I bought the Polytune clip on tuner years ago. It's not worth it. A cheap Chinese tuner is just as good or even better. The Polytune is nothing but an ordinary RU-vid hype that makes you want to spend a lot of money. Do your wallet a favor and buy the cheap one.
Your playing/teaching inspires me to play and practice. Thanks for the videos. I see you playing a Tyalor 412ce and a Taylor 310ce. Can you help me understand how you see the differences, advantages/disadvantages, and best use of each?
They don't make the 310 as such anymore, but you can probably find them used for a good deal, and it was a good guitar. Don't have one now, but I owned two of them - one with the cutaway and one without. I prefer having the cutaway. The "10" is a dreadnought and a larger guitar. The "12" is a grand concert and a smaller guitar that I've found more comfortable - especially when sitting down. The grand concerts also have a short scale length. I did a video about grand concerts on one of my channels; they're particularly known as being good for fingerstyle. The 412 is great, but the 312 is also excellent since they updated to the v-class bracing. The 300 series usually has a satin finish on the back/sides which can be a little noisy sometimes if you're recording with a microphone in a quiet room and you shift it around, but otherwise they're great. I believe the 400 series now has a gloss finish which is a little quieter, but the one I have in these videos had satin finish on the back & sides as I recall. All of the Taylors are good, playable guitars. Thanks for watching, and good luck!
Im a former big island girl too. Waikoloa, Holualoa and Hawi. Did you ever go to Ohana Pizza in Hawi in the 80s? My darlin owned it once upon a time. This is a very beautiful song, you did that place justice with this song. Madame Pele loves you. I miss it there. Mahalo nui.
Much appreciated, @Kerricorser4562 🙏 I do not remember Ohana Pizza, though I'm sure it was delicious. It's funny though, I was recently thinking about Paniolo pizza in Kona & Waimea, and a pizza place in Kawaihae called "We're Talking Pizza." The logo on the window was this guy in a zoot suit chomping on a cigar and talking on a telephone, and the window graphic was still there through the 2000's when it was later a Café Pesto location. There was lots of good pizza around :-) Anyway, Mahalo for listening!
LOL!! I NEVER, EVER have music on while I'm working... UNTIL NOW!!!!!!! LOL!!! This is so relaxing and enjoyable yet not distracting - EXTREMELY ENJOYABLE!!!!!! MANY THANKS!!!!
As a guitarist who has been playing since 1962, professionally for 55 years, I really appreciate the creativity, dexterity, expressiveness and soul that your playing shows! Well done! Aloha!!!
I use to play with a band that had a Yamaha 600 pa. I’m now playing with another guy that uses a mackie mix12fx and when I tried hooking up the DI mix or single 1 & 2 channel one for mimic and one for my taylor 814ce I’m getting a hum. Would it be better to mic the amp into the mixer instead of trying to run the channel one & two into the separate channels? I never had an issue when running my fishman loudbox artist directly into the Yamaha 600 pa. The new guy I,m playing with uses a mackie mix12fx and two powered mackie speakers. I ended up running my fishman into one of the powered speakers but then only was heard of course on one of the powered speakers. Not sure why I was getting the hum running the taylor 814ce and one mic into the mixer and the other guy ran his mic and guitar on two other Chanel’s and no hum. So my question is the only way to do this is to mic the amp into one channel. I thought since the fishman has DI on both channels or DI on on the mix channel shouldn’t be any hum. I’m not sure and have a week to figure this out before a gig next Sunday! Thanks in advance, great video!
