the bridge. I only use it to add a little ‘air’ to because she thought they were so pretty and
the sound. It puts the ‘real’ to the ‘deal’, if you she had always wanted one. I’m thinking to
know what I mean. myself, “You’re only four!”
What also makes this really work is that the The next night at our prayer time she started
LR Baggs folks fine-tuned the EQ system crying and asked why God had not given her
and the microphone to match the guitar itself. a rose that day. I told her that maybe it was
Otherwise, it would not have worked. Since the because we did not mention the color of the
guitar is so thin and there is no sound hole, it rose that she wanted. She wiped her tears
would’ve sounded thin and nasally. and said, “I want a white one, we’d better ask
Him again!”
What truly amazes people is the Session DI
component that basically adds multiband After that I could hardly sleep wondering where
compression and harmonic distortion, which I was going to find a white rose because I had
is what is used when mastering a recording. It to leave early the next day and at that time
smooths out the sound, rounding the edges… white roses were difficult to find. All I could do
adding warmth like nothing I have ever seen was agree and ask God to bring the rose to
before. It will fill up a room or auditorium Heidi as I had to play a concert a few hours
and totally captures the beauty of the away the next night.
instrument itself.
The concert was at a small church in central
Another benefit from this is the fact that you can Florida and I had never been there before.
play it at a higher volume without feedback. The pastor of the church invited me to their
home next-door for refreshments after my
[WM] Explain to us the Multiac part of the concert was over. I told him I would be over
controls on the top (E.Q. bars etc.) and how soon as I was packing my guitars and
you use that to your advantage on stage? equipment away. I found myself alone
in the church as everyone had left.
[Doyle] It has a volume slider, three band EQ, Suddenly a woman came through
a slider to blend the mic, a perpendicular slider the back door asking if I was Doyle
to blend the Session DI feature and a phase Dykes. She said that God had told
button if there happens to be any feedback her to bring something to me and she
problem in a particular room or stage setup. asked me about three times to make
sure that I was the “Brother Dykes” God
[WM] One other way that makes this guitar
had sent her to.
your Signature one is the white roses in-laid in
the fretboard. For someone who hasn’t heard It was obvious that she was autistic
the white rose story before, can you please give but very determined. She had a
our readers some insight into the significance of small foil package in her hand
that in your life? and said, “God told me to
bring this to you from my
[Doyle] Way back in 1980 I came in from a garden today!” Thinking it
concert and my wife and kids met me at the was a carrot or some kind
door. It was already very late so my wife went of garden vegetable I told
to bed and I stayed up and played a while with her I would enjoy eating it.
the kids (Heidi who was four years old and Holli She told me that I should look
who was two). Before I put them to bed we at it and that I should not eat
said our prayers and Heidi asked if we could it. When I opened the little foil
pray that God would give her a rose of her own package there was one little white
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