Theoretically or intellectually yes or no 🙂 The important thing is: how did it play. And you made it sound as sweet as th best of all ancient "originals" from big F or Big G. The ad men have got us used to specification drool rather than: how good is it at doing the job it should be doing
I can confirm that the ATN-5 Variator is a rotary switch and PCB with various capacitors and resistors wired to an inductor, basically a length of copper wire wrapped in a coil with two wires on the ends. You can also find that switch on certain Revelation and Rapier guitars. This is different from a Varitone, which just uses capacitors of different values to create notch filters.
This reminds me of the first electric guitar I got to play which was an old Tiesco my dad had. It had the four pickups with on/off switches for each pickup. There was a switch on the upper horn but my dad had bought it out of a pawn shop and it was long since broken when he bought it. Sadly it was lost in a flood during a hurricane years ago. I've always wanted another one to experiment with the sound combinations of the four pickups. This might fill that desire.
I wonder if someday we look back at today as the era of great cheap guitars, that people actually collect later, because they were so good, and so many were made.
Hey Tijuanabill . I often wonder why so many perfectly usable instruments never get played , or "put in a Museum of sorts" . I appreciate the appeal of this guitar , but I know I wouldn't bother playing it after a day or two . Got a few good ones I love , and I certainly don't NEED one of everything . Cheers from Australia ! 👍
Variator's mystery box is probably an inductor (looks like a transformer, but does different things). You'll find inductor's in some wah pedals. If you ever look inside a BB King Lucille that has 2 inductors for their Varitone.)
The pickups are in phase but wired in parallel, which is why the DCR is roughly halved. When you were expecting a humbucker-y sound that would require the pickups being wired in series.
The mystery box and rotary switch is the Alan Entwistle special ATN-5 system on a few of the models he's designed. Gives 5 "voicing" to further shape the tone. Not enough on these but I've got a guitar with one and I love it and plan to put it in another very soon!
I just purchased the recently reissued vintage vsa 550 pretender. It’s a copy of the Dave grohl Gibson/epiphone . It’s flawless. Action was ever so slightly high. Other than that the nut was cut well. Intonation spot on. No sharp frets . Smooth as anything. Sounds amazing. And cost me £400 vs Epiphones £1300 price tag.. brilliant guitar.
@@TheGuitarGeek honestly it’s well worth a try. I got it for £389 in the UK. Was expecting to change the pickups and rewire it. But honestly I’m not going to bother. Took it to rehearsals last week and sounded very good. Given the price of the alternatives it’s a no brainer.. love to see you review it. And this was a great review. I do like it. But I have 9 guitars now. And I’m running out of excuses to the missus on why I need more 😂😂
@@TheGuitarGeek I had to learn this bit of enumerative combinatorics when I was developing the electric-guitar circuit I invented; more than a decade later, there are online calculators for this. 🤦
Been eyeing one of these on reverb! A bit unique, and vintage is solid quality. Excited to see a review! ❤ love that color, and there's a black one that just looks sleek
I've pimped a V100 and a V1003...Vintage to me is a fantastic guitar to build on, the body/neck relationships are quality that feel terrific. The dual humbucker version has my interest after seeing this truly fun yet fantastic video Cheers
13:35 Andy, this is what happens when multiple pickup coils are wired in parallel rather than in series. A humbucker's coils are wired in series by default, and wiring them in parallel instead provides a weaker, brighter signal whilst still bucking hum.
13:35 This is what happens when multiple pickup coils are wired in parallel rather than in series. A humbucker's coils are wired in series by default, and wiring them in parallel instead provides a weaker, brighter signal whilst still bucking hum.
Thanks for an incredible review. I do own the Squier CV Jazzmaster, which I like very much. Like the Jazzmaster, it clearly inspires creativity. It goes places a JM can't, with the sheer variety of tones and its thicker textures, especially with distortion. I'm hoping to get one in time for Christmas...
