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the acoustic? I've seen them before it's like a stand you can lock the guitar into. very cool stuff.El Miguel posted:Apologies if this is the wrong thread (I thought I might have better luck here than in the DIY thread), but can anyone point me to a source for MIJ (1994-1995) Fender Jaguar pickguards? I want to replace the pickguard on mine, and I'm having a devil of a time finding one that actually fits. pickguardian is usually the go to https://www.pickguardian.com/ double edit: nevermind, not what you're looking for. will update if i recall. muike fucked around with this message at 21:33 on Oct 3, 2022 |
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DOPE FIEND KILLA G posted:what is that he's using to keep the guitar steady? some kind of stand.. metheny uses the same thing to jump into acoustic real fast (timestamped): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJtRzUY0AEw&t=242s unfortunately don't know any brands or models for this kind of thing
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Huxley posted:What doesn't fit? Like, did you buy an aftermarket one and the holes didn't line up or did they totally change the shape of them since and the thing is off in a dozen different ways? Oh, it's off in all sorts of different ways - not quite "have y'all never seen one of these guitars before?" but close. It's too small in some dimensions, too large in others, and all around sad. I think the problem is that they've changed stuff around so many times over the years, and secondarily, it's hard to really be sure before I order. muike posted:the acoustic? I've seen them before it's like a stand you can lock the guitar into. very cool stuff. Oh yeah, I looked at them already; thank you though. No luck. I've tried a few different places - I might just end up having to get it custom made.
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Oct 3, 2022 21:41
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Ah man, I wanna be the kalimba guy for some major jazz touring group.
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Oct 3, 2022 21:42
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Huxley posted:Ah man, I wanna be the kalimba guy for some major jazz touring group. lol yeah. though that guy definitely plays a million percussion instruments too and by the way...everybody listen to The Way Up by Pat Metheny Group, it is an absolutely incredible album.
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Oct 3, 2022 21:45
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El Miguel posted:Oh, it's off in all sorts of different ways - not quite "have y'all never seen one of these guitars before?" but close. It's too small in some dimensions, too large in others, and all around sad. I think the problem is that they've changed stuff around so many times over the years, and secondarily, it's hard to really be sure before I order. On the bright side, I think they both make custom pickguards! I had a custom 3004 pickguard made for me from there. http://www.pickguardplanet.com/jaguar-vintage-original-reissue/ any luck here? muike fucked around with this message at 21:49 on Oct 3, 2022 |
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anyone with a floyd have good household items as a suggestion for blocking it while i restring?
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a.p. dent posted:lol yeah. though that guy definitely plays a million percussion instruments too Oh for sure, fast forward 3 minutes and he's probably playing a marimba holding three mallets in each hand. My trip report so far on Advancing Guitarist is ... it's fun and I can see how just the first bit is so "famous." He spends some time lightly making fun of you for having bought the book, then on page 9 gives you your first activity: improvising over "modal vamps." On page about 14 he tells you what a modal vamp is, then on page about 15 actually gives you the modal vamps. So organization not the book's strong suit. At any rate here it is and by god it's actually super interesting. His whole thing is, "if all you know is positional playing, you don't actually know very much. You can do stuff but that's not the same thing. So activity 1: screw boxes. "Put into your tape recorder" the C ionian modal vamp: C E G B (x3200x) to GFAC (3x321x) and back. Now pick a string and improvise using ONLY CDEFGABC. Out notes are illegal, only half-note bends from E to F and B to C. Now go across the fretboard. Only play one string at a time, only play notes in C Ionian. Go until the whole thing is second nature. Now put in the D Dorian modal vamp (which is about four chords I won't transcribe, though you can YT them all). Now go back and do the same thing, one string at a time, no out notes in D dorian (DEFGABCD). Then E Phrygian (EFGABCDE) etc. And once you're through all that, you turn the page and we're doing the same thing on adjacent strings, all 5 sets. It's the kind of thing you could make a meal of for weeks and on the other side, you'd know some poo poo. And you're on page like, 18.
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its such a great book. don't skip on section 3, the philosophical stuff, lots of gems in there. god, you're making me want to get back into it. the 4-part chords section is incredibly rich
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Oct 3, 2022 22:07
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muike posted:On the bright side, I think they both make custom pickguards! I had a custom 3004 pickguard made for me from there. I'll drop 'em a line and see what they think might fit. I've tried to find the exact specific model online with serial-number databases, but haven't had any luck.
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Oct 3, 2022 22:09
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WD music treated me right.
