Crushed Velvet Eyeball; Egyptian Splendor.
I paid 75 American for this B.C. Rich “Bronze” Mockingbird style guitar. The guy who sold it to me said it had been his nephews and he had probably played it once or twice, if that. And it was a real challenge to straighten it out but with the help of my daughter we stripped it down, adjusted the bridge, plated the electronics and re-stringed it. After some tweaking, we plugged it into my new home practice rig: A Line 6 30 Watt combo and a 4 channel foot pedal system with built in volume and wah.
I have a setting I like to call post industrial titanium, and it is pretty much the heaviest metal tone I can conjure up, with a little bit of phaser and a touch of phase echo. It is spacey enough to draw you down into it, and heavy enough to give you heart palpitations until you crawl back up.
The guitar sounds great clean and dirty, roots or post industrial. It rips and slides and has great sustain. Of course, thats the downside to digital modeling; everything comes out tits up regardless of your gear. It also looks real trippy when we use the delay filter in my digital camera to shoot action shots.
It almost pains me to do what I have to next. My daughter Karianna and I are stripping this one down and doing some art on it. I can think of a few ideas for a design motif that would fit the overall shape of the Mockingbird, and really tie it in as a distinctive piece, but am open to suggestions. I am nowhere near the artist Robert James Langenwalter is but I am pretty sure we can do a halfway decent homage.
Your thoughts?
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