Keira-WitherKay
just recently as in last 2 weeks i been gigging with that new jazz box i bought after having it nicely set up and a few mods done ......
so the idea is to play the fingerstyle jazz standards on the jazz box ( now i'm doing this residency i play at least 50% of repetoire each show as jazz........ and then use my nylons for the world music/flamenco/classical ect ........
now i am one of those fans of little to NO effects on instruments and even vocals....let me add when playing "Live" in studio it's another story ... and true i was converted to this by a quite famous sound engineer i did a festival with years ago who had the mentality of if my guitar ( classical/nylon) sounds good..... don't add effects cos it will spoil the natural sound.....and the rule was only on recordings do we want some reverb but for live shows just allow the room/clubs natural reverb sort out the sound......which it does btw ........ so for ages live i never use any effects....... true on a nylon .......
BUT and here it comes with the steel string jazz box it sounds dead without effects........and i can hear great A/B tests continually while i gig cos i switch from nylon that sounds perfect to the jazz box that sounds flat ... so i hauled out my guitar fx ( yes i own a lot of gear i never use normally ? ) and ran the jazz box thru the fx unit trying to keep the same tone as it has directly plugged n but added reverb just a small hall at 25% (of the mix.i don't want it swimming in reverb) and a hint of compression ..... and yes that did the trick now the dry (totally uneffected nylon ) sounds on a par with now effected jazz box....... and even when i switch back to nylon after doing a few songs on jazz box with reverb there's not the slightest hint of the reverb being "missing" from the nylon when i pick it up again ...
so there you have it ...... this old dog is learning new tricks all the time.....and i found this interesting that the reverb was needed the steel string jazz box to make it sound 'right" to my ear but the classical is dry and that sounds right
Renesongs
That sounds right. A "jazz box" needs quite a bit of reverb in fact using 300ms of delay is quite common amounst jazz men. Acoustics are not my forte Compression and no re-verb keeps it clean, a little equalization if it a pickup as opposed to microphone. But hey what do I know I played a whole set this week with way too much gain on my guitar (by accident of course) ☹
