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A very young bass player once bought a Rickenbacker bass, in the footsteps of his hero, Chris Squire. He was most disappointed to find that he didn't sound at all like Chris Squire. The young bass player eventually became quite famous on his own and associated closely with the Rickenbacker bass. Thing is changing parts will make little tweaks in the sound, but you might be chasing a ghost. We don't really know what instrument might have been played in a studio, even when a musician is strongly associated with a particular instrument. Sometimes, maybe there was just something random in the place and he picked it up and played it. Then there's the amp, and the micing and the room, and the engineer's technique to take the track, that particular session or maybe many sessions and so on and so forth. Find the guitar that works for you and your hands, and play the song(s) you want as well as possible. Then, record it. Compare overlayed on the track you want to sound like. See what you can do with various studio/DAW plugins, especially ones that represent the things that might have been in use at the time it was originally recorded. Then do some deducing what is and isn't close to your ghost. In many cases you can get "there" with some EQ, compression and creative dialing in of those.

I have Wolfetone Legends in my H-535

you got the blues for greeny

Quest is ovah, found the sound! Wolfetone Legends in 535 I bought used from Dave's. Neck pickup with tone rolled all the way down. A-B'd with the 535 (Duncan 59s) I purchased at PSP. Noticeable difference . . .

Nostalgia at its finest.

It’s green! 🤯

Smoking hot!

Beautiful guitar.

If you have please let me know This was the very first heritage guitar I ever bought, back around 1997?? Id like to get it back

grats

yep & Mick is sitting in the hot seat.

Those old gals sure age nicely. Wonder if they ever made any with beefy necks?

There was a little build up on the back side of the nut. I was able to fix it.

Just got to figure out the ship in the bottle approach specific to any particular semi-hollow. They're all a little different, think it through, make some tools. I have a 1/4" plug soldered onto a pretty stiff #8 wire with teflon insulation for pulling the jacks through on guitars like 535's where the jack is in the side, and a different one for 335 types with the jack on the face of the top. Switches on the 535 are more trouble-some, since they're thinner than the typical 335. And a roll of nylon floss, to tie to the pots, a few cuss words and a hell of a lot of patience.

That's rock and roll being made right there!

I have one of these but mine does not have the bound headstock. Other than that it is pretty much a clone of yours. Mine is a D serial number also. It was my first Heritage. I bought an H-140 of the same vintage along with the H-170 and fell in love. The music store didn't know anything about Heritage and I traded a japanese LP and maybe $400 for both. The H-170 is my favorite guitar. Period. I have a few Heritage's as well as the usual suspects (Gibsons, Fenders, etc) but the 170 just feels and sounds right to me in every way possible. The Schallers were not awful but I put a set of Dimarzio Anniversary PAFs and it just opened it up. Same with the H-140. Everyone who has played it instantly falls in love with it and wants to buy it. Enjoy it Brent!

Beautiful!!

quite famously I think: Ampeg even used this photo in an ad?

This is the first I've read of any band using Ampeg VT22 guitar amps. Great (LOUD & HEAVY) rig! I bought it new around 1970-ish to replace my old Fender Pro (1x15). That VT22 was so heavy, I had to beef up the rear suspension on my Dodge Dart. 🙂🤪

Both the Stones and the Faces in their prime played through Ampeg SVTs on their arena tours. And in the studio Ampeg VT22 and VT40 amps. Ron Wood used to slave a little Fender Princeton in to an Ampeg SVT. What a tone!!!

Growing up in Jersey all we had were Ampeg and Silvertons only our cars had fenders.Can't beat the OG bass amp.

So I wasn’t really happy with the poorly modded Schaller bridge. It wouldn’t intonate very good. So I decided to put a set of locking Tonepros on it. And I took the covers off the pickups (which did help with the squealing, a little). The bridge Lollar still squeals when I step on the RAT…but with the OCD it is fine. The neck Seth is great now. The intonation is perfect now.

Nice one Brent! Gotta love the bound headstock and stinger! Enjoy!

Heritage's answer to the SG History Nice one Sir B

Running a bass through a guitar (6 string) amp is dangerous. It’s especially hard on the speakers. Running a 6 string through a bass amp usually sounds thin but, I’ve been told, Ampegs do a good job. Slaving an amp as you describe above is normally done to hear the preamp of one amp through the power section of another.