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I gotta say LG that some of your posts annoy me but mostly as the tangents bury the posts that some others and I do. But that’s probably more a me problem and I don’t want to see someone struggling to afford some strings when this is such a big part of their life. So yeah I’m in on the LG String Fund. 
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landgrabber posted:2021 player strat? i got the one from chicago music exchange that's pacific peach. and, i have to imagine, a really bad one of the lot. Oh mine's a 2022 player in capri orange, I guess my color recognition skills are bad lmao
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I was debating PMing LG to see if there was some way I could buy her some strings or whatever, but you all beat me to it so count me in on the LG String Fund.
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Feb 8, 2023 02:54
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Feb 8, 2023 03:36
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haha someone sent me a GC certificate. enough for TWO packs of strings so i can properly re-set-up the strat as well.
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Feb 8, 2023 03:49
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I wanted that Pacific Peach Strat.
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Feb 8, 2023 04:34
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carrie brownstein has made SG's cool to me 
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Feb 8, 2023 06:18
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She's a real Angus Young
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Lungboy posted:I've been doing some more reading on guitars and browsing various shops online and I'm 99% decided I want to park my Washburn for the time being and get something with a hard tail and maybe a slightly smaller scale than the MG74. I'm a bit paralysed by how many guitars are out there that look cool and review well, but my budget is around £400 and I have 2 top options at the moment, a PRS 245 Standard or a Harley Benton SC Custom Plus. They're the same price, although the PRS comes with a quality gig bag too. Scales are 24.5 vs 24.75, so pretty similar. The PRS has a slightly thicker neck but only by a couple of mm. There's no chance to try either in person, but both can be returned within 30 days. It's hard to look past the PRS on the headstock, but the HB is (more) beautiful imo. I'd go Harley Benton because neck thickness bothers me more than scale length - didn't get on with a PRS S2 because of a Pattern Vintage neck. I've only played the old school EMG 81/85 set and I wasn't a fan but I'd be willing to bet those EMGs sound better than most of the off-the-shelf pickups you find in guitars at that price point, and if you disliked them you could probably rip them out, sell them, and pick up a set of Duncans or whatever and come out close to even. landgrabber posted:carrie brownstein has made SG's cool to me Given your taste in guitars and music i think you'd really vibe with an SG.
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Southern Cassowary posted:I'd go Harley Benton because neck thickness bothers me more than scale length - didn't get on with a PRS S2 because of a Pattern Vintage neck. I've only played the old school EMG 81/85 set and I wasn't a fan but I'd be willing to bet those EMGs sound better than most of the off-the-shelf pickups you find in guitars at that price point, and if you disliked them you could probably rip them out, sell them, and pick up a set of Duncans or whatever and come out close to even. Good Soldier Svejk posted:The Harley Benton has a set of EMGs in it that go for $200 themselves so... it's hard to beat that for value. Especially since it seems to be cheaper than the PRS as well. Thanks both. Compelling arguments for getting the Harley over the PRS which is the way I was leaning too so now to introduce the idea of needing a new guitar to my wife....
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Southern Cassowary posted:I'd go Harley Benton because neck thickness bothers me more than scale length - didn't get on with a PRS S2 because of a Pattern Vintage neck. I've only played the old school EMG 81/85 set and I wasn't a fan but I'd be willing to bet those EMGs sound better than most of the off-the-shelf pickups you find in guitars at that price point, and if you disliked them you could probably rip them out, sell them, and pick up a set of Duncans or whatever and come out close to even. interesting that you say that! i don't see a lot of people in bands i listen to play SG's actually. i think i'd get one with P90s.
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landgrabber posted:interesting that you say that! i don't see a lot of people in bands i listen to play SG's actually. Shorter than Fender scale, hard tail, think P90s or PAFs both sound awesome for alternative rock.
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Well hell... I just spent like an hour writing a random note prompter for fingerboard exercising and here I find there's already one that exists and it's better https://random.bretpimentel.com/
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landgrabber posted:carrie brownstein has made SG's cool to me Big reason why I got mine - her, Iain Mackaye and Wipers.
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Buschmaki posted:Oh mine's a 2022 player in capri orange, I guess my color recognition skills are bad lmao i think maybe the color has gotten more orangey? idk if colors change that fast but i seem to remember it being pinker/more peach at one point. Disco Pope posted:Big reason why I got mine - her, Iain Mackaye and Wipers. one thing i've realized relatively recently is that i never was nuts about technique because there wasn't anyone whose playing i thought was really cool, or like, no one i wanted to be. i didn't want to be a male guitar player, ya know? so i've been looking to a lot of women and especially queer women who play guitar and suddenly i wanna be more like them! people like marissa paternoster, carrie and corine in sleater kinney, and lindsey jordan from snail mail especially. they make shredding or playing technically cool to me. even michelle branch actually does some really interesting stuff on her albums from the early 2000s. part of the peculiar way i play guitar i think is definitely that i haven't really ever looked up to anyone technically... but i loved songs, and i loved really specific harmonies and chord movements and being really melodic.