The pick ups are wired in parallel (like most guitars, e.g., Strat), which is why the resistance is reduced each time you add one to the circuit (like most guitars, e.g., Strat). The 'out of phase sound" is do to parallel wiring, not phase. The 2 coils of a humbucker are normally wired in series, which is why their resistance increases & sound louder & hotter.
Pretty kewl man! (excellent vid, beautiful guitar with a plethora of tone options:) I am the proud owner of a similar style surf guitar. It’s a Sea Foam, sparkle green 1965 Magnatone Typhoon and I love it. It has the coolest out of phase tones.
I just go mine today it is amazing, mine did need a slight setup it had some buzzing on the frets but raising the bridge slightly fixed it . I can't wait to play it more , so may sound options.
I love this, and I am usually a simplistic with guitars. It is different and probably one of the only guitars around that if you sent it back to the 50's they would be thinking "wtf is going on here" Think about that and how little the guitar has evolved. I'm glad to see this.
@@couchcamperTM I corrected the typo, which I caught when I copied the text to answer Andy's challenge from 19:19. This is what I get for typing while sleepy.
🤤Stunning! Putting every sound you could wish for into one guitar and still having an instrument with personality and character in the end is true mastery, and this is one of the very rare examples! And for less than 500 bucks? Unbelievable! And I just found out that this guitar has a sister for roughly the same price: the Revelation RJT-60 Q4. Basically the same with a solid body with comfort shapings, and a Strat style tremolo. Same electronics, just slightly different pickup placement. Also pretty much the same price.
Provided those slide switches are DPDT, as they appear to be, I would tempted to replace the pickups with G&L MFD single coils as used in the S-500 (neck and middle for the neck pair, middle and bridge for the bridge pair), rewire the slide switches such that the bank of four acts like a pair of Seymour Duncan Triple Shot mounting rings for the faux humbuckers, and install a Free Way model 3X3-05 six-position toggle switch to treat the four single coils like two humbuckers. The guitar would gain several, meaty tonal options whilst expanding its total tonal options from 75 to 360.
this is interesting because this isn't even the first with this electronics config and i happen to own the first. alan entwistle was also behind the 4 pickup revelation rjt-60/4. 4 pickups, really similar specs aside from being a solid body and having a more strat style trem. it's a neat guitar so i can imagine this would be too
I’d love to see a review of the REVO Integra! Just got it and like it a lot, I’d like to see a more in-depth analyzation of the pickups compared to other humbuckers
I find it interesting that you loved this guitar with very thin sounding pickups that still sound thin with distortion but you didn't like the Tele/J.M. style guitar for pretty much the same reason. I'd love to own all the Revo series and the Revelation branded guitars that Alan has had a hand in.
All those options would have me having nightmares. The 300 to 650 £ is crazy now for value. For mere mortals you can find everything you need at this price point. I'm gigging a Fazley Maverick Plus(excellent ) and a Gretsch electromatic likewise). I still use a Vintage Av6 and V100. Another great review ,Andy. It sort of sounds like one of those old Burns with the big pickups.
I must admit to sweet spot about Vintage and Entwistle's work. It seems to have stood test of time. On the downside - it woukld have been sweet to see outa phase switches But versatility on the guitar you used - plus a Johnny Marr type influence matches identity (yup - in gyutars it seems everything) with quality
I had a related guitar to this one. It was a Revelation Jazzmaster style. It had two P90s and the 5 way variator. Didn’t use the. Ristorante at all. Was a great guitar though. Sold it because I needed a Tele.
@andsoistopped I have that Jazz master left handed. The pups are A-90s. Has a vintage style strat tremelo.Friggin awesome guitar. I'll never part with it.
Hey Andy...With the Resistance Values you're reading (actually dealing with Impedance these are Coils) the pickups are in Parallel. If two Coils are in Parallel the total value will be less than either Coils. Figure it out by this formula L1 x L2/L1 + L2 (That's Pickup Value 1 times Pickup Value 2 divided by Pickup value 1 plus Pickup Value 2). It's a bit more involved with more than 2 Pickups but solvable as well. Hope this helps. Nice review, I like the guitar but way too many controls for me!
