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I bought the cheapest Jackson King V and put a Bone Zone in the bridge. That poo poo is made for palm mutes.
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The only tele I wouldn't rock is one with a dumb meme paint job.
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BonHair posted:Fun option: because the bass is gone so you only hear guitars, drums and vocals, which makes the guitar tone seem fuller? Idk, I hate listening to that album because I like bass. this just popped up on my youtube feed for some reason and lol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmFgeFh2nlw larsed again
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I think the only colors I would really not like to have are the standard sunburst color (I've just never liked it it reminds me of like a wet ashtray where all the tobacco turned the water Amber and black colored) and ones that are a black body with red pickguard, for some reason that combo always looks really cheap and bad to me, it's like the color scheme of lovely PC gaming periferals
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So I thought I'd give a Jazz pick a crack. I'm using a 3mm stubby at the moment. And drat. I love these. Okay they suck for full chords but for chugga-chugga metal, they're a blast. In fact, I can actually trem-pick now! So naturally I'm trem-picking everything at the moment... However, after spending an entire afternoon trem-picking like a twit, my wrist has wanker-cramp (not that I would know what that's like). I figure this could either be a result of me overusing the technique (WHO WOULD'VE GUESSED?!) or it could be bad technique since I've never really done it before. When trem-picking, should it be from the wrist with a little forearm? Or should it still mostly be forearm work like normal picking?
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baka kaba posted:this just popped up on my youtube feed for some reason and lol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsqArlBONZU
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Wowporn posted:ones that are a black body with red pickguard, for some reason that combo always looks really cheap and bad to me, it's like the color scheme of lovely PC gaming periferals   I'll have you know those are red mother-of-toilet-seat guards on both. Of course the Strat looked like this when I bought it.  And I'm realizing I've had both of those close to 20 years, and the pickups in the Tele for 25 years.
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Wowporn posted:I think the only colors I would really not like to have are the standard sunburst color (I've just never liked it it reminds me of like a wet ashtray where all the tobacco turned the water Amber and black colored) and ones that are a black body with red pickguard, for some reason that combo always looks really cheap and bad to me, it's like the color scheme of lovely PC gaming periferals Wow look how wrong you are. 
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Black body / red guard is known as the deadpool colourway and as so, obviously haram
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Stark Fist posted:Can anyone recommend some easier bog-standard blues tunes to learn? Like classic intros, endings, riffs, poo poo that always gets called at a jam, etc? Pick a popular BB King song.
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I mean having the pearly red instead of plain Lego brick red looks better but I'm still not a fan tbqhfnhf
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H13 posted:When trem-picking, should it be from the wrist with a little forearm? Or should it still mostly be forearm work like normal picking? As far as I've understood (not a medical professional etc. etc.) wiggling your wrist in this plane is not good and leads to stress injury:  This plane is less bad, but it's still a set of fairly small muscles that you can overwork:  And rotating the wrist and hand around the axis of the forearm should be entirely safe if you can apply it.
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magiccarpet posted:Recently really upped my gear game with this arm swivel home office chair. which one did you get?
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I bought a HON mesh chair and just didn’t install the right arm.
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Since I am apparently bad at  , does anyone have a site where you can see automotive / guitar paint by color? I usually just go to Pep Boys or AutoZone in person, but for some strange reason I don't really want to leave the house these days.... I found lots of sites where I can put in the year and make of my car, but I don't know what car has the color I want. I'm looking for something like so:
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https://www.paintscratch.com/ Will let you search by year/make/model
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Thumposaurus posted:https://www.paintscratch.com/ Yeah, that's what I can find. I don't know what car in what year has that color orange, so I want to look by swatches. EDIT: lol, just for fun I randomly picked 2019 Ford Mustang, and "Orange Fury" is pretty much exactly it. So thanks! Lumpy fucked around with this message at 20:19 on Mar 27, 2020 |
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For that matter, has anyone repainted their axe successfully, what tools did you use, and what did you learn? Given the length of this lockdown I might actually get around to fixing the botched paint job on my SB-2, somehow the UV-fastness didn't cure and it's been turning slowly pink from arctic white and I'd like to avoid it beginning to chip. I guess I'll need some kind of sander and sprayer to start with, and I've plenty of cardboard to fashion a "sprayroom", and I've seen some guides on the webs but I wanted to hear from someone's actual experience.
