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A Recording A Week For A Year – week 11 (Derivative Pub Rock Experiment)

16 Saturday Mar 2013

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garageband, Gretsch, Home recording, iPad, P90 pickups, pub rock, Surf 90s

Trying out my Gretsch 5120’s new pickups (GFS Surf 90s, if you’re interested). ‘Influenced’ by last night’s BBC4 ‘British rock’n’roll’ night which featured (amongst some gems) some of the dregs of the 70’s pub rock scene, testing even my tolerance for  slightly punked up 12 bar blues.

Recorded with the iPad plonked unscientifically in front of my Vox AC4 while I had the house to myself. Pretty much the perfect use of a Saturday afternoon.

Some guitar nerdery

02 Saturday Mar 2013

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Gretsch, P90s, rockabilly

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Been meaning to take the scratchplate off my Gretsch 5120 for a while; partly in the hope it would reduce the general buzzing you get with this style of guitar, and partly in anticipation of taking it to see a man about fitting new pickups on Monday. If my plan works, the bridge pickup will be replaced with a dogear P90 and the bridge with a standard humbucker-sized P90, something a bit like Eddie Cochrane’s Gretsch. The TV Jones pickups currently fitted are a bit too middley and muddy for my tastes.

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