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CT-64140
Published on 01/21/13 at 12:01
Made in Canada
Adjustable Tusq Bridge by Graphtech
Table: Canadian Wild Cherry
Back & Sides: Canadian Wild Cherry
Neck: Silver leaf maple
Fingerboard: Rosewood
Scale: 24.84 "(63 cm)
Microphone: 1x Godin Kingpin P90 single-coil
1x Volume, 1x Tone
UTILIZATION
The handle is very nice on geometry. I found him one drawback which is repeated on my other two Godin electric. This is due to a specific treatment of wood? I do not know. The strings are very sensitive to oxidation and neck (including the back) lost after a few moments game its "slippery". We can certainly blame my sweating, but I have other guitars (Duesenberg, Hagström, Gitano) which, with (regarding electrical) the same strings (and my own hands!) Do not exhibit this phenomenon. A retailer Godin me also of himself (although I mentioned the issue with him) mentioned the thing. I avoid my side but Fastfret regularly cleans the strings with product maintenance for Strings Gibson Luthers Choice (sometimes with Dunlop 65 String Cleaner, which unfortunately feels the penetrating oil with molybdenum used in mechanics!) And the default is diminished.
Without cutaway, this guitar does not allow easy access to acute, this is not very annoying for genres which it seems naturally oriented.
Surprisingly light on the door very easily with a strap long hours and I think its nice shape to play seated.
Regarding getting a good sound: on branch (on a good tube amp preferably) and it sounds now! One microphone, a volume knob and a tone (which might deserve to be more progressive): nothing complicated to draw the right sound.
Note: I put 8/10 ("very good) and not 9/10 (" excellent "simply because of the propensity of the instrument oxidation of strings)
SOUNDS
I enjoy playing jazz on this guitar. I mounted with "sausages" Thomastick JS 112 (I am tempted to put Thomastick GB 114! And I guess the sound come out of a Hot Rod Deluxe!)
In POWER, I played on a Palmer Fat Combo 50 and a Laney Cube 12R. Excellent on both amps. The sound is warm and rich across the spectrum. Note: This sends lots of bass guitar strings on Mi and La. Thomastick JS strings have the advantage of reducing the invasion of that was low on this type of guitar with other brands of strings (net flat) even pulling.
Overall, there is a beautiful combination of wood roundness and warmth of P90. The clear seems obviously beautiful, very typical "swing" or "bebop" (listen to recordings of Barney Kessel with Charles Parker) If you push a little gain, you get a nice crunch sound reminiscent giving quite the Gibson ES300 sound of bebop in the records of Django Reinhardt. However, this guitar has never tempted to be tested with the effects of overdrive or fuzz! With a little further gain on the amp, you can (I think) to find sounds that stick well to the Chicago blues.
Do not wait for this instrument against long sustain, but the warmth of the sound offsets.
Failure of the guitar (seems inherent Does all P90 "classic"): 1) the feedback comes quickly to medium or high volume, 2) the microphone is very sensitive to magnetic fields and the amp it hums quite easily - to avoid these snoring just find ideal orientation and distance relative to the amp.
In ACOUSTICS, it is far from the project as Gibson ES130 (1953) from a friend with whom we are engaged in comparisons. But the sound is not bad. With ropes Thomastick she lost in projection with respect to the original strings are round nets.
OVERALL OPINION
I have this I Kingpin for over a year. I'm still as much fun playing it and I think I will not tire of its sound.
I have not tried many models before buying. At the time of purchase, I simply store compared with a Gretsch Synchromatic G100CE. I preferred the sound of the electric Godin. Matter of taste ...
If we compare with the price of the "must" of this kind of guitar "electric spanish" value for money seems to me excellent. However, if you want to consider buying in terms of price / versatility, so it is important not to turn to the Kingpin I seems to me purely jazz oriented "mainstream" and "bebop".
With my back more than a year, if I had to redo the acquisition, I would choose the same guitar!
Note that I have another 5th Avenue Kingpin: model "II" (with two P90) mounted with a draft less (Thomastick JS 111), with similar qualities, complements and expands (for versatility larger) the possibilities of sound Kingpin I. But I must say that I Kingpin with a set of 12 sounds pretty darn good pulling power in its price!
