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It's cool to see one of the greats playing such guitars. I was thinking of buying one (and saw the Flametal guy using one). The awesome thing about them is that they apparently come with some sort of MIDI output that you can plug into your PC. I know of a program (AudioScore) which claims it can transcribe polyphonic music with high fidelity if done through MIDI (I have a friend with an electronic piano who uses this software, and it comes up with all the scores for him, with high quality results, as he says). I thought it would be great to have such a feature (because I can compose a lot of stuff, but not always write it out in standard notation). It might help.
Plus, you can hook up effects and such for some great tricks.
Well the guitar looks like shiat but seem to work very good! And since Im not interested at all in "Style"... if the guitar is good playable, good sound and good priced..I would go for it. Why not. Funny design..
Agree with Deniz, except I'm not judging for videos only, but had a chance to try one.... PLASTIC sound.... and feel...
what was surprising for me is that the action of the guitar, which wasn't that good I expected.... maybe that's just for me but I don't like those guitars
though I enjoyed a lot my childhood's Iron Maiden in this unique version
i tried one of these in a shop and didnt like it at all. the sustain was waaay too strong. and the sound wasn't natural by any acoustic guitar standard. but the playability was nice.
but these guys make them sound good so maybe it was just me. there was also a bunch of confusing knobs and levers i didnt mess with.
There are plenty of guitars that feel better than this model for playing loud with pick up instead of a mic. The only reason for using THIS guitar is if you need to trigger the synth. It is a midi guitar and has tons for useful applications in this regard.
My friend indeed wanted the midi stuff but hated the feel, so he gutted his flamenco guitar and put all the electronics inside, PLUS a second pick up by fishman only using the mic so he could get the golpes. That was a great guitar.
One warning is the pick ups of the goden I think are made by LR Baggs. They are gold and have a "V" that the string sits in. When doing hard picados near the bridge, it happens that you can pop the string out of the groove. My friend fixed that by filing the groove to more of a "U" shape. He talked to the designer about the problem but they did not ever hear of such a problem from other players.
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RE: David Cerreduela's Guitar (in reply to Ricardo)
So, then David used this here in Casa Patas to trigger a Synth? If so, then it must have been something else, another piece. not this video. I don't hear any synth here in this piece, just the normal guitar.
yeah, sound is not good (at least in this vid with Guadiana and other videos i saw, except that one from Flametal is ok) thats why i am wondering why David used it there with Guadiana.
Quite an interesting guitar...but I am much more wowed out at the narrator's ability to impersonate a computer speech synthesyzer!
Extraordinary, the way "Technical Speak" is evolving in the USA...
Only at the beginning of this week I was listening to a young American Geneticist on the radio and she spoke about 1.5 times faster than the normal human being and only used her voice simply as a means of transferring information as quickly and efficiently as possible in a flat, featureless monotone.
"I am a Robot"
(Scary..it's like something out of a crappy Sci-Fi movie from the 50's..only real!)
thanks for the video, arash. they would do well with a sustain knob.
im also curious why this guy wants to play these guitars.
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Only at the beginning of this week I was listening to a young American Geneticist on the radio and she spoke about 1.5 times faster than the normal human being and only used her voice simply as a means of transferring information as quickly and efficiently as possible in a flat, featureless monotone.
i know exactly what you're talking about. very scary. makes me want to inject them with drugs and alcohol and see if they loosen up a bit.
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but I wasn't that keen. Would be great to have a plug in tho - get so fed up of mics and feedback. 
makes me want to inject them with drugs and alcohol and see if they loosen up a bit. 
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