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Posted by: Velvet Roger Oct 11 2008, 04:36 PM

After I tried about 30 different guitars during the last couple of weeks, I went today to my local guitar shop and tried out the Eric Johnson Strat and I just totally love it..... http://www.fender.com/products//search.php?partno=0117702803. Looking at it's price (€ 1699 in NL) and its features (quarter-sawn maple neck etc), it's not really a suprise I guess, but I was overwhelmed

From picking it up and playing it acoustically to playing it through all kinds of amps, I am totally impressed about the sound, vibrato, resonance whatsoever from that guitar. In the end I spend about 3 hours playing on this one at the shop

So, I am totally confident that this will be my new guitar, but I still need to decide which amp to go with it. It will certainly be a Fender for the beautiful cleans, but it needs to be a bit versatile to crank it up for some heavier stuff as well (not metal). If anyone has any bright ideas, I would love to hear them.

Anyways, I just had to post my joy of today (although I have to wait until end of the year probably to finally buy it as my bonus won't arrive earlier .

Posted by: Guitarman700 Oct 11 2008, 05:32 PM

GET IT! ive played two of them, absolute tone machines, one of the best guitars in production!

Posted by: OrganisedConfusion Oct 11 2008, 05:39 PM

Awesome guitar. I don't like artist models usually but that model oozes quality

Posted by: Fran Oct 11 2008, 05:39 PM

I've read a lot of awesome reviews on EJ strats lately, I even read some reviews stating they were the closest thing to a custom strat available at a reasonable price. I guess they must be really good.

Posted by: JVM Oct 11 2008, 05:54 PM

Strats in general are a good buy, but I've heard this EJ strat is really good Might I suggest you look into a deluxe reverb for the amp? Thats the setup I'm going for soon. Probably going to buy a pedal to go with it (either a rat or a tubescreamer, not sure yet) as the amp does get crunchy when cranked but could use a boost for some of the more saturated stuff.

http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/guitar_forum/index.php?showtopic=20390 some info on the deluxe reverb.

Posted by: inertia Oct 11 2008, 07:54 PM

If I buy another strat that's the one I would buy too, it's tonally quite unique and it has that EJ magic too that many artist model guitars don't seem to have.

Posted by: audiopaal Oct 11 2008, 08:12 PM

Looks awesome

I'm gonna buy the Fender Billy Corgan signature model
This one is probably better, but I just need a Smashing Pumpkins guitar

Posted by: JVM Oct 11 2008, 08:14 PM

Awesome Which reminds me, I need to do the smashing pumpkins SI lesson... now that I have my (working) laptop I can finally get around to it...

Posted by: MickeM Oct 11 2008, 08:34 PM

Wow is that a freak accident!!!??? I was also concidering that Strat today, have to say it's maybe a bit of an odd choice so I wonder what the odds are for this


And the EJ strat looks just teriffic!

Posted by: blindwillie Oct 11 2008, 08:58 PM

Yeah, I played it when I was looking at Strats. It's a wonderful guitar but out of my league.

Posted by: VinceG Oct 11 2008, 09:39 PM

I wish Corgan Sig would look more like the trashy flowery guitar he had during http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNqlikchzAk

If I remember correctly, he bought that guitar for less than $200 and it made extensive noises that Corgan worked with. Nice story indeed.

Posted by: Velvet Roger Oct 11 2008, 11:29 PM

Thanks for the replies guys, makes me feel even more confident to really go for this beauty

I will check the deluxe out in more detail some time during the next weeks, as well as the supersonic, twin reverb and the hot rod to see which tone I prefer the most

Posted by: JVM Oct 11 2008, 11:46 PM

All really good amps. The hot rods are a little cheaper of course, but good tone can still be gotten from them. Supersonic and twin are really good amps too.

Posted by: FrankW Oct 12 2008, 02:54 AM

You've got yourself a great guitar. A really good match for it would be a Fender Supersonic or a Mesa Boogie Lonestar. Both of these amps have awesome clean sounds, and both of these amps can be pushed into a great overdriven sound. They are not high gain amps, but have great, singing lead tones in the style of Eric Johnson or Andy Timmons. A nice overdrive pedal, (not distortion), would also be a nice compliment to that setup.

Posted by: Tjchep Oct 12 2008, 02:56 AM

Well, As far a beautiful cleans an A great drive channel. check out the Mesa lone star and fender supersonic.

Edit: lol frank said the same things as me

Posted by: FrankW Oct 12 2008, 03:20 AM

It's my opinion that you know what you're talking about, my friend.

Posted by: inertia Oct 12 2008, 04:03 AM

I totally agree with both of you, those are two of my favourite amps

Posted by: VinceG Oct 12 2008, 04:31 AM

Lonestar Special oozes with tone. The clean tone on that Special was something special. Plus it can be set to a 5w switch so you can crank it w/o blowing your ear drums on your room.

Posted by: kaznie_NL Oct 12 2008, 02:59 PM

That picture... I love it!!

Dutch:

Mooie gitaar man! Vooral dat hout dat zo door de lak heen te zien is, prachtig!

Posted by: JVM Oct 12 2008, 05:51 PM

Yeah, a lonestar is my dream amp, but I can't justify it right now I guess.

Posted by: Tjchep Oct 13 2008, 03:39 AM

You prefer the Specials clean to the Classics cleans?

Posted by: Jesse Dec 4 2008, 05:57 PM

Vette gitaar~!

Posted by: Fran Dec 4 2008, 06:57 PM

I tried the model a couple weeks ago and it was awesome. Best maple neck I've ever seen, so beautiful.

Posted by: Velvet Roger Dec 4 2008, 09:08 PM

Couldn't agree more , after playing several weeks on it, I am still convinced that this one was the right choice for me.

Posted by: Saint_arc Dec 5 2008, 01:44 AM

I have played through many strats and can tell you one thing, this is an amazing guitar. Almost purchased it at one time. Now I just recently purchased the Fender Supersonic cab and head and let me tell you this. If you want an awesome clean tone your'll get that along with a amazing distortion without adding extra pedals or effects. This is now my permanent rig. Fender has finally created an amp with both the Vibrolux/bassman and amazing distortion all in one without extra effects. I promise you, you won't be disappointed. Anyways best of luck to you!!

Mike