Well I did some highly objective experimentation this evening, and took the apparatus off and played against the wall. To my ears right now it seems that the device does boost volume and sustain, in the same way that a tone ring will do for a banjo - i.e. lots of ring. What is clear is that playing fast and tremolo sound loads better without the thing as long as I do it right - much more definition: the tone gard also is forgiving of imprecisions and fills in the gaps if you hit a duff note. So I think the thing helped me get from really useless tone, to half decent tone, but now I think I need to take it off and make sure I get really good tone...
Actually I can see the apparatus being much more useful if you play tricky jazzy stufff up and down the neck and need to have the mando really stable against your enormous gut. It seems to me now that if you want to go for Monroe stuff, it's better to skip it. bla bla bla On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Mike Romkey <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm with the over-the-right-shoulder faction. I tried that with my > guitar at a gig the other night and discovered to my horror that my > left arm was sudden about 6 inches too short! I don't have a tone > guard, but I keep thinking about getting one. My abs? A couple of > pints of Guinness but it's about time to trim down summer. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Taterbugmando" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
