Vintage guitar

The vintage and the magnifique

Chris Martin 2024 Brussels Belgium

For a start here we have 2 Asian guitars one is famous and the other was a commercial flop but the line creation of what will be years later Ibanez advanced guitar line used by famous players you all know The 80 s was a lot of dreams and sketch amd out of the lot the CASIO Midi guitar PG 380.You all know what it is inside and i will not return to that. Late 90 s our mind where more digital than ever and MIDI was going strong and I decided to upgrade this guitar to a more versatile tools

The addition of a polyphonic pitch shifter at 3 octave low or high on the synth part or guitar or both was really something i can tell you but that was not enough! remember years before we had the Ebow that magic monophonic string sustainer and of course the Sustainiac that was in fact the same things but for 6 strings In concerts I was a little tired of effect pedal floor because anyway it was always the same setup Distortion,Chrorus,Delay,Wha, Well this guitar is all that inside and I can tell you it was challenging getting order just like in the UK parliament I had to fight with ground noise and different power I have lost the schematic but on purpose! I do not want AI to hold into my data so all is in my head and the next guy if anyone will need a brain to follow how God created the Universe

The beauty is no extra wood cut was done and all circuits fitted perfectly.The room for the extra ram card is used for the pitch shifter board and the sustainiac 2 switch control…the extra ROM sound card Larry Corryel directly connected to the main board is also there! With Bank A and B and the shifter I have now some real synth sound in between the Yamaha DX and the Roland Juno series and if I blend that with the guitar sound I have texture never heard before The MIDI latency and jitter was reduced with the use of E B G D on plain strings and the magnetic replacement on the hexaphonic pickup with Neodymium magnet In the studio I do not have much use of MIDI. The tracking of the internal synth part is just like real time For the power a classic 9 volt transformer Roland Psa do the work Output jack have been modified for stereo mixer table feed Of course cap where changed with military grade and the Floyd rose is from a Korean Fender polar Stratocaster The battery compartment is used but an analog delay circuit SEE PHOTO

There is very little chance for you to get hold on one of this model so here little more info The INTEGRA is a sketch made by Aria Particularity is a 25 fret board and a beautiful neck in Ebony style with jumbo frets The material of the frets board is synthetic but you don't notice it until you are told The guitar finish is outstanding and the early Kahker tremolo series chrome is there shyny as an old Cadillac bumper

It used to be an Ibanez humbucker in the slot but for aesthetic I installed a quad humbucker and use the full capabilities of the 3 toggle switch each with 3 positions It is a bit strange at first for me that is used to Gibson or Fender switching but open up to a youpy 8 positions and a total off mode for stage Pushpull for phase pickup Aria single coil and yes the Kahler in all his beauty The top locker is real nice and easy with a clap no need to unscrew With this syntetic fret board you can't have anything flatter than this one! Perhaps yes with an old Travis bean! ahhh one day i will have one

6 October 2023

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