Coster Swamp Blues

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Comment by SlowHound on August 3, 2012 at 9:13am

Thank you kindly Ron. Feel free.

Comment by Ron Lambert on August 3, 2012 at 9:11am

That's Brilliant! Hope you don't mind but I'm going to burn this audio along with a few others. Sounds so good.

Comment by SlowHound on July 31, 2012 at 5:59pm

The Flatpups are perfect for converting your piezo builds.

You'll get many different theories on types of wood and such to use.

This guitar has a poplar neck, red oak board and bolts for the bridge and nut.  

Comment by Beamer Boy on July 31, 2012 at 5:13pm

Thanks a bunch for the feedback it very appreciated indeed.. I looked at the flat pup pickup site and they look ideal for a post build fit option to go from a pre fitted piezo to a top box mounted magnetic coil pickup. With the customary high action on most CBG 's and the flatpup slim design they would fit nicely under the strings and not to hard to fit I'm presuming. One question is with a magnetic coil pickup the actual box and quality of wood used in it has very little affect on the tone, am I very wrong on that? Either way I think I'm gonna order one of those flat pups especially as I saw John using one as well :-)

Comment by SlowHound on July 31, 2012 at 4:11pm

Sorry Aron. As for effects, they're all coming from the amps (usually a Micro or Cube 40). I almost always turn my EQ high all the way down, the low up and use the middle to adjust. Throw in some heavy reverb, a touch of tremelo and some delay or chorus.

With this tune I used what was just mentioned  (with chorus) and overdrove it with lots of gain. I really don't know what amp model setting I used.

Comment by SlowHound on July 31, 2012 at 3:33pm

Aron, thank you for the very kind words.

As of now I've only used solid state amps. My setup(s) are pretty simple. Guitar, cord and amp (at least so far).

As for piezos and this kind of overdrive, persoanlly I haven't been able to combined the two very well.

 

 

 

 

Comment by Beamer Boy on July 31, 2012 at 3:06pm

Haven't been playing long and John is my inspiration sound and style wise ever since I youtubed Cigar Box Guitars, I'll now be watching all your videos too, beautiful expressionism in your playing. Would love to know what your set up is, amp, effects, pick ups etc. Can I achieve this sound with a piezo pickup and a non tube amp?

Comment by SlowHound on July 30, 2012 at 7:30am

Thank you sir.

Comment by wes carl on July 30, 2012 at 6:54am

well yer not in a rut on this one *****

Comment by SlowHound on July 30, 2012 at 6:43am

Thank you Jason.

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