Australian/New Zealand Luthiers Forum

Looks familiar.

Kym

I sort of like having brazillian rosewood bindings.

Mind you, there goes my international touring.

Kym

Trent I'd suggest this device if you want to improve the quality of acoustic guitar recording: https://www.storedj.com.au/zoom-h5-handy-recorder It works surprisingly well just using the built in X-Y configuration microphones. You can record directly to the device, then transfer the file to a PC for...

I love the multiscale idea- would be so effective making sure string tension is good. Thanks so much for the thoughts and the links Mark. Martin are you a fan of the multiscale design having made and played one? Does look like a challenge to execute. Martin built the multiscale OM for me and I'm de...

The piezo bit of the Fishman 'Ellipse Matrix Blend' pickup combination that Martin installed in the OM he built for me is the wide version, which is recommended for wide slots. It works extremely well, although I use a preamp (a Radial PZ-pre) before hooking into my acoustic amp/mini pa. Most of tha...

Rod This UK based forum has several luthiers as members, although most of the regular posters are players/performers with a keen interest in acoustic guitars and other acoustic instruments. There is a lot of discussion about good builders and repairers, so I think you'd get useful answers to any que...

Kym, Are you talking about more then an XLR to mini jack adaptor? Mitch You'll definitely need that to try first. If you only get very low volume plugging directly into the soundcard, there are adaptors that automatically up the line level (I think Shure even makes one). All computers/soundcards ar...

Just a PS: If you do use a Shure 58 or similar, you will still need some sort of adapter to plug into the computer, and a cheap audio interface is one way of doing this (going into a USB port), although there are also purpose built adapters which fit into the mini stereo plug of the soundcard and wh...

The microphone he is suggesting is a specialist one which would not be useful for general purposes, either live or recording use. You'd normally use this in setting up a very special and professional recording space, where accuracy is vital. I suspect he is recommending the Scarlett interface becaus...

I play solo acoustic fingerstyle. I got one of the Roland 30 watt acoustic amps to play through at home, with the aim of getting used to amplified sound. This is the model that can be loaded up with batteries to play out where there is no mains power. It's fine in the average lounge room, and would ...

I've got the Fishman Ellipse Matrix Blend working well in two existing guitars at the moment. The microphone is sensitive to positioning, as you would expect with the air surging and reflecting inside a guitar box. I found it does well pointing up at about 45 degrees towards the soundhole, and towar...

... it's a buzz that sounds like a fret problem that is heard on top two strings whether open or fretted ... Do you have an endpin or pickup endpin socket installed? I had a guitar with a rattle/buzz on some notes, open and fretted, which took ages to identify and turned out to be a slightly loose ...

Al gets some good sounds out of it, but Tony McManus has had one for quite a while:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sonbfcBV7oA

Kym

I'll post this and then shut up to stop boring people any further. 1. The 'Sovereign citizens', 'Freemen' (and locally the 'League of Rights' nutters) and their related splinter group offshoots believe that through a series of financial manipulations, or secret sessions of parliament/congress or bec...

The 'Sovereign citizen' nonsense to which you seem addicted has been rejected by every legal system in every nation in which people have tried to invoke it. Linking to a nutty website proves nothing, and in addition you probably should investigate what constitutes anti-semitism. As has already been ...

I hope for America's sake Trump has some good advisors and people in his administration Reports this morning that Sarah Palin is lined up for their equivalent of ministry of interior, climate change denier in charge of IPA, Rudy Giuliani for AG ... I think the States are in for a rough time from th...

Some of it is being able to hear when you are out, as well as reproduce the muscle memory. On this test I can get to within 5 cents without error. 2 cents not at all, it just becomes guesswork: http://www.audiocheck.net/blindtests_pitch.php?cent=2 When I played electric guitar in bands, I found that...

To be serious, it seems that intonation issues have always plagued string players, too. http://www.hasseborup.com/ahistoryofintonationfinal1.pdf I remember reading somewhere that, in practical terms, the expectation that string players would hit a note immediately (no matter what system of intonatio...

From my considerable experience as a family observer of string playing at school and tertiary level, and occasional attendance at professional performances (string quartets and the like) I'd say 'It depends'. There is an old joke 'Q: how can you tell if a violin player is out of tune? A: their bow i...

Perhaps the 16th C methods should be compulsory:
http://www.lutesociety.org/pages/buildi ... al-methods

Kym

I think you'll find that Windows 10 is only partly evil.

https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/c ... ted_games/

Their services agreement is really about pirated Microsoft products, which are actually listed.

Kym

They build their fret systems for set string gauges and scale lengths, so any alterations will screw with the intonation. Altered tunings are going to return things back to a normal fret board 'averaging' process, and in some tunings/keys make things worse. Their own demonstration video has a shredd...

It's not about intonation, and most fanned fret guitars with only a mild multiscale difference of 20-25mm are (reportedly) more or less 'transparent' to the player, who often doesn't notice anything different in playability. They are effective for open and modal tunings, particularly when the bass s...

Slash, ex Guns and Roses, commissioned a guitar with ancient sitka top and quilted mahogany from 'the tree'.

http://symphontreemusic.com/gallery/slashs-tree-guitar/

Kind of ugly, in my opinion.

Kym

The interval between fret 2 and 3 compared to that between 3 and 4?

Kym