EIR/Cedar OM finished

[Allen]

If only I could bluff my way that well. Great sounding guitar and the playing is tops too.

[PHANTOM]

Great looking and sounding guitar mate. well done.

[Bob Connor]

Nice work Grant.

The K&K's are very natural sounding.

[ozziebluesman]

Very nice indeed Grant. Congratulations on a fine sounding instrument and some class playing.

Cheers

Alan

[gratay]

cheers ,...thanks guys..

I'm just indulging myself really. I just bought a new Mac...and what you can do with these things straight out of the box is highly entertaining..

Bob, yes I'm loving the K&K gear... I've been gigging with it weekly and the sound surprises me a lot ,..especially when I can send an XLR DI to the desk and have the 1/4" output going to an AER amp onstage both sources straight from the preamp ..the sound can be quite big and fairly natural..i wish their preamp had a notch control on it for those unwanted frequencies that want to take off..but its no biggie really.

[Joe Sustaire]

Hey Grant, very nice build and super nice sound and playing! Very impressive.

Now the question, , did you film this with the built in camera on your mac? I've got a mac and it seems you should be able to film stuff like that for youtube while recording the sound on garageband, but I haven't been able to figure out how to do it.

Hillbilly in a high-tech world,
Joe

[Nick]

Mmmmm Love the sound My builds are currently focused more toward "traditionally" jazz styled guitars but you've just proven that with the right combination, jazz can sound good played through a quality acoustic. I'm with you on the sound,the K&K's are indeed a more pure acoustic sounding pickup than the undersaddle jobbies.

[gratay]

Joe..I used my digital camera to shoot the video...although isight on the mac
would work just as well I'd imagine..
I recorded to garageband at the same time as filming , when you've got the footage on the computer there is a media browser in garageband where you can just drag and drop the film onto the open project and it just creates a track for the film and a track for the films audio...then I just deleted the audio that was on the camera.....then slide the audio track you recorded in garageband along until it syncs with the footage as close as you can...then I just saved the whole project as a itunes master track movie...then upload to youtube...
hopefully thats as clear as mud...I think a lot of people use imovie also, somehow ..but I haven't scratched the surface on how you can do things with a mac as yet...it seems there's many ways to skin the cat as such.

Nick,....The main reason I went with a cedar face was to hopefully get a warmer rounder sound. I've tried lots of different strings trying to get what I want in the sound .. and something about these nickel round wound and heavy guage that are getting closer to what I'm after...without actually sounding dull ...just a bit warmer and rounder than phospher bronze on this guitar anyway. I tried some Thomastik plectrums 12-59 which felt great and on the right guitar they would be very jazz hollowbody sounding but just to dull on my cedar face...maybe on a bright spruce face they would be ideal.

[Joe Sustaire]

Thanks for the help Grant, I'll give that a try. I've used those Tony Rice strings also and liked them, a little different than the usual.

Joe