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Bass Guitar Magazine | Winter NAMM 2003 | Smithsonian Institue | American Basses | Boston Globe
Christian Science Monitor | Daily Hampshire Gazette | Amherst Bulletin | Torzal neck on a Klein electric guitar | Open Wings: Xavier Padilla
Bass Guitar Magazine
Review published in Guitar World’s Bass Guitar Magazine, June 2007
Audio files referenced in article (Ed Freidland playing):
Track 1: With the midrange set at 400 Hz and boosted about halfway, the Torzal gets a meaty fingerstyle tone that punches through the mix.- Track 2: Boosting the lows and highs, the Torzal easily achieves the clasic “smiley face” EQ curve that screams, “Slap me!”
- Track 3: Using just the neck pickup with the mids and lows slightly boosted, you get a thick, fat tone that still has plenty of definition.
- Track 4: With just the bridge pickup, the Torzal has a nice clear voice. This example had three overdubbed bass parts: a funky fingertsyle bass line, a chord part, and a melody. The rounded, punchy tone blends the parts well while preserving the separation between each voice.
You Tube links:
Gipsy Kings live in London (Xavier Padilla playing his custom Torzal)
Xavier solo on custom Torzal
Ed Freidland review
Winter NAMM 2003
Dave Pomeroy goovin’ on his Torzal at the GHS booth, Winter NAMM 2003:
Smithsonian Institute
Paul Reed Smith checking out the 1st prototype Torzal at the Smithsonian Institue, 1996 :
American Basses
American Basses: An Illustrated History and Player’s Guide by Jim Roberts (Author)
Boston Globe
Adding innovation to injury
Getting hurt can lead musicians to new ways of playing
By Nicholas Thompson, Globe Correspondent | July 18, 2004
Christian Science Monitor
Prizes Help Young Inventors Get Their Creative Juices Flowing by Peter N. Spotts, February 1997
Daily Hampshire Gazette
Daily Hampshire Gazette in Northampton, Mass. December, 1996
Amherst Bulletin
Listen to Open Wings