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skudmunky posted:why the hell are the tuners like that. why. Because there were a lot of drugs in the 60s See also: the Japanese guitar industry
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Aug 1, 2015 04:24
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White Dog Eggs posted:They also do this;
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Aug 1, 2015 09:50
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Aug 1, 2015 17:44
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i like to imagine this guy just steps on a tube screamer, plays vanilla blues rock, and calls it a day
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Aug 1, 2015 21:11
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I'm imagining this photo is taken at a bar gig where they took 2 hours to find the one jack not plugged in all the way. e: I was also thinking where all the other band members would stand but, let's be honest, no decent musician would ever play with this guy. crashdome fucked around with this message at 22:34 on Aug 1, 2015 |
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Aug 1, 2015 22:26
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This is why I prefer Tom Morello's approach to effects. Really amateur player like to wank over all the equipment they use. Morello take pride in how wide a range of sounds he can get from the fewest pedals possible. I think he used 5 pedals total for Battle of Los Angeles, and 2 guitars because a couple songs used an alternate tuning, yet he got crazy loving sound out of it. Ashes in the Fall, for example, or Born As Ghosts have a ton of interesting effects.
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Aug 2, 2015 00:49
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LeftistMuslimObama posted:This is why I prefer Tom Morello's approach to effects. Really amateur player like to wank over all the equipment they use. Morello take pride in how wide a range of sounds he can get from the fewest pedals possible. I think he used 5 pedals total for Battle of Los Angeles, and 2 guitars because a couple songs used an alternate tuning, yet he got crazy loving sound out of it. Ashes in the Fall, for example, or Born As Ghosts have a ton of interesting effects. On a related note: The more hardcore tone-wood types tend to be poo poo players.
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Aug 2, 2015 00:53
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White Dog Eggs posted:On a related note: The more hardcore tone-wood types tend to be poo poo players. well i'll be damned
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Aug 2, 2015 00:54
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Dewgy posted:well i'll be damned "Of course I sound horrible, this guitar is junk Alder!!! I need only the finest swamp ash so I can play the same loving Cream riff over and over and over again with my eyes closed" I got kicked out of a guitar builders group on facebook because I'm currently making a guitar out of MDF and hardboard. I mentioned using OSB for the fretboard and I got banned.
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Aug 2, 2015 00:58
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White Dog Eggs posted:I got kicked out of a guitar builders group on facebook because I'm currently making a guitar out of MDF and hardboard. I mentioned using OSB for the fretboard and I got banned. Ahahahahaha tonespergs are the worst
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Aug 2, 2015 01:20
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White Dog Eggs posted:On a related note: The more hardcore tone-wood types tend to be poo poo players. There's probably 1 good video in 20 for any guitar search on YouTube. I can't find it right now but my favorite Gibson video is from a Japanese guy who apparently never even learned to tune guitars, but he saved up and bought a gold top. So he's in his tiny rear end studio apt somewhere in Japan trying to play along with something on the radio. He balding with a righteous comb-over and he starts sweating while he's playing and the comb-over starts to sag. It's kind of like those "Slash Shreds" videos only not funny except for the hair. It was so bad there were comments from people offering to give the guy lessons over skype for free.
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Aug 2, 2015 01:31
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White Dog Eggs posted:"Of course I sound horrible, this guitar is junk Alder!!! I need only the finest swamp ash so I can play the same loving Cream riff over and over and over again with my eyes closed" OSB looks awesome when stained and I bet you could get a crazy psychedelic effect by letting contrasting colours bleed together. Or start dark and sand with a medium/heavy grit before applying a lighter tint coat as you do with natural wood grain to get tiger stripes on maple. Except in this case you'd end up with neon wood chips floating in an inky sea. http://thecommodorerenos.blogspot.co.uk/2011/09/staining-and-varnishing-osb-floor.html
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Aug 2, 2015 01:47
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White Dog Eggs posted:I got kicked out of a guitar builders group on facebook because I'm currently making a guitar out of MDF and hardboard. I mentioned using OSB for the fretboard and I got banned.  that's awesomei've been thinking about making a tele body out of some scrap 2x6s left over from having my deck rebuilt a few weeks ago. maybe use some thin plywood as a top if i wind up having to plane it down too much e: or wait a minute... http://www.tdpri.com/forum/tele-home-depot/104493-warning-build-like-you-have-never-seen-before-may-offensive-some.html 
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Aug 2, 2015 01:47
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comes along bort posted:
I really hope he ends up putting a sunburst fade finish on the chipboard and a tortoise shell pickguard, as well as a synthetic fretboard material. He might actually give a tonedork a coronary.
