Good for you Dave, Out of the closet steamer At 12:52 AM 26/11/99 -0800, you wrote: >Ed Carwithen wrote: > >> What is with Wurlitzer. Every one that I work with rings like a banjo in >> the upper treble....... twangy and brittle....Voicing and hammer work doesn't >> >> really help it much. > >Steam voicing saved me on one of these.I had not previously used this >technique. >After failing to get satisfactory results on sample notes >with my usual techniques I decided it was a good candidate >for an attempt at stream voicing. >Regulation, seating strings had already been done.. >Very little steam gave, dramatic results. >Three passes, one to gang them (3 seconds steam) >,one extra for the treble(1 second stream) , >and one to pick on very stubborn notes( touch with steam). >Tiny bit of deep shoulder needling afterwards to bring >up a little bit of meat in the bass. >It actually sounds quite reasonable now. > >Any comments and where and when the use >of steam is or is not appropriate are welcome. > > Cheers > Dave Renaud > RPT > Canada > Roger Jolly Saskatoon, Canada. 306-665-0213 Fax 652-0505
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