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My wife asks me that quite often

Yeah, tone is in the fingers. I have a 1962 Casino with the 330 style headstock. It is a remarkable screaming rock guitar (ala' Beatles white album sound) guitar but I could never get a nice jazz tone out of it like I can with my L5 or H-576. The same goes for my old tele. If you listen to Canadian jazz guitarist Ed Bickert, he makes a tele sound like an L5. In my hands it sounds like Don Rich.

Is it just me or did anyone else find it odd to be buying these pickups in a "Lifton Presentation Case" when you are (ideally) going to put the pickups in your guitar? So then what do you do with the case? When these came out I suggested to Larry Dimarzio that he put out a limited run of his 50th Anniversary Super Distorion Humbuckers in a fancy case and sell them for $1k a pair. He declined the idea.

I am assuming that even though the tuner is covering the brand, it looks like an H-530. This guy gets a nice smooth tone on those P-90s.

I would love to check out a Heritage floater but they are not on their web site. Is there a way to get one? I have an L5 custom that has a Johnny Smith floater on it. It is not bad but I would love to see what the heritage folks have designed and try one out.

Same here. I really was kind of afraid of the learning curve. But after my first experience, which was a Digitech GSP1101 and conquering my fear, I was able to start to undererstand it. Then I got the Helix and other Line 6 stuff. All of these things are capable of doing a shit ton more than I would ever know what to do with. I just wanted a simple pedalboard and it gives me that. Plus little by little, I have been able to do more and more. They are all pretty similar in the same way that most DAWs are similar, meaning if you understand one, the rest are fairly simple

I have never used that GX-10 but having a zillion Boss FX for that price is great. I use Line 6 and Quad Cortex for FX and they are all great. I have messed with Headrush and Ampero and liked them too. Boss has to be great or they would be pushed out, given all of the great competition. Why anyone would spend $400 on a couple of Boss pedals when you can get the same pedals plus a shit ton more for the same price is beyond me. BTW, I like the music you are learning. It will be fun trying to cop those sounds. But you have the gear to pull it off!

I use my modeling stuff for FX too. . So many cool verbs, DDLs, Choruses, etc. I use the QC and LIne 6 stuff in 4CM and it makes it ultra simple to get around sound wise. Maybe it's my old ears, but I had a hard time differentiating between my pedals and their digital counterparts. I find a slight difference in how they feel when playing them, mostly the overdrive/distortion stuff, but I find a slight difference in using different pedals anyway. I am going to get the sound I hear in my head no matter what. It's a matter of how easy it is to get it.

I can actually bend up an octave if I use 8s. As far as strings on a jazz guitar. I have found that using big ass strings gives a certain fluidity to my lines. I have them on my L5 and my 576. I don't bend on those guitars. I did some stuff with Albert King and that man had some big strings and he could bend the shit out of them. Stevie Vaughn could all bend big strings. I can't. I have guitars that I bend on, usually with 9s and guitars that I don't.

Oh Okay.....Thanks so much Bolero....I was totally wrong about you.

I did not have a problem with the info. It was the "Are you serious?" part of the response. If I were asked a question about why a Cmin7#11 chord resolves into an F7+11 I would give a polite answer and not "Are you serious?" (Which has an implication.....) followed by the answer. I was raised that there are no dumb questions but plenty of dumb insensitive answers to good questions. I know a butt load of stuff about music and guitar playing and not ashamed to admit very little about the electronics of guitar playing. You're welcome.

I was asking a serious question and it wasn't very nice of you to answer in that manner.

Not sure if this is a different topic, but why do 4X12 cabs sound louder? What is that relationship about? OR what about a 4X12 cab with high wattage speakers vs low wattage speakers?

Easily affordable for the working jazz musician.

Looks like an old Gibson L6S?