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Aug 2, 2015 06:24
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White Dog Eggs posted:I got kicked out of a guitar builders group on facebook because I'm currently making a guitar out of MDF and hardboard. I mentioned using OSB for the fretboard and I got banned. This Hondo is for you then  Picked both of these stupid things up today for $40 USD.   Epiphone electric acoustic with some terrible setup and an "allegedly" MIJ Hondo Fame.  Weird non-locking import Floyd Rose setup.   The finest tone glue construction.  Cracked trem block too on the thick E string.  The pickup was sorta held in.  This was also on there   Pickup has been taped at some point and there was a pair of soldered connections below the pickup that were just hanging out exposed to the base plate.  Mostly cleaned off.  New jack plate, jack, brass shaft volume pot. Tossed on a spare Gibson pickup ring on, witch hat knob, and drilled the headstock to accept the larger 2pin Fender tuners I had.  It's somewhat stable now with 5 springs, but is a complete time bomb with that pot metal broken trem block.   The Epiphone will be a good campfire beater to not worry about but has like lol-classical string height. Upper fret access being a bonus.
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Aug 2, 2015 07:10
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pointlessone posted:I really hope he ends up putting a sunburst fade finish on the chipboard and a tortoise shell pickguard, as well as a synthetic fretboard material. He might actually give a tonedork a coronary.  he did but then the center of the body started crowning so he wound up sanding the whole thing flat again and that was the end of the thread
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Aug 2, 2015 13:00
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The logical end of tonespergs being awful is someone has to make a goontar out of drywall.
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Aug 2, 2015 22:27
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Concatenation posted:Well I just unblocked the floyd rose on my MII and spent all of jams last night finishing each song with stupid ridiculous slayer divebombs with everything on my pedalboard turned on and it's the most fun I've had playing guitar since, like, ever. Your cat looks like my cat 
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Aug 2, 2015 22:55
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^^ Kitty, kitty. Nostalgia. It's a powerful thing, but it can sour. Music stores. Once upon a time any decent-sized city had at least three independent stores, each with their own brand buy-ins so you'd go to one place to check out the really fancy stuff, another to check out MESA/Boogie because they were the only store with new models in stock, a third for their used section. Head to the out-of-the-way hole-in-the-wall place out of town out of curiosity, see if you can get a deal on strings or something. The days before online shopping, before Guitar Center, before MARS Music, etc. My teens. Some things have changed, and others probably won't. Yesterday, due to a simple miscommunication, I arrived to a gig two hours early. It was 90 degrees. I needed something to do and remembered that Guitar Center was just 12 miles (on a 70MPH dual-highway) back the way I came, and it would be cool inside. So I headed back and soon I was sitting alone in the recording room reading mixing tips from famous engineers for an hour. I perused the new amps, looked at the hanging guitars, didn't play anything or spend any money. Despite being 2:30pm on a Saturday, there were more employees than browsers. On my way out I stopped by the restroom and found "the board." Everyone knows "the board." It's a place where one might search, almost always in vain, for talented and reliable musicians to form an ensemble. My phone camera didn't get this as well as I'd like, but I think it's mostly legible. Next time you go by your local stores, snap some pics of the best of the worst of the notices. I think some of them are incredibly funny, even if you can't tell if it's tongue-in-cheek or not.  I mention nostalgia because; after not stepping foot into a GC for eight years, I figure I can probably wait another ten before I'd feel like going into one again.
