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What we’re hoping is to get some nice licks to use for the podcast – It doesn’t need to be a full song, and you don’t need words, but if you can get a decent recording of yourself on your SC guitar playing something you can stretch out to 30 seconds, thats really all we need.
Now, if you happen to have a song with some nice guitar already posted on YT, Soundcloud, or a CD you’ve put out there, we can give you a plug at the same time. But some sweet licks recorded on your phone can work just as well –
C’mon – lets hear what ya got!
I’ve tried to record myself, bought a bunch of toys to see what I could do, but its never been something I could handle. Someday, it would be fun to try getting into a studio and letting someone who knows what they’re doing run the show and get a better sense of how I sound –
What has kinda worked for me is a simple usb mic ( an Apogee MiC) plugged into my iphone, then use music memos to record my guitar and voice all in one. Music memos can add drums and bass at the push of a button. Sounds OK – and the files can be put in Garage Band if I want to play with it more. But I don’t –
October 27, 2019 at 4:01 pm in reply to: SCGC in the Nashville Country music Hall of Fame and Museum #3052What an awesome anniversary! Congrats!
With many guitar brands, you kinda know what you will hear or feel before you pick the instrument up. I see a Collings, I usually expect to hear an edgier/chimier tone, a Goodall I think more lush and overtone. But there isn’t a big range between their offerings – and the general market likes items that they can classify by part number and easily categorize, and fall easily into expectations.
Santa Cruz, unfortunately, doesn’t fit that mold as easily – they are known for their excellent build quality, while still being largely hand-made, and they are also known for their general balance, which is not EQ. But every model of Santa Cruz guitar you play has a tone and eq that is idealized in that model. Add to that the fact that so many SC guitars are custom in some way, and you get even further from a standardized model no/classification system – you get unique instruments that kinda require you to partner with them as you play. Not every SC is right for every player, but SC can build the right guitar for any serious player, and their standard models are excellent choices for anyone not entirely sure or ready to customize their choice –
Most small builders / solo luthiers work really hard to achieve consistency, so their name and models and product has that same appeal that the large factory shops have, with the main goal being to meet a consumer price point. Sure, the chocolate and the strawberry taste different, but you know it all came from McDonalds. The next step up, the one that is almost impossible to achieve without a great deal of continual evaluation, is to keep everything that is necessary to the essence of the thing, but to maximize the potential of the process and materials. Richard has brought Santa Cruz as close to that as you can achieve – a solo builder can only make so many instruments one at a time, and a production shop generally gets its advantage from building more generically in quantity. Richard has melded the unique combination of the solo builder along with the cost savings and precision production capabilities of a small factory. Its an unusual business model, too hard for many to understand, and it exists solely due to Richards drive and vision – and unfortunately, what people don’t easily understand, they don’t usually value (or are willing to pay for ) –
I tend to think of it as a choice – you can just go buy a guitar made by some other shop, but with Santa Cruz and Richard, they build YOU a guitar. A limited number of people will truly appreciate it – but luckily, he only needs a limited number of us. We just need to help spread the word to others who can appreciate what SC does –
PS – I don’t complain that Santa Cruz generally don’t demand high used prices – its helped me get some incredible guitars I probably couldn’t have afforded otherwise – ?
We rely more and more heavily on an infrastructure that no one is willing to pay to maintain or improve, while also building our future upon it. The cracks grow ever wider while everyone just points fingers –
Ok -we’ll try it with Youtube – part 2 –
Trying to link some videos – here is part 1, the eval –
https://vimeo.com/user58492532/review/368550976/37c932d4d9
but the main part is about 2.5 gig, so I need to figure out how to break the video down into something Vimeo will let me upload – over the next few weeks –
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16’ Yurt?!? Thats a story I think I need to hear –
That looks incredible Daniel! I just took my first trip to europe last year, going to the Cremona Music Festival with my wife, and Bruce Sexauer and his wife. Had an incredible time traveling through northern Italy, and we’ve planned on another trip, to Spain, in October next year. May have to take an extra couple days to see how we’d get to France and say hi –
If we can organize a European meet-up, I’d sure enjoy trying to take part.
Sure you’ve accounted for the differences due to the art-deco inlays?
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i’d bet you if you can help them set up a few shows, you might just get the Carolyn Sills combo out to your neck of the woods long enough for Gerard to take a look at your guitars – but he’s a pretty picky repair person, and may not bring all the tools he’d want at his disposal on the road. You could always ask, though!
I shot a video of Gerard doing re-string and minor adjustments at the first Fretboard Journal Summit – Lemme try to find it and see if I can put it up – maybe thats what you’re thinking of?
October 18, 2019 at 3:05 am in reply to: Santa Cruz Coffee Break-Lunch with Richard Hoover #4 podcast Meet Carolyn Sills #2967It is quite a bit of fun to make these – mostly the company, but the subject matter helps too –
we have a couple ideas for future shows – there are a few behind-the-scenes folk that have been “instrumental” in keeping things going at SCGC, and we have a couple theme-based ideas. We hope y’all continue to find it interesting, and even more, hope y’all can help spread the word to bring more sane and rational people to this forum, and maybe to listen to Richard.
I feel like we’re getting a little better with each one, and personally, I would love to get more feedback on how we can improve – what you like, and what you don’t like as much – its all good, and I’d rather hear it from friends than some of the voices I’ve dealt with on other forums –
And once again, I need to say a huge Thank You to our beloved moderator, both for all his work on this forum, as well as the many hours he puts into engineering those files so we sound so good on the podcasts!
You da man, Mr Newman!
Santa Cruz has a number of “standard” profiles – everything from a very shallow C to a very pronounced V. Since many of their guitars are customized for the buyer or the shop ordering them, you can run into a number of different profiles – plus they do a number of truly custom necks –
That said, it sounds like you have their most generic modified V neck – but I could be wrong. You can call the shop to confirm the neck profile on your specific guitar if it was changed in some way. But yes, you probably would need to keep your eyes open for an OM with a different neck you could sell yours or trade for, or custom order what you want from them –
Most chestnut seems to suffer from worms – hence “wormy chestnut” – may be primarily a US problem? But it does (usually?) have a very pronounced grain – it’d be interesting to see one!
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