rockabilly69

The shape still looks different (body carve and lower horn on the CC. And they still say the neck angles are different.

And don't the Custom Cores have the 4.5 degee neck angle as opposed to the standards 5.5 degree? Better chance to have the ABR lower with the smaller angle of the CC!

They both use in house pickups, but the CC's are alnico III with a vintage tone, and the hardware and tuners are better. Also different neck shape and better looking headstock and inlays on the CC. And probably a nice, more select, piece of mahogany for the neck. If it were me, I would play both and see if the differences are worth it.

I'd rather have the better wood, I don't like weight relief! I also prefer the custom core headstock and the inlay! The top carve and the lower horn looks better on the Custom Core. And the pickups on the Custom Core are supposed to be Alnico III which I love. And don't the Custom Cores have better tuners and hardware?

My dad, a failed guitar player, had a cheap Kent acoustic guitar that I learned my first few chords on, eventually the neck popped off of it from me tuning higher than it should have been Well then for christmas that year, my mom told my dad to buy me a guitar and amp. I got a Teisco Checkmate guitar with a matching little amplifier (in a plastic case). That was equally as bad as the Kent acoustic. The action on that guitar was so high I risked damage to my fingers everytime I tried to play a chord on it. After that, I took matters into my own hands. I saved up all the money that I could from my caddy job at the local golf course, and bought my first real guitar, a 1959 Fender Musicmaster in Desert Sand, and a Danelectro Cadet amp. I was off and running from there. But even in the early 70's, that little guitar and amp cost me $400. For nostalgia's sake, a few years back, I bought a 1960 Musicmaster that is pretty much identical to my old '59, and the same DanElectro Cadet amp just to see if I could make music with it, and here's a song I recorded with it. The Danelectro amp is a toy, but the Musicmaster is really a great sounding guitar, here it is through a proper amp, my Victoria Regal II...

thanks for that!

That was great! I'm a huge Roy Clark fan, but I really LOVED Joe Pass's rhythm comping.

Or could just learn all the licks Clapton stole from the masters, especially Albert King

Nice H150, I'd like to hear some recordings of this guitar and your band.

Yeah I thought that was funny Whoops!

I thought this was funny, Phil X, who is normally not a Klon guy, picked the Behringer as his second favorite in this blind overdrive shootout!

I've owned a lot of clones of the Klon, my favorite is the Mythical Overdrive with the right diodes (1N34 germanium, and 0128 silicone). It's a close as I've heard to the real deal. I also bought one of those Behringers, the original one before they renamed it, and I can say without a doubt it's not even in the ballpark of the real thing. That said, the little Behringer a decent clean overdrive especially if you don't want the mid bump of a Tube Screamer. I have used mine for just that. You really have to know what a Klon does well before you can rate a Klon, and to me it's the clean push that it does to a signal, and it is combined with a touch sensitivity that no one talks about. I have played with my good friend Troy's real Klon, and we compared it to clones. When you add gain, the differences are much smaller, and most videos I see comparing to the real deal just don't show that. Here's mine (I still can't figure out how Behringer didn't get sued when they first offered it in the original case and called it a Centaur. Maybe they got a cease and desist letter)...

I'm going to try a Demeter Tremulator for a simpler and smaller 2 button tremolo. I only use tremolo on two songs, and neither song requires anything more than a good amp like trem. And that's where the Tremulator shines. My brother had one in his studio, I used it on a few songs, and it sounded great. https://demeteramps.com/product/trm-1-tremulator/ Next I'm going to audition the NuX NDD-7 Tape Echo, which is kind of similiar to my Space Echo but smaller, lighter, and easier to adjust on the fly. It gets great reviews. One thing I like, is that you can make deeper adjustments (saturation, wow, flutter, etc) using a computer and it's PC/Mac editor, the kind of adjustments I wouldn't want want to do on stage. https://www.nux.us/products/tape-echo?srsltid=AU7gw4XKnxvRRFVV_Hr6FDB6psS7mBdNJ7RSCa3zRtv9BGufVSiQkJhm

Tonight‘s rearrangement of the pedals in the next few days, I may swap out my tremolo and echo for slightly smaller versions of the same thing.

The Ernie Ball Volume Pedal Jr is still my favorite volume pedal for feel, and it's a string, which I had to replace once and that was a bitch...