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iblive said:
Cannot agree more. I feel bad for folk that don’t feel the emotion of a song. Whether it makes you smile…. tear up….. or chill.
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When i don't write & record music my life seems to bottle up emotionally. The songs seem to capture what i am literally going through in life or have experienced.

Probably make an unusual high amount of original songs but they sure have helped me deal... that inside 'thing" gets expressed in music & def with the words. I have learned to just capture it..dont over edit "the original" idea & feeling" Too much polish sterilizes the impact of emotion that actually fueled the song..even if its really only for you maybe.

There is a huge elation & come down (especially when you re live some tough situations) after each one is done & the story is told & dealt with... tend to write negative & solve positive by end of song lol
 
frostyjr2 said:
Thanks so much! :)
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Question. On some of these pieces like the one you just shared. Are you playing the neck pup with most or all the treble dialed out.

I ask because both my older grandkids are in the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra. There is also a CYSO Jazz Orchestra. Count Basie kinda Jazz. They have 2 kids that play guitar. Both do solos. It’s pretty obvious they’ve dialed pretty much all the treble out and betting they’re on the neck pup….. since it’s pretty much what my Hagstrom Viking sounds like when I do that. Yours sound cleaner though. Not muddy…. Which to my ears are how they are coming off.
 
iblive said:
Question. On some of these pieces like the one you just shared. Are you playing the neck pup with most or all the treble dialed out?
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Neck pickup, yes, almost always but i'm usually only backing the treble off about a quarter (or at most a third) of the way.
The volume on the pickup is rolled off about the same amount also.
Most of the time you're hearing a guitar set up with flatwounds (Thomastik-Infeld Jazz Swings in .011-.047 or
D'Addario Chromes .011-.050), and i'm either playing with my fingers or using a Jim Dunlop Jazztone JD204
and using a fairly light touch.

A lot of people think that the way to get a good jazz guitar sound is to almost completely remove treble, but when i listen
to the big three jazz guitarists of the 60s, that's not really what i'm hearing.

The sound is mellow and understated but not at all muddy.
There's actually quite a bit of snap to it, and especially in the case of Grant Green it's even rather bright.
https://soundcloud.com/id%3Dfrostyjr2%252Fjsc-52-night-and-day-5-8624-0630%3Btrack_id%3D1890538965

That's what i'm going for.
 
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frostyjr2 said:
Neck pickup, yes, almost always but i'm usually only backing the treble off about a quarter (or at most a third) of the way.
The volume on the pickup is rolled off about the same amount also.
Most of the time you're hearing a guitar set up with flatwounds (either Thomastik-Infeld Jazz Swings in .011-.047
or D'Addario Chromes .011-.050), and i'm either playing with my fingers or using a Jim Dunlop Jazztone JD204
and using a fairly light touch most of the time.

A lot of people think that the way to get a good jazz tone is to almost completely remove treble, but when i listen to
the big three jazz guitarists of the 60s, that's not really what i'm hearing.

The sound is mellow and understated but not at all muddy.
There's actually quite a bit of snap to it, and especially in the case of Grant Green it's even rather bright.
That's what i'm going for.
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Thank you. Was pretty sure that's what they were doing. Rolling the treble all the way off. Didn't sound horrible, just felt it could have been better tone.....those HS kids were pretty darn good.
 
frostyjr2 said:
Hopefully just for the night ...
although it would be an honour for anything of mine to be used
as a truly final send-off piece.
;)
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Indeed for the night. I ain't dead yet! But I should put that in rotation for my wake. Great idea.

My concept of a last listen, is that the last music I listen to each day should always leave me with a good feeling to help calm down the mental gymnastics that is my profession.
 
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