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Location: NJ | Just put a set of these on the LongNeck. Wow!!!
Put 'em on last night, and played around with it tuned to C.
OOFAH!!!
Can't wait try 'em tonight plugged into the P.A.
(Much like Tim Chapman, I may have to hand out diapers to the audience;-)
E - .059
A - .049
D - .039
G - .027
B - .018
E - .014
They were kinda' hard t'come by, as every GuitarCenter droogie told me that ". . 13's are the heaviest you can get . ."
ARE they??
Are they REALLY??
I know,I know, . . I could've ordered them online, but I try t'support the little independent guy wherever I can.
When I went to pick-up the six packs that the local guy ordered for me, he was shocked by how heavy they felt (as was I when I wrapped the low E around the tuning post). |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | They should be nice Cliff.
You can always use a medium set and just add a 14 and 18. I do that for the Nationals I tune in D. Still gives you plenty of bite (with and without the slide) and won't kill yer fingers on the bottom.
Beal. |
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Location: NJ | It's those nasty BottomNotes that I "like", tho . . . ;) |
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Location: Carle Place, NY | Those aren't guitar strings, they're friggin' bridge cables. :D
My fingers hurt just thinking about them on a guitar, even a long neck tuned down to C. |
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Location: Orange County, California | Cliff,
Build this set from D'Add....
PB020
PB027
PB039
PB049
PB059
PB070 |
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| I've got the same set as Cliff's on my Legend in C standard. They play just as easy as med's in E standard, and have a greater acoustic presence. Next, I'm gonna try the Martin Bluegrass Heavys.. |
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Location: Madison, Wisconsin | These are what I use on my long neck. |
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | Okay,I`m into Heavy `uns,but a Long Neck tuned to C ??...what`s that ??..a Baritone ?..or a 20 fretter tuned Down.. :confused:
Vic |
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Location: Upper Left USA | So maybe I need two baritones for the different tunings...
So far I'm just enjoying the ability play in the different Key arrangements called out. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Baritone Description on the Ovation site
They make them in the LX configuration now as well some Adamas types if you go Custom Order. |
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Location: NJ | Tried these out at a bar gig last Friday night.
Sounded Good, but the room was noisy, the PhosBronz is still a bit too "bright" on 'em and needs to "break" in a little more, and the eq settings on my pedal board weren't really set up optimally for this particular guitar.
But all in all, they sounded real good (and this was tuned down to D).
NOW . . .
The following Saturday afternoon, I broke it out to work on a tune for the OFC Jam . . . tuned down to B.
HOlySh!t!!!
There is a SLIGHT "rattle" on some of the bass notes if you don't fret them "just right" (especially the F, F#, & G on the 6th string).
If you just make a concious effort t'do it "right" on these notes there's no problem.
I immediately went out to the garage and unpacked my pedal board out of it's road case and plugged it into a Peavey 75W bass amp with a 15' speaker. I tweaked the parametric eq on the A.R.T. pedal and added just a "touch" of detuned chorus, and added a wee bit of compression.
"Mahhdone a MIA!!!"
This thing just THUNDERS!!!
Jeanette came home from a BroadwayPlay late that afternoon to find ALL of the pictures on the walls upstairs rattling!
I've started t'get "fairly" proficient at transposing songs on-the-fly at gigs tuned to D, as it's just a matter of playing the chord shapes "two frets up", and was a bit apprehensive to play it lower.
I've discovered though that when it's tuned down to B, the notes simply "shift" to the adjacent string:
E is the A string,
A is the D string,
D is the G string,
and so on . . .
It's really faily simple.
I may end up leaving it this way . . . |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | That tuning is similar to my OSP-1 electric papoose. That's cool. Conceptually, it's playing capoed at the 5th fret, ADGBEA, but in this case it's like adding 5 frets. It wouldn't be too difficult to go between the papoose and the baritone. Another reason to buy one! My wife'll ... ah never mind.
I bet it does thunder! |
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Location: NJ | Actually, it's tuned BEADFB. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | I've had the National down there and it does get interesting. John Pearse makes a bari set I think and that is what the Nat came with.
Looking forward to hearing this sometime this summer Cliff. |
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Location: NJ | Just LemmeKnow which State :D |
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Location: Tennessee | I've got some of the Pearse on my longneck. Killah. 15-62 I think. Had some LaBella on before which were 15-80 and I tuned B->B. Thunderous, but you need Popeye forearms. |
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| F# I would have thought. |
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Location: NJ | Great.
Yet ANOTHER CheekyBrit . . .
You are correct, Sir.
F# it is.
(by the time I realized that I had missed the keystroke, the f@ckn' program wouldn't lemme edit it . . .) |
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