Dan Erlewine's: Maintenance & Setup for Steel-string Acoustic Guitars - Vol. 2

DVD5 in ISO-image | English | VIDEO_TS | 720 x 480 | MPEG2 ~4000 Kbps | 29.970 fps

AC-3 | 224 Kbps | 48.0 KHz | 2 channels | ~2 hours | 3.88 GB

Genre: eLearning Video / Guitar lesson

Maintenance & Setup for Steel-string Acoustic Guitars Vol. 2 "If acoustic setup makes you nervous, this DVD will give you the information and confidence you need." -- Dan The focus of this DVD: Evaluating the condition of your acoustic or resophonic guitar, and getting the most out of it.

Information covered

Flattop Acoustic Guitars (cont.):

Modern acoustic/electric amplification, effects, sound equipment and guitar setup featuring Bill Dutcher

Cleaning a dirty guitar

A "microbuilder's" approach to setting up new guitars (with Bryan Galloup)

Archtop Setup:

Setting up a 1957 Gibson L-5 archtop jazz guitar

Fitting an archtop bridge

National and other brands of metal-bodied guitars:

Disassembly, cleanup, and reassembly

Getting the proper down-pressure on the cone

Shaping the saddle

Custom tone options

Common action settings

Wood-bodied resophonics:

(Guitars played on your lap, Dobro-style, with a high nut and saddle)

Disassembly, cleanup, and reassembly

Seating the cone in the well

Fitting the spider bridge to the cone

Cutting the bridge saddle

Common action settings

Pro setups:

Understand the setups of these professional players, and hear the results

Modern acoustic/electric amplification, effects, sound equipment and guitar setup featuring Bill Dutcher

Bluegrass guitar setups with Todd Sams

Playing a metal resophonic finger-style (no slide) with Del Rey - the "Memphis Minnie" of the new millennium. Del understands her setup, and describes it well

"Lap-steel" setup with Kelly Joe Phelps: a new approach to playing slide on a flattop guitar set up for slide (different than the Dobro)

Preferred setup for for "big band" chord backup with Bob Montalto