St.Vincent's Ernie Ball Music Man Signature Guitar
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Re: St.Vincent's Ernie Ball Music Man Signature Guitar
designed for women, available for men and women to buy...so they should stop being jealous. They too can "show off their waist" as she described was the main intention behind the design. Also, i kind of think it would suit someone wearing a dress as she does most the time (and explains was another design aspect), not because its particularly 'girly' just something about the form, so it seems to fullfill it's function. It looks cool but would look weird on me.
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What bugs me is that the guitar was designed for A woman, but is being marketed as being designed for ALL women. It's cool that Clark was able to design a guitar to her specific preferences, but not all female guitarists find LPs too heavy, care about showing off their waists or wear their guitars up so high that they poke their boobs. My annoyance with this really has nothing to do with St. Vincent's music or their guitarist's gender, I just hate lazy marketing hype (which seems to be originating more from EBMM than from Clark herself).
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From what I've seen, the hype is coming from the media itself and the way they're framing it.
Wouldn't be the first time.
Wouldn't be the first time.
This is an excellent rectangle
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The guitar is a signature guitar designed for the artist. The artist just happens to be a woman. Ernie Ball is in no way shape or form marketing this as a guitar for women or designed just for women. As mentioned above the press seems to be taking that angle but that is not something that Music Man did.Beyer160 wrote:What bugs me is that the guitar was designed for A woman, but is being marketed as being designed for ALL women. It's cool that Clark was able to design a guitar to her specific preferences, but not all female guitarists find LPs too heavy, care about showing off their waists or wear their guitars up so high that they poke their boobs. My annoyance with this really has nothing to do with St. Vincent's music or their guitarist's gender, I just hate lazy marketing hype (which seems to be originating more from EBMM than from Clark herself).
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I love the looks of this guitar, and the blue color. What I don't love is the Music Man headstock.
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She needs some silicone spray for that latex dress.
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Resurrecting this thread.
I have a new offset coming in the mail soon; my own signature guitar, you might say, that is light weight and has a bunch of goodies I want.
But now I want the St Vincent guitar. It looks amazing. Although I love Jag/JM bridge, I also love the sustain from an old Strat-style tremolo. I bet those DiMarzio's sound great too. I recently played a MusicMaster that was very similar to the St Vincent guitar but had a tune-o-matic bridge. It felt so nice in my hands.
What I would change/alter/mod:
More options for the pickups. I'd want to split each humbucker to singles. I'd want so many pickup options. Maybe some series/parallel options.
That's it.
It is a sexy guitar. I just wish it was cheaper than $1800.
For $800 I would find a way.
gloob sleewt thleen shvelk qlawrkl
(The guitar is making me come up with names of furniture for Ikea)
I have a new offset coming in the mail soon; my own signature guitar, you might say, that is light weight and has a bunch of goodies I want.
But now I want the St Vincent guitar. It looks amazing. Although I love Jag/JM bridge, I also love the sustain from an old Strat-style tremolo. I bet those DiMarzio's sound great too. I recently played a MusicMaster that was very similar to the St Vincent guitar but had a tune-o-matic bridge. It felt so nice in my hands.
What I would change/alter/mod:
More options for the pickups. I'd want to split each humbucker to singles. I'd want so many pickup options. Maybe some series/parallel options.
That's it.
It is a sexy guitar. I just wish it was cheaper than $1800.
For $800 I would find a way.
gloob sleewt thleen shvelk qlawrkl
(The guitar is making me come up with names of furniture for Ikea)
Offsets and flangers
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I had the pleasure to play one of these the other day. I was very impressed.
The thing is SMALL. I mean small. I can grab it by the waist with my thumb and fingers. And I don't have large hands. And it's thin too. Awkward to play sitting down, as it's rather unbalanced. I didn't get to play it with a strap, but I bet that it sits better that way.
A lot of EBMM necks are super thin, so I was worried about that. But this one is fine. I've experienced thinner Fender necks before. And I love the feel of the untreated Rosewood. Once it gets all glossed up with years of finger grease it's going to be amazing.
The trem was nice and responsive, decked out of the box, but you can float it. It's just a Strat trem at the end of the day.
The best part, though, is the sound. The mini hums are super warm and beefy, but not muddy at all. And it's nice to have a Neck+Bridge setting. I really loved the way it sounds. Very unique.
The volume and tone knobs, while cool looking, are chintzy as hell.
Overall a nice guitar, but I agree that it is a bit overpriced. Quality wise it feels closer to a $1k guitar than a $2k one.
The thing is SMALL. I mean small. I can grab it by the waist with my thumb and fingers. And I don't have large hands. And it's thin too. Awkward to play sitting down, as it's rather unbalanced. I didn't get to play it with a strap, but I bet that it sits better that way.
A lot of EBMM necks are super thin, so I was worried about that. But this one is fine. I've experienced thinner Fender necks before. And I love the feel of the untreated Rosewood. Once it gets all glossed up with years of finger grease it's going to be amazing.
The trem was nice and responsive, decked out of the box, but you can float it. It's just a Strat trem at the end of the day.
The best part, though, is the sound. The mini hums are super warm and beefy, but not muddy at all. And it's nice to have a Neck+Bridge setting. I really loved the way it sounds. Very unique.
The volume and tone knobs, while cool looking, are chintzy as hell.
Overall a nice guitar, but I agree that it is a bit overpriced. Quality wise it feels closer to a $1k guitar than a $2k one.
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While going through the masses of NAMM news i saw that a Sterling version of this is being released and possibly a range of short scale basses.
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I haven't had a chance to play one of these yet, but I would very much like to. I think it's a wonderful, bold design, but it's unlikely I would ever actually buy one - it's more than I can justify for something that is so specific to a single artist.
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I finally got the chance to play one the other day and was totally blown away by how resonant it was and how well it played and felt. The same day, I played 6 of the new American Professional Jazzmasters and Jaguars, and a JM Jaguar (which I was also very blown away by). If I start gigging professionally again, I'm going for one of the St. Vincents.
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man, this guitar is ugly as sin. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder but c'mon. Looks like someone was trying to draw a rectangle while in the back of a car with no shocks & driving down a track of speed bumps
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Not so ugly.....
They are nice guitars. Well made, nicely balanced, great trem system. The Mini-Hums sound good too.
A little spendy though.
They are nice guitars. Well made, nicely balanced, great trem system. The Mini-Hums sound good too.
A little spendy though.
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a Sterling version will be available, 599$, at that price I might be tempted
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very NICE, I played one last year ago, and was so intrigued by it, but the price was a big no-no. for 600Bucks, I might get one.hobbes wrote: a Sterling version will be available, 599$, at that price I might be tempted
I've also seen a Video, where they're talking about a Med-Scale Bass Version also 3 Pickups, hopefully they'll use thunderbird Pickups, and not these ugly MusicMan PU's.