You look at the guitar neck too much when you play!  (HAHA - JUST KIDDING)
Amazing how well you know the fret board my friend - Simply Amazing!

Hey! Thanks for waking me up ; )

I know I am just about asleep when I'm recording those things, but that's when I do my best work.. I've always been totally confused by those crazy dots on the neck of the guitar ; )

Appreciate it,

Hashi.

You are very good indeed and will probably help sell some Cargos. You just need a better camera and I am sure we will still just see a blur where your fingers should be.

Thanks, Kramster:

I would like to help sell some Cargo's although they seem to be nearly impossible to get from what I hear over on the AFG. Maybe they're doing pretty well. I think I got into the Cargo before the crowd did. I was just after a good travel instrument after I switched away from electrics (and my perfect travel guitar a g2t Steinberger).

Anyway: I hate to say this, but I borrowed a very nice Sony Video Camera (a recent 60GB HD 1MP one) this weekend from work and I set it up, figured it out as well as I could in an hour, and used it along with my h4 to make a video. There must be a curse following me around for video.

No matter what I set it up as, I still can't get the blur away from my hands. I think that I tend to like low light and that is a problem. As soon as the auto F-stop goes to work, opens up and slows the shutter speed, I seem to be out of the range of the usual capture ability. I was playing with a pick at the time and that is a fair bit quicker, but I really think now that the light is the biggest problem.

I'll have to drag in a couple of bright lights, or just start doing these outside. I would kind of like to see my fingers once in awhile too ;)

Thanks,

Hashi.

I like my Cargo ..had it a couple weeks and like my 5i even more...if you can believe it. Have an older Perfomer X too but play it less. Need more arms and hands I guess.
More light would help a lot in you video... but the way you play... a blur will still be there as you are ahead of the technology. And that is cool.

I learned a lot about my playing style by video taping myself on stage.
Especially when my cameraman would shoot down my neck or from the bridge looking back up the neck.

Opened my eyes to some things I was doing right and many that i did wrong.  HAHA!

Hi Rain,

That's why I started taping in the first place. I wanted to improve in some other way than just practicing and hoping I was getting as much benefit as possible from it.

I started audio-taping myself nearly all the time and was just .. shocked to hear how bad it sounded ; )

That was years ago, but that drove me in many good directions to start the endless path of fixing things up a little better. Next was video, just 2 months ago or so, and that is also very helpful, although as a one-guy operation, I am sometimes just too busy hitting 'start' buttons and then trying to actually play something to really represent how I look or play when gigging.

Once in awhile I notice someone in the audience at a gig that is video-taping and I always mean to ask if I can get a copy or if they can YouTube it, but I can hardly keep my eyes open , as you can see, so I usually forget about asking before the set it up.

Oh well, not great, but helpful anyway.

Hashi

Hashi,

Great playing!  I'm wondering...what pickup is in your Cargo?  Fishman or L.R. Baggs? 

Thanks, tombo:

It's a relatively early Cargo when they only offered a Fishman. I'm not sure which Fishman, but its nothing too exotic.

I just searched and it is a Fishman Acoustic Matrix VT pick-up. It has a volume knob inside the sound hole and another dial that does . well .. I have no idea. It sure isn't tone. Its either really subtle or broken ; )

Hashi.

Edit: Speaking of pickups, I think a guy on the forum I heard of this one at (agf) is having a K&K Western Mini installed and I'm really curious about that. I've messaged him over there but I don't think he's noticed. I've no idea how anyone can get through that oddball soundhole to the bridge and further.

Amazing.  Very impressive playing and a very impressive guitar.