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>>129597658looks so hollow
>>129597690just a bit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6kPfe9gVJk
Installed some compensated saddles on my tele. Also managed to set the whole thing up for the first time. Kept the old strings on and just moved them aside to get it done. What is considered "good" intonation? I managed to get every string without 0-5 cents of pitch. I'm reading most people try to get within 3, but idk with a tele. Gonna go get new strings because these were the ones that came on the guitar when it was delivered to me. Since i'm just starting out on this shit what's a good guage to start with? should i just stick with 09-42?
>>129597927try 9-46 out
>>129597944checked but elaborate on why
>>129597658educate me on why one would buy a Rickenbacker that's not a 12-string?not criticizing, just curious and uneducated
>>129597956I like the way it looks
^^^get a load of this guy^^^
Brian Baker is EVIL.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukwh_wcrHDcForced his ex-gf to get an abortion in 1998 which turned her into a suicidal alcoholic. Satanic!
>>129598049give me the tldw
Ay you need a fuckin' guitarist for your band or what tough guy? I'm your man, I can play fuckin' circles around any of you clowns, I got kicked out of my last band I had a minor dispute with the vocalist, wrapped that fuckin mic stand over his stupid fuckin' head but we're past that now, I can start tomorrow I'll bring my fuckin' tools okay tough guy? I can do lydian, I can do dorian, I can do all that shit okay sweet cheeks so don't you worry about me worry about keeping up with me okay sunshine? I'll be by tomorrow I'll bring my Fender Deluxe and Telecaster, hows that sound huh tough guy?
>>129597658Built to play tom Petty music
Do you even know what a circle of fifths is? Yeah I didn't think so, you're out of your depth pal so just keep wading in the kiddie pool and keep your mouth shut the adults are speaking tough guy.
Learning guitar, synth bass, and vocalshttps://youtu.be/2EJf7yQCtGA?si=YGA7U3Cl5F-vbnBmhttps://youtu.be/5R682M3ZEyk?si=5NxM70ZEDzcQAH6Thttps://youtu.be/KKTBVhXRPUw?si=4QH2c6DfAJhaQHviPracticing bass and vocalshttps://youtu.be/ySzrJ4GRF7s?si=sZDJVbrwHsbR-_X3Learning these basslineshttps://youtu.be/dbckIuT_YDc?si=RCBIixg3k07cCxBUhttps://youtu.be/ECCYhadT7Bw?si=BekmVSR8btibe9dzA good song i might learnhttps://youtu.be/DzkBmJGGwdA?si=FtQfVxjHjgjqXo3m
>>129597956Because restringing a 12 string Rickenbacker is like an hour affair, intonating and tuning takes forever, they’ve got narrow fretboards which makes 12s very crowded (unless you buy one of the few models with wider fretboards), and the 6s are just all around easier to work on and play snd still get the signature Rick jangle. Rick 12s are nice to get when you’ve already got a Rick 6, and with a 6 you can already closely emulate the 12 sound with modern pedals without dealing with any of the cons of an actual 12.
>>129598326Good thing Tom Petty music is gigachad material.
I'd like to build a bass vi like pic related, but with humbuckers and without a tremolo.
>>129598882>offsett >no offset tremolo what the fuck is wrong with you
>>129598920I don't need to wiggle my strings to create interesting music.
1st 4 never shittin/gg/ cum#IntactBlackCherry
In4 Chevelle and gain staging. https://vocaroo.com/1a57vniKlle7
>It's another "I spent my entire practice session noodling around and soloing instead of actually practicing anything" episode
>>129598882the trem on my Squier VI is surprisingly good, intonates and holds a tune without any issuesthe only thing I'm gonna change on it is swapping out the individual pickup switches for a single 5-way
Can some of the more senior players chime in?Im wondering about the benefits of fingerstyle vs pick.On one end, you have dudes like Matteo Mancuso who can play insane lines that easily transition between tremolo, legato, economy, classical, tapping, etc.https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=j8OsuhTDufw&ppCons: tone is a little dull compared to a pick. Pinch harmonics seem way harder this way. Probably near impossible to play songs like Bleed with wild picking patterns.On the other end, you have dudes like Spiro Dussias who mainly use a pick. He can play tighter rhythmic sequences, play faster than Matteo, and his tone is much sharper.https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3mzDPF5230M&ppWondering if I should dedicate some more time to finger style. Im decent with a pick, can play some Malmsteen songs, some Marty and Kiko solos. I wonder if I should just stick with a pick and focus more on harmony than technique.For the record, I'm mid 20s. So I'll never get to Matteo or Spiro's levels. But ngl, i feel like if I put 5 years into Finger-style i could probably get to an exceptional level. But it would be at the cost of not becoming better with a pick.
