Eliminating Finger Noise

[Gabor]

GHS Brite Flats. Also - vertical attack, vertical lift, then shift hand position.

And - flats in general, with a plain G.

But mainly, VA,VL; TS.

I thought plain G is a no no...
Many archtops have such kind of compensated bridge, which is explicitly for wound G ...

[Gabor]

Or you can cheat... at least on recordings. The same as a de-ess. I don't often de-ess but when I do I do it manually. (The EQ-compressor way is cool but kind of complicated so I haven't messed with it.)

After I changed to roundwounds on my Eastman 810 (wow, what a sound) I litcerally scared how much finger noise I generate, so I tried many of desqueek, deees plugins. My experience they do way more damage than benefit, in any possible settings...

[dot75]

From Joe Pass: rub your fingers against the side of your nose or your scalp to get a little bit of oil on them.

I saw Jim Hall with a little tin of what I assumed at the time was talcum powder....he was putting it on his fingers every few tunes.

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[Gabor]

I saw Jim Hall with a little tin of what I assumed at the time was talcum powder....he was putting it on his fingers every few tunes.

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yeah, talcum powder, likely story :-)

[citizenk74]

I thought plain G is a no no...
Many archtops have such kind of compensated bridge, which is explicitly for wound G ...

Several luthiers will make you a replacement saddle compensated for a plain G. Sadoswky does I believe, Actually, You could do it yourself with a lot of patience and a tune-o-matic setting for reference. I've had several archtops with 0.020Ps on them, and they sounded fine.
"No-nos" are more guidelines than actual rules, in Jazz, IMHO.

[fep]

After I changed to roundwounds on my Eastman 810 (wow, what a sound) I litcerally scared how much finger noise I generate, so I tried many of desqueek, deees plugins. My experience they do way more damage than benefit, in any possible settings...

You can do the manual way, shouldn't do any damage.

[citizenk74]

You can do the manual way, shouldn't do any damage.

I did manual spot dsing on the two nylon string tunes on my 2003 solo album UTONIA. Took a little time; was worth it. Since then, I learned to be a little better technician on the instrument. Ever upward!