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lazerwolf posted:What’s a good cheap PAF? get a set of epiphone classic pro's from reverb love those things
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BCRock posted:Speaking of Strats being the perfect guitar, I'm currently putting together a new Strat in the mod shop and I need help new guitar thread! Can't beat red+maple combo. Blue or green are good too. I'm not a fan of bursts. As for the noiseless - I've got a set of those in my strat and I loving love them. They're the authentic strat sound without the need for a noise gate. Highly recommended.
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Super glue is good for when you knock out a strip of the headstock trying to get the previously super glued nut out though And for when you file the new nut down too much and need to refill the slot a bit
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Tad Naff posted:Well I wasn't planning on sharing this here because of the ridiculous factor, but here's my latest, an acoustic that you can pretend is electric: this is so weird, I love it does it sound any good?
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Verman posted:And here I thought my old schecter diamond series acoustic was an anomaly. I can definitely see one of the hair bands of the late 80s/early 90s playing them on a power ballad, or even the modern misfits. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwhvFLHIlBs
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Jul 25, 2022 20:04
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late 90s/early 2000s MIM necks are like Cinderella's slipper for my hands love those things, hold on to that forever
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Jul 28, 2022 14:40
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Dano necks come pre-hosed out of the factory. That's part of the appeal. But real talk it's kinda impossible to guess just from descriptions. If you have a straightedge, take some pics against the frets and looking down from the headstock and folks might be able to eyeball them. But unless there's some humps you can see with the naked eye odds are they're not so hosed that they can't be unfucked
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Jul 28, 2022 22:58
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Also can't stress a headstock that isn't there which reminds me, god I want a steinberger but my wife says they look stupid and would not support me buying one on that basis
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I. M. Gei posted:I kinda want a Strat. Strats rule. Like others have said, buy the MIM if the money doesn't really make a difference to you (because you'll probably feel compelled to find out what you're missing someday if you get the Squier and because it'll hold its value/grow) But if you can play them and find a squier you love, it's not like even entry level instruments are pure garbage anymore. Mike Rutherford plays stock squier bullets.
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Red_Fred posted:This is a good post! I'd say keep an eye on reverb. Anything that's been on there more than a few weeks make an offer at where you're comfortable paying and you can generally get a decent discount.
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I had a crushing dread to play in front of/with other people for a long time. It took forever for me to get comfortable even making the noise so that I could hear it, but eventually you break through that wall. Then I just recently did a big recording session with my brother who's been playing for twice as long as I have and is easily three times better than I'll ever be but you just gotta make some noise and realize the planet will not come crashing down if you make an unpleasant sound or flub a note and all the rules of music are made up anyhow so just make yourself happy confidence comes from doing the thing that scares you, no amount of preparation is going to make the initial fear go away but spending enough time doing the thing that scares you makes it less scary
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Aug 7, 2022 02:07
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Also, in the end, you've got to remember the thing inside of you pushing to create is an uncommon thing and what you make always has to be for you first, and so long as you are enjoying it that's the primary goal external validation should be a nice bonus but never your intrinsic motivation
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but remember making art and music is one of the first things our primitive cavemen brains ever wanted to do long before we built cities or banks or office buildings, we put handprints on walls and made drums and bone flutes let yourself tap into the primal joy and the lawlessness of just making the noise because all the fear is coming from the poo poo that came long after the cavemen wanted to just toot their flutes when some assholes said "that's not how that's supposed to sound"
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Aug 7, 2022 02:54
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you can write album after album of beautiful material no one will ever listen to or you can learn to play blackbird and make strangers think you're a guitar god
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Hell yeah, gotta get the matching tele/strat sets at least
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I'll stop talc-ing my picks when you pull them from my dry, scaly fingertips and I think you'll find that exceptionally difficult
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Crossposting my new purchase from the bass threadGood Soldier Svejk posted:Following up on this, I did buy the G&L I know some folks are super high on G&L in here and I am sorry for my prior skepticism. Also now that I have a bass that cost me more than $100 I might have a more fun time playing it
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this neck might seriously be my favorite I've been noodling for hours and I no longer see the weird doodly-dangle on the headstock that used to drive me insane if the others have this same finish on the necks... well I may be in serious trouble.
