Producer and Songwriter busbee, who has penned hits for Lady Antebellum, Hunter Hayes, Kelly Clarkson, P!nk, Shakira, Christina Aguilera and more joins Dave and Herb on the 186th episode of…
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Gibson Songwriter Deluxe Studio EC Acoustic-Electric Guitar
- The grover rotomatic tuners bone nut and tusq saddle big sky radiused fingerboard edge.
Gibson Songwriter Deluxe Studio EC Acoustic-Electric GuitarSongwriter Deluxe Studio EC At the heart of Gibson’s square-shoulder dreadnought line of acoustic guitars is the Songwriter. First introduced in 2003, the Songwriter Deluxe Studio EC combines Gibson’s advanced bracing patterns of the 1930s with our original square-shoulder dreadnought shape, cutaway body and long scale. A powerhouse player, this guitar is a favorite in the acoustic jumbo line. Body and neck The Songwrite
List Price: $ 3,366.00
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Herb loves a throwback Polo Sport and then drops “multihyphenate” on us.
What a legend!?
Bought my copy of the pensado papers… this episode alone should encourage
everyone to support! Peace to Dave & Herb ?
Is it just me or does Herb’s Ralph Lauren logo on his T-shirt get bigger &
bigger every time he wears Ralph on PP?
These guys are awesome. Doesn’t seem like a planned and rigid conversation
or interview about music. Flows really well and keeps that sense of
grounding. Love it?
Which episode is it where Bob Horn is talking about the things on his mix
buss??
c6 = unnecessary processing power. Does he have all those plugins on
because her voice wasn’t good from the beginning??
Absolutely loved this video, thanks a lot guys?
Where can I buy those awesome mugs ya’ll sip from???
God damn, I love it when they upload new episodes when I am bored out of my
mind.. Maybe I should get to mixing my client’s songs… Nah Pensado’s
Place is on! :)?
This video was absolutely inspiring. Mr. Busbee’s intelligence and
creativity is astounding. Thanks for another great one Pensado’s Place!?
“I’m self-defecating, too.” -Dave
“Depends…” -Herb?
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waves advertisment
great trick lol?
re the book: never read reviews
;)?
9:13 to skip the endless ass kissing?
love the interview time flew by quickly can’t wait for his return?
I put sugar in eggs, too.?
One of the greatest episodes! Absolutely cool dude and Herb back on his
polo thang.?
great, but could be even better,
I love my guitar, but I want to tell you I hated it the day I brought it home. The action was terrible and it did not sound very good- quite harsh. I bought it having faith in my luthier. I took it from the store to the luthier. He adjusted the action, lowered it, and did some miscellaneous things I don’t recall now, to correct it. I want to say that given Gibsons reputation and boasting how they are so great, you would expect it to come from their master craftsman already sounding good and set up better than it did especially at the price of $2400. Next I have found that the nut on this guitar is a chincy plastic piece. I had the nut replaced with a real bone nut (altered the extra wide spacing -reduced by 2mm from E to e). It baffles me why Gibson didn’t just put a bone nut on in the factory. The guitar doesn’t have nearly that much eye candy, as others do but it is okay. In the end its a great quality instrument and if you take the time to get it properly set up by a good luthier, and in my opinion reduce the nut with the bone and reduce the string spacing, lower the action, you can’t be wrong. It plays easily, as much like an electric as is possible for an acoustic. Bar chords are quite a bit easier now, as opposed to the day I tried it in the store. I never have issues keeping it in tune. The tuning machines work very nicely. Now that I am breaking it in, it is sounding better and I anticipate that this is a guitar I will never want to part with.
