如果您想坐下来Brad Paisley’s various achievements, honours and awards one by one, we might well be here all day. Over a two-decade career the country singer-songwriter has shifted over 11 million records, set the record for the most consecutive No 1 singles on the Billboard country chart (10, if you’re interested), has won enough Grammys, CMA and ACM awards to sink a fairly substantial boat, written songs for Disney movies, turned up on TV shows as diverse as South Park and The Voice… oh and he also happens to be a bona fide, strap-in and hold on tight, monster guitar player.
如果您还不知道我们的意思，请立即停止阅读，并给佩斯利（Paisley）的2009年格莱美奖赢得乐器Cluster Pluck旋转，看着西弗吉尼亚人的脚趾上脚趾的脚趾，并带有乡村吉他图标的清单，包括James Burton，，，，艾伯特·李（Albert Lee），，，，Vince Gilland Brent Mason – over three and a half frenetic minutes of fret-melting brilliance.
鉴于所有这些，2017年就不足为奇了Fender佩斯利（Paisley电视广播员，，，，but one that had some interesting stuff going on underneath the Road Worn Silver Sparkle finish.
佩斯利告诉我们：“这台银色的电视做得非常好，我为此感到非常自豪。”“尤其是考虑到价格，我认为这是一种终身专业工具，具有巨大的价值。我认为这比他们的收费还要多 - 这正是我所希望的！”
然而，三年后，时间到了。布拉德·佩斯利（Brad Paisley）时尚。
布拉德解释说：“当艺术家有签名模型时，您知道这很普遍，以便更多的选择 - 定制颜色等等。”“但是，当Fender问我是否想对模型进行新的变体时，我真的希望它是与现有吉他相伴的东西，而不是'而不是'而不是'。因此，我问Fender，我们是否可以用不同个性的吉他做吉他。如果您喜欢银电视，那么黑色的时尚应该是伴随它的完美吉他。”
切碎块
The Esquire and the Telecaster are of course very similar instruments, but Leo’s first solidbody has a certain something even beyond the blue-collar workhorse nature of its twin-pickup little brother. As a lifetime Telecaster devotee, it’s something Brad is all too aware of, especially in the context of the wider Fender family.
“The thing about the Tele is it’s a cutting board with a neck,” Brad says matter of factly. “You can literally turn the thing over and chop up chicken on the back of it with no ill effects! It’s an unforgiving guitar. The Stratocaster is such a wonderful, sensuous shape and its contours hug your body and caress you – it’s a masterpiece of ergonomics.
“您可以从字面上将[Tele]翻过来，并在其背面切碎鸡肉，没有任何不良影响！这是一把无情的吉他”
“The Telecaster though, everywhere your arm goes there’s a corner, and where your hand goes there are those screws that stick up, and on the 60s models some of those bridges still have very sharp edges, and the neck just bolts on and it’s kind of square… and that’s where I find such beauty in it. The Esquire is on another level altogether. You know all the amazing luxuries of having two pickups, which makes life so beautiful? Well, you can forget that! That’s not there any more!”
“I play a lot of Esquires in concert and the thing I love about that guitar is the purity of the focus of this hunk of wood with that one pickup down by the bridge without that tall pickup with the chrome cap pulling down on the strings by the neck. Even if you’re not using it, just having a neck pickup does change the sound of the guitar.
“And there is something about the look, the beauty of an Esquire and when you see someone playing one you think ‘Wow, that guy has one pickup to choose from, he’s up there without a net!’ And with this new guitar you still get that look, but you’ve also got something extra in your tool belt – you’re a spy!
Under the hood
佩斯利（Paisley）所指的“额外的东西”是一个隐藏的脖子拾音器，在时尚Quire的佩斯利（Paisley Pickguard）下方隐身了 - 被称为秘密特工，他与西摩·邓肯（Seymour Duncan）一起发展，以回应他时不时地在舞台上绊倒他。
“The Esquire is a magical thing but there are times in concert when I didn’t plan the setlist right and I’m wearing an Esquire when there is an unmistakable neck pickup thing that needs to happen and now it can’t!” he exclaims. “Going to the tone cap on an Esquire does not cut it根本…
“[the secret agent] reminds me of a really well-set up Stratocaster with the neck pickup dropped as low as it will go”
“So I had been busy developing a new pickup withSeymour Duncan叫秘密特工，我会陷入几个年长的埃斯奎尔。我有一天去了西摩邓肯工厂，问他们是否有一个脖子上的拾音器，当隐藏在埃斯奎尔（Esquire）的刮擦板下时可能真的有效 - 我们整天都在尝试使用绕组，磁铁和声音，这是真的很有趣！”
When the time came to make the Paisley Esquire, then, it wasn’t hard to determine that what was good for his vintage guitars would be good for his signature model, though it doesn’t necessarily make the guitar sound like a Telecaster when you flip to the neck pickup.
