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Lets Stay Friends posted:I love how i can make the transformers transforming noise with this thing Clips please!
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ajegwu posted:The robot Les Paul automatically adjusts the intonation and can do alternate tunings also. No it merely guides you in adjusting intonation adjustments. The only thing it'll do automatically is turn the tuning heads.
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Engine Fortegue posted:Clips please! Ditto, if we don't hear it, we don't believe it.
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ashlandpunk83 posted:It's an ugly color, but you gotta admit that it's pretty drat cool that it tunes itself and has a built-in intonation function that tells you how many turns to turn the wheels on the bridge. Meh, I just use different guitars for different tunings and a TU2 if my locking tuners for some reason let me down. Currently the Mexi-Strat is Eb, the Vintage Jap Strat E and the Agile AL3000, C open (Started learning some Devin Townsend today  )Three lovely guitars for less than the price of one robot guitar and as we all know, move guitars = better.
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Zakalwe posted:Meh, I just use different guitars for different tunings and a TU2 if my locking tuners for some reason let me down. Currently the Mexi-Strat is Eb, the Vintage Jap Strat E and the Agile AL3000, C open (Started learning some Devin Townsend today 
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ashlandpunk83 posted:It's an ugly color, but you gotta admit that it's pretty drat cool that it tunes itself and has a built-in intonation function that tells you how many turns to turn the wheels on the bridge. The body color is the only thing I like about it.
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Revvik posted:The body color is the only thing I like about it. Grape Drink SG
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That is the same color as the walls to my bedroom and my favorite shirt. If they made a model that color that didn't have the robotic nonsense and cost under $1,000 I would love one, but as long as I can save several grand by manually tuning my guitar there is no reason. Also I have no need to change tunings on the fly. 11 guitars Susano? I'm working my way there with four, but hell I find myself needing to get rid of the ones I don't use.
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Revvik posted:That is the same color as the walls to my bedroom and my favorite shirt. If they made a model that color that didn't have the robotic nonsense and cost under $1,000 I would love one, but as long as I can save several grand by manually tuning my guitar there is no reason. I think you missed the joke with the picture he posted.
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Susano-maku da! posted:I love looking through Sonic Youth's gear page. There are so many weird flea market guitars in their catalogue. Being their tour guitar tech would be fun. I just got my first bass today!  She's a cream SX Jazz and and cheap as gently caress, but I love her so far  even though I dinged her on the side of a table within 20 minutes on bringing her home   playing bass is fun as hell after years of guitar
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My first midi keyboard is on the way, and I'm pretty excited. I opted for something that could slide easily into my backpack. Hopefully its as good as the reviews say. Zisky fucked around with this message at 18:01 on Apr 4, 2008 |
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Apr 4, 2008 09:17
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LOO posted:To me, brand new flat-wounds on an acoustic sound like 3 month old round-wounds. Dead. I hated them. They nearly put me off flats for good. Just as you described, "dead like 3 month old rounds." Then I tried a friend's Gretsch with some Pyramid flats... there's a reason they go for ~$50 a set: Because they're not horrible. I've had a set of Pyramids on my Jazzmaster for about a year and they still sound fantastic. I put some TI's on my Club bass & Jazz bass, too. Awesome.
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Ok I've officially acquired Allen Woody syndrome [example of this disease, a small portion of Woody's 430+ bass collection]  In addition to wanting a Modulus Q5, an Epiphone Jack Casady, a Lakland Hollowbody w/ Darkstars... I now want a Gibson EB-3L. 
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3toes posted:I now want a Gibson EB-3L.
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Uncle Caveman posted:Epiphone's set-neck EB-3 is 34" scale, and has the Vari-Tone control. Yeah, I've been looking at it... No clue as to its reliability or quality as a gigging instrument though.
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Uncle Caveman posted:Epiphone's set-neck EB-3 is 34" scale, and has the Vari-Tone control. Sorry for the derail/double-post... but do you know if it's actual Vari-Tone or just a pickup selector? EDIT: Upon further research... it's just a pickup selector
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Apr 4, 2008 16:41
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ECTO-1 posted:I love looking through Sonic Youth's gear page. There are so many weird flea market guitars in their catalogue. Yeah I've been meaning to buy a bass as well, considering I play guitar I figure it won't be much of an adjustment. The only thing I'd need to learn is tuning. How much was this bass?
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Apr 4, 2008 19:07
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QuantumKat posted:Yeah I've been meaning to buy a bass as well, considering I play guitar I figure it won't be much of an adjustment. You'd be surprised. You're moving from a melody driven instrument to a rhythmically driven instrument.
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Apr 4, 2008 19:11
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I thought the same thing about the bass, until I played one in a guitar shop. It's a whole different instrument. The tuning is essentially the same as a guitar, and its roughly the same shape. That's about where the similarities end. Also if you think guitar hurts your fingers 
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Apr 4, 2008 19:35
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Amen. I just moved over to playing bass a couple months ago. I figured, "oh, this will be easy, it's like a guitar with two fewer strings." Not so much.
