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Topic: QUICKULA - a little ditty on the Beard Goldtone |
Rick Alexander
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Florida, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 28 Mar 2007 7:17 pm |
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I picked up this Goldtone at the TSGA Jamboree.
Here's a little ditty I slapped together just for fun, I called it QUICKULA because I had to name it something.
I'd like to dedicate this song to Howard Parker.
Click on this animation to go to the page with the tune embedded and zippy graphics . .
and here is the MP3 itself.
RA
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Bill Leff
From:
Santa Cruz, CA, USA
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Posted 28 Mar 2007 7:43 pm
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Cool stuff Rick!
Please tell us more about this guitar. I can't find any info on a Beard Goldtone squareneck metal guitar in a net search and am very intrigued! |
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Scott Thomas
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Posted 28 Mar 2007 8:33 pm
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Rick, I have to say, I get a kick out of your animations. This one looks for all the world like a man being executed by electric patio chair.
Really though, sounding good! Enjoy that guitar! |
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Rick Alexander
From:
Florida, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 28 Mar 2007 8:46 pm
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Bill, it was on display in the Beard room at the TSGA Jamboree. They had several other resos, but this was the only metal body model there. The price had been reduced significantly and it looked and sounded real nice. It has 2 pickups - a lipstick and a transducer, with a single 1/4" stereo jack. No volume or tone control, but you don't need them with this guitar.
This model is the GRE, and it's a thinner body than the other metal body models, the GRS and the GRB.
There's more info at http://www.beardguitars.com/guitargoldtonegre.html
This is Howard Parker, me and Mike Auldridge right after we sealed the deal.
It's a well constructed sweet sounding responsive guitar plugged or unplugged.
It looks different in every photo because it reflects its surroundings like a funhouse mirror.
Thanks Scott! Yeah, animations are fun.
I can see what it would look like to do gyrations I can't actually do. |
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Kevin Brown
From:
England
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Posted 28 Mar 2007 9:42 pm
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| Nice one Rick, I tried the roundneck version myself, very impressed, your recordings always sound clean and punchy, do you mind if I ask what medium you record on to, pro-tools, cubase, tape ? |
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Rick Alexander
From:
Florida, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 28 Mar 2007 10:43 pm
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| Thanks Kevin! I use either Sonar or Cubase - and Wavelab. |
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Gerald Ross
From:
Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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Gary Boyett
From:
Colorado/ Lives in Arizona
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Posted 29 Mar 2007 5:26 am
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Great job Rick! That little baby's got some nice tone. I have seen these but have not tried one yet.
You know they have medicine now to stop that twitching... |
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Rick Alexander
From:
Florida, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 29 Mar 2007 10:21 am
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Thanks Gerald -
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| Acoustic instruments are addicting - watch out. |
Very much so - the first one's free, after that the price goes up!
G-man, you can drop over and try this one out if you like.
If I stop twitching, the music stops too . . |
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Roger Rettig
From:
Naples, FL
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Posted 30 Mar 2007 8:09 am
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Great stuff, Rick! Fellow Forumites - check this out if you haven't already done so!!!
RR |
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Blake Wilson
From:
Boulder CO, USA
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Posted 30 Mar 2007 2:48 pm
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rick, are you DI'ing that guitar or mic'ing it?
thanks,
blake |
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Rick Alexander
From:
Florida, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 30 Mar 2007 3:52 pm
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Thanks Roger!
Blake, that one was recorded with an AKG 414 about 10 inches above the guitar.
It has 2 pickups, a magnetic and a transducer - and next I'm going to run them into 2 different amps, then mic the room and the guitar. I could DI it, but I prefer to let the sound breathe in the room and capture it with microphones. |
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Mike D
From:
Phx, Az
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Posted 31 Mar 2007 7:36 am
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That's one sweet little ditty!
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Half-assed bottleneck and lap slide player. Full-assed Builder of resonator instruments. |
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Gerald Ross
From:
Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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Rick Alexander
From:
Florida, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 2 Apr 2007 2:47 pm
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Thanks for the kind words, Mike!
Gerald, thanks for adding QUICKULA to my HSGA page.  |
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