Mark Knopfler Guitar / More Knowledge about the guitar

Dire Straits Water of Love guitar tutorial

Ingo — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:00:28 +0000

In this blog post you will find another guitar tutorial video, this time not about a certain aspect of Mark Knopfler’s guitar playing but one that explains how to play a particular song again, similar to the ones I did about Down to the Waterline some time ago. As Down to the Waterline is the [...]

Mark Knopfler Signature Strat with lipstick pickups played on Forever Young (duet with Bob Dylan)

Ingo — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 09:14:15 +0000

The recent Mark Knopfler & Bob Dylan tour ended with the show at the Hammersmith Apollo in London on November 21, 2011. The last encore played that day was a duet of both masters – the song ‘Forever Young’ (from Dylan’s 1974 album Planet Waves). A new guitar appeared on this song – a Mark Knopfler [...]

Mark Knopfler Signature Strats vs. 1964 Stratocaster

Ingo — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 07:28:22 +0000

In the videos below we were comparing two Mark Knopfler Signature Strats to a 1964 Fender Stratocaster, also in red (fiesta). Talking about red, note that one of the signature Strats is in the ‘wrong’ colour the very first ones came with, while the other one is the normal hot rod red. It is always [...]

Speaker shoot-out for the Mark Knopfler sound: Electro Voice EV 12L, Celestion Vintage 30 & G12M “Greenbacks” in 4 x 12 cabinets

Ingo — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 20:05:57 +0000

I recently had three different 4 x 12″ cabinets here to play around with. They all were different, and they all had different speakers. In the video below I am playing various licks and chords over the three cabinets, it might be helpful to find out for yourself what you like most. But first, the [...]

The iSound-ST – New sounds for the Stratocaster – Does it help to get the Mark Knopfler sound?

Ingo — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 13:15:33 +0000

With this blog post I want to introduce my latest product – the iSound-ST. The what you might ask? The iSound-ST is a rotary switch that is thought to replace one of the controls of your Strat, normally one of the tone controls (I recommend to make the other tone control a master tone control). [...]

First demo of the VFS-1 pickguard

Ingo — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 20:22:59 +0000

After the last video in which I already compared the VFS-1 pickup to a 1955 Fender Strat pickup and to the DiMarzio FS-1, here is a first demo of the complete Schecter-style pickguard with the VFS-1 pickups. I was jamming in the Mark Knopfler style over a self-produced 2 chords backing groove on my metallic [...]

How close is the VFS-1 Pickup to the Original Fender Vintage and the DiMarzio FS-1?

Ingo — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 21:26:12 +0000

I recently introduced the new VFS-1 pickup as an alternative to the F500T-style (Schecter-style) pickups in our loaded pickguards, and I already started to work on some video demos of the complete VFS-1 pickup assembly , the first of these should come within the next days. What I can present today is a side-by-side comparison [...]

The VFS-1 – New pick-up for our Schecter-style pickguards

Ingo — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 07:53:54 +0000

Our loaded metal pickguards are now available with a new pick-up model: the VFS-1. V stands for vintage, F for fat, (and S for Strat). Unlike our Schecter-style pick-up (which is very close to a Schecter F500T), the new pick-up has the “normal” sized magnet pole pieces, like a vintage Strat pick-up, and can be [...]

The Gibson Chet Atkins CEC – Classical Electric Guitar with Nylon Strings

Ingo — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 11:03:56 +0000

This week I had a nice guitar here – a Gibson Chet Atkins CEC. The CE stands for classical electric, in other words a solid-body guitar with nylon strings and a piezo pickup, while the last C stands for conventional neck width (2″/5.1 cm at the nut, a CE model with a neck width of [...]

Dire Straits – Portobello Belle – The Point, Dublin, 1991

Ingo — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 16:03:17 +0000

Again I found something nice on youtube I personally have never heard before: Portobello Belle from the On Every Street tour in 1991, performed at The Point in Dublin.. I have had one “official” bootleg (= silver pressed CD) called Strait to the Point from a Dublin gig of that tour (August 26 – they [...]