Subj : Whatever To : Steve Kemp From : Richard Webb Date : Sun May 02 2010 02:43 pm HI Steve, On Sun 2038-May-02 02:45, Steve Kemp (1:123/789) wrote to Richard Webb: RW> SAme model here. Love mine, great sound! Plays nice. SK> Really! Cool. SK> Yeah, it's a nice "machine". SK> It RANG in my ear the first time I picked it up. SK>> The mysterious "they" say it's a cheaper guitar because it's SK>> composite...but I find this thing perfect (in price and quality). RW> IT has held up for me well even if it is composite RW> construction. SK> Actually, I've heard (from no one in particular) that the composite SK> is apt to endure for quite a while. Yep, and iirc the neck is still a solid piece. FUnny how I found mine. WE were out getting me a pair of good working shoes, was my birthday. I had to run into the local guitar center to get a couple of things, I rarely go in those places, the din drives me crazy. I went in, just looked around a bit, and ended up in their little guitar room. SAw this thing sitting there, quite a bit knocked off the price of a usual Martin. I picked it up, sat down on one of those padded benches and started to play it. I was sort of looking for another 6 string anyway, I had an Alvarez 12 that I'd use on recordings, but I like to record a 6 and then a 12 doing adifferent part. Still I like the 6 as the foundation. IN 2001 when preparing to move to NEw Orleans from IOwa I'd sold an Ovation look alike at a yard sale for $50, and that was all it was worth. Bought it at a pawnshop for little more than that, because I wanted something to play now and then on a bandstand without the hassle of trying to mic it up. Anybody who read this echo back in the heyday can remember that our friendly echo mod at the time said that flaming an Ovation guitar was quite appropriate for this echo, in fact real flames and ovation guitars were a good match . Still this thing served me for some gigging, even if I did have to rebuild the pickups and the wiring. AS I said, sold it at a yard sale, and had given a cheap Yamaha 6 to a buddy of mine for his kid to learn on. THis left me without a 6. sO I"m looking at this thing, liked the price. WE put some money down on it, and I told 'em to hold that one, guy said he would, told him I'd be back the next day with the balance. gO back in, guy tells me that one was already sold to somebody else and shouldn't have been out on display, but he had others, same model. HE brought out five or six until I found one I liked the neck on as well as I'd liked that first one. RW> Usually my preferred capture technique for recording it is a small RW> diaphragm condenser mic aimed at where the neck joins RW> the body. SK> I don't record. At least much any more. I got all my junk stolen a SK> while back. I had EVERYTHING! I do a remote truck now, lost my whole rig in the after Katrina fire when they turned on the juice to my neighborhood, no insurance, paying the wife's cobra and copays instead. three Fostex hard disk machines synced, ROland sound canvas, Alesis d-4 drum module, a Peavey bass module for bass sounds, Hammond porta-b type organ with midi, two port midi interface and a fairly good mic locker. NOw I've got this remote rig, 32 chan mci console, lots of signal processing by dbx and LExicon, JBL and Yamaha monitors, whole nine yards. WAnt to see it have a look at www.gatasound.com SK> It's sad. Yah sure would be. I miss the old rig in NEw ORleans. I mixed to dat or Alesis master link, used to do some on hold music, voice-overs, all sorts of stuff, none of them big money projects, but at times I'd be quite busy. Feast or famine business. THe gigs in N.O. the quarter etc. kept me going though even when it got lean. Regards, Richard .... Creationism is to science what storks are to obstetrics. --- timEd 1.10.y2k+ * Origin: (1:116/901) .