image There are so many guitars introduced at the annual NAMM shows that an editor can be forgiven for “blurring over” a bit when confronted with aisles and aisles of solidbodies, hollowbodies,
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There are so many guitars introduced at the annual NAMM shows that an editor can be forgiven for “blurring over” a bit when confronted with aisles and aisles of solidbodies, hollowbodies, and acoustics. But Reverend certainly made sure we didn’t space out when we came across two very different models for 2018.

BILLY CORGAN TERZ

Let’s briefly talk about what this guitar is, and then I’d like to get to what I see as the more important subject: What it does. What it is, is a sleek, sexy, short-scale Reverend model made for Billy Corgan, intended to be tuned a minor 3rd above standard (G, C, F, A#, D, G, low to high), to accommodate the many tunes where Corgan capos his guitar at the 3rd fret. It has a single Railhammer humbucker in the bridge and Reverend’s great Bass Contour control to give you way more tonal flexibility than most one-pickup guitars can offer. It sounds great and plays great.

Now for the fun and interesting stuff. I don’t know if you’ve ever tuned a guitar up to F, but I have, and it was eye-opening to say the least. I’m a huge capo guy, so I’m no stranger to how cool it is to play your same old licks in a higher register. But a guitar tuned higher than standard and a guitar with a capo are not the same thing. The open strings don’t ring the same and the dots just aren’t in the right places (yes, I look at them). We all love what happens to guitars when you tune them down (thanks Jimi), but almost no one ever pitches them up, and that’s just not

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