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  1. 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...
  2. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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!

  6. 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
  7. 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


  8. 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.
  9. 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
  12. yea that's always one I've tried to stay away from. Just listening to that song, and all of the effects thrown in there makes me imagining myself spending hours and hours trying to nail the tone. As for an acoustic version, the only thing I can think of is the chords you mentioned, sorry man.
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