Description
Rick Vito has established his reputation for soulful guitar work and tasteful licks throughout a successful solo career, not to mention a performance rsum spanning work with Jackson Browne, Bob Seger, and Fleetwood Mac. The artist has now teamed up with Reverend on a fantastic, soulful signature: the Rick Vito Soul Agent! This piece comes outfitted and ready for everything from classic soul to rockin blues and even raunchy leads with swampy Southern flair. Essentially, its a heavily modified take on Reverends workhorse Double Agent with a heavily chambered korina body and additional spruce top. Korina and spruce bond together for luscious warmth that rivals semi-hollowbody guitars, but this Agent wont go rogue and feedback when levels get loud. The Soul Agents marriage of a versatile HA5 humbucker and 9A5 P-90 makes for a practically infinite palette of modern takes on retro tones. And as if that wasnt enough, you also get a Bigsby vibrato system plus multiple extra pickup voicings and Reverends signature selection of functional, gig-ready appointments, including a rock-solid roasted maple neck, pin-lock tuners, and a dual-contact Pure Tone jack.
Chambered korina and spruce: lush soul with acoustic zing
The Rick Vito Soul Agent is truly like no other Reverend axe made today. A heavily chambered korina body harkens back to Reverends earliest prototypes for their flagship Double Agent OG. Korina is known for velvety warmth and balanced lows, mids, and highs, but the chambered body renders even warmer results with an airy resonance that rewards soulful expression. Whats more, a spruce top gives the Soul Agent an extra dash of acoustic energy. Often reserved for semi-hollowbodies and acoustic guitars, this spruce top adds spine-tingling acoustic zing and snappy, articulate tone that shines at clean to medium-gain settings.
Ultra-versatile electronics
Much like Reverends Double Agent OG, the Soul Agent gets you to mission accomplished in practically any scenario with a versatile combination of custom P-90 and humbucker pickups. The HA5 bridge pickup is a classic PAF-style humbucker loaded with Alnico V magnets and extra windings for quintessential electric soul. The HA5 is warm yet open with enough clarity for precisely picked riffs and dazzling technical leads (it also does some killer slide tones, Rick Vito demands no less!). The 9A5 neck pickup is a P-90-style single-coil with Alnico V magnets for an extra dose of clarity.
Extra gadgets
Every agent needs gadgets, and Reverend stocked this guitar with plenty of tone-tweaking doodads that come in handy onstage or in the studio! For starters, the Soul Agents volume and tone knob have secondary push-pull features, bringing the total unique voices onboard up to eight far more than meets the eye! The tone knob push-pull activates phase switching for instant funky articulation with extra soul; the volume push-pull switches on twang mode, essentially a bass cut that yields tighter, more percussive twang. But dont let the name dissuade you from using this feature for various styles and sounds. Its convenient for cleaning up the 9A5 bridge humbucker with mix-cutting brightness and clarity. Finally, a Bigsby B50 vibrato tailpiece delivers some of the smoothest, most expressive bends in the business a must-have for soulful leads and tasteful bends. This Bigsby is bound to see heavy use, which is why Reverend matched it with six pin-lock tuners on the headstock for extra-tight tuning stability, not to mention swift string changes to boot.
Features
- Signature axe of guitarist Rick Vito (John Mayall, Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt, Bob Seger, Fleetwood Mac)
- Heavily chambered korina body resonants stunning soulful warmth
- Spruce top complements chambered body with unique acoustic zing
- HA5 bridge humbucker and 9A5 P-90 offer huge tonal range with signature Reverend fidelity
- Deluxe ebony fingerboard with roomy 25.5-inch, 22-fret scale
- Roasted maple neck comfortable Medium Oval profile with superior resistance to warps and shifts
- Push-pull twang and phase features increase flexibility with 8 unique voicings onboard!
- Authentic B-50 Bigsby for smooth control over expressive bends
- Packed with gig-ready hardware including pin-lock tuners, Pure Tone jack, Boneite nut, and ultra-stable 3-string tree
Specifications
- Number of Strings6
- Left-/Right-handedRight-handed
Body
- Body TypeSolidbody
- Body ShapeRick Vito Soul Agent
- Body MaterialChambered Korina
- Top MaterialSpruce
- Body FinishGloss Polyurethane
- ColorMidnight Black
Neck
- Neck MaterialRoasted Maple
- Neck ShapeMedium Oval
- Neck JointBolt-on
- Radius12″
- Fingerboard MaterialEbony
- Fingerboard InlayDots
- Number of Frets22, Nickel Alloy
- Scale Length25.5″
- Nut Width1.692″
- Nut MaterialBoneite
Hardware
- Bridge/TailpieceAdjustable Bridge with Roller Bar and Bigsby B50 Vibrato
- TunersPin-Lock
Electronics
- Neck PickupReverend 9A5 Single-coil
- Bridge PickupReverend HA5 Humbucker
- Controls1 x volume (pull twang), 1 x tone (push phase)
- Switching3-way toggle pickup switch
