We’ve posted some sound samples!

There’s a long story behind these clips. We hired a videographer/audio engineer, gathered one of each model (which took quite a bit of doing), grabbed our Carr Slant 6V amp and a borrowed vintage Fender, kidnapped Denny Breau, and headed for South Portland to shoot some video.

Denny improvised in just about every possible style, one after another, for 6 hours. It was an incredible display of virtuosity and stamina. In the studio, the guitars sounded great.

Well … we got the raw files, and both the camera and the board had malfunctioned. The video was unusable, but some of the audio files were salvageable – maybe.

We gave them to Bruce Goulette of StudioG, and he worked his magic. He had to put in a fair amount of compression, and play with the levels to resurrect the almost non-existent voice track, but a few of the tracks were usable.

We’re deeply grateful to Denny and Bruce, and we’re going to try again – just as soon as we can get the stars aligned again. In the meantime, we “sort of proudly” present our first sound clips.

We have sold that last Archtop, and are now taking orders for upcoming batches.