Practical & philosophical videos on music. Hugo Moroux is an artist and music teacher with a focus on experimentation. Songwriting and improvisation take centre stage, with a new video every other week that explores and shares creativity without restrictions. 🎸
Alive and well, making an album, teaching, and working on content when time permits. I hope to get more going on this RU-vid channel in the near future! Thank you for asking
Besides the quantisation options, not on the looper itself. The looper follows your project, so this means you could use your metronome to count yourself in if you have the looper quantised to the project.
Definitely recommend not calling the tracks Like Comment and Subscribe. That was distracting and doesn’t make me want to subscribe.. if anything it achieves the opposite effect.
How is the tuning stability of the tremolo? My friend bought one and sent it back because it was horribly unstable. Sweetwater said there is a design flaw in the tremolo
Do I really need a midi foot pedal to start looping? I’m a multi instrument player and I want to start live looping and I use logic so it’s kinda hard for me to understand how Abelton works and you kinda helped me! Tyvm I’d like to talk with you for more small questions 🙏🎵
Not necessarily, there are other types of MIDI controllers available if you prefer to use something else. A foot controller is convenient because it allows you to be hands-free. Happy to discuss further. Feel free to reach out to me: www.hugomoroux.com/lessons/
I can see it being overwhelming if you're not familiar with Ableton. Probably a good idea to experiment with the first two methods as those are a bit more accessible!
i’m considering getting one as a preventative measure for RSI. I already developed RSI from playing Osu as a teenager i’m good on getting it again as an adult playing guitar.
after almost 2 years of saving "in a sock" I have bought a Plini signature. I have been playing guitar for over 30 years and never have I had more comfortable guitar in my hands. now sving again for a Classic version ;) Ola did a fantastic work with the whole design. Nowadays I just dont feel like picking up any other guitar in my hands. the 7 string is also on my radar. great presentation and very informative for those that never played Strandberg efore. keep it up ;)
I've been playing 40 years. A good guitar is the guitar you like to play. I've seen these guitars and they only interested me a little but the trapezoid neck feature seems innovative and unique. I can appreciate this awesome feature I'll have to check one out if I can.
Well that's obviously not the reason the frets are slanted. The lower stringer are longer than the higher strings for better tension distribution, especially for drop tuning.
Sorry about not being there, I literally didn’t know what day it was lol. My submission is about some really heavy stuff I’m going through, it’s my first attempt at a sad song so I’m really happy to hear that came through
as strange as this could sound, I believe strandberg is sitting on some incredibly beautiful and playable guitars, if only they had a nice headstock. No headstock really ruins the whole look for me. Headstocks are beautiful. What benefit you get by getting rid of them? are they REALLY that heavy? Do they REALLY make the guitar that much bigger? I don't see any advantage there. It made sense on the older strandberg models which were really made for traveling. But this is roughly a regular size guitar and they probably just kept that headless look cause it was brand defining at that point.
Fair point! Aesthetics are important enough, and should definitely be considered in terms of what guitar is right for you. I was initially put off by the lack of a headstock too, but it grew on me
1:33 why do you make a visual comparison of bass Ballance to Strandberg guitars, while talking about strandbergs being superior to other guitars in that matter?
I was demonstrating the balance of the guitar versus the least balanced thing I had available to me, which happened to be this bass guitar which has some serious neck dive
This is awesome! I'm familiar with looping pedals but am just starting to look at Ableton for software looping. Your multi-loop setup has a lot of potential to do the things I want, and I even may have a midi controller like the one you showed available to me. I'd like to make use of this sort of setup and see how I might make use of it at my church and an open mic I occasionally go to. Thanks for the video! Love it!
I don't know the reason ehy Strandberg has such an unusual neck (back), but imho they didn't get a proper idea of how it's got to be. As long as you play the sloppy way with the left hand all around the neck, many neck profiles will do. But when you get to the classical hand position, the one you usually use playing barree chords or 3NPS stuff it is important to have the thumb working as a counterforce for the pressure of the fingers on the fretboard. When the back of the neck is flat, this will work perfectly. If it is too steep or too rounded the thumb will slip off when the higher strings are played. Sad to see many manufacturers don't even know that.
The width of an extended range guitar doesn't lend itself too well to playing barre chords, but it's far from impossible. That being said for chords like that you'd definitely be more comfortable on a 6-string
You got me wrong in any way. I was talking about the back profile of the neck. About the thumb, the counterpart of the fingers. With a Starndberg neck, you will have difficulties to rest the thumb when yo pay the higher strings. It will slip off. @@HugoMoroux
I love my boden standard but I'm trying to find the right neck single coil pickup. The stock SC sucks and is noisy and the Area 61 didn't really do it for me as I want more of a humbucker voicing/punch than a hot strat sound. Got an Air Norton S on the Christmas list. Other than that, it's a killer instrument but it's hard to look cool on stage with it :/
That tremolo design kills...but not a fan of that neck profile or scale length.I like 24.75 because it allows for thicker strings and can allow for easier bending.25.5 means your locked in to tight strings or thin strings that break easier.
@@HugoMoroux Right,long length requires more tension to get to pitch.Strats are tightly tensioned strings /Les Pauls are looser.Well I'm a bit off with this particular guitar seeing how the Low E is set to 25.5 but slides down to 25 by the high E I think (due to angled fret/nut design).IE easier to bend unwound strings that say a strat...
Nice tutorial, thank you! I am looking to do loops for different guitar parts with different effects, for e.g one rhythm, a lead and then transposing the guitar to a bass. At the end of the first guitar part I would like to immediately play the second part and not wait for the loop to loop again, is this possible with the last setup you had shown? Would I be able to hit a second pedal to change the track (second guitar part/effect)coming into the loop and it will keep looping? I have managed to get this working with the session view and not using the Ableton looper but I have to hit 3 pedals: Hit the first pedal once to stop the loop Hit the second pedal once to move to the next track Hit the second pedal again to start that loop Sorry for the long question, hope that makes sense. If I can just hit one pedal once this would be ideal.
If I understood your question correctly: you can split your parts up into two different tracks, and then connect a pedal to stop the first track while playing the second track. You'd have to have your set planned out for something like this of course (perhaps pre-recording some parts before the performance), which probably wouldn't work great in an improv scenario. I hope that helps
@@HugoMoroux I usually have a rough plan, I basically want to loop but have each guitar part in a different track for different effects. When the first loop ends, I want it to keep playing and basically overdub immediately with the second track. At the moment I can only do this hitting the pedal 3 times as described above but wondering if it’s possible with the Ableton looper setup like you have shown. I think I’ll need to do some experimenting 😅
About the unfortunate situation that your neck is too thick and nothing is perfect I think I heard a rumor that Strandberg also makes a 6 string guitar!
nice but i never change my loop tracks just instruments and on/off chord and loop tracks for live arrangement that's important to a live season to switch to different variation of a song you playing and performing
My two questions. 1. Are the strap button locations in ideal places? and 2. Have you found a way to store it (ie. a stand that works for it)? I want to try one out, hopefully this week, and those questions are rolling around in my head. It's a truly unique invention, and i think it deserves to be able to be displayed. :)
The strap buttons seem fine to me and work well with their straps. I know Strandberg sells a dedicated stand for it too, but I decided against it at the time, so I do not keep it on a stand (it lays on a workbench in my studio - definitely not the most elegant way of displaying it).
