00:00I had to take the octaved strings off of the low E and A, and now it's a 10-string
00:05guitar.
00:05My name is Marnix, and this is Maradona. It's a 10-string Fender Strat that I use in a band
00:13called Child Lucifer. Now, we are a two-piece band who play everything live without a backing track,
00:19so we always look for ways to fill out our sound, which is why I got a 12-string Fender
00:25Strat,
00:25which I don't play like a 12-string. I don't play any arpeggiated chords. I just play funky rhythm
00:30parts that, on a 12-string, sound kind of chorus-y and have a kind of funny, almost dubbed feel
00:38to
00:38it, which is great for us as a two-piece. One of the main mods we did was put this
00:42little pickup in,
00:43which picks up the low E and A string, sends it to a separate output into an analog octaver. I
00:51currently use a Boss OC5 set to the vintage setting, which has a cool synth-y sound to it,
00:57and I use an analog octaver because the response is immediate. Like, in a digital octaver, you would
01:03get a bit of a lag, which isn't great for groove-based music. But the downside to an analog octaver
01:07is that
01:08you cannot send more than one note to it, which is why I had to take the octaved strings off
01:14of the low
01:14E and A, and now it's a 10-string guitar. And I have to come up with parts that don't
01:19use the E
01:19and the A string at the same time, so I never use bar chords. And I try to come up
01:23with parts
01:24that have a distinct bass line and a rhythm part, so as to sound like there are two people playing
01:31at
01:31the same time. So there's a good example of this in a song called Kissing in the Rain on our
01:35new record,
01:36and it goes a little something like this. That's the sound of Maradona.
