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osker posted:Has anyone messed with Harley Benton guitars from Thomann? A few of their basses have gotten surprisingly good reviews from people on YouTube and they are insanely cheap so I have considered them despite really wanting to buy secondhand local...
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My blue burst 335 (FF338) is up on Amazon. The 338 is their flagship. Firefly Full Size Hollow body Electric Guitar with Cable and Picks (Blue Burst) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B075FSQFPY/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_0yviEb4HHY95N
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Jan 17, 2020 07:38
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Does anyone have any tips for cool software to help with learning and playing along with songs? For reference, the last time I really did this was in like 2004 when I would load up my metallica tab on mxtabs then use Winamp with the "Pacemaker" plugin to change speed and pitch. Just really cutting edge stuff. I also played Rocksmith a bit a few years ago which was really cool, but I'd like something a bit more flexible. I can kind of imagine what my dream software would be. It probably doesn't exist but maybe I can tick off a few of these things? 1) load up my mp3 file (probably downloaded from youtube or something) 2) set speed and pitch so I don't have to retune my guitar as much 3) loop through hard bits (like the riff repeater in rocksmith but more flexible) 4) integrate the tab somehow?? I know 1-3 are probably possible with any good DAW but they're always so fuckin complicated. I don't really need to edit or record so I just want something really simple.
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Jan 17, 2020 11:07
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audacity does all that minus the tab part
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Jan 17, 2020 11:16
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I think Songsterr does the last three if you pay for it, but you'll have to settle for MIDI versions of the songs.
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Jan 17, 2020 12:09
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Justin Guitar uses this one and I think it checks off all the boxes except the tab. Instead it tries to help detect the pitches. https://www.seventhstring.com/xscribe/screenshots.html
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Jan 17, 2020 13:14
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ASenileAnimal posted:drat thats the exact shade of green i want for all of my guitars and basses. ive wanted something with p90s too. most excited for this so far cause its an epi and i might be able to afford it Yeah it's the pricing that blows me away; I really hope the quality doesn't suffer. I would have bought a Muse series SG too if I hadn't already got a G400 Pro, those look really nice. But the batwing P90's got my money.
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Jan 17, 2020 15:15
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ewe2 posted:Yeah it's the pricing that blows me away; I really hope the quality doesn't suffer. I would have bought a Muse series SG too if I hadn't already got a G400 Pro, those look really nice. But the batwing P90's got my money. if its as good as the epi thunderbird pro bass i have ill be happy.
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I stumbled across this youtube guitarist a while ago. He was in a motorized wheelchair and instead of fretting normally, he played with his left hand inverted. Does anybody know who I'm talking about? He was really good and played a lot of blues and almost Satriani-inspired stuff. Captain Apollo posted:My blue burst 335 (FF338) is up on Amazon. Just FYI, I think this is a different finish than then one you have (because I also have the same one.) This is the Blue Burst, while the one you and I have is called Transparent Blue. You can tell the difference because the Blue Burst has a black back, neck and sides while the Trans Blue is blue all over. Blue blue blue blue blue.
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Jan 17, 2020 16:57
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fuf posted:Does anyone have any tips for cool software to help with learning and playing along with songs? Transcribe! and Amazing Slow Downer will do 1-3 very well.
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Jan 17, 2020 17:13
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former glory posted:Justin Guitar uses this one and I think it checks off all the boxes except the tab. Instead it tries to help detect the pitches. i use this too and its good
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Jan 17, 2020 17:44
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Any clue what this might be? No name, no information (on auction site, seller doesn't know much). No bids and the price is like 80 bucks so far. 
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Jan 17, 2020 18:14
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fuf posted:Does anyone have any tips for cool software to help with learning and playing along with songs? This exists and is free for everything except printing out the sheet: https://www.soundslice.com/slices/TYTcc/ I don't think you can change the speed and pitch of the original recording though
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Jan 17, 2020 18:49
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Hard to overstate how much more I enjoy playing the instrument, especially as someone who abuses bends, once my hands have had a few months to callus up. Too bad it takes a while to get there, and you need to keep it up or you lose it fairly fast. The stuff Guthrie is doing in some of these bends is a real ouch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tELIgr96WcM
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Jan 17, 2020 19:28
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DreadCthulhu posted:Hard to overstate how much more I enjoy playing the instrument, especially as someone who abuses bends, once my hands have had a few months to callus up. Too bad it takes a while to get there, and you need to keep it up or you lose it fairly fast. The stuff Guthrie is doing in some of these bends is a real ouch: Anyone recognize the guitar he’s playing?
