unix-guy
Master of RTFM
Try a DK-24 USA Select... I think you might change your mind.
I haven't played GG Charvel yet but I'd expect they are in the same league.
Try a DK-24 USA Select... I think you might change your mind.
I think some of the previous models did, too.
He really is from another planet.But he is an alien, so there's that
And also oddly down to earth.
He means that this is the first guitar that was actually designed for him. The Suhr was just his speck on a modern so exactly the same as you or me ordering a custom and limited to available options.I have his signature Suhr from several years ago, and it plays like a beauty, has basically all the same features as this one apart from the glow-in-the-dark inlays and knobs. I doubt many folks would pick fault with anything on the Suhr. I have two other Suhrs as well, but the Guthrie Signature model is the most versatile. It has the booster button, that when pressed, any tone, volume, pickup switch settings you have are bypassed and it goes straight to the bridge pickup on full output. Press the button again, and it goes back to where you were. Very useful on live gigs - push the button, play the solo, push the button, and back to backing settings. Guthrie implies in this video that this is his first signature guitar, but it ain't so. Not sure what the squabble was when he fell out with John Suhr, but the Suhr one I have would be very similar to this Charvel. And yes, he's got old quickly, but he can still play the pants of most of us...!
Yes and this is just a version of the Floyd Rose FRT2 from 1981, nice bridge shame it's not available on anything else.
No - he had quite a lot of input into the Suhr Guthrie Govan, including that Bengal finish, but in particular, that button that put you straight into bridge pickup at full volume, regardless of where your physical controls are set. Quite a few other details were at his suggestion and collaboration as well - I spoke to Guthrie at a clinic here in Australia that he did, when he was playing Suhr, and we had a long chat about his signature Suhr. I can't remember all the smaller details of what he specified, though - it was several years ago now. I have a Suhr Modern, as well as the GG Suhr, and they are quite different.
Not one single thing in the GG modern is not in the options list of the day and I do remember the small details and I know why Guthrie left and who he had a problem with.
spill it
I forget the person's name, but it was someone in Suhr's artist relations department. John Suhr had been focusing on product development and spending time on the manufacturing side of the business. Apparently he didn't know the details of how people were being treated and he subsequently fired the individual responsible for the relationship going sour. John Suhr has said that he has personally apologized to GG and they are on friendly terms again.
The blower switch , the neck carve, the wood speck, the wiring and pickups. The hardware. All options on the custom order list at the time. There was nothing that was done specifically for Guthrie that you couldn't have ordered yourself . The Charvel is a ground up custom new guitar, no comparison.
I have his signature Suhr from several years ago, and it plays like a beauty, has basically all the same features as this one apart from the glow-in-the-dark inlays and knobs. I doubt many folks would pick fault with anything on the Suhr. I have two other Suhrs as well, but the Guthrie Signature model is the most versatile. It has the booster button, that when pressed, any tone, volume, pickup switch settings you have are bypassed and it goes straight to the bridge pickup on full output. Press the button again, and it goes back to where you were. Very useful on live gigs - push the button, play the solo, push the button, and back to backing settings. Guthrie implies in this video that this is his first signature guitar, but it ain't so. Not sure what the squabble was when he fell out with John Suhr, but the Suhr one I have would be very similar to this Charvel. And yes, he's got old quickly, but he can still play the pants of most of us...!
That's partly because he's British. They don't massacre the english language like Americans.
