Subj : Whatever
To : Steve Kemp
From : Richard Webb
Date : Sun May 02 2010 02:43 pm
HI Steve,
On Sun 2038-May-02 02:45, Steve Kemp (1:123/789) wrote to Richard Webb:
RW> SAme model here. Love mine, great sound! Plays nice.
SK> Really! Cool.
SK> Yeah, it's a nice "machine".
SK> It RANG in my ear the first time I picked it up.
SK>> The mysterious "they" say it's a cheaper guitar because it's
SK>> composite...but I find this thing perfect (in price and quality).
RW> IT has held up for me well even if it is composite
RW> construction.
SK> Actually, I've heard (from no one in particular) that the composite
SK> is apt to endure for quite a while.
Yep, and iirc the neck is still a solid piece.
FUnny how I found mine. WE were out getting me a pair of
good working shoes, was my birthday. I had to run into the
local guitar center to get a couple of things, I rarely go
in those places, the din drives me crazy. I went in, just
looked around a bit, and ended up in their little guitar
room. SAw this thing sitting there, quite a bit knocked off the price of a
usual Martin. I picked it up, sat down on
one of those padded benches and started to play it.
I was sort of looking for another 6 string anyway, I had an
Alvarez 12 that I'd use on recordings, but I like to record
a 6 and then a 12 doing adifferent part. Still I like the 6 as the foundation.
IN 2001 when preparing to move to NEw Orleans from IOwa I'd
sold an Ovation look alike at a yard sale for $50, and that
was all it was worth. Bought it at a pawnshop for little
more than that, because I wanted something to play now and
then on a bandstand without the hassle of trying to mic it
up.
Anybody who read this echo back in the heyday can remember
that our friendly echo mod at the time said that flaming an
Ovation guitar was quite appropriate for this echo, in fact
real flames and ovation guitars were a good match <g>.
Still this thing served me for some gigging, even if I did
have to rebuild the pickups and the wiring. AS I said, sold it at a yard sale,
and had given a cheap Yamaha 6 to a buddy of mine for his kid to learn on.
THis left me without a 6.
sO I"m looking at this thing, liked the price. WE put some
money down on it, and I told 'em to hold that one, guy said
he would, told him I'd be back the next day with the
balance.
gO back in, guy tells me that one was already sold to
somebody else and shouldn't have been out on display, but he had others, same
model. HE brought out five or six until I
found one I liked the neck on as well as I'd liked that
first one.
RW> Usually my preferred capture technique for recording it is a small
RW> diaphragm condenser mic aimed at where the neck joins
RW> the body.
SK> I don't record. At least much any more. I got all my junk stolen a
SK> while back. I had EVERYTHING!
I do a remote truck now, lost my whole rig in the after
Katrina fire when they turned on the juice to my
neighborhood, no insurance, paying the wife's cobra and
copays instead. three Fostex hard disk machines synced,
ROland sound canvas, Alesis d-4 drum module, a Peavey bass
module for bass sounds, Hammond porta-b type organ with
midi, two port midi interface and a fairly good mic locker.
NOw I've got this remote rig, 32 chan mci console, lots of
signal processing by dbx and LExicon, JBL and Yamaha
monitors, whole nine yards.
WAnt to see it have a look at
www.gatasound.com
SK> It's sad.
Yah sure would be. I miss the old rig in NEw ORleans. I
mixed to dat or Alesis master link, used to do some on hold
music, voice-overs, all sorts of stuff, none of them big
money projects, but at times I'd be quite busy.
Feast or famine business. THe gigs in N.O. the quarter etc. kept me going
though even when it got lean.
Regards,
Richard
... Creationism is to science what storks are to obstetrics.
--- timEd 1.10.y2k+
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