I'm pretty sure this has happened to others, but I'm just checking against my own experience to make sure I'm not nuts.
This past weekend, I pulled out "Shimmer," my 2006 CS Robin Trower signature Stratocaster and went to work on a new song I'd been wanting to learn. I had been playing for 15-20 minutes when I glanced over and spied my 2004 MIM 50th Anniversary Strat, which has been my "daily" player for a while now, and said to myself, "What the heck? Let me just try my new chops on the "cheap" guitar.
Zounds! All of a sudden, it felt like everything had fallen into place. The action felt smoother, the sound cleaner (okay, so I was using a pedal...) and I felt amazed and wonderment at the same time. "Shimmer" is the pinnacle of my collection. By all rights, she ought to make everything else pale in comparison. Particularly a MIM Strat that cost about 1/5th the price. But no...
Okay, it could have been the moment, the heat, the phase of the moon -- I don't know -- but after I was done, I was shaking my head for a while. I'm going to repeat the process, maybe play the MIM first and switch to Shimmer, but I want to see if it was a fluke, a moment, or just my imagination.
Does anyone have a name for this? Has it happened to you, and how did you react?