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Post by blindwilly3fingers on Aug 23, 2019 11:27:44 GMT
I don't know DefJef as I said I'm no chemist. The old fellow I used to work with had been using it for years on furniture etc. I think people are reading ACIDIC and thinking it's melting cars strength acid. Lots of things are mildly acidic but won't remove the ends of your fingers. 🍋 🍍 😜
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Post by LeoThunder on Aug 23, 2019 14:13:39 GMT
Come to think of it this ties in with something I've been musing about a lot recently; how we as guitarists seem to like to reverse engineer so much. To take what we have and try and get it to be more like something that went before. We seem to particularly do it with the sounds we make. We want our pickups and amps and pedals to sound more like old sounds that we've heard or that our other guitars do, rather than take the ones we have and see what we can do with them that's a bit new. As we do anything, really. When we learn to walk, I'm pretty sure we take a good look at those who already can and our first goal is to emulate. When we hear a distorted guitar sound, we want to know how to make it because it doesn't come out of the naked acoustic thing at all. We want to play that instrument we hear, not just that we have. We want to run and dance, not just walk. Past this stage, the originals separate from the emulators. I remember Brian May telling how he got his sound from Rory Gallagher: a Vox AC30 and some treble booster. Do both sound the same? I doubt it, yet one never wanted to sound just like the other, he wanted "that type of sound" to start making his own thing. I still want my Strat' to sound like Miles Davis. Any ideas how to get there?
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Post by DefJef on Aug 23, 2019 17:21:51 GMT
Funny you should mention walking as an analogy LeoThunder. It's an interesting one to use as walking has been studied and we apparently all have a very individual one. Software has been developed to identify people from their gait. It would be a very useful early trick to learn in our prehistoric past, to see an approaching person on the horizon and to know if they were a potential threat. I guess a lot of it would come down to our skeletal and muscular make up so some of it could well be inherited and show up tribally. I wonder if we ever try to copy a walk. I suppose there is that Oasis swagger that looks so ridiculous but helps groups to gel together and fit in. Generally though, once we can walk we just take that ability and move on - literally. As for getting Miles' sound from your Strat I would think a very small amp like a Pignose would be a good place to look. Maybe something even smaller and transistorised like those little clip on your belt ones from China might do it. Plenty of smooth distortion and bends or even a slide might help. Even a fretless guitar could be useful. Maybe a Slow Gear effects pedal to smooth the attack a bit, even a wah. Sliding into or falling of a note would be a good technique to try. Funnily enough Brian May has done trumpet sounds but with his voice more successfully than with his guitar. Not sure if he was trying to get a trumpet sound on Sleeping on the Sidewalk. It doesn't sound like it to me but he's pretty good on Good Company (if it's not Roger Taylor). And, of course Steely Dan did a pretty good jazz band cover of East St. Louis Toodle-Oo.
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Post by cosvad on Sept 9, 2019 18:37:58 GMT
Rosewood is back!
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Post by hallon on Sept 15, 2019 12:24:33 GMT
So now the guitars featuring the jatoba fretboard will be highly collectable, as the rosewood will be used again! ... (joke)
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Post by LeoThunder on Sept 15, 2019 12:39:14 GMT
I'm off to buy this guy, because it has a Jatoba fingerboard and I like the way it looks. Well, maybe. If I get it cheap.
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Post by hallon on Sept 15, 2019 22:50:49 GMT
I'm off to buy this guy, because it has a Jatoba fingerboard and I like the way it looks. Well, maybe. If I get it cheap. Nice, I bet it will go up in value as well! Just like my cst24 hb
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