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  1. ...and this makes 13.



    T'is a 2006 Gretsch Country Classic. (The name the Country Gent went under during the years that Gretsch didn't have the rights to the Chet Atkins name and the Chet Atkins model names (Gretsch regained use of the names in 2007)



    This should work nicely while playing "City of Blinding Lights", "Magnificent", "I'll Go Crazy...", "Do You Feel Loved", "Please" and Popmart era "One".



  2. That is a BEAUTIFUL guitar, and yes, "City" will sound amazing on it- always wanted to play that one right

    Can't imagine "Breathe" and "No Line" would sound terrible on it either.

    Great purchase!
  3. Great purchase! I remember right after the NLOTH promo tour was finished about 3 guys on the u2-sound forum bought a country gent, great guitar by the sounds of it.

    I myself just purhcases a guitar as well, (definitely not as pricey ) it's an Epiphone Les Paul Custom in the discontinued antique ivory finish, or in other words, the Edge's cream 1970's les paul finish!




    I plan on switching out hte stock pickups for Seymour Duncan 59's, probably switch out the tuners for better ones, probably switch out the pots, and perhaps dye the fretboard a bit or use some oil to make it darker. I'll be putting the gold schaller pickup rings around the buckers as well, so it looks like Edge's.

    Gold schaller rings are the rings around the humbuckers:


    I'd like to know what the little black rings are around the stopbar mounts are, could be a cool add-on to make it perfect (other than the Gibson logo that is )
  6. Don't the humbuckers sound better without the covers? You could try to take them off to see if that's true.
  7. Modern metal pickup covers are made of "German Silver" which doesn't affect the sound. Older humbucker covers could reduce highs.

    Alex
  8. Originally posted by Alex:Modern metal pickup covers are made of "German Silver" which doesn't affect the sound. Older humbucker covers could reduce highs.

    Alex


    You germans are really "the man" when it comes to technology. No joke.


  9. And they are beat Argentina in the World Cup today. So seems that they have THAT technology down!

  10. Thank you very much. But I don't know if "German Silver" was really invented here... we call it "Neusilber" which means "New Silver". I think it's a mix of several kinds of metal.

    Alex
  11. Originally posted by Alex:[..]
    Thank you very much. But I don't know if "German Silver" was really invented here... we call it "Neusilber" which means "New Silver". I think it's a mix of several kinds of metal.

    Alex


    You are welcome. Well is was in fact a bit of a joke I mean, guitar as bass technology is much more american than anything else, but Germany has pioneered most areas when the subject is technology and science in general.
  12. I've been eyeing the axe-fx with hungry eyes lately Looks like an insane rig in a box, seems like a lot of U2 tribute guys use em' too. Something I like about that opposed to something like the M13 (what I have now) is the fact that you can change a bunch of effects with one push of a button on a midi controller. Besides that though, the thing sounds great.
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