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Luis
Guerreiro and Antonio Netto
In the
trio that travels with Mariza, Luis Guerreiro plays
a Lisbon-style Portuguese guitar built for him by Gilberto Gracio.
He plucks it with fingerpicks that he makes himself from salvaged
materials—either old tortoiseshell or used phone
cards. Antonio Netto plays a Takamine nylon-string
guitar.
—Derk
Richardson
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| Rosie
Thomas
Rosie Thomas
takes a utilitarian approach to her gear, which consists of one
guitar, a Takamine EG530SC with a solid spruce top and nato back
and sides that she strings with Martin extra-light-gauge strings
("The tiny ones," she says). She fingerpicks with her
bare fingernails. Onstage, she amplifies her guitar with the Takamine's
built-in pickup and TK4N preamp, which she then plugs in direct
to the board. Thomas records her guitars with a Neumann TLM 103.
"We love the way [it] makes the guitar sound," she says.
After trying several different vocal mics in the studio for When
We Were Small, the one she "most fell in love with"
was a Shure KSM 44SL, which she used on Only with Laughter Can
You Win.
—Nicole
Solis
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| Darrell
Scott
Darrell Scott's
chief road guitar is an all-koa Taylor K-20, strung with medium-gauge
D'Addario phosphor-bronze EJ17s. He plays in a pick-plus-two-fingers
style using a heavy, rounded Golden Gate flatpick (www.sagamusic.com).
His Taylor is outfitted with an older model L.R. Baggs undersaddle
pickup plus a Joe Mills internal mic. Scott blends the signals via
stereo output to a Raven Labs preamp (www.raven-labs.com)
and mixes that with the best external microphone he can set up on
any given stage. Scott explains, "Between the three I'm bound
to get something out to the audience."
—Craig
Havighurst
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| Rickie
Lee Jones
Rickie Lee Jones
uses several guitars, including a Taylor six-string acoustic, Rickenbacker
12-string, Epiphone hollow-body, and Epiphone Melodymaker Jr.
She strings her guitars
with Dean Markley strings and runs them through either a Fender
Deluxe or a Roland JC-120 Jazz Chorus amp, miking the amp with a
Shure SM57. She also uses a Cry Baby Wah Wah pedal and a Uni-Vibe
Chorus/ Vibrato pedal.
—Paul
Zollo
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