GUITAR MEGATHREAD: Sorry for the nipple, I'm depressed.

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Spanish Manlove: Aug 31, 2008; HAILGAYSATAN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BgNhR9oisM

# ¿ Jul 8, 2022 16:31

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# ¿ May 10, 2024 03:17

Spanish Manlove: Aug 31, 2008; HAILGAYSATAN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WKzrc2wcxA

# ¿ Jul 8, 2022 16:32

Spanish Manlove: Aug 31, 2008; HAILGAYSATAN

Here's the strat pile

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQANhRXDDt0

# ¿ Jul 8, 2022 16:34

Spanish Manlove: Aug 31, 2008; HAILGAYSATAN

Dr. Faustus posted:

new thread new rule no e/n that means you lg

E: stairway is permitted

YES

# ¿ Jul 8, 2022 19:59

Spanish Manlove: Aug 31, 2008; HAILGAYSATAN

points to no e/n sign

# ¿ Jul 9, 2022 12:20

Spanish Manlove: Aug 31, 2008; HAILGAYSATAN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hou0lU8WMgo

# ¿ Jul 9, 2022 12:45

Spanish Manlove: Aug 31, 2008; HAILGAYSATAN

Gramps posted:

Iteration is 190, and you have to hit THIS motherfucker on the fly
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For the love of christ my fackin handssss
Also- try singing it hahahahahahahahaha ow my vocal cords. I don't know what Chris was thinking on this record but everything is so loving high

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0omgYNxZseA

what section is that chord in the song? those sus2 torture chords can be a pain in the rear end at first but they're not bad to switch into depending on the previous chord

# ¿ Jul 10, 2022 08:09

Spanish Manlove: Aug 31, 2008; HAILGAYSATAN

Huxley posted:

I'll be honest and say that, having NEVER been able to get rid of the ambient buzz that I get whenever an amp is plugged in at my house, I would probably trade my big 50w modeller for this just on the battery power alone.

The buzz is from a dimmer switch on an overhead fan in the living room. Known bug, unfixable (my wife really likes having a dimmer switch there). So my amp just buzzes at me unless I am alone in the house and can turn stuff off. So it goes.

have you tried changing out the type of dimmer switch used there?

# ¿ Jul 11, 2022 14:54

Spanish Manlove: Aug 31, 2008; HAILGAYSATAN

muike posted:

unless you got a pickup winder, don't bother. it's a lot more winds than you would think

Just clamp it to a drill bit and go to town on a spool of enameled copper wire.

# ¿ Jul 12, 2022 10:55

Spanish Manlove: Aug 31, 2008; HAILGAYSATAN

is it an issue that you can just deal with or is it an actual issue that needs to be repaired?

# ¿ Jul 14, 2022 15:50

Spanish Manlove: Aug 31, 2008; HAILGAYSATAN

Baron von Eevl posted:

I'm sorry, it's GAS.

# ¿ Jul 14, 2022 17:28

Spanish Manlove: Aug 31, 2008; HAILGAYSATAN

yeah this doesn't seem like much of a guitar issue and more of a you issue

# ¿ Jul 14, 2022 17:42

Spanish Manlove: Aug 31, 2008; HAILGAYSATAN

taps sign pointing to no e/n

# ¿ Jul 14, 2022 18:09

Spanish Manlove: Aug 31, 2008; HAILGAYSATAN

i gotta get a hoagie soon. I was debating spending a bunch of money to get japanese curry and some beers today before going to play magic with my friends, or getting pho for cheap instead

# ¿ Jul 14, 2022 18:34

Spanish Manlove: Aug 31, 2008; HAILGAYSATAN

you can also use spit

# ¿ Jul 16, 2022 04:05

Spanish Manlove: Aug 31, 2008; HAILGAYSATAN

Baron von Eevl posted:

*laughs in hetfield (also adds a yea-huh)*

# ¿ Jul 18, 2022 15:04

Spanish Manlove: Aug 31, 2008; HAILGAYSATAN

Most of the time I've found that comes from a lovely patch cable, usually a bad connection between plug and jack.

# ¿ Jul 18, 2022 17:52

Spanish Manlove: Aug 31, 2008; HAILGAYSATAN

Did you get straplocks?

# ¿ Jul 18, 2022 20:18

Spanish Manlove: Aug 31, 2008; HAILGAYSATAN

eh close enough.

