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Post by Cosmic Wonder on Sept 20, 2024 18:29:35 GMT -5
Mike
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Post by david on Sept 20, 2024 19:53:49 GMT -5
Well that was pleasing to the ear and fun. Great guitar sound. Thanks, Mike.
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Post by Marshall on Sept 20, 2024 22:14:35 GMT -5
Sounds like a nice dread.
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Post by Dub on Sept 20, 2024 23:51:43 GMT -5
From the Collings Web site.
To me, that sounds a lot like “toasted wheat underpinnings.” If you hadn’t heard the video that Mike posted using good HiFi speakers, would that description mean anything to you?
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Post by John B on Sept 21, 2024 7:04:34 GMT -5
From the Collings Web site. To me, that sounds a lot like “toasted wheat underpinnings.” If you hadn’t heard the video that Mike posted using good HiFi speakers, would that description mean anything to you? Strong fundamental usually means less overtones = more Gibsony than Martiny. |
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Post by Marshall on Sept 21, 2024 7:35:34 GMT -5
It looks Gibsonesque with the sunburst.
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Post by drlj on Sept 21, 2024 7:39:47 GMT -5
To me, most of the terms people use-airy, spacious, dark, fundamental, woody, etc.-are meaningless. I heard a guy once describe a guitar as “crystalian like a bell.” Is crystalian even a word? What does that mean? It sounds like a crystal bell?
I have two terms I apply to all guitars. If I like it, it sounds good. If I don’t like it, it sounds bad. If I say a guitar sounds good, it’s my highest compliment. Listening with headphones, the Collings sounds good to me.
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Post by Russell Letson on Sept 21, 2024 8:32:41 GMT -5
Between whatever the signal chain does to the live sound and what my ancient ears do to what comes out of my pretty-decent computer speakers, I can't say with much confidence exactly what characteristics that guitar might have. The video sounds a bit trebly to me, but watching his hands, I suspect that's a matter of his technique--several times he picks high notes closer to the bridge and moves toward the soundhole for the low notes, which gives them a bit more growl. And I also suspect that those technique choices are aesthetic. (I would make different ones if I had the chops to carry off such a tune.)
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Post by howard lee on Sept 21, 2024 8:59:43 GMT -5
It sounds like a Collings, kind of stringent. But it is noticeably bereft of overtones. This could kick Gibson's butt a little bit, no?
Three Collings guitars have passed through my home and moved on to new homes. I couldn't bond. With apologies to Cosmic Wonder wonder who loves his D1A D1. |
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Post by Cosmic Wonder on Sept 21, 2024 9:18:14 GMT -5
D1A
Mike
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Post by epaul on Sept 21, 2024 10:38:29 GMT -5
As regards a tonal palette, "pushed to the far end of the spectrum" doesn't strike me as desirable quality. The opposite. Minny Pearl's voice, for example, occupied a far end of the tonal spectrum. The far ends of the tonal spectrum are typically painful to the ear.
(copywriters, sigh, what can you do?)
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Post by TKennedy on Sept 21, 2024 11:00:00 GMT -5
When I took a couple of my early guitars to Jim Olson for a critique he said-
“They sound fine - every guitar sounds good - to someone.”
That pretty well sums it up.
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Post by howard lee on Sept 21, 2024 11:11:34 GMT -5
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Post by drlj on Sept 21, 2024 11:56:10 GMT -5
When I took a couple of my early guitars to Jim Olson for a critique he said- “They sound fine - every guitar sounds good - to someone.” That pretty well sums it up. I think a guitar usually sounds like the player. I have heard two people play the same guitar and one sounds great while the other sounds, well, not so great. |
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Post by epaul on Sept 21, 2024 12:30:40 GMT -5
Agreed.
At one of the early IJams, I listened to Dub playing my Taylor 314. Not only did that guitar sound the best I had ever heard it, it was also the best Dub has ever sounded to me on any guitar. When a great player meets his soulmate of a guitar, great things happen. Dub and that little Taylor were magic together!
(I regret not giving it to him on the spot. Dub had the biggest damn smile on his face. They were meant for each other.)
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Post by epaul on Sept 21, 2024 12:34:00 GMT -5
I don't know if Dub recalls that time or not. FC brought the dessert that day.
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Post by drlj on Sept 21, 2024 13:03:00 GMT -5
Speaking of tone, Elderly is selling a travel banjo. I thought that was illegal in most states. You know, transporting a banjo across state lines and all of that.
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Post by John B on Sept 21, 2024 13:10:54 GMT -5
When I took a couple of my early guitars to Jim Olson for a critique he said- “They sound fine - every guitar sounds good - to someone.” That pretty well sums it up. I think a guitar usually sounds like the player. I have heard two people play the same guitar and one sounds great while the other sounds, well, not so great. I told you, I had been traveling all day and didn't even dream I'd have the opportunity to play the Langejans or the Gibson. And you sound pretty confident in your own playing ability. |
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Post by drlj on Sept 21, 2024 13:46:06 GMT -5
I think a guitar usually sounds like the player. I have heard two people play the same guitar and one sounds great while the other sounds, well, not so great. I told you, I had been traveling all day and didn't even dream I'd have the opportunity to play the Langejans or the Gibson. And you sound pretty confident in your own playing ability. I promise I was not referring to either of us but to a couple of strangers last time I was at Elderly. |
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Post by RickW on Sept 21, 2024 22:51:00 GMT -5
That was some world class noodling, that was.
Probably a very nice guitar, but can’t judge how something is until you play. Never understood people who buy guitars sight unseen.
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