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ethanol posted:Reminder sg is the best guitar They're okay, I guess. 
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Do you use coated strings, widefault? Or do you rotate through them in some fixed way in a play/care schedule to keep them from corroding
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Mar 16, 2024 03:08
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ethanol posted:Reminder sg is the best guitar 
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Mar 16, 2024 03:26
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No coated strings, no intentional rotation. I just don't seem to get corroded strings. Hell, there's a few here with easily 20 year old Dean Markley Blue Steels that are still bright and clean. The trick is to have air conditioning or a dehumidifier and wipe stuff down after playing. And if you're the type with corrosive sweat, keep something nearby to wipe your hands off every so often while playing. I will say whatever the Chinese budget builders are using right now seem to come pre-corroded to make sure your fingers turn black the first time you play one. Firefly, Zuwei, KGD, Glen Burton; all of them left me with black, stinky fingers, and one of them was even unwinding itself.
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Mar 16, 2024 03:34
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Most of the string dulling stuff is dirt and dead skin. If you have like 10 guitars to rotate through the strings are gonna last a lot longer imo
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Mar 16, 2024 03:40
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Yeah, 11 guitar haver here, it takes a while for strings to actually start to get bad.
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Mar 16, 2024 03:50
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Wash your hands before playing and wipe off afterwards and it's not a problem unless you have really acidic sweat.
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Mar 16, 2024 03:51
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I have xenomorph sweat it fuckin sucks bro.
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Mar 16, 2024 03:55
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Dang It Bhabhi! posted:I have xenomorph sweat it fuckin sucks bro. same
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Mar 16, 2024 04:03
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Drunk Driver Dad posted:Yeah, 11 guitar haver here, it takes a while for strings to actually start to get bad. Recently I realized it’d been so long since I played one of my guitars that the neck was out of wack. Strings were still good though.
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Mar 16, 2024 04:27
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Kazinsal posted:Recently I realized it’d been so long since I played one of my guitars that the neck was out of wack. Yeah weather has been changing here and I've been needing to give some truss rods a turn this week.
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Mar 16, 2024 04:35
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ethanol posted:Reminder sg is the best guitar this is pretty good but you should fix that pick guard
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Mar 16, 2024 04:58
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Stalizard posted:I wanted to just post for a minute. I got some strap locks last week because the last time we had band practice my strap slipped off the thing; it seemed like a practical purchase. Yeah, I use the grolsch trick on my Fenders (although I can't get my SG in its case with a strap, so it lives dangerously)
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Mar 16, 2024 11:17
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Stalizard posted:There's a guy on the regular Internet forums who has solved this issue, though. I did what he said and I bought some Grolsch beer and pulled the rubber gaskets off of the bottles and that has worked perfectly. gently caress a strap lock, have a beer and it will all work out you can also get rubber washers at the hardware store
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Mar 16, 2024 21:07
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I like the schallers that came standard on my Rick  although Rick uses a button that's different from the default lock that you can't use a tool on for some reason.Dimarzio cliplock straps are also awesome
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Mar 16, 2024 21:11
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I haven't had string corrosion problems since I was a teen but I think I just pay attention and wash my hands/wipe down more now. However, I have a buddy who also has xenomorph sweat and he'll turn all my unwound strings black after one session 
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Mar 16, 2024 23:33
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i have xenomorph sweat. not only do i turn strings black insanely fast, my arm resting on the body fucks up clearcoats
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Mar 17, 2024 00:04
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I haven’t changed strings on my main guitar for like 6-7 years lol granted they are heavy as gently caress and flatwound but I am lucky to not sweat acid. That said (I don’t always do this anymore) if you keep an old t-shirt/cotton cloth in your case and wipe down the strings every time you’re done playing it helps a lot. I used to always wash my hands before playing but now unless I just ate a pizza, have skin lotion on my hands etc. if they feel dry and smooth I’ll just play.
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Mar 17, 2024 00:08
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Southern Cassowary posted:i have xenomorph sweat. not only do i turn strings black insanely fast, my arm resting on the body fucks up clearcoats Relic speedrun
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Mar 17, 2024 01:36
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Southern Cassowary posted:i have xenomorph sweat. not only do i turn strings black insanely fast, my arm resting on the body fucks up clearcoats Hail, chosen of Nurgle!
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Mar 17, 2024 01:57
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rio posted:I haven’t changed strings on my main guitar for like 6-7 years lol granted they are heavy as gently caress and flatwound but I am lucky to not sweat acid. yup! flats are sick, and mine have also been on for the better part of a decade. they even sound better for lots of styles imo, although you can't always get the hyper-sparkly tones lots of roundies crave.
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Mar 17, 2024 03:22
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Goddamn I gotta stay away from reverb, there's decent deals that I don't need mixed in with the ones I do lol. About to start lessons soon so I'm not all spastic with my practice finally.
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Mar 17, 2024 05:25
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creamcorn posted:yup! flats are sick, and mine have also been on for the better part of a decade. they even sound better for lots of styles imo, although you can't always get the hyper-sparkly tones lots of roundies crave. Fo sho. I have flats on all my Bass guitars and my hollow body.
