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My friend Stephen Faulk let me take this guitar home for a couple of days. I made a video showing it off a little bit. I'm not so sure about the idea of 7 string guitar in flamenco, but I had a lot of fun playing the instrument.... Here is a link to the video...
RE: Jason demoing a new 7 string Ste... (in reply to Florian)
hehehe the part where you get close to the camera saying you like the "fancy" back and trying to do it in a polite video voice lol
kind of reminds me of a "happy" sales man in a clothes store..."- Uhh its really fancy...i love that "...jk!..i am sorry i have the sense of humor of a 10 year old
thats excellent if you can get a 6 string guitar that sounds and reacts like that ..wow, i want one
btw...u dont mention the order of the strings in the video...whats the 7th string ?
RE: Jason demoing a new 7 string Ste... (in reply to Florian)
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ORIGINAL: Florian
hehehe the part where you get close to the camera saying you like the "fancy" back and trying to do it in a polite video voice lol
kind of reminds me of a "happy" sales man in a clothes store..."- Uhh its really fancy...i love that "...jk!..i am sorry i have the sense of humor of a 10 year old
thats excellent if you can get a 6 string guitar that sounds and reacts like that ..wow, i want one
btw...u dont mention the order of the strings in the video...whats the 7th string ?
The 7th string is a B.... Stephen has a similar sense of humor.... Stephen is going to do a great 6 string for me no doubts. He has been building for a long time. He's just starting to throw his hat into the ring. Now that I have given the guitar back to him.... I miss her and her low B string. I am going to order a 7 string too. Maybe just too experiment with at home. Its a fun guitar.
It took some time to get used to that extra string. I know in my head where to go and what the possibilities are, but the fingers are slow to get the message. I started getting some interesting ideas...... and then Stephen showed up to take her away and clean her up for delivery to her owner......
RE: Jason demoing a new 7 string Ste... (in reply to JasonMcGuire)
Todd,
Its an Oktava MK-012 modded by Michael Jolly, 5 feet from the guitar not the video camera , but I didn't run it through the good converters..... just the line in on my G5. Thats where the weakness lies....and The preamp is just a lowly Behringer 4 Channel Xenyx Mixer that didn't help it too much either. Thats my video setup though. I have to keep the video and serious studio stuff separate or it drives me crazy when I record people.
RE: Jason demoing a new 7 string Ste... (in reply to JasonMcGuire)
Actually, i may be an idiot, because im listening on my laptop, so it could be a studio recording, and im just not hearing it because of my crappy laptop speakers. Sorry if i was wrong about the recording!!
RE: Jason demoing a new 7 string Ste... (in reply to ToddK)
Your no idiot.....It was a safe assumption considering the audio quality of a lot of the vids I have made over the years. I just started using slightly better audio for the vids this year.....
RE: Jason demoing a new 7 string Ste... (in reply to JasonMcGuire)
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The 7th string is a B.... Stephen has a similar sense of humor.... Stephen is going to do a great 6 string for me no doubts. He has been building for a long time. He's just starting to throw his hat into the ring. Now that I have given the guitar back to him.... I miss her and her low B string. I am going to order a 7 string too. Maybe just too experiment with at home. Its a fun guitar.
It took some time to get used to that extra string. I know in my head where to go and what the possibilities are, but the fingers are slow to get the message. I started getting some interesting ideas...... ......
could do some very interesting unique alzapua and really thick chords
but ! the guitar police will never forghive you they were just starting to get used to the sound port and eazing up on it..now you pushing it again when all this is done next time u go to spain
jo gonna have some splaining to do
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RE: Jason demoing a new 7 string Ste... (in reply to gshaviv)
Its not too heavy, but certainly heavier than a well made blanca. I think its very well balanced for a new guitar. That intense bass response cleans up quick and doesn't clutter up the soundscape. It sort of like the way a good upright bass has a warm, round yet quick attack and the the sustained note is subdued a bit.... in one word... punchy.
RE: Jason demoing a new 7 string Ste... (in reply to JasonMcGuire)
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That intense bass response cleans up quick and doesn't clutter up the soundscape. It sort of like the way a good upright bass has a warm, round yet quick attack and the the sustained note is subdued a bit.
Hi Jason,
That's the bit I liked myself. A great solid Bass sound but more percussive than twangy.
(I love the 4, 5, and 6 strings on the guitar played open or "near open"
The whole guitar seemed great from the general sound to the appearance too.
I bet if you gave Diego del Morao that guitar, you wouldn't get it back off him!
RE: Jason demoing a new 7 string Ste... (in reply to JasonMcGuire)
Jason, Thank you for taking the new axe for spin. It sounds really good, nice solea and I did also like I like the B major graniaina stuff you played. The low B string goes wild in B major.
When you get your seven string, after I make your six string, I'm gonna hold you to playing some Bach. You will shred baroque music with a seven string. I really like when string flamenco players go for baroque music especially Bach. I bet there's some passage from one of the cello suites you could make in to bulerias section. Te cello suites after all are based on dance music forms.
One of the things that really killed me about your playing is when you went off that day and improvised on 'Round Midnight por buleria. You need to record that dude.
As for me having the humor of a ten year old, I'll own that, but don't tell anyone.
RE: Jason demoing a new 7 string Ste... (in reply to estebanana)
Doood your on the Foro... cool.
Here is a version of Thelonius Monk's "Round Midnight" that I recorded 6 years ago and was never finished. Its an accompaniment for a Spanish translation vocal that a friend (flamenco singer) was working on and we just got too busy and forgot about it. Its in 6 and is somewhere between a Solea por Bulerias and a Jaleos kind of tempo as opposed to the slow 4/4 ballad that is how it is typically done. I get around to playing a little of the melody around 2:34..... it was intended to be a scratch track to place the vocal and then I was going to rerecord it to fit the final vocal performance....
RE: Jason demoing a new 7 string Ste... (in reply to JasonMcGuire)
Wow, did you use any compression on the audio from that 7 string vid, or is it really that punchy? that is just superb! so clean and clear too, no muddy rumble stuff. Excellent!
RE: Jason demoing a new 7 string Ste... (in reply to HemeolaMan)
No compression.... It sounds like it, but thats just a mic 5 feet away going into the mixer and into the computer.
The guitar is exceptional. Stephen Faulk is onto something unique. Lets see how he does on the next couple of guitars. If he can reproduce THAT effect with different types of woods etc.... I have the feeling that he can... if so he is going to be a busy luthier.
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RE: Jason demoing a new 7 string Ste... (in reply to JasonMcGuire)
the idea with additional strings on flamenco guitar is not so new. this italian guy even plays on a 8 string guitar - sounds good imo
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great playing jason and the guitar sounds really good too.
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btw, hello everyone ..missed you all....i see that lot of things happened here, many competitions, uploads etc.........will take a while to download all the entries........well, hope you all had a good time...........mine was not that good (f-cking economy, job etc.)
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"...jk!..i am sorry i have the sense of humor of a 10 year old 
, but I didn't run it through the good converters..... just the line in on my G5. Thats where the weakness lies....and The preamp is just a lowly Behringer 4 Channel Xenyx Mixer that didn't help it too much either. Thats my video setup though. I have to keep the video and serious studio stuff separate or it drives me crazy when I record people. 
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