Mac Demarco Japanese Guitar

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In this interview DeMarco said, Where did the infamous guitar come from then? I got that from Lillo’s Music, which I am ban...

In this AMA, a user asked Mac what model analog tape machines he uses. He responded with I used a fostex a8 for 2 and salad days. a tascam 244 for RNRNC and a tascam 388 for another one.

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I got a Prophet 5, we got Juno 60, JX-3P, DX7, DX100, whatever you want, says Mac DeMarco in this interview with Stingray Music.

the condenser I use for pretty much everything is a roland dr80c. really cheap intro mic. I put it above the kick and snare pointing at the beater of the kick and play lightly.

Around 4:27 as well as other parts in the video, a Fostex B-16 can be seen in the back corner with a reel taken off.

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DeMarco wrote some demos for This Old Dog on an acoustic guitar, an unusual yet eye-opening method for him. He also attributes some of the delay to his exploration of new gear he’d purchased, specifically a CR-78 drum machine, which he used while writing and can be heard on his album tracks for t...

In this video of Mac playing a (assumingly vintage due to the neck and worn finish) fender Jaguar in a sunburst finish. However it should be noted that at 12:26 mac mentions that the guitar is his friend Kyle's, not his.

At 1:24 during the video you can see the Ibanez sc 10. I've only heard him play with the SC 10 in this video, he usually will use a Boss CE-2 for his chorus.

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In this video at 18:27 you can see Mac using a Fender Princeton '68 Custom Reverb during the concert. He use it during the all 2019 tour and probably also before it.Mac DeMarco bought this guitar when he was around 15 years old for $30. He bought the guitar from Lillo’s Music, in Edmonton, Canada – which is where he grew up, and played a lot of his early gigs, presumably on this exact guitar.

Where did the infamous guitar come from then? I got that from Lillo’s Music, which I am banned from now because I stole an accordion when I was 17. I got it in my backpack and I got out on the street and I was thinking “fuck yeah I got an accordion” because I was really into Beirut at the time or something. A Conversation with Mac Demarco – September 16, 2014

As far as why Mac bought this specific guitar, he explained that he was intentionally looking for something cheap and of lesser quality, even though he had already owned better guitars at that point.

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I started going out to see bands in my hometown of Edmonton and all of these guys were playing really shitty guitars. So I went to this place called Lillo’s. It’s a music store, but also half like a pawn shop. IThey brought me something perfectly crappy. As soon as I played this guitar, I was like “Wow, this thing is actually a piece of shit!” They were like, “Thirty bucks?” And I was like, “Sure.” WANTED/NEEDED/LOVED: MAC DEMARCO’S “SIGNATURE” GUITARSpecs, Model

Marc’s guitar started off very different from what it looks today. When he got bought it, it had a different neck and a different pickguard. Based on the photos, all the changes to the guitar happened sometime at the end of 2011/beginning of 2012.

Mac DeMarco’s Teisco guitar before it was modified. This photograph is from a 2011 gig with his first band called Makeout Videotape.

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Many have tried figuring out the exact model, but this is very hard to do because first of all Japanese Teisco guitars used to be imported and sold under various different brands in Canada and the US. Furthermore, their catalog is pretty wild, to say the least, and you can’t really find information on specific models, even in today’s age.

For instance, a Reddit user found a guitar branded as Marques that looks identical to Marc’s guitar (see Not quite but close enough (Macs teisco model in a different color)). However, if you try finding any information about “Marques” as a brand, you’ll find basically nothing.

Others have found Teiscos branded as “Kingston” that look exactly the same, and these are apparently Teiscos that have been imported to the US by a guy called Jack Westheimer. But, at one point Jack stopped importing the guitars and started making them in the US, so it’s unclear whether this is a model made in Japan or in the US.

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In any case, if you’re trying to recreate Mac’s guitar. and you’re looking where to start, it’s probably best to just search Reverb under “Teisco” or “Kingston”, and pray come across the right model.

Sometime around late 2011 Mac decided to change the neck on his Teisco guitar. The reason for this change is that he broke the original neck beyond repair while throwing the guitar across the stage.

I remember playing shows in Montreal where I would just chuck it across the stage and shit. At one point I snapped the neck and had to put a new one on. Then I broke the pick guard and had to replace that too. At this point everything about it has been replaced and it doesn’t really feel or play the same way. WANTED/NEEDED/LOVED: MAC DEMARCO’S “SIGNATURE” GUITAR

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Based on the headstock shape, the neck that is currently on Mac’s Teisco came off a Mosrite guitar. But, since there’s no visible branding on the headstock, and the fretboard has unique dot inlays (which differ from what can be seen on original Mosrite necks), it’s more likely that this is a knock-off neck made in the style of a Mosrite neck.

There is a Japanese model out there called the Ernani St. George which sports the exact same neck with matching dot inlays, so it could be that Mac found one of these, and took the neck off of it.

This Ernani St. George guitar has the exact same neck as Mac’s guitar. Note how the first four dots are larger, and notice the adjusting knob at the end of the neck – all exactly the same as on Mac’s guitar. Photo source: eBay.

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In any case, the neck that Mac installed on his guitar was a 22-fret neck, so he had to do some modifications to Teisco’s body in order to fit it. You’ll notice how now the neck sits right up close to the pickup, almost touching it, while on the original guitar, there was a considerable gap between the original neck and the pickup.

At the same time Mac changed the neck on his guitar, he also changed the pickguard. He made the new pickguard himself using a piece of particle board, which he cut roughly to a square shape and made a small cutout at the top for the pickup.

He also seemed to have completely removed the tone and the volume controls and wired his pickup directly to the output jack.

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– Mac was still using this guitar as his main in 2013 when the album was recorded, so it could be that he used it in the studio as well at least to some extent. In 2014 on the Salad Day tour, however, he was seen using a Fender Mustang and occasionally a Gibson SG.

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