Why are you using the symbol for inductance when Andy measured DC resistance (which is not identical to impedance just because he measured coils)? Digi Key has a calculator page with many useful tools, and the calculator for parallel resistors will demonstrate the mathematical relationship.
I imagine that the rotary switch is wired up to 5 different value capacitors, like Gibson did with their varitone guitar back in the day. Looks like a fun guitar to play!
The Gibson Varitone circuit used an inductor to create a notch filter. The Everything ATN site shows that the ATN-5 Variator uses multiple RC circuits in a PCB, and an inductor is available as an accessory.
I love your videos and the funny/ironic thing is: We have nothing in common. Everything you go on about, I have never held any interest in. I love you're genuine enthusiasm and those organic faces of pure satisfaction when you hit that stank-face~ with whatever. You've made a 30+ year : veteran pro deluxe master, rethink a couple things about a few others. Love your hair. Don't change a thing. Love catching G.A.S. and look forward to your cover of : Testament - Legions of the dead. It would make Taylor Swift look like Dave Grohl. ALSO- To many "Sketch" Dealers in the 'Merica SoCal region to purchase. I'm gonna hit my Columbian contact up and see if he has something a little less sketch.
This guitar is a pretty vintage inspired guitar, just multiple vintage guitars crammed into one guitar... which is not vintage. The pickups look like Tiesco or Burns inspired. The Variator is something I saw mainly on Gibson ES-355 guitars. You have a Jazzmaster Wide Swing Tremolo to match the outward Jazzmaster style look. To make this a main player guitar you would have to take a good amount of time and effort to set up the guitar. Most Offset players would probably put a better Trem on it like a Mastery. I would upgrade the pots to CTS (probably 250k since it has single coil pickups). The neck probably needs a shim and since we are working with Jazzmaster geometry, so thicker strings (I would use my 12s) would be ideal for how Offsets are meant to be set up (this goes back to Leo Fender making these for Jazz guys who played hollow bodies and used thicker strings like 11s, 12s, or 13s). The Variator basically grounds off certain frequencies by using various capacitors in each setting so you progressively get a thinner sound. The best way to see how this works is to look up the literature on an Epiphone Lucille guitar, I know that they posted settings for each setting in past catalogs (assuming that Vintage is following that spec). Honestly, this is a cool guitar. It needs a Offset setup and it definitely can be a main guitar for a Indie/Shoegaze/Doomgaze type of player. It can do Surf but most of the Surf guys really like to stick to their Fenders.
Spoilt for choice in term of tone options! One thing it cant do is set different volumes for the pickups to use one for solos, though i guess most people use pedals for the boost
The pickups are wired in parallel. Nothing unusual about your readings. Two pickups in parallel should be half the resistance of 1. And all four should be 1/4 the impedance of 1. So the really fancy/odd stuff is happening in the black-tape-wrapped mystery box :D
I don't understand how you can have four pickups that are single coils and 17 or 27 different controls and you can't get a humbucker sound out of the 4 single coils. However, I must say I am irresistibly drawn to probably buy that guitar.
Looks sweet, but every vintage I’ve come across (none of the new stuff) hasn’t been great: lots of sprout ime I want to like them, but can’t bring myself to invest
Too right! Mine arrived with serious fret problems and a completely dead middle pickup. If it had been from a shop it would have gone straight back. As it was my local shop fixed it for me for a reasonable price.
A little birdy who used to be a Vintage dealer/reseller said the quality became noticeably inconsistent around the time Vintage offered a drop-shipping business model. Many of them aren't getting retailer inspection and setup anymore (often a safety net) because they're shipped out direct from Vintage.
@@PaulCooksStuff that would make sense and for that reason I couldn’t justify the price with Harley Benton looking around the corner with a stronger product
There's a Filtertron-style one as well. If you ever get a chance I would suggest trying the Tagima TW-61. It is a JM -style with P-90s, a strat-style trem, and a similar varitone switch. Much like Vintage, Tagima does some absolutely fantastic necks in profiles you don't often see on budget guitars.
