one of the contact wires to my guitar jack decided to go it's own way. guess i now have need of a soldering iron. on the bright side, i'll be able to move ahead with my out-of-phase humbucker experiment.
until the tools arrive next week i guess the cats will just have to enjoy unplugged performances.
I want to share something I learned about recording ths week. It's all about phase alignment when recording tracks,
When Iām recording acoustic guitar and a vocal at the same time, I get bleed of the guitar into the vocal microphone.Ā This causes some nasty audible āflangingā effects and distortion in GarageBand between the leaked guitar in the vocal track and the guitar track. It becomes even more noticeable when effects are added to the vocal. Ā While the volume of the guitar in the vocal track is much lower than the vocal itself, it is still audible.Ā Of course, when there is no singing, the guitar can easily be heard in the vocal track.Ā I tried a number of ways to fix this: Using various microphones; building shields around the vocal mic; using phase inversion to cancel out the leaked guitar in the vocal track.Ā Iāll discuss more on allā¦
Sounds like @Jason Smith knows more about this than me, but I think a bigger thing for live stuff is how the overall sound system is tuned. The bigger and more complicated the sound system the more important. Other than that, I think the main time phase would come into play is if you were micing an instrument with more than one mic. At that point the mic placement is the first line of defence.
i just changed strings on the electric... finally finished the ernie ball strings that my friend gave me when he gave me the guitar. i swapped them out for a set of stringjoy strings (made here in nashville). what an incredible difference! absolutely love them. a lot more life in these than the other strings i've used.
this set has a wonnd 3rd, so the G string feels like a thinner D string. there's a subtle change in the tone that i quite like, especially when playing above 12th fret. they also have a flat wound 3rd i might try some time.
has anyone else tried round or flat wound G strings? if so, what did you think?
here's the set i got... bought a 3 pack to get free shipping.
https://stringjoy.com/guitarstrings/strings/electric-guitar-strings/medium-wound-3rd/
you can chat it up with the owner if you need help picking a set... easy to buildā¦
Hey @Jason Smith I've heard a lot of great things about stringjoy but I've never tried them. I'd be curious to know how the wound G string interacts with the nut, especially on a Gibson style guitar.
when i started playing a couple years ago i yanked out an old guitar i'd had since i was a kid... it had spent the past 40 years gathering dust and exposed to extreme heat, cold, and both humid and arid conditions. it was in pretty rough shape for a guitar barely used. the fretboard was really dry.
for more than a year i've conditioned it with oil, but i've not been happy with the results... the wood seems dry again a few days after oiling, and the oil makes for slippery fingers for a day or so. i'd always been told that oil was best, and to avoid lemon oil, but even special purpose oil left the wood wanting.
i recently stumbled on a few reddit threads on the topic, but from the perspective of fretless bass players, violin, etc. the majority of them seem to prefer wax, soā¦
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Looking pretty clean!