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Post by Thor on Apr 7, 2024 20:27:39 GMT
I am sure there are people on here who play guitars. It’s something I’ve always wondered and I honestly do not know the answer. I love music and love concerts as I enjoy listening to a quality musician, a singer or whatever someone is performing as it’s a skill I’d love, but just don’t have.
As I young lad of about 10 or 11 my dad said to me here’s some money can you go and buy me this record by dire straits so off I go on a Saturday to Sounds Right in Walthamstow high street. I bought the record and gave it to my dad when he got in later. Today this pops up on my YouTube, Romeo and Juliet performed live by Mark Knopfler, I’ve copied the video below as it relates to my question.
The sound of that guitar, is it unique to this type of guitar or are all wooden guitars capable of making that distinctive sound? I see guitarists change guitars is it due to sound variances or something else? As I see it they all have six strings, long necks and things you twaddle at the ends. So can someone explain to me are they all different sounding or is it due to a technical difference why people do that? Thanks for answering.
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Post by dubioushubris on Apr 7, 2024 22:58:15 GMT
I don't know much but that metal bin lid looking thing in the guitar body is called a resonator. These types of guitars work a little differently in order to better project volume. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resonator_guitar |
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Post by eca on Apr 7, 2024 23:03:50 GMT
Generally guitar players choose
Fender
Gibson
Rickenbecker
Fenders appear to be Stratocaster or Telecaster. Mostly Lead is a strat. Rhythm use Telecaster
However I notice Status Quo both use Telecaster
Bangles lead singer uses a Rickenbecker and Lennon did too.
Wishbone Ash one use a Gibson but not a Les Paul
AC/DC lead uses a different Gibson he said he only has small hands can reach the neck span ok on that .
Gibson there is a range Lead usually use Les Paul
The Cure he uses a make I don’t recognise.
On bass is usually Fender - Precision or a Jazz
Jack Bruce at one time used a Gibson EBO - I used a Jazz Bass then a Rickenbecker bass as a semi pro in the early 1970s
Gibson gives a cleaner sound than Fender on the guitar and within each make there is a variance in sound
The Jazz is a cleaner sound than the Precision
The sound is variable depends what amp and speakers and today they all seem to use modulators of some sort and they still use the pedal. I used Orange amp and Hiwatt speakers I should of used Marshall for both.
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Post by Fisch on Apr 7, 2024 23:04:05 GMT
That's a resonator guitar, often called a 'Dobro' although the two are not exactly the same.
The normal version is a standard guitar but with a resonator sunk into the top, that's the metal thing you can see. Resonators were initially put into banjos as a kind of mechanical amplifier which boosts a narrow range of frequencies at the expense of others. That's why they sound like they do, lots of metallic sounding mid tones but almost no bass. Sometime the whole body is made of metal, these are referred to as "National Steels" after the company who made them. A dobro is very similar but the strings are raised up high above the frets ( which thus provide only a visual reference) and the "fretting" hand uses a glass or chrome tubular slide to make the notes - hence they call it "bottleneck" style.
Most people who buy one play it for a while before the thing gets hung on a wall somewhere and becomes an ornament.
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Post by bigron on Apr 7, 2024 23:11:27 GMT
Ain't got a clue about guitars but I go to a live jam every Sunday in my local pub , I know the lead singer plays a Gibson guitar and the bass player uses a Fender , after half a dozen pints it's normally a good night 🍺🍺🍺
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Post by Fisch on Apr 7, 2024 23:30:27 GMT
Good stuff from Eca there but l can't agree that a Gibson with it's fat Humbuckers can rival a Fender Tele or Strat for a clean tone.
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Post by eca on Apr 8, 2024 0:00:23 GMT
Good stuff from Eca there but l can't agree that a Gibson with it's fat Humbuckers can rival a Fender Tele or Strat for a clean tone. I recently spoke to a guitarist of my age he has a Gibson and wanted to buy a Strat He said a Gibson was a purer sound and my comment was based on my memory which may be not accurate now |
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Post by Thor on Apr 8, 2024 4:48:12 GMT
I know the brand names but didn’t realise that there was a difference to the sound produced by them. What’s interesting is someone thought of this back in the 1920’s so the sound could get up with or above the string sections, truly remarkable really. Today I’m guessing that even those guitars will be hooked up to an amp?
If I could go back to the song I linked, the sound is crisp, clear and clean. Would you have got the same from a normal guitar? Or could MK have reproduced that sound as is, on a different type of guitar? Or is it unique to that style?
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Post by alfresco on Apr 8, 2024 8:23:19 GMT
I play Bass. There are so many 'good' instruments nowdays, its unreal.
Fender were used by 90% of musicians in the 70's, but nowdays, Rickenbackers, Ibinez, Yamaha, Warwick etc etc are just prevalent . Different pickups, and woods affect the sound....applies to 6 String Guitars too.
Amplifiers, and effect pedals greatly change the sound too, the list is endless
The only thing thats never changed, or never will is, if youre a good player, It'll sound good, if youre not, it wont
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Post by redshank on Apr 8, 2024 11:53:17 GMT
With a guitar you have in someways a full orchestra.Recently I heard Mars from Holst's Planet Suites played on the guitar,it had all the power and terror the orchestral version has.
I also admire and am forever grateful for those that gave up an early life to become the fantastic musicians they are.I also admire conductors who work so hard to give their interpretation of the piece of music they are going to present.
I had to pass that lovely church near Leytonstone Tube station on the way home on Saturday and got excited when I saw they had a Mozart and Faure concert,but sadly it was for Friday the 5th,so we missed out on that.Always look on public notices to see if there are any local concerts.Gave up the Barbican web site as they did not play anything I wanted to listen to.Politics was their passion not the arts.
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Post by blip the thrOttle on Apr 8, 2024 16:34:48 GMT
I play a pretty mean air guitar, or so I'm told.
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Post by redshank on Apr 9, 2024 10:37:20 GMT
I play a pretty mean air guitar, or so I'm told. I know I have heard you. |
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Post by blip the thrOttle on Apr 9, 2024 15:00:36 GMT
😂😂
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