The Paul D Vox showcase

Happening this Saturday at City Music- Paul Danial's Vox amps showcase, details as stated above. A little preview:

Of course I'm sure

Not too long ago, someone quizzed my reference to the Swing Paul Danial signature model. Was I sure the guitar listed for less than $900 when the SV Guitars listing was $3K?

What I played was the Paul Danial Signature model which was in store before the Custom Shop model. It didn't help that there were no record of it anywhere so my reference to it then was rather loose- which model was it in particular? But the <$900 price tag there was no mistake. So it didn't matter that I played this guitar several times & took note of the price tag, shared it here, I was still doubted. This is one of the reasons why I dislike quoting/ disclosing prices (I'm not the shop selling it anyway, why would price advocacy be of importance to me?). I'd rather the interested parties get price references from source... gee... it's just a phone call away.

Paul Danial: Swing endorsement

I'm a little late at this end of the enlightenment but local guitar hero, Paul Danial (aka Paul Das), has received an endorsement deal with Swing guitars. He has a signature model in store now featuring a pair of tasteful Swing in-house pickups. It came as a surprise for me because Mr. Danial had been seen with a Gibson Les Paul as well as his favoured Fender Strat, only to have the Swing model feature a Floyd Rose bridge & 24 frets. That's quite a move away from his traditional preferences.

Thank you Master Paul D!

Thanks to Master Paul Danial for his pic sharing- that's the same Fender Strat mentioned in the previous posting but now TESLA equipped, of course...

Paul Danial @ Standard Value

Fancy bumping into guru Paul Danial while trying Wampler pedals @ Standard Value last evening. No, he didn't turn up with his Les Paul Studio, he was there to collect his Strat...

...seen here still with the former trio of pickups. Paul got it equipped with a set of TESLA VR-1 single coils. In summary, the VR-1 sounds very vintage in clean mode but once in overdriven phase, it's as contemporary as can be.

Some discussions with Paul:

About his Strat

• bought in 1994
• stock parts less the pickups/ frets
• I played the guitar for a while (because I don't click with the .010 string set on board); the neck was very worn in, devoid of whatever overcoat that used to be there
• it was well set up by Mike so it was shredtastic to say the least & it's a blues-rock tool through & through

Wampler pedals

• Paul likes the Plexi Drive & Plextortion particularly
  
• with his TESLA equipped Strat yesterday, he likes how the pickups sound thick with the above-mentioned pedals

Samad (Lefthanded, RIP)

• Samad suffered a heart attack which led to his demise
• having been through a heart attack himself, he accounted how his muscles were virtually wasted & had to undergo therapy to recover. He did some weight training to strengthen his fretting arm as well. From then on, every note 'is more meaningful'... We should be grateful of our abilities, we simply don't know when we would be stripped of them.

Current assignment

• playing with Douglas Oliviero
• the above-mentioned Strat was tuned down to suit Mr. Oliviero's sonic range...