330 or 360?

[doctorwho]

Great looking guitar !! Congrats !!
Now, hang on to this one !

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[360girl]

Great looking guitar !! Congrats !!
Now, hang on to this one !

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Will do!

[Medicus1963]

Great looking guitar !
Have fun with it !

Peter

[360girl]

Thanks!

[JakeK]

A little late to the party, but congrats, Ellen! A MG 360 just looks so right on you. Ever thought of getting a matching 12-string?

[360girl]

Thanks Jake! My avatar photo is actually of me playing my last 360, which I had to sell in April 2011, due to a money crunch.

I've thought off and on about getting a 360/12. But, I don't know if it'll happen. Part of it is due to the price (I need to let my finances recover for a while - I don't want to end up having to sell Mabel [my present 360], like I had to sell Blondie [the one in my avatar photo], due to a money crunch). Part of it is also due to the "will it fit into my playing repertoire?" question. I briefly had a Danelectro DC-12 in late 2010. It was a nice guitar, but ended up playing nothing but shades of the Byrds type things. While I do play clean, I also like to play with some seriously high gain tones a goodly amount of the time. While my 360/6 sounds great for doing crushing tones (you just have to remember to not make the mistake so many players make when trying to do metal to - jacking the highs and the mids), a 12-string can sound like a blurry mess at high gain levels. So, for the amount of playing time it would get, I don't know if I would be willing to spend a big chunk 'o change for a Ric 12. I have to do some addtional thinking about the 12-string issue.

[Kingbreaker]

I'm a little late to the discussion, but re: the 12 string, I say GO for it!

I briefly owned a 660/12 in Montezuma brown. (God, what it would be worth today is depressing) that I ended up selling to buy another instrument. Anyways, I thought it sounded fantastic with distortion. On the top two courses, single-note stuff sounded awesome. A very *shredding* type of sound - and I use that word as a literal description of the sound - NOT as a shorthand reference to playing scales at stupidly high speeds.

Tuned in drop-D, chords sounded E-freaking-normous. Huge and immense. Sure, it won't sound anything like a Charvel or whatever, but definitely a usable, heavy tone. This is with toasters. Which might sound better in this application than high-gains. They definitely are not muddy at all.

You won't get a lot of bending in, clearly, but the last thing the world needs is another guitarist who only plays BBCR.

I'm considering adding a 12 to my collection, which right now consists of a 360 MG, like yours. A 360 JG calls to me, but the bridge, pickups, tailpiece, and neck all point me to the 660.

[360girl]

Hi John,

Yep, I've been toying with getting a Ric 12. I have a Guild 12-sting acoustic, and find 12s to be a lot of fun to play. I just need to save the cash up for a Ric 12. Then it comes down to this dilemma - a 660/12 with its wider neck, but body style that really isn't my thing, or the semi-hollow 330/12s or 360/12s that I'd prefer, but have a pretty skinny neck for a 12.

[jimk]

Hi John,

....it comes down to this dilemma - a 660/12 with its wider neck, but body style that really isn't my thing, or the semi-hollow 330/12s or 360/12s that I'd prefer, but have a pretty skinny neck for a 12.

Don't let the skinny neck thing put you off.
JimK

[360girl]

Hi John,

....it comes down to this dilemma - a 660/12 with its wider neck, but body style that really isn't my thing, or the semi-hollow 330/12s or 360/12s that I'd prefer, but have a pretty skinny neck for a 12.

Don't let the skinny neck thing put you off.
JimK

Well, it's a moot point at the present time, 'cuz I ain't gots the money!

[360girl]

Man, after listening to this song by the guys in the vid below tonight for the first time in over 20 years (they were the talk of the town [Madison, WI], when I was going to the University of Wisconsin for Engineering Degree #1 back in the 80s), my Ric 12 string GAS has kicked into overdrive! Some interesting things/thoughts for me:

1. I was never that much of a fan for Fire Town (which had Butch Vig, and Doug [later called Duke] Erickson, of Garbage fame, as members) fan back in the day, and didn't much care for the song in the vid back then. Oh well, time does change things (I'm still a bit of a metalhead, but I have become more eclectic musically over the years).

2. What little evidence I can find (off of the album cover, and a short snippet from a video sampler on YouTube), seems to indicate that a Vox Phantom 12-strung was used. I can't help but wonder if they didn't record the song with a Ric - the Jangle isn't very Vox guitar sounding to me.

[8mileshigher]

my Ric 12 string GAS has kicked into overdrive!

You know Collin has that V64-12 for sale that will go to E-bay, if its not snagged here !
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=406650

[360girl]

my Ric 12 string GAS has kicked into overdrive!

You know Collin has that V64-12 for sale that will go to E-bay, if its not snagged here !
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=406650

I saw his posting for the guitar. I'd love to buy it, but I can't. I'm tapped out, and have some major bills coming up in the next couple of months. So, for now, I'll have to be content with playing my Guild 12-string, for doing the 12-string thing.

[electrofaro]

the Jangle isn't very Vox guitar sounding to me.

It doesn't sound very Rick 12er like on my KRK headset imo

[360girl]

the Jangle isn't very Vox guitar sounding to me.

It doesn't sound very Rick 12er like on my KRK headset imo

Admittedly, it's not classic Ric 12-string. It probably was a Vox Phantom 12. Oh well, a Ric 12 is cooler!