Sustaining Magic

I was told by GT Admin I should put this to the Forum,so here goes.
My question is how does one get such good sustain as Ben Lindholm does on his guitar? And its so clear! Is there a effects box or amp setup. I'm referring to the 12/31 newsletter and one of the features is sweep picking which I really want to learn and that sustain really puts the icing on the cake. Thanks!

crank the amp and/or compressor

The equipment has of course an influence on the sustain. Compressor can help and a good amp too. But the playing technique makes about 50 - 70 % of the sound. To get a great sustain the vibrato - techique has to be developed properly :cool:

check http://www.guitartricks.com/lesson.php?input=11359&s_id=475

Originally Posted by: trad9350I was told by GT Admin I should put this to the Forum,so here goes.
My question is how does one get such good sustain as Ben Lindholm does on his guitar? And its so clear! Is there a effects box or amp setup. I'm referring to the 12/31 newsletter and one of the features is sweep picking which I really want to learn and that sustain really puts the icing on the cake. Thanks!

Hi trad9350!

What I used in that particular video was a lot of volume and distortion, and a little bit of reverb and delay. The delay doesn't have to sound like an echo, just a little bit is enough to get a bigger, more sustained sound.

And, as HP was saying, vibrato is a good tool to get more sustain.

A lot of it is in the guitar too. My Les Paul has much better sustain than my Strat or my metal axe (Jackson with a thin neck and a Floyd Rose). The difference is pretty big!!

I don't know if you can catch it, but on Palladium they have "Journey: Live in Manila". Early in the show Neal Schon does a stand-alone shred guitar solo, sort of the typical million notes-per-minute sort of thing, but at one point breaks into this beautiful solo where he uses just a few well-placed notes and a touch of whammy-bar. What he's also using is a Fernandez Sustainer system. Last I heard, his is a custom made sustainer, but a standard Fernandez sustainer will be equal to the task. The reason I mention Schon's solo is that its a particularly tasteful example of what you can do with a sustainer, but its also the likely culprit behind many of those "big hair" 80's solos with dive bombs and pinch harmonics that seem to sustain forever (in fact they do!). The Edge also uses a sustainer on the opening of "With or Without You". Steve Vai also uses one, so when you see him playing with his teeth or whatever, the sustainer is there, keeping the harmonics going. You'll have to have your beloved axes draw lots on which one gets to have its guts torn out and body chiseled to make room for the kit, or buy a Fernandes guitar with one already in it. Jackson also offers the "Sustainiac" but it doesn't have as many options as the Fernandes.

Fernandes site; http://www.fernandesguitars.com/sustainer/sustainer.html

i using boss CS-3 or compresion sustain .... it nice sustain
but carefull for the noise

















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