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ive been recording with a dude who has this old RCA mic from the 40's that i guess Steve Albini swears by for gritty guitars....the results, in combination with the high quality tape we're recording on has been....crisp and crunchy and delightful the OG space echo unit he has covers up all the fuckups 
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Vintersorg posted:Just want to say thanks for posting this - I didn't realize how easy this song was and decided to learn it. You're welcome. I always love posting my poo poo playing because I like everyone to feel comfortable posting their poo poo playing too. To put a final button on it all, I ordered the Snowball and Blue cancelled the order due to no stock after all. Now I have a Yeti for pickup at Target, said gently caress it I'm done working this. I'll post another video later to compare.
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20 Blunts posted:ive been recording with a dude who has this old RCA mic from the 40's that i guess Steve Albini swears by for gritty guitars....the results, in combination with the high quality tape we're recording on has been....crisp and crunchy and delightful Sounds like an RCA 44 or the like. Funnnnnnnn 
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Sep 16, 2020 21:04
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There's a ridiculously flat response condenser mic I use at work that is seriously +/- 0.01 dB from 50Hz to 150kHz and I sincerely want to hear how it sounds in front of my guitar amp.
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Sep 16, 2020 21:32
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Spanish Manlove posted:There's a ridiculously flat response condenser mic I use at work that is seriously +/- 0.01 dB from 50Hz to 150kHz and I sincerely want to hear how it sounds in front of my guitar amp. It will either be the best sounding thing ever or the worst sounding thing ever. It is your duty to find out.
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Sep 17, 2020 01:33
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I understand the naming behind ESP/LTD - more number equals more good. But I don't get where the ESPUSA / E-II / Signature / Original lines fit in the scheme of things. Which is the "ESP Eclipse" by which all others are measured by, or derivative of?
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Sep 17, 2020 04:57
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I like chonky picks and playing hard at times but with downtuned stuff this leads to the bassier strings wildly fluctuating in pitch during strumming/chugging even taking care to not be overly aggressive with my right hand. Then I just played with a thinner/normal pick and the natural bend in the pick prevented the detuning that was happening. lol
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Sep 17, 2020 07:03
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Dang It Bhabhi! posted:I like chonky picks and playing hard at times but with downtuned stuff this leads to the bassier strings wildly fluctuating in pitch during strumming/chugging even taking care to not be overly aggressive with my right hand. Then I just played with a thinner/normal pick and the natural bend in the pick prevented the detuning that was happening. lol I used to play with like, 2mm tortex picks and poo poo and then realized I couldn't really articulate anything with them. I ended up settling on just regular old 1mm dunlop nylons.
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Sep 17, 2020 10:41
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Opinions requested: Yamaha, Squier and Fender fretboards are all definitely rosewood. The Taylor is definitely ebony. What do you think the Epiphone is? My memory from 10 years ago says ebony, but I am old and increasingly distrustful of memory. An archive dump from the Epiphone website around that time suggests rosewood. But my Epiphone fretboard doesn't look like the one from the archive or any Epiphone Les Paul that I KNOW has a rosewood fretboard, past or present. What do you think? Edit: My guitar was made in April 2011 and Gibson got raided in late 2011 over illegal ebony sourcing. Lol. Also found a forum post offsite suggesting 2011 was a transition year and that some features that the custom pro ended up having like coil splitting and ebony fretboard turned up on some customs. Mine DOES have splitting. Carth Dookie fucked around with this message at 13:53 on Sep 17, 2020 |
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Sep 17, 2020 13:41
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Their site says it's ebony. I have the custom pro koa and some sites say it's rosewood and others say it's pau ferro but I can't really tell them apart.
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Sep 17, 2020 13:53
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Lumpy posted:It will either be the best sounding thing ever or the worst sounding thing ever. It is your duty to find out. and even if it is the worse sounding thing ever in itself itll fit somehow, somewhere, with some riff in some song
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Sep 17, 2020 14:54
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I may borrow it during winter break and see if it works with my mixer.
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Sep 17, 2020 15:12
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Kazinsal posted:I used to play with like, 2mm tortex picks and poo poo and then realized I couldn't really articulate anything with them. I ended up settling on just regular old 1mm dunlop nylons. Oh yea exactly that. I can actually vary my picking articulation now lol.
