RE: Adrenalinn - more info please

["Qua and Vishara Veda" <exalted@easystreet.com>]

Hi,
I'm a beginning stick player, not sure if I get exactly what you mean
regarding playing "loud" on Stick, and "diads". But I feel that some Stick
players play some pretty hot leads, and amazingly intricate rythm lines 
with
some real oomph.  though perhaps more prog rock or jazz, Greg Howard is
amazing, very dynamic.  (the stick, properly set up, has a great deal of
dynamic range)  also the newer Stick PASV-4 pickups are quite a bit hotter
and sound great!   But then I love the Stick sound for what it is even on
the std pickups.  just depends what is the right tool for the job you want
to do

-Qua

-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan El-Bizri [mailto:ssrndpty@hotmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, April 07, 2002 11:20 PM
To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com; Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com;
Mark Sottilaro
Subject: Re: Adrenalinn - more info please





> >>> Sticks don't sound so good distorted. I'd pretty much given up on the
> >>> idea.
> >>
> >> Someone better tell Trey Gunn about that... <grin>
> >>Doesn't Trey use Warr guitars?
> Yes, he does now. Part of the reason is the pickups. He spoke with me
about
> his Stick sound, as he was not pleased with their lack of "rock and roll
> aggressiveness." I do some custom guitar work, and he was seeking a
resource
> for custom pickups.
> Douglas Baldwin, coyote-in-residence
> dbaldwin@suffolk.lib.ny.us
>

It's not just the pickups - it's also the (lack of) attack on the
instrument, and, from a rhythm guitar standpoint, the way the intrument
lends itself to a diads and sparser chord voicings and arpegiation, instead
of dan-dan-daann-chugga-chug-chugga-chugga-chugga style of play. Mores the
pity :<

Will someone hurry up and prove me wrong on this one? The inability to play
anything loud apart from basslines is my biggest niggle with the
instrument...