ok what do i call this post ...too many options ....you decide

Keira-WitherKay

ok here is some you tube video of my brand new jazz guitar/vocal/percussion duo all live (no back tracks or loops)

=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOqm-SRAhZw#

[u][b]ok re the poll some explanations to the choices [/b] [/u] 1. [b]introducing keira's new vocalist the lovely sarah kate edworthy[/b] this is the very 1st time Sarah- kate and i have played together , and she will be my new vocalist for all my jazz gigs ......it was an impromtu performance.......... and went fabulously well for 1st time out with no rehearsal may i say

2 [b]sound clips from my new archtop guitar [/b] i just bought this a while back and loving it .......... it's a epiphone reissue of a 30's epiphone archtop called the emporer regent ..i posted pics a while back but here's some cool audio ........... good enough to hear the guitar in it's intended genre

3.[b] soundclip from my partcaster 40W battery amp [/b] a while back i bought a behringer EPA40 and it was too thin sounding so a friend build an open back cab (about same size as a cube 30) and i took the guts and battery (a rechargable) out of the epa , dumped the casing and speaker and added a speaker from an 8" skytec powered pa speaker to it (NOT the horn just the 8" ) so now i have a mobile 40W ,fat sounding amp ..........in a small lightweight package........... and at most of my restaurant gigs i don't even mic it up ....it is loud enough to play over the unmic'd percussion and what blew me away was that the 8" used with the archtop is amazing ........ it has incredible low tone and sounds well 'jazzy" and thats what i want......... i was expecting to put a 10 or 12 into the cab ........ but the 8 (OK it is rated at full range and 80W) is sounding great and above all fat so i'm "not fixing what ain't broke"

4 [b]why one needs to carrry your reading glasses to gigs [/b] well like i said this was an unrehearsed gig ......we had charts for everything in her key and i "read" my way through the show ........ but i wear bi focals so in video i was giggling at myself lifting my head in such a way that i could read the charts thru the bottom of my bi focals........... :D thats the downside of getting old and doing unrehearsed gigs.......... sightreading is a bitch when you can't see wiothout your glasses :D very funny and something i'm sure i'll be teased about a lot ..but least at this gig i maybe earned my "jazz or blues" name of "blind keira "

5 [b]Keira sporting her new panama hat [/b] i love hats and each guitar has a hat or hats that go with it ...... my acoustic shows normally get beanies or "hippie style" hats , and yes i have a stetson i bought when i bought my tele, but i have to admit i own it but never yet worn it at a gig, then i have a sombrero for my mexican nylon work.........and when i bought the archtop i went out and sourced a genuine panama hat , made in equidor .... in white to match the archtop...........it's the hat that defines the time of archtops the 30's and 40's ..........

so anyway i was confused what to call this post .............it's an intro, a duo demo, a guitar demo an amp demo and i saw the funny side of my short sightedness and love of hats ................

so you decide

(old forum) Poll Results: this post covers too many topics you name it

introducing keira's new vocalist the lovely sarah kate edworthy: 4
sound clips from my new archtop guitar: 3
soundclip of my partcaster 40w battery amp: 0
why one needs to carry your reading glasses with you to gigs: 0
keira sporting her new panama hat: 5

Jack-Flash-Jr

Only one vote allowed :-\
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Sounding great all round but I must demand live footage with the Stetson... yes. Yes.

Sean

Mmmm, the archtop sounds fantastic ?

racman

Jack Flash Jr wrote: Only one vote allowed :-\
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Sounding great all round but I must demand live footage with the Stetson... yes. Yes.

I agree - swittch hats when you play the Tele. ?

Keira-WitherKay

? soon as i pick up the tele plug into my tube amp and put on that stetson i wanna play sheryl crow and brad paisley but at moment the bills get paid with me wearing the panama hat and playing the archtop and the 30's and 40's music inspired by that ? . And @ sean yeah i like the sound of that archtop initially i wanted to change the pup but found the sweet jazz tone i was after. . . Took some fiddling but solved by just rolling off by 70% the tone on guitar and playing that archtop into an amp set with eq dead flat i get a sweet tone that works for me , excellent value for money on that guitar .

Neon-Gecko

There should have been another option called: Keira & Co kicks @ss! That Flamenco bit really blew me away...

Tokai-SA

Well, if I were naming the thread I'd call it...

"I wish I could play the f***ing guitar like Keira does".

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Neon-Gecko

Tokai SA wrote: Well, if I were naming the thread I'd call it...

"I wish I could play the f***ing guitar like Keira does".

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Amen to that brother!

ZarK

Awesome playing! :applause:

...inspired me to dust off my Nylon for the first time in a long while. (Thanx)

vic

Very good sound indeed Keira....just remind me......is that the stock floating pup on the Epi ?

