Update on the new Sheraton.
Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2018 2:36 am
I like the Probucker pickups better than the '80 Gibson 490's that I had put into my '69 SG recently. They are very responsive and the coil tap feature is actually useful. I can set the neck pickup on single coil for rhythm and go to humbucker mode for solos and that works nicely. I can tap both of them and, with tone wide open and both volumes rolled back a bit, I can get a respectable country twang (don't do many country tunes, but a few...). If I use the neck pickup and roll the tone back about 25% it gets a nice fat jazzy/bluesy tone. If I run the neck pickup wide open it really snarls. The neck is fatter than my Casino or my Strat, but I like it. I have had any number of audience members come up and compliment my tone with it, and not a few have come up and commented on how beautiful this guitar is (must be the contrast with my beat up old Strat ). All in all, I am very pleased with the Sheraton.
On a personal note, my health has improved markedly in the last six or seven months. I got pretty bad the first part of 2017, but got a new pulmonoligist who has helped me quite a bit. The TWBB is still playing regularly, and even doing gigs in other towns lately (and getting paid! ) I still can't record at home, but that's OK. I don't post much here, and have trouble listening to recorded tracks because of my crappy internet connection, but I still swing by from time to time to check in.
Hope everyone here has a great 2018!