Kelly Joe Phelps and Guild

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Hey, Coastie!!!! Nice to hear from you. Happy New Year.

This is some nice playing, but something about the recording.... Are you guys hearing the bass strings at all? I see him striking them in the viddie but don't hear it. I wonder if that's his pickup or what? Could be my system. (?)
 

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Chazmo, it works fine on my computer...

Thanks Coastie for this video : I didn't know much about Kelly Joe Phelps before seeing this video...I like his style and playing, and it's good to see him play (first time I see what he looks like)...
What's that guitar he has ? A D-something obviously, but what number...Sounds good !

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Hello

Really nice player. My sound system is very HiFi - the first song he played - low strings were quite faint except at places like the end - about 1:30 - where he plays the final line.

When I turn volume up the low notes come out better, but even then they should be a bit louder. Of course that's only my opinion.

As if his thumb were softer than other fingers. Maybe he does that on purpose.

Joy to listen.
 

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Chazmo, it works fine on my computer...

Thanks Coastie for this video : I didn't know much about Kelly Joe Phelps before seeing this video...I like his style and playing, and it's good to see him play (first time I see what he looks like)...
What's that guitar he has ? A D-something obviously, but what number...Sounds good !

Berne

Hey, Bernie, that's a good question about the model of his guitar. This is probably a "Gruhn-era" guitar, with the snakehead Chesterfield headstock... The abalone rosette is interesting because I don't recall seeing that outside the D-55 (which this isn't, of course)...
 

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[ . . . ] low strings were quite faint except at places like the end - about 1:30 - where he plays the final line.

When I turn volume up the low notes come out better, but even then they should be a bit louder. Of course that's only my opinion.

As if his thumb were softer than other fingers. Maybe he does that on purpose.

Joy to listen.
Yeah, I think that's what I meant, Nuuska. It was really the first thing I noticed. You're right, they're audible at the end of that lick at 1:30... I think you're probably right that it's intentional... Soft thumb picking is probably the reason.
 

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What's that guitar he has ?
It's a Westerly made DV-52ABHG from the 90ies with a Seymour Duncan Mag Mic (EDIT: It's a Sunrise pickup, not the SD Mag Mic as Hans corrected me!) in the soundhole. The strings are D’Addario 80/20 mediums. He uses a Shubb capo.

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That top looks just like my DV52. Mine doesn't have ABHG included. Notice the missing TRC.

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Very well, Ralph. Good to know. ABHG would be "antique burst" and "high gloss" I think.

Yes, all I have is the DV52 designation, I guess the rest is up to me?

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Hey, Coastie!!!! Nice to hear from you. Happy New Year.

This is some nice playing, but something about the recording.... Are you guys hearing the bass strings at all? I see him striking them in the viddie but don't hear it. I wonder if that's his pickup or what? Could be my system. (?)

Thanks Chaz, and very warm New Year wishes to all.

Here's a video of KJP that I posted a year or three ago. Many won't have seen it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aSCeN01BFA
 

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Happy New Year Gary! I seem to remember a Kelly Joe Phelps signature model that was made in Tacoma some years back, but I can't seem to find any info on it now. Might be a geezer moment!
 

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It's a Westerly made DV-52ABHG from the 90ies with a Seymour Duncan Mag Mic in the soundhole. The strings are D’Addario 80/20 mediums. He uses a Shubb capo.

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Thanks Ralf, but you didn't say what day the strings have been put on the guitar...! (or at least what week) :fat:

Just kidding of course. That's a very precise answer : I had been watching quite a few DVs lately (mostly DV 72s and 73s), but I hadn't been able to identify a DV 52...The rather unusual colour fooled me I bet...
So thanks very much...

Chazmo (and others...) : it's quite right after all that the bass notes are a bit weak : it didn't bothered me first when I listened to the first track, but I now understand better after listening to it a 2nd time. Probably more of an aesthetic choice I'd say, but maybe the pick-up (or the guitar) is a bit under-mixed (?)... Still like it this way...

Thank you
 

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He may very well have one of those units, but that's a Sunrise pickup!
Thanks for the correction! You are correct! I should have looked better at the video, yes, only 6 pole pieces and not 12... I had read the following here: "Now, like many acoustic slide players, he uses a Sunrise pickup, but he installed a new Seymour Duncan Mag Mic, a combination of magnetic pickup and internal microphone, on his Guild". That's why on quick look it looked on the DVD like a SD Mag Mic.



Ralf, did a lot of the DV-52s have abalone rosettes?
As Volume II is still not available I can only guess the HG versions all had abalone rosettes and the satin versions came with herringbone rosettes.

Ralf
 
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