This latest drop is a really unique new edition to our ever-growing Vaults range.

Perfect for songwriters. It’s called bridge guitar. It is an acoustic parlour guitar detuned and intimately miked using a DIY rubber bridge which mutes the sustain and the resonances of the guitar. The rubber bridge is a distinctive lowfi acoustic innovation pioneered by LA luthier Ruben Cox from his shop in Silverlake since the early 2010s. Cox salvaged inexpensive vintage acoustic guitars from brands such as Harmony, K, and Silvertone and replaced the wooden saddle with a rubber slab. This created a muted percussive tone which was reminiscent of a pizzicato on a cello or violin. This unusual sound caught on when Perfume Genius used it in his 2017 album Slip Away drew in artists like Jeff Tweedy from Wilco, Madison Cunningham, Phoebe Bridgers, and Taylor Swift on her album Folklore.

The rubber bridge sharply dampens sustain and high frequencies which makes it very ideal for vocal based music because it allows the voice to really shine on top of the guitar. In recent years, indie artists have embraced it not just in a studio context but also on Tik Tok using rubber bands using foam clamps, Babalat tennis racket dampeners in order to approximate the sound without having to permanently alter their guitars.

https://thecrowhillcompany.com/bridge-guitar/

Bridge Guitar

Oh, Pizzicato

My entry for the July/August 2025 Crow Hill composing challenge.

The brief was to create 30-60 seconds of reality/daytime TV incidental music, inspired by the early 2000's pizzicato strings trope (e.g. the "Six Feet Under" theme), but using the newly released Bridge Guitar instrument from the Crow Hill Company's free "Vaults" series.

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Tangled Motives

Crow Hill Company's Bridge Guitar Composing Challenge 
Prompt: Compose 30 – 60 seconds of ‘daytime/reality TV underscore’ using only Bridge Guitar from their free instruments

Video link : https://www.instagram.com/reel/DMt0ZBYtbM2/?igsh=MXQ0bWt6MHFqdzhxbQ==

Honestly composing using only plucks and a single instrument for another style completely was though. I had in mind the Intro title-sequence of a regular daily tv-serie. 

Feel free to tell me what you think about it :) this isn't an elaborate work, mostly just for fun.

Le Petit Pont

Le Petit Pont - Crow Hill Company's Bridge Guitar Composing Challenge

I wrote this short piece demonstrating the Crow Hill Vault Plugin "Bridge Guitar"  to pay homage to the Six Feet Under theme

Was it only a dream?



"Idiots at work"

An entry for the July/August 2025 Crow Hill composing challenge.

The brief was to create 30-60 seconds of reality/daytime TV incidental music, using the newly-released Bridge Guitar instrument from the Crow Hill Company's free "Vaults" series.




Never knowingly competent

Bridge Guitar Composing Challenge

Jonathan Mele is a New York City based drummer composer producer and engineer.

Was it only a dream?

JAMele Music