Is 4 pickups too many?
Get your Vintage Surfmaster - tidd.ly/3Y6j16P
Theoretically or intellectually yes or no 🙂
The important thing is: how did it play. And you made it sound as sweet as th best of all ancient "originals" from big F or Big G.
The ad men have got us used to specification drool rather than: how good is it at doing the job it should be doing
There's room to squeeze another one in there
This is what should be happening more! Cool guitar. We don’t need to stick to the traditional formula 100%
Yeah, great to see something outside of the mold
I can confirm that the ATN-5 Variator is a rotary switch and PCB with various capacitors and resistors wired to an inductor, basically a length of copper wire wrapped in a coil with two wires on the ends. You can also find that switch on certain Revelation and Rapier guitars. This is different from a Varitone, which just uses capacitors of different values to create notch filters.
hmmm = will it add to single coil hum?
Original Varitone though, was using the inductor :)
A coil with 2 wires on the ends is the same as a coil tapped with resistors and capacitors?
@@NeungView I think you missed the point, he described whats an inductor
This reminds me of the first electric guitar I got to play which was an old Tiesco my dad had. It had the four pickups with on/off switches for each pickup. There was a switch on the upper horn but my dad had bought it out of a pawn shop and it was long since broken when he bought it. Sadly it was lost in a flood during a hurricane years ago. I've always wanted another one to experiment with the sound combinations of the four pickups. This might fill that desire.
I wonder if someday we look back at today as the era of great cheap guitars, that people actually collect later, because they were so good, and so many were made.
I really hope so. I am constantly pleased at how good many sub 1000 guitars are
They will buy you are talking 30 plus years from now.
Hey Tijuanabill . I often wonder why so many perfectly usable instruments never get played , or "put in a Museum of sorts" . I appreciate the appeal of this guitar , but I know I wouldn't bother playing it after a day or two . Got a few good ones I love , and I certainly don't NEED one of everything . Cheers from Australia ! 👍
Variator's mystery box is probably an inductor (looks like a transformer, but does different things). You'll find inductor's in some wah pedals. If you ever look inside a BB King Lucille that has 2 inductors for their Varitone.)
You must be an electronics expert.
The pickups are in phase but wired in parallel, which is why the DCR is roughly halved. When you were expecting a humbucker-y sound that would require the pickups being wired in series.
Thats a lovely guitar
The mystery box and rotary switch is the Alan Entwistle special ATN-5 system on a few of the models he's designed. Gives 5 "voicing" to further shape the tone. Not enough on these but I've got a guitar with one and I love it and plan to put it in another very soon!
I just purchased the recently reissued vintage vsa 550 pretender. It’s a copy of the Dave grohl Gibson/epiphone . It’s flawless. Action was ever so slightly high. Other than that the nut was cut well. Intonation spot on. No sharp frets . Smooth as anything. Sounds amazing. And cost me £400 vs Epiphones £1300 price tag.. brilliant guitar.
I’d love to put the pretender to the test!
@@TheGuitarGeek honestly it’s well worth a try. I got it for £389 in the UK. Was expecting to change the pickups and rewire it. But honestly I’m not going to bother. Took it to rehearsals last week and sounded very good. Given the price of the alternatives it’s a no brainer.. love to see you review it. And this was a great review. I do like it. But I have 9 guitars now. And I’m running out of excuses to the missus on why I need more 😂😂
Love love love the look of this thing.
