Het is volgens mij deze: http://everythingsg.com/index.php/special-3-blades.html
Guitar of the Week 2007 - Week 30
The popular SG Special now comes with thee single-coil blade pickups, offering an extraordinary spectrum of sweet yet scorching single-coil tunes. A master volume and master tone dial, and a versatile six-position pickup selector allow guitarists to choose from bridge, bridge/middle, middle, middle/neck, or bridge/neck pickup combinations. The best combination of features and value in the SG line, this model preserves the horns that made the SG an instant classic, and adds amazing tonal capabilities.
Limited run of 400
No offence maar het doet me op de een of andere manier heel erg aan guitar Hero denken
Ik vind hem maar niks, excuses..
Btw, wat voor pups zijn het nu eigenlijk? Wel Gibson pups? Of is 'Blade' het merk? Ik heb sterk het gevoel dat ik nu een enooorme domper maak, maar ik heb dus ook nog nooit van 'blade' pickups gehoord?
Moet ik mij ergens in een hoekje diep gaan zitten schamen?![]()
Laatst gewijzigd door Quicksilver; 11 november 2009 om 00:04
hey die zag ik in dit filmpje
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4ABmCUT8uE
klinkt niet echt als een sg trouwens
Ik wil nog heel graag een jazz gitaar hebben. Dan vind ik de Peavey Rockinham en JF, de Gretschs etc erg leuke gitaren, maar ik wil dr ook comfortabel mee kunnen staan. Daar zijn deze gitaren te groot voor. Toen ontdekte ik dit gitaartje. Deze lijkt me ideaal. Jazz gitaar, in solid body formaat met rock looks. Ideaal!
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Die singles op die sg klinken in mijn oren totaal niet goed, maar das waarschijnlijk niet iedereen zn mening
dat is het mooie van verschillende smaken
na een muur vol Fenders hing mn Gibson LP een beetje eenzaam
kwam deze tegen op MP en bleek 3 km van hier te liggen dus ff kijken/spelen.
Na 3 weken onderhandelen over de prijs kwamen we eruit . Belde een maatje die mn Gretsch ProJet graag wilde hebben met Grover tuners en SeymourDuncan picks en die maakt6e een plekje vrij aan de muur voor de Gibson SG Ben vooral erg te spreken over de speelbaarheid en het gewicht.
Hier een review maar ieder zn smaak
GIBSON SG SPECIAL 3 ELECTRIC GUITAR WITH SINGLE COIL PICKUPS
Written: Feb 03 '08
Product Rating: Product Rating: *****
Pros: This is a great sounding guitar.
Cons: None.
The Bottom Line: This guitar has the potential to become a collectors item.
Dr.P's Full Review: Gibson SG Special 3 Electric Guitar with Single Co...
GIBSON SG SPECIAL 3 ELECTRIC GUITAR WITH SINGLE COIL PICKUPS
Sometimes it all boils down to luck. I had been searching for a music store in the vicinity of where I live that would have one of the new Gibson SG models with the new single coil “Blade” pickups. No one had one, and although one store told me they could get one, the person I spoke to on the phone actually wanted me to give him a deposit on the purchase of the guitar, sight unseen, before he would have one shipped to his store for me to try out. That was not going to fly with me. Just when I had given up on the idea of finding a store to try one out in, I ran into a musician who owned one. I was out recently with some musician friends, and we went to a club that had live music. Low and behold, the guitarist in the band had a Gibson with “Blade” pickups. It was not actually the model guitar that I was interested in trying out, but it still was a Gibson SG with single coil “Blade” pickups. The guitar that he had was the Gibson SG Special 3 Electric Guitar with Single Coil “Blade” Pickups, and that is the guitar that I will be reviewing today. This particular guitar has a list price of $1,428.00 and sells for a discounted price of $799.99.
The body style of this guitar is the classic SG shape that has been around since about 1961. Like most Gibson SG’s, the body and the neck on the Gibson SG Special 3 Electric Guitar are made of Mahogany. This is an excellent tone wood for a guitar. The fingerboard is Rosewood, and the neck has 22 frets and Dot inlay position markers. The neck joins the body at the 19th fret. As any of you who are familiar with an SG probably already know, access to even the highest notes on the neck is relatively easy because of the generous double cutaway body. The neck profile is an SG Rounded, which makes this guitar have a very fast and fun neck to play on. The overall appearance of this guitar was very impressive, and it was Ebony in color, and had a distinctive white pickguard.
The hardware is pretty standard for a Gibson SG. The bridge is a Tune-O-Matic Bridge, which is fully adjustable, and permits precise intonation for each of the individual strings. The strings are anchored to the body with a Stopbar Tailpiece. This bridge and tail piece combination helps make this guitar have excellent sustain and resonance. All of the metal hardware is protected with a rust resistant, fingerprint resistant Chrome Platting. The tuning pegs are Green Key, which gives this guitar a bit of a vintage look, but more importantly, these pegs held the guitar in tune very well. The control knobs were Black Top Hat with chrome inserts.
Now onto the electronics of the Gibson SG Special 3 Electric Guitar. This is a very unusual Gibson in this regard. Firstly, it has three single coil “Blade” pickups. Gibson is of course famous for its pickup designs, most specifically the single coil P-90 Pickup and the dual coil Humbucking Pickup. These Blade Pickups are different in design from either P-90’s or Humbucking Pickups. The Blade Pickups are single coil pickups like a P-90, but instead of using Alnico V magnets, these Blade Pickups are made with Ceramic Magnets.
