Recent content by GuitarBizarre

Curiously enough, that's actually Ringo's voice on that recording... They had to do a pretty horrendous number of takes to get the drum track you hear on the record, and it's not exactly the simplest of rock beats. He wasn't joking...

Nah, the strings vibrate totally different depending on how they're hit. There are also plenty of playing techniques that make the string vibrate around harmonic nodes instead of along the fundamental length. Interesting idea, but I think strings are about as aerodynamic as they're going to get...

Hmm. Interesting. Let's make things a little more complicated. Would you say the following scenarios still suggest that air resistance is the primary loss in this system? Many guitar's have "tremolo" systems (Actually vibrato systems) on which allow the bridge to be moved under the strings, in...

1 - For various reasons, lubrication of the string would achieve nothing - The string once tuned is effectively immobile, and the force applied by picking chances that in the most inconsequential of ways - if the string did move (rather than simply stretch between the two anchor points of...

It's been done with the wraps on bass strings... http://thinkns.com/instruments/strings.php I think the practical issue is that Tungsten is not as magnetic as steel, so current production pickups would suffer from a massive loss in output. With our mooted optical pickup system though, this...

There are several products which provide infinite sustain - the E-bow, Fernandes sustainer, sustaniac, etc. Are you referring to systems like those, which provide infinite sustain by physically/magnetically maintaining the motion of the string? I'd be more interested in simply maintaining the...

In an electric instrument that would be of no concern - in fact it's probably preferable since the amplified sound can then be heard by the player clearly at any volume level - I record at home and often find myself adjusting mixes totally differently during playback versus recording, because...

Just signed up to see if I could obtain any guidance on this topic. I'll start with some background. As a guitarist, I exist within a set group that, by and large, is in love with 1958 - the Gibson Les Paul, Fender Stratocaster, and some other influential late 50's and 60's instrument designs...