布拉德说：“秘密特工不是您典型的脖子拾音器。”“这是一个高大的高陶瓷棒磁铁，具有适当的阻抗。由于距离弦乐的距离，它具有非常木质，共鸣的质量。它使我想起了一个非常好的稳定器，脖子拾音器的下降程度尽可能低。它使时尚与电视广播员完全不同。
“如果您是一个喜欢Modded Tele和Humbuckers脖子上的Modded Tele的球员，那么这不适合您，情况完全相反。当我去电视上的脖子上的拾音器时，我喜欢卷，而不是向上下来，而秘密特工则有大约3-5DB。它没有掩盖，仍然有很多闪光，您可以做任何事情。非常适合史蒂夫·雷·沃恩（Stevie Ray Vaughn）几乎没有过度驱动的脖子拾音器。您知道，对我来说，脖子上的拾音器是关于敏感性和亲密关系的 - 当我想喊的时候，我去了那个高输出的8K Tele Bridge Pickup！那是银色电视中的皮卡，我喜欢它。”
“You know, for me, the neck pickup is about sensitivity and intimacy – I go to that high output 8k tele bridge pickup when I want to shout!”
With a screaming bridge unit and the polite neck coil, finding a balance in the middle position was key, and one that resulted in a suitably distinct sonic offering with both pickups engaged.
布拉德指出：“我喜欢原始的银色电视的一件事是，脖子和桥梁的拾音器实际上确实很平衡，并且在中间位置确实很好。”“这是另一回事，出于不同的原因很酷。在新的时尚中，中间位置就像70/30 - 有一个沉重的桥梁拾音器，但您会得到更多Strattysound. That makes sense when you consider where is the centre of gravity between the two pickups.
反对谷物
佩斯利原始招牌电视最有趣的方面之一是其建筑中使用的树林 - 而不是al木或灰烬，吉他使用了一块可持续的鲍敦尼亚板，这些板块夹在云杉的顶部和背部之间。这是一个非常规的食谱，在布拉德（Brad）对它首次出现时感到兴奋之后，它已经保留了时尚。
他兴奋地说：“我不知道木头最初是从哪里来的，但是第一台电视的神奇之处之一就是鲍敦尼亚和云杉的身体的工作方式。”“您现在找不到沼泽灰，尤其是我们需要保持一致的数量。也就是说，这种鲍敦的身体与云杉的顶部和背面的这种结合确实让人想起一块很棒的沼泽灰，完美切割和干燥。”
“I don’t know where the wood came from originally but one of the magical things about the first Tele was the way the paulownia and spruce body works”
吉他手即使不是传统和习惯的生物，吉他演奏者都不是什么，而且佩斯利明白，以这种方式制作电视可能会使某些人感到不安，但他坚持认为证明是在演奏中。
他坚持说：“这样想，如果你的一个朋友告诉你，‘嘿，我的一个伙伴有’53电视，它是六磅……’你想要它，”他坚持说，“我想要它。实际上，我什至不必玩它！我会想，‘是的，我想要那个！如果他要出售它，请告诉我！’我们都知道那些具有魔力的吉他 - 它们引起共鸣，充满音乐。在这种情况下，Fender通过这种木材组合捕获了相同的魔法公式。它就像与银色的电视一样，在这个时尚中的工作精美。”
The doctor is in
When it comes to plugging his new guitar in and taking it for a spin, 2020 has meant that he’s been limited to a few smaller scenarios than the sold-out stadiums to which he’s become accustomed, though he has at least found some fun new playmates for the Esquire.
他回忆说：“今年夏天，我做了几次开车演出，并进行了两次现场直播，我只是用Fender录制了一些有关这款新吉他的视频。”“为此，我使用了Z博士的出色放大器 - 这是Z Wreck的新版本，称为Z Wreck Jr，非常出色。这是原始放大器的18瓦版本。因此，在视频中，我正在使用它，也是我从存储中取出的Fender最喜欢的放大器 - Vibro King！
“我拿了几个我拥有的Vibro Kings，并将挡板板更改为12英寸和10英寸，并将两个Celestion扬声器放入其中。10英寸是黄金，而12英寸是红色，这是他们的新版本的蓝色版本，但它是30W瓦的，而不是15瓦，因此以一种非常出色的方式又木质和深色。当您将这两个人放在Vibro国王中时，这很特别，这让我希望我现在可以巡回演出，因为我会把那东西扔到那里！”
在效果方面，他喜欢在电视剧家族中演奏某件事时将事情适当地剥离，而Esquire也不例外。
“I like to keep things simple, maybe just an old delay pedal,” Brad says. “Apart from that I’m going right into the amp, I don’t even use a compressor when I’m playing live. When you turn the amp up loud enough you don’t need one!”
佩斯利显然是一个男人，他在他的装备方面深入思考最好的细节，因此，当我们四舍五入的聊天时，他想在他的新吉他上解释一件事的重要性，这也就不足为奇了。something that’s often overlooked as a purely aesthetic choice.
“The last thing I would like to say, the colour of this guitar is very important to me,” he says of the Esquire’s Black Sparkle finish. “It looks like coal dust, and coming from the state of West Virginia, with its mining history, that’s a fascinating and meaningful thing for me. I love the contrast between the silver on Telecaster and the black sparkle on this Esquire. It’s just such a bad boy looking guitar, I love it!”
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