The Builder's Bench

Blowin in the Wind

Help me find Rattle on archtop

Slaman Super 400 with CC pickup

Genzler Acoustic Array Pro vs Henriksen Bud 10

1967 Gibson ES-335

EDIT: 95% of the noise is gone. The rest comes and goes. I’ ll try the tape around pu and a piece of reed / plectrum to stabilize. thanks once again for the help! I know that there are a lot of...

Help me find Rattle on archtop

Hah! Getting out of the subway yesterday afternoon I saw I guy in the station with glasses and two jumbo gig bags and thought to myself "hey, is that Jonathan Stout? Nah, he wouldn't be hanging out...

Frank Vignola's Guitar Night, an ongoing concert and livestream series

Might be good to include a sound clip with the licks for those of us away from the instrument.

The Notated Lick Compendium.

ps - That's why it would be nice to compare the AA Pro to the Bud 10. Both have 10" woofs.

Genzler Acoustic Array Pro vs Henriksen Bud 10

For what it's worth, I had a Fishman Loudbox Artist to try for a month to compare to the AA Mini. (Both 8" woofs.) The Fishman had a few features that made it a bit more flexible for multiple...

Genzler Acoustic Array Pro vs Henriksen Bud 10

Do big bands not play swing eighths?

Rhythms Complete Bugs Bower

I don't know. It's simple to me, if it fits, then it's okay. If you hear something that makes you want to vomit then it's not :smile-new::smile-new::smile-new:

Analysing jazz vocabulary

Christian is incapable of withholding snark. If it makes you feel better, I was a jazz guitar student thrust into a classical major because of budget cuts and basically only did it because the...

Analysing jazz vocabulary

https://youtu.be/nBYn418puog?si=gTPWaI29_mRP3raG an old tune for some troubled times.

Blowin in the Wind

Very true, there are exceptions to the rule and every guitar is different. I have an old twin pickup Gibson that sounds so loud and full acoustically I almost never plug it in.

What beats an L5?

Agreed … also interesting note, there’s a killer G major lick in Cornet Chop Suey (from what … 1930?) that looks an awful lot like this one.

Analysing jazz vocabulary

I am thoroughly impressed with this AA Pro. Full disclosure, I didn’t even know they existed until I first stumbled upon this one. I did know about Genzler’s Genz Benz amps that were out a while...

Genzler Acoustic Array Pro vs Henriksen Bud 10

I'm not sure why you feel the need to scoff at people practising something which they might not have a career in. It seems to me that in doing this, you're scoffing by extension at the many people...

Analysing jazz vocabulary

Benedetto buys pickups from Seymour Duncan, AFAIK. I'm sure they don't wind their own pickups.

Armstrong or SD Benedetto S-6

I've just recently got my first hollowbody, and I set the neck pickup for 4/64ths on the treble side, and 6/64ths on the bass side. Gibson specs, and seems to work well. On the solid bodys the neck...

Humbucher height?

Analyzing

For those who went to music school, was it worth it?

Biting the bullet on an ES-175

Analysing jazz vocabulary

What beats an L5?

Came up with an epic tip for improv

No more Gibson archtops ?

Developing your own style/sound

Thumb pain

Groove comes and goes..

On Wes and improvisation (Octaves content)

Crazy Assholes--Don't Be A Dick

Patrick Bartley on originality