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Jan 17, 2020 20:46
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good jovi posted:Anyone recognize the guitar he’s playing? Looks like his signature Charvel.
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AnimalChin posted:I've got this explorer and it seems really really nice - even before you factor in how cheap it was. Wowporn posted:A few of their basses have gotten surprisingly good reviews from people on YouTube and they are insanely cheap so I have considered them despite really wanting to buy secondhand local... Thank you folks. I feel weird ordering something from Germany, but secondhand local has been dreadful for me because I'm left handed and several months of trolling craigslist and FB marketplace hasn't yielded anything. (Side note: has anyone managed to buy anything from FB marketplace, every single purchase attempted falls apart in ways that just doesn't occur with craigslist) I was actually eye-balling that explorer, but may probably end up getting one of their hollow body situations. The youtube reviews all tout their bang for buck bonafides.
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I got an AT2020 off FB marketplace. Guy two blocks from me, great deal, a lead on a good recording studio, and he threw in a pop filter.
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Jan 17, 2020 22:14
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Siivola posted:
...gently caress it's going to be really hard not to buy that.
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Clayton Bigsby posted:Any clue what this might be? No name, no information (on auction site, seller doesn't know much). No bids and the price is like 80 bucks so far. Check out the neck on that thing. Anything that's been played that much must be a pretty good instrument.
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Jan 18, 2020 00:12
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Gnumonic posted:...gently caress it's going to be really hard not to buy that. 
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Gnumonic posted:...gently caress it's going to be really hard not to buy that. Yeah I'm really honestly thinking about getting the blue/green one. That's so hot.  I already have one floyd rose guitar though and I really don't need another. I'm in this weird place where I kinda want a more expensive guitar with a dumb 2-point tremolo... is that basically just Fenders? Looks like Jackson and Ibanez (my usual favorites) tend to swap to Floyd Roses as soon as you spend more than a few hundred bucks. I want a real nice superstrat but with a 2-point trem, not a complete hard-tail but not a floyd rose. Anybody got some good reccs?
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Jan 18, 2020 00:20
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Zaphod42 posted:I want a real nice superstrat but with a 2-point trem, not a complete hard-tail but not a floyd rose. Anybody got some good reccs? Some of the Charvel DK24s come with a Gotoh trem but are otherwise shred machines. Only reason I don't own one is that the gotoh versions just come in roasted maple, and apparently it's really iffy as to whether you can scallop roasted maple without destroying it. Edit: I'm also not really looking for another Floyd guitar but the HM strat is iconic as gently caress, and it's the only 24 fret "real" strat that has ever been made. Gnumonic fucked around with this message at 00:32 on Jan 18, 2020 |
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Jan 18, 2020 00:23
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Gnumonic posted:it's the only 24 fret "real" strat that has ever been made. oooooooh Charvel is a good call though
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Siivola posted:
It needs a pearlescent teal pickguard.
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It’s funny because as much as I absolutely CRAVE that pink superstrat I’ll never actually buy it because I know better to ever buy a non hardtail again. I need to tattoo “you’ll never enjoy a trem or playing through a computer stop trying to force it you moron” on my forehead.
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Kilometers Davis posted:It’s funny because as much as I absolutely CRAVE that pink superstrat I’ll never actually buy it because I know better to ever buy a non hardtail again. Every single one of my floyds is blocked at the moment so I sympathize. Buuuut, as someone who learned to play for years on either strat style bridges or tune-o-matics, the fine tuners *really* gently caress with my hand placement/pick slanting/palm muting. I don't have a problem with the low profile Floyds or Edges though, since the fine tuners are placed differently. I have no idea if any of those are a drop in replacement for whatever trem is in the HM strat but I bet I could get it routed without spending too much cash.