19:19 *CHALLENGE ACCEPTED!* 😤
Guitar:
Single-pickup Selections: 4
Dual-pickup Selections: 6
Triple-pickup Selections: 4
Quad-pickup Selections: 1
ATN-5 Variator Positions: 5
Total Guitar Tonal Options: 75
Pedal:
Modes: 8
Muff-switch Positions: 2
Opamp-switch Positions: 2
Mids--switch positions: 3
Total Pedal Tonal Options: 96
GRAND TOTAL: 7,275 Tonal Options (7,200 with the pedal on, plus 75 with the pedal off)
😂😂😂😂 brilliant
@@TheGuitarGeek I had to learn this bit of enumerative combinatorics when I was developing the electric-guitar circuit I invented; more than a decade later, there are online calculators for this. 🤦
Been eyeing one of these on reverb! A bit unique, and vintage is solid quality. Excited to see a review! ❤ love that color, and there's a black one that just looks sleek
This is awesome! Love it!
I owned a Vintage guitar once. Great guitars!! This looks like a keeper. 😊✌🏻🇺🇸
It doesn't feel like a jazzmaster because it's basically a Jaguar with two extra pickups. It sounds like a jag too.
Yes, I'm getting strong jaguar vibes from this.
I've pimped a V100 and a V1003...Vintage to me is a fantastic guitar to build on, the body/neck relationships are quality that feel terrific. The dual humbucker version has my interest after seeing this truly fun yet fantastic video
Cheers
13:35 Andy, this is what happens when multiple pickup coils are wired in parallel rather than in series. A humbucker's coils are wired in series by default, and wiring them in parallel instead provides a weaker, brighter signal whilst still bucking hum.
the out of phase fuzz sounded marvelous
"That did not do what I expected to do" Yeap, exactly what I thought 🤣
13:35 This is what happens when multiple pickup coils are wired in parallel rather than in series. A humbucker's coils are wired in series by default, and wiring them in parallel instead provides a weaker, brighter signal whilst still bucking hum.
Alan Entwistle; he doesn't always do what I want to hear, but he ALWAYS does something amazing!
I'm currently on my forth Vintage brand guitar. [Not the Revo]. There build's are solid.
Thanks for an incredible review. I do own the Squier CV Jazzmaster, which I like very much. Like the Jazzmaster, it clearly inspires creativity. It goes places a JM can't, with the sheer variety of tones and its thicker textures, especially with distortion. I'm hoping to get one in time for Christmas...
The pick ups are wired in parallel (like most guitars, e.g., Strat), which is why the resistance is reduced each time you add one to the circuit (like most guitars, e.g., Strat). The 'out of phase sound" is do to parallel wiring, not phase. The 2 coils of a humbucker are normally wired in series, which is why their resistance increases & sound louder & hotter.
I love this guitar. Vintage guitars are amazing
Pretty kewl man! (excellent vid, beautiful guitar with a plethora of tone options:) I am the proud owner of a similar style surf guitar. It’s a Sea Foam, sparkle green 1965 Magnatone Typhoon and I love it. It has the coolest out of phase tones.
Want one
I think everyone should want one
I just go mine today it is amazing, mine did need a slight setup it had some buzzing on the frets but raising the bridge slightly fixed it . I can't wait to play it more , so may sound options.
I love this, and I am usually a simplistic with guitars. It is different and probably one of the only guitars around that if you sent it back to the 50's they would be thinking "wtf is going on here" Think about that and how little the guitar has evolved. I'm glad to see this.
the perfect: "nobody needs it everybody wants it" guitar. nice.
Oh YEAH!!! hahaha, that is exactly what it is.
@@TheGuitarGeek now we need you to show the 75 tones with no pedals *hint*
@@couchcamperTM Single-pickup selections: 4
Dual-pickup Selections: 6
Triple-pickup Selections: 4
Quad-pickup Selections: 1
Selections Subtotal: 15
ATN-5 Variator Positions: 5
Total Tonal Options: 75
@@Robstafarian they said 75 ... which makes sense, there can only be ONE quadruple PU selection: all of them.
@@couchcamperTM I corrected the typo, which I caught when I copied the text to answer Andy's challenge from 19:19. This is what I get for typing while sleepy.
