Re: My Hagstrom Viking

djetz · Post by **djetz** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 12:21 am

hound of winter wrote: i might be buy new pickups (the set you have) for the guitar as well, since people tell me they're better than the dream 90s i have in it now.

Well, I've now completed fixing a couple of broken down old computers for my cheapskate friends who believe I have nothing better to do than devote several days out of my life to working for them for free... so I might get a chance to record some guitar samples with the Hag. I was working on some recordings, but everyone else's disasters kept intruding on my life, so that project has been shelved for a while now... hopefully I'll get a little more me time in the next few days. I'll just do a few simple things so you can get an idea of the tones I'm getting.

djetz · Post by **djetz** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 12:57 am

http://www.fileden.com/files/2008/7/9/1995120/class.mp3 - 2 mb

Well, there's something I recorded a couple of months ago, the first part of an epic I'm working on.

The drums and bass are midi, there are two guitar parts:

1 = lead, Hagstrom neck pickup
2 = rhythm, Hagstrom both pickups

Both recorded direct to computer through a Zoom G2 set to the JC amp setting with a little reverb. Basically a clean sound. No processing after they were recorded except for some reverb on the fade out bits of the rhythm part. So that's basically as clean as you're likely to get.

I'll record something a little rockier with the bridge pup at some point.

djetz · Post by **djetz** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 5:12 am

Something else I might as well mention here: the Hagstrom Viking fits into the Gator GPE-335 case. I was a bit worried about that, since the body shape is a bit different between Vikings and 335s, but it fits. I found a decent deal on the Gator case so I went for it - but it's always a bit of a gamble buying a case when you're not 100% definite that the guitar will fit... I can't swear that a Viking will fit in any other 335 case, but this one works with no modification.

http://www.gatorcases.com/productsmodel ... D=5&MID=47

andtrea · Post by **andtrea** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 6:32 am

djetz, you're seriously gasing, please STOP!

djetz · Post by **djetz** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 10:07 pm

andtrea wrote: djetz, you're seriously gassing, please STOP!

Sounds like you're the one who's gassing, andtrea - I'm not, I already own one.

Just to help you gas some more, I recorded a couple more samples today, to show off the Bill Lawrence L-610 bridge pickup.

The first is a quick version of my guitar arrangement of Somewhere over the rainbow. I made a drum loop a while back to record this, but never got around to the guitar part, so here's the quick and dirty version. I need to raise the bass side of the bridge slightly, I was getting some buzzing, but never mind that

It's the same setting as the earlier piece, just a clean sound from the G2. The drum loop, BTW, I'm proud of: I sampled the drum sounds from Funhouse by the Stooges and re-arranged them into a 3/4 beat. So in a way I have Scott Ashton playing drums on my retarded version of a 100 year old tune...

The second piece uses a fuzz setting on the G2 - if digital fuzz sounds good, real fuzz will sound better, of course... the first part is a tune of mine that may be called Enki for mysterious reasons, and the second part is just me wanking around - again, ignore the bum notes, it's just to show the sound of the pickups in this guitar.

http://www.fileden.com/files/2008/7/9/1995120/sotr.mp3 - 4 mb

http://www.fileden.com/files/2008/7/9/1995120/fuzz1.mp3 - 5 mb

I encoded the mp3s at the highest bitrate for clarity, so the files are relatively large... sorry if that's a problem for anyone.