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landgrabber posted:i think maybe the color has gotten more orangey? idk if colors change that fast but i seem to remember it being pinker/more peach at one point. I'm similar in that I've been more interested in songs than technique, because for me, I need to be able to play a little in order to even identify what interesting technique to me *is* and I'm gravitating towards a lot of noise-pop for that, while stepping back and reminding myself I can do a bunch of whammy bar unison bends and atonal double stops once I've got solid foundations down.
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Disco Pope posted:Big reason why I got mine - her, Iain Mackaye and Wipers. What are you, me? Sames especially Greg Sage. The Norlin-era natural finish SG that Ian plays is my favorite SG.
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Dang It Bhabhi! posted:What are you, me? Sames especially Greg Sage. The Norlin-era natural finish SG that Ian plays is my favorite SG. walnut is absolutely the best sg color
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Southern Cassowary posted:walnut is absolutely the best sg color SGs should be red.
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There should be more Blue SGs, then I’ll come over. Edit: Also there should be one with a double locking bridge. TheMightyBoops fucked around with this message at 21:06 on Feb 8, 2023 |
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Buschmaki posted:SGs should be red. it is classic but in guitars, cars, and everything else I go for the weird color if possible
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Feb 8, 2023 21:03
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Actually oxblood is the correct answer.
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SGs should be sparkly pink
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TheMightyBoops posted:There should be more Blue SGs, then I’ll come over. The Pelham Blue is a good SG or DC LP color in my opinion.
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Oxygenpoisoning posted:The Pelham Blue is a good SG or DC LP color in my opinion. Yeah the Epi p90 one looked good.
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duodenum posted:Actually oxblood is the correct answer. Hell yeah pimp 😎 
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Buschmaki posted:SGs should be red.
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Southern Cassowary posted:walnut is absolutely the best sg color yeah no pickguard too
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Chris Hannah's Jesus SG is the best SG. (it has an evertune on it now but I won't hold that against him)
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I bought an SG Classic in 2010 in standard transparent red. Comes with P90s in the "Batwing" pickguard and TOM/STP bridge/tailpiece. Didn't come with a hardshell case, though. I was told that Gibson didn't provide hardshell cases for guitars under a thousand dollars (this guitar had MSRP $999), and they showed me the "Gibson USA" gig bag that (supposedly) came with it. I want to sell it, but I'm afraid it won't arrive intact if I try to sell on Reverb and ship it. Something about it seems so fragile to me, even in the TKL hardshell case I bought for it.
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SGs should be natural with a small guard and beat up with extra holes and a fixed neck heel break and bought at a pawn shop for $350 Unless it's a Melody Maker, then it should be red*.  *Melody Makers should really Pelham Blue, but that makes them cost about 50% more than what I paid, so red it is!
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How’s this shopping list look (taking it to a shop so I want to make sure I have everything to hand over to them at once) for swapping my single coil neck pickup for a humbucker in my tele: -Neck pickup (Seymour Duncan SH-55n) -Pickguard cut for a humbucker -2x 500k pots -a 470k resistor so that the single coil sees 250 instead of 500 Am I missing anything obvious? Idk if I’d want the ability to split the neck humbucker for SS tones but if so one of those pots can be a push pull and I’m set, right?
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Found a photo of my SG from a few years ago. I think used prices on these are now around what I paid for it new back then. Maybe I can find a shop that will take guitars on consignment?
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those little saddle screws? that you use to set action height? the one i stripped out? starting to think it may nto even necessarily be that i stripped it out, at least not at first, but the screw doesn't even move around a little bit in its socket, like all the other ones do. it may as well be welded in-- can't get it to budge with needlenose pliers or anything. so strange
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There's a possibility it's threaded wrong for the hole and got jammed in there. Have you or Faust ever tried adjusting it? Is this a new development?
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zelah posted:How’s this shopping list look (taking it to a shop so I want to make sure I have everything to hand over to them at once) for swapping my single coil neck pickup for a humbucker in my tele: I think that's it unless I'm forgetting something dumb - you could just call them and ask. You know your middle position is going to be really dark and muddy, right? Related, I think I'm going to try going with a low-wind PAF and running a 1M resistor so that both neck and bridge see ~333k, or maybe use Bare Knuckles 280k pots. Hoping that doesn't make my bridge too bright. luchadornado fucked around with this message at 01:36 on Feb 9, 2023 |
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Baron von Eevl posted:There's a possibility it's threaded wrong for the hole and got jammed in there. Have you or Faust ever tried adjusting it? Is this a new development? it was always definitely a little weird. wouldn't surprise me but i guess i just like... what do i do?
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SG sickos: why do SGs always have extra holes drilled in them?
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luchadornado posted:I think that's it unless I'm forgetting something dumb - you could just call them and ask. You know your middle position is going to be really dark and muddy, right? Specifically because of the pots or just because that’s how the middle position of SH teles are going to be in general?
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zelah posted:Specifically because of the pots or just because that’s how the middle position of SH teles are going to be in general? The one downside of the resistor "trick" is that now the middle position sees a really low resistance, like sub 200k.
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