Hohner HG-490 "Mad Cat" vs Ernie Ball Music Man St. Vincent Signature
The Hohner HG-490 "Mad Cat" and the Ernie Ball Music Man St. Vincent Signature are both electric guitars.
cited
Blended from circuit-archetype lineage, dynamic feel, tone-signal overlap and tone-vector distance — the tone vector itself is derived from editorial description text, not a measured acoustic signal, so this reflects how similarly the catalog copy describes the two, not a lab measurement. Shown only within a gear class, and only where there's enough evidence to be meaningful.39% — somewhat different
Hohner HG-490 "Mad Cat"
Hohner · electric guitar
Ernie Ball Music Man St. Vincent Signature
Music Man · electric guitar
cited
Citation/mention fame — how often this gear is cited across artist rigs and gear discussion.$3099via Reverb
One of Prince’s mainstay guitars that he has been using since the early 80’s is the Hohner MadCat Telecaster, a Japanese made Fender Telecaster copy. These were designed in the early 70’s and later H.S. Anderson sold the rights to Hohner in Germany. Production stayed in Japan but with the Hohner logo. The MadCat had a 25 ½” scale, two single coils and a fixed bridge with a maple body built with a walnut strip down the middle. The front and back were book matched maple with fake tortoiseshell binding and a leopard print pickguard and plastic pickup ring. The proximity of the bridge pickup to the bridge itself produced a unique tone that had the perfect honk for funk causing Prince to fall in love with it. He owns several examples of these, most of which have had the neck replaced at one point due to him wearing them out.
The Ernie Ball Music Man St. Vincent Signature is a guitar developed with musician Annie Clark, known professionally as St. Vincent, featuring an unconventional body shape she co-designed specifically to be comfortable for a player, breaking from the traditional curves most electric guitars retain from decades-old templates. It carries active or high-output humbuckers suited to her heavily processed, effects-driven lead tone. Jack White is associated with this instrument in this catalogue, though Clark rather than White is the models actual signature artist.
cited
Genres this gear is documented as being used in.- Funk