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fullroundaction posted:
I used one of those to make a Muse-esque (Musesque?) MIDI touch pad guitar for my son a couple of years ago.  It hooks up to a Korg Kaoss Pad and makes really, really funky sounds. Chief among them, a terrible ticking sound unless you dial the tone knob way down - I've got the pickup wiring way too close to the microcontroller wiring, and it's picking up the PWM signal that drives the LED. *sigh* It works great otherwise though, lots of fun to dink around with. Obligatory touch pad controller kit link: http://www.ebay.com/itm/301502419869
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I got a fairly inexpensive bass to play with, one of the Traben standard series. Okay sounding active pickups, a 3-band eq, volume, and a blender pot. I'm very enamored of blender pots now holy poo poo this thing is neat e:vvv yeah they have a bunch of stupid looking options but mine is just a glossy black with a bridge that is Just A Bridge and I am 100% cool with this Shugojin fucked around with this message at 00:50 on Mar 26, 2015 |
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Shugojin posted:I got a fairly inexpensive bass to play with, one of the Traben standard series. Okay sounding active pickups, a 3-band eq, volume, and a blender pot. I forgot all about these and now that you reminded me, I used to know someone who had one of them with the extra stupid flame/tribal bridge.
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Mar 26, 2015 00:45
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Got everything back together and it all works well.  
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Mar 26, 2015 08:42
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drat. I remember when having a Squier was kind-of like being the kid who's eating a greasy homemade hamburger on untoasted white bread while all the other kids around are eating name-brand McDonald's burgers. Now, that's just not the case. I love it. That guitar looks fun.
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Mar 26, 2015 19:04
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tarlibone posted:drat. It's all about how you play it, not how much it costs.
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Mar 26, 2015 19:07
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Sockington posted:Got everything back together and it all works well. Goddamn it you're a better photographer than me too!
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Mar 26, 2015 19:13
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Spanish Manlove posted:It's all about how you play it, not how much it costs. That and the McDonalds burger has poo poo quality control and they keep jacking the prices year after year. You're just paying for the name on the wrapper.
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Mar 26, 2015 22:14
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Sockington posted:Got everything back together and it all works well. hot as gently caress
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Mar 27, 2015 00:32
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nrr posted:hot as gently caress yeah i want to touch this guitar in ways that don't fully make sense to me right now
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Mar 27, 2015 03:51
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Sockington posted:Got everything back together and it all works well. There is nothing about this that isn't amazing. I find it funny that the guitar started out life as a Xaviere guitar and now, I assume, contains no parts from the original. What did you do with all the old pieces? And I have a feeling you mentioned this, but what pickups did you go for?
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He now needs to rebuild the original guitar from all the parts removed from that one, and name it Theseus. Also, that is awesome. I normally don't like gold on instruments, but that is one of the prettiest guitars I've seen in a while.
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I am installing a pair of Artec GVH humbuckers in my AL-2000 and they are designed for coil tap. I have no drat interest in that jibber jabber, so I just installed the standard wires. This leaves two that sodder together and the 5th mystery freaking wire that no one (including the freaking diagrams) ever mentions but apparently is another ground if you coil tap. Do I have to ground that too if I don't coil tap? Coil tap COIL TAP TAP TAP TAP. Sorry working in the small confines of a LP style guitar with the worlds shittiest soldering iron is getting to me. Also, thank you Artec for using the smallest freaking wires known to mankind
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http://www.jazzguitar.be/jazz_blues_chord_progressions.html: Once again I'm heading back to this site. Everyone knows blues, but this has a great sequence of progressively harder versions, each with backing tracks and varied tabs for each style. The first set of tabs over the most basic version uses rootless voicings in the tab, so there's something for everyone. Spanish Manlove posted:It's all about how you play it, not how much it costs. It's not what you play, it's what you play. BOOOOOM! Southern Heel fucked around with this message at 08:53 on Mar 27, 2015 |
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unlawfulsoup posted:I am installing a pair of Artec GVH humbuckers in my AL-2000 and they are designed for coil tap. I have no drat interest in that jibber jabber, so I just installed the standard wires. This leaves two that sodder together and the 5th mystery freaking wire that no one (including the freaking diagrams) ever mentions but apparently is another ground if you coil tap. Do I have to ground that too if I don't coil tap? Coil tap COIL TAP TAP TAP TAP. Sorry working in the small confines of a LP style guitar with the worlds shittiest soldering iron is getting to me. Also, thank you Artec for using the smallest freaking wires known to mankind Is it a humbucker that is meant for both coil splitting and coil tapping? I had always wondered why no one seem to do it, but I never heard of it actually being done. I just assumed it would either be difficult to construct or not a useful feature. I am guessing Artec can't be the only one to do this. They don't seem like the innovative types. Now that I think about it, wouldn't coil tapping require two extra wires? One for the negative from the upper coil and one for the positive from the lower coil. Maybe its not what I originally thought.
