My point is that you shoud NOT assume a guitar to sound like/compare to something you have not both heard.
I am not saying an R7 and McCarty Semihollow sound the same. Construction pa lang alam mo nang hindi sila dapat pareho ng tunog.
For all I care, you can have anything on your wishlist. But, until you hear it, it becomes a figment of your imagination.
So many guitars, so little time. I would not bother imagining and fantasizing over guitars I cannot try due to proximity, availability and price issues. By a long shot, I want to try the celebrities' guitar setups as Jack Rufo did try Steve Vai's rig in a Hard Rock gig he saw somewhere in Asia.
Akala mo ba ikaw lang nakarinig ng dating R8 ni Mel? How long a time did you spend on it? I spent over two hours with it and I and Mel were testing its pickups (Voodoos againts BareKnuckles). I and Mel were able to compare it against Andy's Historic and Gibson Custom Shop F-hole semi-hollow Les Paul. Also, I was able to test a Historic somewhere else just recently. I will tell you now that all Les Pauls sound different. Even against my former Les Paul Customer 1976 which I got rid because I did not like the sound. It was a dead guitar. So, I am saying that you dont have the right and so does everybody else have the right to say that you can equate a PRS Hollow Body McCarty with a Gibson Historic R7 based solely on price until you hear both in person.
For Christ's sake who said I am equating an R7 to a PRS Hollowbody? I never said that. For one I am pretty sure the PRS McCarty would sound sweet but I prefer true jazz boxes like Guilds which I've tried. My whole point is with or without P135,000 in my pocket, I would not go for the McCarty semihollow because I would have to buy other stuff prior to that.
As for trying the different LPs, logic tells me that all Les Pauls sound different, but I tend to like the '57-'59s construction because they sound much clearer, IN GENERAL. I hate the '70s Norlin era LP's, but what made me like the '76 I used to have? The tone! Yes it had the lousy pancake body and 5-pc maple neck and the shallow maple caps but as a whole it sounded much better than the other production LP's I've tried. It was no dead guitar. So are you saying you are equating your dead-sounding '76 LP to my '76?
Put it this way. All LP's sound different, as all Strats and Teles, sound different from each other. German Shepherds, Bulldogs, Poodles, Chihuahuas, Pomeranians and mongrels are all dogs. But not all German Shepherds look and behave the same. Same for Bulldogs, poodles, etc. It is just a matter of taste as to what you would purchase first, which tend to be on the top of your wishlist.
