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Why do you have a sheet of paper under your bridge?
The vintage-spec Gretsches don't have pinned bridges, so they ship with a protector between the bridge and top of guitar to keep them from scratching the finish.
Does it affect the tone?
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yes
V superiority.
Why do Ernie Ballsacks always unravel on the ball end whenever I use a jazzmaster vibrato
I bought and stashed a few packs of power slinkies(the 11s) because I was broke for a while and Ive gone through like 2 sets of them and every single one of them has had the high e string unravel and pop out of the guitar
Finally bought some nyxls now so maybe that'll be the end of it
unravel on the ball end
Manufacturing. Get some Thomastik Infelds.
To remind me to loosen the strings.
Imo no. It affects intonation. A so called floating bridge (that is not glued or pinned to the body) allows theoretically to move it to the perfect position for given guitar and string specs. Each tme you change string gauge or even string brand the intonation may shift slightly.
The trade-off is that a floating bridge is a pain in the ass to work with. You need a really good tuner and experience to get it to the right position and each time you take strings off or even bump slightly heavier to it it changes position and your intonation is fucked. Also they _actually_ never intonate that well as they're supposed to in theory.
That's a Y, bud.
Not a fan of f-holes on a Flying V tbqh. Feels like wearing sneakers with a suit.
I got the pink one. (No homo)
Thank god gibson forced Dean to stop making v's because that is fucking atrocious
Their Vs were generally nice but their headstocks were hideous.
Lol
Lmao
Should I upgrade my shitty Squier Affinity bass? When I’m making songs I normally don’t care about bass tone and just EQ until it basically sounds fine, but I’m wondering if its worth it to get a higher quality instrument with better sounding pickups. I spent a lot of money in my guitar and keyboards so sometimes I feel silly using the literal cheapest bass on the market
Are those f holes even real or decals?
Ps2
Metal Gear
Ok Dylan
This figgin guy tho
Go for it
Honestly if it's just for recording who gives a shit if it's a cheap bass, you might even gain hipster cred for playing a squier
Icarus Dream Suite Opus 4 - like best song ever. And yeah I know he refernces Albinonis's Adagio.
I'm looking to buy an inexpensive midi controller for my foot that I can bind to the preset switches on my guitar plugins (mostly use the Neural DSP Mesa Mk IIc+) but I might actually pay $100 for the Helix Native license soon. I've heard some of the cheap bluetooth only ones on amazon can have a 300ms delay in response due to the bluetooth. Do you guys think that this will be noticeable while I'm playing covers if I'm switching from like clean to dirty tone or whatever? I don't want to spend more than 75 dollars because I'm broke right now and just want this to record covers and write songs in the meantime until I start working again. I'm open to buying used on reverb or ebay. I've heard the line 6 expression pedals are good if you can find them used. I don't really need more than 4 presets for each song I'm playing so it doesn't need to be giant.
I'm broke right now
this is a good time to look into getting some kind of midi controller for your foot
Yeah because I don't want to spend 1000 dollars on an amp or modeler. A 75 dollar midi controller can at least allow me to practice songs and switch channels. If I don't have a foot controller the songs I can play along to / practice / record for covers are limited to ones that don't change from clean to distorted channels. I don't plan on joining a band or buying another amp or modeler for a year. I just want to be able to jam at home on my PC with plugins and do studio stuff.
Idk but you really should be using 12's on JM's.
NTA, but why? It's not any different than a Strat when it comes down to it.
JM's have much more sympathetic vibrations due to the strings behind the bridge. PUP's are also wider and flatter than a Strats as well.
Well, I don't mean exactly like a Strat. Just scale wise and general Fender ballpark. I forget a lot about the feel of JMs though. I had a long time ago and the biggest I put on were 11-50something flatwounds for a lark. I also used Tusq saddles, which solved some things I hated about it.
Because the bridge design is such shit that you need acoustic gauge strings to have stable tuning, The older I get the more I dislike heavy gauge strings, not because I don't like their tuning stability or have trouble bending them, I just think you lose tone and dynamics.
Finally finished my garage built Novo clone. AMA I guess
Specs:
Ash body
Ebony fretboard with SS frets (butter)
Dumbarzio super distortion in bridge
SD SSL1 single coil in neck
Controls: master volume, no load master tone knob, pickup blend knob
Locking gotoh bridge/tuners
Noiseless trem springs
Brass trem claw
Gold pickgaurd is actually clear with matte gold paint on bottom ala Gretsch
Never heard of Novo. Looks cool. Is it for yourself?
I've taken a liking to 9-46 lately (Fender scale).
Novo way if you ask me
We're all going with gold lately (I got a Ultraburst with anodized pg recently). OP is blingy, there's a JM above with gold, now this custom.
Suddenly I want a Marshall stack to go with my guitar, but they're owned by the CCP.
How much did this cost to make?
Did you cut the body and neck yourself, or buy a kit?
Need to play Zakk pinch harmonics, they sound so evil
I bought a Silver Sky SE last week off Craigslist and am I in love bros
I miss when Marshall were just blokes like this guy.
"Just look at it. It looks cool."
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Yeah I guess it all depends on your scale length and tuning. If we're strictly talking 440 with a fender scale length I'm going to go 9-42 or 46. Les paul 10-46. If I were to drop down below standard tuning I would increase the gauge. I used to play 10 or 11-52 almost exclusively on 25.5 scale, but idk.
