TV Jones是Vintage Gretsch皮卡的售后再现的品牌名称，但由Thomas V Jones领导的公司也负责一系列电吉他。不过，一分钟等等……Spectra Sonic Supreme看起来有点熟悉吗？那是因为设计已经存在了一段时间。
Back in 2000, taking inspiration from a Kay Tuxedo that someone had brought to him for repair, Jones collaborated with the Gretsch company and Brian Setzer’s guitar tech Rich Modica on a line of Spectra Sonic instruments that included a six-string electric, a ‘C Melody’ baritone and a four-string bass model.
Although early Spectra Sonics were manufactured Stateside in the Hamer factory, production quickly shifted to Japan. However, by the end of 2005, the Spectra Sonic was dropped from the Gretsch catalogue altogether.
Happily, the story didn’t end there, with Jones taking up the baton following the end of his licensing agreement with Gretsch. Production continues today in the respected Terada factory in Japan in which many Gretsch-badged guitars are still made.
Spectra Sonic与ABR-1桥的异常选择配对，但在实践中效果很好
所有新的Spectra Sonics都被运回美国，并由电视琼斯（TV Jones）设立，然后离开了他的设施，该设施以前在加利福尼亚，但现在在西雅图附近。
The Supreme is joined in the range by a Standard model with a more stripped-down aesthetic. TV Jones Spectra Sonics have been available direct from the company for some time but they are now much easier to get hold of in the UK thanks to The North American Guitar in Hoxton. Time to remind ourselves of what all the fuss is about…
The guitar sports TV Jones’ own ‘shoestring potato’ fret markers
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With its chambered alder body and maple top the Spectra Sonic Supreme weighs a healthy but manageable 8.2lbs. The body width of 15.25 inches means that it’s on the large side but it certainly doesn’t feel unwieldy and it balances superbly when strapped on. Those of us with larger frames will appreciate the extra girth – it’s nice to play a guitar without f-holes that doesn’t look like a ukulele when worn by a tall person!
当桥梁柱被拧入顶部，脖子的连接相当像在建筑中一样是Les Paul，这里的感觉比您通常从老式风格的Gretsch获得的低调感觉。结果，Spectra Sonic非常友好 - 抛出舒适的中等深度枫木脖子，该枫木脖子位于绝大多数吉他手的“正当”区域中，这是一个令人信服的主张。
Unplugged there’s a balanced response with a lovely, complex high-end and long sustain from open chords. Fire up your amp, dial in lashings of spring reverb, fret some spacey chord shapes, give that arm a gentle wobble and listen to those shifting harmonics. The Spectra Sonic Supreme is a guitar on which you can play fewer notes yet somehow fill more space and sound better in the process.
Although an ABR-1 bridge isn’t everyone’s first choice in combination with a Bigsby, the brass-saddled unit here works superbly well in practice. Aided by that slippery Delrin nut, even with a robust right-hand approach to the B12’s whammy bar, the tuning remains stable with the supplied set of D’Addario 0.010 to 0.046 strings. The B12 is a lesser-spotted member of the Bigsby family, but performance is very similar to a B7, the one practical advantage being that the strap button sits proud of the hinge plate rather than low in a cutout, so attaching your strap is less of a faff.
When comparing the Spectra Sonic to our 2013 Gretsch Center Block Panther fitted with High Sensitive Filter’Tron pickups and manufactured in the same Terada factory, the Gretsch’s voice proves thicker and throatier. The Spectra Sonic has an extra layer of glistening high-end harmonics and offers a slightly more comfortable ride in higher registers when it comes to playability. That said, high bends on the plain strings still have that slightly plinky, fast decay akin to tapping the keys on the cobweb-covered upper reaches of an old piano. It’s all part of the vibe!
电视琼斯guitars are made in the same Terada factory that has produced many high-end Gretsch instruments
Overall, the Spectra Sonic experience is much more like playing a scaled up Jet than something like a Falcon or 6120, and that includes how it responds when you add some gain into the mix. When played with overdrive, that high-end sparkle and definition helps to stop chords turning into mush when you cruise past Malcolm Young and in to Billy Gibbons territory.
As long as lead acrobatics aren’t your bread and butter, for retro-pop, roots, indie or raunchy rock ’n’ roll the Spectra Sonic Supreme delivers the goods and looks fantastic in the process. Inevitably a guitar with so much Gretsch in its DNA invites you to travel down familiar roads when it comes to playing style, but the elegant simplicity and refined nature of the Spectra Sonic design give the guitar its own identity. ‘That Great Gretsch Tone’ in technicolour? You’d better get hip to it, daddy-o.
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电视琼斯光谱Sonic Supreme
•价格£2,295（INC硬案）
•DESCRIPTION室内单切电吉他。日本制造
•建造Maple top, chambered alder body, set maple neck with 12” radius bound ebony fingerboard with custom TV Jones ‘shoestring potato’ fret markers, 22 medium frets and Delrin nut
•硬件Bigsby B12颤音尾巴，带黄铜马鞍的Tokiwa ABR-1桥，蜘蛛调谐器
•电气2倍电视琼斯电视经典humbucking拾音器，CTS 500K主音量和音调，带有0.022 UF帽，Switchcraft 3向切口拾音器选择器
•SCALE LENGTH24.625”/625mm
•NECK WIDTH螺母43.2毫米，第12码为52.7mm
•NECK DEPTH21.0mm at first fret, 24.1mm at 12th fret
•字符串间距螺母35.5毫米，桥梁50.7毫米
•WEIGHT8.2lb/3.7kg
•FINISH冰蓝色金属硝酸纤维素（如所评论），木炭黑，钴蓝色，猩红色红色
•接触The North American Guitar 0207 835 5597thenorthamericanwww.shouhuxing.net,www.tvjones.com