Online acoustic guitar voicing class Sample Lessons
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- Опубликовано: 2 янв 2019
- Luthier and Instructor, Robert O'Brien, shows some sample lessons from his online steel string guitar voicing course.
Complete course available at: obrienguitars.com/courses/ste...
Music by Jim Deeming - www.jimsguitar.com
Great stuff mate, but not everyone has a stack of lumber like you have 😕 here in Australia I just use what they have sent me. Great video mate thanks for the tips
Hey, this is great ! Even at the shortest possible exposure to the theory of top construction, this video opens up the eye, ear ,and mind to what is possible. I wonder if anything taught here can be applied to re-voice an already built instrument that lacks upper range clarity , but without pulling the instrument apart ? I have a Martin J-40 that would be great in a bar fight but lacks the punch and luster of the myriad other acoustics we own (my wife is Claire Lynch, a Bluegrass recording artist and we own almost enough instruments to prevent easy passage between rooms in our other-wise capacious home).
Hay Roby.. I back again, n thats my Qwestion ... Where i start to cut soundhole n how big that? My second guitar build n that is some mising parts.. Thank Roby, gunawan from indonesia ..
Muito bom o vídeo Obrian. Obrigada. Você busca alguma nota específica F# ou G para os tampos? Abraços do Brasil. Eu falo em português pois sei que vc é fluente 😀
Nao procuro uma nota especifica até que o tampo esteja preso nas faixas com o fundo colado tambem.
@@OBrienGuitars gratidão pela resposta. Então no vídeo vocês estavam apenas tentando melhorar o timbre do tampo? Sem preocupação com nota
@@CristianoCemin isso mesmo.
Mr. O'Brien, not going to dissagree , but am skeptical a bit. If everyone simply thicknesses their tops and braces to pre war Martin specs, that would save a lot of time and eliminate the "when do you stop cutting" question. What do you think the end result would be? We know all these guitars will sound good and different, perhaps though, either way ...? Also, I never could understand Martin scalloping their braces in the very place where the most strength is needed. It is fun though, to to cut and tap and hear what a difference a small change makes. It looks like the interest in this craft is mainly appreciated by older men. When I first started out everyone was 20 years old... That's true of many endeavors. Just an observation. I would love to take a class with you and I'm sure those guys got their money's worth. Thanks so much!
Well, there is a bit of "art" involved rather than science with this technique but it does work and I have used it on hundreds of guitars. If we all just followed a recipe I think things could get rather boring in a hurry.
@@OBrienGuitars Well, I think we do know Martin "golden age" guitars, as well esteemed as they are, are not necessarily immune from improvements nor were universally excellent. But they are in a range of very good-excellent certainly. Having said that, why does an experiment with a Yamaha plywood top "blow" some of them away, at least for sustain? Until you actually experiment with ungluing and regluing various bracing ideas it is a question to be ascertained. I respect your experience and may try and fool with the tap theory but I don't think I could cut out those scallops, just too intuitively incorrect in an engineering sense. But, hey, how do we know that's not one of the "secret ingredients" my logic be damned? Same as putting a cap on the cross brace intersection. Our logic says "yes" but, who knows, might not be beneficial. Then again, you finally come to the tone of one guitar being perfect for Harry and a "dog" for Sally. Lots of fun to speculate and experiment. Martin did not have that luxury. They had to keep the line rolling and pay the bills...Thanks again and feel free to just ignore my long winded babblings. God bless and happy new year, by the way!!!
Hey Robert do you a dvd on voicing..
Yes, it is an online video course available here: obrienguitars.com/courses/steel-voicing
does the size of the sound hole make a difference?
yes.
@@OBrienGuitars what about location? On a violin, for example there are two symmetrical f shaped sound holes on either side of the top. On guitars sound holes are typically in the center, right below the strings. Could a hole be offset near the edge for example?
@@bigblack9819 Conceivably yes and many folks do offset soundholes. I can't comment on this as I am more of a traditional builder and put the soundhole in the traditional location.
@@OBrienGuitars thanks for the reply.
Being a aging tail-end boomer guitar-nut myself, I find it kind of sadly pathetic seeing myself reflected in so many of the participants of these luthiery courses that lots of makers seem to run these days.
There is often a lot of grey hair.
Richard Christie hey Richard, I know what you mean, also we are the ones with a little extra money for stuff like this which is really based for the hobbiest. The young guns who are thinking about a building career
Richard Christie end up at a full on Luthier school