Why this CD?

Welcome to this Blog in the first place. It certainly has to be

worked upon but in time I will collect most of the information

that is relevant to most of the visitors. I found out that 

comparing guitars and sounds is quite a popular activity. 

It also means understanding an instrument more and more 

as there are people everywhere that really do add points of 

view. Besides that I always wondered why a lot of the classic 

guitar recordings are not the way I wanted a guitar to sound. 

My technical background helped me a lot in this matter. I 

wanted the guitar more close as if it has been played right 

next to you. And of course the way microphones tend 

to colour the sound and in fact are unable to catch the 

full spectrum and heart of a top instrument. See for this 

subject Benno Streu's comments on how a good concert 

instrument should react. All those reasons will be discussed 

in the following messages. The Vicente Arias is an 

instrument not everyone will be in the opportunity to listen 

to, let alone having it in their hands. The José Ramirez 

Clase 1A guitar is an industry standard to which the other 

guitars could be compared to.

I will discuss all the influences in how to come to a CD like 

this in the following pages. In the end one must conclude that 

the real magic only appears when hearing it in a live situation 

and from different points. I sincerely hope everyone will enjoy

 listening to my CD. I am not a great technical player as for 

that you have to study hours a day but I tried to translate 

the love for this music and each piece on this CD.

Many thanks to Ton Bouwens who helped me understanding 

the Korg Harddisk recorder 1200 I used. To René Frik who 

made the pictures for this CD and final lay-out To Richard 

Seekles who is allways willing to help whatever

your problem is with the mics he supplied.