I love my Martin 6 string!

It's a DX1 Dreadnought.

The mysterious "they" say it's a cheaper guitar because it's composite...but I find this thing perfect (in price and quality).

It sounded sweet in the store and it's sweet in hand.

It was $600 NEW! Well worth the Martin sound.
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HI Steve,

On Wed 2038-Apr-28 02:35, Steve Kemp (1:123/789) wrote to All:

I love my Martin 6 string!

It's a DX1 Dreadnought.

SAme model here. Love mine, great sound! Plays nice.

The mysterious "they" say it's a cheaper guitar because it's composite...but I find this thing perfect (in price and quality).

IT has held up for me well even if it is composite
construction. Granted, it's been babied though, gets moved
in a hard shell case, etc. I use Martin amrquis lights to
string it.

Usually my preferred capture technqieu for recording it is a small diaphragm condenser mic aimed at where the neck joins
the body.

Regards,
Richard
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I love my Martin 6 string!

It's a DX1 Dreadnought.

SAme model here. Love mine, great sound! Plays nice.

Really! Cool.

Yeah, it's a nice "machine".
It RANG in my ear the first time I picked it up.

The mysterious "they" say it's a cheaper guitar because it's
composite...but I find this thing perfect (in price and quality).

IT has held up for me well even if it is composite
construction.

Actually, I've heard (from no one in particular) that the composite is apt to endure for quite a while.

I see zero neck arch over the time I've had mine.

Granted, it's been babied though, gets moved
in a hard shell case, etc. I use Martin amrquis lights to
string it.

I use an Martin Acoustic SP (light) set.

Usually my preferred capture technqieu for recording it is a small diaphragm condenser mic aimed at where the neck joins
the body.

I don't record. At least much any more. I got all my junk stolen a while back. I had EVERYTHING!

It's sad.
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HI Steve,

On Sun 2038-May-02 02:45, Steve Kemp (1:123/789) wrote to Richard Webb:

SAme model here. Love mine, great sound! Plays nice.

Really! Cool.

Yeah, it's a nice "machine".
It RANG in my ear the first time I picked it up.

The mysterious "they" say it's a cheaper guitar because it's
composite...but I find this thing perfect (in price and quality).

IT has held up for me well even if it is composite
construction.

Actually, I've heard (from no one in particular) that the composite
is apt to endure for quite a while.

Yep, and iirc the neck is still a solid piece.
FUnny how I found mine. WE were out getting me a pair of
good working shoes, was my birthday. I had to run into the
local guitar center to get a couple of things, I rarely go
in those places, the din drives me crazy. I went in, just
looked around a bit, and ended up in their little guitar
room. SAw this thing sitting there, quite a bit knocked off the price of a usual Martin. I picked it up, sat down on
one of those padded benches and started to play it.

I was sort of looking for another 6 string anyway, I had an
Alvarez 12 that I'd use on recordings, but I like to record
a 6 and then a 12 doing adifferent part. Still I like the 6 as the foundation. IN 2001 when preparing to move to NEw Orleans from IOwa I'd
sold an Ovation look alike at a yard sale for $50, and that
was all it was worth. Bought it at a pawnshop for little
more than that, because I wanted something to play now and
then on a bandstand without the hassle of trying to mic it
up.
Anybody who read this echo back in the heyday can remember
that our friendly echo mod at the time said that flaming an
Ovation guitar was quite appropriate for this echo, in fact
real flames and ovation guitars were a good match <g>.
Still this thing served me for some gigging, even if I did
have to rebuild the pickups and the wiring. AS I said, sold it at a yard sale,
and had given a cheap Yamaha 6 to a buddy of mine for his kid to learn on. THis left me without a 6.

sO I"m looking at this thing, liked the price. WE put some
money down on it, and I told 'em to hold that one, guy said
he would, told him I'd be back the next day with the
balance.

gO back in, guy tells me that one was already sold to
somebody else and shouldn't have been out on display, but he had others, same model. HE brought out five or six until I
found one I liked the neck on as well as I'd liked that
first one.

Usually my preferred capture technique for recording it is a small diaphragm condenser mic aimed at where the neck joins
the body.