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http://www.eastwoodguitars.com/discontinued-items/ ... so, there's a 20% off coupon there.
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Gripen5 posted:Yeah. I got rid of mine. It just killed my shoulder. I'm sure it would have effected my back if I used it longer. The limited upper fret access bothered me as well, but in the end it was all about the weight. Think my Agile was 10 lbs. I love the way LPs look, but I just don't think they are meant for me. That's one of the things I like best about my SG, it's soooo light, I couldn't believe it when I first picked it up. It's like wearing nothing at all, nothing at all.
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unlawfulsoup posted:I am installing a pair of Artec GVH humbuckers in my AL-2000 and they are designed for coil tap. I have no drat interest in that jibber jabber, so I just installed the standard wires. This leaves two that sodder together and the 5th mystery freaking wire that no one (including the freaking diagrams) ever mentions but apparently is another ground if you coil tap. Do I have to ground that too if I don't coil tap? Coil tap COIL TAP TAP TAP TAP. Sorry working in the small confines of a LP style guitar with the worlds shittiest soldering iron is getting to me. Also, thank you Artec for using the smallest freaking wires known to mankind Assuming they're the same as GFS since they're the same manufacturer red and white get soldered together if you're not coil tapping, green is hot, and black and bare are ground i.e. the back of the volume pot. IIRC they use the Seymour Duncan color code so you can go by their diagrams.
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So not my guitar, but I had to share because it looks slick as poo poo.  This is one of my instructors guitars, it's an early 2000's Custom Classic American Strat. It was brought to me with all the frets looking like this:  He absolutely played the poo poo out of this guitar for the last 15 years. The treble side had ben worn almost flat and the dents were insane. I knew I couldn't just level them and be done. So I had to reradius the frets, then level it out and then do a full dressing. I also ordered him a gold guard.
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Gripen5 posted:Is it a humbucker that is meant for both coil splitting and coil tapping? I had always wondered why no one seem to do it, but I never heard of it actually being done. I just assumed it would either be difficult to construct or not a useful feature. I am guessing Artec can't be the only one to do this. They don't seem like the innovative types. I don't think it does both, like you said Artec are not exactly leading the way in pickup innovation. comes along bort posted:Assuming they're the same as GFS since they're the same manufacturer red and white get soldered together if you're not coil tapping, green is hot, and black and bare are ground i.e. the back of the volume pot. IIRC they use the Seymour Duncan color code so you can go by their diagrams. Yeah, I am 90% sure now that the bare is another ground. Everything else is properly soldered/attached. I have the Artec diagrams, it is just annoying that they don't mention the bare one more clearly, because its just like 'oh hey here is another wire'. edit: grounded the bare one, everything works 100% now; night and day difference between mediocre ceramic stock pickups 
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Mar 27, 2015 18:44
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I really never realised until recently how awesome black and gold go together on fenders
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How would a lazy person block a trem? Coins? Give me your lifehacks
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baka kaba posted:How would a lazy person block a trem? Coins? Give me your lifehacks When I got my Strat, there was the rubber cap from the bottom of a cane jammed in there.
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Mar 27, 2015 19:54
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I think I used some batteries when I was a kid
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Tape together some small stacks of pennies.
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I feel lame that the only lovely hacked together fix on any of my guitars is the little bit of duct tape I have on the underside of a Seymour Duncan Hot Rails because apparently the pickup is held inside the plastic casing by some glue which promptly failed causing it to fall inside my strat.
