Some have complained about the wide f-holes, but the originals were like that too. It sounds decent enough with every pickup configuration imaginable but the pickups lack the character of the original gold foil "argyle" pickups-and they only generally resemble the real thing-the gold foil is just plain foil too, no pattern to it. The finish is very good and it came with a Bigsby and a roller bridge. I liked it mostly clean, but with just a hint of amp distortion.I bought an Airline H78 on impulse a couple of years ago. There was no problem dialing up a nice, slightly overdriven Mike Bloomfield “Super Session” kind of sound. Next it was on to a Rivera 45 watt 1-12 Clubster combo amp. With a few little tweaks I had some very bluesy sounding tones happening through the studio monitors. Then it was on to a Line 6 POD in my studio, going direct into the recording console. There were plenty of modeling amp settings that I could find to make it sound good. I first revved it up through a small Roland Microcube amp.
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So how did it sound plugged in? Very cool indeed! Mini humbuckers typically have a darker sound than single coils, plus they’re more powerful, so it’s important to set an amp’s controls accordingly. Always keep some lubricant handy and you’ll be a happy (and in tune) camper. Note: Tight string slots at the nut is the number one reason guitars don’t stay in tune. A little bit of Big Bends Nut Sauce lubricant took care of the problem. The string slots on the nut were a tad on the tight side, “pinging” now and then when tuning. I always wrap the string around itself against the tuning post, which kind of “locks” the string, and when I do that along with stretching the string a few times it always stays in tune. Some people think open faced tuners “slip”, but that’s a load of hogwash. The tuners are open-faced, again just like the old ones. I noticed the bridge moved around a bit whenever I would bend the strings (just like the old ones), so I remedied the problem with an old bluesman’s fix I just put a few short strips of double stick tape underneath the bridge and voila! It held like a champ even on my wildest bends. With a set of 10’s the action was good, and the intonation was pretty darn close. Also like the originals, these guitars have a movable non-adjustable wooden bridge with a fixed compensated saddle.
The advantage of a fat neck is that it’s very stable and practically un-warpable. True to the original Stratotones, this guitar came with a fat “baseball bat” type neck. I took it out of the box and immediately began twanging away. When I unpacked it, I was immediately struck by how beautiful it looked in its copper finish with just a hint of sparkle to it. When I got home after NAMM I kept thinking about it and ended getting one a month later. The H44 sports a really cool small bodied, single cutaway shape with two mini-Humbuckers, a short trapeze tailpiece, three way selector switch and a master volume & tone control. Catching my eye in particular was an Airline H44 DLX in a copper finish, reminding me of the old 50’s Harmony/Kay Stratotone, which in those days was considered kind of a poor man’s Les Paul.
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