Gibson Explorer sounds like an acoustic!

[dotsdad]

I took my wife to see Chris Daughtry in concert. His Gibson Explorer sounded just like an acoustic!

Anyone know how he got an Explorer to should like an acoustic? Did they mod the Explorer with a piezo pickup? Is there some kind of acoustic-izer pedal or rack unit?

The tone sounded so good, I thought at first that it might be MIDI. As I listened closer, it seemed way to sensitive to have been MIDI. I heard too many human mistakes (fret buzz, missed notes, fretting out, etc) and guitarisms (open D and G strings resonating when switching between A and D chords, strings going sharp when picking/fretting too hard, etc). No way that sound came out of a computer.

Have you guys heard him? How do you think he got that sound?

 

[ItsaBass]

Re: Gibson Explorer sounds like an acoustic!

Piezo would be my guess. So, it sounded like a piezo tone probably, not really like an acoustic.

 

[Falloffthebonetone]

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Sounds like piezo. Did you notice an extra knob on his guitar anywhere? Pete Townshend has an extra knob on his strat behind the bridge he got for his piezo.

 

[Falloffthebonetone]

Re: Gibson Explorer sounds like an acoustic!

It COULD also be an acoustic simulator effect pedal on second thought.

 

[ex-250]

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[Ascension]

Re: Gibson Explorer sounds like an acoustic!

Probably using a Fishman Power bridge like this one.

 

[DrNewcenstein]

Re: Gibson Explorer sounds like an acoustic!

LR Baggs T-bridge from StewMac?

 

[Funkfingers]

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Alex Lifeson uses a piezo system in some of his PRS guitars. He may have something similar in his Axxess Gibson Les Pauls.

The tracking of a Roland VG-99 would be good enough. For the internal modelled sounds, there is no MIDI conversion and, hence, no discernible delay. The device is especially handy for unconventional tunings without actually retuning the controller guitar. It would be perfectly possible to have the sound of, say, a mandolin or a banjo triggered from a solidbody electric guitar.

 

[jozLuck]

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Gibson does use a "Shadow" system in some of its custom guitars and its a 'pull knob' you can even 'blend' it with your standard hums- they also have a 'split' coil set up on another pull knob..nice set up .... If you use an Acoustic Stimulator (as a Boss AC 3) you need to add a touch of Chorus ...To be honest you can make your guitar sound like any thing from an acoustic to an organ playing with the settings...

 

[Grenade]

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Kenny Wayne Sheppard uses Graph-Tech Ghost saddles.

 

[dotsdad]

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That Fishman video sounds a lot like what Chris was playing, except Chris wasn't using all that cheezy chorus.

His guitar sounded better than most acoustic-electrics with piezos. I just assumed his piezo sounded better because t was strapped to a freakin' coffee table of a guitar, instead of to your every day plastic&plywood acoustic. I guess it wasn't a piezo after all...

 

[dotsdad]

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Sounds like piezo. Did you notice an extra knob on his guitar anywhere? Pete Townshend has an extra knob on his strat behind the bridge he got for his piezo.

I was too far from the stage to see the knobs :/

 

[jake_xms3_punk]

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My guess would be a piezo pickup probably in conjunction with some processing/modeling units/pedals

 

[BloodRose]

Re: Gibson Explorer sounds like an acoustic!

probably some kinda piezo . Dont they use one on the Blackwater lp too?