SuperSwede said:
I found a swedish guitarist that has recorded a couple of clips with his radiator.. No clean sounds, but this thing sounds good (and Andreas Lidberg plays fantastic)....
http://www.lidberg.hemsida.net/
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Wow! Thanks for that link SS! I have the very Radiator that he is playing in clips 1-3, the one in clip 4 is the same except it is one of the older ones with a different color MOTS top.
As you can see it gets bluesy (although *I* can't make it do that yet). It also has PLENTY o' spank n' twaAAaang for the country stuff you've been playing. Yes, it can do the jazz thing on the neck pup with the tone rolled back, although it is a nice single coily type of jazz sound rather than a humbucker sound. The Radiator is fantastic for slide playing. The Radiator has a chambered body for acoustic resonance. Godin is well known for their necks, they made their electric bones building necks for Fender's custom shop.
My only problem is that I've run out of adjustment for intonating the low strings. I bought mine on ebay. It was my first guitar as well as ebay purchase & I didn't know all the right questions to ask. Still I like mine alot. I had the local guitar tech check it out when I first bought it. He had never seen one before, but kept commenting on what a great guitar it was amazed that I would find my way to that one as my first guitar.
Still you should try it out first & see if it fits your style. I thought it was a little bright at the bridge at first but I've done some fiddling around with pickup heights & strings & now I love it.
By the way, the Radiator has a volume knob for each pup rather than a selector switch. I like that cause one can make subtle changes in the soundby tweaking the relative vloumes.
The Radiator comes with a choice of maple & rosewood fingerboards. Mine is rosewood 'cause I really didn't know which to get. I guess the maple would emphasize the twang even more while the rosewood would pull off the jazzier sounds better. That being said, there is twang on tap in mine.
One last thing, the Radiator doesn't go much heavier than Andreas is playing in those links. So if you are looking for distortion rather than bluesy overdrive you should seek it elsewhere.
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Added later to avoid double posting.
I usually play the Radiator clean, I think it sounds very good that way.
Here are some links if you are interested:
The first is a review by sweetwater
http://www.sweetwater.com/publications/sweetnotes/sn-earlyspring99/page12.html
The second is from GuitarOne
http://www.godinguitars.com/godinpressradiator.htm
both are from 1999 I believe.
