Johnny Winter
Roy Buchanan
Rick Derringer
Jerry Donahue
Danny Gatton
Seek these men out on Youtube.
2 2007-11-06 15:24:34
Re: Ledbelly-Western Plain? (2 replies, posted in Song requests)
3 2007-11-06 14:48:41
Re: Compression (6 replies, posted in Electric)
Compression squeezes your sound, limits it's frequency range, sounds like a receipe for bad tone doesn't it?
I'm sorry but that's not the case.
Compression doesn't affect frequency. It governs the amplitude of your signal by keeping the level within a particular range. It affects the dynamics of your playing.
Simply put, it amplifies weak signals and attenuates loud signals below and above a threshold.
It's used in recording studios to keep the volume of the recording within a range which is audible to the listener and under the distortion threshold, or to emphasise particular parts of the mix without affecting the volume levels.
For guitarists, used right, compression can be very useful. For instance you can pick individual notes and strum chords and keep the subjective volume level similar.
I often play electric guitar clawhammer style with metal thumb and fingerpicks. A bit of compression can add extra emphasis to the attack of the note and is great for separation of individual notes.
Experiment with different settings.
You won't hear much, but you'll start to play differently, and perhaps more accurately.
4 2007-11-05 15:30:42
Re: Roland GR-20 Guitar Synthesizer (1 replies, posted in Guitars and accessories)
I've been playing one for three years and it is an extremely powerful piece of equipment.
It is however a synthesiser. It gives you access to hundreds of different sounds you can trigger fromyour guitar and play in unison with, or ontheir own.
It's not an effects box. The guitar signal passes down the 13 pin cable and comes out unaltered at the GR20's outputs so you'll still need some kind of tone shaping device to get the guitar sound you want. Although I've not used one I understand the v_amp does that job quite well so don't trash it yet.
You can route the guitar signal out of the GR20, into your effects box, and take the processed signal back in to the GR20 via a pair of stereo sockets to be mixed with the synth sound at the outputs.
It's astonsihingly good fun but you do have to be a decent guitar player to get the best out of it
If you're the sort of player who just batters chords all the time you'll be limited as to how much use you'll get from it, but if you can solo monophonically, the breathy sax will have you soaring within seconds of plugging the thing in!