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ewe2 posted:For that matter, has anyone repainted their axe successfully, what tools did you use, and what did you learn? Given the length of this lockdown I might actually get around to fixing the botched paint job on my SB-2, somehow the UV-fastness didn't cure and it's been turning slowly pink from arctic white and I'd like to avoid it beginning to chip. I have repainted one as well as painted a couple new ones. The most important part is being patient! It will take a LONG TIME, like a month, because you really want to let coats dry before sanding. Rushing that is why my first attempts were not great. On to sanding! So. Much. Sanding. A palm sander will come in very handy for sure, but if you are a glutton for punishment, you can just wrap a block with paper. Enjoy getting into all the nooks and crannies! Wrap a soft 3m sanding block with your paper for those. Whenever I just use my hand, I wind up with uneven dips and so on. I started at 60 grit to get a vast majority the finish / paint off, used 120 to complete removal, and then a quick hit with 240 to get it ready to prime. Primer is the key! Prime it all over, then knock almost all of it back with 120, then a few coats of additional primer, and 240 that when it's done. Use tack cloth to make sure you pick up all particles between all sanding and primer / paint applications. Paint! Do light 3 coats, let it dry for a week, then wet sand with 400. Do 3 more light coats! Let it dry for a week, then lightly sand with 800. Repeat until it looks super sweet. If you are clear coating, do that now, 3 coats, blah blah blah. Finish up your top coat with 1600 wet and some rubbing compound. I always use spray cans with one of those little trigger attachments. Don't paint with the body straight up and down, you want it at angle, and start with the part closest to you. Start painting below the body (your first pass should paint the cardboard it is sitting on / the air with just a little overflow hitting the guitar) and then move up, overlapping strokes about 50% or so. Keep moving at a consistent speed, passing back and forth until your last stroke is off the end of the body. Resist the urge to go back over a "thin" stroke or anything. That is how the drips happen. Many light coats is the secret to your success! Lumpy fucked around with this message at 21:02 on Mar 27, 2020 |
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Put some pix up for the discord, general opinion is that it's too cute to repaint, what do I know lol     I stress though, that is a poly paint failure and is liable to chip eventually no matter how cool the shell pink is, tbh I don't know how it got like that, it's pretty unusual for poly to not have UV-fastness to begin with. My suspicion is that it's a hasty repaint over another botched job that wasn't left to cure long enough.
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I'm also a few days into researching doing a rattle-can finish, though it's over that body that is unfinished and just primered so I don't have to strip it. At least I don't need to be in any rush. If the plan is to do a spray poly then wet sand it down to 2k, is any old paint just fine underneath or should I be looking specifically at car paint? If the poly is going to be gloss, should I go out of my way to spray flat color?
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And not to just come in hot with questions: I asked the thread a while back if there was a way to make my GT-1 do Bill Frisell style drones. Nobody knew, and I spent a good long while researching it instead. So here's what I found for anyone trapped in their bedrooms. I found two setups that work differently. The first is this guy who just stacks compression and turns the delay knobs all the way to the right. He also dumps a bunch of chorus in there which may or may not be to your flavor. This gives a long warbly done with a slow decay. The Ctrl-1 button here just swaps you in an out of drone mode, letting you solo over your chord for about 30 seconds before it dies out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uez-uDJKZlU But Bill plays through an EHX Freeze, which actual locks his chord for as long as he wants, at full volume no decay. And the GT-1 does an impression of that, since it just has a Tera Echo in the box. https://rolandus.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/115001169506-GT-1-ASSIGN-the-TERA-ECHO-DELAY-a-CTL1-PEDAL-HOLD-FUNCTION Where it says "Mode:Momentary" it basically means your Ctrl acts as a depressed hold, releasing the note when you pull your foot off. The other option under that setting does the other thing, turning your Ctrl into a toggle. I need to spend more time on the actual delay settings before I dial in exactly what I want, but I think this will end up doing an OK impression of a Freeze. You can see Bill messing around with his rig, including the Freeze, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcQtZeNSyY4
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Quarantine owns because I can rock my balls off to Cape Cope at 2pm on a weekday.
