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BonHair posted:What's this power chords but not palm muted open e string? Reminds me of that video where J Mascis is just straight up "I only learned that palm muting is a thing like 5 years ago, I would always just mute the open-E with my left thumb."
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landgrabber posted:the transfeminine guitarist urge to buy a shell pink short scale offset Ok but what guard? Tort? Mint? Pearl? Anodized gold?
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Jul 11, 2022 01:09
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Ok but you should still aim to swap all the hardware out with gold instead of chrome.
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Jul 11, 2022 01:32
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Pink fender-style guitars with gold hardware give off a cool Mary Kaye vibe. Yes, I know that was trans white not pink, but they aged to a lovely orange-pink.
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Jul 11, 2022 02:21
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Lower-gain buckers also impede your strings less, so you'll get a tiny bit more natural sustain out of them.
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Jul 11, 2022 03:12
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Helianthus Annuus posted:Right, and that makes sense. The pickup's gain can be increased by 1) increasing the number of windings and 2) increasing the magnetic field strength. But only increasing the field strength will impact the sustain -- the number of windings shouldn't affect sustain, right? I could be wrong, I'm not an expert on pickups, but I believe the number of windings impacts the field strength.
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Jul 11, 2022 13:28
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There are specialty dimmer switches that significantly reduce noise, they're generally designed for pro audio applications.
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Jul 11, 2022 15:04
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Noiseless in the bridge, SD duckbucker in the mid, and some big stupid bucker in the neck. SD jazz is a classic. Go beyond the classic strat sound.
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Jul 11, 2022 22:53
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Helianthus Annuus posted:I've learned some more about pickups from this youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiNyZ463tfA Makes sense, classic lipsticks were wound completely randomly, that was supposedly always a big factor. muike posted:unless you got a pickup winder, don't bother. it's a lot more winds than you would think 8,000 to 10,000 is pretty common!
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Jul 12, 2022 12:55
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Is there a slight divot there? If not, the 4th fret is probably just ever so slightly high and it should be an "easy" fix relatively speaking.
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Jul 12, 2022 21:18
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landgrabber posted:oh another thread christening thing: HELL YEAH SISTER edit to the tune of the train song
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Jul 12, 2022 23:27
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Yeah the RAT is the secret sauce to a bunch of tonesDOPE FIEND KILLA G posted:nobels > rat Split the difference and run a turbo rat into an ODR1
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Jul 12, 2022 23:33
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I'm sorry, it's GAS.
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Jul 14, 2022 17:27
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Fixing that push pull is incredibly easy if one were to bust out a soldering iron, but I know that's a line you're not crossing now. This isn't a criticism and I don't know how bad it actually is, but from what I've gathered from this thread the buzzing is probably more a "you" problem than a "this guitar" problem. I get the idea you're ADD enough that something being imperfect derails your thought process and no matter how minor of an issue it really is you can't get past it. edit lol gently caress beaten
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Jul 14, 2022 17:46
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I had a big rear end hoagie, but it was only $6 cause hoagiefest is on.
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Jul 14, 2022 18:33
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SGs are a body shape that makes we want to play the gnarliest poo poo I can, but then the neck profile feels off or three headstock dives or something makes me sigh and put it back.
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Jul 14, 2022 19:47
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*taps "it's GAS" sign*
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Jul 16, 2022 18:32
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luchadornado posted:I'm allowing myself some GAS as a treat because I start lessons tomorrow. After trying my dad's Washburn 335-like, I really want a Gibson ES-335 but I'm not paying $3000 for one. I also learned there's no way in hell I could ever switch to righty. I can't even play a D chord without muting multiple strings even after a few days of trying. https://www.thomannmusic.com/harley_benton_hb_35plus_lh_cherry.htm (or they have it in black for a little less) Factor in ~$75 shipping to the US and the fact that it's a 335 so it's going to be a huge pain in the rear end to upgrade any of the electronics. For the price difference you could probably afford to upgrade all the electronics, the tuners, and the nut and have a luthier do the dirty work for you.
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Jul 16, 2022 19:15
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The controls would probably be annoying but manageable. It depends on play style and how fat you are, if you got a big gut your arm is probably gonna be resting on your guitar right where the controls are.
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Jul 16, 2022 20:40
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BizarroAzrael posted:On the topic of southpaws, how common is it for left handed players to learn to just play on a right-handed guitar, with regular right-handed stringing? I ask because I saw Pearl Jam in London last week and as part of the encore they did Rockin in the Free World and were joined by John McEnroe, playing on a tele I'm pretty sure Stone (right handed) had been playing earlier, only upside-down. Not out of the question someone restrung it I suppose but a quick Google search shows him mostly playing a left handed Les Paul. To be clear; John McEnroe can definitely play guitar, just noticing that sent me down a rabbit hole a bit. It's not super common but it happens. Dick Dale did it that way, I think Albert King did as well. Just using GIS McEnroe does NOT typically play lefty-strung-righty but it's a pretty simple song, he might have just put up with it if that was the only guitar available. Maybe their guitar tech restrung it real quick. I can play passably for something simple like that upside down but don't expect arpeggios or solos or anything.
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Jul 16, 2022 23:28
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Yeah, I have a THR10x and my only real issue versus the ii is that I'm limited with cab options , and overall I wish it had a loop I could put most of my pedalboard through. Usually I'm using it without a board though, so not a huge issue.BonHair posted:Rick copy (very cool, but also felt instantly bad and wrong in my hands) Yeah, that was my experience as well. Rick basses look sick as gently caress but I bounced extremely hard off them after trying one.
