“Through our tweed combo, the bridge pickup is spiteful and nasal just like a great bridge P-90 should be and, digging in hard, there’s plenty to love for fans of early Kinks and prime-era Neil Young and Jack White. MusicRadar verdict: The Starfire I Jet 90 is a guitar that will enhance your level of cool long before you play your first chord on it, but once you do, you'll surely win friends and influence people with those feisty P-90 tones, and have a lot of fun along the way. They might be made in Indonesia these days but there is still the weight of history behind the name, and guitars such as this do that name justice. It is expanding on the legacy builds we have seen from Guild in recent months, finding a new audience of the brand's heritage. Put it this way: the Jet 90 is a guitar that's well worth exploring. The sustain is quite a selling point here too. Sure, keep it on the bridge or neck pickups and go for that classic hot and punch and slightly wide tone profile that is a classic P-90 voicing, but venturing to the middle P-90 opens up a more adventurous flavour, with plenty of fat and warm tones awaiting in the mix positions. That makes for a lot of tone options from a pickup renowned for its brightness. While position four sees the middle and neck in hum-cancelling mode and position five is the neck pickup on its own, position six joins the bridge and neck pickups together in hum-cancelling matrimony. Glorious.Ī deluxe addition to Guild's Newark St series that evokes the end of the jazz era and the start of rock 'n' roll. Okay, it is mostly hollow, so feedback can be an issue, but get it right, hit a clean boost into the front-end of a Fender-style amp and the thing damn near takes off. Allied to the cool looks and sound materials, they make for excellent value in what is a crowded market for semi-hollow electrics. Guild Starfire I DC and Guild Starfire I SC GVTīoth make great options for blues, jazz or rock 'n' roll but there's a nice versatility to these Starfire models' voice.Position three is the middle pickup on its own, mellowing out some of the brightness of that P-90 and offering an interesting proposition for migrating funk players who are more used to a middle pickup on Strat. We go from punchy bridge pickup to a mix position of the bridge and middle pickups for a humbucking mode that's sure to be a well-used position for high-volume players looking for more meat on the bones. Switching between pickups on that six-way rotary dial is fun, just so long you are in a well-lit room, though there are indicator pins to help you feel for what's going on, and like any instrument, it's sure to take a little getting used to before everything becomes second nature. The bright and breezy open-air maple design – and there is quite a bit of wide to this body – is a factor, too, but there's no denying that the bridge P-90 has a little more warmth and depth to it than we might have expected had this centre block been spruce for instance. (Image credit: Future / Olly Curtis)Ī lot of what you are hearing is the mahogany centre block offering a perfect ballast for the Franz P-90 pickups to do their thing. A rotary dial selects from six pickup positions.
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