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  1. Awesome guitars.

    So what is everyone hoping for under the christmas tree or kwanza bush or whatever all of those things strat mentioned were

    I'm hoping for a Tonelab LE. I'm like 90% sure I got one. My mom buggered up nicely! She called me from work, telling me to check the family email. Here's how it went.
    "Hey, I think there was an email for you from Long and Mcquade (guitar store if you didn't know) saying your order is in"

    "Mom I didn't order anything..."

    "Oh. Hold on I'll ask your father if you should look at it...................................No don't look at it"

    I'm very tempted to read it anyway, because it's still there. But I don't want to ruin it for myself. I'm sure it is the tonelab, but still. Anyway, way to go mom! Now I'm 100% sure that's what it is Because that same day I was in that store, before that convo went on of course. And they had a couple tonelabs in. They've NEVER had them in. I bet when they ordered (hopefully) mine they ordered a few, just to make something out of it. Yay! Hooray for tonelab!
  2. Originally posted by Alex:The "strange guitar" was a resonator guitar, just as you said. The most famous manufacturer of reso guitars is Dobro (which is a subdivision of Gibson nowadays). These guitars don't use the body as main sound source but a single- cone or three- cone metal resonator. This makes the guitars sound very metallic. In 99% of the cases reso guitars are used for slide playing with open tuning and a bottleneck. A lot of reso guitars are even factory- made with a square profile neck, so that you can only play them laying on your legs - similar to a lap steel or hawaii guitar.

    Resonator guitars are often used for Delta Blues and other kinds of acoustic blues music. This works especially good when combined to a normal steel- string acoustic guitar and / or a bluesharp. I recommend listening to "Trimmed and Burning" and "Slow Burn" by Darrell Mansfield and Glenn Kaiser.

    Alex

    Cheers for the response Alex, great stuff, really informative

    Re. other Alex's question concerning Christmas etc., like I said earlier, with any luck I might be the recipient of an Epiphone Explorer (natural finish, I don't do 'ebony'!) come the 25th but I'm not expecting anything, I never do - however, it's the only thing I've actually answered with as far as ideas go whenever people have quizzed about whether there's anything specific I'd be wanting as a present for Christmas; I just know I'd be one step closer to dying happy if I were to get an Explorer sometime in the near future...
  3. Originally posted by WojBhoy:[..]
    Cheers for the response Alex, great stuff, really informative

    Re. other Alex's question concerning Christmas etc., like I said earlier, with any luck I might be the recipient of an Epiphone Explorer (natural finish, I don't do 'ebony'!) come the 25th but I'm not expecting anything, I never do - however, it's the only thing I've actually answered with as far as ideas go whenever people have quizzed about whether there's anything specific I'd be wanting as a present for Christmas; I just know I'd be one step closer to dying happy if I were to get an Explorer sometime in the near future...


    Yea man I love my explorer. Mine is a Gibson, but before I bought it I played an epiphone as well. The epiphones are very very good in comparison to the gibson. Probably one of the better epiphones you can get actually. Plus. you just look fucking cool playing one. They are just so damn cool looking.
  5. Yea I saw that a while back. Very cool clip. I always thought that wasn't the same sound he had on the vertigo tour though. It seemed a little more crunchy, almost with a little overdrive while on tour. Plus, as long as we're on the topic of explorers a little bit, here's a new clip with mine. Hope you guys like it, it's new york.
  6. Originally posted by RattleandHum1988:Yea I saw that a while back. Very cool clip. I always thought that wasn't the same sound he had on the vertigo tour though. It seemed a little more crunchy, almost with a little overdrive while on tour. Plus, as long as we're on the topic of explorers a little bit, here's a new clip with mine. Hope you guys like it, it's new york.
    [YouTube Video]


    Superbly done. New York is one of my favorite songs. I've played along to it a couple of times with my Telecaster, but it's never sounded this good.

    A question for those who know more than I do (which is all of you): in that BBC guitar series, Johnny Marr demonstrated his Rickenbacker/Fender amp sound. Any idea what kind of effect he is using? Is that just the sound of a Fender Twin Reverb amp? It sounds so good!

  7. When plugging in he plays a few dry chords, probably with a little spring reverb. When starting to perform he has some "jangle" background which makes me believe he might use an "octave up" pitch shifter, most likely to make it sound closer to a twelve string guitar.

    Any other suggestions?

    Alex
  8. Originally posted by AAV711:Superbly done. New York is one of my favorite songs. I've played along to it a couple of times with my Telecaster, but it's never sounded this good.

    A question for those who know more than I do (which is all of you): in that BBC guitar series, Johnny Marr demonstrated his Rickenbacker/Fender amp sound. Any idea what kind of effect he is using? Is that just the sound of a Fender Twin Champ amp? It sounds so good!

    [YouTube Video]

    No idea lol, but I agree, it sounds pretty damn good


  9. Mark Knoppler play a National Steel Resonator. Myles Kennedy's is a Dean. I didn't see anything that Myles did that was so out of the ordinary - looked like blues playing which resonator guitars are known for.
  10. Originally posted by anstratdubh1979:Mark Knoppler play a National Steel Resonator. Myles Kennedy's is a Dean. I didn't see anything that Myles did that was so out of the ordinary - looked like blues playing which resonator guitars are known for.

    I didn't mean the actual style of playing was out of the ordinary, I meant the guitar because I'd never come across one before
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