>>129599408Just do what feels comfortable. I like to hold a pick between my thumb and index but also use my middle finger for hybrid picking. I spent the first ten years or so of playing using only fingers 90% of the time and when I started regularly using the pick I had a hard time going back and forth because the other always felt more comfortable than whatever one I was currently playing. I had to almost re train my right hand. I’d either stick to whatever you’re doing or if you want to play with fingers stick with that, don’t jump back and forth and lose progress of both while you decide what you want to do.
>>129599408Why would you not just practice both?
>>129599559because theyre fundamentally different and why divide your stats when you could be min maxxing
>>129599598I think it would be better to be versatile enough to play 90% of anything, picked or fingerstyle, than to be able to play 100% of picked and only 50% of fingerstyle, or vice versa.
>>129599611this nigga’s build is unoptimized and will never survive the toughest raids (gigs)
Which one of you left your pic in the washer? It clogged the pump
>>129599559I could practice one more and get better at it. But I could use that time to practice other concepts like harmony which arguably may be more useful.I think Ill stick with pick and mess around with fingerstyle a bit. But i thought about it and I'd rather sound like Dimebag than Mancuso.
Who was your first guitar hero?
>>129599859Marty Friedman. Once I heard the solo in Hanger 18 where the rhythm changes under it (think the 5th solo) it flipped a switch in my brain. Still my all time favorite solo and my north star
>>129598882>>129598920stop calling it a "tremolo bar". it doesn't produce tremolo.
>>129599899>what is harmonic tremolo
If you have these on your amp you a real ass nigga no doubt
>>129597658'ick in 'ase
>>129599859George Harrison and Dave Davies, still the only British Invasion era guitarists who’s playing still inspires me (especially Davies)
yeah I crushed practice today thanks for asking
>>129599957lmao
>>129600134Yeah lmao 13 year old me had lame first guitar heroes
>>129599859there wasn't a specific guy for me. I started playing because I needed guitar for music I had been writing.
>>129600134better than tim henson tier guitar heroes.
my guitar hero is tyler larson
>>129600334My butt hero is fartin’
>>129599859Tony Iommi. All these years later he is still my favorite.
>>129599906it's vibrato. harmonic tremolo is a different thing dumbass
it’s called a no one cares
you either own the libs or the libs own you
how do we save fender
>>129599859Gurt Growbrain I guess. I was like 12 and thought he was awesome. Few months after I got a guitar I felt like when you learn how a magician's tricks are done. Magic was gone. But playing guitar was now an achievable goal in my eyes>>129599899What do you call it faggot>inb4 "dildo" because you put it in your ass
>>129599102AI
>>129600554you hate to see it
>>129599859Josh HommeI love his early live solos. Very hypnotic
Lots of people don’t really get how cool this is
>>129600605what? putting your guitar over a light switch?
>>129599859Kirk Hammett
>>129600543Kirk Cobain (I raped him in the 90s btw) was an insufferable proto redditor tranny faggot. But he is a good guitarist imo.Yeah he's no Daniele Gottardo or EVH, but he was a fantastic songwriter and was good enough to channel his songwriting ability through the guitar. I think theres a real art to writing simple, catchy, highly memorable parts. He's up there with Billy Corgan, Dave Mustaine, Hetfield, and Iommi in that regard.
>>129599899>he doesnt call it a vibrato barNgmi
>>129600605>lefty>rails
>>129600607Think he's talking about wall hangers. If so I agree. Makes your space look cool, whether its a home studio, living room, or office
>ended up getting a squire jazzmaster Literally went full circle. If it ain't broke don't fix it i guess. Lesson learned
I love jazzmaster tone but the circuit fordnt do much for me.
For me it’s fretless. How else can I play the Persian 17-tone system
Bros I think I just mastered Diatonic modes>Learn the C Major Scale up and down the neck>realize you can fit the E, D, and A minor Pentatonics scales and their relative major scales (G, F, C)>start with E, add in the extra notes from C Major, use the Pentatonics as guide tones, Phrygian unlocked. Move around the root to play Phrygian in any key>Do the same with the other minor modes (Dorian, Aeolian), just fill out the extra notes around the Pentatonics>Do this for the major modes>no one gives a shit about Locrian lmaoDid I do it bros? Am I ready to bebop?Also>notice if you combine certain modes you get chromatic strings, integrate these into runs at will
I think being oblivious to what makes a guitar good and going by looks alone is probably the best strategy.
>>129600607My lights are controlled via my phone. Well actually I control them with my voice that my HomePod listens to. The light switch is always in the on position and the lights come on automatically at sunset, then they turn off when I tell them too when I’m going to bed.>>129600654I’m just talking about my guitar generally
>>129600750Yeah bro, love that sick out of tune, tone deaf, wailing cat sound you get with shitskin tonalities.
