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Location: ranson,wva | has anyone here ever strung their ovation or adamas nashville style? im getting ready to do a string change on my adamas and ive got a set of octave strings from a 12 set that im thinking about playing with....jason |
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Location: ranson,wva | thanks bill, i did it and i must say i do like the sound....it gives the adamas a verry sweet mellow sound.....takes away some of the boomo=ing bassy overtones....jason |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Mellow?? |
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Location: ranson,wva | it's mellow compared to the tone before with dr.med-heavys on it....i dont know how you would explain it...it just sounds good to my ears
i got it...the words came to me..lol brighter but not as bassy....do that sound better J.W?
JASON |
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Location: USA | ive never heard of this...
how do you do it? |
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Location: Yucaipa, California | ...any buzzing from the thinner strings passing through the wider nut slots?
Styll, check this: http://www.guitartips.addr.com/tip164.html |
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Location: ranson,wva | replace the low E,A & D with the octave strings from a 12 string set....jason |
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Location: ranson,wva | none tim....jason |
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Location: Yucaipa, California | merci. Might just do it to my Balladeer tonight...should sound pretty nice with an open tuning as well.... or partial capoed. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Originally posted by Styll:
ive never heard of this...
how do you do it? String the low 4 with octaves, keep e&b with regular gauge. tune to standard. |
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Location: ranson,wva | i like it. when i restring my folklore to put the thinline pup in it im gonna restring it that way and put the adamas back normal.....its realy a cool sound....jason |
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Location: ranson,wva | i typed that wrong..jw's got it right. i apoligize for the mis information...jason |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Nashville tuning
This is achieved on a high-strung guitar - a guitar strung with only the high strings of a 12-string guitar set. This is known as "Nashville tuning" when the strings are in standard tuning.
Alternate Tunings from the Wikipedia |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Jason,
Send me the Folklore and I'll string it for you.
I miss it... |
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Location: Athens, GA & Gnashville | I used to keep one of my Artist bowel...uh, I mean Artist bowl Ovations strung up that way when I lived and worked in Nashville. But, truth be known, there was hardly a call for this sound after about 1980. It was almost always used in conjunction with a regularly tuned cue-stick panned left and right in the mix. Stereo 12-string!!! I still like this tuning sometimes.
I noticed that D'Addario still makes a set for this tuning when I was ordering from juststrings.com last night. But, beware of any gauge over an .009 for your high G (third) string. Those suckers will pop a lot!! |
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Location: ranson,wva | you gonna be at the tour michael??
its got a preamp and thinline pickup in it now. tone/vol..nothing fancy,added a bone saddle as well....sounds damn good by me..jason |
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Location: Upper Left USA | :(
Not this year.
I was banned by the Engineering Department because I kept trying to peek behind that black curtain... |
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Location: ranson,wva | lol maybe we shall get to meet next year....jason |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Bummer Woodrowfordy |
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Location: Athens, GA & Gnashville | Originally posted by MWoody:
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Not this year.
I was banned by the Engineering Department because I kept trying to peek behind that black curtain... Michael, that do stink. I was looking forward to finally meeting you and seeing some of your handy-work. WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! |
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Location: Scotland | High-string guitar is really a recording technique rather than something you'd actually play for recreation or as a main guitar part. It sounds good mixed way back dead centre between double-tracked regular guitar. Or you can double-track the high-string hard left and right way back in the mix with a regular guitar panned centre. It's also nice for doubling a rhythm part live, but you and whoever is playing the regular guitar need to keep it tight or it can sound real messy. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | All the good sh!t is behind the black curtain |
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Location: SoCal | I've seen high strung guitars played finger style and they sounded damned good. Also, if you're playing in a group, it's fun to have a different sound. I used to have an old Legend strung that way. It was the only way that guitar sounded good.. |
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Location: big island | my wife thinks i'm a bit high strung from time to time... |
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Location: ranson,wva | temp, i play for my self and on ocasion i play rhythm for a friend who has a band. i play out as little as possiable. i just like the way it sounds. if it pleases my ears then im happy..lol jason |
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Location: East Tennessee | Originally posted by MWoody:
Jason,
Send me the Folklore and I'll string it for you.
Send me the Adamas and I'll string it for you. :D
I wonder how a 97 Collectors would sound strung that way? |
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Location: Warren,Pa. | I play 2nd guitar for the weekend gatherings at our church. I'm always trying to do something to compliment what's being played.
When they email me the song list I try to hear in my head what will fit where. 99% of the time it's the 1115. Every now and then something very delicate will really enhance the feel. That's when I put the high strings on the '97 Collectors'. Man...does that little guitar sound sweet strung like that!
It may be only one song. Maybe only the intro and outro on one song. That's enough.
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Location: Warren,Pa. | It sounds something like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkMKmR32FiA |
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Location: Yucaipa, California | Well I changed the strings on my Balladeer last week to this stringing and I really like it!
I won't be going back to "regular" stringing for a while!
It adds that 12-string droneish, almost an alternative tuning sound ... very sweet and lush...especially on the minor chords. |
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