# ¿ Jul 18, 2022 20:46

Spanish Manlove: Aug 31, 2008; HAILGAYSATAN

Lumpy posted:

As has been stated, the slot in replacement is cheap. As for how easy: Can you put two drops of superglue roughly where you want?

Eh she might have to position the nut properly and file some of the slots and that's a whole nother afternoon of e/n

# ¿ Jul 18, 2022 20:55

Spanish Manlove: Aug 31, 2008; HAILGAYSATAN

Would cheap, schoolyard PVA be good enough to hold the nut in place or would you need the fancier wood oriented PVA for it to hold well and still be easily replaced?

# ¿ Jul 18, 2022 21:16

Spanish Manlove: Aug 31, 2008; HAILGAYSATAN

Gramps posted:

Save yourself/other future techs some grief later and use a tiny drop of Elmers to secure your nuts. The strings hold em in place 99.999 percent of the time, the glue is just to keep the nut from flopping off if you take all the strings off. No need for super strong glue.

lol answered my question for me.

It's so surprising to me just how many hobby and craft recipes/fixes use elmer's glue.

# ¿ Jul 18, 2022 21:19

Spanish Manlove: Aug 31, 2008; HAILGAYSATAN

He doesn't recommend super glue for wood. Usually he will use titebond or something like hide glue or fish glue as adhesives.

# ¿ Jul 19, 2022 04:14

Spanish Manlove: Aug 31, 2008; HAILGAYSATAN

You should read that book cover to cover imo. Actually everyone should. There's a bunch of really useful little tricks and tips.

# ¿ Jul 19, 2022 04:20

Spanish Manlove: Aug 31, 2008; HAILGAYSATAN

Follow the chord progression modally? Instead of just sitting in a box like a rowdy hockey player you'll hop around the board more.

# ¿ Jul 19, 2022 15:14

Spanish Manlove: Aug 31, 2008; HAILGAYSATAN

Disco Pope posted:

Sorry if I sound dumb (or should take this to the theory thread), you mean if the progression was say Dm, F, Am, I'd play notes from each of those scales rather than just D minor?

Pretty much, just a little more involved.

So you'd play the relative mode of each chord, so Dm is your root mode which you'll play D aeolian, then F you can play F major (Ionian) and Am you can play A Phrygian.

Literally it's as if you took Dm and filled out every note on the board that's in Dm, and just solo'd in d minor the whole time, but actually you're accenting the root of the chord. It's a fun technique to teach the whole board and get out of the boxes.

# ¿ Jul 19, 2022 15:35

Spanish Manlove: Aug 31, 2008; HAILGAYSATAN

cool

# ¿ Jul 19, 2022 19:47

Spanish Manlove: Aug 31, 2008; HAILGAYSATAN

brushwad posted:

Last week, I promised a trip report on my Squier upgrades in general, and specifically on the Mojotone solderless harness kit, so here goes:

Before -- Stock except for the compensated brass saddles:

Old control plate:

Output jack disassembly:

Bridge and pickguard off:

Stripped:

This would have been the perfect time to knock down some of the finish on the back of the neck, but I chickened out. Oddly, after completing the electronics, I think I changed my mind -- we'll see how ambitious I decide to get over the weekend.

Turns out I *didn't* have to fill'n'drill -- the control plate I bought lined up perfectly:

Old pickups removed from bridge & pickguard:

Parts bag filling up quickly:

New Pickups -- Fender Deluxe Drive -- The sections of surgical tubes are different lengths for bridge & neck, FYI:

First snag -- the pickups came with body-mount screws -- which were too long -- and the Squier pickguard-mount screws were the wrong diameter to fit:

After a trip to my local Ace Hardware:

Pickups in -- the bridge pickup ground (short blue wire) was almost TOO short -- but it worked. Not sure why Fender was stingy with the length of that one wire, I had plenty of room to work with all the others:

I was a little annoyed that the Fender mounting screws were flathead when Squier uses Phillips ... the absolute fidelity to what Leo used in 1952 is quite frankly, ridiculous.

