For all the tone chasers out there

[charjo]

Geoff, this might be for you.
John

[Jean-Michel G]

LOL!
I don’t think this will work if your guitar doesn’t have piezo pickups, though. And you’ll have to find ball-ended nylon strings, which are not so common!

[charjo]

Very good points, JM! I see one theory is you’re just hearing the natural sound of the nylon strings amplified through the mic and post processing.
John

[Jean-Michel G]

Yes, I wondered if that condenser mic was there for a reason or just for the show. I find the sound suspiciously loud and clean, to be honest. But you may be right.

[Billy]

There is no magnetic pull between the pickups and nylon strings, So JM is correct imho to suggest that a piezo pickup has been used.
He has probably mic’d the amp cos isn’t that what all the purists do?..hahaha

..Billy..

[charjo]

So, apparently there’s a thing called an optical pick up that uses light to pick up the vibration from the strings.
John

[San Luis Rey]

Now I can mic the Ukulele!

Mike

[Vorocnan]

From a tone point steel strings sound much brighter to me than nylon strings and cut through better in a mix.
From the video below they say new nylon can take up to week to stretch and stay in tune but once stretched can last about a year, have less tension than steel so are easier to bend and fret the likes of barre chords so may suit some older players on AM.
Willie Nelson and Trigger played nylon but Trigger was falling apart maybe nylon was kinder to Trigger. I doubt slide guitar would work with nylon especially that resonator tone.

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