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It's going from the fourth to the diminished fifth, the bluesiest of notes.
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The volume knob is definitely in the wrong place, and even Yngwie has to drop the far side of that middle pickup to keep it out of the way of the picking. Truly a cursed design.
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Jun 23, 2023 13:09
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mewse posted:I just installed alnico 5 pickups in my squier strat - is middle pickup supposed to be eerily quiet vs neck and bridge or did i mess up my soldering? Switch positions 2 and 4 seem to eliminate hum which suggests to me that nothing is wrong. I guess i could measure resistances Middle pickup by itself should not be eerily quiet, as you already suspect. Assuming the pickup height is somewhat close to normal, I would suspect two possible causes. One is the pickup itself is not generating enough output due to a manufacturing defect. I would look for bad solder joins at the leads and measure the resistance between the leads (for a traditional strat pickup, less than 5K ohms resistance between leads would be worrying). I would expect good quality pickup makers to check for that kind of problem in QC before they get sold. Second, but probably more likely, possible cause would be the output from the pickup is fine but it's leaking signal to ground somewhere. That could require a multimeter adventure to troubleshoot.
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Jun 23, 2023 13:10
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duodenum posted:The volume knob is definitely in the wrong place, and even Yngwie has to drop the far side of that middle pickup to keep it out of the way of the picking. Truly a cursed design. I think I'll probably take out one of the tone knobs and slide everything down to just have a single volume and tone knobs. I'll put a googly eye over the empty volume knob hole or something.
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Jun 23, 2023 13:40
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I’ve never had an issue with it. Occasionally I’ll wack the pickup selector down a notch though. It used to derail me but now I just flip it back and keep playing. I think most of my “getting better at guitar” is just recovering from mistakes quicker and not letting it derail the rest of what I’m trying to do.
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Jun 23, 2023 13:48
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Major Operation posted:Middle pickup by itself should not be eerily quiet, as you already suspect. Thanks this helps a lot. I'm pretty sure I soldered the output wire correctly to the 5 way switch but ground might be shonky. I hope the pickup covers I put on didn't damage one of those tiny magnet wires, but I'll have to take a look.
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Jun 23, 2023 14:56
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Well dammit. A guy locally had a baja tele in butterscotch for $400, with a jb jr in the bridge and a duncan tele pickup in the neck. He also had the original pickups to go with. He was really responsive but I couldn't make it today and told him I could come tomorrow. I hesitated and it sold. These are widely regarded as a best bang for your buck telecaster with an ash body, maple neck, ashtray bridge with a 4 way switch and push pull knob. They're often selling for nearly double. Well poo poo.
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Jun 23, 2023 23:00
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Armacham posted:I think I'll probably take out one of the tone knobs and slide everything down to just have a single volume and tone knobs. I'll put a googly eye over the empty volume knob hole or something. I can’t post my stupid 4 pot strat; the ideal configuration.
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Jun 23, 2023 23:23
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TheMightyBoops posted:I can’t post my stupid 4 pot strat; the ideal configuration. A silly way to spell "telecaster"
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Jun 24, 2023 02:42
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Just had a pretty awesome show, smoking a beefer on the deck just taking it in.
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Jun 24, 2023 03:41
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Harton posted:Just had a pretty awesome show, smoking a beefer on the deck just taking it in. cools, congrats! I am being informed you need to play more Lyle Lovett. And Richard and Linda Thompson.
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Jun 24, 2023 04:18
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does anybody with a boomer strat have any clue how to not lose the tremolo arm spring
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The springs in the back trem cavity? They shouldn't be in any danger of moving if they have tension on them.
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What's everyone's tradition for letting go of a guitar? I've got a Godin HSS that I'm not happy with and am thinking of trading in for credit towards a Fender Player SSS and want to know if anyone has any tips for arcane rituals etc. to make sure all the bad ghosts are out of this guitar before I pass it on in favour of a new one.
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petit choux posted:cools, congrats! I am being informed you need to play more Lyle Lovett. And Richard and Linda Thompson. We did sort of a dinner show last night, took out some of our heavy songs and played more chill stuff. Lyle Lovett would fit that real nice. Went well, I had some nerves at first but according to everyone who came we were amazing. Holy poo poo it feels good
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Jun 24, 2023 14:01
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ethanol posted:does anybody with a boomer strat have any clue how to not lose the tremolo arm spring Never use it is how I manage. But I still lost my first one.
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Kazinsal posted:What's everyone's tradition for letting go of a guitar? I've got a Godin HSS that I'm not happy with and am thinking of trading in for credit towards a Fender Player SSS and want to know if anyone has any tips for arcane rituals etc. to make sure all the bad ghosts are out of this guitar before I pass it on in favour of a new one. is it one of the session hardtails? what don't you like about it? the session r-ht is on my shortlist for possible future purchases.