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ewe2 posted:For that matter, has anyone repainted their axe successfully, what tools did you use, and what did you learn? Given the length of this lockdown I might actually get around to fixing the botched paint job on my SB-2, somehow the UV-fastness didn't cure and it's been turning slowly pink from arctic white and I'd like to avoid it beginning to chip. you don't need any power equipment, especially if you're just repainting over an existing finish
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Huxley posted:And not to just come in hot with questions: I asked the thread a while back if there was a way to make my GT-1 do Bill Frisell style drones. Nobody knew, and I spent a good long while researching it instead. So here's what I found for anyone trapped in their bedrooms. I found two setups that work differently. The first is this guy who just stacks compression and turns the delay knobs all the way to the right. He also dumps a bunch of chorus in there which may or may not be to your flavor. This gives a long warbly done with a slow decay. The Ctrl-1 button here just swaps you in an out of drone mode, letting you solo over your chord for about 30 seconds before it dies out. Thanks for this! I love BF and I had a suspicion that the Terra Echo options would enable this.
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Huxley posted:I'm also a few days into researching doing a rattle-can finish, though it's over that body that is unfinished and just primered so I don't have to strip it. You can spray poly over anything, so long as it's clean and properly prepared. The only important thing with poly is to let it dry completely between coats or you'll trap moisture and cause the finish to bubble. Oil-based poly can yellow over time while water-based won't, so keep that in mind if you want your finish to stay the same color. Otherwise it's super easy to apply. If you want, you can wipe it on with a rag instead of spraying. Gets thin coats without the danger of breathing in particulate.
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Absolutely! Always in a well ventilated area, preferably along with a mask, as the VOCs in some finishes are real bad for your health. The fumes while it's curing are toxic, too, so please don't let it dry inside or near a living area either.
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People are starting to notice my weird plucking nails, guess it's a good thing I keep 'em clean. They've been a godsend, though; they're clearly getting thicker and my nailbeds are becoming less sensitive so now I'm able to really go to town on my classical and get a surprising amount of nuance out of up/downstrokes. It almost feels a little like some kind of magic, where the subtleties of a hand gesture can have completely different effects.
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Surprising absolutely no one, the behringer SF300 is some straight up electric wizard poo poo, god drat https://soundcloud.com/lfranco321/sf300-test starts with it off then i just start messing around with funeralopolis riffs guitar in b standard with emgs, sf300 straight into jcm800 at the lowest volume I can reasonably get from it then mic'd up like usual
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iirc if you back off the treble a hair from where it'd be on the fz-2 it's pretty much an exact match the same goes for their hm-2 clone with the mid knob. probably a function of the difference in component tolerances or some poo poo
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All i really did was turn the presence down a tiny bit on the amp and the settings on the pedal were pretty much everything at like 2:00 Edit: after shooting them out today while messing around, I decided I like the katana more than the jcm800 for general distortion settings* but I like the way the jcm800 sounds with weird pedals like the hm2 and fz2 *haven't shot them out at super loud volumes, maybe with the power amp doing more than being at 0.5 the jcm sounds more aggressive but as you guys are in the same boat, i'm almost never going to be able to let it really push some air Spanish Manlove fucked around with this message at 18:51 on Mar 29, 2020 |
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Spanish Manlove posted:Surprising absolutely no one, the behringer SF300 is some straight up electric wizard poo poo, god drat
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The Leck posted:I like that (marginally) cleaner sound around 0:35-1:15 - is that just pulling back the tone? The noisier stuff sounds great too, but I feel like that part is something I could use a little more of. That's dialing back the volume knob about 90% TBH i think that setup would sound a lot better without active pickups Spanish Manlove fucked around with this message at 14:38 on Mar 30, 2020 |
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Spanish Manlove posted:That's dialing back the volume knob about 90% When I tried plugging my jazzbox into my fuzzes just as a goof I discovered that I liked the sound a lot better than with the Duncan Distortions in my Charvel. Based on that single data point I declare PAFs the way to go for doom.
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My doom guitar is an sg but it only has a dearmond dynasonic clone in the bridge and you know what? It dooms just fine.
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Yeah I think I'll play some on a gnarly SG She’s sounding pretty good and that's the truth It's neither drink nor drug induced, no, I'm just Dooming alright
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Baron von Eevl posted:My doom guitar is an sg but it only has a dearmond dynasonic clone in the bridge and you know what? It dooms just fine.
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Behringer and doom talk is reminding me- what with the quarantines and impending global apocalypse I picked up some components to clone a Doom Bloom and Pharaoh Supreme, but I should buy something for some immediate satisfaction. Thinking either a rat variant or a “real” BAT pedal like the Black Forest.
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