mrmando
Sep-29-2004, 12:37pm
Well, my Bacorn 5-string got its public debut the other night. I had been keeping it under wraps to avoid MAS-related spousal disapprobation -- but since I've sold a couple of instruments recently, perhaps the spouse is more favorably disposed toward my having a new one. She sang with me and didn't seem to mind the new axe.
Pickup response on the Bacorn is much smoother than the other e-axe I played: my National Silvo, which tends to be hotter on the G string than the others, and is playable only with the volume knob turned all the way to the right and the tone knob cranked all the way to the left. The Bacorn's new mammoth-ivory bridge looks and sounds lovely (thanks to Kurt Gisclair of Husky Acoustics). For the record, I played it on a cover of "The Facts Don't Matter (Just the Feel)" by Tonio K. and 16 Tons of Monkeys, while the Silvo was employed on a rockabilly version of T Bone Burnett's "The Power of Love." The two e-mandos were among eight instruments I played for the gig. Here are details (http://stillion.com/martin/snip.htm) if you're really curious.
Pickup response on the Bacorn is much smoother than the other e-axe I played: my National Silvo, which tends to be hotter on the G string than the others, and is playable only with the volume knob turned all the way to the right and the tone knob cranked all the way to the left. The Bacorn's new mammoth-ivory bridge looks and sounds lovely (thanks to Kurt Gisclair of Husky Acoustics). For the record, I played it on a cover of "The Facts Don't Matter (Just the Feel)" by Tonio K. and 16 Tons of Monkeys, while the Silvo was employed on a rockabilly version of T Bone Burnett's "The Power of Love." The two e-mandos were among eight instruments I played for the gig. Here are details (http://stillion.com/martin/snip.htm) if you're really curious.