Adjustable Tusq Bridge by Graphtech
Table: Canadian Wild Cherry
Back & Sides: Canadian Wild Cherry
Neck: Silver leaf maple
Fingerboard: Rosewood
Scale: 24.84 "(63 cm)
Microphone: 1x Godin Kingpin P90 single-coil
1x Volume, 1x Tone
UTILIZATION
The handle is very nice on geometry. I found him one drawback which is repeated on my other two Godin electric. This is due to a specific treatment of wood? I do not know. The strings are very sensitive to oxidation and neck (including the back) lost after a few moments game its "slippery". We can certainly blame my sweating, but I have other guitars (Duesenberg, Hagström, Gitano) which, with (regarding electrical) the same strings (and my own hands!) Do not exhibit this phenomenon. A retailer Godin me also of himself (although I mentioned the issue with him) mentioned the thing. I avoid my side but Fastfret regularly cleans the strings with product maintenance for Strings Gibson Luthers Choice (sometimes with Dunlop 65 String Cleaner, which unfortunately feels the penetrating oil with molybdenum used in mechanics!) And the default is diminished.
Without cutaway, this guitar does not allow easy access to acute, this is not very annoying for genres which it seems naturally oriented.
Surprisingly light on the door very easily with a strap long hours and I think its nice shape to play seated.
Regarding getting a good sound: on branch (on a good tube amp preferably) and it sounds now! One microphone, a volume knob and a tone (which might deserve to be more progressive): nothing complicated to draw the right sound.
Note: I put 8/10 ("very good) and not 9/10 (" excellent "simply because of the propensity of the instrument oxidation of strings)
SOUNDS
I enjoy playing jazz on this guitar. I mounted with "sausages" Thomastick JS 112 (I am tempted to put Thomastick GB 114! And I guess the sound come out of a Hot Rod Deluxe!)
In POWER, I played on a Palmer Fat Combo 50 and a Laney Cube 12R. Excellent on both amps. The sound is warm and rich across the spectrum. Note: This sends lots of bass guitar strings on Mi and La. Thomastick JS strings have the advantage of reducing the invasion of that was low on this type of guitar with other brands of strings (net flat) even pulling.
Overall, there is a beautiful combination of wood roundness and warmth of P90. The clear seems obviously beautiful, very typical "swing" or "bebop" (listen to recordings of Barney Kessel with Charles Parker) If you push a little gain, you get a nice crunch sound reminiscent giving quite the Gibson ES300 sound of bebop in the records of Django Reinhardt. However, this guitar has never tempted to be tested with the effects of overdrive or fuzz! With a little further gain on the amp, you can (I think) to find sounds that stick well to the Chicago blues.
Do not wait for this instrument against long sustain, but the warmth of the sound offsets.
Failure of the guitar (seems inherent Does all P90 "classic"): 1) the feedback comes quickly to medium or high volume, 2) the microphone is very sensitive to magnetic fields and the amp it hums quite easily - to avoid these snoring just find ideal orientation and distance relative to the amp.
In ACOUSTICS, it is far from the project as Gibson ES130 (1953) from a friend with whom we are engaged in comparisons. But the sound is not bad. With ropes Thomastick she lost in projection with respect to the original strings are round nets.
OVERALL OPINION
I have this I Kingpin for over a year. I'm still as much fun playing it and I think I will not tire of its sound.
I have not tried many models before buying. At the time of purchase, I simply store compared with a Gretsch Synchromatic G100CE. I preferred the sound of the electric Godin. Matter of taste ...
If we compare with the price of the "must" of this kind of guitar "electric spanish" value for money seems to me excellent. However, if you want to consider buying in terms of price / versatility, so it is important not to turn to the Kingpin I seems to me purely jazz oriented "mainstream" and "bebop".
With my back more than a year, if I had to redo the acquisition, I would choose the same guitar!
Note that I have another 5th Avenue Kingpin: model "II" (with two P90) mounted with a draft less (Thomastick JS 111), with similar qualities, complements and expands (for versatility larger) the possibilities of sound Kingpin I. But I must say that I Kingpin with a set of 12 sounds pretty darn good pulling power in its price!