Sympathetic acoustic guitar

[sonicmojo]

Here is a cool experiment for you to try. I was just playing pretty loudly through a 2x12 cabinet and saw that my acoustic guitar that was sitting nearby was playing along with me. If I cranked an A or G note or chord, those individual strings would start to vibrate very significantly, to the point of hitting the fretboard. It didn't seem to happen as much with the other strings. There must be something about those frequencies perhaps....

[Structo]

Yes I have noticed that before as well.

But, it might not be the greatest thing for the glue joints if the speaker is putting out over 100 db.
Might rattle it apart.

[Reeltarded]

Eat eats frets, and drops braces.

[Gibsonman63]

I have always been afraid that it would rattle the braces loose.

I have heard that some double-neck guitars can give sympathetic resonance when both necks are active, but I have never owned a double-neck.

If you want fun infinate sustain studio trickery, stand your guitar on your speaker cabinet on the strap pin and play. Wanna play bass without an amp, stand it on the edge of an old porcelin bath tub.

[surfsup]

even more fun with a bass guitar! (and still plugged into its own amp)!

I was doing this and before I realized it was the bass resonating through my 2x12 bass cab, I thought Obama and all his henchmen were landing their helicopters on my roof! My neighbors are so proud of me to be on a first name bassis (bassis, get it?) with BruthaB.

[Reeltarded]

The doubleneck thing only works if you open tune the twelve, otherwise it just sounds like the vocalist can't play so good. lmao

(keeps giving the vocalist bad looks)

This idea made it's written debut in Guitar Player magazine about.. 1974? 5? John Mclaughlin about the Bogue on Mahavishnu. but Roger Fischer used it in a much cooler way.

[Firestorm]

That's an old trick for breaking in a new acoustic. Also a recording technique where you put an open-tuned piezo equipped acoustic in a room with a main mix speaker and record the output to its own track. Gives sort of s synthy-feel, tuned ambiance.

[LeftyStrat]

Ages ago I got an old upright piano as part of a trade. Once I got it home I realized it was beyond being salvaged.

One winter, we ran out of heating oil in the middle of a snow storm. We started dismantling it and chopping it up to burn in the fireplace.

We got all the way down to the soundboard and strings, and left it leaning against the wall. The room took on a new quality of reverberation, it would ring in sympathy to about anything. It would freak my dogs out every time they barked.

I always wanted to stick some piezo's on it and record it in front of an amp. Though I imagine it might be possible to do something similar in a digital effect.