Z6
08-24-2001, 02:51 PM
I see that plenty of developers are working on World sounds and brass and orchestras and forte pianos and clazbats and shemigs and the like, but is anyone looking at producing a high-quality classical guitar?
It seems like a glaring ommission from the repertoire. I understand that Pure Guitars have a nylon guitar, and the Zimmer vol 2 has a nylon guitar (and a weak-sounding flamenco?).
There are \'nylon guitars\' floating around all over the place - and they\'re very good, I\'m not complaining at all; but they don\'t sound like a classical guitar to me. They sound like someone with either a pick or some scratchy fingernails (or no fingernails at all) has \'plucked\' the strings.
Classical guitar \'plucking\' is not really plucking; it\'s more of a stroke across the string.
I read someone mentioning a Ramirez but I used to own a Ramirez and then a Martin Fleeson that was in a different league, but I tried a Fleta once that was just beyond belief.
How about a Fleta played by a proper classical guitarist? (There\'s no point trying to imitate it; it just won\'t sound right.)
You\'d need someone who can really play classical; someone who obsessively uses micro-abrasives on their nails to hone that perfect tone. Also, classical guitarists are so poor that it probably wouldn\'t cost you much to hire a world-renowned player (I\'d go for David Russel myself - if I knew how to do it and had the equipment - because his tone is so even.
Anyway, just a suggestion. It would be a hell of a lot easier than trying to satisfy the clamor for electric guitars (and then being criticized for not covering everything).
It seems like a glaring ommission from the repertoire. I understand that Pure Guitars have a nylon guitar, and the Zimmer vol 2 has a nylon guitar (and a weak-sounding flamenco?).
There are \'nylon guitars\' floating around all over the place - and they\'re very good, I\'m not complaining at all; but they don\'t sound like a classical guitar to me. They sound like someone with either a pick or some scratchy fingernails (or no fingernails at all) has \'plucked\' the strings.
Classical guitar \'plucking\' is not really plucking; it\'s more of a stroke across the string.
I read someone mentioning a Ramirez but I used to own a Ramirez and then a Martin Fleeson that was in a different league, but I tried a Fleta once that was just beyond belief.
How about a Fleta played by a proper classical guitarist? (There\'s no point trying to imitate it; it just won\'t sound right.)
You\'d need someone who can really play classical; someone who obsessively uses micro-abrasives on their nails to hone that perfect tone. Also, classical guitarists are so poor that it probably wouldn\'t cost you much to hire a world-renowned player (I\'d go for David Russel myself - if I knew how to do it and had the equipment - because his tone is so even.
Anyway, just a suggestion. It would be a hell of a lot easier than trying to satisfy the clamor for electric guitars (and then being criticized for not covering everything).