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Acoustic slide guitar tune
Built the guitar last year. . . . . . Practiced each day for around a year. . . . .
‘Cookes Galliard’
Recorded with:
Home made Weissenborn guitar.
Studio Projects C1 mic.
Fishman Rare Earth Blend pickup.
iConnect 4+
Cubasis.
Virsyn Audio Reverb.
Wizibel for the video effects.
Lumafusion.
Thanks for looking.
Comments
Just listened and it’s fresh, bright and wonderful to listen to!! Thanks for sharing
Great!!
Very good playing!
Bravo!
Thanks both. Very happy you liked it.
Did you actually build this guitar? Fantastic!
Lol, I got a weissenborn for Christmas, built by a friend. I’m learning. It’s hard. I’m building an electric lap steel.
That sounds fantastic. How did you record it, mic placement and mics? Is that open D tuning?
That is beautifully recorded, performed and the mix of the Fishman Pickup & the large diaphragm mic sounds so sweet. Was the slide a Coricidan bottle type or regular glass? I guess it could be brass or porcelain but on those notes you play on the IV chord changes the tone is so round & full, no spikes are overdone rattling. Really good shit man!
Listened twice in a row with my 7506 headphones and the track is really beautiful...if you wrote the piece makes it all the more cool.
@theconnactic
@rickwaugh
@JRSIV
Thanks for the interest, its appreciated. Yes I made the instrument. Its a lap steel slide based on the Weissenborn guitar. I collected the materials from a friends wood shop and built it at my school where I currently work as a Design Technology teacher.
The slide bar is a stainless steel type Shubb SP2. The strings are John Pearse strings. Its all open D, but the middle section I adopt a rather interesting technique of using bass string frets to allow the bass note to drop while still playing the slide up higher for the chords. Its a neat trick used by Ed Gerhard on his ‘Homage’ track. You essentially play the bass notes behind the slide bar.
I wrote the tune after watching a childrens cartoon called ‘Abney and Teal’. I have another version with harmonica playing with it. I just dont have that version with video yet.
This is the guitar and you can see the process on my face ache page if your interested.
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1876521775995280.1073741832.100009124265559&type=1&l=868537a114
Be happy to share more info Rick if you wanted some advice etc.
Thank you for the kind compliments
David
Amazing story and great performance!
that sums it up pretty well
Nice mix, too - I assume the pan movement is driven by the slide action, it fits perfectly.
Yes the pan effect is from the mix of mag pickup and mic placement
Thanks rich and tele
So damn cool. Thanks brother for the rundown, really fascinating bit of creativity. You built the guitar (with kit parts or not, that's impressive), wrote the tune and engineered & produced it. Well done...
Fantastic! Would love to hear the version with harmonica.
With the Harmonica
https://www.dropbox.com/s/2t1np0k59qxtm6s/Cookes Galliard with Fillipo.wav?dl=0
No kit parts. Just off the shelf pickup and tuners from ebay
Very nice. They fit well together!
@dblonde, thanks. I was wondering about Mic placement.
Here's mine. My friend had been building for a few years, but this is his first weissenborn. All koa.
Very nice tune and playing. Perfect for a Sunday morning!
@rickwaugh
Yes thats very special indeed, all koa too
Your very lucky to have that. Must have cost a bit? I made mine because I had no funds to put towards one.
Yours reminds me of the one Thomas Oliver plays.
Mine is pine top, and its sriped due to the many sections I had to glue together to get a soundboard out of it. If I could ever afford Koa then I would be VERY happy also.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/2t1np0k59qxtm6s/Cookes
Very nice indeed
Not sure, as my eldest daughter had it made. My friend doesn't charge much for labor, as he's still learning. So not outrageous. I think he got the koa stash for a good price. It's the traditional wood for these instruments.
Well for someone learning it sure looks the part. I was aware of Koa but the price is high because its now a protected material just like mahogany etc. Would love to hear it also, hint hint
Lol. I’m behind you by quite a bit. As soon as I can play something listenable, I’ll record it. It’s a whole new world of technique, as you know.
Wow! Loved the track. Great playing and wonderful, natural organic sound.