Zappa -Touch-style

[Blackie]

There are now two videos of a performance of Frank Zappas' music, recorded last fall with a trio, at my personal website:
http://www.home.earthlink.net/~mrjwright
This is on a Warr PH-12, and triggering a guitar synth, which is very obvious in the shorter of the two videos, a segment of "The Black Page #2". The melody begins with only guitar, and then the synth is added after the first phrase.
The other video is the tune "Heavy Duty Judy". It's a great example of the lack of crosstalk on the Phalanx.
FZ rules!
Windows Media player is needed to view them.
Enjoy!
JW

[Michael Vick]

Great work with the Zappa. Both tempos were slightly slower but you were still able to convey the conviction of both pieces. Your volume could have been a little louder but overall very Nice.
VVV

[Mark Rende]

Great stuff - thanks for sharing, Jim.

By the way - how do you set your GR-30 to accomodate the looong scale length? I'm using a GR-33 and VG-8ex with my Warr TGSS, and have some trouble due to (I think) scale length.

[Blackie]

I haven't done anything to the GR 30 other than play with the "play feel" settings to make it trigger in a more ideal fashion. The peizo pickup on the Warr is fantastic, and takes the guesswork out of guitar/synth triggering. It's the next best thing to playing a keyboard. You just set all the sensitivities very low.
What kind of problems are you having with your rig?
From what I understand, the synth doesn't care about the scale length, it just wants to figure out the fundamental of the note.
JW

[Mark Rende]

Thanks for the reply - I'll try again and check that the sensitivity isn't set too high. And the play feel might be a factor too. I know with the VG-8, there's a place to set scale length, but it doesn't go much past a strat type length.

The problem is getting the lower notes to trigger properly. In the mid-range, it was working pretty well. I'll try again, though. Thanks for the tips!