guitar slides?
guitar slides?
hey, im buying a guitar slide. i just don't know whether to buy a glass one or a metal one. can someone tell me the difference?
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Yes, you do. Steel has a twangy sound. Plexiglass(or plastic, whichever you prefer to call it) has a mellow deepened sound and glass has a bright sound.jsgksu wrote:you dont get a different sound out of different materials? I would assume you would and thats also what Ive heard, but I could be wrong.
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metal has a twang to it. a little more clarity. steel is twangier than brass. but not much.
glass and plexiglass behave nearly the same, and they have a warmer tone. but even the plexiglass can break. it just doesn't shatter, but cracks in half (i found out the hard way).
also a thicker slide will sustain longer, but a thin one will give you more speed.
I currently use a short brass pipe (kinda my own idea after seeing what GC was charging, though i've found other who've done this) and an 11/16" steel socket (like Sonny Landreth, Lowell George, David Bromberg, etc. it's actually quite common, so not my idea).
I bought a section of brass pipe cut to length (they actually won't give you a weird look when they cut the short little peice cuz they know exactly what you are doing) and polish it up. The brass slide is pretty warm and fast. glass is too light to get a good weight and still have enought twang/treble. i use this for slide solos and since it is light i can lift my pinky up and still have 3 fingers to make chords with fairly easily.
the socket is pretty thickwalled so it is slower but i use it on slower songs to control my slides and it sustains forever! (a thin walled one will play faster like my brass one) i play pretty deliberate with this slide. so long slow slides to specific notes and often have the peice written before hand. if i try to lift it up and play 3 finger chords, it is heavy enough that i slam it back on the fret board when i try to use my pinky again, so i usually avoid making chords when playing with this slide. plus it's only 2 bucks at sears when a guitar store is gonna charge you 10 bucks.
my recommendation is to go metal (obviously) and you can get a good idea about what you want by going to a hardware store. Basically, it's cooler if you make it yourself (and about 75% cheaper) . Homemade is always better!
glass and plexiglass behave nearly the same, and they have a warmer tone. but even the plexiglass can break. it just doesn't shatter, but cracks in half (i found out the hard way).
also a thicker slide will sustain longer, but a thin one will give you more speed.
I currently use a short brass pipe (kinda my own idea after seeing what GC was charging, though i've found other who've done this) and an 11/16" steel socket (like Sonny Landreth, Lowell George, David Bromberg, etc. it's actually quite common, so not my idea).
I bought a section of brass pipe cut to length (they actually won't give you a weird look when they cut the short little peice cuz they know exactly what you are doing) and polish it up. The brass slide is pretty warm and fast. glass is too light to get a good weight and still have enought twang/treble. i use this for slide solos and since it is light i can lift my pinky up and still have 3 fingers to make chords with fairly easily.
the socket is pretty thickwalled so it is slower but i use it on slower songs to control my slides and it sustains forever! (a thin walled one will play faster like my brass one) i play pretty deliberate with this slide. so long slow slides to specific notes and often have the peice written before hand. if i try to lift it up and play 3 finger chords, it is heavy enough that i slam it back on the fret board when i try to use my pinky again, so i usually avoid making chords when playing with this slide. plus it's only 2 bucks at sears when a guitar store is gonna charge you 10 bucks.
my recommendation is to go metal (obviously) and you can get a good idea about what you want by going to a hardware store. Basically, it's cooler if you make it yourself (and about 75% cheaper) . Homemade is always better!
"Not having to" ?!?!crash_in_to_me wrote:same here
worth not having to make it myself
my point was that you CAN make one. and it's pretty easy. or if you go with a socket, there is no modifications at all! and it's just a bonus that it's cheaper. plus sears is so much cooler than dunlop. it's like those old blues players that actually take old bottles and break off the necks to play. so much cooler than buying a peice of glass from GC.
<Crazy Tangent> i'm going to make my own Octave/Fuzz effect but after you add up all the parts, it's actually more expensive than buying one cuz the big guys get a volume discount that i'm not going to get when all i want is 3 transistors. i know my guitar and my effects. It's a lot more fun to actually know exactly how your guitar works than just buy stuff off the rack all the time. </Crazy Tangent>
really? like what do you like, cuz they are faster. they just feel so dainty to me. What do you like about the glass ones being lighter that i'm missing, cuz i have 3 glass ones (well only 2 that are actually usable) that i hate but if i can find a reason to like them...Davy28 wrote:I like glass ones because they are lighter.
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