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Re: Looking to buy a Backun Bell

Author: mrn
Date: 2009-01-28 19:26

Ryan25 wrote:

> I don't think there is any doubt that Backun products are top
> notch and here to stay. It is worth noting that some people,
> including myself, don't like what they do to ones sound. Not
> everyone wants that type of sound which to me sounds dull and
> covered....Ricardo excluded of course.

That's basically my take on this stuff. I don't really want my equipment to take away that much harmonic content from the sound, because I like having the option of changing tone qualities (e.g., from mellow to brilliant) in the same piece, and you need to have a certain amount of available harmonic content to be able to do that.

With standard equipment you can do things in your playing to sound *less* brilliant and more mellow if you want to (by damping out harmonics with your embouchure and voicing)--so you don't have to use the harmonics you have. But if the instrument filters out the harmonics for you, you don't have those harmonics at your disposal when when it comes time to sound sparkly. IMHO, I'd rather have to work a little at sounding mellow than lose the ability to sound shiny and brilliant.

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