Main Forums => Technique & Playing => Topic started by: Paraclete on August 10, 2021, 01:39:49 AM

Title: L-31 and Ramirez 4E
Post by: Paraclete on August 10, 2021, 01:39:49 AM
As promised, here's a sound sample of both the L-31 (first half of video) and Ramirez 4E.  It's a crappy ambient sound video (so you can also hear the fan and the clock and the traffic), and the angle is a bit weird, which makes my left arm look kind of detached.  :laughin: Still does not really do justice to the sound on either guitar, but here's some notables:  L-31 (spruce/rosewood) is drier and woodier with fewer overtones.  It is quieter with a smaller dynamic range, possible due to the shorter resonance and/or the low action on the neck.  But it has a pleasing and well-balanced sound.  Ramirez (cedar/rosewood) is darker and thicker with long resonance and more overtones.  Possibly the truer sound comes through on the video when I play harder...the dynamic range is a lot wider and does not seem to pick up well on the video (it was my iPhone 8, so....). Both guitars, especially the Ramirez, sound more articulate in person.  I love both..they are complementary to each other. Excerpt is Air for the G string by JS Bach, arr. by Per-Olov Kindgren

Two classicals (https://rumble.com/vkxp1u-two-classicals.html)
Title: Re: L-31 and Ramirez 4E
Post by: ST on August 10, 2021, 03:43:31 PM
Hi, Paraclete.

Thank you for the video. I enjoyed your playing, the guitars and your descriptions of what you hear as you are playing them.
Title: Re: L-31 and Ramirez 4E
Post by: mike in lytle on August 10, 2021, 07:50:48 PM
Thanks for that. Very nice.
I really enjoyed seeing you play.
And I was totally unaware of any ticking, traffic.....
Mike
Title: Re: L-31 and Ramirez 4E
Post by: noyage on August 29, 2021, 04:19:28 PM
Really enjoyed that comparison Paraclete. That one long reach near the beginning - I felt that!