TonyFlyingSquirrel
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http://proguitarshop.com/italia-modena-sitar-crackle-white.html
Sitar GaSS!
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The Gotoh "Buzz bridge" is a commercially-available product, but it looks as though the mounting holes don't correspond to any other bridge. I spent a while figuring out how to do this on steel guitars, and it's really pretty easy. If yo have a lapsteel guitar or possibly even a slide guitar that's set up high enough to use as a lap steel:
Line up your slide on a single unwound string going in exactly the same direction as the string, PARALLEL, not across - then gradually ease the angle of the slide further back towards a forward slant position while picking continuously. At some point around 20 degrees off of parallel the string will be sounding, but still buzzing against the slide. Learn to control it.
There's another, really really simple way to get close electronically. You need a delay effect that lets you program specific time intervals, and it has to go down to zero. Set the delay level at a good high volume, 70 to 100 (if 100 is at unity gain). Then set the number of repeats really high too, 90, 95 but NOT 100 where it's own feedback takes over. And then set the repeat time at somewhere between 3 to 7 milliseconds. And then gradually ease up the volume as you're picking. You will have to adjust the parameters to suit your own needs, especially the delay time & number of repeats, but those values are right in there. This is exactly what the E-H "Ravish" pedal is doing.
Line up your slide on a single unwound string going in exactly the same direction as the string, PARALLEL, not across - then gradually ease the angle of the slide further back towards a forward slant position while picking continuously. At some point around 20 degrees off of parallel the string will be sounding, but still buzzing against the slide. Learn to control it.
There's another, really really simple way to get close electronically. You need a delay effect that lets you program specific time intervals, and it has to go down to zero. Set the delay level at a good high volume, 70 to 100 (if 100 is at unity gain). Then set the number of repeats really high too, 90, 95 but NOT 100 where it's own feedback takes over. And then set the repeat time at somewhere between 3 to 7 milliseconds. And then gradually ease up the volume as you're picking. You will have to adjust the parameters to suit your own needs, especially the delay time & number of repeats, but those values are right in there. This is exactly what the E-H "Ravish" pedal is doing.
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That would probably be fun, or you could go this way:
I may have to go in and see if they have one in store. It does look like a lot of fun.
I may have to go in and see if they have one in store. It does look like a lot of fun.
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I don't get it.
They make it sound like something unique and new, but it's basically a copy of a classic Coral Sitar with a different body.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coral_sitar
I have a cheap Rogue copy of the Coral and it's fun, but it doesn't get played much.
They make it sound like something unique and new, but it's basically a copy of a classic Coral Sitar with a different body.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coral_sitar
I have a cheap Rogue copy of the Coral and it's fun, but it doesn't get played much.
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It's crafted better than the Coral, with modern hardware, pickups, etc...
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Another friend just posted this, in case you want to try it on an existing axe.
http://www.eyb-guitars.de/Eyb-English/Sitarbridge.html
http://www.eyb-guitars.de/Eyb-English/Sitarbridge.html
Hmm... that would be a very interesting DIY build. I think I'd go for the body shape of the Coral. As well as that of the player.
An interesting option would be multiple movable bridges for the sympathetics, like a koto.
Then you could tune the sympathetics and perhaps not have so many.
An interesting option would be multiple movable bridges for the sympathetics, like a koto.
Then you could tune the sympathetics and perhaps not have so many.
