RE: RE:Fernandes guy at NAMM

[Kim Flint <kflint@chromatic.com>]

At 05:56 PM 2/2/98 -0600, Ott, John wrote:

>       What do you sustainer owners think of the pickup
>       sound on sustainer equipped guitars?
>
>         So far reports I have heard say the sound is degraded.

I think they sound like crap for anything other than the sustainer. I see 
my
fernandes as a one trick pony, which I mostly only use with lots of
distortion and processing. Come to think of it, I can't even remember 
having
it out of the case in the last year.....

They are killer for loop textures, though. You absolutely have to have a
whammy and some real time effects and filter control to make it 
interesting.
Turns a guitar into more of an oscillator (as in an analog synth), with an
interesting waveform that has lots of possiblities for sonic manipulation.

Lots of overdubs of one note with ever so slight whammy tweaking, for those
completely evil dissonances.... YES!

kim
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