u/GiulioCapursoMusic

Just wanted to share this short clip from a recent live performance

Hey guys, Giulio here. This is my live one-man band arrangement of a jazz classic. I'm playing a 14-string electric guitar and a foot drum kit at the same time in real-time. Hope you enjoy the independence work

I wanted to share my live arrangement of Baden Powell's classic "Canto de Ossanha". This specific version is inspired by an old electronic dance remix I heard years ago, where the traditional Latin groove was reimagined through a club beat.

To recreate this sonic landscape completely live and in real-time without backing tracks, I’m using my custom 14-string electric double-neck guitar combined with an integrated foot drum system. Managing the melody, harmony, basslines, and percussion simultaneously was quite a challenge!

I would love to hear your thoughts on the setup and the arrangement. If you have any questions about how the 14-string neck layout works or how I manage the independent routing for the foot percussion, feel free to ask!

Hi everyone. A while ago, I shared the beginning of my live arrangement of "All Blues" here. In this new short, I wanted to focus on the middle section of the track, leaving more room for soloing and improvisation. Managing the modal phrasing on the custom 14-string guitar while simultaneously keeping the groove with the foot drums is always a rewarding challenge—especially on a Miles masterpiece where space and silence matter as much as the notes. I hope you enjoy this more dynamic development of the performance.

No backing tracks, just a custom-designed 7+7 double-neck guitar and digital foot drums played simultaneously.

Hi everyone. I wanted to share this short live performance exploring independent coordination. Balancing two-handed tapping on a 14-string electric double-neck while maintaining the rhythm with a foot drum kit. No loops, no overdubs, and no studio safety nets—just real-time translation of Joseph Kosma's 1945 classic. Hope you enjoy the arrangement.

I would like to share this brief video (a YouTube Short) featuring my own live interpretation of Miles Davis' timeless classic, "All Blues".

Please accept my apologies for the audio and video quality, as this is not a professional recording but simply an amateur video shot with a mobile phone.

In this clip, I perform the piece completely live and by myself, simultaneously playing a custom 14-string guitar and a set of foot drums to keep the rhythm.

If you have any questions or curiosity regarding the instrument, the setup, or the arrangement, I would be more than happy to answer them in the comments.

Best regards to all members of the community.

A live performance of Antônio Carlos Jobim's "Chovendo na Roseira," arranged in a 3/4 groove.This arrangement is performed entirely live and simultaneously without the use of loop stations. Harmonies and basslines are played on a custom 14-string guitar, while the rhythm section is driven by a foot drum kit.Watch the full video on the channel for the complete arrangement

A live performance of Antônio Carlos Jobim's "Chovendo na Roseira," arranged in a 3/4 groove.This arrangement is performed entirely live and simultaneously without the use of loop stations. Harmonies and basslines are played on a custom 14-string guitar, while the rhythm section is driven by a foot drum kit.Watch the full video on the channel for the complete arrangement.

Hey fellow buskers! Just wanted to share a snippet from my recent live performance at "ai300scalini" in Bologna, Italy.I'm performing John Coltrane's jazz standard "My One and Only Love" simultaneously on a custom 14-string guitar-piano hybrids and a foot drum kit. It took a lot of practice to get the coordination down, but the street response to this arrangement has been amazing.Would love to hear your thoughts on the setup or the mix! Cheers from Italy 🇮🇹

Hello everyone,

I would like to share my latest releases on Bandcamp, which represent two distinct sides of my instrumental research, developed between Italy and Barcelona.

The project features two contrasting musical directions:

🔹 **Cinquantuno (EP):** An exploration of electric funk-jazz and fusion, focused on solid rhythmic grooves and modern instrumental textures. 🔹 **Mediterraneo (Single):** A warmer, acoustic world-jazz composition inspired by the evocative atmospheres of Mediterranean music.

Any professional feedback or artistic exchange regarding the arrangements and production is highly welcome.

