New Rosenwinkel Guitar, features his new Jim Soloway Guitar

[hotel17]

Found it surprising too: in that recent Rick Beato interview video it really looks like Kurt is running Logic Pro in the studio. I honestly expected him to use Pro Tools, especially in a professional setup with lots of outboard. In my head PT was always the ‘logical’ choice for that kind of workflow.

[supersoul]

He used Drop 2 and Drop 3 voicings, of course, as well as Ninth-No-5th voicings, but what really impressed me was his use of quarter-tone voicings, 3-note clusters, and triad pairs at a tempo I had never seen before, sometimes combined with polyrhythms, mostly on the string sets A, D, G or D, G, B and G, B, E ...

How was he getting quarter tone voicings? The only way I can think of is to bend individual notes within a chord, which is pretty hard to do well.

[olejason]

Found it surprising too: in that recent Rick Beato interview video it really looks like Kurt is running Logic Pro in the studio. I honestly expected him to use Pro Tools, especially in a professional setup with lots of outboard. In my head PT was always the ‘logical’ choice for that kind of workflow.

I know a ton of people who have moved to Logic over the last few years. I also see a lot of people using Cubase, especially on the PC side. I think the days of PT dominance are pretty much over.

[Mick-7]

How was he getting quarter tone voicings? The only way I can think of is to bend individual notes within a chord, which is pretty hard to do well.

I think he meant to say "quartal" (not quarter tone) chord voicings.

[mheton]

This kind of stuff happens when english isn't your native language and you don't let ai agents do the writing in forums for you

[supersoul]

I think he meant to say "quartal" (not quarter tone) chord voicings.

ah, gotcha, I was like quarter tone jazz harmonies, whoa!

[Mick-7]

This kind of stuff happens when english isn't your native language and you don't let ai agents do the writing in forums for you

You got a few forum members all excited....

"What, there's a new guitar pedal that will split your notes into quarter tones! Where can I get it?!"

[Jim Soloway]

You got a few forum members all excited....

"What, there's a new guitar pedal that will split your notes into quarter tones! Where can I get it?!"

Not a pedal but Itamar Erez has two extra partial frets that allow him to play a total of 10 different 1/4 tones.

[Mick-7]

Well, if you're only going to play simple harmonies, you may not need frets at all, and there are guitars that are designed for playing microtones such as the scalloped fret acoustic guitar that John McLaughlin played with Shakti:

Borghino Guitars - Made in Italy
Karma model guitar

[Cunamara]

Not to sidetrack the conversation, Jim, but those were completely unknown musicians to me. Amazing stuff! Thanks!

[Jim Soloway]

Not to sidetrack the conversation, Jim, but those were completely unknown musicians to me. Amazing stuff! Thanks!

And he also plays piano