hey guys, i don't know if anyone has a weakness for cheesy electric sitar sounds besides me, but i picked up on of those rogue "coral sitar" clones for 250$ and i've got to say it rocks!
i figured i'd just take the sympathetic strings off of it and stick it on a tele, but after playing it for 2 weeks i don't know if i could do without it long enough to complete a project. granted i haven't actually RECORDED or USED it for anything yet. so i guess the usefulness question is still up in the air, but for sheer playing enjoyment this thing has definetly been worth my money.
one weird thing though, people either hate hearing it or are hypnotically attracted to it. there doesn't seem to be any inbetween. i keep waiting for my girlfriend to set it on fire when i'm asleep.
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Re: rogue electric sitar clone
Hey, cool man!
I just saw Nokie Edwards (Ventures) play a coral and it sounded awesome! Heres a pic...
I just saw Nokie Edwards (Ventures) play a coral and it sounded awesome! Heres a pic...
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i can'tbelieve he tours with real one! they feel so light i feel like if you dropped one it would smash into pieces. i'll eventually fit all the hardware onto a tele body. still wondering if the heavier wood will conduct the sympathetic vibration better or worse...
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Yeah, his needs a bit of oil on the frets. Definitley an interesting sound, I cant see using it for more than 1 or 2 songs (Nokie played 1 of thier songs written for the Japanese audience which went into 'paint it black'dain wrote: i can'tbelieve he tours with real one! they feel so light i feel like if you dropped one it would smash into pieces. i'll eventually fit all the hardware onto a tele body. still wondering if the heavier wood will conduct the sympathetic vibration better or worse...
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i thought it would be a limited use thing too, but i've been playing around with layering it in with heavier distorted dropped D pieces i've been working on, and its a really interesting effect just having it in a subliminal capacity. when layered underneath a heavy power chord kinda thing it gives the whole track a quality that you can't quite place. plus tuning down the sympathetics can give you a really unidentifiable reverb sound, kinda like a resonant filter on the whole chord. i'm tempted to rig up a sustainer pickup in it, with the main strings driving the sympathetics with infinite sustain. i wonder how quickly it will get out of control...
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Re: rogue electric sitar clone
The Black Angels use one of these. It is the actual Rogue model too. There's a track called "Manipulation" where it covers the main groove. As a middle ground between an old Coral and the Rogue, Jerry Jones makes some nice ones. I haven't played them firsthand, but I do own another Jerry Jones and the quality is excellent.
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