CR Guitars
Posted: 22 Jun 2008, 19:41
Hey everyone,
I'm actually starting this for Tina's idea but apart I think there are some 'guitardos' here, too (is this word existing? ) so I try to list the guitars CR plays and give you an idea how do they sound.
Please note Chris' guitars are all a bit customised so there could be differences in the pictures I put in here.
1. Fender Stratocaster
This is simply an icon. The Strat is one of the most popular guitars ever.
You can bring many different type of sounds out of a Strat thanking the three single-coils pickups and the 5-way pickup-selector. This feature can combine the outputs, for instance position 2 activates bridge and middle pickups.
The first (neck) pickup produces softer, mellow sounds; the middle makes richer, ringing notes while the third (bridge) one is the pickup of a rougher tone because of the nearness of strings' end.
Neck and middle pickups have tone adjustment knobs as well to increase/decrease their tonal strength. Bridge pickup has no adjustment knob; the third knob is for the volume.
Stratocasters have at all rich, sonorous (and beautiful) sound and let the artist play a wide range of tones.
CR uses the American Standard series with tremolo arm removed. He has two vintage Strats called Bluey and Pinky; he plays them from the beginning of his career.
You can hear a mellow-tone Strat playing in the Farewell-version of Julia while Stainsby Girls offers a richer, rocky tone. Bridge pickup works in Square Peg, Round Hole.
You can see Chris using the selector in Let's Dance on The Road to Hell and Back DVD: by the end of the song after that long melody-solo he strikes down with the edge of his hand. Can you hear the difference?
That's for one breath, hope you like it. I'll continue with Telecaster Thinline.
Chris
I'm actually starting this for Tina's idea but apart I think there are some 'guitardos' here, too (is this word existing? ) so I try to list the guitars CR plays and give you an idea how do they sound.
Please note Chris' guitars are all a bit customised so there could be differences in the pictures I put in here.
1. Fender Stratocaster
This is simply an icon. The Strat is one of the most popular guitars ever.
You can bring many different type of sounds out of a Strat thanking the three single-coils pickups and the 5-way pickup-selector. This feature can combine the outputs, for instance position 2 activates bridge and middle pickups.
The first (neck) pickup produces softer, mellow sounds; the middle makes richer, ringing notes while the third (bridge) one is the pickup of a rougher tone because of the nearness of strings' end.
Neck and middle pickups have tone adjustment knobs as well to increase/decrease their tonal strength. Bridge pickup has no adjustment knob; the third knob is for the volume.
Stratocasters have at all rich, sonorous (and beautiful) sound and let the artist play a wide range of tones.
CR uses the American Standard series with tremolo arm removed. He has two vintage Strats called Bluey and Pinky; he plays them from the beginning of his career.
You can hear a mellow-tone Strat playing in the Farewell-version of Julia while Stainsby Girls offers a richer, rocky tone. Bridge pickup works in Square Peg, Round Hole.
You can see Chris using the selector in Let's Dance on The Road to Hell and Back DVD: by the end of the song after that long melody-solo he strikes down with the edge of his hand. Can you hear the difference?
That's for one breath, hope you like it. I'll continue with Telecaster Thinline.
Chris