这是VAI的一段文章的中文翻译,求它的英文版。。。帮忙哦!!!
我想设计一把有着经典外观的吉他。我们尝试了各种颜色搭配,最后我决定在白色琴体上搭配金色金属件。Ibanez在这种琴开始发售的时候给我送来了4把。它们是量产型号,完全没有任何修改。我甚至分不清楚它们。我开始弹它们,想找出一把作为常用琴。
吉他就像雪花一样,没有两把是完全一样的。这4把琴的音色与手感都有一点不同。不是哪个更好,只是不同而已。
与此同时,我也在与DiMarzio合作设计新的拾音器。我们做了4种,并且给每个取了一个哈雷戴维森引擎风格的名字。它们是Flathead、Knucklehead、Panhead和Evolution。我最喜欢的是Evolution,所以DiMarzio把它作为了量产型号。
我喜欢Evolution的原因在于它的输出功率高,去除过多高频延伸的同时音色很平滑,并且低频紧。我把它安装到了一把新的白色Jem吉他上。我必须在吉他上写点什么来分开它们,这就是Evo名字的由来。另一把琴得到了Flo的名字,原因过一会儿再透露~
虽然Evo技术上说与其他量产型号没什么不同,但是她的触感与音色中的某些东西非常打动我。直到今天,无论何时看到她,我都会怦然心动。无论我的生活发生怎样的变化,高潮或者低谷,她总是我温暖的避难所。我看到或者触摸到她的感觉就像你在温暖的家里感到的那种安全与放松,胜似假日才有的舒适。
我在Sex And Religion的录音之前开始弹这把琴,从那时起她就成为了我的主要乐器。我只在需要寻找那种Evo做不出来的音色的时候才去尝试其他吉他。Flo安装了一个Fernandez延音器,这段时间我常用她,有两个原因:首先我需要用到延音,另外可怜的Evo已经再经不起折腾了。我不想给Evo安装延音器,因为那样会改变她的音色。
我有几把Evo与Flo的备用琴用来演出。我把原来的Evo II给了Charlie Bolis,他是我录音室技师中的一个很酷的家伙。
虽然Evo是电线与木头做出来的,但我不知道对她投入了多么深的感情。我融入了她的思想中。我想当你演奏一件乐器足够长时间以后,它就成为了你自己的延伸,除了你自己,只有它才能最接近你的思想。它成为了你身体的一部分,或者你成为了它的一部分。它是艺术家用来表达自己情感与心中秘密的工具。对我来说,Evo表达了我的心声,她看到了我的沮丧与失落,看到了我的愉悦与爱,并且她常常能够感到那些情绪带来的冲动。我通过她来呐喊、哭泣,来祈祷、流血,就像我说的那样,虽然她是木头与电线,但是她有乐器的灵魂。我不知道我有多喜欢她,但是我知道她在化作尘土之前,我们还有很长的时间在一起。
Steve Vai
参考答案:want to design have the classical outward appearance the guitar. Weattempted each kind of color to match, finally I decided matched thegolden color metal on the white qin body. Ibanez starts the time inthis kind of qin which sells to me has sent 4. They are the quantityproduce the model, completely does not have any revision. I evendivide am not clear they. I start to shoot them, wants to discovertakes the commonly used qin. The guitar likes the snowflake to be same, does not have two iscompletely same. This 4 all has the qin timbre and feel a difference.Which isn't is better, only is different. At the same time, I also in design the new acoustic pickup with theDiMarzio cooperation. We have made 4 kinds, and has taken a Halley foreach the Davisson engine style name. They are Flathead, Knucklehead,Panhead and Evolution. I most like am Evolution, therefore DiMarziohad taken it the quantity produces the model. I like Evolution the reason lying in its output high, removes at thesame time timbre which excessively many high frequency extends verysmoothly, and low frequency is tight. I installed it on a new whiteJem guitar. I must write any on the guitar to separate them, this isthe Evo name origin. Another qin obtained the Flo name, reason a whilehas disclosed ~ again Although in the Evo technology said produces model any withother quantities not to be different, but in her touch and the timbrecertain things extremely move me. Until today, whenever saw she, I allcan palpitate with excitement eager. How change regardless of my lifedoes have, high tide or trough, her always my warm refuge shelter. Isaw or touches her feeling to like you that kind of security whichfelt in the warm family with to relax, surpasses the comfort which theholiday only then has. I in before Sex And Religion sound recording starts ball this the qin,since then she has become my main musical instrument. I only in needto seek that kind of Evo cannot do timbre time only then attemptsother guitars. Flo has installed Fernandez 延音, this period of timeI am commonly used she, some two reasons: First I need to use 延音,moreover pitiful Evo already again withstand tossed about. I do notwant to give the Evo installment 延音, because such can change hertimbre. I have several Evo and the Flo spare qin use for to perform. I II havegiven original Evo Charlie Bolis, he is in an my recording roomtechnician's very cruel fellow. Although Evo is the electric wire and the wood makes, but I did notknow invested the how deep sentiment to her. I melted into in herthought. I want to work as you play after musical instrument enoughlong time, it has become you extending, except you, only has it to beable most to approach your thought. It has become a your body part, oryou have become its part. It is the artist uses for to express in theoneself emotion and the heart the secret tool. For me that, Evoexpressed my aspiration, she saw I depressed with lost, see mejoyfully with the love, and she frequently can feel these mood bringimpulse. I cry out, the sob through her, prayed, bleeds, likes suchwhich I said, although she is the wood and the electric wire, but shehas the musical instrument the soul. I did not know I have like her,but I knew she in makes in front of the dust, we also have the verylong time in the same place.