Monkey Allen
Fork and spoon operator
I bought this guitar in 2009 or so. To get right to the point...it's full of ugly overtones regardless of the room I play it in. These ugly overtones manifest most brutally when I'm strumming chords around the first 3 frets. Like I'll play Am to G to C or something and there'll be this horrible 1khz (approx) overtone or sympathetic resonance or whatever you call it just underpinning everything played. If I strum some other chord there'll be ugly resonances at 700hz or 500hz, whatever. At first I thought it was my crap 8x9ft studio space. But anywhere in the house I still get these resonances. Or I thought it was the microphone capturing inaudible room boxiness or standing waves or something weird. But no. These resonances come right from the guitar itself. I can literally hear in an open position strummed Am chord...the E, A and C notes of that chord shape combining together to generate this ugly 1khz overtone. Totally unmusical, just rotten. Even if I pick those 3 notes together in the Am open shape...hello...here's that 1khz or unmusical overtone/ resonance.
It's already a nightmare to record acoustic guitar but with this supposed fantastic Martin D28...these resonances coming right from the soundhole absolutely sabotage any effort.
A lot of the songs I do all came about from simple strummed acoustic guitar. But recording simple strummed acoustic guitar has always sucked mightily. I'm almost 100% certain this is not a room thing or a microphone thing. This is coming right from the guitar itself.
I posted a thread here a while ago asking about simple, good sounding...and more importantly good recording acoustic guitars. So if anyone knows one, let me know. I'm probably going to go to the music shop when I get time and try out some mid sized Yamahas, Epiphones and stuff like that.
What do you reckon? I might add...I'm pretty certain there's no broken bracing or defects at all with the guitar. It's just a giant dreadnought tank probably supposed to have been played on a stage with all manner of trumpet, double bass, fiddles etc. So it was probably meant for bluegrass lines and licks or the kind of precision playing that nullifies resonance and overtone and which is beyond me.
thanks
It's already a nightmare to record acoustic guitar but with this supposed fantastic Martin D28...these resonances coming right from the soundhole absolutely sabotage any effort.
A lot of the songs I do all came about from simple strummed acoustic guitar. But recording simple strummed acoustic guitar has always sucked mightily. I'm almost 100% certain this is not a room thing or a microphone thing. This is coming right from the guitar itself.
I posted a thread here a while ago asking about simple, good sounding...and more importantly good recording acoustic guitars. So if anyone knows one, let me know. I'm probably going to go to the music shop when I get time and try out some mid sized Yamahas, Epiphones and stuff like that.
What do you reckon? I might add...I'm pretty certain there's no broken bracing or defects at all with the guitar. It's just a giant dreadnought tank probably supposed to have been played on a stage with all manner of trumpet, double bass, fiddles etc. So it was probably meant for bluegrass lines and licks or the kind of precision playing that nullifies resonance and overtone and which is beyond me.
thanks