Broader than S, more snap and pop than Bulldog.Anderson switching allows easy 5-Way or Switcheroo access to an almost uncountable amount of sounds while still utilizing easy-to-operate and familiar control. An amazing instrument in immaculate condition. For Trade or Sale: Gorgeous Tom Anderson Superbird.Two P90 pickups, 24.75 inch scale. Ernie Ball Power Slinky 3-Pack Electric Guitar Strings (P03220) 15.49.
But, for all around everything, for an instrument that can cop all styles and not force you to change guitars all night long, the most versatile guitar on Earth might be the Top T.This item: TOM ANDERSON VA-7+ Electric Guitar Single-Coil Pickup. If complete versatility is not your thing and you want the most elegant "T" guitar to deliver a more specialized sonic message, we merely need to equip this same guitar with a different electronic package and it can be as specialized as your needs require. Solid or Hollow body chambers gives growl or smooth flowing sounds of the same nature. Choice of Mahogany or Alder body back will further incline your preferred style, slightly emphasizing mid-focused humbucker tones or wider single coil tones, respectively. A Basswood body back will balance in the middle between the two sounds and Swamp Ash will bequeath open, delicate and airy musicality.
I'm always surprised that there's not much discussion of them here. I've heard that label applied before, but it always seems to be directed at guitars/pickups that are truly balanced or a bit hi-fi (wider spectrum range) by people who like their guitars/amps/speaker cabs with a pronounced *lack* of balance - usually a preference for a spike in the lower midrange.There are also the masochistic types who don't bond with a guitar that isn't fighting them back. They don't play with a light touch, they like the inside of their palm scratching along the porcupine fret ends, they like rosewood fretboard grain and unpolished frets offering them tactile sensation on bends, they like the edges of poorly crowned frets letting them know where they are when they slide up a string. Give those guys a guitar with great SS fretwork and an ebony or well sanded/filled fretboard and they no longer now how to play.
And mind you, we also carried every Strat in the line - Custom Shops, Closet Classics (sort of a take on a NOS at the time), Relics, and the rest of the line.I would say - IMHO - they absolute compare with the best Suhrs and PRS, and probably the finest (Custom Shop) Gibsons and Fenders. A Suhr would fit the bill if I wanted an "improved" strat with a FMT and all the other accoutrements, but if someone around here was still carrying TAs, I'd be down there drooling over them first.I don't know if there's a reason they're less often mentioned - maybe it's location (location location) or maybe it's that he can't build as fast, or whatever.But I've never played anything that, IMHO, looked, sounded, or played as well. I'm a Strat guy, and a Fender guy at that. This was before PRS entered the "entry level" market with the "SE" guitars IIRC.Later, I encountered Suhrs, and to my knowledge, the Andersons were every bit as good, if not better.Also, IIRC, the Andersons were the first guitars I played with the switch that would take you to the Bridge pickup no matter where you were.It's always amazed me how the PRS and later Suhr guitars have taken off and and see so much more press on them - especially PRS - which even became a fad amongst the kind of Nu-Metal set.Our local shop carries Suhr so there seem to be a fair number of players around town with them, but the same is true here at TGP - lot of talk of Suhrs and PRS (which this forum started off as), but barely a mention of Andersons - I here more about Reverends here even!The Andersons I played were my dream guitar. Just the most beautiful instruments I had ever played to that point.As a Strat player, the Andersons appealed to me - later we carried PRS and I thought they were of the same quality, yet I didn't like most of the PRS guitars personally as they seemed more of a Gibson style which for some reason I just couldn't bond with (though we had a semi-hollow that was just gorgeous sounding and looking).
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