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Mar 17, 2024 06:42
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I'm trying to learn to the solo in Highway Star by Deep Purple. There's this big sixteenth note run up the high e string, I'm sure you know it. I started it at 80 bpm to get it under my fingers and then got comfortable at 100 bpm and then 112 and started feeling pretty good about myself, it's getting a little more fluid and almost starting to sound like music and not just some scale exercise. Then I rolled back up to the top of the sheet music to see what tempo I'm supposed to be playing at and it turns out it's fuckin 166 guess i'll just keep rolling this goddamned stone up this hill
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Mar 17, 2024 19:00
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bi-annual "landgrabber posts music": https://voca.ro/1gClFcSiArJP technique sux because i was using my telecaster, which has a thin 50s rear end neck and 12s when i'm used to my strat. but tele pickups/tone just rule. really wishing i could just go find a good player tele but i have a leaky headgasket and owe my therapist money so
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landgrabber posted:bi-annual "landgrabber posts music": https://voca.ro/1gClFcSiArJP Love this, killer dirty tone. Reminds me of Ponytail, who I really dig.
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landgrabber posted:bi-annual "landgrabber posts music": https://voca.ro/1gClFcSiArJP the tone here is fantastic and i love the songwriting, this is good poo poo if you're using the little flute synth thing as a standin for vocals i highly suggest messing around with synthv - the solaria voice has a free pack and is pretty dang good for sketching out vocal ideas if you don't have a vocalist
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Mar 17, 2024 21:50
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12s, why you workin so hard, man?
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Mar 17, 2024 22:10
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TEMPLE GRANDIN OS posted:12s, why you workin so hard, man? i skimmed right over this lol 9s on a fender scale for life
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Mar 17, 2024 22:12
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except for jaguars and mustangs which basically can only be intonated with 10s or up
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P0PCULTUREREFERENCE posted:except for jaguars and mustangs which basically can only be intonated with 10s or up i mean those are 24 inches right
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Mar 17, 2024 22:40
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Yeah exactly
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T Zero posted:I'm looking get started in electric guitar, but have literally zero musical knowledge duodenum posted:I have 2 monoprice guitars and they are both pretty good for the price but only after a set-up. That's probably true for most sub-$250 guitars. poo poo, if you live in the Houston area I would give you one (or both) of them. T Zero posted:(Also lol I'm heading to Houston in a couple weeks for a conference.) duodenum posted:
FOLK'S  A WHOLE rear end GUITAR STARTER KIT - GUITAR, AMP, BAG, CORD, TOOLS. THIS IS AMAZING. GOONS ROCK. TEXAS ROCKS. THANK YOU DUODENUM. YOU ARE THE BEST PART OF THE BEST INTESTINE. T Zero fucked around with this message at 02:30 on Mar 18, 2024 |
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Gratz on your musical journey beginning T Zero and duodenum you are a good person
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Southern Cassowary posted:i skimmed right over this lol TEMPLE GRANDIN OS posted:9s, why you workin so hard, man?
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I use 10s on my strat
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T Zero posted:THANK YOU DUODENUM. YOU ARE THE BEST PART OF THE BEST INTESTINE. hahaha, I love it! Nice to meet you and I hope that kit serves you well! 👍👍
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Music goons being so keen to help each other out, especially new players, is one of the best parts of ML I swear. It's just nice and wholesome, you love to see it.
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ethanol posted:I use 10s on my strat hell I don't even go higher than .11 on my acoustics 12s on an electric sounds like hand cramps to me
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Does anyone have any advice on what to do if you play classical and your nails are just absolute dogshit for guitar? My nails start to curl a lot as soon as they grow in, and it's sort of manageable with most of my fingers but my index finger is just a disaster. I have to keep it just barely grown out enough to play the string but if I grow it even slightly too long it starts to hook on the string because it's just curling around it. This is kinda gross but I can like bend it straight by biting it with my teeth and kinda just bending it a bit and that'll last long enough for me to play but I mean I would prefer not to have to do that. I got these tiptonic nail things and they work pretty well but not perfectly, sometimes they don't hook onto my nail like they're supposed to, and I find it hard to do artificial harmonics with them on, and it also makes a bit harder to avoid accidentally touching them on the string first instead of the pad of my finger, meaning I get like a nail clicking sound sometimes from them. Ideally I'd really like to be able to just use my actual nails. Anyway, I've tried taking collagen, hair/nail vitamins, etc. but just wondering if anyone else had an experience like this and has any advice on if you can get your nails to grow in straight instead of hooking down. I've played guitar for like 10 years and I think I only realized when I got these fake nails how many of my problems playing were from my nails Also on my left hand I have issues with my middle finger where there's a giant indentation between the pad and the nail and when I try to fret things the string kinda slips into that gap and so I have to press down at very weird angles sometimes with my middle finger if I want to be able to fret with that finger without laying it flatter and accidentally touching the string above it sometimes. No one else seems to know what I am talking about when I describe this so also curious if anyone knows wtf happened here. Stefan Prodan fucked around with this message at 03:34 on Mar 18, 2024 |
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