American Standard setup?

[davidseidel]

I have some experience with these which may be relevant. They should certainly be punchy and with plenty of oomph on all strings IMO. They can easily sound midrangy though esp arco, but even so will have a pleasant low end punch which works well for acoustic jazz. I never tried one which didn't have a good E string sound. Also they originally had quite shallow neck angles and consequently shortish bridges at least on the ones I have seen. Maybe that was part of the puffy pleasant low end pizz sound?

The New Standards are similar but clearer sounding and more arco freindly and a bit less low end puffy sounding. Is this partly because of taller bridge and more neck angle?

Also my old AS had a soundpost which looked like an old broom handle and never sounded as good with a regular soundpost. I was told by someone that Traeger mentions something similar in his book - but i have not actually read it.....