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If you start guitar pro and then play something into the mic, this is more or less the effect that guitar pro adds to the sound. I accidentially found that out!
Right time to get the tin foil out of the cuboard and into the workshop. Do you think I could french polish it or would I have to take it to an autopaint shop?
We talked about this vid years ago. he says the guitar has hardly any weight to it, like aluminum. The idea being it is a lot of guitar for being so light weight. of course it is made of spruce and cypress man!
Gerardo w/ same guitar and you can see the cypress back through the hole.
Hey Deniz, I believe you man, it might be just like you say, although it still doesn't mean this video shot is a fake.
LOL! I thought its clear... he makes compliments about his guitar, then he plays it. I guess they played around with some settings in audio software (or maybe they found out what i did with guitar pro) and somebody thought its a good joke to put it on youtube as aluminium guitar, since Anton was making jokes about it being light as aluminium.
I dont know if its possible to make aluminium guitars. But this guitar surely is just one of Gerardos Condes?
wtf... this is ridiculous - never heard of wood substitution by aluminium, but I have to admit, this one sounds really impressive... I am struck by that.
what do you think about it, luthiers??
cheers
It sounds like a poor recording of a wood guitar to me, even though it tries to correct itself through a sound system; just doesn't quite make it. It's not too metalic sounding but not an earthy sound either. It doesn't seem to cry out from the bowels of the earth. When you get a guitar to sound too even and non-human in its voicing, it fails to have much meaning or soul. If all a player wants is a machine that makes noise and is musically stable in its presentation through a sound system, then fine..........But, to me, it takes too much away from what this player tries to express from a traditional stand-point.
it's got braces on the back, inside it. it is made of wood.
the recording is basically a guitar that is slightly out of phase with itself in stereo, or two incredibly close recordings left and right. this is probably a youtube problem having to do with down sampling audio quality to a poorer mp3 format giving it that chirpy hollow sound.
The Hindenburg Zeppelin had an aluminum piano on board. So why not an aluminum guitar? There's model of cello out now made completely of carbon fiber and if you heard a recording of it and did not know it was carbon fiber you would assume it was wood.
The Earth is pissed off at us and the trees might go away, but then we will be gone too. So that means no more Conde's. Hip hip hooray!
RE: Guitarra de aluminio - Gerardo's... (in reply to Arash)
Seems his injury didnt heal coz some weeks ago i saw him in concert, palying only rasgs with index. No picado and almost no arps with index. He did his best to replace with other fingers, but it wasnt what i had expected, which was none less the best solo performance i would have ever seen.
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RE: Guitarra de aluminio - Gerardo's... (in reply to Arash)
Injury happened 2 years ago. His only description to us is "car accident". Not sure what has happened. He played nothing for 3 months. Then got back into but was very depressed. He almost quit playing. After the courso in 2008 he said he felt stronger but not the same. One year later it was clear, and scary to us, his injury is till there. It must be permanent. Perhaps it has gotten worse because he simply avoids arps now, where as 2 years ago he did do some arps but obviously with some difficulty.
Good thing is he does not show in his manner or face that it is a problem. On the surface he seems to still enjoy playing. His concerts are no longer guitar solo, he always performs to accomp. singer and dancer. I am sure he is disturbed but at least he is not afraid to go out and play the best he can.
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