12-String Musings: October 2008

Tips, Techniques, Examples about my favorite musical instrument, the Twelve-String Guitar.

If you play guitar check out Playing Technique, or Strings / Setup. There are also some interesting posts about guitars at, you guessed it, Guitars.

If you want to spread your musical talents around, you will find some good info at Recording.

Marketing - meh - I'm probably the world's best bad example. Although you could find funny stuff there.

I've made some music videos through the years, and you can find them and other interesting music at Music I Like, Music I Play.

Saturday, October 25, 2008

Some Talking Pictures

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The mics are in a slightly different position - one is pointing down at the neck join as usual, but the body mic is more out in front of the sound hole because I want to get more bass with the lower tuning. The sound is not from the camera, and I found it a little difficult to sync the audio with the video. Now I realize why movie makers click a sound board at the beginning of filming.

Thursday, October 2, 2008

Finally - the 12 String sound I've been looking for!

Through a odd combination of events involving changing strings between the Taylor 355 and LKSM 12-strings, I ended up playing them both with heavy strings and tuned down 5 steps. The courses are tuned to B, E, A, D, F# and b. I've done this before, maybe more than a year or so ago, but this time the guitars sounded very juicy, very tubby and full, in a nice way. One had new strings, the other had strings that were several months old. They both sounded very good.