Monday 27 July 2015

Changing guitars...

For the past 12 years I have had an Ovation acoustic bass. It is a beautiful instrument, and has a quilted maple top in green!

 
This is fine, but I rarely play it. In fact in the last three years I have only got it out to tune it or play it a handful of times. So I made the decision to trade it in.
 
I have an old Yamaha folk guitar which plays lovely and is great for acoustic gigs, but doesn't record very well. So I decided to get a new electro/acoustic for recording and plugging in at live shows.




After getting a very good price on the bass I decided to go for an Ibanez. It has a very clear tone and some amazing zebra wood on the side and back, with a solid spruce top. AS a bonus it not only has a jack output form the preamp, but also an XLR socket.

Over the past months I have been writing regularly and starting to record a few songs.  In September I am off to Arvon again and look forward to finding out how to prepare songs for publication/selling. I have never wanted to be the guy standing out front, usually I have let others do that while I play bass for them, but I am happy to write for others.