Eastman Guitars: T64 / V-GB This guitar roars! Is it the Lollar P90's?
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- Опубликовано: 5 фев 2025
- This is a quick demo of my Eastman T64/V-GB Hollowbody guitar.
I initially bought it for jazz sounds but am finding that this guitar can also be super aggressive. I'm not sure if it's the Lollar P90 pickups or maybe it's just the nature of hollowbody guitars? It kind of has this unbridled and raw nature that is a total contrast to my Strats and Teles (guitars I'm more accustomed to).
With my particular model, I made a couple of adjustments. I switched the 250k pots to 500k to get a little more high end out of the guitar. I thought it was a little dark with the original wiring (plus Lollar recommends 500k for these pickups). I also swapped the 11's to 10's.
Notes about the playing -
I used an HX Stomp / Focusrite Clarett / Reaper DAW
I recorded a cover of AC/DC's Shoot to Thrill. I switch through the pickup positions throughout so you can hear the Lollar P90's in action. The Eastman is also playing the rhythm tracks. I know - Malcolm used a Gretsch but I figured with this guitar being a hollowbody, it could get in the ballpark!
I used a drum backing track from Drew's Metal Shed as he did a superb job in programming them for this song. His YT page can be found here...
• ACDC - Shoot To Thrill...
After the AC/DC jam, there is some mellow playing using the Stomp's Fender Deluxe Model. It's hardly what I'd call jazz tones though... I'm still working out getting authentic jazz tones out of the Stomp with this guitar and getting closer!
Sounds great 😎🤘
Thanks Peter! 🤘
Excellent shredding! 🤘🏻❤️
Thanks Cody!
Just curious, how much of a difference did you feel the 500k pots made? I hate the idea of replacing stock pots… but the 250k pots seem like a strange choice for p90s.
For me, it was a huge difference. I think the 500k pots brought the guitar to life. It was like there was a blanket over it with the 250k. I'm not sure why Eastman went with the decision to go 250k especially considering Lollar recommends 500k for that pickup.
Beautiful playing! May I ask if these pickups are relatively noisy or are they fairly quiet? Also, have you had any feedback issues at higher gain? Thank you
Thanks for listening! As for the pickups, being single coil P90's they do have more noise than a humbucker. But as far as that goes, I don't think they're noisy. They sound incredible!
As for the feedback, I never really tried in a real world scenario. I can't really play my amps loud at all so I'm mostly using plug-ins and an HX Stomp and studio monitors these days. I suspect though that this particular guitar could feedback at higher volumes as it's a full hollow-body guitar.
I can't really test it out anymore as I ended up swapping this guitar out for an Eastman L00 style acoustic guitar! I do plan to buy another Eastman electric someday but I might go semi-hollow as opposed to a full hollow-body. They have some models that are more the spec of a 339 guitar with smaller body dimensions. The T64 felt really huge to me with it's larger dimensions. But despite that, the T64 was a great guitar and in a perfect world, I could keep all the guitars.
Thanks for the detailed reply! Helped quite a bit. I think I’m going to look into semi hollow for the high gain reason. Eastman sure makes some great guitars, I hope the quality stays up to par the more popular they get. Thanks again, happy holidays!