Raed Khashoukgi plays the ToneWeaver Banshee.
His dual Bartolini pickups provide their world-famous warmth, and dual Bartolini active-circuit preamps carry the full rich sound to the amp for magnificent tone.
The patented Fanned-Frets add extra depth to the low bass (featured in the recording below), and a crisp focus and drive to the higher melody range.
Here’s what Raed says about his Megatar --
“The Megatar offers me musical possibilities that go beyond the regular realms of composition. In the past I had to imagine the bass while playing guitar - and vice versa - but now I can do both simultaneously: and things are happening that didn’t happen before. It’s new land, an adventure into undiscovered territory. The Megatar is a well of new ideas.”
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“Der Klang des Megatar, die Spieltechnik, die harmonischen Mšglichkeiten sind verfŸhrerisch. Ob ich es spiele, oder nicht; stŠndig suche ich nach den neuen Mšglichkeiten die in diesem Instrument liegen. Und sie sind noch lange nicht ausgeschšpft!”
(“The sound of the Megatar, the playing technique, the harmonic possibilities are seductive. If I play it or not; I am constantly searching out the new possibilities that lay within the instrument. And they are yet to be discovered!”)
In “A Day’s Cycle” (also available on this website in video section), Raed provides a composition with different movements, to match the movement of a life through a day ...
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A Day’s Cycle Raed Khashoukgi
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