The guitar arrived from the USA in a āblockedā status and, impatient as always,
I recorded the verses and solo as you hear them the very same day. It seemed like hard work.
The chorus parts are the result once I had floated the tremmy bar a few days later. Much easier!
That morning I also put pencil lead on the nut and under the trees, and polished and leaded the saddles,
and the guitar stays in tune really well. You can hear a little āpingā in this track where the string
on delivery day grabbed the unleaded nut at the end of the first phrases of the solo. I left it there in
the recording as an artefact of the moment, and in memory of the loss of my strat virginity.
Only the solo and end fills are middle pick up, all the rest is neck.
Even so early on for me, I too canāt imagine playing much away from the neck p/u.
I donāt think it is a limitation in either of us, just a taste thing.
Hi Jet, the big disadvantage of a floating block is breaking a string. Every other string goes out of tune. But I hardly ever break a string in a live performance, mainly because I hardly ever have a live performance. What I also learned is that the best guitar sound you can get is from a Telecaster type guitar. The reason for that is that I donāt have any tele type guitars! Enjoy your strat!
Oh yes, thatās great. And itās instrumental! Youāve got a cracking sound straight off with your new Strat and Cortez. Great tone and playing. Itās funny, I assumed the solo was being played with the neck pickup. Great surrounding sounds - is it all Strat, perhaps through some clever reverby treatment, or keyboards? Thereās a bit where the backing chords/ambience sort of ping-pong with the solo, very nice. How are you capturing the guitar sound?
Iām with Early on the tremolo thing. Keep it floaty, a bit longer to tune but a shimmering, glassy addition to the tone whenever you want to use it.
Steve, thanks for the listen and I appreciate your comments.
What you hear as guitar is all the Strat, and nothing else. Anything left or right that doesnāt sound
like a guitar is a keyboard: a few pads and warped pulses. But all the melody and the arpeggios are the guitar.
I switched to the middle p/u for the lead break as it seemed to cut through nicely
without shredding the ear drums. At the moment, I simply cannot imagine playing
anything on the bridge guy. My tinnitus is bad enough as it is.
I put an SM57 right in front of the cone. Bog simple, but it seems to work for me.
Haha! I donāt believe you! I hope you know my comments were a joke about my own narrow point of view when it comes to lyrics. You have a very pleasing voice to listen to, itās just that I donāt listen to what people sing!
Hi Leon and Jet ,dont know if youve seen or heard of a Tremsetter before ,you do have to butcher your strat a bit to fit one but personaly that didn`t bother me with the model i own but the tremsetter does work good .https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAmNmjiR38Q
Hmmā¦ guy must have been a bone surgeon before this. I never really minded if the other strings went a little off when I used the tremolo, as long as it came back, and as long as I keep my nut greased (on the guitar) the Strat tremolo is better at keeping in tune than my other guitars. Itās just when a string breaks that Iām out of luck because the total tension against the tremolo springs is suddenly reduced. I didnāt see anything in this video that showed me how a Tremsetter would compensate for that?
i wont lie to you its been ten years or more that i had it on and trust you to come up with that question ,the answer is,i cant remember ha ha ,tell you what ill google it ā¦back again,i looked briefly and didnt see anything, but the answer will be out there, to be honest though Leon i always had a spare guitar anyway ,so i didnt care if a string broke ,but im sure something in my head is telling me that it can hold its tuning after a break.ill be back..(.2 days later im back), i detunesd the top E to simulate a break and it did not hold its tuning. ahh never mind i thought it would ,its still good for country bends though, where a normal trem is not good for country bends.
No tuning issues for me (yet) although I am not exactly doing EVH dives.
The graphite treatment seems to be doing the trick so far.
String breakage not a problem as Iām not playing in a band.