The biggest bugaboo about video demos is they rarely address clean tones. I can't hear what a guitar does when it starts from howling, and then gets worse.... 
arty07: I use a lot of clean tones in playing, and a good guitar will sound better at it than a bad guitar. Plug it into a Roland Jazz Chorus (no chorus on) or a Twin Reverb set at "3" and play up the neck, demonstrating the full range of the tone controls. The high notes should still be round, and the low notes clear - aluminum ought to work great for this. The Travis Bean is the one guitar that I really, really wished I had back - the low strings sounded like a grand piano. One test that many guitars fail is how the low wound strings sound, way up the neck - 17th fret and above.
I don't know what test rig you'll be using, but one issue with any direct recording is that "real" speakers knock off frequencies above 6K in a big way, and an awful lot of samples don't duplicate this, hence they sound proportionately "thin." It's just because they're letting through a lot more high frequencies than a real-world amplifier would, but it can skew results tonally. I personally prefer to use a bright signal initially to drive amps then depend on the speakers to roll off highs, but an aluminum guitar direct to disc may be a little bitey - just a bit... :dontknow:
What you wouldn't want to do is alter the guitar itself somehow to make it sound good through a POD into a computer and out through your mini 1.5" computer speakers, then sound like total mush through a Marshall - oh no! :hello2: :toothy10: :blob7:
arty07: I use a lot of clean tones in playing, and a good guitar will sound better at it than a bad guitar. Plug it into a Roland Jazz Chorus (no chorus on) or a Twin Reverb set at "3" and play up the neck, demonstrating the full range of the tone controls. The high notes should still be round, and the low notes clear - aluminum ought to work great for this. The Travis Bean is the one guitar that I really, really wished I had back - the low strings sounded like a grand piano. One test that many guitars fail is how the low wound strings sound, way up the neck - 17th fret and above.I don't know what test rig you'll be using, but one issue with any direct recording is that "real" speakers knock off frequencies above 6K in a big way, and an awful lot of samples don't duplicate this, hence they sound proportionately "thin." It's just because they're letting through a lot more high frequencies than a real-world amplifier would, but it can skew results tonally. I personally prefer to use a bright signal initially to drive amps then depend on the speakers to roll off highs, but an aluminum guitar direct to disc may be a little bitey - just a bit... :dontknow:
What you wouldn't want to do is alter the guitar itself somehow to make it sound good through a POD into a computer and out through your mini 1.5" computer speakers, then sound like total mush through a Marshall - oh no!
:hello2: :toothy10: :blob7:
