Sedgwick's Sympathetic Strings

This custom instrument I made back in 2010. It has an extra 12 sympathetic strings that add a natural reverb to the guitar sound. The regular little bridge can be replaced with a sitar jawari style bridge. This video is best heard through headphones. Special thanks to Fred Carlson for being an inspiration.

Stephen Sedgwick
www.stephensedgwick.co.uk

The microphones I used were an AT2035 and a AT2031. For talking I used a Lavalier LM-09. The guitar has a custom stereo K&K pickup and a K&K Dual Channel Pro ST preamp. Recorded on a Zoom R16.

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[jakebleh]

Are the Sympathetics being amplified with a pickup in this video? and if so, how prominent are they just playing acoustically?

it has a great sound and a awesome headstock!

[Robot247]

Thanks for the kind words. I did want to demonstrate the instrument with just mics and then with just the pickup because you can pan the guitar and syms differently with the pickup, which you can't do with mics. But the video would be too long and boring. I will try and do it in another video. The syms sound good and record very well without the pickup. For this vid there is slightly more pickup on the syms than mic, which is panned to the middle.

[SuperBenzid]

Thank you I am thinking of doing this to a cheap guitar and I wanted an idea of how it would sound.

[yopoke190]

fantastic