🤤Stunning! Putting every sound you could wish for into one guitar and still having an instrument with personality and character in the end is true mastery, and this is one of the very rare examples! And for less than 500 bucks? Unbelievable! And I just found out that this guitar has a sister for roughly the same price: the Revelation RJT-60 Q4. Basically the same with a solid body with comfort shapings, and a Strat style tremolo. Same electronics, just slightly different pickup placement. Also pretty much the same price.
Looking forward to this review.
I have been intrigued by this model since I first saw it a few months ago.
Also, love what you do
Thank you so much. this is a fun one and I was really looking forward to playing
It's so nice to watch you get excited about guitars lol!
I love Guitars, but some guitars I love more than others 🤣
Provided those slide switches are DPDT, as they appear to be, I would tempted to replace the pickups with G&L MFD single coils as used in the S-500 (neck and middle for the neck pair, middle and bridge for the bridge pair), rewire the slide switches such that the bank of four acts like a pair of Seymour Duncan Triple Shot mounting rings for the faux humbuckers, and install a Free Way model 3X3-05 six-position toggle switch to treat the four single coils like two humbuckers. The guitar would gain several, meaty tonal options whilst expanding its total tonal options from 75 to 360.
this is interesting because this isn't even the first with this electronics config and i happen to own the first. alan entwistle was also behind the 4 pickup revelation rjt-60/4. 4 pickups, really similar specs aside from being a solid body and having a more strat style trem. it's a neat guitar so i can imagine this would be too
Love it ..!! Reminds me a bit of Reverand Guitars
I’d love to see a review of the REVO Integra! Just got it and like it a lot, I’d like to see a more in-depth analyzation of the pickups compared to other humbuckers
Noted! That is a great looking guitar. Let's see what I can do
How wide is the nut?
That's impressive looking, my mates got an old vintage les paul and its a decent guitar, bolt on neck mind but it plays really well.
Similar to my Revelation RJT60Q 'Quad', but taking the idea a step further again with the offset tremolo. Nice guitar.... 👍🏻
I find it interesting that you loved this guitar with very thin sounding pickups that still sound thin with distortion but you didn't like the Tele/J.M. style guitar for pretty much the same reason.
I'd love to own all the Revo series and the Revelation branded guitars that Alan has had a hand in.
Great review. How was the set up straight out of the box?
Looking forward to this!
It is here!
That may be the surfiest guitar I've heard! Even more than listening to the Ventures.
Oh, that is just the sort of guitar that I would hit Buy It Now, if it was for sale in Canada!
All those options would have me having nightmares. The 300 to 650 £ is crazy now for value. For mere mortals you can find everything you need at this price point. I'm gigging a Fazley Maverick Plus(excellent ) and a Gretsch electromatic likewise).
I still use a Vintage Av6 and V100.
Another great review ,Andy. It sort of sounds like one of those old Burns with the big pickups.
Yeah, this kind of price point is the sweet spot for sure.
@@TheGuitarGeek one wonders why Epiphone are being so stupid with their prices.
@@peterhall4852 If you are unfamiliar with Gibson's ownership, then now is as good a time as any to do some reading.
Aesthetics is everything. Tone doesn't matter. Especially in the age of social media immortalized photography.
I must admit to sweet spot about Vintage and Entwistle's work. It seems to have stood test of time.
On the downside - it woukld have been sweet to see outa phase switches
But versatility on the guitar you used - plus a Johnny Marr type influence matches identity (yup - in gyutars it seems everything) with quality
oh that is great
love it
I had a related guitar to this one. It was a Revelation Jazzmaster style. It had two P90s and the 5 way variator. Didn’t use the. Ristorante at all. Was a great guitar though. Sold it because I needed a Tele.
@andsoistopped I have that Jazz master left handed. The pups are A-90s. Has a vintage style strat tremelo.Friggin awesome guitar. I'll never part with it.
@@davidkastin4240 yes. Just brilliant.
