OMG...It's NOT A Guitar

[wagtunes]

The weirdest thing happened today and I'm convinced this was an act of God.

I'm eating lunch and listening to Music Choice 70s, which is my default station. But it started glitzing out and it's been doing this for a while. So I got fed up and switched to Music Choice 60s.

Well, this song by Buffalo Springfield comes on (don't know the name of it) and there's this one part with a guitar solo. Well, when I hear it, I recognize it as the same guitar sound on songs "Band Of Gold" by Freda Payne and "Hooked On A Feeling" by BJ Thomas.

That's it. I had to find out how that guitar sound was made because I have no virtual guitars or FX plugins that can get that sound.

Much to my surprise, it isn't a guitar. It's an electric sitar.

Well, I had to go see if there was a vst version because I have always wanted to do songs with that sound that has been used on so many 60s and 70s recordings. That's when I found Shreddage 3 Electro Sitar.

Maybe the best purchase I've made this year.

For those not familiar with the sound, you can listen below.

[tapper mike]

Have you seen the documentary? Can't find the link right now. The Dano electric sitar was everywhere in the late 60's through the 70's

Back in the 80's interest had wanned and I almost picked one up for dirt cheap. I didn't see a use for it within my style.

[wagtunes]

Have you seen the documentary? Can't find the link right now. The Dano electric sitar was everywhere in the late 60's through the 70's

Back in the 80's interest had wanned and I almost picked one up for dirt cheap. I didn't see a use for it within my style.

Yes, it was everywhere and it's an iconic sound. I will have no trouble using it having grown up in the 60s.

[zerocrossing]

Have you seen the documentary? Can't find the link right now. The Dano electric sitar was everywhere in the late 60's through the 70's

Back in the 80's interest had wanned and I almost picked one up for dirt cheap. I didn't see a use for it within my style.

Guitar Center’s house brand made a rerelease of it under the Rogue name. I’ve got one, though I don’t use it much.

[wagtunes]

Have you seen the documentary? Can't find the link right now. The Dano electric sitar was everywhere in the late 60's through the 70's

Back in the 80's interest had wanned and I almost picked one up for dirt cheap. I didn't see a use for it within my style.

Guitar Center’s house brand made a rerelease of it under the Rogue name. I’ve got one, though I don’t use it much.

I'll be using this all over a lot of my 60s and 70s retro tunes.

[zerocrossing]

Have you seen the documentary? Can't find the link right now. The Dano electric sitar was everywhere in the late 60's through the 70's

Back in the 80's interest had wanned and I almost picked one up for dirt cheap. I didn't see a use for it within my style.

Guitar Center’s house brand made a rerelease of it under the Rogue name. I’ve got one, though I don’t use it much.

I'll be using this all over a lot of my 60s and 70s retro tunes.

I think they stopped making them years ago, but there's another company that makes a higher end one.

https://eastwoodguitars.com/products/breadwinner-sitar

[guitarzan]

Looks like Danelectro still makes them, seems to be around $800 for the classic Coral sitar reissues.

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[Uncle E]

[jamcat]

Danelectro also has the baby sitar for around $600. I like it better than the Coral, because it’s a true electric sitar, and cheaper, too.

[Chicken Drummy]

Looks like Danelectro still makes them, seems to be around $800 for the classic Coral sitar reissues.IMG_0943.jpeg

It's beautiful.

[mountainmaster]

Danelectro also has the baby sitar for around $600. I like it better than the Coral, because it’s a true electric sitar, and cheaper, too.

I have a Danelectro baby sitar in red crackle. It is a fun instrument.

Regarding how "true" it is... It roughly has the shape of a sitar but it is still very much a guitar. It also lacks the sympathetic strings of its big brother, which bring the sound closer to an actual sitar.
That being said, I prefer the baby version because those sympathetic strings are a bitch to tune.

[zerocrossing]

Danelectro also has the baby sitar for around $600. I like it better than the Coral, because it’s a true electric sitar, and cheaper, too.

I have a Danelectro baby sitar in red crackle. It is a fun instrument.

Regarding how "true" it is... It roughly has the shape of a sitar but it is still very much a guitar. It also lacks the sympathetic strings of its big brother, which bring the sound closer to an actual sitar.
That being said, I prefer the baby version because those sympathetic strings are a bitch to tune.

Yeah, I don’t know a huge amount about sitars, but enough to know that that’s not one.

I often think about buying an actual sitar. The sound fascinates me. It has ever since I heard The Beatles’ Love To You. Classical Indian music became a favorite of mine, ever since.

But I’m wise enough to know that a sitar isn’t an Indian guitar, and I’m already mediocre at guitar. The Coral sitar is also not a sitar, but a guitar with a buzzy bridge and some nominally useful sympathetic strings. However, if you look at it as its own thing, it’s fun, and requires no special skill if you’re a guitar player. It would be better if it were fretless. I don’t know about the Danelectro, but the Rogue is nearly impossible to get perfectly intonated. Mine is OK if you don’t go too far past the 12th fret, but I’ve heard complaints that they’re often hard to get right. It’s ultimately a cheap instrument. If I really want the sound and vibe of a sitar, I’ll use one of the Equator 2 instruments and my Roli Rise 49.

[jamcat]

The thing I don’t like about the Coral is it’s made out of masonite and it sounds it. The baby sitar’s tone sounds like a sitar, because the body is essentially the same.

The Coral doesn’t sound anything like a sitar. It has its own unique sound, which sounds like the guitar in Fascination Street, because it is.

[jamcat]

But I’m wise enough to know that a sitar isn’t an Indian guitar

Actually, it is. Sitar and guitar are both fretted lutes. Same family.

[mystran]

The thing I don’t like about the Coral is it’s made out of masonite and it sounds it. The baby sitar’s tone sounds like a sitar, because the body is essentially the same.

Checked some videos of these and at least best on those both of them have some qualities of the "sitar sound" but also some qualities of a guitar. The Coral seems to sound kinda like a "guitar with weird pickup (although I realize it's probably more the bridge that does that) and some of the symphatetic resonances of a sitar" while the baby is more like "sitar that's missing something."

Then again... an electric guitar doesn't really sound exactly like an acoustic one either so

ps. Also ... I feel like neither of these is going to work very well for the crazy bends they do on real sitars...