When
you are playing your acoustic guitar with a pick, remember this: while dynamics
are important on any instrument, playing the guitar forcefully will get the top
vibrating well, and the whole guitar sounds better when it’s excited. Plus, in
a recording situation, this will help to mask the ‘clicking’ sound of the pick
against the strings. The real trick is to find the place between strong playing
that creates good tone and overdriving the instrument enough to create a compressed
or “splatty” sound. |