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Get coated strings and they will last longer. or Wash your hands pre playing, and wipe your strings down after. If you keep a rag nearby it literally only takes a few seconds. or Buy enough guitars that you don't play each one enough to wear the strings out quickly. On the 3rd point, I think I might go buy a resonator.
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Spanish Manlove posted:I'm the same way, I absolutely can not play a guitar with tacky strings. I wash my hands before I sit down to play and I wipe my strings down with some cheap flanel cloth you can get 3x3ft for $3 at walmart or any craft store Yeah the fast fret is awesome. It's mostly lanolin from sheep's wool iirc. Definitely smells like it.
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Jun 16, 2023 19:02
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Verman posted:Get coated strings and they will last longer. i use the white pack d'addario strings lol
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Jun 16, 2023 19:11
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Here's my unpopular guitar string opinion for the day: the LESS you play the MORE the strings you use matter. If you play every day you're going to be changing them fairly often, whereas if you're more of a casual every-once-in-a-while player you're going to want something higher quality that can just sit on there for a year+ at a time without much fuss. That said: nanowebs 4 life
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Jun 16, 2023 19:28
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I haven’t given any thought to changing strings. They’re still stock. It sounds like I’ll have to care eventually?
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Jun 16, 2023 20:00
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Pollyanna posted:I haven’t given any thought to changing strings. They’re still stock. It sounds like I’ll have to care eventually? You get to decide what strings you like though.
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Jun 16, 2023 20:35
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I always wash my hands, wait like 5 minutes, then run my fingers over my nose to pick up skin oils since I started playing acoustic a lot to minimize the string squeak
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Jun 16, 2023 20:44
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monels on acoustics they last forever
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Jun 16, 2023 21:12
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Verman posted:Get coated strings and they will last longer. I do all of these and only change strings every 4-6 months (per guitar) I am also lazy Pollyanna posted:I haven’t given any thought to changing strings. They’re still stock. It sounds like I’ll have to care eventually? Be prepared to be joyed with how much better your guitar will sound without the old garbage strings that came with it
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Jun 16, 2023 21:28
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I have yet to understand good guitar sound vs. bad guitar sound, also irrelevant when I can’t play the drat thing for poo poo anyway!
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Jun 16, 2023 21:30
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gently caress it bro im going flatwound. never change em.
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Jun 16, 2023 21:40
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Pollyanna posted:I have yet to understand good guitar sound vs. bad guitar sound, also irrelevant when I can’t play the drat thing for poo poo anyway! It's sounds you like vs sounds you don't.
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Jun 16, 2023 21:48
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Pollyanna posted:I have yet to understand good guitar sound vs. bad guitar sound, also irrelevant when I can’t play the drat thing for poo poo anyway! Yeah it probably won’t matter for a while as long as they are not outright nasty.
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I also grease up on that guy's nose prior to playing
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Krustic posted:One of those would probably be perfect, but at 599 new it’s a bit out of my price range. I’m looking at like under 200 dollar/ no name Amazon brands. I’ve been using a silvertone 5 watt bass amp for all my practice needs for about the last year, and if it had built in Bluetooth it’d be fine. I've heard good things about the Nux Mighty Air series http://www.amazon.com/dp/B07JMP2MFN $90 http://www.amazon.com/dp/B084J6MFR4 $190 I think I'd like to try the little one. Metronome built in and all makes it a pretty good portable practice tool.
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Y'all got any neat tricks or toys for muting individual strings while recording? I haven't really found any devices online that do what I want, other than an overly elaborate capo system that I'm not really sure would work with my headless anyway. I've been using a sweatband for all open string muting, and a small polishing cloth when I need to mute the highest 2-3 strings, but I'd like to be able to mute multiple, non-consecutive strings because sometimes my recordings call for that. I've tried rigging up small (hair) butterfly clips and tiny binder clips with foam, but they bounce around and fall off etc. And don't tell me to just get better at playing, that's never going to happen.
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Jun 16, 2023 22:53
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tape. even meshuggah taped their strings when recording poo poo
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I'll go the opposite way and say learn to love and leave in the noise. Mmmm texture
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fullroundaction posted:Y'all got any neat tricks or toys for muting individual strings while recording? I haven't really found any devices online that do what I want, other than an overly elaborate capo system that I'm not really sure would work with my headless anyway.
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muike posted:tape. even meshuggah taped their strings when recording poo poo Yeah I learned that trick from Hetfield way back when, I just wanted to avoid leaving sticky residue on the strings. Though I've never actually tried it so maybe it's not too bad. Probably wouldn't notice anyway since I rarely play clean. But I did want to see if anyone had any more ... elegant (?) solutions. Wowporn posted:I'll go the opposite way and say learn to love and leave in the noise. Mmmm texture This would not be your opinion if you heard my tapping
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fullroundaction posted:Yeah I learned that trick from Hetfield way back when, I just wanted to avoid leaving sticky residue on the strings. Though I've never actually tried it so maybe it's not too bad. Probably wouldn't notice anyway since I rarely play clean. take those strings off or restring and don't put them on
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Jun 16, 2023 23:16
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muike posted:take those strings off or restring and don't put them on Each weak I'm doing a new project that contains 5 sections of 5 different songs so I need to be able to quickly and easily add/remove the muting stuff between takes. I probably should have explained that for context. Otherwise in an album recording situation or whatever yeah that'd be easiest
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Jun 16, 2023 23:18
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soft piece of foam folded over the strings and taped to hold it shut?