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Apr 4, 2008 21:37
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Mighty Scoop posted:Amen. I just moved over to playing bass a couple months ago. I figured, "oh, this will be easy, it's like a guitar with two fewer strings."
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Apr 4, 2008 22:19
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3toes posted:You'd be surprised. You're moving from a melody driven instrument to a rhythmically driven instrument. I remember in a thread when you said you should go with the philosophy that a bass is a "drum set with 96 (or however many) toms." Probably the best advice about bass you can really say.
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Mike N Eich posted:I remember in a thread when you said you should go with the philosophy that a bass is a "drum set with 96 (or however many) toms." Probably the best advice about bass you can really say. Haha yeah pretty much. Although I've kind of reworked that theory. Now I think of the root note as my kick, the octave (and sometimes the 5ths/etc) as the snare. And the melodic fills as toms/crashes.
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 Got this as a little Christmas present to myself which makes it my most recent gear purchase. It's a Vaccaro Astrolite for anyone interested. I had been casually checking eBay for Vaccaro guitars for about a year so I kind of bought it on a whim having never even seen a really decent picture of one. I don't recall playing on a neck that I like better than this one. It sounds great too with some P-90 type pickups in it. The bridge isn't original (which I knew before I bought it) and I had to have the saddles re-cut because the strings were sitting slightly crooked. The serial number is "0600" which is sort of cool. Overall I love it.
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What a coincidence, I was going over Vaccaro's site earlier today! I can't say I'm as much of a fan of their others models as I am of the Astrolite but I really do love it. Congratulations on a way cool buy.
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I don't have pictures, but I am waiting on a high nut for slide playing, a glass slide, and a 4-way switch for my telecaster to arrive by the way, how do I learn to be good at playing slide?
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cylyk posted:I don't have pictures, but I am waiting on a high nut for slide playing, a glass slide, and a 4-way switch for my telecaster to arrive You have to have really good feel. It's really vague but that's the only way I can describe it to people when they ask me about it. You have to realize that with a slide there are several ways to get to a note and sound it with slurring up, slurring down, etc...
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QuantumKat posted:Yeah I've been meaning to buy a bass as well, considering I play guitar I figure it won't be much of an adjustment. The only thing I'd need to learn is tuning. How much was this bass? got mine for NZ$399, but thats probably inflated for shipping to New Zealand stores. the reviewers on harmony-central all seem to get theirs at around US$130 new http://reviews.harmony-central.com/reviews/Electric+Bass/product/SX/Jazz+Bass/10/1
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cylyk posted:I don't have pictures, but I am waiting on a high nut for slide playing, a glass slide, and a 4-way switch for my telecaster to arrive I've probably just hosed up putting it on, but the high nut I got yesterday only allows half of my strings to be in tune at a time. Want the bass strings in tune? Well okay, but it'll shift the whole drat thing and pull the top three out of tune.
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The Book I Read posted:I've probably just hosed up putting it on, but the high nut I got yesterday only allows half of my strings to be in tune at a time. Want the bass strings in tune? Well okay, but it'll shift the whole drat thing and pull the top three out of tune.
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The Book I Read posted:I've probably just hosed up putting it on, but the high nut I got yesterday only allows half of my strings to be in tune at a time. Want the bass strings in tune? Well okay, but it'll shift the whole drat thing and pull the top three out of tune. When you say "shift the whole drat thing and pull the top three out of tune," do you mean to say that it isn't actually secured to the neck?
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Agreed posted:When you say "shift the whole drat thing and pull the top three out of tune," do you mean to say that it isn't actually secured to the neck? He probably means a slide extension nut like this thing here. http://www.harmony-central.com/articles/tips/instant_slide_guitar_setup_tech/
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Is that usually just called a "high nut?" I'm sorry, I'm totally clueless about slide (except that I like how it sounds). Do they usually have problems staying in tune?
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Agreed posted:Is that usually just called a "high nut?" I'm sorry, I'm totally clueless about slide (except that I like how it sounds). Do they usually have problems staying in tune? I'm pretty much on the same level as you. Only ever seen one of these in a video. No idea how well they perform.
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My 12 string acoustic has the coolest thing ever. Adjustable bridge height. Its got these two big screws on either side of the bridge that you can turn with just a guitar pick, and you can adjust the action from nice and low for fretting to really high for slide playing. I've never seen this on any other guitar, anyone ever see something like this?
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Uh my $200 SX electric has that I believe!
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Darth Fungus posted:I've never seen this on any other guitar, anyone ever see something like this?
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Yes, I know this is really common on electric guitars and archtops. But I've never seen it on an acoustic with a fixed bridge. At least, I've seen it only once.
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My 12 string acoustic has height adjusters on the saddle too. It is a cheapy Japanese made one that I picked up at a thrift store.
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