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Clayton Bigsby posted:So a brand new Strandberg showed up for sale and I did the stupid thing. Sälen Tremolo NX for 30% off retail. Supposed to get to me this week. Will I hate it or will it ruin all other guitars for me? It'll become your go-to guitar because it's impossible to put down. Literally. Doesn't sit in a lot of stands, you can't lean it against a table or anything. But I had the same concern when I got mine and it's just part of the rotation now. The neck is nice and very comfortable but it hasn't ruined anything else, my strat's neck is equally comfortable in a different way.
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Clayton Bigsby posted:That’s good to hear. Been reading and watching reviews a fair bit and there was some “I just don’t want to play a regular guitar anymore” sentiment that did feel a shade fanboy-ish. I have been curious about these guitars for years and recently I have come to the conclusion that I want to play more in the classical position. Without standing up or using some add-on doodad the only guitar I can comfortably use in that manner today is my Dean V. The Strandberg seems to be all about easy playing so figured I could at least give it a shot. Exactly the same reasons why I got mine, I think you'll be pretty happy with it. I'll also recommend getting the strandberg strap too, you'll need one that can get super short due to the placement of the strap buttons. And it's just a great strap.
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Oct 25, 2023 17:48
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I also have a CV Bass VI, as well as a CV baritone Tele custom, they both rule. I swapped the pickups in both and upgraded the hardware to what I prefer, but I would have done that for stock Fender hardware anyway. My first guitar was an early 2000s Squier which was hot garbage, the stuff coming out of Indonesia is at least as good as a lot of Mexican Fenders I've played.
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Oct 27, 2023 15:50
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Someone built my dream guitar to a T and then sold it to a local shop, god help me. I want to go play it this weekend but I've already bought too many guitars this past couple years and I don't think I'd be able to leave without it. https://reverb.com/item/75314010?utm_source=android-app&utm_medium=android-share&utm_campaign=listing&utm_content=75314010 E: I have a couple I could trade in and probably cover it completely. What do. internet celebrity fucked around with this message at 18:26 on Nov 15, 2023 |
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Nov 15, 2023 18:22
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If I find out what it sounds like firsthand I'll report back, might be a good reason someone put in all that effort to build a wild guitar then sold it off in perfect condition. But ideally the aluminum baritone neck would make it super snappy and clear, plus the jazzmaster pickups would give it that signature chime, and that tunable tail piece would make the overtones more controllable. Series/parallel on a jazzmaster sounds super fun too.
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Nov 15, 2023 19:23
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Wowporn posted:That guitar is very my poo poo, I don't see me spending that much on one anytime soon but if you can trade in a couple of your boring by comparison other guitars to get it you should. Can I buy that tailpiece standalone somewhere??? I bet it's expensive though It's made by robot graves and they're built to order and, uh,, not cheap, to put it mildly.
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Nov 15, 2023 23:58
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Aluminum neck jazzmaster update, just played it for a while. Sounds amazing, the neck feels great, pickups and switching is all fun and functional, but it's the first guitar I've ever played where the neck dive was so bad that it was actually limiting my ability to play it. But man, it sounded like a bell coming through a twin.
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Nov 18, 2023 19:26
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Appreciate the advice but I'm really trying to talk myself out of wanting it. This beauty on the other hand, I might have to go back for:
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Nov 18, 2023 21:45
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Help me out here, frequent used gear buyers/sellers. Is there a reasonable expectation when buying a used piece of gear with a non-replaceable internal battery that the battery will hold a charge for more than a few minutes? For clarity the manufacturer claims 7 hours of battery life - if it dies in 10 minutes would you consider it "not as described" if the gear was listed in very good condition with no mention of battery issues in the description? No "as-is, untested" disclaimer or anything along those lines.
