Ed Durbrow wrote: > Basically, there is no pluck involved in the initial attack. It's > like a hammer-on but without previously sounding a note. After that, > there may well be pulls and hammer-ons. My guess is that the guitar > is set up especially for this technique with very low action, maybe > different than usual stringing, and I don't know what else. Probably > a lot of compression is used to even out the sound.
Electric guitars usually have very low action, and there's no need to futz around with the signal. Indeed, tapping will work on a classical guitar. Celedonio Romero used to do it. Fingers pressing strings on the fretboard is the be-all and end-all of technique for The Stick, which is sort of the ultimate electric guitar. Emmet Chapman, its inventor, realized there was no real need to pluck strings on a non-acoustic instrument. You can see the ten-string, 24-fret instrument demonstrated at : http://www.stick.com To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
