Sire H7 Larry Carlton Guitar Review
Sire Larry Carlton H7 Hollowbody Guitar Review | Sound | Specs | Honest Review: Is the hype justified?
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Welcome to my Sire H7 Review! Larry Carlton teamed up with Sire one again to give birth to the Sire H7 semi-hollow electric guitar.
In my review we’ll check the sound, the specifications and what you can do to make a good guitar a great guitar.
The Sire H7 is a precise clone of Larry’s beloved Gibson 335 from teh 70s. He now uses his Sire H7 guitar on tour and leaves the Gibson back home.
The Sre H7 Jazz guitar has a very low price tag. Let’s see if the quality can surpass the price tag, or if there have to fix one or the other issue.
I’ll also change the neck pickup for a Seymour Duncan Seth Lover to see if the sound improves. We’ll have a direct sound comparisson between the original Sire H7 pickups and the Seth Lover pickups in the jazz guitar.
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Sire H7 Larry Carlton Guitar Review:
00:00 Sound Performance 1
00:27 Introduction
00:55 Sire H7 Specifications
04:16 Sire H7 Sound
07:58 Sire H7 pickups vs Seth Lover pickups
09:01 Conclusion
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No….the pickup you put in sounds worse to me…specific pickup for build of the original has a cleaner sound more definition in this audio clip…you good ahead and use the other pickup as that is you taste in sound but it kind kills of the tonal reasons the other pickup was in there…
Wow you're a super player.
The Seth Lover pickups are much warmer and more jazz sounding. The lacquer they use on the guitar looks a little plastic looking in the video. i wonder how the Epiphone 335 would compare with Seth Lover pickups?
FYI, mid 60’s 335’s and 330’s have 1 9/16” nut width. I own a ‘67. Regarding string spacing, on my ‘67 the nut string spacing is the same as my Strat (I don’t own any other gibsons to compare to). The thing I hate about my ‘67 is the std string spacing puts the strings closer to the edge of the neck and it’s very easy to pull the high E string off. Low E side isn’t an issue. This is a well known and often discussed thing with 60’s 335/330 guitars. I’d never buy one, personally. I’ve had my ‘67 since the early 80’s when I traded a late 60’s Strat for it. I feel like I got the short end of the stick on that one.
Thank you for that fine review. Wondering if you have tried the H7F model? It seems that the F would be similar in body depth to your Heritage. Thanks!
The ebony fretboard will brighten up the tone , I think I could live with the original pick-up , excellent review,the best on you tube ????
Surprisingly I heard a huge difference with the SL replacement and I’ve been a hater of SD pups since the early 80s. ???? A remarkable value instrument. To quote my fellow Scott Harold Macmillan “ You’ve never had it so good”.????
Aloha Sandra, I just discovered your channel and subscribed instantly. Love your Tone and enjoy watching your video's. Just curious on what amplifier your using in this vide? Because of your review of the H7, i purchased one and replaced the neck pickup with a seth lovers neck p/u. Thank you!
Oh you're going to do a pickup swap okay I didn't get that far in the video let's see what that sounds like
You might want to just try adjusting the pickups a little bit maybe the pole pieces a little bit on the EA and D see if that gives you a little bit more bottom end sometimes just a minor adjustment makes a big difference not sure if it'll work on that but for the minimal effort might be worth a try
Great playing
Sandra, Please make a video and arrangement for "What are you doing the rest of your life". Thanks, Love your stuff!
Love your style
Exactly what I wanted to hear and watch. I have as well a H7 and find the sound a bit spiky. However I’ll guess the guitar sound appeal to rock as well. But I think you made a point that I noticed as well. Just been considering different pickup options which can be a bit overwhelming so I appreciated your tips to improve this beautiful guitar. Thx!
KNOW THIS… A GREAT GUITER PLAYER CAN MAKE ANY GUITAR SOUND GREAT! I JUST PURCHASED A LARRY CARROLTON H7V…VINTAGE VERSION. I DON'T CONSIDER MYSELF A GREAT GUITAR PLAYER JUST A PASSIONATE ONE… I LOVE LARRY CARROLTON'S BODY OF WORK. THIS GUITAR IS WONDERFUL IT CAN BE WARM AND MELLOW, OR CRISP AND BRIGHT AND THE NECK RIGHT OUT OF THE BOX WAS SPOT ON FOR ME…. I PREFER SMOOTH JAZZ AS OPPOSED TO ROCK ….LOVE ROCK BUT HAVE MELLOWED IN MY TASTE. I LOOKED AT GIBSON AND EPIPHONE AND GIBSON PRICES ARE JUST CRAZY AND TOO MANY EPIPHONE REVIEWS INDICATED THE NEED FOR FURTHER SET-UP WHICH TURNED ME OFF! THIS IS MY FIRST SEMI-HOLLOWBODY GUITAR AND I AM MORE THAN PLEASED GIVEN WITH DISCOUNTS I PAID $600… THATS MY 2 CENTS….GOOD LUCK!
