Some additions to our arsenal! Reverend Roundhouse and Greg Koch signature Gristle ST

Thanks @reverendguitarsdetroit
We're over the moon with our new toys, so much thought has gone into these guitars!
We need some help from you, the people! As we mention in the video, we intend to down-tune one of these by a semitone, but we're torn. So let us know in the comments which one it should be!
The video that Lewie mentions about middle pickup position on Strats:
Rhett Shull - best position for a Strat :
• The Best Stratocaster ...

[@rafialvarez3308]

If you pull out the lower knob you have a nice boost, which gives you a different sound, a fatter tone with more mids and grind. It's sort of like the Clapton boost of the early 90's, but with a more sophisticated sound.

[@BarefacedAudio]

Great to know!

[@CraigFlowersMusic]

Had to stop at the 4:47 mark because I have a suspicion about the top wrapping thing. Just like how I used to be good at armwrestling despite not having particularly big arms. People would say "Yeah, but you're tall with long arms, so you have more leverage." Then I would point out that my forearm being longer actually LOSES leverage unless it's also thicker. Than the control arm. Longer arm doesn't have more leverage than the control arm, unless it's thicker OR the same thickness but shorter. Pause for middle school chortles. Am I making sense so far? My tendons aren't higher than yours off the table, but my hand is. Our elbows are the fulcrums, and like our tendons they are located the same height, near the table top. My hand however reaching higher than yours, means LESS leverage not more. Which brings us to the top wrapping theory. They say you get more sustain because you're able to lower the tailpiece to the body. I think that may be the opposite of how it works. You may get more because of the strings being overall farther from the body when top wrapped, but that is not relevant to the lowering of the tailpiece. If I were to lower/raise the tailpiece without top wrapping, you would find that the higher the tailpiece, the more leverage it has to vibrate the guitar body. Similar to how some people, myself included, like a higher string action because it brings out more toan. More leverage to bivrate the body. If you could raise your tailpiece up six inches, those string vibrations would translate down the tailpiece studs into the guitar with 100x more torque. I think the difference comes as much from lengthening the saddle-to-tailpiece string length, as comes from decreasing the break angle. And the reason I think more torque on the guitar body means more sustain, rather than more rigidity on the body meaning more sustain, is precisely because of it taking me twenty years of playing to realize the guitar just doesn't sing right unless the action is high enough: the lower the action, the more it chokes the guitar; however the more the guitar body vibrates along with the strings, the more resonance and sustain. Therefore I say, get those strings as far off the body as possible without having so little a break angle that your saddles rattle, even if it means top wrapping AND not decking the tailpiece. The farther, the better. I know, I just wasted your time. Unless you're like me and the physics matter and understanding matters, in which case, food for thought eh? *edit: definitely the strat. Longer scale I assume, plus there's just something about a strat in Eb. *post-edit edit: 1. I can't believe that little box sounds that good. 2. The clarity in that s-type guitar is off the charts, perfect pick for the channel. 3. I use the strat middle position when I want twang, punch, when I wish I was playing a tele or les paul, it cuts when you're regretting using a strat with no mids or bawls, and it kind of sounds enough unlike a strat to think of it as the unstrat position. Because that's the thing about a strat, for me: it's a bit of a bear trap. When you need one, you need one, but then you're stuck with it and it's the one thing that won't work for that next song but you have it because it was the one thing that would work for that last song. When you don't have a strat, you don't have many ways of faking it. But when you do have a strat, you have the middle position to get out of cliche mayer whatever territory. If I hear that five, flat six, five, flat five, five, eight lick from one more person lol Look at that Two-Rock on there, it just looks awkward. Something taller and thinner wouldn't be such a mismatch, I think. Something like 530 wide, 490-570 deep, something like that. Any progress on the design for those new dimensions? Are you thinking of making it a one-off for me or putting it in the lineup? I do think "The Ringer" names and markets itself lol Not to overstep lol Maybe I'm the only one who thinks 15 inches is so short it's problematic for a cab? It must be difficult with your particular design, trying to deal with people's idiosyncratic aesthetic sensibilities. And difficult when they have a hard time compromising on looks to improve their sound. Which is where I'm stuck. The vertical angled 2x12 I have designed with another builder, is simply beautiful. How shallow, I know. Fortunately (LOL) every room in my house flooded last week on election morning the day after my birthday, so I'm so busy with that, the cab decision can wait. A good old-fashioned, normal looking, standard sized 1x12 with an AVD, might have the potential to become ubiquitous. I know it's the only reason I didn't buy one a month back when the algorithm finally deigned to show me your well-hidden channel after months of guitar cab-related searches. The magical size is the only one you're missing.

[@AManCalledBiggles]

The writing on the strap would still be the right way up 😉

[@jublaim]

I really like Louies playing, especially nice on clean settings! Very nice Reverend guitars there! Message from DHL told I can pick up my Reformer 1x12 next Wednesday; it will be so much fun trying out speakers for it! Main candidates are Jensen Jet Tornado 100W (Neo) and Celestion Creamback Neo.

[@BarefacedAudio]

Hope you enjoy it!

[@BarefacedAudio]

Neo Creamback is a fantastic driver! We haven't had any experience with the Jensen (or if we did it was years and years ago - before my time) so if you decide on the Jensen we'd love to hear the results!

[@jublaim]

@@BarefacedAudio Sure! I'll let you know how the testing goes😊

[@AManCalledBiggles]

I once heard somewhere Fender scale is better for Eb? Something to do with the intonation?

[@BarefacedAudio]

You have swung the vote, sir!

[@roberthastings708]

Love my Revernd. If you have time, you could watch an analysis of the top wrap option from Dylan McKerchie on Dylantalkstone. You guys are doing some good stuff. Every guitar sounds great on your cabs.

[@CraigFlowersMusic]

Rather than turning my book into a novel I thought I would leave one more comment. Nice shoes. Also, I'm one of those people with a place deep in the country in an idyllic, rolling, temperate landscape with crystal clear waters and nothing but cows and elk and turkeys to overhear me. And I've played outside, my place could host about 1000 people with parking and all. I set up just outside the rock front facade of the back house, and the landscape is shaped like a greek amphitheater. However, not to bury the lead, if I'm not set up, backed against the house, even with a PA for the guitar and bass to go into, even with drum mics too, even with the natural amphitheater shape, it all dies off by just a few hundred feet away. As long as I'm no farther than a few meters from the rock wall however, the sound is great everywhere because I'm close enough to reinforce and reflect the back wave. So if I built a fake rear wall, not too unlike the most recent iteration of Klipshorns, would it actually make this cab even more efficient? Or at least, send the energy to one hemisphere if I don't happen to be in a room that can do that for me? Before the K-horns had a fake rear wall, they had to be in corners. Now you can bring them into the room a bit, toe them out, etc. A baffle an inch behind the AVD baffle, attached only by its bottom so it acts as a rear wall. Maybe just a legless chair-shaped stand, to set the cab on. It's just a thought, since you mentioned playing outside in the context of sound reinforcement and it made me think of how the facade of the house is the only reason I'm able to be heard all the way up at the gate. I gotta stop leaving you guys these books, it's just, you're smart, so I know you'll recognize ideas worth pursuing when you see them.

[@rayadray9279]

To expensive with little excitement to justify the $$$