That Leslie idea sounds fantastic! It would add so much dynamics to your playing! It's a hard effect.. without sounding like a hard effect. Sound natural AND huge at the same time!
So many new cool things here. That side of the neck truss rod adjustment, I like that. And the very cool 'Pick-up Leslie" feature. And all the odd innovations on the Firestar. Neat stuff! My favorite video from the Holy Grail Show.
LOVE the art on the first guitar! What a fun, creative luthier. And I can see that the interviewer is really enjoying himself too; must be a refreshing change from the usual :)
No, this one was made for Schneider TM, an artist in Berlin, Germany. But we are working towards this direction of the experimental guitar, with useful onboard features.
Deimel Guitarworks thanks for the name I'll check/listen his music. Everybody who needs guitar like this with all these sound options sounds interesting to me. Btw. really nice guitars, I'm watching it almost for two years on the Internet and still no competition for them. One day, I will buy one, not today, the prices are out of my range. But I think it's the, best option here in europe (probably globally).
Deimel and his wife are utilizing their free expression on this guitar, that's fine if you don't like it but making the assumption that they are "pussy hat SJW snowflakes" really just make you the real asshat. If you don't like it just as easy and respectful to ignore as opposed to create opposition and aggression towards something you don't believe in.
those are nice guitars but the special effects stuff is bullshit. why not put a cooling unit inside and have it spout beer? a guitar is a guitar, period.
What gets me about all these 'new ideas' is that the majority of people buy into that notion... Sometimes without realising that other people (like myself) had thought of many of the concepts shown in these 'avante guarde' instruments. The accolade merely goes to those that have the funds to patent the idea and bring it to production. It's more about financial acumen, than inventiveness. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eg: I was 14 years old, when I 'invented' the wind-up radio... Trevor Bayliss presumably came up with the same concept around 5 years later and then went on to market it. However, the idea was hardly orginal, given that the military had been using hand--cranked generators to run their radio equipment during WW2 (..and later SOLAS trancieivers, used in all emergency liferafts/lifeboats). We all stand on the shoulders of giants... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The second (silver) 'Firestar' looked okay... In a slightly non-reverse 'Firebird' kind of way... I thought of idea of putting a single coil pup, *behind* the bridge, years ago.... Whilst musing over, how it might sound in a 'harp' kind of way, when abstractly plinking the backstrings fastened to an old trapezoid tailpiece. The truss rod adjustment being the only break from tradition that warranted kudos for originality. 'Lesile concept' was more or less an electronic vibrato system (oscillating amplitude gain stage). Didn't like the ugly hollow chambers... Piezo placement was not original. And why would a guitarist want to turn his guitar into an electronic maraca? (!) The first guitar looked ugly as hell. Okay I get the cute wife artwork participation thing. But the guitar looked like it had spent a day in the art class of a junior school, whereby the entire class, had been asked to paint whatever they wanted over the entire instrument. Did nothing for me.
If you spend just a little bit of effort thinking about the time he took to engineer, prototype, then build one of these guitars you will begin to understand why they are expensive.
Looks like a very fine guitar--"We are the Resistance?" To what? I would humbly ask that people please cease and desist (we are the desistance?) on topics that one knows nothing about. Otherwise, great stuff!
