OT: New Nylon String Through my Laptop system....oh my!!!

["Krispen Hartung" <khartung@cableone.net>]

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I just bought a new Taylor Nylon string today, oh my....why I didn't I buy a nylon strong years ago baffles me, even when I had a traditional classical guitar sitting in my corner for years and years.  This may very well be my main guitar now for looping. These Taylor's are really interesting guitars, because even though they are often shunned by traditional classical guitarists and even some acoustic jazz players (based on some reviews I read) as sounding very flat and sterile unamplified (which I agree is partly true), they sound tremendous through the electronic pickup system.  I believe these guitars were designed to be played amplified, not "unplugged".  In fact, my inexpensive Yamaha classical guitar sounds better unplugged...but that is not the point here.

 

I bought the NS32-CE, which is the entry level model for Taylor nylon strings....after weighing the options I got with higher models, and the fact that the neck and fretboard (playability) is basically the same on all the models, I went this route because I prefer a simple guitar, rather than one with exotic woods and all the other bells and whistles.  This guitar is basically the sibling of my Taylor steel string electric, the 310 CE. They look very similar.

 

http://www.taylorguitars.com/guitars/model.aspx?model=NS32-CE

 

What I like most about the nylon string and what I like to do looping-wise is that the tone of the nylon string sounds very traditional and authentic (maybe because I was trained on the classical guitar and it is often considered the instrument for academic study), yet I am placing this in juxtaposition with some serious tone mangling and experimental effects. I just love the contrast of these two extremes. It would be analogous to placing a microphone on a grand piano and running it through a bunch of insane soft synths. You have this beautiful and warm bell-like tone of a nylon string guitar, but driving the most wild and bizarre VST effects.  It really is a wonderful thing. The tone of the guitar can be so soft and warm, yet the effects it triggers can take a whole new course of action and life of their own.

 

I hope to bring this to Y2K6, unless I think I might not be able to get it on the plane safely. I had no problems last year.

 

Kris

 

----- Original Message -----

From: Daryl Shawn

To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com

Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 11:32 AM

Subject: Re: Selling my hardware effect/looping system! (2 VF1s, Fireworx, Looperlative)

Krispen, you gotta let me know when you start amping a nylon-string through that setup. It's my favorite guitar tone (it's the only guitar I play at this point) and I like its effected sound too. I have a lot of fun sending it through an Effector 13 fuzzbox, just a sick thing (the Truly Beautiful Disaster), it works great.

Daryl Shawn
www.swanwelder.com

 And like I said, I really want to get a Taylor Nylon string. It is surprising that I haven't bought a nice electric nylon string after all these years, because the classical guitar was my first instrument, and I studies it for several years, from age 12 onward. Not that I plan to play Bach again (good grief, no....my brain is too full and I've forgotten that sheet music long ago), but it is the tone of the nylon string that I adore so much...and I am really looking forward to hearing it through my VST system.