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Topic: your Goldtone or Mine |
Kevin Ruddell
From:
Toledo Ohio USA
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Posted 28 Apr 2004 9:58 am |
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After playing my Gold Tone Lap Steel I've noticed a couple of things . It's rich sounding pickup is great although it has a pronounced sharp bump up in a high treble area of the tone that is touchy to try and reduce with simple tone controls . I'm going to hook up a graphic eq to find which frequency develops that problem. Maybe I can match a capacitor to the tone pot to bleed off that frequency .The Gold Tone is about twice as loud as my 52 Fender Dual Pro volume wise. I'm getting a bit more comfortable playing the Gold Tone although I'm continually turning myself down as the volume knob lays right under the area where your right hand picks. Any other Gold Tone players having this problem ? I wish they would have put the volume knob on the other side of the guitar body with the tone knob where it's out of the way . I may try and replace the Gibson type" speed " knob with a smaller knob. |
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Bill Leff
From:
Santa Cruz, CA, USA
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Posted 28 Apr 2004 11:56 am
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| That volume knob placement sounds like a blessing if you want to do volume swells. |
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Chuck McGill
From:
An hour from Memphis and 2 from Nashville, R.I.P.
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Posted 29 Apr 2004 3:28 am
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Kevin
What did you have to pay for your Lap with
a case? |
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Kevin Ruddell
From:
Toledo Ohio USA
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Posted 29 Apr 2004 4:04 pm
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| Chuck I think I paid about $300 last fall for it at Elderly Instruments incl. a good quality Warwick gig bag. Now if Goldtone would just add a double six console to their product line. |
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Kevin Ruddell
From:
Toledo Ohio USA
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Posted 30 Apr 2004 5:26 am
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Bill , maybe I'll try thinking of it in that way for volume swells. I have been playing the guitar on a stand and it seems to diminish the hand bumping the volume knob down as I play some . Probably due to a different hand position/angle
thanks for the suggestion |
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Terry VunCannon
From:
Greensboro, North Carolina, USA
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Posted 30 Apr 2004 7:50 am
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| I have a Goldtone lap & love it. I like the fullness of it's tone. At first the volume knob seemed strange, but the more I play it I like it. I can now do swells & volume changes with my wrist on the knob, while keeping my fingers in a playing position. A great lap steel for the money. |
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Roger Shackelton
From:
MINNESOTA (deceased)
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Posted 30 Apr 2004 12:30 pm
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Have any of you Goldtone owners bought the case for the guitar? Is it worth the $85. at Elderly?
Roger |
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Kevin Ruddell
From:
Toledo Ohio USA
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Posted 1 May 2004 4:23 am
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| Roger , when I bought my Goldtone at Elderly the clerk told me she thought the $85 company case was a modified banjo case from their line.I didn't look at it though. She suggested and I bought a very nice 3/4 size guitar gig bag made by Warwick for my Goldtone for $19.95. DC Case and Cabinet made me a road case for it for $49 |
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Chuck McGill
From:
An hour from Memphis and 2 from Nashville, R.I.P.
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Posted 1 May 2004 4:25 am
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Roger the case is nice and worth the money.
The case now is a form fit with plenty of room for acc.[This message was edited by Chuck McGill on 01 May 2004 at 05:27 AM.] |
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