Hey Andy...With the Resistance Values you're reading (actually dealing with Impedance these are Coils) the pickups are in Parallel. If two Coils are in Parallel the total value will be less than either Coils. Figure it out by this formula L1 x L2/L1 + L2 (That's Pickup Value 1 times Pickup Value 2 divided by Pickup value 1 plus Pickup Value 2). It's a bit more involved with more than 2 Pickups but solvable as well. Hope this helps. Nice review, I like the guitar but way too many controls for me!
Why are you using the symbol for inductance when Andy measured DC resistance (which is not identical to impedance just because he measured coils)? Digi Key has a calculator page with many useful tools, and the calculator for parallel resistors will demonstrate the mathematical relationship.
@@Robstafarian Yeah OK R1 x R2/R1 + R2. I see a coil think of impedance, College was 52 years.
@@Frank-in-NY College is about a third as distant from me, thanks for not being hostile like so many people on the web are these days.
@@Robstafarian Nah...No way hostile. I'm cool, just a old hippie enjoying the ride. Be well, be happy. Hey! Rock & Roll! 😎
Not out of phase but in parallel. Out of / in phase requires comparing 2 sine waves.
In case this needs to be said, any two signals can have a phase relationship: such a relationship is not limited to sine waves.
Pretty cool indeed
I imagine that the rotary switch is wired up to 5 different value capacitors, like Gibson did with their varitone guitar back in the day. Looks like a fun guitar to play!
That is what I am thinking too
The Gibson Varitone circuit used an inductor to create a notch filter. The Everything ATN site shows that the ATN-5 Variator uses multiple RC circuits in a PCB, and an inductor is available as an accessory.
$68.00 US for that 5 position pot and the ATN5 inductance coil that must be used with it. Reasonable, and position 5 sounds best.
I love your videos and the funny/ironic thing is: We have nothing in common. Everything you go on about, I have never held any interest in. I love you're genuine enthusiasm and those organic faces of pure satisfaction when you hit that stank-face~ with whatever. You've made a 30+ year : veteran pro deluxe master, rethink a couple things about a few others. Love your hair. Don't change a thing. Love catching G.A.S. and look forward to your cover of : Testament - Legions of the dead. It would make Taylor Swift look like Dave Grohl.
ALSO- To many "Sketch" Dealers in the 'Merica SoCal region to purchase. I'm gonna hit my Columbian contact up and see if he has something a little less sketch.
This guitar is a pretty vintage inspired guitar, just multiple vintage guitars crammed into one guitar... which is not vintage. The pickups look like Tiesco or Burns inspired. The Variator is something I saw mainly on Gibson ES-355 guitars. You have a Jazzmaster Wide Swing Tremolo to match the outward Jazzmaster style look.
To make this a main player guitar you would have to take a good amount of time and effort to set up the guitar. Most Offset players would probably put a better Trem on it like a Mastery. I would upgrade the pots to CTS (probably 250k since it has single coil pickups). The neck probably needs a shim and since we are working with Jazzmaster geometry, so thicker strings (I would use my 12s) would be ideal for how Offsets are meant to be set up (this goes back to Leo Fender making these for Jazz guys who played hollow bodies and used thicker strings like 11s, 12s, or 13s).
The Variator basically grounds off certain frequencies by using various capacitors in each setting so you progressively get a thinner sound. The best way to see how this works is to look up the literature on an Epiphone Lucille guitar, I know that they posted settings for each setting in past catalogs (assuming that Vintage is following that spec).
Honestly, this is a cool guitar. It needs a Offset setup and it definitely can be a main guitar for a Indie/Shoegaze/Doomgaze type of player. It can do Surf but most of the Surf guys really like to stick to their Fenders.
I have a Revelation RJT60 TL in the same colour with a maple FB which looks like it could be this guitars father, also by Alan
2nd comment 2nd watch. Now that really is a Johnny Marr guitar
Needs more reverb!! 😂 ✌🏻
Very Entwistle. Similar to the Revelation guitars he was involved with recently. They are worth seeking out.
