tiens sinon une interview de Timmons sur le site Ibanez à propos de ses guitares :
Ibanez: What were the main goals that you hoped to achieve with the Andy Timmons signature model?
Andy: I was always, like so many players, trying to combine the elements of some of the classic guitars into one guitar. Some companies did it to varying degrees of success but nothing that I was ever completely satisfied with. So that’s where the two single coil/humbucker situation came into play, and we tried a variety of different kinds of hardware. I just wanted the greatest, clearest tone with the greatest amount of sonic variety that I could achieve. So getting a neck single coil to match up with a bridge humbucker was an issue, and the DiMarzio Cruiser helped largely with that. That’s a main staple of my tone even today. I use that neck Cruiser a tremendous amount. We ended up with basically an unfinished neck. So when you pick the guitar up, it feels like this killer played on vintage neck, but it’s a brand new guitar.
Ibanez: You mentioned the DiMarzio Cruiser in the neck, and I know that it has the DiMarzio AT1 in the bridge. What was the story behind that?
Andy: There was a guitar that I had with a Jeff Beck Seymour Duncan in the bridge, and that was kind of a mainstay bridge pickup for me for a while. But when I realized that that DiMarzio Cruiser neck pickup worked really well for me, Steve Blucher at DiMarzio suggested that we come up with something comparable if not better to the Jeff Beck pickup for me to use in the bridge position, and they did it. It’s got that same tight low end and even a little warmer, more pristine top end, just really well matched with the Cruiser.
Ibanez: What was the reasoning behind using a Wilkinson/Gotoh VSVG Tremolo on your signature model?
Andy: By the early 90s I had gotten away from fighting to keep a Floyd Rose tremolo in tune. I think it’s a great system, and it works well for a lot of players. I tend to be really aggressive though, and I use my fingers a lot to get the different tones out of the strings. Sometimes it’s really delicate, sometimes it’s really aggressive. I just never felt connected to the guitar when I was using the Floyd Rose system. I felt like when I really dug in that something was moving or warbling. So I really wanted that solid connection between me and the string. The Wilkinson tremolo just sounded the fattest and the truest to me. I don’t have it set up floating either. It’s pretty much tight on the body. The overall importance to me is that it’s stable.
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