René Martinez – Texasguitarwhiz Chapter 6: Stevie Ray Vaughan Guitar Setup
Texasguitarwhiz, René Martinez walks us all the way through his process for setting up Stevie Ray Vaughan’s guitars. Techs and tinkerers of all skill levels will benefit from Rene´’s experience and techniques!
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Did he go over how he manages to actually intonate this up to the last fret or does he just intonate at 12th fret and screw the rest? I mean there's no way to actually intonate that action without something else
I mostly used a '57 reissue with 11s tuned to Eb through a Super Reverb most of the 80s & 90s, but I ran the trem up and floating as Leo intended – ya just gotta lean on the bridge a little when you double bend…
2/32? Why not 1/16?
3,5/32nds is 2,78 mm – at the 12th fret for a high E??? or am I hearing something wrong
thats very high
This would DESTROY my fingers. ???? So love this whole interview though. I could listen to Rene talk all day. Stevie deserved a great guitar tech like Rene and I'm so glad Rene enjoyed his time working for Stevie. It's such a shame we were all robbed of Stevie so young but even more of a shame for all those who had a close connection and of course a job with him. Everything going so right and then, it's all gone.????
I really admire how modest and humble this guy is. What a douchebag
extraordinaire.
What an honest and straight-foward gentlemen!
????Very Informative ???? Thank You Rene ????
Telephone wires on a pole is what he played, his fingertips wore off, and he literally sacrificed a pound of flesh for tone
lol I love all the people questioning the information in this video. ???????????? “I seen a video on my phone and Stevie’s strings weren’t never that high!”
What about the distance between the strings and pickups?
Please i am you bagging you . neck with strings on it , tuned to E flat , how strate is the neck ???????????????????
Great! What is 2 1/2 32 in MM?
Any neck relief? Or perfectly straight?
Hey what is wrong with you . Neck straight with out strings ? what about trust rot tension ? 3 vibrato strings ????? who you bushitting ? what about the neck with stings on it ? any neck can be straight even with trust rot this engaged . what you presented is stupid . make that video again and respect people who are going to watch . what was neck release with string on it full tension that what you suppose to tell us .
I've been playing 62+ years, Rene, and I use that same guitar-on-foot technique! You got that one right, for sure! And I think I prefer your nut lubrication to just about everything out there! I load all my strings first, as well. You set up for one of the best guitarists who ever played; but I have been setting up my Stratocasters by only feel, for over 60 years. You certainly need those measuring tools, though, to set up someone else's guitar! And i readlly like your technique of "thumbing-down" the strings at both ends of the neck to get that hump out of them where they cross the bridge and the nut. I use Raw Vintage springs which are quite unique, and I leave my bridge floating just a little, as I like the action of the tremolo with wiggle in both directions. Just as an aside … my very first guitar was a 1954 Stratocaster my dad gave me in 1963, serial number 0517.
This guitar is strung with 11’s. Just to close the loop… according to the bio Texas Flood, Stevie changed to 11’s after he got sober. After years of supergluing flesh from elsewhere on his body, he could actually ‘feel the pain’ for the first time. It reportedly was at the urging of his techs (inquire within), who had been telling him for years that there is little to be gained north of 11’s. Everyone who saw his last shows was unanimous that he never sounded better.
Is there anything cushioning the bridge at the body? Mine makes a smack when I let off on the bar. I was actually considering floating it like Jeff Beck, but I gather that Stevie Rey would never do that.
So what was the trust rot ajastment on srv guitar . what is the tentcion on the trudtrot ?????????????????????????
GHS sells the actual strings Stevie used – the GHS Nickel Rocker "Lo-Tune" set, but another trick to get a "sort of" Stevie set is to get a 7 string set of Ernie Ball Power Slinky and leave out the .048, so you get .058, .038, .028, .018, .014, .011 – the only two strings that would be slightly lighter are the G and B strings.
The Nickel Rockers are warmer, smoother sounding and have a touch more tension on the wound strings, but the Ernie Balls sounded great too.
My fingers would get trapped under those strings. What an action! ????
Saw SRV open for Jeff Beck in 1989. Stevie beat the brakes off of that strat. I've never seen anyone do the crazy stuff that he did that night. The fact that the guitar held up and stayed in tune is a testament to how talented Rene is.
Nice
Ive played with different sizes qnd tried to get the neck to respond as Stevey and the only one i was successfully happy with was the SE Stratocaster with a baseball neck
This is such a hidden gem!
WHAT about the pickups? height? angle? makes a HUGE difference to tone!
Renee you're the best
thanks man. why you dont clean the fretboard , polish the fret biz… your a pro
If you dont live in a certain area you will not receive it…they should tell you that up front..also i think they told me if i dont receive medicaid you cant get it…i worked all my life , but because I don't live in Egypt i cant get it crock of shit.
Knowledge is such a beautiful thing…Stevie probably used such big strings because if you ever saw his fingers they were huge !!