>>129600767>cheap squire tele that undoubtedly falls out of tune whenever the whammy is used>$100 ClassicalHonestly based af, cant lie
>>129599859Unironcally, Slash
>>129600669Wait you traded your Mexican JM for an Epi SG and ended up with a Squier JM? Like for real? If so LMAO
>>129600776It’s mij from 1987 it stays in tune. I paid like $800 for it and it shits on modern strats
>>129600795Oh damn, had no idea. My bad weeb-sama
>shitting on e series squierslol lmao even
>>129600792Yup but the original JM i had wasn't the kind I wanted. I was originally just going to get the JM i got today when I went yesterday. I wanted to try SG but neck dive plus that g string issue made me return it. If i would have known that they had the g string issue I never would have gotten it.
Is it true that Jackson has really good quality for their low tier guitars?
>>129600813definitely not true. far better than Ibanez but I still rate them quite low
>>129600810Surely you got money back for this and didnt get scammed out of ~400 right?
>>129600810>neck diveBuy a nice strap for $50 and problem solved>g string issueSpend 15 minutes filing and checking your nut/give it to a tech to fine tune your nut and it’ll be a non issueYou got boned in this.
>>129600770>tone deaf>system relies on quarter stepswhat did he mean by this
>>129600813Yamaha and Charvel are where it’s at for low tier guitars.
>>129600830>pretends he likes the sound of microtones to appear as a hipster on a Thai Phin forumKek. Microtones are only palatable when they are used on top of the western equal temperament system as an accent (think the first bend in cliffs of dover) or when used with the same symmetry (think mononeon)You are lying to yourself if you think middle eastern microtonal slop sounds good.>t. Knew a maqam viruoso, he sounded awfulIf you think Im wrong, post any song written in this system thst doesnt suck
>>129600605lefty strats are super cool
>>129600834I haven't considered charvel. I was thinking of getting a cheaper model with a whammy. Thanks anon
>>129600850Thanks man
>>129600909>broth
>>129600896Mexican Charvels are great, they’re like how MIM Fenders from like 2007-2013 were great. I have never encountered a cheaper Charvel that I wouldn’t be happy with. They’re really good.
>>129600845you only have to listen to it for a couple weeks until it clicks. music is all relative. i hate a lot of jazz because i just don't care to immerse myself in music that sounds like shit. that side of jazz will forever filter me. if i bit the bullet and clockwork oranged myself for a week i'd change my tune
>>129600813here i compiled this list after being a luthier for a lgs for the last 4 years. i never see charvels so i didnt rate them, and didnt include stuff no one will ever buy like danelectro or is super uncommon.
>>129600919You are probably right, I've had many experiences where I listed to a song and hated it, came back and listened again and loved it. But at the same time, I just dont bite that these systems are as harmonically rich as the 12 tone system. Many of these systems dont have complex chord progressions like you find in western music. Ive never heard something as satisfying as the Creep chord progression in these systems. It just seems like a total waste of time to me
>>129600943i forgot about eastman. they are ok but i wouldnt buy any of their high end stuff anymore. they bought bourgeois a year or two ago and stopped spraying nitro and using name brand tuners. theyre still functionally pretty good but definitely not the value they used to be
>>129600952im sure you own more than one guitar because of muh toan. its hypocritical to judge someone for wanting a fretless to experiment with microtonal systems.
>>129599336well, for someone who barely knows what the fuck they're doing, this turned out alright
>>129600952it's not something i'm into but it seems interesting to me. i guess i'm just curious about stuff and not worried whether it's better or worse than what I already know about
>>129600979I literally only own 1 guitar. A left handed, made in Japan Ibanez prestige. I dont care about tone lol.
>>129599920parametric is better
>>129600822Yeah I didn't pay anything between the swap of any of the guitars. The store I go to is very good with me and knows I'm a beginner and retarded. >>129600829>filingI do not want to deal with this personally especially during my first year on guitar. I just want to pick it up and play.
>>129601026whats your amp situation
>>129601060I dont gig anymore so I just have a Katana Go headphone amp so I can do basic practice. I also live in a townhouse surrounded by neighbors on both sides so no reason to own an amp atm
>>129601082well in that case I stand corrected. good day sir
>>129599336You lose positions on a 5 way
>>129601116Kek.
>>129600943>>129600967Thanks anon. I forgot about ESP, too. I was also considering mid tier Epiphones, like the 50s or 60s standard Les Paul. Not sure where they're made, but Google says it's China wood.
>>129601179epiphones are still pretty good and made in china but ironically most guitar factories moved out of china because the labor was getting too high/skilled. most wood is going to be sourced wherever it’s found, so for mahogany it’s going to be Africa or Central America. problem you’ll run into there is if they just buy the cheapest binned materials they can and don’t store or dry them correctly. a legitimate guitar factory will let them air dry for a year or two if they don’t roast them.