Now for the part you've all been waiting for:

This right angle for the "tunnel" between the output jack rout and the control cavity forced me to come up with a creative solution for running the wires:

Kitchen twine, tied around a screw (for weight) dropped down from the cavity into the rout and ... voil�:

Worked like a charm:

Output jack reassembled -- the old one had a bushing and a plastic/rubber washer on the inside of the plate that didn't fit the new jack, but I think it'll be fine -- if not, I'll make another trip to the hardware store:

Wiring harness mounted to the new control plate -- I forgot to peel off the backing to the adhesive that sticks the solderless gadget to the control plate -- whoops:

All wired up and ready to go:

The new control plate was a slightly "fatter" radius than the old one, so I need to remove some material from the pickguard. I'm thinking maybe trace an arc, use a file followed by a razorblade to clean it up, followed by fine sandpaper? Any suggestions?

I plugged it in, touched a screwdriver to both pickups to make sure I was getting signal, then re-strung it -- BIG improvement once I was finally able to play it -- definitely a success!

After, back on the wall with the rest of the family:

all this work and you still put the plate on backwards

# ¿ Jul 23, 2022 02:18

Spanish Manlove: Aug 31, 2008; HAILGAYSATAN

It's a joke about a semi-secret setup for tele control plates where you flip them around and change the order of the pots so it goes volume, tone, switch.

# ¿ Jul 23, 2022 03:42

Spanish Manlove: Aug 31, 2008; HAILGAYSATAN

brushwad posted:

I'll learn to solder ... one of these days -- for now, I've got a better-sounding guitar -- it's something!

You don't have to solder anything for the change, just unscrew the pots from the plate and swap them.

Also this is yet another trick I've learned from watching Dan Erlewine

# ¿ Jul 23, 2022 12:21

Spanish Manlove: Aug 31, 2008; HAILGAYSATAN

Good Soldier Svejk posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwhvFLHIlBs

what the gently caress is up with his right thumbnail?

# ¿ Jul 25, 2022 20:18

Spanish Manlove: Aug 31, 2008; HAILGAYSATAN

Hellblazer187 posted:

I've learned Looks that Kill and I'm learning Kickstart My Heart and as much as I hate to admit it, M�tley Cr�e songs are fun to play.

Edit: lol I accidentally posted this in a Star Trek thread first whoops. Browser tabs are a poster's worst enemy.

I hate that they play in D standard because this song is super fuckin fun to play and I don't like taking my standard guitar and putting it in D standard, and I don't want to get yet another guitar for D standard just to play Immortal, Toxic Holocaust, Children Of Bodom, and I guess Motley Crue

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ahq4blDfU5s

# ¿ Jul 27, 2022 03:39

Spanish Manlove: Aug 31, 2008; HAILGAYSATAN

the vince neil on the zamboni section is new to me and lmao

# ¿ Aug 2, 2022 14:50

Spanish Manlove: Aug 31, 2008; HAILGAYSATAN

Squiers are good now, spend $400 rather than $800.

# ¿ Aug 2, 2022 17:53

Spanish Manlove: Aug 31, 2008; HAILGAYSATAN

Stop thinking and just play

# ¿ Aug 3, 2022 14:47

Spanish Manlove: Aug 31, 2008; HAILGAYSATAN

Have you tried setting it to Wumbo?

# ¿ Aug 4, 2022 21:16

Spanish Manlove: Aug 31, 2008; HAILGAYSATAN

I. M. Gei posted:

Today I went looking at guitars and when the conversation turned to amps I pointed to a Boss Katana and told the guy that the internet told me to buy that one

I feel like I did good

_{^{(not my exact words; I told the guy I'd heard good things about it)}}

you know what, you did good. it's a good amp

# ¿ Aug 6, 2022 06:46

Spanish Manlove: Aug 31, 2008; HAILGAYSATAN

talc? I'm legit curious because i've always wondered what that stuff was

edit: apparently talc is used as lube and chalk is how you get grip. source is a bunch of bodybuilding forums that popped up on google

# ¿ Aug 10, 2022 00:08

Spanish Manlove: Aug 31, 2008; HAILGAYSATAN

It's awesome that no one learned poo poo from the past three years about baseless claims dealing with anything medical

Did you guys hear that you have cancer if your hand is bigger than your face?

# ¿ Aug 10, 2022 17:47

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# ¿ May 10, 2024 03:17

Spanish Manlove: Aug 31, 2008; HAILGAYSATAN

landgrabber posted:

chill out dude i said i was seeing my doctor, i would suggest an identity other than getting annoyed with people

swing and a miss, not everything's about you

# ¿ Aug 10, 2022 18:14

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