Duck Baker & Woody Mann – Just Friends
by Acoustic Jazz by Woody Mann and Duck Baker
Their not so standard treatment of the standard Just Friends
05/20/18 – Brooklyn, NY
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Category: Acoustic Guitars
Reviews, essays, and articles relating to acoustic guitars, and related accessories.
May 3 Guitar Recording Microphone Tests
Help Spoon Toward His Next Album – which microphone?
The previous test had some tech flaws. This one is better.
You can listen to the MP3 online.
But you must go to the link and download the actual wav file if you want to hear the hi res version. (click on the upper right where it says SOUNDCLOUD.)
Please let me know which of these 8 mic parings you like best, you can comment on as many as you wish.
Thanks!
Blind Test for Now. I will reveal the mics in a few days.
Same guitar, and the mics were set up in the same positions and same distance from the guitar (quick measuring tape confirmations.)
One of the six examples sounds much more like the actual guitar than the others. But for me that is not important, compared to what listeners hear and “that sounds good” or “pleasing” or “listenable without fatigue” etc., when it comes to someone listening to a 45 minute album of guitar music, etc.
There was no EQ or compression etc. I just played the same piece over and over six times, as fast as I could switch microphones and adjust levels.
I was surprised how different some of them sound in terms spacial effect in the virtual soundstage.
I am curious to know what YOU hear, think about the six mic pairings in this test. Which one(s) do you like?
Please use the comment form below, or contact me via oneman@onemanz.com
Martin OME Cherry Review – Happy Earth Day!
Earth Day 2018 review of the Martin OME Cherry
Forest Stewardship Council certified woods in harmony
Specs include: All-solid FSC tonewoods including cherry back and sides, Sikta spruce top with scalloped 1/4″ European spruce bracing; FSC certified select mahogany High Performance neck with Modified Low Oval profile; FSC certified ebony fretboard with 1-3/4″ width at nut, 2-1/18″ at 12th fret; FSC certified ebony bridge with 2-5/32″ string spacing; FSC certified African blackwood headstock face plate; Gold open gear tuners; Antique White on body and neck; bone nut and compensated Tusq saddle to go along with the Fishman Matrix VT Enhance NT1 electronics
“I found the overall voice delightful. Each two-string register is a thing unto its own… And when the six strings sing together, they form a choir of overtones, fundamentals and undertone that is a joy to behold and be heard.”
Martin D-45 John Mayer
A very special D-45 made for and with John Mayer
Seven Grammy Awards and now five Martin Artist Signature Editions
Specs include: 14-fret Dreadnought body size with all solid tonewoods throughout, Guatemalan rosewood back and sides; Engelmann spruce soundboard with Aging Toner; scalloped, forward-shifted 1/4″ Adirondack spruce braces with Golden Era shaping; one-piece mahogany neck with Full Thickness profile; ebony fretboard with 1-11/16” width at the bone nut; ebony bridge with 2-1/8” string spacing at the compensated bone saddle; high-color Style 45 abalone trim, back, sides, and top with full circumference soundhole rosette; large abalone hexagon position markers; grained ivoroid binding; gold open gear butterbean tuners; faux tortoise pickguard; numbered interior label signed by John Mayer
“…a clear and articulate top voice, with cavernous space behind it, good for reflecting reverberating sympathetics but also for allowing the main notes to stand up and out…But even brand new, the D-45 John Mayer already has considerable shimmer and glimmer to its it ring, and power in its bones.”
Martin 00-17 Authentic 1931 – REVIEW
Torrefied mahogany debuts on the Martin 00-17 Authentic 1931
The most affordable Authentic model yet, and perhaps ever
“This 12-fret 00 generates tone that expands in all directions, filling the room with clearly defined notes and woody sympathetics, while creating a soundscape of inner depth that seems far greater in size than the physical dimensions of the instrument should allow.”
Read the full review HERE
Read the full review HERE
Martin 00-17 Authentic 1931
Martin 000-42 (2018)
Martin’s High Performance Neck comes to the opulent 000-42
Resplendent in its abalone snowflakes and complex musical tone
The written review of the new 000-42 (2018) all the rest of these new Martins will be published soon!
Martin D-41 (2018)
Now with the Standard Series new standardized neck, the D-41 remains exceptional
The addition of forward-shifted braces beefs up that scalloped bracing tone
This new D-41 (2018) and all the new Martins will have their written review published soon. I am putting out the video portions first this time around.
Martin 000-28 (2018)
The long-awaited makeover of the Standard Series 000-28 arrives
The addition of scalloped bracing and Martin’s High Performance neck bring this short-scale 000 into the 21st century, while returning the appearance to a pre-World War II aesthetic
The in-depth written review of the 000-28 (2018) will appear once I produce the videos of the various 2018 Martins I recorded at the Martin factory on NAMM Day 2018.
Martin D-35 (2018)
The one many people have been curious to hear, the D-35 (2018) makeover is a winner
With the change to forward-shifted bracing the new it has a meatier undertone and slightly fatter trebles, but it is still a uniquely articulate dreadnought
The written reviews of all the new Martins will appear starting later this week. I am doing all the videos first for a change.