cid said
@x Coach and @starise 

You guys are all alike! Big on talk but afraid to buy a little violin! Do you think your wives don’t know what you are up to if you do that? I will let you in on a little secret. We KNOW! Yes, we let you think you tricked us, but in reality, you are so afraid of us that you have to crouch and scheme and try to trick us. The funny thing is, even after the beans have been spilled, you will keep on doing it. Some things never change.

Ah, another door left wide open. Shouldn’t do that in the Winter. It is cold out!

😇

  

All in jest cid all in jest Me and the missus have an understanding. If she wants something she knows I don't care. Her thing is photography, so she has oodles of cameras and just bought another one. We do discuss it but it's never a tug of war. Did I think she needed another camera? Not really as in "need". The new one does a lot of cool stuff the others don't. If she wants it she gets it.

Sort of the same thing I have with violins and music stuff in general. I made the mistake once of saying a guitar purchase would be the last one because it was a variax guitar that could emulate 27 guitars very accurately, so it's like having a Les Paul and a Fender Stratocaster ...you get the idea. At the time I believed what I said.....that was until I seen the nylon string acoustic and the Martin D15M. After then I never said I wouldn't need another guitar and disclosed to her my error.

When it comes to violins I am finding it's the same way.....if I went to her and said I seen this violin her first response would probably be, " How much?" Before I have finished my sentence she would say...go ahead. I was under the impression my last "intermediate" violin was all I would ever need. I'm not so sure. Given the right violin, the right price and the right circumstance we might be having that conversation again I have a few I need to send to a good luthier first because the need some work.

cid said
@starise Yep, all in jest. I love those open doors you guys leave! Sometimes, you just have to joke around.

Sounds like Jer and I. We just keep each other apprised to make sure we don’t go overboard in one month. We have a monthly limit that we rarely even reach, but we just let each other know what we do during the month so we are aware of what will wait til the next month. I will usually hold off the few times we reach the limit. Usually when my husband is needing something, it is to finish or start a project. He is on hold until he gets it. My items don’t hold me back if I have to wait. 

Back to the hiss. Did you find anything similar with that issue with the guitar? I know they aren’t bowed, But they do vibrate. It is not right next to your ear, either. I never heard anything like that with my stint with the guitar. I never got proficient with it. Just wondering. I am thinking not.

I think it is due to its closeness to the ear. I hear it on the violin and viola, not my cello.

  

The only annoyance playing guitar is finger slide noises when trying to record. I play finger style and sometimes the way my fingers hit the strings can have a thump sound. This is why nylon strings are better for recording for me.

The issue bunify mentions is sort of hard for me to pin down. It kind of reminds me of the "scratchy" sound you would hear on those toys kids play with that have a cord you pull to hear a recording. Right before you hear the recording there's a real hiss sort of sound. I have always heard a light sound like that coming from my violin when using a decent bow. Part of that is the horse hair pulling across the strings. Part of it is the ability of the violin to amplify those really high scratchy sounds. Like others have mentioned, this is really an asset to the total sound when heard from a distance. Not to get too far from the subject. I think this applies here. Recording technology is so good now that you can hear only the sound you recorded. In the old days they exclusively used tube driven gear which gave the sound a pleasant saturation or a light hiss that added favorable coloration to the sound.. Guitarists use tubes in amplifiers to add "dirt" to a distorted signal or to a lesser degree a pleasant light distortion of the signal. So what do they do now? They have tube emulation software to try and capture that same color. Seems like two steps forward and two steps back. People want that "sound". We have new gear and we need to emulate old gear....................I see this as similar. Adding some "dirt" to a violin probably has a pleasant effect when heard from a distance. It agitates the harmonics, excites the general sound in a positive way. If you have sensitive ears it's likely annoying up close if you don't wear ear plugs. That's my .000000000002 worth.