Has anyone owned both? Can share their opinions on them?
I used to own a DGT and loved it - great tone, loved the playability and the tremolo
However, I grew up playing Les Pauls and I am very accustomed to having two tone controls and the pickup selector above the pickups
I mainly play classic/hard /southern rock - Guns n' Roses, AC DC etc. and wouldn't venture into metal territory very often
I am sure the DGT and Tremonti are very different beasts, and at this point, I am thinking the Tremonti pickups will be too hot for the styles I play? Any thoughts on this? (maybe mistaken?)
If I changed the pickups on a Tremonti to DGT pickups or PAF pickups do you think you'd be in DGT single cut territory??
The problem I have is that I can't try a Tremonti in a music shop in Northern Ireland, so would either have to buy used unseen or wait until I am over in the UK mainland again
Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated!
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Interested in this. I love my DGT and have always tended to discount the Tremonti because it doesn't have the big frets and I don't generally like hot pickups. But I do wonder if that's accurate.
DGT is more classic rock blues and more of a LP flavour - it can rock, but more melodic and softer than the Tremonti
Coil tap option on the DGT - non on the Tremonti - so some useful single coil tones on the DGT
Wide/thin profile on the Tremonti - more of a standard profile on the DGT - tad slimmer nut width and a tad more depth
1 of each might be a good compromise !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They are are pretty different. As said, the DGT has more depth to the neck but a skinner width and the Tremonti is the opposite. The DGT is great in and around the blues rock territory and the Tremonti is a rock/metal screamer. It starts sounding great the more gain you give it.
Id say neither are the guitar you want in the PRS range - you need a 594 singlecut or on the used market a stripped 58 or singlecut. It seems silly to buy a Tremonti for the 'Les Paul' style considering it has a slim neck, a tremolo and hot pickups!