on the amp front i think i’ve just about talked myself into one of these three options… #1 is a bit cheaper and less fuss, but 2a and 2b offer more portability (in exchange for a little more setup fuss, e.g. needs 2 outlets instead of 1). they’re relatively similar weight and sound i think.
i’ve never played combo’s in gig settings, and i never played a head/cab setup, so idk.
for my style (reverse edge picking a la george benson) these super pointy v-picks are perfect. inspired to pull it out of my pick box after watching the above video and wouldn’t you know it, 194bpm not so hard
I got a vpick insanity for its novelty and it made me question everything about guitar pick shapes. I’ve been meaning to cast one out of platinum silicone to cut down on the pick noise
I’ve tried flatwound and round wound but not half rounds
counterintuitively (?) I like flats on my strat and rounds on my epiphone semi hollow. I had flats on the epi but it was giving a lot of “thunk thunk” archtop sound
whereas in the strat flats gives a full mellow sound
like going for a balance of both I guess? this is for jazz and I play with much treble mind. trying to like, julian Lage tone, or whatever
yeah I’m really in a pointy acrylic sort of mood since that post. feels like acrylic gets pointier than most materials somehow. gravity picks did a giveaway, I got these two for free and they rule
not pictured: v-picks dimension Jr which is maybe my fav, it’s almost jazz 3 size and 3mm, in this polished ‘blue galaxy’ material with pointy tip, it was great and then I lost it somewhere
if they made this same thing but with 3 pointy tips it would be perfect imo
(timestamped to talking about getting equipment replaced because the label wanted to douse the band in wine for a music video; she still has the wine guitar)
the cmi is one of those things i’m kind of loathed to champion because a sampling based instrument isn’t a particularly astonishing concept, not least since the mellotron had happened already, and someone would’ve got there again at some point
it’s the musicians and producers that elevated everything