A pickup that is made with Ceramic Magnets will tend to be “hotter” in output than a pickup that is made with Alnico Magnets. Of course, there is more that goes into defining the sound of a pickup than the type of magnet that it uses. These Blade Pickups did not seem as hot to me as a Gibson P-90, and there were certainly not as hot as Gibson T-500 or a Gibson Dirty Fingers Humbucker. Yet, they had a sound that was clear, articulate, and very biting. These pickups had a lot of presence, and they seemed to have more of a boost on the mids and highs than a P-90 Single Coil Pickup, and in some respects they seemed to have some of the sonic qualities of a Fender Telecaster Pickup, especially in the bridge position. The sound of the pickup in the neck position also had a lot of clarity and presence, and there was no muddiness to speak of. Simply put, this was a pretty unique sounding Gibson.
While we are on the subject of the electronics of this guitar, I must discuss the 6-position pickup selector on the Gibson SG Special 3. As most of you who are familiar with a Gibson SG will remember, a typical two pickup SG has two Volume and two Tone controls (one for each pickup) and a 3-way toggle switch pickup selector. But this is not a typical two pickup SG model guitar. The Gibson SG Special 3 has only one Master Volume and one Master Tone control for all three pickups. Obviously this presents some loss of control with regard to the ease of rapidly changing the sound of the guitar, especially when playing live. On the other hand, there is increased sonic control by way of the addition of the 6-way pickup selector.
This 6-way pickup selector is a “Chicken Head” rotary dial with six positions to choose from. The 6 positions are the following:
1)Bridge
2)Bridge and Middle
3)Middle
4)Middle and Neck
5)Neck
6)Neck and Bridge
These six positions offer a player a wide variety of different tones, sounds, and pickup combinations, which are obviously not available with a typical two pickup SG guitar. When one considers that this guitar also has a very “atypical” set of three single coil “Blade Pickups, then this is one very unusual sounding Gibson SG, that offers some incredible sonic possibilities.
Regarding playability, this Gibson SG Special 3 is once again not your typical 3 pickup Gibson. I have owned several 3 pickup Gibson solid body guitars in the past, and I have played many others. On a typical 3 pickup solid body Gibson, such as an SG or a Les Paul with 3 Humbucking pickups, I have always had some problems with the location and height of the center pickup. Because of my playing style, I have found that my pick would occasionally at times brush against the center pickup. This necessitated either lowering the center pickup or changing my style of playing. That was not the case on the Gibson SG Special 3 Guitar. The pickups were thin single coils, similar in size to the ones that can be found on a Fender Stratocaster, and there was simply no adjustment required on my part, either in my playing style or in the height of the pickup, to feel comfortable in playing this 3 pickup Gibson.
As to what type of music this guitar is best suited for, well it is a remarkably versatile instrument. The guitarist in the band I was listening to did covers of the Stones, Led Zeppelin, the Beatles, Tom Petty, and the Doors, to name just a few. This guitar sounded great for classic rock. When the night was over, the guitarist who was the owner of the Gibson SG Special 3 was generous enough (after I bought him two beers) to let me play his guitar for awhile, as we traded riffs and licks. This guitar was also capable of great smoothness, clarity, and precision in sound, and was excellent for Blues, Jazz and even Country.
The bottom line is that I was very impressed with the Gibson SG Special 3 Guitar with Single Coil Pickups. It sounded great, and played like a dream. I would not be surprised to find that this guitar is a collectors item some day.
Well, I would like to thank you for taking the time to read my review of this fine guitar. But now if you will excuse me, I must get back to my practicing.
Recommended:
Yes
Heb ik GAS?!
Het zou kunnen. Een tijdje geleden ben ik al tot de conclusie gekomen dat ik eigenlijk heel goed alleen op mijn Jaguar zou kunnen spelen als ik niet af en toe een snaar brak, soms met strijkstok speel, soms een strakkere distortion nodig heb en soms gewoon akoestisch wil spelen. Een hoop uitzonderingen, maar wel allemaal praktisch van aard. Vervolgens heb ik mijn Jackson laten ombouwen tot een single-p90 gitaar, en dat klinkt helemaal geweldig, maar nu ze afgesteld wordt, mis ik haar niet. Ook heb ik een beetje een crush op de Godin 5th Avenue Kingpin, en die speelde verdomd lekker en klonk prachtig, maar als ik eerlijk ben is dat niet een sound die ik echt mis. Het zou wel heerlijk warm zijn en waarschijnlijk een erg goede om dingen mee op te nemen, maar als ik mijn versterker hard genoeg kan zetten, kan mijn Jaguar ook superwarm klinken. Anders, maar toch.
En nu heb ik eigenlijk al best lang een oogje op die Rickenbacker-kopie. Het grappige is dat ik wel houd van het geluid van Rics, maar ik heb nooit echt de behoefte gehad om een Ric te hebben. 't Is niet mijn natte gitaardroom. Wel heb ik me een tijdje terug voorgenomen om nooit meer een middelmatige gitaar te kopen (vooral na mijn overweging een London City Tele te kopen). Maar goed, dat de Indie geen echte Rickenbacker is, betekent niet dat het een middelmatige gitaar is.
Anyway, laatst heb ik die gitaar eens ingeplugd in een Blues Deluxe (heb zelf een Blues Junior) en ik was helemaal verliefd op dat geluid. Dus niet op het geluid van een Ric, maar op dat geluid van die gitaar. Binnenkort krijg ik weer flink wat geld binnen, ik heb al ruim 2 jaar geen gitaar meer gekocht. Belangrijker: ze speelt lekker, ze klinkt heerlijk en ik had het gevoel dat 'het kwartje viel': zo'n geluid past eigenlijk wel heel erg goed in de band.
Dus ik ga nog een paar keer. Ik wil haar in elk geval grondig vergelijken met mijn Jaguar, om te kijken of het een match is of niet.
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