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City of Tampa posted:I remember seeing some guitar with like a knockoff Ipad built in, I think it was an Ibanez or some other dirt-rock guitar. you could do bad whammy bar effects by touching the ipad thing I want a guitar that syncs up to my amp like a Wii-mote and livestreams all my notes to twitter.
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Schpyder posted:Dude just doesn't get it. Let's think about this for just a second. We have a universally-accepted standard with billions of products in use around the world. Whoever's the first mover on a new interconnect standard immediately shuts themselves out of the entire existing ecosystem. Even if the entire industry decides to change at once, that still leaves the entire installed base of basically everything ever made still out there and in use. Instruments aren't like computers, where there's an expected replacement cycle and new tech can become standardized basically through attrition. All the old stuff is still perfectly viable for making music. And there's literally zero reason for anyone to upgrade ALL their gear just for the very minor benefits of a slightly better connector. if Apple made a guitar they could go to a proprietary connector and everybody would be cool with it
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Mar 1, 2016 18:19
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City of Tampa posted:if Apple made a guitar they could go to a proprietary connector and everybody would be cool with it Apple killing the 1/8th inch headphone jack is a giant leap forward for society as a whole.
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Mar 1, 2016 18:28
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lol at the guy who wants a "digital" electric guitar, do you even know how a pickup works? Vibration of the metal strings in the magnetic field created by the magnets in the pickup creates a difference in potential, doesn't get more analog than that. Even an active pickup isn't digital, it simply includes active (read powered) circuitry (EQ, pre-amp, noise gate, ...) hence the name. You'd have to make everything go through an analog to digital converter which is pretty stupid when most gear is still and will stay analog. Also lol if you think going digital will stop corksniffers from corksniffing.
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Mar 1, 2016 18:34
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reallivedinosaur posted:Apple killing the 1/8th inch headphone jack is a giant leap forward for society as a whole. not if headphones cost like $50 now because they have to be bluetooth
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Mar 1, 2016 18:37
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Gibson made an ethernet cable equipped guitar in 2007. It sucked and was widely mocked, as was the Firebird X follow-up. Honestly though, boomers are still a huge chunk of the market for guitar gear and things aren't changing anytime soon. The telecaster is basically (a few quibbles here and there aside) unchanged from guitars rolling off the line in 1952. Ditto Les Pauls, Rickenbackers etc. Guitarists are a credulous and cowardly bunch and will be the last remnants clinging to our tube amps in 20 years; every major revolution in the guitar world since the Telecaster (and including it) has been greeted with an en masse cry of "I'm not loving playing that shite!". Hence the colloquial term "Guitards' being used on any majority drummer/keyboardist/bassist forum.
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Mar 1, 2016 18:43
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City of Tampa posted:not if headphones cost like $50 now because they have to be bluetooth The corded ones are 35 dollars now and last like a week before the connector frays and falls apart. http://www.apple.com/ca/shop/product/MD827ZM/B/apple-earpods-with-remote-and-mic
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Mar 1, 2016 18:44
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Dewgy posted:no no don't you see, it's all cork sniffing you loser, digital is the way of the future it is and tube amps are on their way to becoming a niche product within the musical instrument industry, the same as reel to reel that being said in a decade or so we're gonna look back on the current state of the art digital stuff the same way we look at early 2000s cgi in movies now
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Mar 1, 2016 19:22
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in the future, all solos will have a little flute added
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Mar 1, 2016 19:24
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Wow y'all sure do have some opinions
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Mar 1, 2016 19:29
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of all the stupid music poo poo, this is the stupid music shittiest
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Dewgy posted:in the future, all solos will have a little flute added Jethro Tull future sounds great.
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Mar 1, 2016 19:35
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comes along bort posted:it is and tube amps are on their way to becoming a niche product within the musical instrument industry, the same as reel to reel I tried playing FFVII for the first time the other week and I just couldn't do it.
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Mar 1, 2016 20:14
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KozmoNaut posted:It's not the benefit of the slightly better connector (although XLR completely shits on jack plugs in every single way), the main benefit of changing the standard would be to make the instrument cable balanced, thus significantly reducing the hum and other noise that is inevitably picked up by the cable from other electrical gear. XLR cables are better than 1/4 inch cables because they have a lower noise floor. They don't do anything to reduce hum or noise itself though, so your single coil pickups would still send just as much 60Hz hum from the stage lights to your amp with an XLR cable as it would with a 1/4 inch cable.
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Mar 1, 2016 22:37
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GreatGreen posted:XLR cables are better than 1/4 inch cables because they have a lower noise floor. They don't do anything to reduce hum or noise itself though, so your single coil pickups would still send just as much 60Hz hum from the stage lights to your amp with an XLR cable as it would with a 1/4 inch cable. That's why you need active pickups instead of the junkyard garbage passive pickups that guitards insist on.