***UPDATE 7 MONTHS LATER***
The guitar broke in with the bone nut- it has tone so sweet I decided to install a bone saddle also. I have not had the saddle installed because I had to get the neck adjusted and ran in to a problem today. The center seam below the saddle has become unglued and allowed a tiny split in the wood between the halves. Regardless of how Gibson handles this (I have almost zero hope they will fix it at no cost to me) I am seriously disappointed. Not because of this repair which should cost about $100. It is because I love the guitar and had such high hopes of how amazing it will be in 40 years from now- and I feel that the dream is gone and the value of a blemished or repaired guitar of this caliber is seriously reduced just like a car that has been wrecked and had the frame pulled back out with new fenders and a hood -we avoid those. I paid $2400 and for this to happen in 7 months (yes I use a sound hold humidifier and keep it stored in the case always when not in use- in addition, I own a 15 year old Charvel Jackson Acoustic guitar that lives in the same room and it is in pristine shape…in case anyone questioned if it was an issue of abuse)really disappoints me. The Guitar Center feels that I should have paid them for the insurance plan and said they can not help me really. I feel that I deserve to have a flawless instrument because I paid their premium price tag for a premium product. I am not asking for anything for free- I gave them my cash in good faith. In manufacturing, they have product which never makes it to retail due to quality issues, and it surely would not *hurt* Gibson to swap this out with new, but who is to say if they should. I am not asking for more than I paid for, or deserve. There really is no perfect solution in my eyes, as I have paid to have it set up, and broken in and already have strong attachment to the guitar. That said, a new replacement would be ideal from a consumer standpoint, but I lose the money invested… so, it feels like a broken arm… you get over it but you are never compensated. I understand that things happen in life, and while I do not know exactly what Gibson will do for me just yet, I assume I am having my well reputed local luthier fix it. He said it will sound just fine, and the repair is internal mostly; only a small blemish on the outside. The reason I think this way is that I was told Gibson would make me pay to ship it back and forth- which would cost more than the $100 repair if I did it locally. (It frightens me to think of having it shipped any place, how much abuse it would receive) I will update this review again soon and let everyone know how it works out. I really love this guitar and its tone. The cutaway is the way to go. I still think the hummingbird is miles ahead cosmetically, but besides the very ordinary plain cosmetics, my guitar is something I am sure I will cherish for a long time, provided that it does not fall apart and this un-glueing problem does not persist.
UPDATE July 2011–
The Guitar Center stepped up and offered to ship the guitar for me, and got Gibson to agree to fix it. They said it would take over 3 months however as warranty work gets less attention than the guitars being sold because a new guitar will bring them $$$$ and mine will bring them … nothing but a job to do. With the promise of a 3 plus month wait, I decided that I would have the local luthier fix it so that I could have it…
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THe highs and lows on this guitar do not match and the guitar is a bit harsh. It almost sounds like it is two different guitars playing between them and I can’t figure that because Gibson is known for rich deeps that go through to highs and smooth action. I actually went to purchase this guitar at a local guitar shop and played it against my Eastman (a Chinese made guitar that costs about 400-500). Ouch. The Eastman was a better sounding instrument. Remember, especially at this level, every guitar (even the exact same model) will play/sound a little different. That is VERY important to remember for anyone considering buying a guitar where you plan to invest a considerable sum of money. SO I went to (gulp) Guitar Center and played their Songwriter. Same or worse. Plus, why does GIbson have to use that finish on the neck?? All it does is slow you down. Am I the only one who thinks that?? Taylor and Martin are a lot faster.
I would urge anyone considering this guitar to look at a Martin GPCPA1 or a Taylor 814/914 series or a different Gibson model (Gibson makes great stuff). If you don’t want to spend the extra money, buy an Eastman or a Yamaha. Just have someone play it for you in a quiet room with your eyes closed. It’s harder to hear if you play it yourself. You will see what I mean.
All this said, the guitar is quite beautiful aesthetically and it does not have a horrible sound. Come on… this is a Gibson. But for that kind of money, it should be clear from lows to highs and match well. When a $500 Chinese guitar sounds better… well, time to go back to the drawing board. My opinion and do not mean to bring anyone down that owns this guitar. It was my dream guitar before I played it.
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