I think the Eastman could sound better by changing the zinc Gotoh bridge for a bridge with brass saddles Thanks!

Did you get the copy WAV thing to work? I’ve used 24 bit, 16 bit 44.1khz. And it just doesn’t play the file, even though it’s called W001 in w001 folder. EDIT ah has to be 44.1 and 32 bit stereo.

@Paul-D with many guitars at this price point, the combinations of cheap tuners and cheaper trem hardware, mean they struggle with staying in tune. How does this one cope with that? I know you didn't have the bar attached in the video but I'd really like to know this because I am looking for a solid guitar and intend to change the pickups to Trisonics more or less immediately.

Aria sounds better to me.. it sounds tighter

Great review! And can I say, I really enjoyed the song selection

With a backing track loaded can you just enter play mode, not record?

Great video Pauly. Well put. Everything has its place. I’m analogue through and through and need that particular buzz. I thought all of the sound clips playing through your pedals and amp sounded warmer and fuller. Digital sounded great, just different. Out of interest what riff were you playing around the 08:00 min mark?

Frusciante Bedroom lick 10/10

this video came out just in time =D

I feel like the sound quality was pretty cut and dry approximately 3 seconds into the first all digital recording. No comparison unfortunately. The Walrus ACS1 on the end of my pedalboard does a pretty good job for silent practice through headphones, but no comparison to plugging the same pedalboard into my fairly budget friendly tube amps (AC15 + DeVille). I have heard some quite nice sounds out of an FM9 but never had the chance to play with one. Did you end up buying the Eastman T64V you were looking at awhile back?

Great video Paul. James HOT is my go to for replacement harnesses because he makes perfect left handed ones with reverse taper CTS pots. Cheers

Stellar video Pauly. Covered everything we all question back and forth. Cheers

Great video my friend I’ve gone pedals then everything digital ie.helix ect. Now I’ve gone back to pedals and am glad I did the journey but pedals and amps all day for me …

I've been using a Fractal FM3 for recording for ages, sounds great. ... very recently just picked up a Marshall Origin, mic'd up with just an SM57 and the different IMO is immense. .. so digital for ease +demos .. real amp for tone and finals for me .. just the presense and weight of tone with a real amp is hard to replicate (unless super heavy gain of course )

I just acquired a T486 and it looks almost identical to your guitar here but it’s not a T59V and not aged. it’s a 2022 and I traded some gear at guitar center was looking for amp and ended up with the T486 found it on the wall of the used section and it looked nice. my first interaction with Eastman and I’m still just blown away i played it against prs se hollow body piezo , my Dangelico DC, and i knew it was a good guitar it also easily as good as other Gibson 335 I’ve played in the past.

Fabulous pickups either way!

OMG. I just sat through 11 minutes of hearing how good this thing is and realised at the end that it was a sales pitch.

Bravi Santana Style

I ended walking away with both this week. My local shop had both in lefty. I didn't pay a penny I traded 6 guitars and still have a shop credit of 150 quid. Cheers Paul for the great contents.

You make them both sound amazing! Excellent playing!

57/62

57/62

Thank you for sharing! I love Duo Sonic!

Just got one of these. Sounds genuienly fucking amazing for basically evething I like. Very hard to reach the top frets tho.

Thanks for giving us the room sound too!

I wonder how much difference the rosewood vs maple makes? Fat 50's for me

I have a 2006 version, but in red color, which I bought in 2022. I haven't owned a guitar with 3 pickups before, and I feel the wiring diagram for the pickups is quite weird. At that moment, I was amazed bcs u can get all those different 7 sounds with a 3-way switch (5 selection, just like any other wiring like: Neck, Neck + Mid, Mid, Bridge + Mid, Bridge) and when ur pickup selector in Center (Neck + Bridge, Neck + Mid + Bridge) I was thinking a long time ago about whether the pickup wiring could be made to coil-split or not; if possible, it might be even more unique. But without modifying anything until now, this is more than enough for me.

Fat 50's for me, because 57/62's it sounds too bright for me on the tails. Also can't compare Maple to Rosewood. Rosewood always sound's brighter.