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Dr. Faustus posted:NGD! Hurry up FedEx! I'm still not seeing any pictures in here the mystery is killing me Ohtori Akio posted:What's a good budget for an entry-level nylon string? I stopped by a nylon-specialist store in town today to chat and they were showing me a $100 bottom level guitar and a used solid-top for $200. Picked up a method book to flip through. I am no expert, but not to leave you hanging, if that was like an 90s made in Japan aria that's probably a fair price for it, and if you liked the feel and everything it'd probably be the way to go since you can get it in hand and feel if it fits you properly. You can ask for the model number and the sticker inside the soundhole should say "made in Japan" if it's one of those If you could get some model numbers it'd be easier to say for sure but in any case, it does seem like Aria is a reputable brand Otherwise the OP recommends Yamahas as always (Aside - if you're going nylon rather than steel string for the sake of your fingers, I'd recommend at least checking out some steel strings near you as well to see if the string spacing feels better to you compared to the size of a classical guitar before taking the plunge. The narrow spacing might feel better comparatively, and there are things you can do like switching to silk and steel strings on a 12 fretter to really make it still feel comfortable if you prefer that form factor) Good Soldier Svejk fucked around with this message at 02:51 on Aug 26, 2022 |
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I said come in! posted:Thank you, and JamesKPolk too for the help. I appreciate the clarification that Logic Pro has bad amp sims, I thought maybe I was just bad. I mean I am, but that's not necessarily the only problem here. Almost everything is gonna let you demo it. Guitar rig, s-gear, and helix native all have trials so make good use of them and see which one of them suits you best s-gear is the cheapest and probably middle of the pack for me skip guitar rig, it's too digital if you have the money for it, helix native will likely not disappoint but really any of them can be made to sound alright with enough post-processing/multi-tracking
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So what does anyone know about Samick Valley Arts Custom strats from the 90s, because I just impulse bought one with an offer from drunken reverbing last night. It's got fender pickups in it at least so those are probably nearly worth the purchase price even if the rest of it is somehow trash
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SSM-1 lefty with fender noiseless installed. I like the odds of that playing alright. Someone put some money into it I paid 300 all in so I feel pretty alright about that I guess
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Strats own. I finally fixed one of the things that was driving me nuts about the used strat I got - the selector switch was flipped the wrong side up. I opened it up and saw why - one of the wires was way too short to have it the other way around Clearly whoever wired it up was following a right-handed picture and had it flipped in their head and just left it that way took like a minute to swap out the too-short wire for a longer one and now I can play it without going insane about up being the bridge pickup
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JamesKPolk posted:Re-acquanting myself with the simple pleasures of (smoking weed and) playing heavy riffs through a bunch of fuzz and gain It worked for silverchair's first album
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Doctor Dogballs posted:holy poo poo, a beautiful.......squier??! Get your <$500 MIM's while you can folks, those days are numbered even the 90s MIK gear is starting to creep up to the $3-400 range
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I sure would love any of these weird fender models if they bothered to make them for my left handed bastard self Instead I've really been lusting for a reverend double agent
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I hope you'll all forgive me crossposting it but I'm selling my helix LT and figured some folks here might be tempted by the price. Goon discount applied, you won't find a functioning one listed cheaper. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4012294 e: also unrelated but NGD, this thing arrived right after I posted:  Holy poo poo is it light and the neck thin. It makes my fender MIM neck feel like a goddamned log in comparison. Doesn't have quite the same growl you can get from a strat (presumably because of the weight difference) but I can already tell with the shredder neck and superstrat contours they put on this that I'll be wanting to play it plenty. If nothing else, it's a super solid backup. Good Soldier Svejk fucked around with this message at 18:43 on Sep 13, 2022 |
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Huxley posted:Speaking of lefties, I taught a first lesson to one of my wife's piano students who saw one of mine on a stand and asked about it. He's a great kid, maybe 20, autistic and taking piano with my wife has really just opened him up. His all-time favorite band is the Trans Siberian Orchestra, and I flipped the amp over to ubermetal preset and played like, 5 notes of carol of the bells and he about levitated. It was great. Teaching someone like that seems like a lot of fun. I am pretty sure he fell in love, but also is a lefty and I could see him struggling a bit with my righty. Ah, with these criteria you absolutely want to be looking at Thomann's selection of Harley Benton. https://www.thomannmusic.com/lefthanded_guitars.html?oa=pra&gk=GIEGLH&cme=false&filter=true People swear by the build quality - they seem to be the modern successor to rondo's SX brand but these look better than those even. I've been eying a few of them myself. Especially if you can do a set-up these are what I would recommend. And don't let the international shipping scare you - I bought a bass from them just a few weeks ago and they shipped it to me in less than a week. It was baffling.
