RE: play guitar like a drum

["Michael Plishka" <mike@michaelplishka.com>]

You really don't have to do much if the guitar is mic'ed properly.  Internal mics are much better at picking up the sounds of hands on wood than pickups although since you're mangling the sound (relatively speaking) it might not matter much-I just found internal mics much warmer and giving better results.  Using your thumb at various places on the guitar will give you different pitches and timbre and alittle eq will perfect it for you.  If you go to www.myspace.com/michaelplishka and play Einstein's time I bang chords and guitar at the same time to create a string sound with a drum sound in the background.  There are other songs that are even more percussive but they're not up on the site yet.

 

~Peace~

Plish

 

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-----Original Message-----
From: D rH [mailto:the.31st@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 5:43 PM
To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
Subject: play guitar like a drum

Tapping the collective:

 

Is there a simple way to make an acoustic/electic guitar sound more like drum when you beat on it, or more like a bass even if it's tuned down a whole step and you're playing with the pad of your thumb? How about at the same time, hmm?

 

I'm talking hardware, specifically footswitch-ware, not software... that'd be too easy! Will one of those cheapo 7-band EQ's work? Never tried one... I'm wary. Ideas? Common practices?

 

David