StabMasterArson posted:

please explain in endless loving paragraphs thanks

brickswereshat posted:

I just listened to Quantum Whatever and honestly, it wasn't THAT bad for it's genre. I've played with a LOT of spergy guitarists over the years, and while he DOES appear to be largely insufferable (I've never worked/played with/met him in person), as a guitarist he's... OK.

What I actually thought was genuinely interesting was the "Early Rush"/"Tony Levin" feel of his bass playing. Very clean and bright with a measured staccatto like Levin with all the chord arpeggio breakdowns of early Rush. Dr. Faustus, your soloing seems choppy and broken, where it almost seems like you're taking breaths in the solos. Those breaks feel unnatural and really jarring in the context of the fluidity of the rest of the song. This isn't "FLAME ON" or anything like that, but simple honest opinion. I honestly think that in the right band, you could be an excellent bassist (again following the Quantum Eh genre), but your guitar work needs to find a little more of an organic, fluid feel.

This post is 100% non-sarcastic, for the record.

this one new York times article posted:

At the next table, middle-schoolers with punk-rock haircuts feasted noisily on energy drinks and whipped cream. Fortuny sipped a white-chocolate mocha. He proceeded to demonstrate his personal cure for trolling, the Theory of the Green Hair.

“You have green hair,” he told me. “Did you know that?”

“No,” I said.

“Why not?”

“I look in the mirror. I see my hair is black.”

“That’s uh, interesting. I guess you understand that you have green hair about as well as you understand that you’re a terrible reporter.”

“What do you mean? What did I do?”

“That’s a very interesting reaction,” Fortuny said. “Why didn’t you get so defensive when I said you had green hair?” If I were certain that I wasn’t a terrible reporter, he explained, I would have laughed the suggestion off just as easily. The willingness of trolling “victims” to be hurt by words, he argued, makes them complicit, and trolling will end as soon as we all get over it.

GreatGreen posted:

I need this 9 string guitar so I can play metal using just the two lowest strings, 5th fret and below only.

White Dog Eggs posted:

WOOD IS MAGIC.

5er posted:

your posts weren't that bad. i seriously had the 'how it's made' music in my head while i was reading

StabMasterArson posted:

i was hoping Faustus would take over and post another novel about it. at least dog eggs realises he's spergin out and has some semblance of self-awareness

comes along bort posted:

that thing is butt ugly but i guarantee no metal or anything approaching "rock" is being made with it

Mr. Carlisle posted:

iostream.h posted:

Absolutely right, that's why I've started using an 11 Rack for 99% of my gigging. It lets met get really close to most of the sounds I need (in a cover band there's a lot of different tones) and the only people who can tell I'm using modeling are other musicians who just stand there with their arms crossed being snotty anyway, gently caress 'em, it takes me 10 minutes to set up and break down.

For gigs where we can really turn it up and have some fun sure, I'll break out the half stack and all but mostly, 11 Rack into the PA, that's it.

drunk asian neighbor posted:

Also yes a lot of these 8-string metal bands are poo poo but then you see someone like Tosin Abasi or Misha Mansoor and it's p. awesome to watch and listen to

White Dog Eggs posted:

WOOD IS MAGIC.

Dolphin posted:

It's amusing that people believe they can hear the tone wood through the pickups when nobody can even do that with acoustic instruments. Hell, professional violinists can't tell the difference between a stradivarius and a brand new violin.

Cool Blue Reason posted:

How does something like the eleven rack compare to AxeFX/other ridiculously expensive modeling racks?

Dolphin posted:

that's nothing, this guitar has 47 strings

KiddieGrinder posted:

should I get some really expensive Monster cables to really let the tone and warmth of my guitar(wood) to come through?

iostream.h posted:

Only if you're one of the poors.

quote:

he most advanced level of guitar cable is the Alessandro Instrument Pro, a double- balanced cable that has high-grade functionally-perfect silver conductors. Silver is the final word in conductor material, being the most musical metal known. These cables use Teflon insulation over a solid silver core. The solid center prevents strand-interaction, the greatest single source of cable distortion. Solid silver allows for the flattest, most dynamic frequency response currently available. Hard-cell foam insulation reduces dielectric involvement (distortion caused by the insulation material.)

Fax Sr posted:

holy poo poo

Fax Sr posted:

holy poo poo

ashgromnies posted:

Look at this fag only in it for the money. Sell out.

Petr posted:

like I said, first page for "beautiful guitars"

drunk asian neighbor posted:

What page is "guitars that look like kitchen chairs"

White Dog Eggs posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlcjMcLX1rk

Ebay Listing posted:

“Real Custom Epiphone, with poplar body. Melten lava tiger.”
Type:
Electric Guitar
Right-/ Left-Handed:
Right-Handed
Size:
4/4
No. of Strings:
6 string
Brand:
Epiphone
Home built custom Poplar paint axe Epiphone guitar. Very strong, sturdy, lightweight, authentic expensive Epiphone pickups and neck. Jack slot to the right of the bridge. Volume and tone control knobs with 3 way selector switch. 1 minor blemish on back of neck. Only one in the world.


Price:
£500.00
Postage:
£25.00 Economy Delivery

Petr posted:

I wonder what the most musical polymer is

Fax Sr posted:

buy the cheapest ones as long as they dont fall to bits by looking at them

Spanish Manlove posted:

Sperging over guitar cables is loving stupid too.

quote:

For best performance, use these cables with the arrows pointing the same direction as the signal flow (Instrument --> pedal effects --> amplifier.)

KiddieGrinder posted:

should I get some really expensive Monster cables to really let the tone and warmth of my guitar(wood) to come through?

Dolphin posted:

No, but guitars are one of the only audio hardware applications where good cables actually do matter because guitar cables are unbalanced and subject to a lot of EM interference.

White Dog Eggs posted:

Best way is to go to an electronics shop, get some nice well insulated wire/jack plugs and make it yourself, costs about half what you'd pay for something pre-made(assuming that you are sad enough to have wire strippers and a soldering iron to hand) plus you get to spill hot tin all over your loving fingers.

Spanish Manlove posted:

does it have braided shieldoing inside?
does it have a molded tip or epoxy covering the solder joint?

if so, then buy it