MM Blues'28 and 1929 National Triolian sound check

[finoday]

Hi all,

I recently visited slide guitarist Soft Shoe Sam, and took my MM Blues'28 to show him: it became an opportunity too good to miss as he has a wooden body 1929 National Triolian, and so we made a video of him playing the same licks, in different styles, alternating between the two guitars.

I don't know how to post the video here (its a large file), so this is just a heads up that it is now posted on You Tube, and is also on his www.facebook.com/softshoesam page.

Both guitars were recorded without any effects: the final track has both played together, and panned left and right, so if you rip an mp3, you could play it on a hi-fi to get a better sound and pan between the speakers.

The video is to not intended to be used to judge the guitars - it was just a chance to share the results of an interesting afternoon.

I hope you enjoy it,

[mikeshipman]

Thanks for posting, interesting to hear the two side by side. The triolian has (to my ears at least) some more definition and depth of tone , I wonder if the string gauges are differnt as that has changed tone for me. I guess the triioIan would sound more mature as it has had 80 odd years to do so! Im still very happy with my MM28 and will make a point of doing a similar side by side comparison with a contemporary resonator in 2094!

[alexandre]

Should be easier to play & discuss this video like that:



Thanks for the link.

[zak71]

Youtube audio and computer speakers may be contributing somewhat here, but it sounds like the guitars were both recorded with a microphone at close proximity to the cone.
I don't hear any of the humongous bass that my '29 Triolian produces, so I am guessing that what we're hearing here is primarily the cones of both guitars, as opposed to a combination of cone and body resonance.
This would certainly blur differences between the two guitars to some degree.