DjangoBooks Guitar Videos on YouTube!!!

MichaelHorowitz

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Hey, Michael--- get a haircut, hippy!

Steveareno

Thanks for continuing to produce and post these videos, Michael. They provide great comparisons of the various tones on your incredible selection of guitars. Interesting how much warmer the older ones sound. The high end seems to mellow and soften, while the newer ones sound more brash and tight. I guess it's pretty obvious that acoustic guitars need to be played in before they open up, but you notice it more hearing them side by side. That room you're playing in seems a little wet (quite a bit of natural reverb going on). Maybe that's intentional, but you might want to put some carpet on the floor, or something to even out the echo. Mi dos centavos
Swang on,

MichaelHorowitz

Steveareno wrote:

Thanks for continuing to produce and post these videos, Michael. They provide great comparisons of the various tones on your incredible selection of guitars. Interesting how much warmer the older ones sound. The high end seems to mellow and soften, while the newer ones sound more brash and tight. I guess it's pretty obvious that acoustic guitars need to be played in before they open up, but you notice it more hearing them side by side.

Thanks for the kind words. Maybe this doesn't come across in the vids, but one of the biggest things you'll notice when you play a vintage guitar is how much more high end the vintage instruments have. Generally a guitar that is 60+ years old will have this incredible chimey, singing high end. This is relative of course, as some guitars are much darker than others due to materials and design (like Selmer 520 which was just here which had a pretty mellow high end.) if you sit down and play the Bucolo next to the new Hahl Deluxe Gitane, the Hahl will sound much darker by comparison. Also, what you don't hear in the vids is how much louder the vintage stuff is. As they mature, the older guitars really start to project in a way that the newer stuff never does. Of course, there are many fine new guitars that are plenty loud enough and have nice highs, but it's worth noting that these characteristics do develop even more over time.

That room you're playing in seems a little wet (quite a bit of natural reverb going on). Maybe that's intentional, but you might want to put some carpet on the floor, or something to even out the echo. Mi dos centavos

I have improved the quality of the audio quite a bit but I'm limited by time and space constraints. Right now this is the best I can do. If everyone buys lots of guitars from me then I'll have the cash to buy a dedicated studio space and an employee to run it.

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