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Jan 18, 2020 02:52
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fuf posted:Does anyone have any tips for cool software to help with learning and playing along with songs? Sorry for the double post but it's not letting me auto-quote in a reply and I am lazy. Anyway: Buy Guitar Pro. You can find GPro tabs for anything, it's mindlessly simple to adjust the tempo (and it has a speed trainer feature where you can set it to loop x amount of times then move up by y%), and you can just set the instruments to play the notes half a step (or a whole step, or as many steps as you like) up or down from the original. Of all the gear and software that I've purchased over the years, Guitar Pro has been hands down the most useful. Newer versions have a pretty good soundfont thingy and stuff sounds perfectly adequate for practicing or sketching ideas quickly. It won't do MP3s but you probably don't actually need that. Practicing over backing tracks is great, but if you do not silence the track that you're attempting to play, it's hard to hear your mistakes (especially dropped or badly articulated notes). There's no workable way to silence a particular track starting from an MP3.
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Yeah I was gonna say I just use guitar pro or rocksmith depending on how hard the song is. The gpro midi is good enough to learn with, and you can also mute it and play the mp3 once you're getting it Rocksmith is surprisingly good fun for sight reading
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Clayton Bigsby posted:Any clue what this might be? No name, no information (on auction site, seller doesn't know much). No bids and the price is like 80 bucks so far. Definitely a Kay, probably late 50's. Not worth much as they were the mass-production guitars of their day but they can be good players. The necks are a little quirky as they dont have truss rods, but if it hasn't bowed after all these years then it probably never will. There should be a sticker in one of the f-holes with the maker and model number.
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Gnumonic posted:Sorry for the double post but it's not letting me auto-quote in a reply and I am lazy. Anyway: This is a good post. I would also 100% recommend guitar pro.
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Zaphod42 posted:I want a real nice superstrat but with a 2-point trem, not a complete hard-tail but not a floyd rose. Anybody got some good reccs?  Edit: Oh and Music Man just released their new Sabre model, which is pretty superstratty: 
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Chip McFuck posted:Definitely a Kay, probably late 50's. Not worth much as they were the mass-production guitars of their day but they can be good players. The necks are a little quirky as they dont have truss rods, but if it hasn't bowed after all these years then it probably never will. There should be a sticker in one of the f-holes with the maker and model number. I suspected it was a Kay, but was guessing 1940s. Either way I won it for 80 bucks (roughly) so will see what it is when it arrives. Figured it'd be fun to try out at least.
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Zaphod42 posted:I already have one floyd rose guitar though and I really don't need another. I'm in this weird place where I kinda want a more expensive guitar with a dumb 2-point tremolo... is that basically just Fenders? There's a load of options for this, it seems like a really popular idea right now. Ibanez do the AZ series https://www.ibanez.com/usa/products/model/az/, Suhr has the Standard https://www.suhr.com/instruments/standard-plus/, Tom Anderson has a few choices https://www.andersonguitarworks.com/the-s Some of these start getting into what I'd think of as silly money though! I'm boring and bought an hss fender strat years ago.
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Schecter has this slightly overwrought gentleman: https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/C1ExoticNS--schecter-c-1-exotic-natural-satin And this more restrained but much more expensive ones https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/SunCustIICP--schecter-usa-sunset-custom-ii-copperburst
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Jan 18, 2020 13:27
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Gnumonic posted:Buy Guitar Pro. You can find GPro tabs for anything Ok cool idea, thanks for the suggestion (and for the other suggestions). I guess I was put off by the midi thing but that shouldn't be a problem. Where's the best place to find GPro tabs? I signed up for that mySongBook.com thing but there's hardly anything on there.
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I don't know how this guitar made it into an Australian pawn shop, but I want it. . 
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Gnumonic posted:Every single one of my floyds is blocked at the moment so I sympathize. Buuuut, as someone who learned to play for years on either strat style bridges or tune-o-matics, the fine tuners *really* gently caress with my hand placement/pick slanting/palm muting. Yeah it’s just a case where the effort of learning and getting comfortable with a well made floyd isn’t worth it because I find them weird under the hand and the sound unplugged is always a certain kind of thin. Not necessarily a bad thing but I play unplugged a lot and notice it with Floyds. I thought for years that I would eventually push through since I like shreddy guitars but nah, not for me. I’m at the point in my playing/gear buying where I have a decent grasp of what I like and dislike, what makes me play more vs stop in frustration. That said, it changes every other month or I’ll find a new little thing I prefer so who knows :p
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monolithburger posted:I don't know how this guitar made it into an Australian pawn shop, but I want it. See this here, this is the sort of guitar you bust out one in your setlist, when you play a proggy solo-heavy version of the six flags old dancing man song
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