Puisqu'on en parlait il y a peu, voici le cas un peu particulier de Trey Gunn. Son site officiel nous dévoile son matériel :
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Touch Guitars
-8-String Warr Guitar -- neck-through Paduak
-8-String Warr Guitar -- Ash/Wenge/Bubinga, bolt-on neck
-10-String Warr Guitar -- Maple, bolt-on neck, MIDI
-12-String Warr Guitar -- neck-through Paduak
Other Guitars:
-Dan Electro Baritone Guitar
The normal rig:
-Sound Sculpture Switchblade 16 - programmable audio matrix patchbay
-Line-Six POD
-ART - SGE Mach 2
-Euphonic Audio - two 1x10" full range speaker cabinets
-RNC compressor
-Electroharmonix Micro-Synth
-Roland GR-30
-TC Electronic - G-Force Dimension Beam - infared midi controller
-Euphonic Audio - The world's smallest 8" and 10" full range speaker cabinets
the small rig:
-add Smokey Amps
the big rig, add:
-two Euphonic Audio 3x10" cabinets
The Switchblade-16 allows the any of the effects units to be patched in any order --series or parallel.
What is the Warr Guitar?
The Warr Guitar is a touchstyle instrument designed specifically for "tapping" (i.e. Van Halen, Steve Vai, Stanley Jordan style). Because it only takes one finger to produce a sound (on a guitar it takes two -- one to fret the note and one to pluck the string) you can use all the fingers of both hands simultaneously. This allows you play more than one part at a time or you can simply "share" the playing between the fingers of both hands.
The traditional guitar/bass body is present in the design as are many other features of the modern day electric guitar -- locking tuners, tone controls, several custom pick-ups with selector switches, hammered-in frets and adjustable bridge. Mark Warr's particular specialty in instrument design is in the use of wood. He utilizes many different types of wood, from the exotic to the ordinary, in specific and quite complicated combinations to very different tonal effects. Combining this with the option of neck-through or bolt-on designs, I've found that all his instruments sounded very, very different from one another. I currently play an 8-string mono instrument with a Paduak body and neck-through Paduak neck. I'm also using an 8-string mono instrument with an Ash body and a bolt-on Wenge/Bubinga neck. Due to the way that I tune this instrument it has the widest range of any stringed instrument that I have ever heard of. Starting on a low Bb below electric bass and going up in 5ths through the entire register of the guitar, this Extended Range Guitar has a spectrum of five and one-half octaves.
One of the main design differences between this instrument and a traditional guitar or bass is how the instrument hangs on the player. When you wear a guitar with a strap the instrument hangs horizontally. When you wear a Warr Guitar the instrument hangs mostly vertically, but because of the way that it is weighted it can be pulled down into a horizontal position. This means that it is comfortable playing it in a tapping position (vertically) or as a regular guitar (horizontally.)