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Aug 2, 2015 23:12
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stupid music poo poo: I'm thining about buying a 6 string bass from rondo. I will for sure keep it hiked up below my chin 
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Aug 2, 2015 23:27
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Does anyone have the Chickenbacker store website? I'm considering getting one and getting it set up with new pickups and all that... UK if it helps haha!
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Aug 2, 2015 23:40
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Dr. Faustus posted:Despite being 2:30pm on a Saturday, there were more employees than browsers. I remember when circuit city started it's burnout, and this felt the exact same.
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Aug 3, 2015 00:45
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Does that say they have ✝wo "8A" guitarists? Do they play guitars with eight A strings or something?
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Aug 3, 2015 01:53
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That says "singer with a huge wall of ham" and you're not convincing me it doesn't.
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Aug 3, 2015 02:05
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tacodaemon posted:Does that say they have ✝wo "8A" guitarists? BA As in BAD A$$
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Aug 3, 2015 02:12
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Barnaby Barnacle posted:That says "singer with a huge wall of ham" and you're not convincing me it doesn't. Mmmm. Ham. HEY YOU! MAKE ME A SAMMICH!
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Aug 3, 2015 02:14
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pointlessone posted:Good (bad) news! Guitar center might not be here anymore in a good couple years. I was in one that just did a reset, and it's not looking good. All the gear is flat faced in an effort to hide the lack of stock, there's maybe one to two color variants of models, and they were down to about two shelves of amps while all the bass amps just say on the floor in the back corner where the used gear was. The bass "room" was completely gone, all that was there was about 15 traded in guitars and maybe 10 overpriced used amps covered in dust. The physical stores are aimed squarely at newbs. I guarantee their Line6 and Orange section was fully stocked.
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Aug 3, 2015 02:37
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Guitar Center staying around is fine by me. Last weekend, I traded in some gear that I haven't used in a while and got a brand new bass amp for my synth. My trade covered the entire thing, and they even had to pay me $5 after all was said and done. That's pretty rad. I've had good experiences with their trade-ins in the past, too. I don't buy much gear from there, though. I got to bring my synth to the store and try out different bass amps before deciding on one, too, so that was neat. It's cool to have a place to do that. Rageaholic fucked around with this message at 02:42 on Aug 3, 2015 |
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Aug 3, 2015 02:40
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this is straight out of why i deleted your band's promo email
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Aug 3, 2015 02:44
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Hijo Del Helmsley posted:The logical end of tonespergs being awful is someone has to make a goontar out of drywall. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5F2SHlfB8YE Concrete is close enough.
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Aug 3, 2015 02:46
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ZombieParts posted:The physical stores are aimed squarely at newbs. I guarantee their Line6 and Orange* section was fully stocked. *Orange's bottom of the barrel solid state beginner amps only, of course.
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Aug 3, 2015 02:49
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Why do people have such a thing against guitar center anyway? You can actually try stuff out there without the staff giving you the stink-eye. Prices are competitive. Most importantly they have an excellent return policy. Without GC I would be stuck with a loving pile of garbage Casino, instead I got to return 3 of them and end up with a Gretsch. Honestly, I would not like to go back to the days of 'small' shops where you pay $10 for a pack of $5 strings.
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unlawfulsoup posted:Why do people have such a thing against guitar center anyway? You can actually try stuff out there without the staff giving you the stink-eye. Prices are competitive. Most importantly they have an excellent return policy. Without GC I would be stuck with a loving pile of garbage Casino, instead I got to return 3 of them and end up with a Gretsch. Honestly, I would not like to go back to the days of 'small' shops where you pay $10 for a pack of $5 strings. big company bad don't get me wrong, ill go to chicago music exchange when i have the choice, but guitar center is no worse than most guitar shops.