That guitar sounds on par with any more expensive Gibson jazzer from what I hear through the PC...... You may benefit from a larger speaker imho just to bring out more mids and bottoms from the guitar, but then my PC speakers are not much good at mids and bass. Would love to hear you live....in Stellenbosch ! ?

Dingwall

Hey great playing and great tone!

Keira-WitherKay

Vic wrote: Very good sound indeed Keira....just remind me......is that the stock floating pup on the Epi ?

That guitar sounds on par with any more expensive Gibson jazzer from what I hear through the PC...... You may benefit from a larger speaker imho just to bring out more mids and bottoms from the guitar, but then my PC speakers are not much good at mids and bass. Would love to hear you live....in Stellenbosch ! ?

yeah thats the stock epi floater..........i wanted to replace it originally but not anymore........ . it took me a while to figure out it sounds better when not fully open ............but now i found it , it's great thru any amp ............ i get killer jazz tone from my tube amp with 12 inch ....... my cube with 10 inch and my batterry amp which has an 8 inch which is what i used to record and gig with here ......... and all with minimal tweaking .......... and no effects or eq pedals ect ......it;'s instant jazz tone and old jazz tone......... but then that jazz box is suppossed to be a re issue of the epiphone emperor regent from 30's so if i had to review the guitar i would say ........it does/achieves what it set out to achieve...that of being a vintage sounding and feel and look jazz box.......

as for a bigger speaker.......... i'm discovering i actually like the archtop (we NOT talking the tele) with the 8 " it removes all the excess bass that the archtop seems to generate and i get a fat jazz tone without the boom ...which is what i like............ thru the 12 " tube amp i have to watch that bass does not boom but that guitar has impressed me no end ......

as for tone i just fitted that classic 57 gibson pup i bought into the neck position of my tele..and it sounds fabulous...... BUT when i plug the archtop into same amp it holds it's own and offers in my opinion a more open vintage tone than the gibson but also thats the difference berween hollow and solid bodies...........

that epi is a fabulous find and incredible value for the money , a luthier i know who makes top end guitars was over visiting me last wed and he looked at the build quality and said he could NOT turn out anything close to that for the price........he said just the wood used would set him back most of what i paid and according to him the finish and everything is immaculate and all for less that 6.5 K

vic

Yeah that Epi is a great sounding guitar, especially with the stock pup...just perfect . I am seriuosly considering getting one too as I would love to have a good jazz box. I also (try to) do jazz with the Les Pauls (finger picking) but just cannot get (understandably) THAT sound.
Congrats on a lovely axe.

vic

Forgot to ask...what strings/gauge do you have on the archtop ?

Keira-WitherKay

Vic wrote:
Yeah that Epi is a great sounding guitar, especially with the stock pup...just perfect . I am seriuosly considering getting one too as I would love to have a good jazz box. I also (try to) do jazz with the Les Pauls (finger picking) but just cannot get (understandably) THAT sound.
Congrats on a lovely axe.

@vic if you want one order it quick while there's still stocks in storage somewhere .......as i read on a jazz site epiphone are stopping production of quite a few models and this one i have the Emperor regent is one that they not making anymore but i did see a few onsale at online shops new.....
so i guess there's still stock at present

anyway speak to marshall music in woodmead who import them .........but as far as i know the one i got was last one in country ...cos they had to ship the one i got up from durban to jhb so i could get it ............

but just a warning ... if you read my initial review on it you'd remember that when i got it out of the box........ it needed a fret dress and a new nut and a bridge sanded down and a whole major setup to get it in a condition i would accept it ...........

but thankfully marshall music footed the bill for it but after all the major setups it's an amazing guitar ........ but i woulda walked away from it if they never offered to set it up....... cos that musta been about 1K's worth of work or more done to what was a brand new guitar .........so be aware it could be pretty nastily setup just out of the box .... but thats my one and only gripe and it was sorted at marshalls expense ?

the up side it's instant jazz tone and look and feel .

but it's a huge guitar 17" across body but also very long ....... i'm waiting for a case for it ......... but it's too long to even fit into a guitar bag or even a jumbo 12 string acoustic guitar case....... ....... and i carry it around at present in a acoustic bass bag ? thats all that fits it ......... but that sheer size is aboslute stage presence , i get constant compliments from non guitarists and guitarists to how awesome it looks on a stage

@ vic ..........the strings i use are D'addario chrome 12's - 52 they flatwound of course

xXguitarsenXx

Awesome!

Guitarzzz

Very beautiful music ! Thank you! ?

Conrad

That archtop has a great sound! ?