>>129600943I wish more people bought Danelectros. They’re cheap but they’re still really good. They don’t pretend to be anything they’re not: reissues of cheap guitars from 60-70 years ago that retain the same quirks as the originals. I’ve never come across one that wasn’t at the very least acceptable out of the box, never any fret or nut issues and always 100% playable.
>>129601314yeah they seem really good I just cannot get with their bass designs.
>>129600943what is this list focused on? the amount of stuff you had to fix when setting them up out of the factory, or straight-up unfixable build mistakes?
https://vocaroo.com/16C6RYUZnL4Q
>>129600543>>129600543 #>What do you call it faggota whammy bar, which is what it was called up until like 10 years ago, when a bunch of boomers finally succumbed to dementia and forgot what tremolo picking is.although I actually prefer what jennifer batten calls it: an "expression bar"
>>129601350Absolutely embarrasing.
tremolo = fluctuation in volumevibrato = fluctuation in pitchwhammy bar = Gen X lingo
>>129601333nice
for me, it's Whamuel Barre
For me is whammy bammy thank you mammy
>>129601367>tremolo = fluctuation in volumewrong. tremolo is rapid note repetition.
Only 3rd worlders cant grasp the concept of a polyseme.
>>129601409No it isn’t retard.
>year of our lord 2026>people have handheld computers and are still confused about vibrato vs tremolo
>>129601436I think my squier has polystyreme finish
>>129601437yeah, it is, dumbfuck.https://youtu.be/4E8rMLHIpag?si=YKU2BdPAmJSk2JEm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibrato_systems_for_guitarat least wikipedia uses the right word
Played new JM for about 25 minutes. It's great. Can't wait to get off work
Lo fi black metal. For refined tastes only.https://vocaroo.com/1hFy1Udk0RXY
>>129601513Me too brother, maybe two hours to go til I leave and warm up my toobs
>>129601122there's never been a situation where I've wanted to have the neck and the bridge engaged simultaneously
>>129601030Show me your amp with parametric on it
more like BLACKED Metal
>>129601314Ugly shapes
>>129601623chill bro, I'm too broke for jhs colorbox
is the catalinbread rah pedal a good purchase for me to try and dial in some sound city 120 mark 4 tone with my super fuzz to cop that electric wizard sound at home?i've seen the science mother preamp pedal too and that seems like a good option for an amp with an fx loop or some sort of power amp. i know electric wizard use laney amps and the laney super grace seems interesting too since it can be ran through a guitar cab at 60 watts.
>>129601708i laughtrying to capture a soundby asking questions through texton an indonesian basket weaving forumyou will never find the sound you want this way
eq? just buy a better sounding amp and guitar
>>129601740if your guitar has at least two pickups, you don't need an auxiliary EQ because your pickup selector and tone knob already function as one
>>129601367vibrato is a subtle back and forth change in pitch.a wangler bar can do a portamento and faux gliss as well, which calling a wangler bar a vibrator/vibrolar would be an equally inaccurate as describing one as at tremoloidalso tremolo is not what you think it is lmao
>>129601736thank you for your input but i thought this was the mongolian basket weaving forum. it's for my practice amp. was going to buy a pedal instead of a larger amp just for funs. i have the super fuzz clone i normally use the boost. it's sweet. the boss ir2 pedal seems like the pedal that can help sound bigger without cranking the volume.
>sounds perfect without gimmicks like an amp, pedals, pickups, eq, tranny barenter black text here
les paul with p90s
>>129601950mmm yes
>>129601867>enter black text herenigga you trippin
>>129601840meme pickguard is back to black
>want a falcon with humbuckers>gretsch puts a fucking bigsby on every one
What pedals do I need to play the solo from Shout by Tears of Fear?I feel like this dude nails it.https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0GKxpOESBhc&list=RD0GKxpOESBhc&start_radio=1&pp=ygUaU2hvdXQgdGVhcnMgb2YgZmVhciBndWl0YXKgBwE%3D
>>129602007Just put a bigsby block in
Bigsby's.Are.Cool.
>>129601979trip this
>>129597599>Blondes Sound Better editionbased
>>129602007Not on the Richard Fortus signature. But it's black.
>>129602007>every oneNigga what?
How do Gretsches play compared to 335 style semi hollows?
>>129602260>humbuckers
>>129602262gretsch feel like cheap plastic and look like blobs, 335s also feel like cheap plastic but only look somewhat like blobs. hope this helps
for me it’s the telecaster and/or the stratocaster
>>129597658fawking based anon. nice guitar. >>129602177>>129602260also based. Man I really gotta stop fucking around and get a hollowbody. Maybe a gretsch anniversary. dat green.
goddamnit the fucking bass player made me look stupid again today. I swear to god one day I will master the metronome
>>129602340>mfw smoke green
>>129602340a hollowbody was my first guitar because i wanted to be tomas kalnoky. i left it in my guitar in arizona and the wax on the pickups melted all over the guitar and i quit for 10 years
>>129602384sick and sad again
>>129602262More demanding and responsive.
