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Miguel de Maria -> RE: Gear/gig questions to Ricardo (Jan. 21 2006 23:27:15)
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Jon,
I played my first gig with the Cordoba today.
To me, the neck is very important. I think most people, that don't own guitars that cost $3000 or more, would think that this is a very good neck. It is almost completely straight. I have the action at 7/64ths on the high e string, but unfortunately this neck can't handle it. I'm going to have to raise it a little bit, which will make this a bit uncomfortable for me. It buzzes a little all along the top string and on the 2nd and 3rd string around the 12th fret. It's too bad. I think the gig guitar should be as comfortable or easier to play than the home guitar, and this one just isn't, compared to the Tezanos Perez at my house.
The sound of the guitar is surprisingly loud for how small it is, just about 2" in depth. It's a cutaway and is quite light. The size of the body is actually something you have to get used to. I played a 4 hour gig today and stood up about 1/3 of the songs. Standing up is fun! I got inspired by Richard's picture so I decided to do it myself. You can strum and improvise fine standing up, but complicated solo pieces might not work. Right now my R shoulder is jelly. I think it's because the body size doesn't give quite the same angle.
The acoustic sound is very mid-rangey. There is little bass resonance, because of the small body. Although the trebles have good volume, they lack a bit in sparkle or character. That's okay. If you plug it in and have eq, you can get it to sound good. I walked out in the auditorium while my partner played it and it sounded very good.
It has a pickup and a mic. Today I used 100% pickup, as we were playing a natural, outdoor auditorium, and it was very loud on stage (I used earplugs).
I also used my Zoom A2 acoustic effects pedal today for the first time. This is the sequel to the Zoom 504, that Jon turned me on to. It is basically the same thing except it has more features and is much more flexible. It has a guitar modeling feature, also a mic modeling feature. It has a 6 band eq, which is nice to have. It also has a small drum machine in it! Unfortunately the rhythms are preset and cant be modified, and they aren't suitable for rumbas.
Something that I never realized is that electronics with red light displays are horrible outside. I could not read my pedal unless I took it back into the hallway behind the stage. Even if I covered it up with my hand, I couldn't read it with my tuner or to see whether I was on my lead or rhythm channel. Annoying....
It was kind of cold out this morning, in the 40's, but by 11, when we went on, the sun was shining bright. This was nice, except for the problem that our strings continually went out of tune. Oh well.
People seemed to like us, and we sold 8 CDs.
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