360/12 WB/OS question
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Nobody minds, Lars! These are gorgeous guitars and a lot of us call them favorites of all Ricks built.
The color is what I'd call "one shade apart". Had I placed the 6 in the background and the 12 in the foreground, they would appear to match. The background position is not under my skylight.
The 12 (darker one) is a dead-nuts match for my new Candy Apple Red Gretsch Setzer Hot Rod. It's a '91. The 6 is a shade paler, as I said. It's an '82.
The color is what I'd call "one shade apart". Had I placed the 6 in the background and the 12 in the foreground, they would appear to match. The background position is not under my skylight.
The 12 (darker one) is a dead-nuts match for my new Candy Apple Red Gretsch Setzer Hot Rod. It's a '91. The 6 is a shade paler, as I said. It's an '82.
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Bill, the neck toaster and bridge pickup (converted high-gain) work just like a standard 360, using the regular five knobs and toggle. They run to the mono output jack (actually one without the built-in off/on switch). The middle toaster has no tone pot (doesn't need one - as pure, raw toaster tone is beautiful) but has a volume pot and runs by itself to a second mono jack where the ROS jack used to be.
The goals were to get maximum tone variation out of the middle pickup, which didn't seem to be doing much using the stock wiring which just mixes it in with another pickup, and to be able to boost the rather puny low end that I was getting when using the JangleBox. I also tried a ROS box and wasn't impressed, so I completely split the output. I now run one cord through the JB (usually the neck/bridge combo) and the other one into a separate channel, blending in as much pure mid-toaster tone as I want. Yes, it's a rather unusual way to do things, but the sound and the amount of tone adjustability available are dynamite.
The goals were to get maximum tone variation out of the middle pickup, which didn't seem to be doing much using the stock wiring which just mixes it in with another pickup, and to be able to boost the rather puny low end that I was getting when using the JangleBox. I also tried a ROS box and wasn't impressed, so I completely split the output. I now run one cord through the JB (usually the neck/bridge combo) and the other one into a separate channel, blending in as much pure mid-toaster tone as I want. Yes, it's a rather unusual way to do things, but the sound and the amount of tone adjustability available are dynamite.