>>129602384i had a stroke when writing this i apologizei left it in my car in arizona
found my next guitar
>>12960154420 minutes bro
Explain to me, a retard, why a neck humbucker volume goes to zero if you adjust the bridge volume to zero in the middle position.
>>129602491it depends how your guitar is wired anon what guitar are you playingeven different models of the same type of guitar have different wiring
>>129602491which guitar? it’s a circuit design failure btw
>Eastwood sells a tribute to Jerry Garcia's Travis Bean>no aluminum neck, instead it's maple painted to look like aluminumDo these guys specialize in weird knockoffs of vintage gear? Who buys this shit?
>>129602559actually kind of. they remade tony rices guitar with the oversized sound hole
>>129602559they're glib facsimile the company
>>129602491they are wired dependently. changing to independent wiring is one of the easiest mods you can do to your guitar. its like two wires
>>129601740>nooo, you can't make your great amp sound even better>noooo, you cant get even more sounds from your amp without being limited by bass, mids, treble and presenceLmfao. Broke niggas look for every excuse to not have an eq pedal
>>129602772i have an EQ pedal and i don't use itEQ pedals are great when you are trying to get a bunch of different sounds, like if you're trying to sound like different artistsi already like how my stuff sounds
>>129602798that being said I have an EP Booster that might as well just be an EQ that you can't configure you just have to take or leave how it sounds and it sounds good for me
>>129602772you don’t put a cold air intake on a ferrari
>>129602798>i bought an eq pedal but I never figured out how to use itFIFY
>>129602826when you don't have a cut, it's kind of hard to figure out what a bandaid is for
>>129602817>Cold air intakes (CAI) for Ferrari GTD/GT3 race cars (like the 488 or 296) typically use carbon fiber housings to draw dense, cold air from outside the engine bay (e.g., via specialized scoops or fender vents), reducing heat soak and increasing airflow for improved combustion and consistent power. These systems, such as those from ARMASPEED, are designed for maximum efficiency and often feature heat shielding to minimize performance loss from high-temperature race environmentsRetard
Imagine playing anything other than a rosewood fretboard.
>>129602850Eqs aren't only used as bandaids
>>129602851YOU don’t put a cold air intake on a ferrari. it’s already on there. retard
>>129602858i tried it as a solo boost and didn't like it either. even in the effects loop it didn't sound right. maybe it works better when your signal is already saturated to death but i don't play like that, adding more saturation is a better lead boost for me
>>129602855most rosewood looks like someone wiped their ass with your fretboard before installing the frets. its maple or ebony for me
>>129602772EQ is free on my daw and you better believe I use it
>>129602866Lmfao at this cope. 3 to 5 eq dials on an amp, vs 10 or 30 band graphic eq. Retard hour in here.
imagine playing anything other than a rosewood body
>>129602892Because you're smart. These retards don't realize that virtually every studio recording and most live performing artists use eq in some way, shape or form.
>sees beautiful wood, thinks of shitself report
>>129602907that’s why live always sounds better
>>129602910disgusting
>indian rosewood
>>129602907thats what the sound guy is for
Crazy to think that instruments didn’t have EQ knobs for thousands of years. What made the modern guitar sound so bad that it needs EQ knobs
I'm going to use an eq pedal as a back up amp
>>129602936because sound used to be a magic genie and we trapped that shit in a bottle and make it dance how we want it to
>>129602936EQ still existed back then, why do you think orchestral formations exist?
Rose would
>>129602988can you explain in full detail what you mean and how it works and verify it with science
>>129603013more violin more treblemore bass more bass
>>129603006dark rosewood that makes me wonder if it's ebony is fine. light brown / red rosewood looks like a hemorrhaged asshole
>>129603013Not doin your homework bub
>>129603038thanks for confirming you’re trying to sound smarter than you are
>>129603038why is the bass all on one side of the room and the treble on the other side were they stupid
>>129603046Smarter than you are? Yeah I am
>>129603060it’s been proven that you are not considering how easily you shy away from demonstrating this proclaimed knowledge. you’re a joke and I feel sorry for you
>>129603071>why arent you spoonfeeding me after I just showed that I dont know what I'm talking about with EQ?
and there’s the strawman. we’re done here. out of all the things, I just wish you weren’t so predictable
>pedalboards completeI'm sure i dont need anything else for my tone now it's just a dials game for the guitar tone I want from the pedals. Bass tone I have already. Funny part is I don't really use the microsynth for anything but like a boost for my rusty box tone. The only distortion I use is from the omicron. Blog over time to get back to playing minuet in G, scales and duster songs.
