Funky German gear: 1974 Framus Strato 6, Kitty Hawk The Kid & Sennheiser MD421!
Channel: David Rebel
Date: 2019-02-20

Lovely, funky off-set guitar with awsome tone!

The neck feels great: narrow and fast but with enough "meat" to not feel whimpy. It is straight with no issues. The frets are okay but low - good for jazz, punk, and independent styles. Gilmour and Vai would refret.

The pickups are awsome, full and twangy, warm and clear at the same time. The kind of thing Gibsons mini humbuckers wanted but never quite managed to be - seriously! Volume clears distorted sounds perfectly, the master tone control delivers perfect jazz- and "woman"-tones (think Clapton/Santana). But the best is the third pot: It clears out bass and mids, thus adding serious stratty tones to the the already versatile sound-feast.

The vibrato is kind of an improved Bigsby - same kind of feel and funktion, but easier to restring because of string-thru-feat.

45 years of rock and roll left nicks and chips here and there, but nothing Fenders Custom Shop wouldn't charge you big time for.

Guitar is all original, weighs 4.12 kg - unfortunately it's missing it's original case.

This video is a quick & dirty improv to show some of the tones these guitars are capable of. Main parts are just the guitar straight into the amp, with some delay added from the Boss RC-300 looper. Reverb is the amplifiers built in spring reverb. For the overdriven parts a Fulltone OCD was added.

Gear used in this video:

- 1974 Framus Strato 6 / 10230 solidbody guitar
- 1980s Kitty Hawk "The Kid" combo amplifier (all tube w/ spring reverb)
- Fulltone OCD Version IV
- Boss RC-300 looper pedal
- Squier Vintage Modified Jazz Bass (for the backing track)
- Sennheiser MD421 microphone, straight into:
- Alesis Multimix8 USB FX mixing console
- very old guitar strings and junky cables...
- Canon 6D Mk II camera

Sound was recorded from the Alesis Multimix straight into camera, no mastering or video sound editing was done.