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The gift that keeps on giving!

Thank you Dave.
Ernest

Anyone else here use Pod? Although it's not a substitute for a warm tube amp, you can get darn close, and I've had pretty good luck sculpting some Metheny/Ritenour type chorus and delay tones. It's a great box for playing out where you never know what kind of amp you're going to meet...
I've also modeled a couple pretty good Tal Farlow and Wes Montgomery tones. (Though it still doesn't match my L5 played straight through my vintage Princeton).
If anyone wants, I'd be happy to email you the files, and if you have anything you'd like to share, let me know.

--Charles

Jeff,

I love the Lollar P-90’s. They are not particularly suited to anything I play but they are wonderful. They are not true P-90 though. Jason redesigned the pickup and put his own pickup under the hood of the P-90 cover.

Wow,you are using a lot of Lollars pickups but honestly you owe it to yourself to try the HighWind Humbuckers.

Are you using any of the Dave Stephens humbuckers? What’s the story. Let me know which one and I will look up whatever specs he is publishing.

What else is new.







Brian



From: Jeff Shirkey
Sent: Saturday, November 13, 2010 3:22 PM
To: jazz_guitar@...
Subject: Re: [jazz_guitar] Gibson Classic Les Paul 57s


Brian,

If/when you have a chance, check out the research Dave Stephens has
done on PAFs. (YouTube is a good start) I don't think anyone can take
things any further than he has in terms of research.

That said, I think Jason makes great pickups, and I have several of
his sets in my guitars--low wind Humbuckers, '50s winds P-90s, regular
winds P-90s, and two different sets of Strat pickups--a blackface set
and a mixed set of tweeds/blondes.

Jeff




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--- In jazz_guitar@..., JVegaTrio@... wrote:

What do you guys think of this???

Astonishing! At his age I was trying to "Wipe Out" right.

Oh...and I'm currently having his '52 Tele set installed in a guitar, too. Almost forgot.

Brian,

If/when you have a chance, check out the research Dave Stephens has done on PAFs. (YouTube is a good start) I don't think anyone can take things any further than he has in terms of research.

That said, I think Jason makes great pickups, and I have several of his sets in my guitars--low wind Humbuckers, '50s winds P-90s, regular winds P-90s, and two different sets of Strat pickups--a blackface set and a mixed set of tweeds/blondes.


Jeff

Jeff,

It was originally designed for me personally and I did a lot of the initial work on it and we tested each version between us but as it neared completion Jason took over completely and finished it up. I am pretty familiar with winding pickups myself having fooled with it on and off for forty years but Jason has got his own recipes with his own seasoning and in my opinion he can’t be touched. I know some of the detail he goes into but I a not saying anything but his research into pickup designs and materials is extensive and I am not talking about just imitating vintage pickup designs. Jason is very wise to the design particulars on all pickups. He originally started out rebuilding vintage steel guitar pickups and for that reason he has a little different take on pickups in general since the steel guitar pickups can often be very intimidating technically speaking. As far as I know Jason is the worlds number one authority on steel guitar pickups to this day.





Brian



From: Jeff Shirkey
Sent: Saturday, November 13, 2010 9:39 AM
To: jazz_guitar@...
Subject: Re: [jazz_guitar] Gibson Classic Les Paul 57s

I am not personally familiar with the SD Silver A2 pickups.

Not those. Find his Vintage Lab sets (VL2, VL3, '58, and '59 Jimmy
Page sets). I don't know if he even makes those other sets anymore.

I didn't realize Jason designed his Imperial humbuckers for jazzers.
Interesting...thanks for sharing those details.

Jeff

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From: Scott R Dercks nearvana@...

I know Fred Sturm. What big band was he directing?

Scott:

Fred was?Port?Townsend?at the invitation of Centrum to run a?big band
workshop.?Basically, one band/18 players.?Rehearse from Thursday pm until
Saturday afternoon (about 20 hours by my calculation), play a concert Saturday
night, and then another session on Sunday morning. I was in the horn section.

Fred was great. What a talented guy! And, afterwards, I couldn't say enough
about his arrangement of Black Friday. One of the best charts I've ever played.

R


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Damn, and the drummer too. There is some depth to what they are doing
beyond the obvious chops. That becomes clearer after the first
minute. Amazing stuff at their age. Poor little rich kids.

Ron
Living and playing outside the box.




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What do you guys think of this???

This kid is the real deal. There are several videos of him on YouTube. The one of him doing Giant Steps kills me and shows that he has mature musicality to match his ridiculous chops.

Ron

Fred is a great and loving guy. And he is a great arranger as well. He is
back in Appleton, WI (my home town) after running the jazz program at
Eastman for a number of years. I'm glad you enjoyed your time with him. I
always do.
Scott

Scott:

Fred was Port Townsend at the invitation of Centrum to run a big
band
workshop. Basically, one band/18 players. Rehearse from Thursday pm
until
Saturday afternoon (about 20 hours by my calculation), play a
concert Saturday
night, and then another session on Sunday morning. I was in the horn
section.

