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You didn't buy it on eBay, did you? You could have my old one. I don't think it's that much of a small world. Those are really cool guitars

Not anymore. It was a fun guitar though.

Tons of nasty low mids, and it cuts the highs some. Maybe someone who's really into weird fuzz would like it. I kinda wish I'd kept it around in a drawer or something, for the novelty and occasional laugh.

@@MarcusDugan I like the weird sounds put the frequency response is terrible... 🤮

If you modded one of these to something like the Tweed Bandmaster circuit, I bet you'd have a killer-sounding amp.

(edit: I just watched some of, and subscribed to, your channel. That's some nice playing. Looks like you're already very familiar with Gretsch guitars in general) This one is pretty cool. Mine had trouble staying in tune until a put some violin rosin on the body where the bridge rests against it, so the bridge wouldn't try to slide around. It's easy to get it set up to sound good, and it has a nice sound. Mine has a bad tone switch (the one you'd think is the pickup switch actually controls the tone. Gretsch is...different). Overall, it's a pretty nice guitar. Fun to play. I hope you enjoy yours.

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Marcus Dugan real mature buddy

Thanks! The 135 has really grown on me. Just a fantastic, underrated guitar.

Sonically, not much when you're playing clean. They both have 57 Classic pickups and semi-hollow bodies, but the 135 is a good 5/8" thicker with a mahogany block (335 is maple). I feel like as you play with more and more overdrive, the 135 gets nastier and grittier than the smoother-sounding 335. The 335 is brighter and more snappy to me. Otherwise, the feel is different. The 335 has a bound slim taper 60s neck, while the other is much thicker (not quite a 50s profile, though), and the higher frets aren't as accessible with the thicker body. Overall, though, they really are two guitars that do almost the same thing. It's kind of like having two slightly different best friends, though. One does not necessarily make the other obsolete :)

And they are different colors

I appreciate that. I felt like the concept was better than my execution. Your positive comment did well to promote your channel though. Nice stuff on there :)

Marcus Dugan us little guys gotta help each other out ;) thanks for the sub. I think if I had to pick it would be the clear top over the blue one.. But in a couple cases the blue guitar sounded better to me. Did you have a preference?

Get ready, I tend to be long winded, but hopefully helpful. I heard someone do a similar lick, and I was just kind of basing a (somewhat sloppy) chord progression around it and having fun. I tend to go to those octave things a lot when I don't know what I want to do next. No mods to the amp, so far at least. Just caps, cord, and jacks. I think it would benefit from some work to the tone controls. I usually have to play with the treble almost all the way up and the bass almost all the way down. The bass on this thing is ridiculous. That wouldn't be a huge modification, just some resister (?) or capacitor value changes, but I think it would go a long way toward adding some versatility. I've also noticed that it sounds brighter and more dynamic when you turn the phono channel up. It's always sending part of the signal through it, no matter where you're plugged in. I was using a 2x12 cabinet with Warehouse ET-65's, which are like a higher wattage Creamback speaker. Sounds good through a 1x12 too. It's a very loud amp, very Fender-like. If you need to get it to drive at usable volumes, it's probably a strong candidate for a master volume mod (not sure how hard that would be).

Awesome! Thanks for the detailed info. I got my parts today and am going to tear into it later tonight. Did you isolate your 1/4" speaker jack in the back from the chassis or did you ground it to the chassis? Did you use shielded cable on your signal path from the inputs? It appears the mic inputs are already isolated from the chassis. Did you leave it that way? Once I get it up and sounding guitar amp like, I am going to play with the circuit a bit, and the values you have already spoken of. This will be my first PA to guitar amp mod. Thanks!

(apologies for the super delayed response) I have a Fanon-Masco that I did the quick conversion on myself. No isolating or adding of shielded cable on that one. But I took this one to an amp guy, and he may have done things a little differently, but I don't think he did. I actually don't like the way he did a couple of little things. He doesn't normally do mod-type stuff, so this was a little outside of his normal area of expertise (and mine, but that's another story). I'm guessing you're probably done with your amp mod. Did it go well?