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Jun 24, 2023 14:39
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darkwasthenight posted:The springs in the back trem cavity? They shouldn't be in any danger of moving if they have tension on them. No, older 6 point tremelo bridges have a little spring that you drop in the hole where the trem arm goes, stops it from being loose. The trem arms used to screw in instead of pop in. When you unscrew the trem arm to put it in the case the little spring can and will just fall out. And it’s very small so you won’t notice
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Jun 24, 2023 15:12
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ethanol posted:No, older 6 point tremelo bridges have a little spring that you drop in the hole where the trem arm goes, stops it from being loose. The trem arms used to screw in instead of pop in. When you unscrew the trem arm to put it in the case the little spring can and will just fall out. And it’s very small so you won’t notice I've been lucky enough to avoid that, clearly. I sometimes use a bit of plumbers tape around the thread if I'm doing something where I really need the bar to stay in place, but mine seems to rest just right.
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Jun 24, 2023 15:15
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Leave the arm in. It looks cool.
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Sweaty IT Nerd posted:Leave t he arm in. It looks cool. I would but it has to to come out to go in case…
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Jun 24, 2023 15:19
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Yeah my new pop-in one has a death lock no matter what I do with the tension screw. I have to take it apart and bend it out a bit at some point. It has to come off to fit in the case so I just haven’t been using it. I only play lead on a few songs at shows now anyway and don’t really need it. Eventually though cause it can be fun when we are getting all weird with it.
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Jun 24, 2023 16:06
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Hardtails for lyfe
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Baron von Eevl posted:Hardtails for lyfe But since sometimes you need to be able to vibrato a pretty chord, my solution was to never adopt such a stupid system. I played Ibanez RG/JEM guitars with Ibanez Edge trems and the only other trems I have are Floyd Rose. When I finally bought the closest thing to a real BluesDad Strat I bought an Elite that has a two-point trem with a push-in arm and various other quality-of-life improvements like compound neck shape and radius, shaped neck heel, and the truss-rod adjustment wheel. One guitarist I used to talk to said I didn't own a real strat. Yeah bro, gently caress your 9.5" radius 21-fret throwback, I actually use all of a two-octave neck and I don't play 0.008s. 
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i have actually never used the vibrato arm that came with my strat. i had no interest in playing like that and i just decked that poo poo the first time i changed strings
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Jun 24, 2023 20:27
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It looks cool and if you swing it around it looks like your guitar is waving hello ☺️
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Jun 24, 2023 20:45
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There really is great value in being able to add your own subtle vibrato to a pretty chord. Also very sweet to swoop in and out of them. It's not all foolishness.
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If I want a vibrato I much prefer a bigsby. I like their control and feel 10x more than a strat style. Also, I bought a hot rod deluxe IV today for $400. Came with the foot switch, cover, and extra set of preamp tubes. The guy bought it, didn't like it (said it wasn't bright enough with his tele .... Lol what?) So he bought an AC15 instead. I showed up, played through it with my tele for 5 minutes through the channels and it sounded like a fender. He was like "drat, maybe I installed my pickups incorrectly, that sounds way better than mine". The older v1-2 are selling for $300-400 around here, the v3-4 usually sell from $500-800 used. I'm very happy to have picked up such a clean v4 instead. I got home and the first lick I played through it was the into to Chattahoochee by Alan Jackson. 
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I can't remember who it was, but I was once told to put a blob of grease or vaseline on the end of the spring and drop it into the hole with the glob on the bottom. Then install the arm and when you remove it the grease/vaseline should be sticky enough to hold the spring in place.
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Baron von Eevl posted:Hardtails for lyfe I got a Robert Cray signature made in Mexico and I love it so much..
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I always want a trem when I don't have one, and when I have one I never use it. Right now I'm in the "wanting one" part of my current gear cycle.
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I just listed a pedal I haven't used in a year. Somewhere in my head I heard a voice "but you might need that someday..."
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fullroundaction posted:I always want a trem when I don't have one, and when I have one I never use it. I'm definitely going to block my trem to dive only. I added springs so I could bend without throwing off every other string, and now the bridge is sucked so far in the body that I think it portends several more weeks of winter.
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My Floyd rose is one of those old ones where it just slams into the body on top because there is no recess. I usually adjust the tension so it's just barely off the body. that seems right to me but I don't know poo poo
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in love with the sound of a 335 for jangly super clean indie rock things. god help me.
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lg with your luck and angst on guitar setups please don’t buy a hollow body. I’m begging you.
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P0PCULTUREREFERENCE posted:lg with your luck and angst on guitar setups please don’t buy a hollow body. I’m begging you. don't worry i won't lol. realistically the closest i've been tempted has been the jim adkins signature because he's amazing and it's a semi hollow (i think?) with p90s that i can probably exploit for a bunch of different things BUT i'd of course never try to do anything myself and would definitely pay/jump through the hoops for it to be worked on by a professional, luthier rear end luthier. fortunately at the current rate i won't be able to pay for a new guitar for like... a while, so it's kinda moot
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Some day when you've got gently caress you money you can look at semihollow ricks and casinos and thinlines to your heart's cotent. And the nice thing is you don't have to worry about being one of those isolated rich people like notch because your Sweetwater rep will call you all the fuckin time.
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Baron von Eevl posted:Some day when you've got gently caress you money you can look at semihollow ricks and casinos and thinlines to your heart's cotent. And the nice thing is you don't have to worry about being one of those isolated rich people like notch because your Sweetwater rep will call you all the fuckin time. bold of you to assume a transsexual who comes from poverty will ever have gently caress you money
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Really considering an Epiphone ES-339 in Pelham blue, but good god I already have 3 blue guitars.
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