>cant do research, runs away insteadGGs
a fender bass 6? no, a fender guitar 4.
>>129599859Vinnie Moore's The Maze was what got me interested
>>129600943My local store has Tagima and Cort. Any opinions on them?
>>129603152NTA but he called your bluff on just naming concepts that you don't really understand. He allowed you the rope by extending the offer to own him by fully explaining "orchestral formation" but you chose to just hang yourself with it instead. It's crazy you don't realize this.
>>129603283never seen a tagima. as far as cort they're the people that make everyone elses stuff in indonesia; could either be a really good value or factory seconds im not sure.
can we talk about types of compression in the next thread?
>>129603302tagima dick lmao gottem
bodied; damn
should I check out reddit, what am I actually going to find there?
reverse the control plate on your telecaster
>>129603430Every so often one of you posts something even more pathetic than the rest
>>129599408>Probably near impossible to play songs like Bleed with wild picking patternsskill issue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvS2M9mC-CE>>129599408>Wondering if I should dedicate some more time to finger stylePretty much nobody plays fingerstyle like Matteo Mancuso, it's his whole gimmick and he has mastered it. Just stick to picks like 99.9999999999% of electric guitarrists and learn some techniques like thumbing and tapping if you really want to incorporate your fingers. Dudes like Tosin Abasi and the Archspire guys shit on Matteo and Spiro in the technical department.All of this stuff sounds soulless as shit, though.
>>129603546nobody actually does this
>>129603546Why?
>>129603546wyh?
>>129603546Ok, what next??
Do you actually volume swell?
>>129603784I got a pedal for that
strat: look what they need to mimic a fraction of our power
>>129603784Yes but it’s mostly I hate the location of the selector on a Tele. I cut my teeth gigging a Strat for almost ten years and prefer the Strat layout of controls minus the volume knob. A flipped Tele control plate has the volume knob in a perfect location and swapping pickup positions is easier for me to just karate chop into the bridge or use my pinky to hook it into the neck
why not develop quicker hands?
>>129603935It’s less being quick and more the tiny gap between the selector in the bridge position and the volume knob, I hate that about it
>Boogie>Bogner>Plexi>Friedman>SoldanoReal niggas>jc120>blue juniorGay niggas
>mealbabby still forcing his own meme
>>129604066>amp not listedRealest niggas
>>129604077don't give him any ideas
I said I got a jazzmaster but its actually a jaguar. I didnt know
>>129604169I hit post too early but I wanted to say the neck feels shorter but thats okay with me. Its somehow more comfortable
>>129603022brazilian rosewood is reddish brown, it's pretty light. indian rosewood is purplish brown and pretty dark, sometimes there will be streaks of yellow-ish-tan in it.. All manufacturers dye their boards to make it a lot darker. Old brazilian boards are super dark from decades of oxidation+oil. There is no fresh rosewood that's all super dark. People act like this is some sort of choice rosewood that builders or manufacturers use for the choice stuff...it's just dyed.
>>129604169Since Fender loves kooky shitthey should make a 25.5" scale Jaguar
>>129599408fingerstyle is nice because it actually sounds like music if you are playing alonenormal guitar playing sounds so fucking awful without a band
>>129602559Eastwood is legit the worst.Their shit is bottom of the barrel in every way, the hardware is absolute garbage, the frets/paint is horrible. And they are expensive for a low tier asian made guitar. I generally think most 300-ish guitar these days are made to a super high quality, but everytime I've checked out an Eastman it seems like it'd be too shitty for even Walmart.
>>129604169it says jaguar right on it bro>>129604182yeah its a 24” scale compared to a standard fender 25 1/2” scale
Should I contract a machine shop to make an aluminum neck?Looks like it'd cost about 450 bucks.
>>129604252that's just being historically accurate to the garbage tier instruments they're copying
>>129604259I was only looking at the body and I saw the letter J and didnt think anymore of it
>>129604261just buy one from electrical guitar company or aluminati guitars, i dont know if id trust a machine shop to make an actual neck without knowing the nuances of guitar stuff.>>129604325it’s an entire different guitar than a jazzmaster.
Good and bad news, my friends.Bad news: my Squier Classic Vibe 60s Custom Telecaster arrived with 3 grey smudges under the clearcoat.Good news: the store called their distributor and ordered a replacement. They should send me an email about the replacement's arrival tomorrow, or Wednesday (the 11th).They let me hold onto this one "so [I] have something to play". I'll be getting the same make, model, finish... I just hope for more consideration to the quality control.I got an Epiphone ES-335 Pro in December 2012, and it was a used, returned example of the instrument. The F holes wound up having this terrible black paint on them, and on the front of it. Just crazy lookin'. But it was over the clearcoat, and scraped off with my thumb.Anywho-- here's the guitar I got.& here's to the guitar I get.