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Eeeh, gonna hard disagree with the folks saying just make him learn the other way. I for sure know I couldn't have/wasn't able to. It's hard for lefties out there, but not nearly as hard as it used to be. For what it's worth I was around plenty of right handed guitars when I was growing up but I picked them up the other way around. It's just the way it felt natural. Have him do the same, even flip around a right handed guitar for him really quick if you're willing
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luchadornado posted:I regret learning lefty for a lot of reasons. I'd recommend anyone new really try righty first, and only give up if lefty totally feels correct. I feel that. I certainly regret the guitars I'll never get to play. But at the same time, I wouldn't do anything differently. If it's good enough for Hendrix, Iommi, Cobain, and McCartney, it's surely good enough for me. And admittedly I suppose I am a weird not fully left-hand dominant sort of lefty. I throw/bat/sports stuff right handed (probably because I learned that way) I can bowl either hand but writing and I guess guitar are things that just felt super lefthand dominant for me since the start Also how many other lefties out there thought they just really loving sucked at cutting things until they got their first pair of lefthanded scissors I can't be the only one
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A Small Beetle posted:I’m left handed, learned righty as a kid, I don’t think it occurred to anyone at the time that was any other way. I'd say it makes the GAS worse if for no other reason than when you see something rare come up on the used market your brain is all "you'll never loving see that thing again you have to buy it right now" which is how I end up with all my gear
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Folks still love a 335 but the LPs are definitely out of style or at least the gibson ones are
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why get an lp when you could get a danelectro I will make the case that a dano is a perfect 3rd/4th guitar because it's guaranteed to not sound anything like your main guitars, they're light as gently caress, they're cheap so you don't feel bad beating them around, and they get the dirtiest crunch like nothing else with a little bit of overdrive
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widefault posted:Regarding SGs that aren't SGs... These are always such a joy to see And continuing the lefty chat, apparently one of the forbidden fruits I've never seen a lefty version up for sale
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martins come with highish action out of the factory (3/32" to 7/64", or ~2.3 to 2.8 mm on the low E) to handle players that like to lay into them and strum to get the bass booming. My CEO and 00015sm I think I got to low 2.x mm before things started getting buzzy, but that's just me as an amateur but anywho, if you like how it plays, keep it. If you're worried about it's longevity maybe try finding to swap it but all guitars are breathing things that are going to shift and warp over time. As long as the luthier isn't telling you it's a longterm stability problem
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man I miss those 90s guitar flyers
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GUITAR MEGATHREAD (Weezer Cover)
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I've never wanted to see a shreds dub of a video more than that when I saw that 8 string capo'd at like the loving 12 What are you all doing Good Soldier Svejk fucked around with this message at 23:09 on Sep 26, 2022 |
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Goddamned reverb upping their payment fees by .5% again gonna need a new online market to undercut them here soon
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I'm too old to rock and roll but also too old to write pretty melodic rock I guess not too young to die with COVID and everything.
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