We need to do this: Collective Blues Project

[Simon Barden]

Just pulled the original track down and put up a slightly stronger mix as a WAV file

https://soundcloud.com/suthol/dm-jam-track

Even if you post it as a WAV, Soundcloud still converts it to a 128 bps MP3 for their standard playback. However, I believe that if you upload a lossless format, it can be downloaded at a higher quality. However, Dave, you don't seem to have allowed the track to be uploaded. I can't see any upload button. You might have to play with the track setting.

I'm hearing a lot of clicks on the track. Are they on the original or is that Soundcloud's encoding adding them?

[DrNomis_44]

I just tried playing the track back and can hear some clicks and pops going on in the background too.

[dave.king1]

Thanks for the comments, I have just enabled downloading and when I play it from Soundcloud I don't hear any clicks maybe if you are playing it on your phone or something similar you are hearing the snare hits.

I also get it that Soundcloud and Youtube do their own thing to it when tracks are uploaded but at the price who is complaining.

https://soundcloud.com/suthol/dm-jam-track

Here is what a guy over on TDPRI played to that same track you have listened to
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJE_LvT7iH4

[Andy40]

But hes playing a strat!!!

I like the solo.

[DrNomis_44]

@ Andy40 He's not just playing any old Strat, he's playing a Gold one, the Strat you see in the youtube video is exactly what I'm aiming for with my Gold Strat build project except that I'm opting for a set of three white Kent Armstrong dual-blade pickups, and he's getting quite a nice tone too.

[Andy40]

@ Andy40 He's not just playing any old Strat, he's playing a Gold one, the Strat you see in the youtube video is exactly what I'm aiming for with my Gold Strat build project except that I'm opting for a set of three white Kent Armstrong dual-blade pickups, and he's getting quite a nice tone too.

I know right doc

Got a love affair with strats at the moment

[DrNomis_44]

I know right doc

Got a love affair with strats at the moment

I can totally understand and relate to that, to be honest, I'm over all the tuning-issues I've been getting with my LP Studio guitar and it's idiosyncrasies, I've been getting back into Strat-style guitars since early this year, it started off after I finished off the Hot Rod Strat build, there's something about the way the strings pass over the nut in a straight-line on the way to the tuners, rather than splaying-out at funny angles, it just feels better aesthetically to me.

[Simon Barden]

Definitely clicks on it and not snare hits, Dave. Maybe try setting your audio buffer to a larger value?

Not gold, but I saw a copper-coloured Strat in Guitar Village just over a week ago. One of Fenders very limited edition (40 made) Robbie Robertson 'The Last Waltz' Strats, with a copper-plated body. Only £13.7k/A$21.9k. You'd have to be a big fan of The Band to buy it.

https://guitarvillage.co.uk/products...ocaster-bronze

And as it's no longer in stock, someone obviously was and did!

[DrNomis_44]

Definitely clicks on it and not snare hits, Dave. Maybe try setting your audio buffer to a larger value?

Not gold, but I saw a copper-coloured Strat in Guitar Village just over a week ago. One of Fenders very limited edition (40 made) Robbie Robertson 'The Last Waltz' Strats, with a copper-plated body. Only £13.7k/A$21.9k. You'd have to be a big fan of The Band to buy it.

https://guitarvillage.co.uk/products...ocaster-bronze

And as it's no longer in stock, someone obviously was and did!

What I'd love to know is how Fender managed to dip the guitar body in molten bronze without the body being burnt to a crisp, how hot does molten bronze get?, something like about 1800 degrees C or thereabouts....the mind boggles, and apparently it is real bronze metal too.

[Simon Barden]

I'd imagine you do it very quickly! I'd have though they would have used some form of electroplating method rather than an unreliable molten dip. You can wet things and dip them in molten metal for a very short while. You can even dip a wet hand in for a second or so (I saw it proved on the TV show 'Mythbusters'). The steam produced forms a gaseous barrier that protects the surface form the heat, but then you wouldn't get any deposition.