How versatile is your modern eagle, Dave? I guess it totally fits your bill or else you probably would be looking for another humbucker equiped guitar, right? I would personally love a guitar that could cover anything from jazz to metal, but if such a guitar exist it's not in my posession (at least not yet). So for now I'll have to stick to different guitars. So all in all my question is: Can your Modern Eagle do alot of different styles or does it "just" (no offence) do the things you like overly well?
That's an interesting question!
I think it covers everything very well. I've gigged it, and used the following tones:
1) Clean amp, coil split bridge pickup, chorus and delay - pseudo 12-string for Wanted Dead Or Alive by Bon Jovi
2) Clean amp, overdrive pedal, neck humbucker - rock rhythm for Wishing Well by Free
3) Crunchy amp, both pickups with coil split - funky rhythm for Crazy Bitch by Buckcherry
4) Dirty amp, neck humbucker - lead parts on Castles In The Sand by Thunder
5) Very dirty amp, bridge humbucker, chorus, delay and overdrive pedals - lead parts on Crazy Train by Ozzy Osbourne
Quite a range there from one guitar, and in my opinion they all sound superb. The split tones are compromised a little, as all splits are compared to a true single coil, but they're very useable. The pickups are stock and are a little hotter than an average PAF, more of a modern PAF sound if you will. The guitar is very slick to play, so you can go for shred metal with sweeps if you need to. I don't!
For clean stuff I would prefer to use my CS Tele, and for vintage LP tones I would use my McCarty Korina with PAF-style pickups, but as an all-rounder-do-anything the Modern Eagle is what I would use. It's also my favourite guitar as its soooooooo easy to play, leaving me to think about
what I'm playing, not how.
MartinW, Shobet, Matt77 and Ian Price have all played it/heard it gigged so they may be able to give their views too.
If you're local, give me a shout if you want to try it.
