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Loving my 2015 Yunzhi more and more ...
Three months later and it would have been a Mr Wu (who was gone already, so this guitar is NOT a Wu),
since i was dealing with the excellent Mrs Lora.
Please ignore all the clumsy moments on the guitar and focus on the sound. Various Mag/Transducer combinations along the two videos. From warm Kent Armstrong hand wound PAF to almost flat top like sound...
Thank you.
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05-15-2017 06:39 AM
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Hi Paul,
Hope you are well.
Love the sounds indeed. I must have missed most of the clumsiness somehow. Thanks for posting this.
Oh my 1 1/2 year old grandson dropped Winnie the Pooh to come over and listen to all of #2.
Chris
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xuoham,
Very soothing music. Very beautiful.
I loved it. Your playing and the sound was excellent!
Joe D
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I had a look at the site first thing this morning and it was your music that put a very relaxing spin on my morning. Thank you very much.
Big
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Very nice .... I keep thinking a Wu or Yunzhi would be a nice addition to my stable
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again, beautiful tones and playing..(liked the srinivas (rip) type microtonal runs in #2-1)
and props to yoshitada, playing the very traditional koto in a very unconventional and cutting edge way
good stuff
cheers
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Long time.. good to see you.
What great music.
I also continue to enjoy my Wu/Yunzhi guitars as time goes by. One is set up like yours with a floater Armstrong 12 pole. Such a great rig for rich archtop acoustic sounds.
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Really lovely. The first bass notes on the first video were amazing. Just huge (in a very good way).
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Thank you guys !
I was not really expecting (well, secretely, lol) such a tap on the back,
and "my heart flies like an eagle".
"My 1 1/2 year old grandson dropped Winnie the Pooh to come over and listen to all of #2"
is the cherry on the cake for Yoshi San and me ! ^ ^
But for sure, without such a subjectively satisfactory sound, i would never have posted this.
It is also so much easier to play with someone (and Yoshi San is very good and responsive)
than guitar alone, and i really admire all the solo guitar performances that Joe D and Jim
put on this site. My bad for almost reading and hearing only and barely participating.
Without this forum, and especially without BigMike and Spook410, this guitar would never be in my hands.
It is just right for me to report back how happily i play with this guitar.
It required some efforts (pickguard and PAF aligning, knobs, gluing the transducers inside, circuitry ) but the lucky part was that the fret work was exceptionally good from the start (so grateful), neck angle is spot on, and, though i can do it myself, the nut was properly cut.
Thank you
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Well we learned a few years ago that you are a secret setup and intonation expert, so if you say the frets and nut are right that means a lot.
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lol !
Originally Posted by ptchristopher3
But seriously, i often read that one drawback with the Yunzhi/Wu guitars is that, except the electronics, a little visit to the local guitar tech is necessary, fret leveling etc ...
Well, i really consider myself lucky because nut and frets are fine.
On the other hand i had to fight with the bridge's posts and upper part alignment that were a bit ... uh ...
strange ... lol
Sanding, checking, sanding, checking, ...
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Yeah, the kids are alright! Originally Posted by ptchristopher3
Fine listening.
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Fine & inspired improvisation and wonderful sounds. I absolutely love the clear bell like sound of the modern archtops and the Chinese seem to have done a wonderful job making instruments that can do it.
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Lovely axe and playing. And the bass tones are AMAZING!
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Originally Posted by CamillusUSA
Thank you guys for the kind words. Originally Posted by jasaco
Regardless the guitar itself, Kent Armstrong handwound 12 poles PAF + JJB transducers is a very nice mix !
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May I ask how you mix the signals? Are both wired directly to a stereo plug? Are there two mono plugs? Do you have an onboard preamp? Do you split a stereo signal and run the piezo through a preamp? Two separate amps? Originally Posted by xuoham
Well, you get the gist. I am thinking of doing a similar setup, but I am not sure of the signal chain.
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Hi Rlrhett, sorry to be late answering. Originally Posted by rlrhett
Yes, the guitar has a stereo jack and i run both outputs into a Zoom A3, which i use basically as a mixer-eq-antifeedback. The magnetic pickup goes through a Joyo American Sound before going into the Zoom A3's mic. input, which regardless the fatness the Joyo preamp brings, converts the signal to the proper impedance.
On my pickguard, one volume knob for the magnetic p.u. and one "tone knob" for the transducer. Since the transducer is passive, a simple volume knob brings lots of hum at zero so i had to think about something else to control the transducer from the guitar and thought a tone knob would be sufficient. Just the regular magnetic pickup cap values didn't work. After some experiment with different pot and cap values, i randomly found something usable : at zero the transducer is greatly reduced in volume. At 1 only the highs go through, and up to ten the bass/mids and some of the overall volume increase. I know it doesn't make much sense for a "tone knob", but that's how it works.
I have zero knowledge in electronics and it was hard to find something satisfying.
I would love to find a passive real low pass filter solution with the right pot/cap combination but it is beyond my strength and patience. It works like this for me, somehow.
All my electrics have a transducer inside with a stereo jack, but none of them have the same pot/cap combination, depending on whether it is a single or double transducer, and depending on the size.
I guess it is basic stuff for anyone knowledgeable in electronics, but for me it is just beyond sanity, lol.
On the video, the signal then went into an active PA speaker, Electro Voice ZLX15P, and then was miked with a condenser mike, MXL 770, to my audio interface, focusrite Scarlett 6i6.Last edited by xuoham; 07-13-2017 at 09:31 AM.
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