Stochelo's tone????

Soref · June 2007

Is this the Selmer you are refering to?

http://www.eimers-guitars.nl/

I'm pretty sure the Selmer Stochelo records with is #504, I haven't heard anything about the guitar he's selling through Leo's website (#430).

I'm listening to Seresta right now and I have to say Stochelo makes that not so great Favino sound really good. Another component to that sound is the killer dutch vibrato that makes just about any guitar sound cool.

I hear what Michael's saying about the action/pick thing when comparing an album like caravan to an album like Ready n' Able, but I have trouble considering the old tone superior to his more recent sound. It might be different live, but I really like the tone of more recent recordings, the tone on Ready n' Able may not be as fat, but it has it's own velevety/sleek thing happening. Just my opinion, for what it's worth.[/quote]

MichaelHorowitz · June 2007

BluesBop Harry wrote:

Also it sounds like he isn't picking that hard, i mean not hard as Tchavolo, still hard but with much more finesse...and maybe closer to the soundhole/fretboard than most?

He used to play a lot harder....and still does sometimes. But in general his technique is more subtle then someone like Tchavolo.

MichaelHorowitz · June 2007

Larssen wrote:

Is this the Selmer you are refering to?

http://www.eimers-guitars.nl/

He sometimes records with that...but most recordings are with his original vintage Selmer which sounds incredible.

BluesBop Harry · June 2007

It that Selmer (504) the one he plays on the Django legacy video?
The sound he gets on the solo piece is amazing ...one of my all-time favorites, and he seems to have enough volume to be heard over all those guitars on the campfire (Dark eyes).

Things have changed quite a bit since then eh? Look at Serge Krief as well... his playing was totally different then...Bireli too, but contrary to the others I like him better now...and there's just no comparison between that Ovation and the Dupont he plays on Jazz a Vienne.

Anyway, although a lot of things are different now, there's something about Stochelo's tone that remains...I believe it's just him...

frater · June 2007

About the Selmer 430, I guess that's the one Stochelo bought from a lady in Amsterdam recently. Eimers fixed it, but I suspect the guitar didn't stand the comparison with the 504 (Stochelo bought it to give his main axe a break... figuratively, of course!).

nwilkins · June 2007

BluesBop Harry wrote:

It that Selmer (504) the one he plays on the Django legacy video?

No, that's a Favino.

BluesBop Harry · May 2008

Does Stochelo use the 1.8 or the 2.2 Wegen??

BluesBop Harry · May 2008

Nevermind... found Michel Wegen's answer in the yahoo group:

"Which reminds me, I also have a Stochelo pick in my wallet. In Samois,
Stochelo asked me to make him some new picks, and gave me one of his
worn out ones. I'm starting a collection here........
Anyway, he chose one of my new model picks and I noticed he is using it
since then.
This pick is called the "BigCitypick", a little teardrop model jazz
pick, which does great on electric guitars as well. It has seven holes
for grip in a flower pattern, and is 1.8mm thick.
There is a package with a lot of these picks on it's way to one of my
dealers, www.BigCitystrings.com and we are waiting for this to arrive,
so we can put it up our websites as a new model Wegenpick.

This is just some information, before I get lots and lots of questions
about "The Stochelo Custom Pick"

Michel Wegen
www.wegenpicks.com"

Bones · May 2008

I have heard that Stochelo uses mostly something like the Big City pick as Michael says (at least as far as the picks that he gets from Wegen). That pick in the book was just a one time thing that they did with Wegen for the book. I don't think that is a production model that Wegen offers.