So is this guitar something to do with Revelation? They have a quad with 4 switches. Neck looks the same. Alan Entwhistle pickups too.
I have numerous Japanese, Italian, English etc guitars with all those similar elements. So, very normal outside the US
I wouldn't call myself a stickler for cable management, but that's quite a bird's nest of wires under that pickguard ;)
I can’t argue with that. I was just so shocked about what it looked like that I didn’t think to comment on it.
I wish more guitars had switching like that **drools**
I love how divisive it is. I like the switching but it’s tough to make quick changes
There are much better ways to achieve similar versatility; the trouble is that they do not bring to mind iconically-strange guitars from the '60s.
16:16 sounds like a cocked wah
Dig it. Looks like something Josh from JHS would be playing
I want a yellow one, or mint please
What’s the radius on the fretboard on these?
Looks quite a lot like the Hutchins 4 pickup guitar from a few years back
I want to see a bass version of this with 3 P pickups
👋 hello
Oh hi Corzcdm.
I'm wondering, this one or the Vintage REVO Series Surfmaster Thinline ? the 4 pickups would make me lost
Spoilt for choice in term of tone options!
One thing it cant do is set different volumes for the pickups to use one for solos, though i guess most people use pedals for the boost
Dude I love your channel. I think I like this guitar, but wow that reverb! Please turn that DOWN! Thanks mate.
Interesting guitar to many controls for me, I don't think it would be a big seller only to collectors maybe
The pickups are wired in parallel. Nothing unusual about your readings. Two pickups in parallel should be half the resistance of 1. And all four should be 1/4 the impedance of 1. So the really fancy/odd stuff is happening in the black-tape-wrapped mystery box :D
That mystery box is the inductor which is sold as an accessory to the ATN-5 Variator.
So are these four single coil pick-ups?
Yes, those are four single-coil pickups.
19:18 accidentally playing the intro to Nirvana's you know you're right
Has a little Eko look to it.
7:14 paddle faster!!!
Is it impossible to get these in the U.S? I want to Santa to bring me one.🎅
Where does it made? Is it an Indonesian guitar?
I don't understand how you can have four pickups that are single coils and 17 or 27 different controls and you can't get a humbucker sound out of the 4 single coils. However, I must say I am irresistibly drawn to probably buy that guitar.
Did I hear some Chinese Democracy at 12:00?
If you did it was unintended!
I'm sure they made up the number on the amount of different tones. Nobody is going to actually count.
We're guitar players.
The more these people display their zimgar guitars,the better my tele looks.
I bet that one goes to eleven
"This product is currently unavailable for delivery to your country"
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Looks sweet, but every vintage I’ve come across (none of the new stuff) hasn’t been great: lots of sprout ime
I want to like them, but can’t bring myself to invest
Too right! Mine arrived with serious fret problems and a completely dead middle pickup. If it had been from a shop it would have gone straight back. As it was my local shop fixed it for me for a reasonable price.
@@tonycleal3225 makes me wanna stay clear that much more
@@AVM-Music ..Some of the Vintage reissue series are 300% more value than it is…
A little birdy who used to be a Vintage dealer/reseller said the quality became noticeably inconsistent around the time Vintage offered a drop-shipping business model. Many of them aren't getting retailer inspection and setup anymore (often a safety net) because they're shipped out direct from Vintage.
@@PaulCooksStuff that would make sense and for that reason I couldn’t justify the price with Harley Benton looking around the corner with a stronger product
Weird thing in a good way😅
What's the nut width? #AskingForAFriend
It looks like a Japanese guitar from the late 60s.
its a lee ranaldo club guitar¡another guitar for the 'room w dozen guitars to pretend i am musician, but i hardly play any' room
Damn I hate surf
There's a Filtertron-style one as well.
If you ever get a chance I would suggest trying the Tagima TW-61. It is a JM -style with P-90s, a strat-style trem, and a similar varitone switch. Much like Vintage, Tagima does some absolutely fantastic necks in profiles you don't often see on budget guitars.