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Originally Posted by lawson-stone
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03-19-2017 07:26 AM
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I am not completely happy with using just fingers for this project, I like fingers no nails for solo guitar and thats my main interest.
So I have had a rummage about and found a Fender medium pick 0.73mm, I will give that a go and see how it works out.
For now I have recorded bars 1-24 with my fingers at 100BPM. And I will record the full thing both ways for a comparison.
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Originally Posted by lawson-stone
If you'll forgive my saying so, I'd like to hear you lay back even more. With that sweet tone, you're really onto something, Lawson.
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Originally Posted by MarkRhodes
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Originally Posted by andyb
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Well thanks for the kind words.
I have found an arrangement of satin doll over at the Ted Greene site, and will work that up.
At the moment I can't see how to move from that to the Conti solo, especially if I change to pick?
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Originally Posted by andyb
Moving from fingers to pick, Joe Pass and Emily Remler held the pick between their lips until they needed it, I think Ed Bickert hybrid-picked everything, and Wes found his own solution.
This might be a good item to include on the "Questions for Conti" list we're starting.
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Anyone here ever try a Robert Conti guitar ?
Just Curious. .
I saw them on his website. They look similar to the D'Angelico SS Series.
I currently have my eye on the D'Angelico SS Deluxe.
I have owned a Peerless Sunset and an Ibanez Artist 250. Both great guitars and I do regret selling them
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Originally Posted by Doublea A
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Originally Posted by Doublea A
Other Conti players I plan to contact soon are John Monllos and forum member Tony Beltrans (tbeltrans). I think they've gone on record as being very pleased with the guitar overall, but I have a couple of specific questions I hope they'll be willing to answer.
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Originally Posted by Doublea A
I couldn't believe it, it played out of the box. After a few days after it got acclimated to my part of the country, I had a slight buzz on the low E string on the seventh fret. A minor adjustment to the truss rod and it has been good ever since. The guitar has very log action and easy to play.
I saw on the web site where they recently came out with some new guitars with an entry, mid and top level models. When I purchased my guitar they were all top level models with an option for different finishes.
My guitar looks like the ones used in the previous videos by Adam, Will and John
I'll use it when I make one of my next videos.Last edited by MikeS; 03-19-2017 at 01:54 PM.
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Originally Posted by snailspace
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Originally Posted by andyb
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Originally Posted by MikeS
You read every now and then about some guys who say they like the guitar to fight back a little, but I think that's for the birds. It's hard enough to play, without having to wrestle the thing into submission.
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Originally Posted by snailspace
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Been away all weekend. Here's my post for bars 1-24. Played it pretty straight. Need to spring for another web cam. Next post will be melody + 32 bar solo. Time permitting, I may try a couple of variations.
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Originally Posted by losaltosjoe
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Originally Posted by destinytot
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Originally Posted by snailspace
I've been reading a book about Freddie Green (written by his son, Alfred.) Freddie's mainstay road guitar for years had the highest action ever seen (--on a good guitar used by a professional player): at the 12th fret, the high E string was 1/2" above the fingerboard. Yikes! That was hard to play. But it gave him volume he needed, and made it easy to finger chords without sounding all the notes. (He might finger one chord but only sound one note of it, or one note on one beat and two on the next.)
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Originally Posted by losaltosjoe
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Wow. Duplicating on nice but not studio gear the exact sound we get in the room, to our ears, is the Holy Grail and likely an unreachable one.
I vacillate between mic'ing the cabinet and going direct from the pre-amp. Ironically, sometimes my most accurate recording has simply been the microphone in my iPhone! I think I might try a mic farther back from the amp next time.
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Originally Posted by andyb
Thanks Andy for the kind words regarding my audio/tone. It is ridiculous how little I know about recording and how much I hate turning knobs. Here's my info:
Guitar: 1996 Gibson L5 CES
Strings: Pyramid gold pure nickel flat wound strings (12 high E). I think these are what my luthier put on the guitar. I always used Thomastic 13 flats but when I got the L5 it buzzed. As part of the process to "get rid of the buzz", he slapped on some Pyramids (at least that's what I think he used).
Pick: Dunlop tortex .50mm
Amp: Brunetti Singleman 16 watt, one 12" speaker. I put it on the 1 watt setting (it has 1, 8, 16) and tweed setting (it has full, smooth, and tweed). From what I know, the Brunetti is kind of like a Fender Princeton Reverb.
Backing Track: Band In A Box. I use the Conti changes from the PDF with a 2 bar intro.
Microphone: Yeti USB (that I borrowed from my teenage daughter). I think this might be the secret sauce!
Recording process.
1) I play the BIAB backing track on my windows XP desktop and use the earphone jack to play it through my Yamaha G100-115. For the next TTI project, I will try using my Bluetooth JBL speaker since the earphone out cord with a jack causes the Yamaha amp to buzz.
2) I set the Yedi USB mic (360 mode) between the Yamaha (backing track) and Brunetti (guitar) but closer to the Brunetti (6-8 inches from the speaker). The amps are almost facing each other with the mic in the middle.
3) I record the video and sound together using Microsoft Movie Maker (this software has been deprecated and isn't available on my wife's Windows 7 machine). I generally need multiple practice takes to balance the guitar and backing track volume.
Other stuff:
- Until I joined this study group, I never recorded myself. So I am making it up as I go.
- I am going to take Lawson's advice and make recording a regular part of my practice routine.
- I did download Audacity which will allow me to record the backing track and guitar on separate tracks. I was not happy with the results of my first attempt to multi-track. It sounded kind of sterile.
- I am a bit OCD and I promised myself that I will NOT let recording get in the way of playing/practicing! I only get about 1 hour a night to play.
Let me know if you need any more info.
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So here's my run at the "head" and the solo, played at a performance appropriate tempo of about 120-130 bpm. I was having trouble hearing my backing track on the head, and I also find the "head" portions of the Aebersold recording a little hard to play with anyhow. But it's a take on the head, and then the solo. Clams aplenty. I wish I could just post perfect clips of pristine playing, but it seems I can't deliver 64 measures of clean execution (*yet* but hope never dies!).
Playing the Elitist Broadway through the Polytone, mic'ed with a "Bluebird" microphone.
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Originally Posted by losaltosjoe
When I get the sound right I will take a look in to video, a whole different can of worms.
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I always record a chunk of my practice, and today I decided to do the solo on each of 3 L5ces clones: the Epiphone Elitist Broadway, the Aria Pro II PE180, and the Epiphone Peerless Broadway. All through a Polytone Minibrute II, EQ flat all the way across, mic'd with a Bluebird microphone. It's funny, playing these guitars I can hear very different nuances in their sound, but on recordings, maybe it's YouTube's compression (??) they end up sounding very close to each other.
Note: the Epiphone Peerless Broadway has a Seymour Duncan Seth Lover in the neck position.
Strings comparable to TI Bensons without the...
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