Interacting with different guitars

[JamesPaul]

Sitting, the weight of the guitar is on my strap, not my leg. When I stand up, the guitar stays in the same place. The relationship of the guitar to my wrists and spine stays the same.

It took me a few years to arrive at this, and I had to shorten my strap lengths, but this is where I'm at today. Excluding 3 near identical Les Pauls I use when we play live, every other guitar has it's own strap so they stay adjusted and accomplish this goal.

 

[Mr. B]

I used to imagine that some guitar necks were "too wide" or "too fat" for me, but after playing 7, 8, and 9 strings for the last several years, every 6 string feels like a ukulele to me now. Switching between guitars, you have to adjust your hand position for good muting technique and accessing controls. After getting used to playing so many guitars, I find it only takes me a few minutes for my brain to adapt to just about any guitar I pick up.

 

[Securb]

Tonight at practice I played a 59's neck Les Paul, a Tele, and a Parker never did I have a problem adapting, and adapting never entered my mind.

 

[Mincer]

I bet the Parker is way different than the LP.

 

[beaubrummels]

A Parker is like putting silk gloves on after manhandling a Les Paul

 

[Securb]

I bet the Parker is way different than the LP.

Way different. I have a couple of songs I have to go from acoustic to electric so the Parker is great for that. The LP is my main axe they are like day and night. Still, there are no adjustments needed going from axe to axe.

 

[Mincer]

Which Parker do you have? Id always wanted to own an original Fly, but Id have to sell 4 guitars to get it at today's prices.

 

[Securb]

Which Parker do you have? Id always wanted to own an original Fly, but Id have to sell 4 guitars to get it at today's prices.

I have a 1999 USA Made Midyfly based on the Nitefly. It has the pitch-to-midi hardware built into the guitar so you can go directly from the guitar to any midi device. The USA Parkers are sought after MIdiFlys are going for $3500 - $4000 now, I paid $800 for mine.

 

[Mincer]

Oh wow! So it uses the midi axe box in between? I always wondered about these things. Do you use the midi output?

 

[Securb]

Oh wow! So it uses the midi axe box in between? I always wondered about these things. Do you use the midi output?

Yep, I use the midi all of the time. There is a small MidiAxe box for phantom power then it goes right into the Kurzweil module. or the Emu synth module which has a ton of Allen Holdsworth-like sounds.

 

[Mincer]

Yep, I use the midi all of the time. There is a small MidiAxe box for phantom power then it goes right into the Kurzweil module. or the Emu synth module which has a ton of Allen Holdsworth-like sounds.

A quick question about that- if you need to use a hold pedal for the synth, how do you do it? Do you have to connect one to the synth itself? What if you are going into a computer to use VSTs- how do you use hold on that?

I have a 13 pin output on my Brian Moore, and I use hold and volume from the midi interface jacks. I was curious how you handle it if there is no midi interface.

 

[Securb]

It would be a pedal on the back of the synth though there is a programming application that comes on a disk with the guitar. I am sure I could assign "hold" to one of the switches on the lower horn of the guitar. Right now one switch tightens the tracking and the other is a three-way that allows you to raise or lower the instrument an octave. The knob is the synth volume.

 

[Mincer]

It would be a pedal on the back of the synth though there is a programming application that comes on a disk with the guitar. I am sure I could assign "hold" to one of the switches on the lower horn of the guitar. Right now one switch tightens the tracking and the other is a three-way that allows you to raise or lower the instrument an octave. The knob is the synth volume.

Yes, when I bought my Brian Moore, I was asked if I wanted the MidiAxe stuff in there, but at the time, you'd have to use a midi expression pedal (not easy to find then) to send stuff like hold or volume to a VST...and synths don't always come with those jacks.