>>129604359I'd have to design it in CADI think EGC, Aluminati, Robot Graves are all like 1000+ for a neck. I bet if I sent a quote to Chyna they'd build a neck for about 40 bucks.
>>129604398lol okay then do it
>>129604359Yeah but looks and sounds the same to me. I'll take it for now. Dont feel like driving out for a new one anyway
>>129604365Classic vibes are pretty nice. I loved their classic vibe 70s jazz bass. It had a natural finish, too. Real sharp. Sucks about their QC though. How does it feel to play?
filtering posts without vocas has been the best QOL improvement thus far in 2026.
>>129604502Feels terrific. Gotta admit, for me, a guy who hasn't had a guitar since around November 2024, the electronics are just fantastic. I had her set up with flatwounds... 11s; and it just plays so smooth. I still haven't tuned down to Eb standard but I have played with the bridge pickup a bit. Note-- I only have a Fender Frontman 10G. Fun fact: it's not a terrible partnership for the instrument. Not in my tiny living quarters.Bridge pickup with gain O.D. maxed and volume around 1, I can comfortably play around with snarl. The low end really changes definition with the tone knob. Can't say I dislike the thing, but it is a little pricey. Still, if one of y'all is in the market for a Squier, and can drop over $700 Canadian, this would be a top notch starter kit. It has a nice clean, too.
Not a guitar but I figured you people would know best.I got given a Mandolin recently and wanna be able to play it at least decently.Anyone here know anything about it as an instrument, have any advice, resource recommendations?
>>129604653Anyone who says "I got given" should already be a mandolin expert, just give it a try. Maybe work on saying "I done got given" if it's not enough.
>>129604653I taught myself mandolin by playing along to Pogues recordshttps://youtu.be/TxFliEOskNg
yo /gg/. i have an old 97 ibanez edb400 bass guitar i bought from some guy on craigslist years ago. after a few years of neglect i got it cleaned and setup properly. realizing that the guy who sold it to me said he upgraded the pickups. come to find out the idiot never had springs/foam under the pickups and they've been super far away from the strings the entire time i've owned it. it appears to be some bartolini set literally just bare blocked into the fucking thing. the neck pickup also has short ass fucking screws and i nearly stripped the threads inside the wood trying to makeshift a piece of foam underneath and trying to get it to catch. i'm thinking fuck that. should i just buy a set of pickup screws with the springs? should make my life fairly easy after that i think. am i missing something or is this as easy as it sounds?
>>129605049It’s about as easy as it sounds. Screws with surgical tubing instead of springs has worked better for me. Just make sure you’re not drilling through the body.
>>129605074surgical tubing will eventually offgas and dryrot
>>129605074you don’t use springs or tubing for body mount pickups. those are pickups mounted into rings or a pickguard
>>129605425direct mount pickups use foam underneath for height adjustment. so either way, there should be a way to adjust the height on them regardless of springs or not. i also don't think this is a cohesive set of pickups. so i think the neck pickup just sitting directly in the cavity with no means of adjusting and sitting over a quarter of an inch away from the strings isn't really helping me out much. something needs to get done about it.
>>129605471cut up a kitchen sponge and put underneath it. if the screws are too short you’ll have order longer ones
>>129605049I got a similar problem on my washburn, but I dont want ro restring my bass and ruin my tone. The d string broke 3 years ago and it took like a month for the tone to recover on that string. Luckily my lower pickup is in working order, I would get a new bass but none of the ones available in my area look as cool, and none of them have as many frets. What I really want is a true longscale bass
>>129605532take a capo on the first fret and loosen the strings enough to pull them out of the way enough to get the pickup out of the pocket. that's what i did when i discovered that the fucking bullshit was empty. wasn't about to undo and put a whole new fresh set on. >>129605515ktichen sponges need to be moist for them to have the properties of foam i need. not worth it really. i also have pieces of foam that are dense enough to do what i want to and i would just get some 1.4-1.5 inch pickup screws to do the job. or i could go to fucking guitar center and trade this pos in for something else. i honestly considering it if it weren't for the fact that the fucking bartolini pickup in the thing wasn't worth basically what i paid the bass for.
https://voca.ro/127R2sWJz11oi play my synth more than i do my guitar nowadays
>>129605682honeymoon phase
>>129605776i call it i got to learn a new instrument phase. or i wasted money phase
Ebony looks so good.
>>129605815learning is never a waste of money, even if you never get good you learn things that can apply elsewhere in life.
>>129605821yeah that's nice
>>129601534i just don't think its trebly enough yo
>anon from /gg/ gets a new guitar>it's yet another tele/offset
https://voca.ro/1deTUzxJ8bju
Acoustics with a finish other than natural or sunburst?Y/N?
