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The Train (3.87 MB) - This is a solo guitar piece I play where I use some of the rhythms of a train, speeding up with each repetition until it "crashes". It's a good example of just how percussive an electric guitar can be. The piezo and magnetic pickups are panned away from each other and it makes an interesting example of the different things each picks up.

The Madding Crowd (1.59 MB) - Playing around, mimicing "playing off" a digital delay by using two guitar takes. The nasty, distorted solo at the end shows how a through-neck guitar and distortion can make harmonics stand out. All synth done on the guitar too!

Files From Piezo Pickup Saddles: Basic Effects
  • CompressionSound Samples
    • comp1.mp3 (493 KB) - Magnetic pickup blended with uncompressed piezos. The peaks are louder and the quieter parts are softer than those of the magnetic pickup.
    • comp2.mp3 (493 KB) - Magnetic pickup blended with compressed piezos. The dynamics of the piezos are now similar to those of the magnetic pickup.
  • EQ Sound Samples
    • eq1.mp3 (340 KB) - A Blended sound.
    • eq2.mp3 (336 KB) - Piezos EQ'd to fit "around" the magnetic sound.
  • Delay Sound Samples
    • delay1.mp3 (572 KB) - Piezos with no delay.
    • delay2.mp3 (532 KB) - Piezos with short delay and panned.
Files From Parallel Effects Part 2
  • problem_child.mp3 (386 KB) - Two different amps together. Sounds almost like two guitarists. Panned hard left and right.
  • delayed_jazzlie.mp3 (300KB) - Two amps, but the second is delayed by 400ms and played through a leslie speaker
  • gratification.mp3 (381KB) - Two different amps again
  • delayed_gratification.mp3 (386KB) - The same two amps, but the second is delayed by 5ms, making the two stand out better
  • africa.mp3 (394KB) - The second sound is gated and delayed, so the delay only sounds when I play harder
  • space_filler.mp3 (741KB) - See if you can guess what's going on in THIS one.
File From Nashville Tuned Guitar
nashville.mp3 (1.28MB) - A normal 6-string electric guitar in one channel and the nashville tuned guitar in the other. Play with the L/R balance to hear one or the other.
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