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Mar 1, 2016 22:39
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active pickups are for metal dorks I kind of like the new noiseless pickups in the American Elite Strat though, i played one at Sam Ash and the whole thing was really nice
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Mar 1, 2016 22:51
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City of Tampa posted:active pickups are for metal dorks
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Mar 1, 2016 22:53
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KozmoNaut posted:That's why you need active pickups instead of the junkyard garbage passive pickups that guitards insist on. lol, guitards. Actives don't sound the same as passives though. I love my guitar with an EMG 81-89 combo but yeah, passive pickups need to stick around.
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Mar 1, 2016 23:11
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I like passives much more than actives if i'm playing through a nice amp.
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Mar 1, 2016 23:20
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City of Tampa posted:active pickups are for metal dorks and sterile 80s adult contemporary mark knopfler and david gilmour were the first big name emg endorsees
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Mar 2, 2016 00:03
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reallivedinosaur posted:Apple killing the 1/8th inch headphone jack is a giant leap forward for society as a whole. this guy is killing me this is great. I haven't had this much fun since the Faustus glory days
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Mar 2, 2016 01:01
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The logical thing is to move to hexaphonic pickups with a dedicated 13 pin connector for each, routed into an Autotune stompbox that corrects the pitch of each string based on MIDI data from the bridge's piezo pickup and onboard computer. We can also put in a slot car rail that moves your pickups as you're playing so that they're always in the ~tone zone~ and varies the angle accordingly so that they're always centered in the optimal flux node for any given asymmetrical chord voicing. We can also put in an onboard digital oscilloscope and spectrometer angled up at the player so that they can readily identify any potential deviations from optimal tone parameters.
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Mar 2, 2016 02:26
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I can't tell if this would be better if he were playing surf or not.
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Mar 2, 2016 02:53
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Variax guitars from line 6 are actually pretty cool and are selling well and pretty well received. I just want the modelling features and noiseless pickup, but not the automatic tuning, and I want MIDI. These are pretty cool too and something I might want to try. http://www.godinguitars.com/godinmultnylonfretlessp.htm The fact that these exist and have existed for a while hasn't meant that everyone has to go buy new amps and guitars, its just another option out there. They will make strats and les pauls and tube amps as long as there are still people buying them. Even if they stopped there are enough legacy guitars and amps in the world to last a long, long time.
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Mar 2, 2016 03:37
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I gladly await the day i can fix a djentdads tone from the audience by hacking his guitar/amp PAN from my phone and adding some mids.
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field balm posted:I gladly await the day i can fix a djentdads tone from the audience by hacking his guitar/amp PAN from my phone and adding some mids. He'll immediately think his amp broke and they'll stop the show.
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In terms of "guitar technology that uses both analogue and digital stuff correctly" I think that the H&K Grandmeister is the right sort of idea. The EQ, chanels, and power scaling are all pre-setable and controllable by midi so you can hook it up to Live, or whatever you're using with it. Looking at the demo videos though, IDK if you're allowed to use it to make music that isn't terrible. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Zxu6F9xz7g
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field balm posted:I gladly await the day i can fix a djentdads tone from the audience by hacking his guitar/amp PAN from my phone and adding some mids. But the djenttone is all mids. That's how you get that djentscrape with all the harmonics. Go back to Metallica midscoop old man.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgRLLqYQh1Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LwOAp_Vezw
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A Good Username posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgRLLqYQh1Q Pretty hard to take the fun out of a washtub bass but metal found a way.
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A Good Username posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgRLLqYQh1Q i am completely sold on making or owning one of these and that's 100% despite the dude playing like good god man, you suck
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Is that an acutal bass string anyone could ever use, or is that just a length of high-tension line he stole from a nearby telephone pole?
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How is it in "Drop E"? Doesn't the "drop" in drop tunings refer to one string being detuned relative to the other strings?
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Barnaby Barnacle posted:How is it in "Drop E"? Doesn't the "drop" in drop tunings refer to one string being detuned relative to the other strings? tune all the other strings up?
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Smash it Smash hit posted:tune all the other strings up? I'm referring to the guitar in that video. It only has the one string.
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Barnaby Barnacle posted:I'm referring to the guitar in that video. It only has the one string. oh then i guess maybe its a joke?
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Mar 2, 2016 19:12
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Barnaby Barnacle posted:I'm referring to the guitar in that video. It only has the one string. He probably means it's an octave below a normally tuned guitar's low E string. Or maybe to him that's the "key" of the song he's playing. Lot's of guitar players will say things like foo fighters songs are in the key of "drop D", we all learn to play long before we learn any theory (if we ever do at all). You don't need to go to juliard to play the washtub bass.
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Barnaby Barnacle posted:I'm referring to the guitar in that video. It only has the one string. Then by definition all the other strings are tuned up.
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Guy comes around with a guitar I built for him 3 years ago. He's replaced the nice Wilkinson tuners with lovely no-shame grover copies (he also redrilled the headstock with a hand-drill so all the tuners rattle), he's undone the control plate and done a HORRIBLE job re-wiring for.... Some reason.,It's the same layout as what I put in, but with 10 times the solder. He's also managed to lose all the screws and he's replaced them with over-sized wood screws. I am sad.
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