{"items": [{"author": "Paul", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/10100123642231812?comment_id=10100123718523922", "anchor": "fb-10100123718523922", "service": "fb", "text": "I've been working on this for as long as I've been playing contras. (So, over 25 years.) I wanted the low E, A, and D strings of my guitar doubled down an octave, rather than a certain frequency range.
I tried: An early Boss octaver, fed by half of a Fender P-bass pickup under the bass strings. A six-string bass, with guitar-gauge G, B, and E strings. A GK pickup (one pickup for each string) into a gigantic Roland VG-8. That same GK pickup into a Boss OC-20G (smaller footprint, same effect).
The current solution is a Variax Acoustic 700. I customized one of the 12-string acoustic models to add loud bass on the E string, slightly quieter bass on the A string, and even quieter bass on the D string. Six-string chords sound good, but so do alternating and moving bass lines. Given the controls on the Variax, I can emphasize or de-emphasize the bass content to fit the room. When this guitar breaks, I'll go looking for the next solution.", "timestamp": "1574722570"}, {"author": "Kendall", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/10100123642231812?comment_id=10100123718523922&reply_comment_id=10100124617537292", "anchor": "fb-10100123718523922_10100124617537292", "service": "fb", "text": "→ A few friends of mine have tried adding a separate just-those-lowest-2-strings pickup to the soundhole of their guitars, and routing that pickup through an octave dropper. This means the guitar takes up 2 channels, but that does mean that the extra bass can be... managed, shall we say.", "timestamp": "1575165445"}, {"author": "Kendall", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/10100123642231812?comment_id=10100123718523922&reply_comment_id=10100124618066232", "anchor": "fb-10100123718523922_10100124618066232", "service": "fb", "text": "→ another of the 2-channel tactics that at least one other friend has taken is to wire up one of the Roland V-guitar pickup systems in parallel with the regular pickup. Regular pickup works for guitar sound. V-guitar pickup essentially makes the other channel ... a bit like a MIDI controller and sound module for the guitar. He uses that to great effect, mostly as a bass that reproduces the lowest note being played as a sampled/modeled/synthesized? bass sound. The other pickup is unaffected, so there's still real guitar coming through that channel.", "timestamp": "1575165645"}, {"author": "Kendall", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/10100123642231812?comment_id=10100123718523922&reply_comment_id=10100124618171022", "anchor": "fb-10100123718523922_10100124618171022", "service": "fb", "text": "→ (and then there's whatever the heck John Cote used to make his guitar sound like a harmonica... haha.)", "timestamp": "1575165744"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/10100123642231812?comment_id=10100123718523922&reply_comment_id=10100124618849662", "anchor": "fb-10100123718523922_10100124618849662", "service": "fb", "text": "→ Kendall John used a MIDI guitar to control a synthesizer; he talks about it in https://youtu.be/YsHCDbk2WY0", "timestamp": "1575166098"}, {"author": "Kendall", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/10100123642231812?comment_id=10100123718523922&reply_comment_id=10100124618994372", "anchor": "fb-10100123718523922_10100124618994372", "service": "fb", "text": "→ I figured that was the most likely scenario. just hadn't gone looking.", "timestamp": "1575166165"}, {"author": "Kendall", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/10100123642231812?comment_id=10100123718523922&reply_comment_id=10100126673402322", "anchor": "fb-10100123718523922_10100126673402322", "service": "fb", "text": "→ randomly, there is a video of some Irish acquaintances of mine, the band We Banjo 3, discussing various aspects of what each of them do. David Howley, the guitar player, goes first, and discusses his particular solution to this topic. (I also found the rest of the video interesting, but I can play none of the other instruments, so...) https://youtu.be/ZrGVI430pi0", "timestamp": "1576135232"}, {"author": "Bethany", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/10100123642231812?comment_id=10100124628195932", "anchor": "fb-10100124628195932", "service": "fb", "text": "noice. i'm going to strive for more \"counter-example\" credits. call me old fashioned, but don't really want to hear sounds attached to instruments that aren't present :)", "timestamp": "1575170666"}, {"author": "Tony", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/10100123642231812?comment_id=10100124752706412", "anchor": "fb-10100124752706412", "service": "fb", "text": "I don't want to rain on anybody's parade, but please keep in mind that sustained electronic low notes give some people headaches. Ten minutes of same is enough to drive me out of the hall.", "timestamp": "1575250611"}]}