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Wowporn posted:I don't know anything about shredders really but I remember a story about I think Fallout Boy recorded a Van Halen cover (for like a Tony Hawk game??) and the studio hired John Mayer to play the solo which was funny one cool thing the tony hawk games did after a certain point was have new bands cover older songs. which sounds really lame, but i will say that as a kid, something gorilla biscuits would've been a bit too abrasive for me, and tsol a bit lo-fi. but the respective fall out boy and alkaline trio covers of start today and wash away made them a little more accessible. also thanks to that game for introducing me to buzzcocks by way of Thursday covering ever fallen in love <3
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Oct 3, 2022 22:44
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Really need a simple way to hold my floyd
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JamesKPolk posted:If anyone else was curious, there's a bit more to it, this is what I found: Lol I could not have remembered in a million years it was actually a cover of Beat It but at least my brain got the Eddie Van Halen connection right (played the solo on the original Michael Jackson song, which I'm guessing most people here knew already). I guess Pete Wentz specifically asked John to do it
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Oct 3, 2022 23:49
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muike posted:Really need a simple way to hold my floyd No idea, I usually just don't bother blocking but I'm sure there's a reason why I shouldn't In other floyd news, decided to try and mess around again and lower the action on my MIM strat w/ floyd I've had since like 2006. I've previously lowered the bridge as far as possible and messed with the truss rod and "micro-tilt" screw and never got it where I wanted, so today I decided to take the locking nut off and turns out it was shimmed from the factory.
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Wowporn posted:Lol I could not have remembered in a million years it was actually a cover of Beat It but at least my brain got the Eddie Van Halen connection right (played the solo on the original Michael Jackson song, which I'm guessing most people here knew already). I guess Pete Wentz specifically asked John to do it lmfao really? And yeah no it's definitely John Mayer covering an Eddie Van Halen solo, just a couple more layers lol. I'm lolling @ Pete Wentz being like "yeah we're gonna get some rising star guitar god to come in and kill this solo just like Michael did!" and the person he thinks of is John Mayer
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At first I shared a picture of the pedalboard I built but I'm deleting that post because seeing a photograph of the area under my desk is forcing me to confront how filthy I am. I'll share another picture when I'm not a filth golem. This will likely never happen
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That reminds me, the solo on Weird Al's song Eat It was performed by Rick "Rock and Roll Hoochie-Koo" Derringer. In addition to laying that solo he also produced most of Al's 80s output. He then went on to write, record, and produce "Real American" for Hulk Hogan.
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I thought this tidbit about ghost writer / session solo players on records was really weird and off putting then I remember that one of my favorite solos was actually Andy LaRocque of king diamond firing out a solo in two takes (one regular and one for the harmony for a dual track solo) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzLhT39DSE0
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Spanish Manlove posted:I thought this tidbit about ghost writer / session solo players on records was really weird and off putting then I remember that one of my favorite solos was actually Andy LaRocque of king diamond firing out a solo in two takes (one regular and one for the harmony for a dual track solo) I've seen At the Gates live a couple times and they kick rear end, but let's just say that solo....does not hit the same without Andy playing it.
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that whole album is a huge benchmark for metal recording so im not shocked lol
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muike posted:Really need a simple way to hold my floyd Old credit cards, business cards, or playing cards that you can cut/tape to have a reliable block on hand for future needs. I hear coins can work as well.
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Oct 4, 2022 01:39
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To temporarily block it during tuning/string changes, stacking credit cards and shoving them between the foam padding and back of the floyd on the top of the guitar is easiest. For a dive only block to leave in, you can indeed stack coins, or just buy a simple little bracket with a grub screw from amazon for like 15 dollars that works well, and can be adjusted to free the trem up. Just search for trem blockers.
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i got some balsa wood from hobby lobby for a different project and realized I could use it to block trems with.
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I used a chunk of glastic at work once, but honestly it's annoying as hell finding the right size object to block a trem so it sits level. That's why I like just buying the cheap bracket or stacking coins, it's easy to just adjust.
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I have a lo-pro which makes the whole process of putting poo poo under the baseplate a big pain in the rear end. i use the spring cavity cover
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I ordered new wiring and pickups for my SG for coiltapping, and so I got shown a bunch of other guitar parts and started thinking about doing my own assembly. How does pairing a neck to a body work, do you just match width and scale length? Are fittings fairly universal or should I always aim to match manufacturers?
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BizarroAzrael posted:I ordered new wiring and pickups for my SG for coiltapping, and so I got shown a bunch of other guitar parts and started thinking about doing my own assembly. How does pairing a neck to a body work, do you just match width and scale length? Are fittings fairly universal or should I always aim to match manufacturers? Talking about bolt-on neck guitars, its often a matter of how closely things stick to the matching Fender specifications. Fender grants licenses to other companies to make replacement necks and bodies that will match their specs. So a body and neck that match the Fender spec for a given style (strat and tele are the big ones) will probably be close. Trying to get a pickguard that would match predrilled holes from some other vendor is still a risky bet since there's no declared standard for those. You do have to be somewhat careful, I believe. There are places that sell guitar parts that look like Fender parts but don't necessarily match up exactly. Obviously, in a world where you do a lot of measurement with feeler gauges and rulers indexed to 64ths of an inch, being off by 3/32nds of an inch in some dimension between neck and body (like neck pocket depth) might be a major problem. I'm currently working on finishing assembly of a guitar using a body and neck from Warmoth. No issues with those parts going together, but a full Warmoth build ends up being more expensive than just buying an American-made Fender. Warmoth has a big list of different body types, but the vast majority (outside of Telecaster types or Mustang/Jaguar) are designed to accept the Fender Strat neck heel for a 25.5" scale. The Warmoth YouTube channel and Unofficial Warmoth forums have a lot of information on building with their parts specifically, but some of that bleeds over into the general topics also. https://www.youtube.com/c/warmoth/videos
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This week I taught myself how to play Fly Me To The Moon by reading sheet music. It turns out its pretty simple! But there were a couple things that I didn't guess by ear. The 'by reading sheet music' is what I'm really proud of, this was a personal goal for the past year and a half, or maybe ~20 years of life. I'm excited about the resources it will open up. Lots to practice!