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Dec 1, 2023 21:51
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I bought on Reverb and already got a refund, but when I pointed out he would be responsible for return shipping he fought me on it. He argued that he made no claim about battery health so it wasn't technically a 'not as described' return, and that "batteries are seen like tyres, they have a shelf life, and will not last forever." Which is true, but it seems scammy to not let a buyer know ahead of time, and to not offer return shipping when they find out a week later. edit: it was a wireless system. For the record I got the refund eventually, he just made me feel like a dick about it in our conversation so I wanted to make sure I wasn't being unreasonable. internet celebrity fucked around with this message at 22:21 on Dec 1, 2023 |
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Dec 1, 2023 22:14
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Put a p-bass pickup in my Bass VI, am I finally done modifying it? I sure hope so. I think I want to add a 3 way switch for the neck pickup to coil split it, it's a stacked humbucker The p-bass pickup is a Dimarzio sixties P and sounds awesome for bass and baritone guitar type things. It does the classic p-bass thing, but it's like a super fat noiseless P90 when doing baritone guitar type things. 
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Dec 10, 2023 20:26
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I used Magma Transpositor strings when I needed my nylon acoustic in baritone tuning but they also have bass vi tuning strings - https://magmastoreusa.com/collectio...-copper-gc110-2
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Dec 14, 2023 14:54
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Buy a strandberg is my GAS-approved suggestion.
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Dec 15, 2023 22:02
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Helix wins for me just by virtue of being a VST plugin. The flexibility is worth whatever sound quality upgrade I'm missing out on with other hardware units.
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Stalizard posted:if you're using a modeling amp and you find a tone you really like like, is that something they can take away from you with a software update? like say you dialed in the perfect rat style distortion and then they update their rat pedal and now it sounds like poo poo, is there anything you can do to get your old sound back? is this a thing that happens or am I just making up a guy in my head to be mad at? I can only speak for Line 6 but they keep a ton of the old effects tucked away in a separate legacy category for exactly this reason. Some of the old amps were dropped in the Pod to Helix upgrade though, RIP Line 6 Insane.
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Jan 13, 2024 17:17
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The first pedal I ever bought was a crybaby wah when I was like 17 and I had a ton of fun with it so that's my vote. It has limited utility and I've probably used wah for less than ten minutes in the past decade but being able to control the effect while you play makes it so much more fun and engaging than other effects.
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I'm looking for some hope in reducing 60hz hum on my guitar signal in my new house, it was never this bad at my old place. Single coils are completely unusable and even humbucker guitars have trouble keeping the noise down, so I'm wondering if it has to be something between the guitar and interface. My signal chain is guitar > Line 6 relay wireless > Focusrite interface > Ableton with Helix. I've done all the obvious stuff for grounding and interference issues - everything is on one outlet, I use a Furman power conditioner strip (I also have a rackmount conditioner but it made no difference), my PC is on a UPS plugged into the power conditioner, no parallel runs of audio cable next to power cables, tried a DI box with a ground lift between the wireless and Focusrite input, tried plugging the wireless into a battery to completely isolate the ground, tried power outlets on different breakers, tried a balanced cable between the wireless and interface, tried a regular cable instead of the wireless, and it's still nearly unusable once plugged in to a guitar. The weird part is nothing else in my setup has noise issues, I can crank my monitors all the way up and there's just a faint white noise so it has to be something between the guitar and interface, right? Pointing the guitar in different directions gives varying levels of hum, do I just start lining my walls and ceiling with aluminum foil? I have a drop ceiling in my basement and I'm wondering if it's something like the metal grid acting as an antenna or something.
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Feb 16, 2024 15:04
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Yeah, that makes a lot of sense for the next step. When I get home I'll turn off all the lights and record walking around pointing the guitar at things. It's in the basement where all the household utilities are, but they're all the way on the other side of the room, probably 20+ feet away.
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Feb 16, 2024 15:47
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Good Soldier Svejk posted:If you cannot remove the sound you must harness it Already did that, strangely enough. If I can shamelessly plug right now, like 3 or 4 years ago I wrote and recorded an entire album about making contact with ghosts encoded in stray radio signals. I lived right next to a huge array of radio and TV towers and my guitar would pick up all kinds of signals if I cranked the gain and pointed it in the right direction, and the idea kind of evolved from there.