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Sep 17, 2020 16:22
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cool spread. but why do you have two steel string acoustics? is the yamaha for camping etc? missing here is a nylon string classical guitar
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Sep 17, 2020 18:50
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Well the Taylor is acoustic/electric and the Yamaha isn't, my guess is they had the Yamaha first and then wanted one with a pickup but didn't want to get rid of the old one.
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Sep 17, 2020 18:58
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I can imagine there are folks (ha get it.. folk!) that think of their acoustic guitar collection the way y'all think of a stock Strat and an EMG-loaded shredder as completely different things.
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I have a Fender dred my dad bought me when I was a kid, a nice smaller bodied Martin A/E I (used to) play live here and there, and a Little Martin I bought because I wanted something actual small to knock around the house. But I only have the one electric! e: And obviously I suck poo poo on all of them. Huxley fucked around with this message at 19:58 on Sep 17, 2020 |
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Sep 17, 2020 19:37
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My wife's uncle has like 8 acoustics and only a couple electrics because he lives by himself and has nothing else to spend money on and he's mostly an acoustic guy.
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Sep 17, 2020 19:47
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Helianthus Annuus posted:cool spread. but why do you have two steel string acoustics? is the yamaha for camping etc? Baron von Eevl posted:Well the Taylor is acoustic/electric and the Yamaha isn't, my guess is they had the Yamaha first and then wanted one with a pickup but didn't want to get rid of the old one. Half right. I did get the Yamaha first, but I actually don't care about the electronics and if I'd had a choice I'd actually have bought it without it. I bought the Taylor because it's made from different woods and has a different internal structure from the Yamaha and sounds different, and just feels loving amazing to play even though I am extremely new and barely know what I'm doing. The Yamaha is a Sitka spruce top with mahogany back and sides, and the Taylor has a mahogany top with Tasmanian blackwood back and sides. Its not surprising that acoustics made from different materials sound different. What shocked me though was how 2 theoretically identical guitars can sound so different. The store that I bought the Taylor from happened to have 2 of the same guitars on hand so I played them back to back. Same model, materials and strings. If you'd blindfolded me and got me to play them I wouldn't have believed they were the same guitar. Both sounded good and played the same (because the dimensions were identical) but sounded noticeably different. I picked the one I liked better. Anyway coming back to why I have the Yamaha; to be honest it's a backup from now on, and also yeah if I ever want to take one camping it's going to be the Yamaha because its 1/8th the cost and I'm less concerned about it getting damaged. Nylon string classical? Maybe one day. I've got all that I want in guitars right now, and certainly way more than I need.
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Dang It Bhabhi! posted:I can imagine there are folks (ha get it.. folk!) that think of their acoustic guitar collection the way y'all think of a stock Strat and an EMG-loaded shredder as completely different things. Owns multiple electric guitars - cool and good. Owns multiple acoustic guitars - a bit odd but acceptable. Owns multiple bass guitars - now we're getting a bit weird. Owns multiple drum sets - is insane and/or an alien. Kidding of course. All gear is cool, buy whatever you have fun with and can afford. A while back I posted about a Gretsch that I threw some bridge/Bigsby mods on to fix tuning stability, but the G string was still giving some issues. I was planning on buying a set of nut files to clean up the nut slot, since I didn't want to sand down a new nut and didn't think locking tuners would help. Well, I ended up getting some Hipshot locking tuners since I found a good deal on Reverb and threw them in before messing with the nut and it turns out it did help with tuning. Maybe it's because I'm sloppy about how I wrap my string around the pegs, sometimes I have only 2 winds around it, sometimes 4.  The universal mounting plate for the Hipshot tuners is nice for not having to drill holes, but it does look a bit ugly, especially if the old drill holes are off center and not covered like in this case. In comparison, the Graphtech locking tuners on my other guitar came with a bunch of individual plates to match most common tuner shapes, so they have a much cleaner looking install. They also feel slightly better, but are also much more expensive. Unless you're really picky about how the back of your headstock looks or really like the whole different gear ratio for each sting that Graphtech does, I think the Hipshot tuners are a better bargain.  Bonus comparison shots:    Extra bonus shot of confused cat: 
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everyone should get what they like ultimately but if you have more than one acoustic bass please do not attempt to operate heavy machinery for you are most certainly very very stoned
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A couple years ago I built a guitar, but unfortunately I finished the clearcoat when it was really loving humid out and it never fully set in a couple places. Yesterday the pickup switch broke so I'm going to be taking it apart and want to use this opportunity to fix a couple issues, including the gummy finish. Does anyone know of a way to get a clear poly coat that never fully dried to harden? Or am I just going to have to strip anything that's soft and do a couple more coats on top?