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i have a boss NS-2 and every time i turn it on i hear a little kind of fluttering noise. it doesn't go away, doesn't seem to be affected by anything i do with the guitar and increases in volume when i turn the amp up. google has been absolutely hopeless when it comes to trying to figure out why your noise gate is making funny noises so i turn to you guys, where do i start troubleshooting?
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muike posted:anyone with a floyd have good household items as a suggestion for blocking it while i restring? 1 dead 9-volt battery with a scotch tape handle for those deep Ibanez routs 1 perfectly sized and slightly soft pillow I made out of black duct tape (this one is a winner for all cases, as long as you don't lose it... but easy to make another!) 1 domino. PERFECT for a standard routed Floyd. Not my idea, my Dad hipped me to that one.
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Stalizard posted:i have a boss NS-2 and every time i turn it on i hear a little kind of fluttering noise. it doesn't go away, doesn't seem to be affected by anything i do with the guitar and increases in volume when i turn the amp up. I would guess blindly that it's a power issue. Is this running off battery? Plug it came with? Apparently it only draws 25mA so I don't think it's an issue related to being starved slightly, but flutters like that remind me of when I've had power issues.
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muike posted:anyone with a floyd have good household items as a suggestion for blocking it while i restring? when i did mine this afternoon i used one of those bamboo backscratchers
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Baron von Eevl posted:I would guess blindly that it's a power issue. Is this running off battery? Plug it came with? Apparently it only draws 25mA so I don't think it's an issue related to being starved slightly, but flutters like that remind me of when I've had power issues. sorry about the double post but i'm using a 1spot daisy chain deal for all of my pedals, i guess I'll try the noise gate on a 9 volt and see if that's the issue
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Quick crosspost because I am a little excited. Long story short, the muse hit hard and dropped a finished song on me in about two hours (mostly spent loving with lyrics and vocals). Performances aside, I do feel the melody of the verse and chorus is fairly strong. The chorus might even count as a climax in the lg sense of the word (just a guess.) Highlights for me are the chugga-chugga in the second-half of the verses. I don't recall too many examples of that in my previous songs. Anyway this is just the raw demo. The subject matter is essentially the abandonment of compromise, expressed more impressionistic than specific. But usually if a song drops on my head like this I end up liking it, so who knows. The chorus vocal part is actually written for my buddy who will also be providing his own bass part and keys. He's got the range and the timbre for it. quote:Don't ask me how or why, all I know is I was playing around with a preset with Bad Cat and Powerball models in stereo. It just made me want to chug chug chug and pinch harmonics. Next thing I knew this was recorded. This is often how it happens, for some reason. Two hours, tops, and that was mostly loving around with vocals.
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JamesKPolk posted:This week I taught myself how to play Fly Me To The Moon by reading sheet music. It turns out its pretty simple! But there were a couple things that I didn't guess by ear. That’s awesome. I too long put that goal off. My only advice is to keep looking for songs you’re interested in and lend themselves to that format.
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Stalizard posted:sorry about the double post but i'm using a 1spot daisy chain deal for all of my pedals, i guess I'll try the noise gate on a 9 volt and see if that's the issue wouldn't you know it, throwing in the battery from my smoke detector fixed the whole thing. thanks!
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Stalizard posted:sorry about the double post but i'm using a 1spot daisy chain deal for all of my pedals, i guess I'll try the noise gate on a 9 volt and see if that's the issue This may not be your exact problem but it feels like OP worthy advice, daisy chain power supplies loving suuuucckkkk asssssssssss, the more pedals you have in the daisy chain the more noise they introduce. Are the random $30 power supplies from eBay safe enough to recommend over the daisy chain things? I have cheapo Donner psu's and they've been fine so far and barely even burnt anything down
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Stuff like donner or joyos cheap brick power supplies are filtered not isolated. Slightly less noise than a daisy chain but still get more if you add say a digital pedal on them. That said I use one for the few pedals I have and it’s fine, but when I owned a true isolated brick it took out noise I wasn’t even aware of till it was give. True isolated ones are always expensive because of the demands of completely seperate power.
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Wowporn posted:This may not be your exact problem but it feels like OP worthy advice, daisy chain power supplies loving suuuucckkkk asssssssssss, the more pedals you have in the daisy chain the more noise they introduce. Are the random $30 power supplies from eBay safe enough to recommend over the daisy chain things? I have cheapo Donner psu's and they've been fine so far and barely even burnt anything down it was the only one they had at (don't make fun) sam ash the day i impulse bought my first pedal, a mini tube screamer, and realized it didn't have room for a battery. if you guys tell me what's a good regular power supply I'll put it on the list
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