Ernest Friedman-Hill wrote:.. I am loving it.
Gregg Bolinger wrote:Super cool. I picked up a new Taylor 814ce a few months ago. I'd love to get a new electric at some point. Just not in the cards right now.
Pat Farrell wrote:Do you have a proper tube amp to go with it? Tubes (aka valves) are critical to getting proper sound out of a guitar.
Kathleen Angeles wrote:I envy you guys who can play a tune on the guitar.
I bought this a long time ago and some lesson books too, but havent picked up anything due to loss of interest or laziness.
(dreaming....that I can play any metallica song....)
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Pat Farrell wrote:Do you have a proper tube amp to go with it? Tubes (aka valves) are critical to getting proper sound out of a guitar.
Jesper de Jong wrote:It's too loud, so that I can't really use it at home without annoying the neighbours, and the tubes aren't very reliable.
Dennis Deems wrote:My god, I want your flooring.
For some reason I didn't think it was the master bedroom.Ernest Friedman-Hill wrote:
Dennis Deems wrote:My god, I want your flooring.
That's the playroom/studio in the basement. It's a floating floor.
Pat Farrell wrote:Do you have a proper tube amp to go with it? Tubes (aka valves) are critical to getting proper sound out of a guitar.
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fred rosenberger wrote:I'm curious - has anyone ever done a proper, double-blind study on whether tube amps REALLY sound better?
Pat Farrell wrote:Well, "better" is subjective, but there is no question that most listeners and most guitarists much prefer the sound of a tube amp.
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fred rosenberger wrote:Unless you do a proper, scientific double-blind study, the results are meaningless.
I don't see why the sound is such a big deal. Ideally, you should use an amp powerful enough to prevent any distortion in the first place. I don't think you hear trumpet players going on and on about the sound quality of this product versus that one.Pat Farrell wrote:
fred rosenberger wrote:Unless you do a proper, scientific double-blind study, the results are meaningless.
Actually, proper double blind, scientific studies of sound quality have been done, and they have never been significant.
Yet people can reliably tell which they prefer.
Stereophile and other high-end sound magazines, and the audio forums go over this periodically.
My best guess is that they are measuring the wrong things, what they think makes it sound better is not what they are measuring. I expect that selecting a sound is like selecting a mate/lover. The basic criteria are known, but not well understood. Its nearly impossible to generalize on which mate/lover works for each individual.
Frank Silbermann wrote: I don't see why the sound is such a big deal. Ideally, you should use an amp powerful enough to prevent any distortion in the first place. I don't think you hear trumpet players going on and on about the sound quality of this product versus that one.
Ernest Friedman-Hill wrote:...I remember the amp I had as a kid: tubes and spring reverb. For folks who don't know what that is: back before solid-state analog circuits, and of course long before digital, they used to do echo and reverb effects by running your analog signal through a fine metal spring, with fifty turns per inch or so, stretched between two contacts. The signal would go though the coils and this would induce smaller, ghost signals, which sound like echo...
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So how do the acoustic guitar players get this necessary controlled distortion?Pat Farrell wrote:
The distortion is the sound they want. An electric guitar is a two part instrument, the guitar and the amp. Guitar players do not want "wire with gain" amplification. They want the controlled distortion.
Frank Silbermann wrote:So how do the acoustic guitar players get this necessary controlled distortion?
Frank Silbermann wrote:I don't think you hear trumpet players going on and on about the sound quality of this product versus that one.
Pat Farrell wrote:
Frank Silbermann wrote:So how do the acoustic guitar players get this necessary controlled distortion?
They don't. An acoustic guitar is a different type of instrument with its own sound.
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fred rosenberger wrote:although there is no reason why you couldn't put a pickup on the acoustic guitar and run the signal through an effects box.
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fred rosenberger wrote:I always found it odd that in concerts, the guitarists plug into a (say) 100watt amp, and then a mic is placed in front of the cones to pick up the sound to be sent to the house main amps. it just seems like a kludge.
Pat Farrell wrote:
Bass guitarist generally don't do any tone stuff, so they use a "DI" direct inject into the house mixer and then out to the house.
Ernest Friedman-Hill wrote:The coil tapping feature is great -- the coil-tapped bridge pickup sounds a lot like a Strat, when that's what you're after.