Sandy, gotta make sure the tone of my reaction was the one I wanted to project: LOVED your comment, literally laughed out loud, and thank you so much for that.
Guitar philosophy. Yeah, I've felt a little tentative about giving my electric predilection full rein here. On the plus side, part of IGC was my getting very positive feedback about it from several people, long-timers here and staff alike, so I'm losing that feeling. Knowing I'm not into AC/DC or EVH style shredding and hard rock and all that helps a lot, I expect. To me, an electric is not that far removed from how I'd personally want to be using an acoustic at this stage in my journey; the electric just gives me more options.
When I came to IGC I brought two guitars, and that decision made for a lot of hassle and difficulty during travel. I vowed no more and, if I had to pick one over the other, it will be an electric. I can always clean that up for ballad and rhythm style stuff, but there's no practical way to dirty up an acoustic or get it to sound like some of the stuff that's in my head. I'm designing this guitar to be the One Guitar To Rule Them All so I don't feel like I need to bring a Variax next time in order to cover the variety I want. My Memphis 335 is already close, but this Spincaster is (I hope) going to get me all the way there. The pickups are from the same guy who made the ones I put in the 335 so that part is mostly a known quantity.
To summarize some of the options (I know, I know, I promised I wouldn't bore you with tech details, I;'ll keep it high level) each Humbucker pickup will have four distinct tone options, the two of them will be able to interact with each other in four different ways, and the center pickup will be able to be blended in at various levels, and in two different ways.
That kind of variety should be able to get me almost anywhere I want to be, not even counting messing around with amp settings or effects pedals.
In theory, anyway. :silly:
Mark
