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Musicwolf

New Silent Guitar Day

Yamaha SLG200S used from Sound Affects.  I've been looking at these for a while but couldn't justify the cost of a new one.  This came up and I thought that I'd regret it if I didn't grab it.  New set of strings and it should be good to go.

The silent part is because I've haven't told my wife that I've bought it

DiscoStu

That's great, I've fancied one for years.

Boromedic

I've always fancied trying one of these, how quiet is it?!

tony99

I like the fact that when performing you can reach down as though to adjust the tone control or something and then next thing your hand just goes straight through the guitar to scratch your bollocks

Musicwolf

Boromedic said:

I've always fancied trying one of these, how quiet is it?!

Maybe just a tiny bit louder than an unplugged solidbody guitar, but not much.  The initial plan was to use it on the odd number live but then I realised that part of the reason why I don't play the acoustic much at home is because I tend to do my practicing first thing in the morning, whilst the family are still in bed, and a conventional acoustic is too loud.  I can now see myself using it on recordings from time to time and certainly great for writing.

Musicwolf

tony99 said:

I like the fact that when performing you can reach down as though to adjust the tone control or something and then next thing your hand just goes straight through the guitar to scratch your bollocks

genius

Redlester

So is it basically an acoustic guitar that you amplify? 

I saw Steve Winwood years ago and his guitarist was playing what must have been one of these. I was standing halfway back at the Shepherd's Bush Empire, and if you blinked you'd swear the man was just standing there playing air guitar.  

Boromedic

Musicwolf said:

Boromedic said:

I've always fancied trying one of these, how quiet is it?!

Maybe just a tiny bit louder than an unplugged solidbody guitar, but not much.  The initial plan was to use it on the odd number live but then I realised that part of the reason why I don't play the acoustic much at home is because I tend to do my practicing first thing in the morning, whilst the family are still in bed, and a conventional acoustic is too loud.  I can now see myself using it on recordings from time to time and certainly great for writing.

Cool, thanks for that mate. Meant to try one at the Guitar Show but it's always hard to judge there due to background noise. Might have to give one a whirl.

Musicwolf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kANP9OgwpMY

Strangefan

Love that, sound great in that video, and looks cool as well. 

merciful-evans

I got a nylon string one years back. Really handy for recording. So much easier than a regular Spanish classical.