So I've got a jem7vwh and it sounds great and all. But the sustain doesn't come close to what Vai gets. Is this a guitar-specific thing, or does his sustain come from his insane rig? Or maybe it's from his hands?
Vai uses circular vibrato. It causes the string to vibrate longer than noe vibrato. It is about the most difficault thing to do. He has combind the vibrato style of violin players with the classic vibrato of guitar players to create a very unique and almost impossible technique.
Vai uses circular vibrato. It causes the string to vibrate longer than noe vibrato. It is about the most difficault thing to do. He has combind the vibrato style of violin players with the classic vibrato of guitar players to create a very unique and almost impossible technique.
Without saying you have talent or not, there are other things on that list that will get you lots of sustain. Vai plays and records really really loud. and, as Gresh subtly suggested :roll: , uses lots of compression.
Us mere mortals do have a chance of getting long sustain. Keep in mind also that the more string there is to vibrate, the more sustain you'll get, i.e. you'll get better sustain on the 5th fret than you sill on the 17th.
its a mixture of a guitar gods skill and his setup of amp and effects.it would be equaly hard to even come close to either of these two things :lol: so have FUN.no one will ever be steve vai except steve himself even though we would like to be.
Not a visible one, I believe he uses the one in the G-Force or whatever multi-effects processor he's using now.
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