Tellingly on the auto-tune front @TheSluiceGate, @LukinStone, I asked on the youtube video of this whether it was used, and they have moderation turned on... well, they haven't put up my question or an answer, yet have put up others that have come through since.

Also, there's a fan who set up a page at 'ragtube' (never heard of it before), which seems to have his old youtube channel description on it:

Mike's setup:

Martin DC-16RGTE Aura 6-string guitar, Guild F-512 12-string guitar, into Yamaha 01x into HP laptop (via firewire) running Cubase 3. Mike's vocal mic is a Neumann KMS105.

Jeff's setup:

Fender 5 string Jazz Bass (Mexico) into Universal Audio LA-610 Pre amp/compressor
Jeff's vocal mic is a Neumann KMS104.

The audio is recorded dry, then mixed in Cubase 6, using mostly UAD-2 plug-ins. No Auto-Tune is used (since people occasionally ask). The audio mix is then synced to the video in Sony Vegas. The video camera is a Canon Vixia HF100 (for the more recent HD videos)

And now his youtube page says nothing about autotune... so did they start to use it, when they didn't previously, or have they always and been caught out on it, so have stopped claiming they don't?

Seems fishy to have had the info up, and now not.

The 12-string guitar sounds beautiful.

>> ^NordlichReiter:
His strumming style still eludes me to this day.

He rakes on the upstroke, and then pops on the down stroke. Then does filler in between verses.
Amazing...


On a 12 string, no less...

*dead

and is this a dupe?

Somebody tell the marketing bods at Ibanez that they've already been beaten. 12 strings is the way forward!

Actually that might be a 12 string, 2 sets of regular guitar strings. A little hard for me to tell.

From its description on YouTube:

The World's First Web Band have found each other on YouTube. They only know each others' YouTube IDs and have never met. This video was created by syncing ClipBandits' YouTube video clips. Turns out, the ClipBandits live in Los Angeles CA, New York City and Austin Texas.

ClipBandits are;

J-Pe$o..................Vocals and 12-String Guitar
Girl Bass Player.....Bass
ClipBandit.............Electri c Guitars and Congas

"Direction"
Written by J-Pe$o
Produced by ClipBandit

NOTICE!!! ClipBandits are looking for a drummer. Please submit audition videos by posting a response to this video!

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Maybe you're thinking of this one on a 12 string bass. Equally awesome:
http://www.videosift.com/story.php?id=829

Jean Baudin is a bassist...this is a bass...not a chapman stick. The chapman stick's strings fan from the center thicker out to thinner, plus all of the frets run straight up and down. Jean Baudin's basses are all strung like a bass or guitar with the strings decreasing in thickness, and the frets are fanned down the neck. The technique that he is using to play this song is called "tapping" and it's widely used in the bass community, especially seen used by solo artists such as Jean. These enourmous basses with 6+ strings are refered to as monster basses. Jean Baudin just finished building a 12 string bass. Pictures are on his site at: http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=13522698 or go to his main site at www.jeanbaudin.com.