Questons from a prospective NS Stick-er
Hello to all,
I have lurked here on and off for a while as the idea of a stick, specificaly the NS Stick has been gnawing its way into my head.
My biggest question is; how well does the NS Stick handle using a pick or fingerpicking/standard left hand fretting? I'd like to be able to play it in a "normal" guitar fashion, and switch to tap style and back as needed. If the pickups catch the sound of your left hand fretting as normal tapping, it kind of defeats the pick/strum I would think. If you have to set the action really high or "deaden" the pickups to keep from sounding the string while fretting, doesn't that take away the tap style possibilities?
I realize I'm kind of asking one instrument to be a Jack-of-all-trades/Master-of-all-trades, but the NS Stick seems to almost be that already. I'm more interested in the extended guitar/baritone nature of the instrument rather than the guitar+bass aspect really.
Plus its just a way-cool instrument
All of the sound clips and videos posted by the pro's and amateurs alilke are very inspiring; so it's all your fault I want one of these!
Thanks for any input you may have.
Bruce