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Topic: White Ginger Blossoms - Gerald Ross |
Gerald Ross
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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Mitch Druckman
From:
Arizona, USA
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Posted 22 Apr 2013 8:26 am |
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| Well done, and with such sweet tone. |
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Don Kona Woods
From:
Hawaiian Kama'aina
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Posted 22 Apr 2013 8:39 am
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The only comment that I have Gerald, is that it would sound better if you played it in Hawaii!  |
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Chuck Wilson
From:
Colorado, USA
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Posted 22 Apr 2013 6:43 pm
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Man Gerald,
You just keep getting better and better with your touch and feel.... Just Beautiful!
Like Mark O'Connor.... you play 'em all... put it in his hands and he will play it!
Chuck W |
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Doug Beaumier
From:
Northampton, MA
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Andy Sandoval
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Bakersfield, California, USA
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Posted 23 Apr 2013 9:57 am
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Sounds great Gerald, nice work on the backup too.  |
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Bill Leff
From:
Santa Cruz, CA, USA
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Posted 23 Apr 2013 2:55 pm
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That's some sweet playing all around there Gerald!
Your Fender sounds like a Ric by the way - take it as a compliment |
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Gerald Ross
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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Posted 23 Apr 2013 4:04 pm
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Thanks all.
The steel was recorded direct. I plugged it into my Mbox and Pro Tools. I added the reverb as a plug-in on the track. In fact all the instruments were recorded direct.
Bill - Fender sounds like a Ric? When Jason Lollar made the pickup for me I asked him to give me the traditional Fender sound but with some of the twanginess and high-end rolled off. He delivered.
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Gerald Ross
'Northwest Ann Arbor, Michigan's King Of The Hawaiian Steel Guitar'
A UkeTone Recording Artist
CEO, CIO, CFO - UkeTone Records
Gerald's Hawaiian Steel Guitar/Ukulele Website |
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Bill Leff
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Santa Cruz, CA, USA
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Posted 23 Apr 2013 5:56 pm
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| Gerald Ross wrote: |
Thanks all.
Bill - Fender sounds like a Ric? When Jason Lollar made the pickup for me I asked him to give me the traditional Fender sound but with some of the twanginess and high-end rolled off. He delivered. |
I think this is a classic case of a good player always sounds like himself on whatever instrument or amp he's playing on (unless he happens to be going for a radically different sound than usual). You've got a sound in your head and you dial it in using the electronics but probably more importantly with your hands (how you pick, where you pick on on the string relative to the bridge, etc).
So it really doesn't matter if your playing that Fender or your bakelite Ric. Either way I'm going to hear "Gerald" and that sound is going to be very similar on either instrument. And it sounds good! |
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Gerald Ross
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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Posted 23 Apr 2013 6:02 pm
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Bill - were you at the HSGA Joliet convention when someone showed up with Dick McIntires' Ric Frypan?
Yes it really was DM's instrument. All the elder scholars agreed.
We passed the instrument around and everyone tried a tune on it. Remarkably, nobody sounded like Dick McIntire. Everyone sounded like themselves.
"wherever you go, there you are"
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Gerald Ross
'Northwest Ann Arbor, Michigan's King Of The Hawaiian Steel Guitar'
A UkeTone Recording Artist
CEO, CIO, CFO - UkeTone Records
Gerald's Hawaiian Steel Guitar/Ukulele Website |
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