I don't record. At least much any more. I got all my junk stolen a
while back. I had EVERYTHING!

I do a remote truck now, lost my whole rig in the after
Katrina fire when they turned on the juice to my
neighborhood, no insurance, paying the wife's cobra and
copays instead. three Fostex hard disk machines synced,
ROland sound canvas, Alesis d-4 drum module, a Peavey bass
module for bass sounds, Hammond porta-b type organ with
midi, two port midi interface and a fairly good mic locker.

NOw I've got this remote rig, 32 chan mci console, lots of
signal processing by dbx and LExicon, JBL and Yamaha
monitors, whole nine yards.
WAnt to see it have a look at


www.gatasound.com

It's sad.

Yah sure would be. I miss the old rig in NEw ORleans. I
mixed to dat or Alesis master link, used to do some on hold
music, voice-overs, all sorts of stuff, none of them big
money projects, but at times I'd be quite busy.
Feast or famine business. THe gigs in N.O. the quarter etc. kept me going though even when it got lean.


Regards,
Richard
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Anybody who read this echo back in the heyday can remember
that our friendly echo mod at the time said that flaming an
Ovation guitar was quite appropriate for this echo, in fact
real flames and ovation guitars were a good match <g>.

Hee!!!


Trying to replace my stolen Takamine 12 string on the fly,
I had an Ovation 12 FOR A SECOND! It blew donkey!

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HI Steve,

Anybody who read this echo back in the heyday can remember
that our friendly echo mod at the time said that flaming an
Ovation guitar was quite appropriate for this echo, in fact
real flames and ovation guitars were a good match <g>.

Trying to replace my stolen Takamine 12 string on the fly,
I had an Ovation 12 FOR A SECOND! It blew donkey!

I know, the plastic body sounds funky, the round back makes
it awkward as hell if you try to sit and play it.

THe whole point of the Ovation was the pickups, and if it
didn't have supposedly that round back heped it project
better.
AS I said, the one I had came from a pawnshop, and I bought
it just because it had pickups I could use when playing with some of these bar bands that were always asking me to "sit
in for a set."

Regards,
Richard
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On 5/5/2010 10:47 AM, Richard Webb -> Steve Kemp wrote:

HI Steve,

Anybody who read this echo back in the heyday can remember
that our friendly echo mod at the time said that flaming an
Ovation guitar was quite appropriate for this echo, in fact
real flames and ovation guitars were a good match <g>.

Trying to replace my stolen Takamine 12 string on the fly,
I had an Ovation 12 FOR A SECOND! It blew donkey!

I know, the plastic body sounds funky, the round back makes
it awkward as hell if you try to sit and play it.

THe whole point of the Ovation was the pickups, and if it
didn't have supposedly that round back heped it project
better.

It's all hype over "blow".

In a real hardcore stage setting an Ovation can be kept from feeding back, is all.

And that's the only reason I'd use one.

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HI Steve,

On Sat 2038-May-08 02:58, Steve Kemp (1:123/789) wrote to Richard Webb:

Anybody who read this echo back in the heyday can remember
that our friendly echo mod at the time said that flaming an
Ovation guitar was quite appropriate for this echo, in fact
real flames and ovation guitars were a good match <g>.

<snippety dooh dah>

THe whole point of the Ovation was the pickups, and if it
didn't have supposedly that round back heped it project
better.

It's all hype over "blow".

In a real hardcore stage setting an Ovation can be kept from feeding
back, is all.

And that's the only reason I'd use one.

YEp, and mine worked well enough for that. YEt, a friend of mine bought a nice
Martin, can't recall the pickups he had
installed in it, ah man, name ain't coming to me, but a very popular system with the little preamp, etc. I loved that
system. AT first I dreaded it when he brought it to gigs
where I was doing sound, but ah there we go, FIshman. THat
FIshman system was great. I could get him dialed in, feed
him direct to the board, let him establish his working
position (usually sitting on an inverted bucket) and eq his
monitor a bit. NIce tone. I could often suplement the
FIshman system with a sd condenser to get a little more air, especially when he
was playing sans drummer. I don't play
out in electric band situations enough to make it worth
installing such a system in my Martin though, but if I were
...


Regards,
Richard
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