Midlife Crisis Guitars

[bsman]

The beauty of reaching and maybe surpassing midlife is that now I have enough money to afford such a crisis if it were to appear.
I would never have thought to buy a $4000 guitar even 10 years ago. Now there’s one that’s next on my list.

Dude - we need to form a support group. It no longer matters tp Mrs. bsman what I buy, as long as it's one in/one out!

 

[jrockbridge]

The host of the open mic down the road just told me my guitar was too trebly, so I might need a new guitar. Mid 40s is probably too late for a midlife crisis but I might finally get that Guild acoustic I've always wanted if I can't EQ my way out of this.

I’ve never found too much treble to be a big problem because you can roll it off with the guitars volume and tone knobs. Alternately, you can fix it by reducing the pot values of the volume and tone knobs of the guitar. For example, if the pots are 500K, you can reduce that value to 400K or even 300K. You don’t even have to change the pots to accomplish it. Just add the correct resistor in parallel and the treble will be reduced.

 

[Chicken Man]

I’ve never found too much treble to be a big problem because you can roll it off with the guitars volume and tone knobs. Alternately, you can fix it by reducing the pot values of the volume and tone knobs of the guitar. For example, if the pots are 500K, you can reduce that value to 400K or even 300K. You don’t even have to change the pots to accomplish it. Just add the correct resistor in parallel and the treble will be reduced.

It's an acoustic, and the built in preamp EQ is set to max bass, zero treble. I don't think I want to monkey with it. I played this guitar in a band for years, and it nicely cut through, but played solo, especially when I'm doing fingerstyle blues/rags, it gets real quacky plugged in.

 

[jrockbridge]

It's an acoustic, and the built in preamp EQ is set to max bass, zero treble. I don't think I want to monkey with it. I played this guitar in a band for years, and it nicely cut through, but played solo, especially when I'm doing fingerstyle blues/rags, it gets real quacky plugged in.

 

[Gary Blanchard]

When I reach middle age, I'll let you all know what I buy.

 

[Honkridge]

I’ve never found too much treble to be a big problem because you can roll it off with the guitars volume and tone knobs. Alternately, you can fix it by reducing the pot values of the volume and tone knobs of the guitar. For example, if the pots are 500K, you can reduce that value to 400K or even 300K. You don’t even have to change the pots to accomplish it. Just add the correct resistor in parallel and the treble will be reduced.

Dude! What are you trying to do? Put Duncan and Dimarzio out of business?

 

[rhino]

It's an acoustic, and the built in preamp EQ is set to max bass, zero treble. I don't think I want to monkey with it. I played this guitar in a band for years, and it nicely cut through, but played solo, especially when I'm doing fingerstyle blues/rags, it gets real quacky plugged in.

Guilds are awesome, but an LR baggs para preamp or something of the like will give you EQ options and fits in the guitar case pretty easily.

Edit: they also have bigger options that are designed to be used with multiple acoustic instruments so you can have a few different presets ready to go. I seem to remember you playing mandolin as well.

 

[Chicken Man]

Guilds are awesome, but an LR baggs para preamp or something of the like will give you EQ options and fits in the guitar case pretty easily.

Edit: they also have bigger options that are designed to be used with multiple acoustic instruments so you can have a few different presets ready to go. I seem to remember you playing mandolin as well.

I've been through a couple of those (not just the LR Baggs but a few others as well) and for some reason they all only last a couple years each before crapping out. Now I just use a passive DI, which is a tank but doesn't give me much control.

 

[smurfco]

I don’t know what the guitars are. But for bassists it’s a Rickenbacker 4001/4003 or a Music Man Stingray.

I think that a lot of the Bilt stuff and much of Offsetmania and specifically tweaky boutique Offsetmainia is mid-life crisis bait for younger Xers and elderly millennials.

I feel attacked

 

[rhino]

I've been through a couple of those (not just the LR Baggs but a few others as well) and for some reason they all only last a couple years each before crapping out. Now I just use a passive DI, which is a tank but doesn't give me much control.

That’s wild. I’ve had the same para for like 10 years. K&K has a pretty good one too. Not sure if that would hold up better.

 

[surfsteve]

I think that a lot of the Bilt stuff and much of Offsetmania and specifically tweaky boutique Offsetmainia is mid-life crisis bait for younger Xers and elderly millennials.

Cheery O pip pip