[jazz_guitar] Pat Metheny on Strings and use of Ibanez guitars
Kent
Gibson ES 175 Electric (1958)
This is the guitar Pat Metheny used almost exclusively for years, but it has gotten too rickety to travel with. Metheny uses "Pat Metheny Deadwound" D'Addario Strings (0.11 light gauge flatwound)
Says Pat Metheny: "To get my sound on the 175 I use flatwound strings and the tone control turned almost completely off."
Ibanez PM100 (Pat Metheny Model) )
Metheny started playing the Ibanez PM model electric because the Gibson ES-175 was becoming too rickety to travel with. Pat has since begun using the Ibanez on recordings, and bringing it on tour with him. The guitar has a single pickup and a slightly shorter body in comparison to the ES-175.
Says Pat Metheny: "One thing I really like about the Ibanez guitars is that I don't have to turn the tone control down too much to get a darker sound - those pickups are louder and much fatter sounding than the old gibson ones - although the vintage guitar purist types will no doubt continue to harp on me about how the 175 sounds "so much better" than the Ibanez; which honestly is just pure hogwash - and that is coming from the person who loves that 175 more than anyone on earth."
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Scott R Dercks
I have seen a lot of video of Pat playing what is closer to the PM20 than
the PM100. It is a single cutaway with a single humbucker. It actually
looks closer to a 175 than the 100.
I got one that was a prototype that Ibanez had sent to Pat for design
approval. The neck is chunky, but it plays well. I got it from an Ibanez
dealer who got these types of guitars from Ibanez on occasion.
Scott Dercks
> Ibanez PM100 (Pat Metheny Model) )
> Metheny started playing the Ibanez PM model electric because the
> Gibson ES-175 was becoming too rickety to travel with. Pat has since
> begun using the Ibanez on recordings, and bringing it on tour with
> him. The guitar has a single pickup and a slightly shorter body in
> comparison to the ES-175.
> Says Pat Metheny: "One thing I really like about the Ibanez guitars
> is that I don't have to turn the tone control down too much to get a
> darker sound - those pickups are louder and much fatter sounding
> than the old gibson ones - although the vintage guitar purist types
> will no doubt continue to harp on me about how the 175 sounds "so
> much better" than the Ibanez; which honestly is just pure hogwash -
> and that is coming from the person who loves that 175 more than
> anyone on earth."
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Brian Toth
He's also changed to D'Addario roundwounds.
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Chris Smart
and, as far as I know, pat has been using
roundwound strings and a brighter tone for quite a few years now.
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