Re: one for the guitarist's

["one less than none" <onelessthannone@hotmail.com>]

the rd sounds fantastic actually !!! can you send me pics ????
there is an electronic sustainiac as well as the model b which works in the
same way as the fernades system
that is feeding the output back into the bridge pickup [or something like
that]

David Swain

d.swain@blueyonder.co.uk
www.onelessthannone.co.uk

----- Original Message -----
From: <ArsOcarina@aol.com>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 6:39 PM
Subject: Re: one for the guitarist's


> Mark,
>
> In a message dated 7/12/02 9:38:10 AM, mark_hamburg@baymoon.com writes:
>
> >I'm contemplating ordering a second Klein with a Sustainer or Sustainiac
> >and I expect that one to take a lot longer.
>
> Now THAT would be a sweet combination indeed.
>
> I'm a big fan of Kleins ever since Lorenzo forced one into my grubby
> hands at a Nashville NAMM 7 or 8 years ago. But . . . it's pretty
> unlikely that I could ever afford one, plus there's the other problem
> . . . I'm a Sustainiac Model B user . . . so where do you put the driver/
> transducer when there's no headstock? Forget the Roland GK pickup
> (and other paraphernalia) I'm so fond of.
>
> Oh . . . (FWIW)
>
> This is waaaaay of the "loop" topic (BTW). But I own a small number of
> nice guitars, a bass and some other stringed instruments . . . but what
> I play most (95% of the time) is a '77 Gibson RD Artist with Seymour
> Duncan Jazz and JB pickups, a beta-test Duncan ToneCircuit preamp/
> compressor replacing the RD's original electronics, a Kahler tremolo
> and a Roland GK-2 hex pickup. I never play it without the GR-1 or the
> Sustainiac. So, because of all the extra hardware that is attached
> to it, I often refer to it as the "Borg" guitar.
>
> It's not a pretty sight. Whatever "vintage" or "rare and collectable"
> value it might have had is totally screwed. But it's been my steady
> favorite since 1980 when I rescued it from a small shop where it
> had hung unplayed for literally years (one of Gibsons many "Edsels"
> from the '70s). They sold it too me at their cost -- half the list price
> and threw the hardshell case in for free (it wouldn't fit anything
> else). Heh, heh, heh.
>
> It's a heavy piece of furniture however. So, whenever my back hurts
> I bang on a lightweight, GK-equipped Danelectro Hodad baritone. The
> hex pickup is more expensive than the guitar -- which I got from
> Musician's Fiend at a blowout price of $69.00. I use the Sustaniac
> and the GR-1 with that low-budget low-rider too.
>
> Don't say it! I KNOW I'm a weirdo . . . oh well.
>
> Ted Killian
>
>