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Baron von Eevl posted:I get extreme vibes of the Fountain OST from this, well done. Hey thanks! Also thanks for making me aware of the Fountain OST, checked out a couple of clips and sounds like something I'd dig, I'll probably listen later. So here's a recording of what I'm dealing with: https://voca.ro/19ZpqtxrXUTS I walk around a bit pointing the guitar in different directions and then strum a few chords at the end to show how loud it is relative to the guitar. I'm not being a diva about a little bit of noise, I just don't have a home studio until I fix this. Also this is a guitar with humbuckers. I tried pointing it at the appliances on the other side of the room, nothing really significant there. There's one wall I share with a neighbor that seems to be the loudest. It's paneled over but I know there's a block wall behind it so there might be some shoddy wiring to look at over there, which the house was built in the 50s so that's almost guaranteed. Or my neighbor is a hobbyist MRI operator. I guess I could try something like plugging everything into the UPS and cutting power to the entire house to see if it's something I have control over making the noise.
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I found the culprit of my noise issues - my water meter is equipped with a radio box that is making massive amounts of RF noise, I assume so someone from the city can read the meter remotely or something. Lmao. What do I even do about that. edit: wait tho, it might not be the radio box. I found a post from someone on gearspace dealing with a similar issue who said "The issue turned out to be a broken neutral to the houses downstream from mine. All return current was going through the water main, through my house, and across my good neutral to the transformer." I am on the end of a block of townhouses and being near water pipes does seem to make the issue worse. Time to figure out who to call to figure out if this is what's going on. internet celebrity fucked around with this message at 02:30 on Feb 21, 2024 |
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PathAsc posted:Any of you used ratio tuners? I've seen good reviews around but goon brain trust supercedes random internet people for me. Found some on sale but I don't wanna pull the trigger yet since I'm waiting for next string change to do it and a couple other things all at once. I have the locking ones and they're the best tuners I've ever used. I put the bottom 6 tuners of a 7 string set on my Bass VI because regular guitar tuners are way too low of a gear ratio for bass register. When I have my hard tail plate on it stays in tune for weeks, +/- like 3-5 cents. Feel super solid to turn, lock down easily, 10/10 imo. I wish they had better looking tips though.
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MJP posted:Are there any coil splittable humbuckers (or humbucker covers that I can slap on to other humbuckers) that have a linear architectural look a la the Lace Alumitone? Is it dumb to suggest the Lace Alumitone? They're four conductor and sound pretty good in split mode.
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Spanish Manlove posted:I like to read r/guitar sometimes and it's a 50/50 mix of clueless newbies and clueless rich assholes who think that just because something is inexpensive that means it's junk I like the thread on the top of /r/guitars right now that says taking care of your instruments is actually for suckers.
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That sounds like something a salesperson would make up to get you to buy it now, funny how that backfired.
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I keep trying to convince myself I like trems but every instrument I own with one gets blocked or hardtail'd eventually. edit: paying the snipe tax with a hot pic of my rack. Not pictured, Rondo nylon acoustic from like 2008 and the Bass VI 
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No no, it lets the tone escape through the surface, you want as much tone as possible going to the output jack.
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bees x1000 posted:I'm going to rebuy a Squier Bass VI sometime soon, anyone have opinions on strings? I had one 10 years ago and I recall stock was kinda floppy, plus I'm going to downtune a whole step. My issue with the off the rack sets is that the sets that have a heavy enough low string have way too much tension on the high strings for my taste. I do a Kalium set on mine, .021, .029, .039, .053, .073, .098. If you go that route you'll have to break out the tape measure to figure out where you need the tapers to be, because mine is all kinds of not standard, with a custom neck and hardtail conversion.
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The blocks on a custom are also mother of pearl, trapezoids are almost always acrylic.
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I really like my Line 6 G10 wireless thing but I know there are a boatload of lemons out there so I can't recommend it if you really need to rely on it.
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I had an American Ovation for like 15 years before I finally admitted to myself I hated it and sold it. One of the best guitar decisions I've ever made. The $120 dollar Ibanez I bought for my brother to learn on played and sounded better.
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ColdPie posted:What are the least ergonomic (mass market/non-gimmick) guitars? I feel like flying V has to be way up that list. The Les Paul and it's not even close
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