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muike posted:take those strings off or restring and don't put them on And ruin your intonation by slightly changing the tension on the neck temporarily???
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Jun 16, 2023 23:27
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Write music bad enough none of this matters
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i mute with my left hand by letting off gently or covering the strings like barre but not applying pressure and i also mute with my palm
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fullroundaction posted:Each weak I'm doing a new project that contains 5 sections of 5 different songs so I need to be able to quickly and easily add/remove the muting stuff between takes. I probably should have explained that for context. multiple guitars, one with tape on the strings and one without
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Spanish Manlove posted:multiple guitars, one with tape on the strings and one without one weird trick your (my) wife will hate. but honestly this is the best answer (buying more guitars)
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fullroundaction posted:one weird trick your (my) wife will hate. but honestly this is the best answer (buying more guitars) our wife? you gotta run this poo poo past me ahead of time, i'm not ready for commitment
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I am now declaring wrist pain and strain to be evidence that I am in fact practicing barre chords, dammit.
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Pollyanna posted:I am now declaring wrist pain and strain to be evidence that I am in fact practicing barre chords, dammit. this means you're practicing barres with too much gusto, you don't ever want wrist pain. take a break from them for a few days, ice your wrist, and record yourself for your own review next time to make sure you're not stretching your wrist weird. you'll have to take more time off if you get an rsi, take that poo poo seriously! replying to string chat, get flats as previously suggested. you never have to change them, and they sound awesome. the gunketh bringeth the funketh.
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Injury is usually a matter of stimulus/recovery ratio and adaptions you may or may not have to whatever stimulus. When doing something new you aren't used to, it's best to ease into it and give your body a chance to adapt. I actually dealt with a nasty case of trigger finger recently because we got a new foam gun at work that I had to hold a bit differently and had a much tougher trigger to hold down. So when I used it all day, every day all of a sudden, it hosed me up even though I'm used to using my hands. It was just enough of a different stimulus and too much of it too suddenly. Luckily I got some people to rotate in with me and now my hand is feeling better and I can use it a lot more. People jump onto the "posture" bandwagon way too much(this isn't aimed at anyone, just me ranting a bit). Your body can adapt to quite a lot of stuff just fine, as long as it has a chance to do so properly.
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well my mixing/mastering are just about done, which means I'm at the "picking a name and start releasing poo poo" stage which is the part I very much hate and I'm already feeling like I'd rather just be writing more music that no one will ever hear. The tail on releasing something is such a loving pain but anywho this is my first track under the project and my brother say it sounds like Alice in Chains kinda so that was a huge compliment I felt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-XWad6BTyo
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Buy 64 guitars so you can have one for every possible combination of taped/not taped strings.
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landgrabber posted:it's been two days. did someone say landgrabber tone demo??? Love this tone, but also wanted to say that the blue album demos are ft mothereffin' w and trying to capture that feel and doing it is super cool
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Baron von Eevl posted:Buy 64 guitars so you can have one for every possible combination of taped/not taped strings. we'll get 16 guitars And we'll get herbie lovelle to play drums https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmSJzYSvhNY
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Buschmaki posted:Love this tone, but also wanted to say that the blue album demos are ft mothereffin' w and trying to capture that feel and doing it is super cool i spent so long fixated on blue and its demos that a love of the tone and structure and some of that style is absolutely in my bones. a good instance is the main progression in the world has turned and left me here, here's a tab: 355XXX, 554XXX, 224XXX, 332XXX. G5, D/A, B5/F#, C/G. if you notated that out, you'd notice that it's totally voice led, like, music theory class bach chorale stuff. common tones are kept in the same places. there aren't even parallel fifths. there's a ton of contrary motion between the outer voices. so taking stuff like that, and applying it along with my love for 7s and 9s and emo and girly indie rock, is essentially my style
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Sweetwater has those Nutube-powered Brian-May-In-A-Can Vox micro heads in stock, and my local Canadian guitar retailer doesn't. I would assume they ship to Canada, goodie bag of candies and all.
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Sorry LG, I know what that mix of tablature and notation means but not what it indicates. My music theory knowledge is basically I once played a 12 bar blues in A but instead of E7 played E^13/B; didnt know the name of the chord but knew it was probably some sort of B root inversion cause I knew you couldnt play a B without barring. When I looked it up later I felt like I had taken the loving Limitless pill.
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Dang It Bhabhi! posted:gently caress it bro im going flatwound. never change em. Flats are only a bummer if a string breaks and you have to wait for the replacement string to age in to match the rest. I think my strings are like 5 years old lol maybe more idk. Also if you get strings that are heavy as gently caress you can set the action impossibly low compared to lighter ones so long as the fretwork is good and the neck is straight. Really simplifies things. Though good luck bending more than a semitone but those are the sacrifices we must make.
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