(Updated) NGD! Heritage H-575. With a video sample :)

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Falling Grace by Steve Swallow:

UPD (not sure if this is the right way to go, but I don’t want to flood the forum with new posts):
Another recording, with totally different setup. Spark Mini - USB out - MacBook.

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Another recording setup. This time Peavey Classic 30 to a mic.
“My Romance” by Rodgers/Hart.
I first heard this tune on Tuck & Patti’s album (we actually just found an audio tape, remember those?, and for a while I had no idea, who Tuck and Patti were). I think, this tape made me want to play fingerstyle on a steel strings guitar (I didn’t even realize that Tuck is playing an archtop guitar).

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Happy NGD Alexey.
:slight_smile:

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Enjoy, Alex. Sounds lovely.

If you don’t mind, what a the differences that make each instrument distinct? To the untrained eye they look the same?

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What an awesome instrument… Congrats, I’m really happy for you.

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The main distinctive difference is that when it’s an Ibanez, people say - oh, good one, great value for money, and when it’s a Heritage - people get jealous :smiley:

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Interesting comment. So you feel it’s just plain status? Could be. I think you play great and sound great on whatever instrument that your playing so perhaps your correct. I always revert to thinking about the video I’ve seen of that fella playing a acoustic hello kitty guitar. Can’t remember his name, but he’s a famous player and plays professionally ( a rock star I think). He makes a pink hello kitty guitar sound good. And that, imho, is straight up talent.

Other than that.
I’m jealous, :wink: . Congrats on your new beautiful guitar. It really is a stunner!

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Happy NGD, Alexey! :smiley: :partying_face:

What a beauty and it sounds lovely in your hands. :slight_smile:

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Well, for a trained ear, there is a big difference. The neck is also pretty different. However, there’s nothing I couldn’t do on the ibanez that I can do on the heritage.

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Very nice. Enjoy

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Fair enough, Alexey. I suppose you also have the convenience of being able to tune one in an alternative tuning and just leave it, or a different string gauge.

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Zakk Wylde if I recall correctly.

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Happy NGD Alexey :grinning_face:

Hehe, many here would be jealous of the Ibanez! :rofl:

I’ve got a feeling I’d sound just as ‘good’ on a Hello Kitty guitar as I usually do :wink: :rofl:

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There’s no alternate tuning in jazz, AFAIK…

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I have no idea. I was just using my imagination. But maybe if you were composing jazzy arrangements of more contemporary popular tunes? But I am just a plain and simple camp fire strummer who occasionally plays other than a cowboy chord :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

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It’s just GAS…
When the price is right…

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:joy: well Happy NGD, I’m sure we’ll hear plenty from it in future posts :ok_hand: congrats​:musical_notes:

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Nice nice nice… Happy NGD… I’m already feeling a GAS attack coming up… :smile:

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Nice guitar, Alexey, I love it, and your playing, it’s about time you were tagged as a professional, my friend cheers HEC

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Beautiful guitar, even more beautiful playing!

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The Ibanez is the 2355? Said Ibanez 2355 & the Heritage H-575 are copies of the Gibson ES-175 Archtop, that was introduced in 1949. Big names used them, like B.B. King. The Ibanez has a pressed, laminated maple ply front and back, this was said to help reduce feedback but I wouldn’t expect its acoustic performance to be as good as the Heritage with its carved maple archtop & back. I’d expect the hardware of the Heritage to be of a much higher spec than the Ibanez.

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