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Originally Posted by Yamaha Man
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What a stunning instrument. Congratulations on your new purchase!
Behind Blue Eyes is unquestionably one of my favorite Who songs ever recorded. One of the most amazing rock ballads of all time, and brilliant acoustic work by Pete Townsend.
Really took me down Memory Lane.
I've been playing an Alverez AD60CK Koa top (some people say it's Dao) since 2001 and it's really served me well. Many years ago, I had Joel Grant, of Grant Guitars give it a great setup (primarily for fingerstyle work - low action, very easy to play, but still drop tuning friendly, without buzzing), and it just plays like a dream.
After the System 600 pickup system gave out, I replaced it with an L.R. Baggs iBeam Active and couldn't be happier with the recorded sound of that instrument. I also had Chrome Grovers installed. Smooth-as-glass tuning.
Here's a sample an acoustic intro I recorded for a cover song recording project I did with a friend (who later recorded vocals and strummed rhythm guitar).
https://app.box.com/s/sznsg9en5c0d8b2srgskq53p1jewuibc
I used a Walrus Deep Six v3 compressor, Wampler EQuator Quasi-parametric EQ, Source Audio Nemesis delay (probably should have used an analog setting, rather than digital, so the panning trails would be a little less prominent - hindsight), a Meris Mercury 7 Reverb for this track. The tail end of that went straight into the interface, then my computer (effects were committed to the recording).
Here is a more straight-forward and much older recording of a piece I wrote for someone with whom I was in a relationship. I just plugged straight into my mixer and used an inexpensive Behringer rack reverb and an old RANE MQ302 EQ, and an SPL Vitalizer - nothing else.
https://soundcloud.com/david57strat/a-waltz-for-nora
I never really mastered this recording. When I recorded it, I was playing through headphones and I EQed it to sound good through those, and it was recorded straight to a CD recorder (I didnt' really have any other recording tools, at the time), then a friend later converted that and other original songs of mine to .mp3 format, and some of those songs were later imported to my computer, with no alterations made to them, since. So, if it sounds kind of bass-heavy, that's why. Apologies :|.
The iBeam is the closest thing I've ever had to a good microphone. Not great for live/stage/high volume work in a band, as it tends to feed back easily (since it's essentially a contact microphone mounted under/close to the bridge, inside the guitar), but perfect for solo/recording applications.
I mentioned all this (hopefully without taking too far a left turn from this thread) because I read your other thread about the Rane EQ and compressor you recently purchased, and searched your thread history to find out more about the guitar you used to record your samples, and I think you're going to get a lot of enjoyment out of those two pieces and this Alvarez, for your recordings, once you've had a chance to experiment with the settings on those rack units. They're nice pieces, and will go a long way towards refining your recorded tone (or even live, if you choose to gig with them - although good quality compact pedals on a small board would do the job just as well, in a more travel friendly configuration). Combined with that gorgeous Mahogany guitar - slice of Heaven, for sure.
I hope you enjoy your new Alvarez for many years!