ALL THINGS BIG AND SMALL 2.0

TAKE A PICK [no pun intended]- Your missing variable in the equation of Guitar Tone. You have: $4000.00 guitar $3000.00 amp $400 hand-wound pickups $100 cable $30 Titanium strings 50 CENTS PICK? OMG! Its time you try out and buy my luxury picks for that killer tone: Price range: 5.00 to 100.00. V-Picks, Gravity, SuperBite, Blue-Chip, Wegen, Huffschmid, Dunlop PrimeTone etc. Many sizes, shapes, and thickness. (Diamonds, Screamers, Pachellis, Farleys, Ghost Rims, Gypsy, Jazz III shapes etc) Selling those I don't use (picks must suit your style, guitar, music) The other photo is of my prize 3mm Huffschmid Glow-In-The-Dark Aqua Blue with special beveling. [30 Euros]

1972 Gibson Es-175D, Acoustic Image Clarus 2R with Raezers-Edge Stealth 12, Acoustic Image Coda Plus, and in the background ZT Lunchbox Amp with extension cab The previous post [below] which has a virtual MP3 player plays some sound files of my guitar playing. This post is the content since I didn't know how to combine the MP3 player's HTML coding with Blogger's WYSIWYG editing. The accompaniment to my amateurish playing was by Band-In-Box software:a fantastic sotware just listen to the acoustic bass, the drums and that great piano playing. However the files further down the list from song 5 or so downwards were recorded with earlier versions of Band-In-A-Box, and in these the accompaniment is MIDI unlike the real sampled sounds of the later songs. All guitar players yearn for that awesome tone, which for electric guitars is the result of the combination of guitar, amplifier and the player's touch. And yet, the final tone that comes out of the speaker is the result o...

Believe it or not, guitars breathe, and they do need to breathe if they are to sound good. Take out a guitar that has been kept in its case for ages, especially an acoustic guitar, and pluck the strings. It will sound muffled and stifled. The ringing sustain with clear overtones that you expect from a good guitar will be absent. But leave the guitar outside its case for a few days, in a place that's not so humid, and there will be a difference in the sound. Good wines breathe, and so do guitars. The type of finish (paint) used on a guitar is a very important factor in its ability to breathe. Many vintage guitars sound great because they do not have thick coats of paint but were au naturel, or had only a thin coat of paint followed by a top coat of nitrocellulose lacquer. The ban on nitrocellulose lacquers (for health or environmental reasons I think) and the fashion for guitars to have custom colors like Shell Pink, Pacific Blue, Candy Apple Red, etc resulted in guitars that could...

"The Electric Guitar Sourcebook, by Dave Hunter [Backbeat books 2006] is a new book on what makes a guitar sound the way it sounds. Dave tells you that every part that goes into the making of a guitar contributes in some way to the total tone of the guitar. From all important factors like wood and design, to seemingly inconsequential factors like it's bridge, nut, scale length, and frets. The problem is that all these components inter-act in a non-linear way to give the total effect such that the whole tone is more than the sum of it's parts. This would seem to explain what many guitarists already know-that no two guitars will sound exactly the same. Or more importantly for them, why they must have a particular guitar. In an interview with Fender Custom Shop Master Builder, Chris Fleming, Hunter's question was " How much difference is made by the mere fact of a guitar having been played or not played over the years ?" Chris Fleming: That makes a difference, p...