Bellanca Archtop Sound Clips

[TKennedy]

Someone (Bruce?) wanted to hear some sound clips from the latest archtop with a solid top made from Sitka spruce from the Bellanca aircraft factory. Body is solid Mahogany. It is X braced and sounds warm acoustically.

It has a 15" lower bout, 25" scale, Kent Armstrong hand wound floating humbucker with 500K pots on the pickguard and a 0.047 tone cap. The small size makes it very comfortable to play.

Recorded through a VSA 15W tube amp mic'ed with an SM57 straight into Pro Tools with no effects. I think the recording sounds pretty accurate. I did one short chord melody piece and another short song to get the single string sound. I recorded the changes and overdubed the solo. I really like the pickup.




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[Doug]

Nice sound 

[lar]

Very mellow. Very, very nice. You've done it again, Terry!

[Tamarack]

Very sweet and mellow.

[brucemacneill]

Sounds sweet like an archtop should. Good work, Terry.

[drlj]

Very nice.

[coachdoc]

Atsa speesy, spicey! Great sound.

[Marshall]

Too bad it doesn't have a 0.050 tone cap, or I'd probably be tempted to buy it.




Nice.

[Lonnie]

Sounds wonderful even through my tablet. I'll pull it up on the big machine and listen through my studio speakers. Lovely guitar, Terry!

[RickW]

Now, that's how an archtop is supposed to sound. Lovely.

[mccoyblues]

Lovely. I really do enjoy the tone of an archtop

[Shannon]

Outstanding. You've done it again!

[TKennedy]

Thanks all. I hate to let this one go. I'll definitely build another 15", it's a wonderful geezer size. Thanks to Marty for the suggestions on wiring techniques, pot and cap size etc.

Marty I used your little box to see what the warm cap would sound like and this guitar didn't need it. Maybe the Mahogany warmed it up enough.

[millring]

I b'leeve I could dream up some stuff to play on that thing.

[mnhermit]

simply luscious. I even drooled a little.