Pedalling Nowhere
Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2016 11:07 pm
I thought I'd try an experiment.
There was a thread on an acoustic guitar forum I'm on which asked about what pedals we used when playing acoustic guitar.
Which in my case was, in essence none, as I prefer the sound of an acoustic recorded by microphones in it's natural state.
But I got to wondering about the idea, so I planted a TC Electronic Flashback Delay pedal in front of my Fishman Loudbox Mini amp and dialled in some of the amps reverb and chorus and added a little bit of compression in the recording software. Given my Giltrap signature acoustic guitar has a Fishman Presys Blend system which has an onboard microphone as well as an undersaddle piezo pickup I was encouraged to also try out some percussive guitar body technique. Oh Dear!
I only hit it gently though - I don't like to be cruel to one of my best friends.
So after 15 minutes of noodling and experimenting I plugged the amp direct into my PC interface and hit record. First and only take, one guitar only. Probably about 4 1/2 minutes too long and all I can be sure of is that it is different to my usual! Here's the link to Box.com:-
https://app.box.com/s/tj6aeq5o5grbezssr9ivmj8criahy9sx : "Pedalling Nowhere"
There was a thread on an acoustic guitar forum I'm on which asked about what pedals we used when playing acoustic guitar.
Which in my case was, in essence none, as I prefer the sound of an acoustic recorded by microphones in it's natural state.
But I got to wondering about the idea, so I planted a TC Electronic Flashback Delay pedal in front of my Fishman Loudbox Mini amp and dialled in some of the amps reverb and chorus and added a little bit of compression in the recording software. Given my Giltrap signature acoustic guitar has a Fishman Presys Blend system which has an onboard microphone as well as an undersaddle piezo pickup I was encouraged to also try out some percussive guitar body technique. Oh Dear!
I only hit it gently though - I don't like to be cruel to one of my best friends.
So after 15 minutes of noodling and experimenting I plugged the amp direct into my PC interface and hit record. First and only take, one guitar only. Probably about 4 1/2 minutes too long and all I can be sure of is that it is different to my usual! Here's the link to Box.com:-
https://app.box.com/s/tj6aeq5o5grbezssr9ivmj8criahy9sx : "Pedalling Nowhere"