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Old 12-27-2016, 11:00 AM
Ted @ LA Guitar Sales Ted @ LA Guitar Sales is offline
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Originally Posted by steelvibe View Post
You really gotta search sometimes. Most recordings of the RainSong Shorty are not very good- sounding very bright and not balanced at all. However, there were a couple exceptional videos done by great players and with good recording gear. Al Petteway's recording of the Shorty really sold me on that guitar. He also plays some mean guitar on an X20 here (I think it sounds luscious)
The Petteway video, and the ones produced from Emerald definitely make the guitar sound better, but I am not sure they represent the true tone of the guitar. Definitely sounds like there are some special effects in play. A good friend of mine records his guitar tracks with a $250 Carvin acoustic, by the time he is done in the studio, that guitar can sound like anything he wants it to. Also note that Al is playing the guitar fingerstyle, a much better role for the X20.

In my experience, the second video in my previous post provides an accurate representation of what the X20 sounds like when strummed.
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