went on forever; various brands, videos, editorials, forums. 14 pages of Google and I gave in.
The best thing about Gold Foil pickups were the players that chose to use them, not the pickups themselves.
Cynical, me, never!
Shine On
Michael
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Post by Michael Messer on Jun 16, 2021 10:47:30 GMT
I should add that Larkin Poe are great and that I have nothing against them at all. With millions of viewers on their social media pages, Mr Beard has chosen wisely.
Shine On
Michael
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Post by pete1951 on Jun 16, 2021 12:23:44 GMT
I just did a Google search for "gold foil pickup" and it went on forever; various brands, videos, editorials, forums. 14 pages of Google and I gave in. Shine On Michael You may have noticed that I put inverted commas around ‘gold foil’ , I have also looked and found lots calling themselves ‘gold foil’ . Some are very cheap, and a couple of years ago I bought a P90 shape and a Strat shape to see what they were like. Needless to say the Strat sounds like a Strat and the P90 sounds like a P90, both have a strip of gold over the pickup, and both pickups are the size you would expect of Fender and Gibson made products. ( I did a sound test video that still may be on the forum somewhere) One of the things about original G/F pickups is that the are very thin and can go on lots of guitars without getting the router out. My guess is that the ones fitted on the Beard are very thin and will be on the surface? So probably a good modern copy? My ‘gold foil’ P90 is on a lap steel and sounds fine, but not like a 60s gold foil Pete |
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Post by ken1953clark on Jun 16, 2021 14:51:12 GMT
The old ones were 23”, the new ones 25”. Megan’s is a 3 pickup special ($2900 Resophonic Outfitters). The standard new one just has the fishman cone and p90 pickups. The new one is a spider bridge, I believe they experimented with a biscuit but reverted
Cheers
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