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    General Gear and Tab Season IV: Can it play barre chords?

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    Long shot, but anyone familiar with blending a standard mic setup with a direct signal for guitar? I gather this is a fairly common way to record bass.

     

    I am, it's ALL about the phase. You really have to pay attention to your mic positioning. Try summing both signals to mono, as you move the mic around, you'll hear the low end get weaker where the signals are out of phase. That could be a useful effect if you reverse the polarity (of the neutron flow?) to get the bass to sum, in a similar way you would blend in a rear mic from an open back cab to get more beeeeeef.

    Manson Guitars & Tanks III: built to last; military grade

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    Plexiglas/acrylic is very heavy - and also quite brittle, so wouldn't really go with Matt's 2.4kg weight limit - or penchant for abusing guitars :D

     

    Typically mirror 'acrylic' is actually polycarbonate. It is quite heavy, relative to say a light wood. It's about twice as dense as something like Mahogany (S. Macrophylla ~650kgm3), and almost three times the weight of the typical swamp ash or Alder you'd find in a guitar (<500kgm3), accepting that both of those can be found at weights of 800kgm3 or more too.

    A 3mm mirror top would add something like 300-400g to the weight of a guitar, assuming the thickenss remains the same.

     

    One thing it's not though, is brittle. It's a very, very tough material that's used for ballistic resistance.

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