Tommy Colletti – Music Zoo founder & proprietor begins a brand new journey in his guitar-slinging profession: his personal USA-built customized guitars
Moving into the function of producer for the first time, Tommy needed to carry all of his love and information of what turns a guitar into that particular one thing – the one you at all times attain for. Introducing the Colletti Guitars “Speed of Sound”. It is an American-made instrument that includes a bevy of customizable choices and specs that make it a high-performance electrical guitar.
Key Particulars and Specs of the Colletti Guitars ‘Speed of Sound’
The Speed of Sound is a bolt-on development instrument that includes the Patent-Pending “Reso-Hyperlink” – a brass plate which hyperlinks the physique and neck to help in resonance, maintain and articulation. The ‘Reso-Hyperlink’ is tuned particularly to sonically join the neck and physique to help in the sympathetic resonance of every notice. There is a outlined notice separation and sparkle added to the tones of the guitar that make it reminiscent of the touch-sensitive response of classic guitars which have had a long time to acclimate as a musical instrument and vibrate as one complete piece.
The tonewoods of the guitars (fretboards to necks and tops to our bodies) are joined collectively utilizing sizzling conceal glue. The use of conceal glue is a course of tailored from classic guitar development, violin makers, and stringed devices from a long time and centuries previous. Sizzling conceal glue provides maintain and brilliance and brings out the pure tonal properties of the wooden.
The pickups are designed in collaboration with Mark Stow of OX4, a well-respected pickup winder identified for his extremely correct PAF replicas. The pickups are a mix of some of Tommy and Mark’s favourite unique PAF pickups from the late 1950s. The introductory units additionally embrace a reverse magnet neck pickup to copy the Peter Inexperienced & Gary Moore-owned Burst pickup that has grow to be in style over the previous few years. It delivers out-of-phase single coil sounds in addition to blistering humbucking tones. The bridge pickup not solely takes the greatest attributes from these early PAFs pickups, however mixed with a barely degaussed Alnico 5 magnet and 42 enamel wire, delivers a sound unmatched in present handmade pickups immediately.
The {hardware} and electronics of the guitar are additionally constructed of the highest high quality supplies. The Speed of Sound includes a brass tremolo design made in style in the late ’70s by early ’80s. They’re constructed from 360 brass, and the bridges can be found in hard-tail and tremolo fashions. They supply a singular tone and maintain tuning stability as a result of the distinctive form of the bridge saddle. After all, fashions can be found with Floyd Rose tremolos upon request. The Speed of Sound is wired with vintage-accurate cloth-covered 22 gauge wire with genuine paper-in-oil capacitors and vintage-taper potentiometers designed to get nice tones delivered from zero to 10.
Colletti Guitars Speed of Sound Specs
- Solidbody Electrical Guitar
- Maple Prime (Choices for Roasted, Quilt & Flame Maple)
- Colletti Carve Neck with Closely Rolled Shoulders
- 5 Diploma Headstock Angle
- Brass Aspect Dots
- 25.5″ or 24-3/4″ Scale Size Choices
- 1.65″ Nut Width
- Pyramid Nickel Frets
- Specifically-Voiced OX4 Pickups with Reverse Magnet Neck Pickup
- Emerson Paper in Oil .022 capacitor
- Mojotone Classic taper quantity and tone potentiometers with Fabric Wiring
- Brass Floor and Jack Plates, Legacy Management Cavity, Patent-Pending Reso-Plate
The place can you purchase a Colletti Speed of Sound?
Presently, the Colletti Guitars Speed of Sound is on the market solely at The Music Zoo. You’ll be able to store at The Music Zoo’s web site, or make an appointment to the showroom in Farmingdale, New York.
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