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Aug 3, 2015 02:53
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unlawfulsoup posted:Why do people have such a thing against guitar center anyway? You can actually try stuff out there without the staff giving you the stink-eye. Prices are competitive. Most importantly they have an excellent return policy. Without GC I would be stuck with a loving pile of garbage Casino, instead I got to return 3 of them and end up with a Gretsch. Honestly, I would not like to go back to the days of 'small' shops where you pay $10 for a pack of $5 strings. My general experience was that the salesmen were always incredibly pushy but completely unknowledgeable about the gear they were trying hock. On top of that, they always talked down to me everytime I ever shopped there. It always seemed like their was always some item of the week that they would try to sell you no matter what you actually came in to look for. Never mind the fact that they never had a viable business strategy, and took out several good shops in my area, despite never having actually turned a profit. And any reputable shop would let you return a guitar, but in all honesty after 2 lovely ones you should have given up on Casinos. Did you not play them in the store before you bought them or something? If someone kept coming into my store, buying the same guitar and returning it 3 days later, I would be pretty justifiably pissed. And as far as $10 strings go, there again, any decent shop won't do that, you just need less lovely shops around you.
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Aug 3, 2015 03:38
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wanna see dat signal flow
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Hollis Brownsound posted:My general experience was that the salesmen were always incredibly pushy but completely unknowledgeable about the gear they were trying hock. On top of that, they always talked down to me everytime I ever shopped there. It always seemed like their was always some item of the week that they would try to sell you no matter what you actually came in to look for. Where I am they are not pushy, and pretty much anyplace with retail today is going to be a total dice roll if the salespeople will have experience. Over here I don't think they killed any smaller shops, there is literally nothing for ~30 miles anyway. As far as the Casino, they shipped them to the shop, I inspected them and took them home. The whole lovely line of guitars has a defect with awful pickup mounting, and yes I abandoned them. I liked the idea of the guitar so I was hoping there was a well made one, and I even went to NYC where a really good luthier took a look at one. Either way, literally no one ever gave me an ounce of poo poo for doing that and they applied the discount to my next purchase. The 'small' shops I have been to have salespeople who basically seem personally offended if you touch anything in the store with the added bonus of a 40% markup. I am not saying everyone should love the big soulless chain, but they work out well for me.
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Dr. Faustus posted:The days before online shopping, before Guitar Center, before MARS Music, etc. My teens. Some things have changed, and others probably won't. haha mars music. it's actually kinda impressive someone figured out a way to make guitar center suck even more unlawfulsoup posted:Why do people have such a thing against guitar center anyway? You can actually try stuff out there without the staff giving you the stink-eye. Prices are competitive. Most importantly they have an excellent return policy. Without GC I would be stuck with a loving pile of garbage Casino, instead I got to return 3 of them and end up with a Gretsch. Honestly, I would not like to go back to the days of 'small' shops where you pay $10 for a pack of $5 strings. maybe the mythical decently staffed and run gc exists, but i've never set foot in one it's always the same half-busted shitbox guitars, dipshit failed cover band guys on the floor who don't know their rear end from their elbow, and that one 15 year old trying to play the opening solo in fade to black on a marshall mg i grew up out in the sticks with the only local store being run by rear end in a top hat mormons who didn't carry poo poo and tried to rip you off at every opportunity and gc was 2 hours away. mail order was a godsend and it's a shame gc took over musicians friend right before bain bought them because gc's gonna take them when they go Alec Bald Snatch fucked around with this message at 05:50 on Aug 3, 2015 |
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Aug 3, 2015 05:46
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I'm not saying that Guitar Center sucks. I am saying that I am an old man who would rather have his gums deep-scaled than hang out for more than ten minutes in a "music store" anymore. I've paid my dues, I once thought it was fun and cool; and now I know better. Also, as mentioned above, good luck finding something you want to play before you buy. They do have a great return policy.
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Dr. Faustus posted:I'm not saying that Guitar Center sucks. I am saying that I am an old man who would rather have his gums deep-scaled than hang out for more than ten minutes in a "music store" anymore. I've paid my dues, I once thought it was fun and cool; and now I know better. i had a hardshell case shipped to guitar center a couple weeks ago. i havent been in one in years, and it was a weird rear end scene. there were maybe half a dozen customers in the store including me and they all seemed to be really into those solid state orange amps that kids dig. the manager i guess made an announcement over the intercom while standing like 10 feet from all of us shoppers and the dude behind the counter started laughing at him the stock had shrunk a lot from what i remembered them having, wall of gibsons notwithstanding. they did have some legit used tube heads though. oddly legit
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