Comments on: Regal Square Neck – Acoustic Series ~ 1 of 4

By: Henny

Henny — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 21:59:28 +0000

Peerfct shot! Thanks for your post!

By: AQ

AQ — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 14:15:11 +0000

Hey Steve,

I just borrowed Harmonic Experience from the library, so I’m finally understanding some of the terminology you’ve brought into the posts at “the forum” (I’m better known as “fretgears”).

The approach in this book is so much more reasonable for getting to the root of the subject and I have to thank you for basically leading me down this path with that Schoenberg chapter that dealt with my whole C to Ab issue.

My question for you is what other resources on this do you recommend? Harmonic Experience will easily take me a good amount of time to get through, but I would like to have any other materials you’d recommend to take in concurrently with that.

I’m quite comfortable with my playing for what I want to do with it, and I have the vocal style that I want out of the instrument (“zappafingers” on youtube).

I really like how you brought us into the process of digging out tones in these clips.

Have a good day,
Anthony

By: seltz

seltz — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 09:41:58 +0000

if i could only play what i feel inside. there’s a big leak between my brain and my finger execution. i’m happy i can hear it and feel it. working on my rythm work with some small leads around the chords. timing getting a little better. forever the student.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 18:53:34 +0000

Andrew,

I frequently check in to the Discussion Forum to study these Topics. However, I seem to be the only person who Posts over there, except for the Gear discussions.
If you ever want to discuss these things, please let me know. I am also a Student of it all, and would be happy to talk.

By: Kimock

Kimock — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:28:38 +0000

Hey Foxy, regarding the email, I don’t really have the time right now to answer private emails regarding tech stuff. Too busy. . .
I’ll do my best to get the shared stuff online, but I would be completely useless if I started trying to go one on one with everybody.
Hope you understand, only so much time in the day.

peace.

By: Foxy

Foxy — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:50:43 +0000

Heard of you from friends in Lehigh Valley & would love to hear you live. Music is a soul trip-you are so invested in your playing.
Thanks,
Foxy
P.S. Can I e-mail you to inquire of gear ‘n stuff-I am a new performer?

By: Kimock

Kimock — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:51:21 +0000

That was me screwing it up and not having the time to fix it, sorry! I’ll figure it out eventually, and in the meantime I’m pretty sure it won’t happen again.

right. . .

By: Kimock

Kimock — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:49:10 +0000

Yep. The CB-1, that’s my favorite so far.
Unity gain and extremely transparent. It does a very cool thing to a humbucker, it’s basically what Garcia used the whole time he was doing the active thing with the loop in the guitar. I’m not sure if anybody knows exactly what else he was doing in the guitar electronically that might have affected the performance of the buffer/pre-amp, whatever.
Pot values, power supply, etc, but the CB-1 straight up pretty much nails that shit with a humbucker.
They sound great with single coils too, but the clarity isn’t quite so surprising to me compared to the buffer with the humbucker.

The Jangletone version kills for the high gain stuff, and I’m sure I’ll pick one up in the future for that application, but for right now I’m kinda leaning in a different direction.
That’ll change. . .

By: Kimock

Kimock — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:36:09 +0000

Yeah sure. I got that glass bar a couple of years ago from a guy on TGP who goes by the handle Hep Cat, I think. . .
I don’t know if he still makes them, but they’re really cool sounding light weight little bullet bars, and I would be lost without that one I’m using in the video.

Normally I string the Regal with the D’Addario Bronze acoustic smooth wound dobro set. If you go to their site, you’ll find ‘em, I forget the exact name and number, I very rarely change them.
Right now it’s got Pyramid 13 gauge acoustic bronze with a 16 for the high string, again I don’t remember why at this point because I so rarely change the strings on that guitar.

If you don’t have frets to mess up the strings cross section, they still eventually go dead, but they never really go bad, so there’s not a lot of point to changing them. If they still play more or less in tune, I’m fine with that.

One more thing about the bar. . .
I don’t use the glass for everything. If I need the sustain or some more body to the tone, I have a very old Stevens bar with all the chrome worn off that I’ve used forever, and one or two misc. old chrome bullets if I need it brighter.

The deal with the glass is the short sustain gives you a little more articulate sound. It’s a little plinky for most guys probably, but I love it.

By: pdxtom

pdxtom — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 08:27:59 +0000

Ah, Scott Walker uses these components, ya? Have you used the CB1 Steve?