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Sep 18, 2020 04:53
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New guitar rack arrived and kind of highlighted my problem. the problem is I don't have enough guitars 
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drat, that makes me want to buy a guitar rack. But I know that if I walk into Long and McQuade to go buy one I'm also probably going to leave with a guitar I can't afford 
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I built a 12-slot one with a 2x6x12, three dowels, and some pipe insulation in about two hours. A couple years later, I built a bigger one. I have too many guitars. No, wait, that can't be right because I'm in the middle of building another one.
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I got one of those cheap $30 ebay 5 guitar racks and it works fine just sitting in my apartment but if I had to move it around a lot it would probly fall apart
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Sep 18, 2020 16:40
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Carth Dookie posted:New guitar rack arrived and kind of highlighted my problem. That honey burst tele 
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Baron von Eevl posted:A couple years ago I built a guitar, but unfortunately I finished the clearcoat when it was really loving humid out and it never fully set in a couple places. Yesterday the pickup switch broke so I'm going to be taking it apart and want to use this opportunity to fix a couple issues, including the gummy finish. Does anyone know of a way to get a clear poly coat that never fully dried to harden? Or am I just going to have to strip anything that's soft and do a couple more coats on top? I'm only a hobbyist so take this with a grain of salt, but if the poly still hasn't cured after years then it's most likely never going to. You could finish over it with something hard like shellac or even a wax though what's probably going to work best is to strip and refinish. There's a woodworking thread over in DIY that could provide some more thorough answers/options: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2819334 Edit: oops, wrong link. Chip McFuck fucked around with this message at 17:27 on Sep 18, 2020 |
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Carth Dookie posted:New guitar rack arrived and kind of highlighted my problem. Got a similar problem here after dumping some unused gear. Six guitars in a nine guitar rack. Just painful to watch.
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I'm 6 guitars on a 7 rack. Makes me GAS for that 7 string way harder.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_F44xxCGtM The angry video james nerd being totally badass. Except his tone sounds like asssss. Maybe it just didn't mic well but what a thin lifeless bullshit tone that I'm listening to. e: i like avgn btw and like he is having fun, i just dont like his guitar tone right there, at all.
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my guitars banjos and basses are all wall mounted, i don't know how many there are. I liked the display aspect of just a 'wall of guitars.' But a rack thing like that would certainly take up less space.
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That makes me happy.  It's cool to see so many people deciding to play an instrument in these times. Pretty great guitar, but yeah, the tone is so-so.
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I wonder if it's just mic placement. Both of the mics he has up next to the speaker are offset really oddly, like they're cardioid pattern vocal/speech recording mics and they're being forced into service as an instrument mic. Shove an SM57 up to the edge of the speaker cone and it'd have more low end.
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Sep 18, 2020 23:55
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In lieu of getting it right at the source, a simple cut in the region of 200-400 hz would have gone a long way to not giving me ear fatigue a couple minutes in. Nerdery aside, it's nice to see the dude rocking out 
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A friend of mine was a pro sound guy for a few years, and he told me that in most live and studio settings, he'd place a parametric EQ with a very narrow Q to around 100 Hz or so, then cut it severely, and sweep slightly around either side of 100, up to 150 or so, until the lovely tone was gone.
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Sep 20, 2020 14:54
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Is the amp he's using any good? He has Gibson guitars but you'd think he could also splurge for a nicer amp? He obviously has a lot of money since he's pretty drat famous.
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It's Laney's 15 Watt Tony Iommi signature. They go for about 400€ used, so not a whole lot of money for a tube amp.
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That sounds is actually fairly accurate to Sabbath, it's just that the mics aren't well placed and it's not EQed to try and compensate for that. My guess it's whatever mic is on the camera. edit part of it is also that he's not very good Baron von Eevl fucked around with this message at 21:13 on Sep 21, 2020 |
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The HH speaker sucks rear end.
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