mshilarious
Banned
MIDI has proved amazingly resilient, coming up on thirty years now! Everybody hates it but it refuses to die!
gcolbert
Sonar Fanboi
I would be among the first to say that a MIDI guitar is somehow no longer a guitar, but it is a good proof that a piano keyboard is not the center of the musical universe. It is an interesting way to run a synthesizer.
A modeling guitar would be something quite different from a MIDI pickup. Processing each string through a DSP to allow the a guitar to sound like a Gibson Humingbird for one song, then like a 1960's Telecaster for the next would seem to be quite an advantage to me. I wouldn't care much if the body were made out of concrete or polished buffalo crap (so long as it weighed less than my SG). To me, it is more about what it sounds like when I play it. The dimensional stability of concrete or graphite fibers or other potential materials would be a godsend with the room temperature swings that I generally experience.
The depth of our becoming stodgie old fogies is proved out in little things like mshilarious not being able to even get people to listen to how to properly wire an electric guitar. Magnetic coil pickups are not a good way to reproduce sound. We should be looking for something more accurate and flexible.
A modeling guitar would be something quite different from a MIDI pickup. Processing each string through a DSP to allow the a guitar to sound like a Gibson Humingbird for one song, then like a 1960's Telecaster for the next would seem to be quite an advantage to me. I wouldn't care much if the body were made out of concrete or polished buffalo crap (so long as it weighed less than my SG). To me, it is more about what it sounds like when I play it. The dimensional stability of concrete or graphite fibers or other potential materials would be a godsend with the room temperature swings that I generally experience.
The depth of our becoming stodgie old fogies is proved out in little things like mshilarious not being able to even get people to listen to how to properly wire an electric guitar. Magnetic coil pickups are not a good way to reproduce sound. We should be looking for something more accurate and flexible.
Wish
Never Sarcastic....Honest
So go buy a modeling guitar if you want one. Line 6 variax comes to mind...and didn't Fender make a modeling Strat in the last year or so?
There's a reason why the modeling guitars have never taken off....it just doesn't sound authentic. You just can't replace the real thing....maybe it can come close, but it is still just a simulation.
There's a reason why the modeling guitars have never taken off....it just doesn't sound authentic. You just can't replace the real thing....maybe it can come close, but it is still just a simulation.
gcolbert
Sonar Fanboi
I was unaware of these. Sounds like what I have been talking about. I will try one out. Thanks Wish14.
Wish
Never Sarcastic....Honest
I looked up the Fender modellng guitar....it was the Fender VG strat. Introduced in 2007 and discontinued in 2009. I guess there wasn't much of a market for them.
B
buzzard bass
Terminated
But that's what an electric guitar is. Some of us buy specific guitars for their sound. Why would I want to rewire my LP when I got it specifically for that sound? Let's say you find a better pickup, why does it have to replace the traditional pup? Can't it be an alternative?
There are some unreal digital grand pianos out there. no tuning issues, weighted keys, weighted pedals, the friggin works, you name it. Bet there won't be one at the Metropolitan Opera anytime soon. As for alternative materials. It's documented that all the Buzzards Entwistle was going to take on tour (until he OD'd on coke, again, and died) last time were Warwicks. He gave up on the Status graphite basses because they had no tone. Check out the tone controls on one of his Status basses, they're unreal.
mshilarious
Banned
FTR I didn't say my wiring method was the "proper" method. It does work better, but it's a bit of a pain to implement, and I don't really feel like translating schematics into diagrams, so some people can't follow it.
Today I thought, hey, 600 ohm pickup straight into mic amp. There's another idea that only I would think is great
Or maybe a selectable tap pickup. Probably someone has done that already though . . .
Today I thought, hey, 600 ohm pickup straight into mic amp. There's another idea that only I would think is great
Or maybe a selectable tap pickup. Probably someone has done that already though . . .
rayc
retroreprobate
The future of the guitar is not held in the hands of a keyboard player.