Fred was great. What a talented guy! And, afterwards, I couldn't say
enough
about his arrangement of Black Friday. One of the best charts I've
ever played.

R

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What do you guys think of this???







Cheers,
JV

Juan Vega

From: Rod /A little off-topic, but I met? / So, would anyone like to guess who
told me all about it?
?
Ok, I'll bite. Who?
?
R



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I know Fred Sturm. What big band was he directing?

On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 19:46:14 -0800 (PST) Robert Cole <rmcgmn15@...>
writes:

From: Rod Ellard <e11rod@...>

A little off-topic, but I met Rikki of Rikki Don't Lose that

Number

this weekend.

So Rod, do you live in Port Townsend or were you just visiting on
Oct. 30th. Did
you enjoy the Big Band Concert led by Fred Sturm. How did you like
the Steely
Dan portion. Its too bad that they didn't play "Rikki Don't Loose
That Number"
since Rikki was in the audience. Right? Did you like it when they
introduced her
to everyone. Did she seem a little shy as she waved hello to the
audience.
Now, would anyone like to guess how I happen to know
about this. Rod never
responded to the question that I posted. I was not at the concert
and I do not
live in Washington. So, would anyone like to guess who told me all
about it?








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I am not personally familiar with the SD Silver A2 pickups.

Not those. Find his Vintage Lab sets (VL2, VL3, '58, and '59 Jimmy
Page sets). I don't know if he even makes those other sets anymore.

I didn't realize Jason designed his Imperial humbuckers for jazzers.
Interesting...thanks for sharing those details.

Jeff

Information about the guitar can be found at the following link:



Regards,
Jim

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cutting and pasting, and fatigue, a lot of mistakes can get by you.



Dave Woods

On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 4:06 PM, AlChuck <alan.oehler@...> wrote:

I have a Hermida Reverb pedal made by Alf Hermida of Zendrive fame:



I use it with my LunchBox amp and it sounds wonderful...

Yea, that's the one I mentioned before. Great sound and simple, just one
dial for the amount of reverb. excellent for jazz guitar.

Jeff,

I am not personally familiar with the SD Silver A2 pickups. I have listened to them online and from that I just don’t see them as being close to what the Lollars are like but listening online is obviously not the best test of any pickup even though my computer is hooked up to a true powered monitors and not computer speakers.

One of the things that I think makes the Lollars noticeably different is that even though they get purchased by rockers and blues players they were completely designed to be used for mainstream jazz guitar playing and I think that really shows in the end result. A lot of people who like the PAF sound (especially in the aftermarket PAF’s) like them to have a sort of jingly jangly tone to them because that is what is popular. The problem with that is that there were lots of PAF pickups made and no two of them were exactly alike to begin with so in reality there is not a true, definitive PAF sound. The aftermarket has focused on a popular version of the PAF sound but in truth that is not all there ever was to the PAF’s. Some of the current and most popular PAF are designed so that they will still still like a guitar once you get them to distort with amp distortion or pedal distortion (or both) but none of that is necessary if the pickup was designed to sound it’s best when it is played clean and that accounts for a lot of the differences between the Lollar and almost any other pickup I can think of other than those specifically designed for jazz guitar like the Duncan’s, the Zollar, and the Armstrong’s.

Anyhow, that’s what I know and if you know you me you know that if I’ve checked into anything I’ve ever looked into very deeply. I’ve also been fooling with winding pickups for forty years and started out with Seymour Duncan when we were both up and coming young guitarist and close personal friends back in Cincinnati years and years ago.

Lollar I’ve known for years as well. Long before he was the “Pickup Yoda” as Juan Vega loves to call him. I spent a weekend in New York with Kent Armstrong about ten years ago and we talked pickups all weekend since he is also a good friend of Seymour’s. I like Kent’s pickups as well. His mini-bucker is about the nicest mini I have heard so far.




Brian Kelly


From: Jeff Shirkey
Sent: Friday, November 12, 2010 1:52 AM
To: jazz_guitar@...
Subject: Re: [jazz_guitar] Gibson Classic Les Paul 57s

It's not a dramatic difference but the
differences are all in the right direction and at this point there
is no
other pickup out there that can equal them at what these pickups do
best.

Have you seen what Dave Stephens has been up to in his "Vintage Lab"
series?

Jeff

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From: Rod Ellard <e11rod@...>

A little off-topic, but I met Rikki of Rikki Don't Lose that Number
this weekend.

So Rod, do you live in Port Townsend or were you just visiting on Oct. 30th. Did
you enjoy the Big Band Concert led by Fred Sturm. How did you like the Steely
Dan portion. Its too bad that they didn't play "Rikki Don't Loose That Number"
since Rikki was in the audience. Right? Did you like it when they introduced her
to everyone. Did she seem a little shy as she waved hello to the audience.?
?Now, would?anyone like to guess how I happen to know about?this.?Rod never
responded to the question that I posted. I was not at the concert and I do not
live in Washington. So, would anyone like to guess who told me all about it?