I got an interesting email from the people at Fesley. They actually asked my opinion on some new models they're coming out with. This almost never happens to me and it's something I've talked bout before. Why do more companies not simply ask the opinions of those people who their guitars are meant to please before they make the mistake of building stuff no one will buy? To their credit, Fesley did what no American company has ever done, at least not with me. Check this out...
"Fesley has a great news to share with you! Fesley is developing new guitars! The Fesley FDK1000 and Fesley FTC800 will be born soon!
The Fesley team sincerely invites you to participate in the research and development of Fesley guitars. We will definitely consider and adopt your professional suggestions and ideas, and hope that we can be together all the way from research and development to production and promotion! We will be very grateful if you are willing to provide the team with valuable professional advice during the development phase of Fesley guitars!
Please review attached the Specification for the Fesley FDK1000 and Fesley FTC800. Thank you!
The Fesley team would be very interested in hearing your thoughts on the following questions and look forward to receiving your valuable suggestions and ideas!
1. Do you like the design of these two guitars? Would you like to do a review of this guitar?
2. Do you think this design will be popular? What are some configuration or design suggestions?
3. What colors are suggested? What is the suggested selling price?
4. Have you heard of BOCCHI THE ROCK? What do you think?
Jacqueline from Fesley
I'll put my response and a PDF of the other model in another post.
This was the full jam session on the Gibson L1 I did recently. As you probably know, I usually will jam for a while on something and then pick a few highlights to show in a final video. A ton of stuff got edited out. It's not all great, but it's not all bad either. I find it kind of soothing, this quiet acoustic stuff. I'm never sure where the mood will take me.
I made this quick video the other day for a friend and figured I'd post it here as well. He wants to get started in slide, so I was quickly showing him some open tuning concepts to make the transition to slide a bit easier. Kind of like learning slide without a slide.
I'm in the process of creating the demo for an upcoming video on a 1974 Fender Twin Reverb. This is the point where I'm editing the video and audio layers all together with green screening. The studio-captured audio is not added yet. This is just a rough video mix with the RAW camera guide audio for the drums and guitar ONLY! So this is what the drums and rhythm guitar are sounding like in the room by themselves with no close miking and no post processing (other than a bit of compression and EQ). I am actually kind of shocked how good this is sounding even though one of the camera mics (the one for the drums) is from a DJI Action Cam and the other (for the guitar) is a Panasonic camcorder mic. Usually when making this kind of demo, the raw camera mic audio acts as a guide when lining up video clips on the editing timeline and then gets deleted from the final timeline before publishing. In some cases, I will even mix in a hint of the raw camera microphones with the studio mix to give ...
This chick found the first electric piano, one of only 3 in existence, designed and built by Lloyd Loar in the late 1920s or early 1930s. Yes, THAT Lloyd Loar! So cool. There are still treasures out there guys. You just have to look.
This is my upcoming video, which should go live for everyone else on Saturday, but you guys on Locals get it early! I will be doing this more often for you guys. This will give you a chance to get stuff before they put the prices up also, which these companies do every time I post a video.
Oh and if you think you might want one of these little amps, you should probably grab one before they're gone. I don't think they'll last long once the video goes live. I can't tell everyone this, but this same amp comes under multiple brands. The Melonare sells for $65. But this one with a different brand sells for $30, although they don't have the drum machine built in like the Melonare does. https://amzn.to/4oAT7Ui