Thank you for your time and listening

"Mediterraneo" is an instrumental world-music piece deeply rooted in Mediterranean culture. It features an organic ensemble blending classical guitar and bouzouki (which I performed), with Marco Berti on double bass. The track is further enriched by the unique, traditional timbre of the friscarulo (a Southern Italian cane flute) played by Rossella Cosentino, all set over a rhythmic foundation of tablas.As an independent musician dedicated to this cultural and musical research, I welcome your insights on this arrangement. If you appreciate my work, I warmly invite you to subscribe to my streaming channel and consider supporting the project through a direct purchase.

• 📺 Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@GiulioCapurso
• 💿 Purchase/Support on Bandcamp: https://giuliocapurso.bandcamp.com/track/mediterraneo

Thank you for your time and listening.

Hi everyone,

I wanted to share the technical layout of my solo live rig, which I engineered to handle full arrangements in real-time without loopers or backing tracks. The focus here was creating a completely independent dual-signal chain and a highly ergonomic foot percussion section.

### 🎸 The Dual-Neck 14-String Guitar & Pre-Mix FX

The instrument started as two separate 7-string guitars. Following my custom blueprints, a luthier and I literally cut and reassembled them into a single, unified poplar body. The wiring and electronics are completely independent, feeding two dedicated audio outputs:

1. **Top Neck (Upper 7-String - Fingerpicked):** Loaded with Seymour Duncan pickups. The discrete signal goes into an **Electro-Harmonix Bass9** bass simulator to handle isolated bass lines on the added low B string. (Feeds Mixer Ch. 1).

2. **Bottom Neck (Lower 7-String - Tapping):** The discrete signal goes into an **Electro-Harmonix B9 Organ Machine** to transform tapped textures into rich organ emulations. (Feeds Mixer Ch. 2).

Both necks utilize standard 7-string tuning with an additional low B string (B-E-A-D-G-B-E).

### 🎛️ Sub-Mix & Master FX Chain

Channels 1 and 2 are blended inside a compact mixer and sent through a shared master effects chain before hitting the house PA:

* **Neo Instruments Ventilator II (Rotary Effect):** Acts as the ultimate harmonic glue, blending the organ textures and guitar tracking into a cohesive rotary speaker emulation.

* **EHX Holy Grail Nano:** For spatial reverb.

* **Digital Tuner:** End-of-chain monitoring.

### 🥁 The 5-Trigger Foot Drum Kit

To achieve an organic live groove, I built custom housing units and mounts out of solid mahogany wood to keep multiple pedals perfectly aligned and stable. I completely bypassed all factory presets and uploaded high-quality, raw acoustic drum samples directly into the internal memory of all five stompboxes:

* **Hi-Hat Nuances (3 Triggers):** 3x **Meinl MPDS1 Stomp Box Digital** (discontinued, rare models) to map separate dynamics for closed, half-open, and fully-open hats based on internal trigger sensitivities.

* **Kick & Snare (2 Triggers):** 1x **Roland SPD-ONE Kick** and 1x **Roland SPD-ONE Percussion**.

The foot rig is scalable. On harmonically complex tracks (like jazz standards), I scale down to just 2 pedals to free up cognitive bandwidth.

Since external links can sometimes trigger auto-filters, I haven't embedded them here, but I have short video clips showing the live acoustic separation, hand independence, and the foot rig mechanics in action.

I’d love to hear your thoughts on multi-pedal foot ergonomics or managing dual-output instruments in a live environment. Let me know if you have any questions about the gear or the build!

Hi everyone,

I wanted to share the signal routing and frequency management architecture of my solo live rig. Managing a full, real-time arrangement without loopers or backing tracks requires treating the instrumentation as discrete sound sources before hitting the master chain to prevent low-end mud, phase issues, and frequency masking.