57/62 they got everything!

Is this guitar different to the Suhr standard legacy limited edition guitars where the bodies are made out of okume wood? Thanks

I love CS fat 50s and 69s . 57/62s are decent too.

Clapton Stratocasters are the misunderstood Swiss Army Knife of guitars. I watched a Norms video where Micheal Lemmo played one with the boost all the way up for the whole video. People who say that it doesn’t sound like a Stratocaster don’t fully understand how to use it. If you don’t understand the tools on your Swiss Army, it’s just a knife!

All made in Korea Epiphones are great.

My t64 goldburst with bigsby is an amazing guitar....iv sold two 60s gibsons because they just weren't as good. Id definitely recommend getting the one with the bigsby..it makes the guitar. You're right the varnish reliced finishes will become highly sought after since they're no longer making them. Keep up the good reviews an great playing too! Al ..Northern Ireland

Dissection also used a DS-2 on their first two albums. To my ears they probably used mode 2.

Were the original pots audio taper, or linear, or something else? I am certain that the volume pots should be audio (log) taper. I'm not certain what is correct for the tone pots. Another thing that makes a difference is 50s wiring versus modern wiring, each has its advantages. I tend to prefer 50s wiring, which is a little brighter.

Great playing Pauly - shows the guitars off nicely. I have a T59/V very similar to yours (same finish, with some light relic-ing) and a T64/V in amber, also with light relic-ing. Both are superb. There is something about the tone of the Seymour Duncan antiquity pickups and the ebony board which is particularly sweet and keeps me picking up the 59/V. My only criticism of the guitar is that it is quite heavy and because of the 335-type design you have to reach a way away from your body to get to the low end of the fretboard. The different 330-type design of the T64 with more overlap between the fretboard and the body means that your fretting hand is closer to your body when you're [playing it, and that combined with the fact its a lot lighter as a hollow body does make it considerably more comfortable to play for extended periods. the lollar P90s sound amazing too. But I do keep coming back to the T59/V despite the back-straining ergonomics of it, because it sounds (and looks) so damn inviting. Eastman QC is up and down in my experience. I bought an SB55DC/V because of its incredible lightness and resonance, then discovered the bridge posts had been drilled in slightly the wrong place, meaning it was impossible to intonate the guitar correctly with the supplied Faber wraparound bridge. Fortunately Faber also make an intonatable wraparound bridge (their customer service is excellent by the way) and for £100 I was able to swap in the new bridge and solve the problem at a stroke. The sound of the guitar is as raucous and inspiring as it was with the old bridge, so all good. but the experience is a reminder that with Eastmans (as with Gibsons!) you need to play a few to find the really good ones, and check them over for QC issues. But they are such good instruments

Great tone and sustain.

57/62. They sound more tight and better balanced across all the strings. The tex mex sounded good but a bit spikey in certain frequencies.

Ive got both. Boss katana its amazin.

Unrelated to theme. Is there a connection to the F3 and Vulcan?

Iv got a few vintage v100s, all different types of pickups (deliberately cherry picked for their sounds) its important you know what you want from them , some are better for rock others bluesy tunes , the lemon drop is next ,

insane tone bruther 🤘

Nice playing & sounds! I also have t59/v and t64/v. The t64v is something special. I also bought the la romeo with goldo trem in gorgeous blue, just needed to…

Rex for me

I’ve got two Eastman acoustics, one 12-string, one AC630 jumbo. Absolutely superb instruments. Looks like the electrics are just as tasty.

its almost exactly what i want but i cant bring myself to pay over a grand for a mexican tele

Hey Pauly, another question from me...What was your signal chain in this video?....You were getting some great crunch tones, so really interested to know what pedals and more specifically what amp you were using for the playing parts of this video?

2013's came like that with the standard price.

I think the 2 stud trem bridge on the blue Guitar makes the sound warmer with all pickups, the only way to really compare is to record the sunburst Gtr swapping the loaded pickguards . The Tex mex sound nice !