#82

New guitar and my first Jazzmaster (Shell Pink Roadworn).

It sounds and plays soooo nice :rainbow:

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#83

Nice. Shell pink and surf / seafoam / mint green are my favorite colors for Fenders.

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#84

Anyone have experience with the new Guild electric 12 strings?

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#85

Nice! Iā€™ve been eyeing the Plumes. I recently bought one of the the Neural DSP archetype pedals/amp/cab syms so Iā€™m waiting to see how much I get out of that, but Plumes might be next up to get a little more out of my Rivera.

#86

No, but that looks sick! I used to have a 1960 Guild Starfire with DeArmonds that I stupidly sold. I wish I had it still.

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#87

To expand on it a little more, I was using my analog heat as an overdrive in that same spot for quite a while. I wanted to get it out of my pedal chain as it was being underutilized creatively and seemed to have noise floor issues with the analog outs that werenā€™t present when I would run it with the newer overbridge. When I started looking I thought I was gonna have to get something very tweakable to be satisfied, but the set eq curve in plumes is kinda perfect to my ears. IMO, even though it is based on the tubescreamer, it is much less low-mid heavy and brighter than pretty much any other tubescreamer Iā€™ve heard. The LED clipping mode is what I mostly keep it inā€¦it breaks up sooner, in a nice chimey kind of way. Very happy with it!

#88

Iā€™ve recently gotten back into my initial entry into music, the acoustic guitar. Iā€™m trying to take all that Iā€™ve learned in the last 35 years since first picking up a guitar, and learning how I can apply it. Kind of like a combination of Fennesz and John Fahey. :wink:

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#89

A match made in paradise!

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#90

I think repetitive style of finger style works so well in theory with minimal electronic stuff. Not a ton of people have mined it totally yet. Iā€™m on the this quest myself. Gastr Del Sol was the band that really pushed this in the late 90ā€™s though. I think Fahey was actually living with Oā€™Rourke at one point.

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#91

Fahey did a great record with Boston post-rock band Cul de Sacā€¦

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#92

Agreed! I love that combo and definitely find myself going in that direction when improvising as well. One trick thats cool is using your guitar to send gates out, like if youā€™re using Ears. Iā€™ve done this in different combinations, and it works really well to create a floaty sense of time.

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#93

Iā€™ve got that Doepfer A-119 that does this. Iā€™ve messed around with this some. What kinds of things are you triggering?

#94

Iā€™ve used it to trigger Turing Machine melody type stuff, and it works really good with the First script in crow----also FM in other modules too.

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#95

I just saw this thread while kicked back on the bed, reading lines on my iPad. So I pointed the iPad to my guitar setup next to the bed. Thatā€™s my old Takamine classical that I bought new at a store in Bloomington, IN back in 1978. The pink book itā€™s setting on is ā€œThe Ragas of North Indiaā€. The guitar is currently tuned CFCFCEb, but Iā€™m always changing it up:

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#96

I would love to listen to that type of guitar in raga style.
:smiley_cat:

#97

Fretted instruments arenā€™t really conducive to ragas. I often improvise fingerpicking in raga scales, but it doesnā€™t sound remotely Indian. I think you need to go fretless for that.

#98

That tuning sounds really interesting.

Maybe some kind of freeze type pedal (like EHX Freeze) would help with the Raga type improv?

You could layer a drone and then improvise over the top.

#99

The major feature of tunings like one this is that they have their own drone built in.

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#100

Iā€™ve used this tuning on a few guitar tracks! And a variation with d on the high string rather than Eb. The first couple tracks on this album are in that tuning. The last couple are other variations: D/F/D/F/C/D and D/F#/D/F#/C#/Dā€¦maybe thatā€™s too different to really call it a variation. I love open tuningsā€¦realizing I should probably write my tunings down somewhere in case I start playing again, ha.

Just remembering this album that is a fantastic mix of acoustic guitar and electronics.

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