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Electric violin, electric cello... my fave.

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I've been listening to music for 40 years... sounded like electric violins to me.

Pretty cool. But why do the pickups on electric violins suck so bad? Even on the professional ones. They give you no tonal qualities like an electric guitar, bass, or even a good pickup on an acoustic upright bass. Even Bobby Yang understands that and just mics the room when he plays a regular acoustic violin.

having played violin for 3 years growing up, I'm going to have to dispute all of the "it's not live" First, there are only 3 instruments played the whole time, a bass, a guitar and a drums. However BOTH the bass and guitar have a specific sound and style that only strings over a violin make. The change from note to note is much more fluid as on a guitar all you can do is pluck the strings with your fingers, on a violin, it's a constant flow as you run the bow across it. It seems pretty clear to me the blond girl is playing bass, and the dark haired one is playing the guitar. Hell, it even matches when they are playing, it's pretty simple to alter the sound of an ELECTRIC VIOLIN, just like it is to alter the sound of an electric guitar. This very clearly to me, is not only feasible, it is what actually happened. All three of them are talented. The whole video was neat at least to me because it shows how you could play the song with violins instead of a guitar, which in my opinion is much harder.

Electric violins are so cool. I once went to an irish concert that had a wide variety of bands playing both traditional and modern irish music and this one redhead (I'm a sucker for redheads,) comes out with an electric violin and a harp. At first she plays this lovely traditional harp song, was fantastic. Then she says 'I want to do something a bit more.. me.' She pulls out that electric violin and,

BLEW EVERY FREAKING PERSON THERE'S MIND!

>> ^spawnflagger:
so if it's an electric violin, where is the cord that plugs in?
or are they battery operated and transmit the audio wirelessly?


They transmit through the sheer force of win.

so if it's an electric violin, where is the cord that plugs in?
or are they battery operated and transmit the audio wirelessly?

Her electric violin does have a terrible tone.

The electric violin is one of the best parts of the song. Oh, and that godly chorus.