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Jul 17, 2022 19:58
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Have you tried multiple cables? Bending the contact part of the plug of the guitar in very slightly to ensure contact?
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Jul 17, 2022 21:33
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*laughs in hetfield (also adds a yea-huh)*
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Jul 18, 2022 14:32
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If the issue's just that something's not working somewhere in there, divide it in half. If you've got 8 pedals, plug into the first and run from the 4th one to your amp. If that checks out, plug in to the 5th and run the 8th to your amp. If those both work try swapping the patch cable between the 4th and 5th.
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Jul 18, 2022 17:31
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A graphtech TUSQ slotted nut is like $15 and an upgrade. Install should be fairly cheap if you don't want to do it yourself, you could probably have it done with a setup for a nominal fee.
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Jul 18, 2022 20:07
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Some of them are set up for a smaller radius and you need to file the bottom a bit to make it fit your neck, fyimuike posted:I only ever put white glue on my nuts, personally Just use wax next time, friend
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Jul 19, 2022 00:27
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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? Or I should think about what notes spell those chords within D minor and base any riffing off of that? More what manlove was saying (although I'd shy away from that too, you're not really going to be resolving melodies to an A or an F just because you're over top of those chords), but you could play notes from the d minor, f major, and a minor scales. There's only one different note between the three of those scales! Say the progression is Dm Fmaj Amin Amin, you could play notes from the D minor scale over the first two bars (D natural minor and F major are the same notes, just resolving differently), including the Bb note, and then over the latter two bars you could maybe tease a B natural, or do a quick chromatic run from C to A hitting both B natural and Bb in between.
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Jul 20, 2022 03:57
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I have a couple pedals like that, it's annoying and sucks to get them on the board. I've had limited success running the tape along the sides and over the screws.
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Jul 20, 2022 21:22
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If the issue is the mounting holes, I don't think they have an option to provide pre-drilled holes for that but you can get it undrilled and drill them yourself.
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Jul 22, 2022 18:15
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LG: I love only Fender guitars, Fender is life also LG: Pfft bolt on? What are you a poor? Anyway I like the idea of being able to disassemble a guitar and easily replace a neck if I need to. I don't need any more sustain, I'll just crank the gain or trempick the poo poo outta that note
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Jul 22, 2022 20:53
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landgrabber posted:the saddle has to be really high to get to that point. i'm thinking maybe that string slot in the nut is too low. maybe when i was restringing it one day, and i don't remember, i flossed it with the string, on purpose? or i tried to do the mechanical pencil nut lubrication trick and went a little too hard or something. You're not going to significantly impact the nut slot flossing with an unwound b string or with pencil lead.
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Jul 25, 2022 21:48
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If you want an electric to sound like a piezo you should install a piezo in the neck pocket. EQ ain't gonna cut it because the way an electromagnetic field interacts with steel is completely different to how a piezoelectric pickup works. Their response to transients will be radically different, and the way they handle increasing amplitude across the spectrum will be different and you can't really fake that easily. Anyway you should just play through a fender amp with the slightest tickle of dirt instead, it's a different sound but a pleasant one that works in the same places an unaccompanied acoustic would.
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Jul 26, 2022 00:39
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And if you think aboutit the Squirrel Nut Zippers have more instruments between them than most entire festival lineups, so just think about how bad the weather would gently caress them up!
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Jul 26, 2022 01:34
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Verman posted:The flame by cheap trick. I grew up really liking cheap trick and whatever the guitar tone is on it is awful and I hate it so much. I suspect there's a Fairlight CMI or a similar sampler involved with that one, it just sounds too even and too clean.
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Jul 26, 2022 02:06
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I doubt that's going to have a significant effect. LG, you're getting too in your own head about the tone.
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Aug 3, 2022 14:46
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What part are you having trouble with? Just the groove during the verses? The lead parts during the chorus? That almost fugue like instrumental part?
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Aug 3, 2022 23:09
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They're a very weird rhythm, it's in 3/4 but each of those beats is divided into triplets, it's kind of a shuffled shuffle.
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Aug 4, 2022 00:03
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I've moved on from being mad this summer to being sad this summer. Soon I will accept this summer.
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That's generally called a sus2 in guitar, and in broader music theory (not necessarily guitar chord names which are kind of their own bubble) the idea being that the E is held over from the previous chord. I'd probably call it a Dadd9 with the idea that maybe something's filling in the third elsewhere in the harmonic structure of the song, but technically D A E would generally be called a Dsus2.
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Ok I'm gonna go on a weird tangent about more traditional western music theory and how we apply theory to rock guitar. Technically yes, a D and an A played together is a D5. When you're playing guitar in a rock band and using distortion it's probably not going to come across as a D and an A making a chord together, it's going to sound like a thick rear end D note, the base frequency of the A is already an overtone you're hearing in the D*, so really you're playing up the complex relationship between the D overtones and the overtones from the A and smooshing them up and getting this kinda beastly tone. When you're playing a fast power chord riff the harmonic structure under that is probably much less complex, it might even really just be a single chord with the power chords over it being a kind of ostinato. You can use major barre chords for the same purpose, essentially just making it a real think and funky series of overtones. From that perspective, and if you're playing it with goodly amounts of distortion, I'd probably say the D A E chord is really just a thickboi D note with some real rough edges, rather than a Dsus2 or a D9 with an implied third or whatever. That's all going to be dependent on the context of what everything else is doing though, so just saying D A E is (chord) is not always how it shakes out. *edit okay really the base frequency of the a is an octave down from the overtone in the d, the first harmonic of the a is there though and like my point still stands
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