### 🎸 The Guitar Signal Split & Pre-Mix Processing

The instrument is a bespoke dual-neck 14-string guitar (built from two separate 7-string guitars reassembled into a single poplar body). The wiring and electronics are kept completely independent, feeding two dedicated audio outputs:

1. **Top Neck (Upper 7-String - Fingerpicked):** The discrete signal goes into an **Electro-Harmonix Bass9** bass simulator to enrich the fingerpicked low-end and handle the isolated bass lines played on the added low B string. This feeds **Mixer Channel 1**.

2. **Bottom Neck (Lower 7-String - Two-Handed Tapping):** The discrete signal goes into an **Electro-Harmonix B9 Organ Machine** to transform tapped textures and harmonies into rich organ emulations. This feeds **Mixer Channel 2**.

### 🎛️ Post-Mix Master FX Chain

Channels 1 and 2 are blended inside a compact sub-mixer and then routed through a shared master effects chain before hitting the house PA. The post-mix chain consists of:

* **Neo Instruments Ventilator II (Rotary Effect):** This acts as the harmonic glue, blending the organ textures and guitar tracking together into a unified rotary speaker emulation.

* **EHX Holy Grail Nano:** For spatial reverb.

* **Digital Tuner:** End-of-chain monitoring.

### 🥁 The 5-Trigger Foot Drum Kit

To handle the rhythm section, I engineered custom mahogany enclosures housing 5 discrete digital triggers. All factory presets were bypassed; I loaded high-quality, raw acoustic drum samples from professional external databases directly into the internal memory of each unit:

* **Hi-Hat Nuances (3 Triggers):** 3x **Meinl MPDS1 Stomp Box Digital** (discontinued) to map separate dynamics for closed, half-open, and fully-open hats based on internal trigger sensitivities.

* **Kick & Snare (2 Triggers):** 1x **Roland SPD-ONE Kick** and 1x **Roland SPD-ONE Percussion**.

### 🎚️ The Audio Engineering Challenge: Low-End Separation

The biggest engineering hurdle with this setup is preventing the **EHX Bass9** sub-harmonics from fighting with the transient punch of the **Roland SPD-ONE Kick**. Since the low B string on the guitar generates sustained low-end frequencies, it easily masks the kick drum.

To maintain clarity and headroom in a live PA environment:

* I apply aggressive high-pass filtering (HPF) on the tapped organ channel to keep the midrange pristine and free of mud before it hits the Ventilator II.

* The Bass9 output and the Roland Kick are separated via careful notch EQing to ensure the kick drum retains its transient "thump" and fundamental punch without getting drowned out by the sustained bass lines of the fingerpicked lower B string.

Since external links are often restricted, I haven't embedded them here, but I have short video clips demonstrating the acoustic separation and hand independence in action.

I’d love to hear your thoughts on handling sub-mixing, phase, and frequency separation when managing heavy sub-octave guitar tracking and electronic kick triggers simultaneously. Any feedback on the signal chain is welcome!

>To perform live as a solo artist, I needed a highly customized live rig. I designed a dual-neck 14-string electric guitar from scratch and built it in close collaboration with a luthier. It was crafted completely to my specifications—built to measure, just like a tailored suit. I paired this instrument with a custom digital foot drum kit.
The guitar started as two separate 7-string guitars. Following my custom blueprints, the luthier and I literally cut and reassembled them into a single, unified poplar body. For the electronics, I loaded the instrument with three Seymour Duncan 7-string pickups. Despite merging everything into one physical body, we meticulously kept the wiring and electronics completely independent, maintaining two separate, dedicated audio outputs.
Managing a full arrangement without loopers requires a heavy reliance on both independent fingerpicking and two-handed tapping techniques. Both necks utilize standard 7-string tuning with an additional low B string (B-E-A-D-G-B-E), rather than the all-fourths tuning (like Stanley Jordan's setup) often used for heavy tapping.I will leave the full signal chain routing, pedal breakdown, and demonstration links in the comments below to comply with the sub rules!