A new approach to the electric violin, equally suited to violinists who are primarily electric or acoustic players.
This page is still unfinished. There's a lot more info and pics coming soon about the Sycorax so please check back regularly for updates to this page!
The price above is the full price. The first 5 or so instruments will be available at discounts of 5% to 25% depending on the details of the specification.
More pictures and demo recordings will be added to this page over the next few months.
Model 1 has a wooden top and back arches and the soundpost rests on the back arch. This model therefore has extra resonances and tonal complexity caused by the movement of the back - it sounds closer to an acoustic tone. In fact if you couldn't see it, it could easily be mistaken for an acoustic in a live amplification situation.
Model 2 as pictured here has a wooden top and the soundpost rests on a brace built into the body. This model therefore has a simpler more direct tone, and is cheaper to make. The tone and feel are still more like an acoustic than most electric violins since it still has a wooden top, soundpost, and bass bar system the same as model 1. The back arch on model 2 is cosmetic and doesn't affect the tone. Model 2 may suit players who want a simpler, more focused tone to sit well in a complex band with many instruments, or who use lots of effects and want to start from a simpler timbral starting point while still having the same natural feel and basic tone of the Sycorax violin. It’s a sound with a little less complexity than an acoustic violin, but with the basic characteristics of the acoustic sound – which in the context of a full electric band will cut through the mix more clearly than an acoustic would, without losing any of the defining characteristics of a violin sound. It’s like a streamlined version of an acoustic violin’s tone.