Telephone Guitar
Key Features
- Samples a Yamaha CPX500 NT acoustic guitar through a DIY telephone handset microphone for a deliberately filtered, crunchy tone.
- Includes fingerstyle, picked, muted fingerstyle, harmonic fingerstyle, harmonic picked, and bonus harmonic strum articulations.
- Keyswitchable articulation layout makes it possible to move between plucks, muted notes, and harmonics inside one Decent Sampler instrument.
- Uses one velocity layer and three round robins, keeping the library lightweight while adding enough variation for repeated notes.
- ADSR and velocity-sensitivity controls give basic performance shaping without leaving the Decent Sampler interface.
- Built-in bathroom impulse-response reverb, fire-crackle noise, low-pass filter, distortion, rotary, delay, chorus, and reverb support more processed lo-fi textures.
Description
Telephone Guitar is a Decent Sampler guitar library from Soroosh Mohassesi built from a Yamaha CPX500 NT acoustic recorded through a DIY telephone microphone. It is intentionally crunchy, narrow, and characterful rather than a realistic virtual acoustic guitar.
The library covers fingerstyle, picked, muted fingerstyle, harmonic fingerstyle, harmonic picked, and harmonic strum articulations. The official page lists one velocity layer, three round robins, keyswitching, ADSR and velocity-sensitivity controls, bathroom impulse-response reverb, fire-crackle noise, plus an FX panel with low-pass filter, distortion, rotary, delay, chorus, and reverb.
BPB's lead article frames the instrument as a deliberately lo-fi guitar color for producers who want something more unusual than a clean sampled guitar. The creator also says it was an experimental second sample library, which explains why the appeal is in its texture, imperfections, and DIY recording chain.
The current Gumroad listing is live, published, in stock, and priced at USD 0 with is_sales_limited set to false. Because Gumroad handles the claim and download flow, the product should link to the official page instead of being mirrored to R2.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Does Telephone Guitar require Kontakt?
No. The official page and BPB article both identify Telephone Guitar as a Decent Sampler library. SSA uses the sampler-library category for site handling, but users should load it in Decent Sampler rather than Kontakt.
Is Telephone Guitar meant to sound like a realistic acoustic guitar?
No. The creator explicitly positions it as a unique lo-fi sound rather than a realistic MIDI guitar replacement. The telephone microphone, old strings, and DIY recording chain are part of the character.
What articulations are included?
The official page lists fingerstyle, picked, muted fingerstyle, harmonic fingerstyle, harmonic picked, and harmonic strum. The articulations are keyswitchable so a part can move between standard plucks, muted notes, and harmonics.
Why is the download external?
The official product is distributed through Gumroad at a USD 0 base price. Since Gumroad controls the claim and file delivery flow, the safest download button is the specific Gumroad product page.
