This piece is dedicated to my latest guitar, a copy of the Vox Phantom by Revelation Guitars.
This guitar shape has haunted my dreams for many years.
I now have her in my arms, and she does indeed appear on this track.
One thing, the Phantom has a typical 60's style british neck - i.e., slow - bound edges, thick profile - cambered so that bends aren't too great. The neck makes it more of a rhythm guitar, which is more how it was used. But Revelation, by putting the Jazzmaster trem on have put the guitar in the avant garde area - it really would make a good faux prepared guitar. But, as a [sometime] painter, I am in love with the shape. But last night I was trying to find a slide sound - I couldn't get it on the Phantom, the Strat or the SG. I only found it on the Revalation lap steel. Hell, I don't know how I only got by with one guitar for so many years.
nice bass sound!
- as I said elsewhere, it was originally going to be a bass feature, but then I got the Phantom. It's my Squier active Jazz bass. I double tracked it, so the original stereo track has full bass; the double track is mono with treble boost to bring out all the twang and rattle. My favourite electric bass sounds have that twang to them, but with plenty of bottom
great passage, as the vocal guitar sound yielded for a moment to that glassine percussive bit
- the vocal guitar sound here is strange; - has almost a brown shadow sound - and so I pulled it back so it didn't mask the glassine Phantom. If I took Furtkamp's advice I might have put some filter on it to make it less opaque
Harpies!
That's the Phantom guitar, double tracked at close intervals
Another joyously invested 10 minutes of earhole stimulus, Bill
Guitar sounds as if it's rent asunder then re-forms..very cool
Violence and mystery mastery :)
Astral sounds, Bill, spiralling and tumbling into the void here
- quite pleased with that passage
A refreshing journey; vertigo from a sinus infection did not hurt it!
The bass is also very right, floating in and out.
Yeah - The track was really made for the bass, and I tried to get a sound with some roundness and rasp combined. I regretted slightly putting all the other sounds on as the bass become less prominent ... might be another EQ issue I need to look at
Put a high pass filter on everything else choking the low register out, should make the bass fly. Hit the bass with a fake 670, done. :)
Thanks - I'm always worried that a high pass filter might kill other sounds - but you're right BTW - a fake 670?
: A Fairchild 670 compressor - the originals are stupid, stupid expensive (even the hardware clones start at a couple grand). The plugins get 98% of it or better. It's a particular voice that just works with electric instruments individually, or in a master.
Sounds good; the guitar lives up to its name. Always been fascinated by that model and the Teardrop, but even copies aren't common here.
Yeah - I have read that there is a maker in the States who has been taken to court for using the Phantom shape. My copy is fairly cheap but good value, made by a British company [I think] called Revelation. My lap steel is made by them and I liked the pick up made by Alan Entwistle. So when I saw they made a white Phantom with Entwistle single coils I had to have it. What's nice about this is that it has a Jazzmaster type trem, so while it only goes down about a minor third, you have plenty of behind the bridge string to ping, and it is really picked up loud by the single coils. Like the lap steel pups, they're a bit noisy, but I can live with buzz when you have strong single coil sounds. The Phantom shape says everything to me about the dark mysterious underworld of alternative guitar sounds
Love the meandering bass in there.
Yeah - the bass really was the main part of the track - it was like a long bass solo played on my Squier Jazz bass. But when I got the Phantom guitar I loaded more sounds on - so I am pleased that you could still dig the bass.
Intriguing sounds, Bill. Was it a Vox Phantom that Brian Jones used to play? I seem to remember that there was a Vox Organ guitar too.
Brian Jones played the other model, the Teardrop - looked a little like a lute. The most well known use of the Phantom was Ian Curtis of Joy Division. He had one with the organ stops on it [from the Vox Continental]. The Phantom appeared first around 1963 and became associated with the British Invasion, although I can't think of any 'name' guitarists who used one. Jimmy Page used a 12 string one in the early Led Zep days, I think. The shape fascinates me - it was an attempt to out futurist the Strat, I think. But the Strat shape has become so ubiquitous; whereas the Phantom hasn't. You might like to try one as they don't lend themselves to blues!
The thrusting guitar!!!
: that's slide, of course. I'm addicted to using slide - it just gives more attack and flexibility
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Sabres, bells... excellent drums!
the bell like sounds are the Phantom guitar, which is my current obsession. Thanks for the comment on the drums - I'm always trying to make the drum machine sound like drums and less like a machine! Yes, there are swords here too ....
HA! The Phanton sounds excellent!
Yeah!! You have to get one David - it's a garage guitar too!
