Comins Guitars Zelig Model - Carved Top/Flat Back

Tim Farrell demonstrates the new "Zelig" Model by Comins Guitars. This hybrid instrument features a Carpathian Spruce carved top and a flamed Honduran Mahogany flat back with matching sides and neck. The model was conceived and designed to straddle the arched top and flat top guitar worlds and employs a nontraditional modeling of the carved top to this end. The "slope rim" refers to the fact that the bottom perimeter of the carved top elevates as it joins the sides from the upper bout to the lower bout regions. This unique method of arch modeling allows for a flatter arch in the lower bout region of the top, helping to facilitate a fuller sounding bottom end while retaining much of the upper register roundness and separation associated with archtop guitars.

Mics:

AKG 214 where neck meets body - panned hard left
Audio Technica 4033 at lower bout - panned hard right
Recorded through a Aphex Tubessence preamp to Audio Desk software on MacBook Pro.
A little bit of Bright Medium Room stereo reverb on each.
No EQ or compression (upload not withstanding) or delay.

http://www.timfarrellmusic.com/
http://www.cominsguitars.com

The contrasting woods "sweep" motif of the peghead, fingerboard, and pickguard was inspired by Steve Andersen Guitars: http://www.andersenguitars.com/model/...