Yes, built this for me. You should definitely check out Novo, they have some extremely sharp stuff and do lots of 2 piece oickgaurd stuff that looks great
Probably around $800+ all told, and that’s me going premium with the warmoth neck and buying really nice tuners/bridge. The neck was $350 because of some bells and whistles but it was already built and just sitting on the rack
The blend knob is really cool, I’ve never played with one and it’s a lot of fun having whatever combo/ratio I want
My guy Rhett has a Novo. If a guy like Rhett plays it you know it's good. I often fantasize about being Rhett. I pretend to be him.
HAHA
WE ARE BACK
I've been watching Gary Moore interviews and docus the past few days
Oh shit, the post cooldown is now introduced in the non-incognito mode.
How do you do pinch harmonics? I was once shown but I forgot.
I learned to play from Nick Bowcott
Normally I don't like gold hardware but you earned it putting that together yourself. Sound demo?
That fretwork looks like absolute dogshit.
For real? Sounds like he'd be a cool teacher to hang with.
hate to tell you this but PRS is bad and you only like it because Strats are good.
Yeah, he taught me when I knew absolutely nothing about playing guitar, at 13 years old. I have a lot of respect for that guy, he showed me the shit I wanted to learn, and figured I'd explore the basics later and he was right. The first lesson was about Slash and minor pentatonics because I wanted to play a Guns song lol
Tbf, they have better trems.
Also tbf, I think everyone else does too.
Sorry, forgot some details. Body and both pickgaurds were cut from scratch by me, I did all the pickup routing and neck pocket
Thank you, I normally hate shiny gold hardware but doing the clear pick guard trick really cools it down. No sound demo available currently and I only play Sweet Child O’ Mine in 3/4 time. Thems the rules
Le expert. Thank you for your guidance. I’ll be sure to tell Warmoth :)
Respect man, I would think a lot of work went into it. Does it play similar to a Novo in your opinion?
Fender 2 point is great, they just refuse to put it on most of their guitars because of vintagekeks. Also their modern C feels better than any PRS neck I've ever touched.
Much appreciated, I had fun building it and obsessing over options. I really splurged on the neck so it feels great, though the pups and hardware aren’t very Novo. It’s still very twangy from the ash body, but the electronics make it half David gilmour half Eddie Van Halen
I was thinking recently about how few PRS endorsees are players that I like. Although I did see a video of George Lynch playing one live during the 1990s that was pretty sick. Most PRS players care more about how guitars look than about how they play/sound.
If they're the pros and up. Last I checked, the MIM 2 point has a cheap block.
Dave Navarro used to be one of their dudes. Don't know now. He's one of my favorite players. Definitely of the alt rock era at least.
Most PRS players care more about how guitars look than about how they play/sound.
The guy their named after is a massive tonewoodkek so I'm not surprised by the crowd they attract.
I like Dave, his Rhcp album is good too and all the Jane's stuff. He was endorsing Parker for a while back in the 90s. I don't think you recorded any of the classic albums on a PRS but that's a good point that he's been using them now for like 20 years.
Studio guys like Tim Pierce that look like your grandpa basically.
There are blues lawyers types and the gibson adjacent guys (Santana models and McCarty), but a guy like Navarro represents the 24 fretters...who want a classier looking guitar. He used to play Ibanez in all of those Jane's albums, but I suppose PRS is more traditional looking than the usual shredder guitar.
No one ever remembers that Dave had a solo career too. kek. But it's actually pretty good in retrospect. He's like the last legit rockstar guitarist in my mind.
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I have a strat too and I love it... but this thing sounds amazing. Also, the neck is just awesome... it's sort of half way between a satin feel and a lacquer.
I hope all these threads get shut down for 11 days like last time.
paying to see Dokken in the 1990s
lel
referencing Dokken and not Autograph
oof
Lynch and Navarro together! Theoryfags won't like this.
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Why do people celebrate ignorance? Guitarists don't need to go balls-deep on theory outside of intervals, scales, modes and chord theory. People who think it limits playing are fools, it only facilitates collaboration.
It's not ignorance really. It's just not formal knowledge. A guy like Lynch still knows a fuckton, but more through osmosis and intuition and just having good taste... He just can't articulate it. And he doesn't need to. The results speak for themselves. He'll still run circles around most guitarists.
go to bed unc
Meh
I used to use 13s full time and they were great but these days 12s are too damn thick for me so 11s strike the perfect balance for lightness and tension on regular ass jms
I use 10s on my white one with dimarzios and its absolutely fine because of the break angle on it is a bit steeper so the tensions a bit higher, and because both of these have staytrem clones they don't slip out either even if I bang on them really hard
You have someone else in mind? Rock has been dead since the 90s, and he was pretty much the only guy who could shred besides Cantrell.
Not a single guitarist you mention after that matters. Because they're music doesn't matter. No one gives a shit about youtube spergs and shills. And no one gives a shit about metal except spergs who enjoy sausage fest concerts. Not to mention all of their guitarists are just servants to drummers and chugging. That's not a guitar god. That's a bitch.
their* bleh
There hasn't been any good rap since Run DMC. Now that was the realist. Now they talk about bitches and killing each other. We used to breakdance and let everybody know who we wuz.
Somewhat agree with you. I don't really mind some of the 90s stuff like Coolio or that one song by LL Cool J
Whoa
Music Theory is a way for untalented people to brute force music
Got bored on the weekend and decided to swap out the stock bridge pickup of my Ibanez Jet King with this I had sitting in another shit guitar, wish I had done this ages ago what a massive improvement in sound.
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