Drews Sound

I went to guitar center this weekend, and had the opportunity to pick up the grand theater series E Dash 11. This is the model that comes with the pick up.

It’s truly a beautiful instrument! It’s almost weightless, literally! The tone has a nice fat bottom, with a skewed, mid range, and nice highs. I love it!

I love the way the instrument feels, and plays. The action is set up. Great! You can bend the G string up a step, Which is not normal for an acoustic guitar. It sounds like the body is thinner than it is. Putting this guitar an alternate tuning, you have no issues!

The only thing I wish had was a cut away. You can only go so far up the neck. The pick up sounds absolutely incredible in this guitar and brings out the tonal qualities of the instrument which is not normal for a pick up in my opinion. Has a three band EQ, if I remember correctly, and the volume knob. They are set close to the neck down on the upper body of the guitar to your left.

The quarter inch plug is in the strap button where it should be, and there is a battery case right there by the plug-in that has a 9 V that is easily accessible. You don’t have to take the strings off the guitar or unscrew the back. There’s a little snap that you just click and the battery pops out.

A capo on this guitar also sounds great! No buzzing etc.. This beauty is on my wish list for one of these days.

Here’s some binaural audio from my perspective, playing the guitar acoustically.

There’s things in freaky movies that seem to go good together, rain, always goes with the odd or scary stuff.ever seen the movie joyride? This totally reminds me of a start to a scene from it. I Captured this diesel engine with Jake break this morning in the rain.

I was playing guitar last night. It was kind of a somber mood. I was playing in d a d g a d, capo’d up on 3rd fret for an hour or so. Man In The box popped in my head. I thought, how could this be different? This is what was born.

https://m.soundcloud.com/drewweber/man-in-the-box-backwoods-cover-arranged-by-drew-weber

What a beautiful venue! Such great acoustics! Captured from the front row right by the stage! I love that crowd all around me singing 🙂

In my last post regarding the hardware processer/compresser/limiter, I mentioned one of the reasons for purchase was to use it in mastering music, as I am an artist. I have to say I am pleased with the results, while, maybe being -2 DB lower than mainstream masters, it still produces loud masters, and they sound closer to the mix, being loud, than I have been able to come up with software solutions in the past. It is hard to keep the sound of the mix, for me, while obtaining loudness, without squashing the master, or, at least parts of the song. Below, you will find the ARTSCL2 Hardware Master, along with the mix, and the master from EMaster.com that is out on streaming services today, as well as a file that flips between the different versions, to help one to understand the differences without stopping to flip to the different audio files.

The mix: This is the mix, without any mastering solution at all.

Hardware Master: Here is the master from the ARTSCL2

E-Master.Com: Here is the master that is on streaming services. Though I like the volume, it is squashed, and brings out the suddle verb and delays, and is to bright between 8-16KHZ

Difference In Mix/Masters: Finally, here is an audio that flips from, the mix, to the hardware master, to the E-Master.com master, back to the Hardware Master. There is clicks intentially where the mixes transition to assist in knowing where they do so.

It will be interesting to see what other fine tunements I may bring using the hardware, and how I can profect future release masters with this hardware.