Uploaded September 2011 | Updated September 2026, 56 minutes ago
This is a pretty song, "Paper Roses." Marie Osmond sings it best in my humble opinion, very heart-touching. I'm not sure who sang the original.
I'm playing through a VOX DA-5 battery-powered amp (using 6 C-sized batteries). It has a 5 or 6 inch speaker, I can't remember. It's 10 watts (8 ohms). I'm using a SONY boombox with bass-boost for my rhyhm tracks. My camcorder is a JVC HD with an external mic. I'm using my BOSS DD-3 with the VOX and a Goodrich volume pedal with the new improved high-life pot. The guitar is at least a 40-year old ShoBud Pro I with a stock factory open-coil pickup. This guitar has a wooden neck on a wooden body, which I prefer. Newer guitars are mostly aluminum necks on mica covered bodies, which have a completely different sound that I don't like (metallic in my opinion). I like the pure sound of the hard rock maple wood.
My setup is extremely simple. I'm not raising strings 1 nor 2. I miss raising string one a whole tone. This guitar won't do it. I can raise it a half, which change I'll add soon. I substitute this missing change (i.e., raising string one a whole tone) by using the C pedal and strings 1 and 4, moving up 2 frets. It gives me a similar sound, although not quite the same. I'm lowering string 2 a whole tone, raising string 7 a half, and then lowering and raising my E's. That's it for knee levers.
This is a pretty song, "Paper Roses." Marie Osmond sings it best in my humble opinion, very heart-touching. I'm not sure who sang the original.
I'm playing through a VOX DA-5 battery-powered amp (using 6 C-sized batteries). It has a 5 or 6 inch speaker, I can't remember. It's 10 watts (8 ohms). I'm using a SONY boombox with bass-boost for my rhyhm tracks. My camcorder is a JVC HD with an external mic. I'm using my BOSS DD-3 with the VOX and a Goodrich volume pedal with the new improved high-life pot. The guitar is at least a 40-year old ShoBud Pro I with a stock factory open-coil pickup. This guitar has a wooden neck on a wooden body, which I prefer. Newer guitars are mostly aluminum necks on mica covered bodies, which have a completely different sound that I don't like (metallic in my opinion). I like the pure sound of the hard rock maple wood.
My setup is extremely simple. I'm not raising strings 1 nor 2. I miss raising string one a whole tone. This guitar won't do it. I can raise it a half, which change I'll add soon. I substitute this missing change (i.e., raising string one a whole tone) by using the C pedal and strings 1 and 4, moving up 2 frets. It gives me a similar sound, although not quite the same. I'm lowering string 2 a whole tone, raising string 7 a half, and then lowering and raising my E's. That's it for knee levers.
