Hello everyone,
Here is a little fun for you all! I have recorded some sound bites on my three weissenborn style lap slide guitars each built from different tonewoods.
From left to right in the picture below are:
"Annie" built by my friend and fine guitar builder, Taffy Evans. I have had this beautiful guitars for a few years now. She is a Cedar top, New Guiena Rosewood back and sides, Jarrah fingerboard and bridge with a Walnut head plate.
"Blackie" is one of mine and he is all Tasmanian Blackwood.
"Sassie is my first build and she is Tasmanian Golden Sassafrass with Tasmanian Myrtle appointments.
If you go to this link www.myspace.com/ozziebluesman the three sound bites are posted there. The same tune was played on all three guitars.
Just for fun please have a listen and guess what guitars goes with which sound bite.
Recording chain was a Rode NT3 mic pointed at the 12th fret into a DBX pre-amp straight into the Zoom MRS4 recorders channel one. Channel two is a single coil, Fishman soundhole pickup fitted to each guitar during the recording process. These are not great pickups IMObut it did the job. I then balanced the volume of each channel on the computer, added a little reverb and saved the file as an MP3. Annie has a k&k bridge plate pickup system fitted and they sound wonderful IMO. As my two new guitar have no pickups as yet to achieve a good comparison Annie was fitted with the soundhole pickup also.
Hope you all enjoy a little fun.
Cheers
Alan