I love the way you play. Gorgeous sounds, and a beautiful guitar for sure. As for the comparison? To my ears the original pickup sounded just a bit better.
Спасибо за обзор. Думаю брать такую или Берни.
I like stock pick up
Great review???? Did you try to adjust height of the original pickup?
Liked the Seth Lover pickup much more than the original ????
You are the first youtube reviewer I know that agrees with me that the basses are very weak. To what extend did the Seth Lovers improve the bass response? I couldn't hear that.
Good review
Thank you
The Seth Lover to my ear was a little more smoothly balanced across the strings. Not really a kick-arse difference but you certainly played better through it.
I don't think you can expect the full-range ultra-woody beauty of a s/coil jazz-box sound from this sort of guitar. They can be played standing right in front of 100watt Marshall Plexis dialled loud enough to play a farm and there are compromises. They're used a lot in fusion for that reason – a jazz-box hollow body would explode!
I find similar. I have two H7s, a humbucker and a P90 job but my Gibson es335 remains my favourite to play. Small margins but the price difference is huge and I can play a Sire in a bar gig where I wouldn't consider a high-dollar guitar and that's an important consideration for me. Lovely playing, thank you.
I have a Sire H7v – P90s. The nut width is 43.5. I also have a Gibson vos es335 1960 re-issue which has the same, and a Sire H7 which is the same. I think Sire have revised the ultra-skinny neck width which caused a lot of comment.
They are extremely good guitars in almost every respect. The set-up on the H7 when I received it was unplayable and needed careful work on the nut and both these Sires have p/up switches which are less-than 100%. Selecting the treble is hit-and-miss, occasionally most of the output shorting out somewhere. I haven't yet determined whether this is a harness or switch problem – I suspect the switch isn't the best quality. Strange – everything else seems to be well above average for the price-point.
In one, I gave it a blow-through via the f-hole with an aerosol of compressed air and now I've remembered, I'll try that with the other one. It may work but neither of these guitars get daily use – they are for gigs, the very area where you don't want to mess around. Time will tell!
In this sort of guitar that's a headache that nobody needs, a bench job and half-a-day's work. I've done this before but for some, that's a trip to the repair shop or return it. Sire definitely need to look at that.
How do they measure up to a choice PAF-loaded es335? Actually, very well indeed. You can gig, rehearse, record, audition etc with no trouble at all – very high quality, pro-grade instruments at a reachable price.
Thank you for your truthful review on the good and bad of the guitar. The Seth Lover pickups are so much better. Warmer, fuller and more body. The poly on the guitar is so shiny that it has a little plastic look to me. I think I will keep my Gibson 335 with the calibrated pickups.
Thank you for the in depth review. I don't hear any real notable difference between the sound of the Sire v the lover PU maybe it feels different when you play it, but sound wise I doubt I could justify the cost of the PU change and surely you can dial in a bit more bottom end and eq . Considering one of these I'm not a Jazz player but kinda want to get a bit of jazz going on for my own developement. Thank you.
I know this is off-topic but Sandra, you wouldn’t happen to have a lesson on the song or guitar chord you were playing do you? Lol this was amazing! Specially with the quick chord changes.
Hey I absolutely love my Sire!!!!! For the price point it’s an absolutely beautiful guitar.
Tabs for the intro part you're playing? Greetings from Braunschweig.
Great job Sandra. I'm a little late to the party but I had to comment and say thank you for this very informative review of a guitar that I'm seriously thinking about getting. I did like the Lover PU but I think if you rolled the tone back a bit on the H7 you might get a little closer to the Lover tone. It might help until you can afford the Lover PU and install because you are so right about trying to work through F holes lol. I would love to know your thoughts. TY again!
Hey really love your video's. I also have a Sire, but changed the pickups with Lollar Imperials, low wound for the neck. Yes I managed to do that myself and it is a very hard thing to do :/ With a lot of tweaking and polish this guitar became my favorite, though I still think the neck is narrow and the frets a bit high for my taste. Great guitar for the money !!
Wasn't worth changing to me????
I own one and Love it ????
Excellent review and answered a lot of my questions. Seth lover for me much better tone. Thanks for sharing.
I like both pickups and understand why you prefer the darker toned one. For me, it depends. If I'm playing solo then I would probably also prefer the darker one. But, in a band context I would prefer the original. My H7V arrived today and I need to do some work on the nut and I'll be polishing frets as well, however i am very please with the tone. If I need it darker I'll just roll off the tone knobs a bit.