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  1. gattart

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    Hi all, after years of lurking and drooling over arch-tops, finally got my first Heritage, an H575
  2. Oh yes, going from playing only electrics since my busking days in the '80s, this semi is giving me the physical response of an acoustic with the playing feel of my SG! I even brought her to a practice session on my bike, luckily I have a nice thick soft back pack case for cello, though I did make the trip at walking speed... I think I managed to upload the pix properly this time, here's one being inspected by our cat Jack Junior: The one I took of of my wife when she saw another guitar in the house is a bit too rude to post Though even she couldn't fault the colour, almond sunburst is just too beautiful! She's looking to be 'Alma' ('Soul' in Spanish and Italian) from now on! There are a couple of things I meant to ask peoplez here, first off is if anybody can confirm that this is the original pickguard for a 1990 H575? I've never seen, or noticed really, a guitar with a rosewood pickguard. I removed the pickguard when I first got her, but now I've put it on again, will have to try some more polish to get it to match the fretboard a bit more... Then about the pickups, Schallers, they sound fantastic but they have, and righteously do so, a very smooth 'jazzy' sound to them. I'm used to the T-Tops and Burstbuckers in my other guitars but I have a distinct feeling that I'd be getting too much feedback since I play a rather hot amp, clean but easy to get a nice bite when I push it. Has anybody tried swapping their Schallers for Burstbuckers or some other low-output unpotted pup? As it is now, the breakup is perfect even with the same EQ settings that I use for my SG, it just could use some more raspy bite to it. You cannot just EQ that into the sound. I thought I could get it with a pair of Burstbuckers (a #1 for the neck and a #2 in the bridge), but before I start taking her apart, I wanted to know if anybody had this feedback problem I'm worried about. All for now, should be playing her at a sort of artsy impro thing on Friday so if it's too bad I'll post some vids… Take it easy people!
  3. Hi all, I posted when I put a few pix up in the gallery but somehow the post and two of the photos didn't make it... Weird, but I'm in Trieste and the internet connections aren't so hot! Anyways, in a nutshell, my first 'real' guitar in the early '80s was a light sunburst Hofner semi from the early '60s, soon traded for my current main axe, a '63 SG-shaped LP. Since then I've been in the market for another semi, tried Gibbos, Grechies and Guilds but never found one I liked, and could actually afford! Some 175s, but they played like crap, though a few L4s and L5s almost tempted me to sell my '63... I tried a Heritage 535 at a vintage guitar show, nice neck, and though I wanted one like my old Hofner it luckily got me looking into the marque. No wonder I've never been happy with more recent Gibbos, I'd always assumed mine was from Nashville... Kalamazoo, eh? OK, I gotta plan a PSP now that I have two from the same place! After a long series of trades, among which a '68 SG (could have carved a pig trough from the neck), morphed into a '96 LP (unbalanced and untuneable) and then into a real nice '83 Strat (but it was still a Strat, right)... and then this guy just ups and offers me a 1990 H-575 in this Almond Sunburst that just sings next to my '63! Plays like fire, rather thin 42mm nut width, could use some neck binding, and balanced like no other semi-acoustic I've ever tried, not that I've tried that many semis, but still, one hot guitar! Loving it, and getting into the forums here, so much to learn! OK, been too long with this iphoon in my hands, back to the frets!
  4. 'new' Heritage... though not new to the forum...

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