PRS Grissom model through blackface?

[catherinef]

I know David favors higher gain amps, and very few people have had the chance to experience this guitar firsthand, but has anyone had a chance to play it through a blackface-voiced amp?

[The Last Rebel]

They aren't even making those yet, in fact, I think only three exist, and David owns one of them.

[02Singlecut]

Yes.......see all those Rivera's behind my Family photo???lol It was IMPOSSIBLE to get a bad tone out of the DGT model. It has to be the most refined tweaked PRS made....David and Paul hit one out of the park with this guitar!! From the neck carve/headstock angle...tuners and the non plated surfaces on the bridge hardware. The PU's were just as David said they were going to be when I talked with him @ NAMM in January. The guitars strung with 11's was probably one of the best sounding guitars I've heard acoustically...it just rang!!!! Great great guitar!!!!!!

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[The Last Rebel]

:drool:drool:drool:drool

You have one of the coolest collections of PRSi around. Is that one Cu22 Midori Sour?

[gitman]

my thoughts exacty : a well constructed guitar with med/low output pickups will sound good through any type of amp. Grissom likes a raunchy Marshall type tone but it's not exactly high gain IMHO. listen/watch him play on the Storyville DVD and you will hear how relatively clean his overall sound is. one of his "tricks" is running the amp open, on the verge of constant feedback, letting notes ring as often and as long as possible and controlling the compression/overdrive with playing dynamics/touch. a guitar with hot pups would not perform so well in that situation. during that performance he also uses a PRS Hollowbody and gets the same great results !
i'd love to get my hands on one of these DGT's .....

[catherinef]

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[catherinef]

Anyone try one of these babies through a tweed?

[ed reynolds]

I work on his guitars.
It sounds fine thru my '70 pro reverb ( blackfaced) and great thru my '63 deluxe. He agreed.

[JPenn]

I work on his guitars.
It sounds fine thru my '70 pro reverb ( blackfaced) and great thru my '63 deluxe. He agreed.

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[joesnewmatch]

Love the vacuum cleaner. Is it original or NOS? ; )

Very cool collection. Mighty jealous.

[BostonGuitar]

I work on his guitars.
It sounds fine thru my '70 pro reverb ( blackfaced) and great thru my '63 deluxe. He agreed.

Ed,

Allow me to thank you for your contributions to the DGT, namely helping Dave in the meticulous quest for those pickups to be so right. I think I speak for ALL DGT owners when I say that it is by far the most tone per dollar on the market by far. Great guitars with great pickups. Thanks again for all you brought to the table during the R&D, and also thanks for any wisdom you have shared with Dave over the years that has helped him refine his tonal "vision" which invariably shaped the final product.

THANKS ED!!! :dude

Sincerely,
Kevin :YinYang
(unoffical Birds and Moons DGT club president) ;)

[MattH]

Anyone try one of these babies through a tweed?


My DGT sounds killer through my Clark Beaufort.

[cffluntouch]

I have recorded it through a '66 Super Reverb with a Full drive II on just a smidge for a little edge-sounds fantastic! Guitar sounds great just clean into the amp too.

[kingsleyd]

I work on his guitars.
It sounds fine thru my '70 pro reverb ( blackfaced) and great thru my '63 deluxe. He agreed.

Hey, Ed, nice to hear your voice around these parts.

My DGT sounds just fine through my '70 Deluxe Reverb (which used to belong to EJ and has been "blackfaced") and my '63 Vibrolux. It sounds especially fine through my '62 AC-30, as if it was voiced with that style of amp in mind. (come to think of it, pretty much all of my guitars are that way. maybe it's the amp. :o)

And it sure enough loves my '72 Marshall 50-watt bass head. :AOK But that shouldn't come as a surprise 'cos that's a pretty DG-approved amp.

Point being: it's a very well-voiced guitar. Most PRSi I've owned aren't necessarily that way.

[kingsleyd]

Anyone try one of these babies through a tweed?

Yep. Very very nice.

Here's the amp collection that resides where my DGT does.

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[mprvise]

Very nice kingsleyd! Diggin' the rug/carpet as well. :AOK:AOK

My DGT sounds great through every one of my amps. Closest to a Deluxe I have is a Bruno CT22 - incredible. Digging it most with my JRT 9/15 these days.

[sanhozay]

I don't think of Grissom has a high gain amp type of player. I think he's kinda old school and just like hearing that filament rattle! Anyway, Blackface amps are pretty outstanding and don't stink when hit upside with a nice middy pedal, like, maybe a toob screamer? But even left to fend for themselves still sound pretty great, especially for blues. Just ask Michael Bloomfield.

[kingsleyd]

Very nice kingsleyd! Diggin' the rug/carpet as well. :AOK:AOK

Oh, man, what an adventure that was. It's commercial stuff (we have a good friend who is a commercial designer, president of a company here in town, and she contributed greatly to helping us with our new house) and they wanted $70 a square yard!!!! Would have cost me as much as a new JG Bluesmaster. It's because of the repeat pattern. While my basement/music studio is pretty big in residential terms, it's pretty small in commercial terms. Beth had the ingenious idea of inlaying a strip of the cool carpet in the exact width the rolls come in, with a plain color around the edges. Still get the effect of the cool pattern, but cut the price in half. Saved me the price of a DAG Telstar. :D

Sorry for the hijack, back to your regularly scheduled thread...