Guthrie Govan Discussion

alexkhan · Joined: 10 Sep 2004 Posts: 2783 Location: Chino, CA

Well, you now know why you haven't been seeing much of me around here lately:

www.suhrguitars.com

And here's the section on Guthrie:

http://www.suhrguitars.com/artists.aspx?artist=govan

I've been putting in some really long hours to get this done. It's still Phase 1 and there'll be much more content being added as time goes by - especially with an expanded photo gallery with a pro photo studio setup right inside the shop to take great photos of every guitar being shipped and a bunch of new sound clips from the likes of Scott Henderson, Mike Landau, Kirk Fletcher, Steve Hunter, Robert Marcello, etc. There'll be new video clips of Al Estrada doing the VH tribute stuff and of Nick Sterling as well. Enjoy!
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dominique1 · Joined: 23 Oct 2005 Posts: 6

It's really a great website, but this can't be right

markmcg · Joined: 14 Sep 2004 Posts: 191 Location: Edinburgh

Fantastic upgrade to the website...love the new galleries.
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alexkhan · Joined: 10 Sep 2004 Posts: 2783 Location: Chino, CA

alexkhan · Joined: 10 Sep 2004 Posts: 2783 Location: Chino, CA

Onion · Joined: 11 Jan 2006 Posts: 30

site looks good. Cool

all about .ogg

http://www.vorbis.com/faq/#what

sumis · Joined: 22 Feb 2005 Posts: 570 Location: gothenburg, sweden

congratulations! great work. sure, still things to do, but it's already a great site. the structure is really well planned.

cool.

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frankus · Posted: Mon May 15, 2006 8:22 am Post subject:

dominique1 · Joined: 23 Oct 2005 Posts: 6

Hi,

I use Slack and Debian etch. My problem is not so much with MP3, but with for instance WMV and MOV. As far as I know their are no GPL/OpenSource drivers/codecs for this format, you have the codecs from mplayerhq.hu, but they are as far as I know not legal.
I once tried these illegal (before I knew) codecs and they do not work properly. Try for instance a couple of the the Guthrie videos in MOV-format on the tonemerchants site, they skip (not all of them) in both video and sound, this also happens with WMV.
And yes I would also recommend PNG Very Happy

I don't know if Suhr pays any money for using MP3, JPEG, WMV(?) or MOV(?), but if your not using a Fender headstock because of the possible lawsuit, then why use MP3, JPEG, WMV(?) or MOV(?)...well because not a lot of people know about this and because you and I brought this up...we might have educated some people a bit Very Happy

frankus · Posted: Mon May 15, 2006 12:45 pm Post subject:

Okay fair does, with all the mention of Ogg I assumed it had to be audio codecs as that's what Ogg is.

Suhr will probably be using a graphics suite like Photoshop and therefore storing things in jpeg is the responsibility of the company manufacturing the graphics software. The same for the mp3s the recording software or decryption sfotware will take the onus.

To follow the headstock analogy it'd be like the maker of the CNC mill paying Fender a royalty to recreate the headstock, daft when the CNC has such a broad range of uses but not so when the graphics package was such a small range of output formats.

As for the WMV and MOV formats, I keep my lappy dual boot for this reason, well more so for stylesheets and web compatability than videos. I suppose either Real or Quicktime would be the sensible formats, BUT I do think the idea of converting all the files to a common cross platform format to suit all operating systems will be very intensive work to appease a very small following.

In 1999 I was a very vocal proponent of non-proprietary file formats but by 2001 I was very much of the mind that I wasn't going to ask for people's assistance in making my OS play with everyone elses.. be that IMAP, DHCP, File formats etc. It was my job to find a way to make it work by contributing to the projects.

I love PNG too, but the fact is the Suhr site used to be about 6 pages, now look at it. Wow! The major battle has been fought and won: content.

All the other issues are just little skirmishes that can play themselves out. I'd be happier if it was Ruby Rails on Apache 2 and not Asp on IIS but even Micro$oft can be used for good sometimes Wink

Before there's a battle over formats howabout the footwork to reinforce that the interweb can sell stuff and interaction on the internet and communities assist sales. By creating more depth to the site I reckon more people will bookmark the site and spread the name of Suhr. You know it'd be an ideal time to make a poking gesture Guthrie-wards and wonder if he'll follow suit by upping the amount of web content he provides on the site.

..you could try and shame him by saying that Suhr has more details on Guthrie than http://www.guthriegovan.co.uk/ or even http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guthrie_Govan Laughing

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Carlo · Joined: 13 Sep 2004 Posts: 408

The page is looking top! keep up the good work Ed Smile

M@ · Joined: 12 Mar 2005 Posts: 214 Location: Hong Kong

Finally the Suhr site looks professional!

Good one!
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