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My dad shot this video on our front porch with a P2HD and some good lighting while we had the equipment. Im playing the guitar I made from scratch, with a monome kit embedded in it. It was a long project... but fun.

Some parts are a bit out of tune(need to do some more guitar work) and Im still figuring out the setup(running 7up live on the monome). The audios pretty crappy on this recording unfortunately as my speaker setup was a bit janky... but hey! it was fun. Ran the vid through ScreenFlow for some super quick editing and export.

Im using Ableton Live for my audio bits and a Presonus Firepod to process my voice and guitar signal. We kinda just did this spur of the moment so I didnt get the audio from Ableton.

I wrote this song this last spring.

Credits:
Benji Brown(twitter: theprojectabot) - music
Ben Brown Sr - video

There's Something - copyright 2009

Credits

  • Ben Brown
    songwriter, guitarnome inventor, performer

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  • robb 2 years ago
    this is a great work, in every aspect.
    Have you thought about adding a hexaphonic pickup and using the monome for complex pitch shifting (polygomé?)
    Did you include a switch that prevents the buttons from being triggered by accident?
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  • Ben Brown 2 years ago
    :) yeah just didnt have the monies.... good idea though. Ill look into grabbing one of those.

    i have two volume knobs on there and then two more that are not currently tied to anything. I was thinking of plugging them into the monome logic board for more parameter swizzling... that switch idea is pretty good... I may need to make one of the nobs a push pull to allow toggling of the monome...
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  • Altitude Sickness plus 2 years ago
    super cool guitar, sir!
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  • Charlie Visnic plus 2 years ago
    Wow! Really good use of the monome as accompaniment. I think somebody had tried this once before but it didn't leave as much of an impression on me. My first thought was to use a live input to MLR so that you have your looper pedal right there on your guitar with which you then can chop away at them.

    Super awesome!
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  • bar|none plus 2 years ago
    Never thought I'd see a full 40h in a working guitar. Very cool! And using 7up! Thanks for that.
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  • Ben Brown 2 years ago
    :)
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  • Ben Brown 2 years ago
    7up is a great setup, props for sure bar|none
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  • makingthenoise 2 years ago
    this can go many places. maybe you need a foot pedal to switch modes in 7up? give us the word man, this is great.
  • Ben Brown 1 year ago
    will do im working on an album now so we will see what I need to switch modes and such...
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  • Luishomestudio 2 years ago
    Very cool but it´s possivel with foot swith also, I gess....
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  • Yonny Vizcaya 2 years ago
    Sweet guitar!... first time i see a guitar like this. Is that made by who?
  • Ben Brown 2 years ago
    Yonny , I made the guitar from scratch. Carved it from cherry some wenge and maple.
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  • Tibere 2 years ago
    sweeeeeeeeeeeeeet
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  • Axl Fawmer 2 years ago
    I found this while searching for an attachable midi/osc controller for my guitar. What an incredible piece of work. I'm almost speechless. Great job.
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  • Ben Brown 2 years ago
    thanks a bunch
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  • encym 1 year ago
    Very inventive and innovative!
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  • Shin Kawasaki 1 year ago
    prob the best looking monome! WANT IT
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