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Wow, thanks Scott! I can't recall what I was using
on that CD, but I think it was mostly steel string acoustic.
BTW, I still have my laptop and gear. I decided to
keep it as a recording devise, and an excellent one at that with the Fireface
400. So, if I ever decided to go back to the laptop for my guitar, the system is
there waiting for me in the background.
Right now I am playing an Eastman "Uptown"
hollowbody archop. For the money, it is an excellent jazz guitar, but I
plan to upgrate in a few months. I am thinking of a Gibson Wes Montgomery
L5....not sure. Tons of luthiers building archopts out there, but it is hard to
trust them all...some are making "pretty" guitars for rich guys, that don't have
the greatest tone.
The new Sadowsky LS-17 looks really cool too, even
if it is plywood.
Kris
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i got the guyatone md3 delay yesterday and got a chance
to play around w/ it.
i kind of like it. OK, it is SMALL-honestly w/
the input/output/power cord going in, i don't know where they put the
electronic guts to make it work.
even though it is small, the knobs
are easy to use & smooth (& the on/off button was worn in
smooth-i never stomp on my pedals so i never get the thing worn in). the
2 short settings work fine like a normal delay (slapback for you
rockabilly guys, echo for whatever), but the long setting does a nice
2.6 sec. it sounds different than the digitech/boss/ibanez delays i've
used in the past (cleaner to my ear-some may say too digital clean, but
i like). doesn't have the boss coloring that annoyed me after awhile.
the one thing i do like about the digitech delays is the option of
putting feedback at 3 o'clock to keep loop open, then you can move it to
100% and it locks in and you can play over. but this works nice since i
got it for 71$. it definately oscilates-so spaceship noises are
available. and as a noise maker, it's a yes. at times when going from
the extremes in the long mode to 2.6 sec, you can sometimes hear the
digital glitchy-ness in the notes caught in the delay path. it reminded
me of my old digitech rp100-it's 2 sec of delay sounded similar. but i
think the glitchyness can be fun & useful. and for the varispeed
thing, it works ok. now, the problem is when you get a good varispeed
thing done, it's impossible to really add anything over the top, i'll be
adding my behringer tweakilazer back in my setup for it's samples-but so
far i'm having fun w/ it. the fun things are messing w/ short rhytmic
things-reminds me a bit of Andre LF's "normalized' stuff-or at least my
bad interpretation of it....i should probably have my son vid record me
doing my crazy stuff w/ it and put it on utube...he has the good vid
camera in the house. classic....
side note: i popped in a bunch
of my loop cds in my car that i haven't listened too-the last 2 days
i've been listening to KRISPEN HARTUNG's "FRAGMENTS". wow, i forgot how
good that is. i have no idea how to describe it. looped madness (&
liner notes say recorded at coffee houses?), sometimes there are guitar
sounds that are quasi-semi-hollow-jazzy-then it goes into just
sound-goodness. sort of makes me sad that KH sold all his sonic mangling
tools and is going straight semi-hollow jazz -can it be after i'm
listening to "Fragments"? oh well, i wish him well, but the "Fragments"
disk has been some great sonic goodies to my
ears.....
s---
www.myspace.com/scotthansen
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=235503632389016121#docid=5791548553161416906
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=235503632389016121#
http://www.mefeedia.com/watch/28102613
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