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different sounds!!!

Posted by john mackay on July 17, 2014 at 4:02pm in Performances, How to Play, Lessons, Concerts

there are quite a few you tubes post on different cbg's.

some sound nice and some not so nice.

when you read some comments hey what strings are you using ,what tune .

from what I can gather most cbg's are tuned GDg and yet give different sound.

now why don't these cbg's players come clean and say it is the amplifier or other gizmo's that create the sounds that were are hearing.

I've got three cbg's and none sound like these on you tubes.

so what is the secret? 

is the pick up?

is the strings?

or is the amps etc.

http://youtu.be/MNO28Nl0tFE

http://youtu.be/Ajcyyh11M0Q

http://youtu.be/8jcYdmD8FCI

http://youtu.be/BQhLbe67i7g

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  • Vinylhed July 20, 2014 at 7:28pm

    I find my consumption of alcohol has a direct effect on the sound of my playing.

    In my head it sounds great, in reality it's a pile of poo.

    • Ron "Oily" Sprague > Vinylhed July 21, 2014 at 4:27am
      There's a lyric in there, Hedley...

      In my head it sounds great, in reality it's a pile of poo

      Maybe the continuing story of a guy who walks into a bar, sees a hot little number sitting alone on a stool, walks manfully up, and opens his mouth...;-)
  • Patrick Curley July 18, 2014 at 7:48pm
    On an electric guitar the source of the sound is the pickup, other things will have some effect, usually because they determine how the strings vibrate in relation to the pickup, but by far the main thing, not the only thing but the main thing, we're talking about sound here, is the pickup, did I say pickup?
    Other things are important, playability, aesthetics, intonation, etc but if you're talking about the sound of the instrument, not the amp or anything else, it has to be the pickup because it's the pickup that produces the signal that then goes on to be amplified.
    • robert jones > Patrick Curley July 19, 2014 at 7:55am

      LOL

      Patrick,I've got this solid body build over here that doesn't have strings yet, I plugged it in and sounds like...

      Now I'm suspecting that just maybe when I do put those strings on there the sound out of the amp will change.

      I'm pretty certain that if you could pop over to the house and we both played the same song on it without changing any settings the sound would be measurably different. Couple of pints with some good food later and the sound would change still more.

      • Patrick Curley > robert jones July 20, 2014 at 3:03am

        I'd love to find out one day Robert, over a few pints perhaps.

  • Cause the Blue rat July 18, 2014 at 5:07pm

    I too have a Swamp Witch Guitar. It's got a really good sound to it. Completely different from any other guitar I have. And it also sounds differently threw the pedals as well. Much closer to a single coil than a piezo.

    For a really great sound reference listen to as many of the un amped vids on this site as you can.

    • the anonymous pick > Cause the Blue rat July 18, 2014 at 5:16pm

      cheers   rat  ,   glad  you are  enjoying  it  ;-)

  • john mackay July 18, 2014 at 1:49pm

    thanks anonymous pick.

     

  • robert jones July 18, 2014 at 9:09am

    It's the player that makes the sound, the equipment is how he gets there.

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