There are several things that could be causing your feedback. The short answer is that you have to experiment. Is the feedback coming from your microphone or the guitar? It'll be one of the two (or both). If you have a vocal mic try running it through the mixer and just using the amp for the guitar. For the amp itself, you could try the line out on the amp and make sure the mixer is set for a line input (rather than mic the amp). I would generally mic the amp in a larger venue with a sound engineer - that type of situation - not with a PA. The amp offers you options for a line out both with and without the EQ - so I would try to EQ it from the amp (leave the board flat) or from the board (line out with no EQ) but not both. The big picture is that you effectively have two mixers - one on the amp and one on the board - and you may not need both. With microphones, where you place them in relation to the speakers matters as well as their levels - lower levels and having the mic below / behind the speakers could help. It's not likely that you need your amp for volume, might be useful as a monitor, but generally you might keep the volume lower on the amp or just run directly into the board. You might use use outboard effects (like a chorus pedal) for your guitar and skip the amp - run straight into the mixer. If the mixer has reverb, a lot of people would just run their vocals / guitar into the mixer if they were having issues (or if the amp was not needed for volume / to serve as a two channel mixer itself). With guitar, feedback is typically from the lows / low mids so you could EQ some of that out, starting with the 'low' EQ knob on he Taylor. The onboard EQ on the Taylor should be helpful. Those are a bunch of random thoughts / suggestions. The short answer is to experiment. Good luck!
Can't say enough great things about your reviews. Really relaxing presentations that don't sound like you're trying to sell something. Thanks and looking forward to more videos.
I used to have the visual sound vs-xo pedal and absolutely loved it. Got out of guitar for a while and got back into it recently. Wanted that pedal but a little too pricey. Bought both of these trying to imitate to vs-xo. Then I found this demo. Nice job man !!! It tells me I made the right choices!! Thanks!!
Martin tabbed out bits of the songs which were included as an insert to the vinyl. I think I bought an excellent condition vinyl with the 8 or 12 page tab insert for about $4 at a record store years back. Good find - great album. I didn't find all of the tab usable, but the tab for this song was enough to work with. The main thing I did differently was use a slightly different tuning from the original Drop D. And I didn't play it on a Baritone like Martin did, but I think it's still plenty sonorous on a regular scale length guitar. Lots of ways to approach this one. Good luck!
Picked up a secondhand ERD for £60, and got myself a vintage BluesBreaker today. Stacked them both with ERD over the BB, and it sounds incredible. However, both pedals are respectable and great-sounding on their own. Have been pleasantly surprised by the ERD.
@yongski5488 - my thoughts for these two: TLM102 - smooth highs, warm and full sounding, more body to notes. Good for Taylor guitars, especially rosewood/spruce. Popular as a voiceover and vocal mic (probably for the 'smooth / full' sound). Edwina - a little brighter high end & tighter bass. Good off-axis rejection if noisier surroundings and/or for live use. Would be good for Martin guitars, mic 'looks cool', often used to single mic acoustic + vocal groups / 'string bands' on a stage (i.e. Bluegrass / Americana groups). Construction seems pretty rugged. Both great mics. Hope this helps - good luck!
I have both. The CC is best as a mostly ON delay, warm, dark, wirh just the pushbutton for modulation. The VT is more feature rich with: flashing LED for visual tempo, adjustable modulation control knobs, AND 3 function side jack for wet out 2nd amp, expression pedal, or put another effect in a loop. It is also true bypass ( not MXR hardwire bypass ) and will also run on 18vdc or 9vdc. Top main jacks not the annoying power in the side like MXR. Seymour Duncan pedals are seriously underrated.
No, the Polytune has the feature to tune all 6 strings at once. The Unitune does not have that feature but otherwise would be the same. (I believe that's the one difference between these two similar models.) Hope that helps. Both great options for tuners btw.
Superbe petite vidéo,pour ma part la ts9 est bien meilleure,elle a un son un peu plus chaud ,les deux pédales sont bien , mais j'utilise la ts9 pour jouer du blues.
I'm looking at buying, can you give me an idea of the volume out of this amp? I want to plug an acoustic with passive K&K pick ups into it..... also set a mic up for a banjo. It may go into another PA using the DI out, but, what is the vol like without that? Plenty loud for a busy pub?
For something practical to carry around, this is about as large of an amp as you want. If you need more volume, I would plug into a PA rather than buy a larger amp. I think that's the best way to answer the question. This could work for a smaller & quieter pub, but for a larger & louder pub I'm thinking you'll need to use the DI out to a PA. Another thought - I played an outdoor restaurant and used this + the DI to a powered speaker on a stand (no mixer board). So you may not need a full PA.
Mine stays put if I tighten it almost all the way but it’s too tight and feels uncomfortable. Would this truck lessen some of the tension but still hold it in?
