Wow. Great playing! On an acoustic no less!

[funny_polymath]

 

[shemihazazel]

Serious skills. No distortion to cover one's ass on an acoustic.

 

[Stratman68]

Killer player-ots of talent there.

 

[favance]

I've seen Monte live. One of the best guitarists on the planet.

 

[ocaptainjr2]

He's a monster! His Little Wing covers are ridiculous.

 

[Sixstring]

Wow!

 

[Geezerjohn]

That's just soooooooooooooooooooooooo funky. Not your mothers kum-by-yah.

 

[Loquenau]

Cool stuff - but not digging the snap of the nylon. The harmonics sound cool, though.

 

[smcrosby]

Nylon strings?

Love it!

 

[chris]

Cool stuff - but not digging the snap of the nylon.

that is a steel-string guitar.

compressed like a mutha-fkr...

 

[funny_polymath]

It's the Piezo. I hate the sound of it. One dimensional. Most live acoustic guitar music has that same snappy, thin sound. A bad simulation of what an acoustic can sound like (i.e. Michael Hedges Aerial Boundaries, etc.).

 

[chris]

I think the crazy amount of compression is thinning it out as well. It's like the threshold is -10 with a 8:1 ratio!!! Or something, jeez!

 

[nicolasrivera]

WOW!!!

 

[Ron_R]

Wowie...

Brilliant stuff. I would love to hear what that sounds like with an electric guitar.

Why would an artist use a piezo pickup rather than mic an acoustic? I'm not asking to be a jerk, I really would like to know. Feedback control?

 

[favance]

Harmonics...also mics tend to get nasty feedback at the volumes and intensity that Monte uses.

 

[immortal_soloist]

Monte is the man!

He is the reason I bought an Alvarez Acoustic Electric Guitar.

 

[immortal_soloist]

I have had the privilege of seeing him live,what a show it was!

 

[Loquenau]

Re - piezo/compression: Oh. I wondered, and couldn't see the strings well enough, so I guessed.

Harmonics...also mics tend to get nasty feedback at the volumes and intensity that Monte uses.

Why not use a Fishman, or something similar?............

 

[ScottyB]

Pretty impressive, so I had to look around to check out one of his Little Wing versions...

Monte Montgomery: Little Wing acoustic instrumental - YouTube

 

[Maxxblade]

Amp?

Serious skills. No distortion to cover one's ass on an acoustic.

Is he playing through an amp?