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Sockington posted:Got everything back together and it all works well. Where did you get your pickguard? Finally ready to work on my JM again and I want gold over my sonic blue.
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Shugojin posted:I feel lame that the only lovely hacked together fix on any of my guitars is the little bit of duct tape I have on the underside of a Seymour Duncan Hot Rails because apparently the pickup is held inside the plastic casing by some glue which promptly failed causing it to fall inside my strat. you're not an actual guitarist until you've embraced you inner macgyver
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Gripen5 posted:There is nothing about this that isn't amazing. I find it funny that the guitar started out life as a Xaviere guitar and now, I assume, contains no parts from the original. What did you do with all the old pieces? And I have a feeling you mentioned this, but what pickups did you go for? Err. Sorta. I ordered the Xaivere since I'd only had the Squier VI and liked the offset body shape. Stuck on a Squier Vintage Modified neck from ebay that I had ordered for a different project. I greatly missed the tremolo though, so I sold the Xaivere neck to some dude locally and the body to a goon. I ordered a loaded Modern Player body to mess around with and switched out the pickups with some old ones from my 2014 Gibson LPJ (61' Zebra humbuckers, in the burstbucker family). I upgraded the tremolo with the AVRI unit after using a $2k Fender JM in the local store. I ended up mailing the old tremolo unit to the same goon who has the body in exchange for the gold pickguard. The nut is pretty 'meh' still and a higher quality bridge probably wouldn't hurt (maybe Nashville fitment roller bridge later on). The coil cut actually works kind of nice with the bridge in full humbucker and the neck in single coil.
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Southern Heel posted:I really never realised until recently how awesome black and gold go together on fenders Until you wrote that I didn't realize that Black and Gold makes a Steelers guitar and my shop is in Pittsburgh. There is money to be made there, somehow...............
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Why didn't you guys tell me the riff from I'm Coming Out/Mo Money Mo Problems was so much fun to play? So you don't have to go looking, barre all these and listen for the rhythm: Dmin7 Amin7 Gmin7 F (on the A string) Bb F (on the A string) Bb Amin7 (Edit: is how I'm playing it anyway)
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Southern Heel posted:I really never realised until recently how awesome black and gold go together on fenders My P-Bass Special is black with a gold anodized pickguard. It was a really popular Fender look in the 70s, and maybe before.
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Hollis Brownsound posted:Until you wrote that I didn't realize that Black and Gold makes a Steelers guitar and my shop is in Pittsburgh. There is money to be made there, somehow............... gently caress, I was digging that, why'd you have to go and ruin it
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nrr posted:you're not an actual guitarist until you've embraced you inner macgyver
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What strings are people recommending nowadays? Lately I've noticed my D'Addarios EXL's don't last a day. Sometimes they even come out of the packaging looking off.
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burritonegro posted:What strings are people recommending nowadays? Lately I've noticed my D'Addarios EXL's don't last a day. Sometimes they even come out of the packaging looking off. I've tried about fifteen different brands of strings and three styles in this particular brand (GHS) and the ones I recommend are actually the only ones that sound sweet but also provide lots of overtones and also enough low-end on the Fralins on my guitar. Coincidentally these were developed in collaboration with Bill Callaham, if that means anything to you.
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burritonegro posted:What strings are people recommending nowadays? Lately I've noticed my D'Addarios EXL's don't last a day. Sometimes they even come out of the packaging looking off. NYXLs and nothing else.
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burritonegro posted:What strings are people recommending nowadays? Expect to get a million different opinions, anyone reputable should be decent. The correct answer is Dunlop, D'addario, or DR. If you want more specific, what are you playing. I like nickel wrapped strings because they sound nice and they don't seem to eradicate my frets.
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I play everything from jazz standards to van halen and poo poo requiring lots of bends. I also play out multiple times a week, and it sucks getting to a gig with brand new yet totally worn out strings.
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burritonegro posted:I play everything from jazz standards to van halen and poo poo requiring lots of bends. I also play out multiple times a week, and it sucks getting to a gig with brand new yet totally worn out strings. What pickups are you using? What sort of pots are on your guitar?
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