What/how does a glissando sound on a…

[Mike t.]

Just a curious mind, does anyone have a recorded glissando-slide on a C.B.A. Both straight down a row of buttons and between two rows of buttons, two fingers staggered? and does the different types/layouts of CBA have a better glissando, closer to a PA? What about the sound of a DBA glissando? I think it’s like telling someone what a foghorn sounds like without them ever hearing one?

 

[JerryPH]

If not on a PA, it sounds odd... jumps of thirds instead of a smoother slide.

Still works though.

 

[losthobos]

I think I hit a few in here .....

This is C system.....
Johnny Meijer could get a cool glissando sweeping a B system though as the steps allow a far smoother roll ...

 

[Mike t.]

Cool! That sounds great and the glissando’s sound great! That answers my questions.

 

[niels]

You are right re Johnny Meijer Losthobos

 

[kimric]

A glissando on a Janko system sounds pretty good.

 

[dak]

Just a curious mind, does anyone have a recorded glissando-slide on a C.B.A. Both straight down a row of buttons and between two rows of buttons, two fingers staggered? and does the different types/layouts of CBA have a better glissando, closer to a PA? What about the sound of a DBA glissando? I think it’s like telling someone what a foghorn sounds like without them ever hearing one?

Mentioned it before: range and reachability of a CBA is such that you get the equivalent of a sloppy "underarm glissando" not involving any gliding pretty easily. When you don't care about dislodging your buttons, that may be reasonably convenient.

 

[Alan Sharkis]

If not on a PA, it sounds odd... jumps of thirds instead of a smoother slide.

Still works though.

Nothing really odd. Using the outer row on a C-griff for example, the glissando sounds like a Cdim7, or an Ebdim7, or an F#dim7, or an Adim7. Move one column in and you’re up a half-step from each of those, etc. As you said, it works, but it works particularly well in The Stripper.

 

[JerryPH]

Nothing really odd. Using the outer row on a C-griff for example, the glissando sounds like a Cdim7, or an Ebdim7, or an F#dim7, or an Adim7. Move one column in and you’re up a half-step from each of those, etc. As you said, it works, but it works particularly well in The Stripper.

It's not really a fair test but I tried doing a few glissandos on the left hand on my free bass... what sounds "odd" is the distance between each note vs the more natural sounding on a PA, that's all that I meant.

Anyways, a glissando is just a mash of a ton of notes and the more you put, the better hidden it is. To see what I mean, do a single finger SLOW glissando on a CBA and PA, that's where it is most evident.

In the end, as I said, both work.