>>129606211miss me with that shit
>>129606211Y
>>129606207https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59NVvnkJ0Sw
I loved this guitar, but the finish flaws got me irked. The QC is just not up to par. The set up i got from the store was great and playability is terrific, but the finish... grey smudges under the clearcoat. Irritating. I have warmed up to the amp albeit. A tiny Fender Frontman 10G. I can turn the volume knob near entirely off and get a nice room sound by maxing the overdrive gain. The Classic Vibe 60s Custom Telecaster pickups sound like I was hoping. It's a cool thing to make sounds.Seriously considering getting an Epiphone.
Me I just play my guitars
>>129606646lmao what a fucking silly billy
>>129606181nice deviantart oc
>>129606680Aww did I stwike a nerve trendsetter?
>>129606730ironic post
>>129598084https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vAqmvTus6Y
>>129597927That's why you disregard any of that "vintage" or "traditional" shit and get the improved modern solutions. It baffles my mind that people settle for the objectively inferior solution just because it's traditional. This with guitars, bear in mind. It's nothing essential or significant, yet they insist on it because of tradition. Imagine what other vile shit those people do in the name of tradition. A "modern" (it's not even modern, guitars have had those for half a century) solution with a saddle per string is the superior choice. My Tele has those and you can get it spot on with those (disregarding the imperfections when you fret harder or softer or pick differently).As for strings, if you haven't already tried different sizes, do exactly that. Get at least a standard set of 9s and 10s or perhaps even 11s. Then if you'd like minor tweaks to how the tension feels, go for different subsets of those. You can use D'Addario's string tension calculator to see how big the difference in tension is for their strings.My chug guitar has 11s and my standard one has 9,5. There's no difference in tone, don't let others tell you that it sounds "thicker" (watch comparisons on YouTube for example). The feel is different though. Perhaps it's not even the thickness which I feel, but the higher tension. I don't bend much, but it feels stiffer. Even when downtuning, I can't imagine how stiff/tight the 11s would feel if I tuned up to E standard.
>apparently you can only re-fret a neck so many times (a couple of times)>can only level frets once or twiceThis destroyed me. I thought my guitar was forever. But not only do I have to buy the equipment to level frets and replace them, I will also eventually have to buy a completely new neck and hope it fits on my guitar?
>>129607126nothing lasts forever (even cold november rain)
>>129601409>note repeats>so it sounds, then it doesn't>the volume is high, the volume is lowIt's basically the same.
amps sound like shit without eqprove me wrong.
>>129607107Can you post your Tele I'm curious
>>129607232This is the bridge I installed on mine. It's the Gotoh GTC102.
>>129607268Wow that looks really clean
saddles look cool
>>129607126Why don't you go to a fucking luthier? It costs no more than a haircut.Pretty sure you have long faggot hair and a hobo beard, you bitch.
I SUCK AT IMPROVISATION
>>129599859Dave Murray, I think.
>>129602048From the video description:>Start with a light-medium amount of overdrive, then mono (or stereo) chorus, stereo delay (I'm using 480ms and 680ms) and reverb to taste.
>>129607717You’ve gotta be kidding me.. I never expected it to be there so I just overlooked it. Thanks anon. Haha
I played a black jazzmaster yesterday at the store. I want it along with the jaguar I got but theres no reason to have 2 guitars because im still struggling with beginner books. I just really liked the way it looked
I was thinking about setting up a volume bypass switch so I can keep the volume knob low for clean playing but toggle the switch if I want instant OD... is there a point to it or should I just get gud at turning the volume knob real fast?
>>129608116Have you ever heard of an “overdrive pedal”?
>>129608153I don't like pedals, I want something built right into the guitar thoughbeit
>>129608157>I don’t like pedals>I want a pedal built into the guitar
Is the guitar popular in China?https://youtu.be/XIrAL0QBt2A
>sweetwater says order shipped>days later still no tracking info
>expected delivery this afternoon>tracking says it’s still in a city 3 hours away
>>129608195yes exactly
just came home with this TeleI'm a very happy anon
>>129608410ffs
https://x.com/PURPOSE_MUS1C/status/2029507997807030482
>>129608414What kind of Tele is it
>>129608644caster
>>129589013I tried but it's a struggle at 130 bpm, even then the octaves don't sound right.https://voca.ro/1ecWPCIpnQEj>>129601534Nice>>129605682Nice riffhttps://voca.ro/1iUUcgmNHfbw
ban vocas anywhere except the dedicated voca thread
>>1296086442024 player500 eurobucks, hardly used. dude gave it to me in the original packaging
>>129608157autism
>>129608685I'm kinda okay with this. Every time I post a voca I end up feeling like a pathetic attention-seeking faggot.
The key is to only use vocas for guitar shitposting. Don’t post them to show off, just pose them when you’re messing around on guitar.
>fart into a microphone>post it in a gear threadsimple as
>>129608414>tele, jm, gretschbased knower
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