legrec -> RE: String recommendation please (Feb. 4 2007 21:42:22)
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I enjoy very much what everyone is saying here ! But I feel a precision can be made, to come back to Rasgueo/Dave's preoccupation : quote:
Guitars sound the way they do and its difficult to change them if not impossible Anders expressed the same thing Robje tell us, and it's approx. that you can't change the sound of your guitar. So, Rasgueo can't give a more "classical" sound to his guitar. Or he must buy another guitar. I must say that when I get my Devoe negra, it had old Luthier 20 strings on and the saddle was very high. It was playing almost like a "full classical". No bark, no buzz even at full strumming, etc. Mellow. I was disapointed, as a flamenco player even if I could clearly see the guitar was very good. Then, I took it at my luthier to have a lower saddle and a fret job made to compensate the lower saddle. I changed strings and man, it was night and day. Ok, not night/day but evening/afternoon [:D] I'm very pleased by the guitar since then, as a flamenco player (means it IS flamenco). BUT my technique was the same before/after and I'm not good enought to have a sonic engineer to process my sound ! So i was still playing the same pieces, same way, no amplification, etc. My girfriend noticed by herself that the sound was "much more" flamenco... So i guess we could perhaps say that you can't transform a Plazuelo into a Herman Hauser [;)] but there are some "tricks", like string brand and "age", saddle and string action, technique, etc. to modify a little your sound and "mellow" it a little if that's what you want... But also, as Anders said, that it's difficult to give precise advice without knowing this particular guitar. Dave, what I can say personally is to give a try to the trick of the higher saddle, as it's really unexpensive and easy to do as long as you have a builder near you. The strings itself aren't as much a "key factor" than string action or technique, in my opinion.
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