my electric cittern

[Lafslife]

beautiful  k

[Koshch1]

Вось ён, інструмант маёй мары!!! Электра - ЦЫЫЫЫЫЫЫЫЫЫСтра! )))

[yongadog]

Would love to hear Peter Buck rip on one of these since he also plays an electric bouzouki. Godspeed on you mission.

[FutureMillennium]

Beautiful acoustic sound and great electric sound! Good job!

[magocacana]

i love it!!

[oceangipsy71]

2 IDIOTS WATCHED THIS VIDEO TOO

[venomalus]

emg 89 in the celtic instrument? :D nice combination :P

[MeyerFilms]

Damn. You've got some skills.

I always wanted to mix traditional irish music and metal...

[renatovcortereal]

*****

[cymaticmelon]

thanks again for all the nice comments, more to listen to at feorin(dot)com

Cheers,

Bill

[gitarcla]

Great!



[babywhaler]

absolutely fantastic!! We want to hear more

[PapaBare100]

that was freaking awesome! Thank you so much for sharing 

[toodance]

-and you are certainly gifted at manifesting.

yep. a prodigious manifestor. warms my soul : )



[toodance]

more WOW!!

[williamthomaspenn]

have you thought about getting a patent and marketing to a larger luthier company?

[cymaticmelon]

@williamthomaspenn - yes but haven't got as far as approaching luthiers yet - I'm designing another model that would be better suited to production...

[Jenxxie]

Thats awesome. Fantastic

[oceangipsy71]

bravo, bravo, bravo! Great project, great sound and grat player. i am an italian electric mandolins & citterns builder, this one sounds astonishing. Is an A grade instrument, for sure. Can u tell us which kind of effects you have used in this track?

best regards

[cymaticmelon]

@oceangipsy71 - glad you like it! I plugged the cittern into my PC soundcard and recorded it into sonar home studio - I used sonar's own reverb and for the second part of the tune with the humbucker I used the demo version of Studio Devil amp simulator, and a free vst delay called KarmaFX Deelay

[oceangipsy71]

@cymaticmelon

thank you. A great project, great sound too... You should build some instruments for sale!

Best, best regards

[cairn34]

Where can i buy this instrumen?

[Demoras]

He made it himself :)

[mmarisic]

It looks beautiful! The music is really cool!

[fikealox]

Epic!

[andrex1746]

i'm impressed! A perfect blend of traditional and modern instruments, well designed and well built!

[FreudianLemur]

Wow! I've been hatching plans to make a 10 string electric bouzouki (which I would tune CGDAE) and this video is really inspiring. I guess you could call my 10 string bouzouki a cittern, but I was under the impression citterns were a little shorter scale.

[Zayk54]

I know you! Your jesus christ!, You, have inspired me to make, the electric Guitarron, which by the way is a spanish insurment, that is fucking, HUGE....and i'mm talking 30" by 40, at its largest points, made into a square :P

[Zayk54]

i think...

[ZenDuex]

this is amazing! I have been looking for some music like this for some time is there a site, or a store i can order music like this from?

Thanks and again awesome

[yoyotimmy]

Badass! I've wished something like that existed for a few years.

[mokuso666]

Man you have hit the nail bang square on the head with that wonderful instrument! Ive been away from playing guitar for awhile now and was just thinking about getting back into it and maybe getting a new guitar... SCRAP THAT IDEA!! i think il look into making something along your lines! The tone of the clear, the clarity of the distortion! its wonderful! you rock! :D

[fiernocht]

such an awesome sound. I have to say I have fallen in love with your cittern.

[clarepiper]

WOW!!!...you got skills.

What are your string guages?.....i tore apart an old washburn, and am currently making a body so i can convert it to a zouk.

again.....WOW!

[cymaticmelon]

thanks :-)

the strings are 9, 13, 18 plains and 28 and 38 flatwounds all in unison pairs.

[KHooves]

Far out!

[davaeron666]

The world needs to know about this...

seriously

[craven88]

holy friggin rawk my socks off... please, please, oh puh-leeeeeeeze can you make me one with a floyd rose tremolo?

[cymaticmelon]

funnily enough I did think about a Floyd Rose - I also thought about a Steinberger bridge - sadly it's a case of 6 strings only (or a rare 12 string unit if you can find one) - nothing for 10 strings :-(  I did briefly consider making one from scratch but decided against it very quickly ;-)

[Genjimaru]

Okay, that thing is just AWESOME. What a sound, I love it! Great work.

[cymaticmelon]

just want to say thank you for the comments - much appreciated. 

I've just got myself a webcam so will hopefully get some videos of me playing the cittern up here soon.

cheers,

Bill

[Sanchito609]

really cool instrument,

dude where i can download that song!? amazing irish sound i think !!

[Belizzaire]

That was kickin' ass and taking names!

I'm learning to play an Irish bouzouki... I hope to be able to play it one day like you've played your cittern. Wow!

[probrewer]

Righteous! I would enjoy seeing a ripping arse Celtic Rock band with you on lead CITTERN!

[germangeek]

Dude, this is so bad ass! I love your sound!

Do you have any other records of your cittern?

[Samoriah]

*bows down and worships*

[penguinrancher]

thats pretty much the tits.

[Demoras]

Wow, that is really cool. I love the sound of that thing, especially the acoustic part. Not that the electric part sounds bad (in fact, it sounds awesome!), I'm just an acoustic guitar player ;)

But hey, is the sound from the acoustic part coming right from the piëzo pickup? If so, that sure is a great piëzo pickup! :o I want a pickup like that on my Takamine :o I wonder if EMG has them in the 'split bridge' variety...

[cymaticmelon]

thanks :-)

the acoustic sound was around 80% piezo and 20% single coil - I have since found that more piezo and less s/c makes a sweeter sound still if you back the volume off a bit. I'm really happy with the pickups-they're the absolute dog's bollocks for this - don't know how they'd be for an acoustic though. I know someone with a takamine that's got a fishman stereo undersaddle piezo and the internal condenser mic system - it sounds incredible!

[Demoras]

Ahh I see. Interesting.

I've been thinking about installing a Fishman system, maybe something that combines a good under-the-saddle piëzo pickup and a soundhole pickup.

I'm not too sure about microphones. They give you a great sound, but they're also kind of prone to feedback.

[LilGunman]

That was so bad ass.

[asaultman67]

Bad ass O_o ...

[lafferlg]

great job. sounds great.

[oxiigen]

This sounds great! But do you have any better photos, video even better!?

[cymaticmelon]

yeah, the pics are pretty poor - the joys of cellphone cameras! Some proper videos are in the pipeline though :-)

[arielstorm23]

Great job! Looks fantastic and sounds like a blast to play.

[nohomatt]

Sounds Awesome! Where did you get the bridge?

[cymaticmelon]

made it from Milliput 2-pack epoxy putty, and made the saddle slot by covering the saddle in clingfilm and pressing it into the putty-hey presto, perfect saddle slot and no routing. Then I painted it satin black and waxed it.

[generalstoaschicken]

Very nice! Sounds like a fun journey.