/gg/ - Guitar and Bass General

Flight over Rio edition.

First for Hittman

I’ve really fallen for this Super Sonic. I love the feel of the 24” scale and narrower Japanese style nut. One of the nicest feeling necks I’ve played in a long time. Gonna replace the pots and go from the current two volumes to a volume and tone and gonna stick some Bill Lawrence L90s in for more of a lower output sound (huge thank you to the anon who suggested those a few weeks ago), and I’m thinking about routing out some of the body for a separate switch for coil splits just because I don’t really like push-pull pots. It makes me really want a Mustang and/or a Jaguar just because of the narrower Japanese short scale neck, particularly a Mustang just because they’re so light.

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one of my mentors said I should record my practice so here's my warm up

Nice dude

Well I ordered the Tele from Sweetwater, first time buying a non-ebay guitar online

Best strings for semi-hollow body?

t. asked /gg/ before but forgot

Same as solid...unless you're playing jazz and want flatwounds.

I've tried two types of Thomastik strings on a hollowbody. The Thomastik BeBop (roundwound) 11-47 were horrible. I'd only read praise about them but it was impossible to intonate my guitar in any playable way with them. Maybe they were too light for a hollowbody, dunno. Then I thought yolo, I'll put them on my acoustic. Same thing, no intonation whatsoever, and as a plus they also sounded horrible acoustically.
After that I put Thomastik Swing (flatwound) 12-50 on the hollowbody and those at least intonated normally.

it's the strings' fault i can't do setups

What is a good guitar and amp for 80s hard rock and metal?

good guitar

Any super strat, Jackson, Charvel, Fender

good amp

JCM800 with an SD-1

retard questions: for someone who has never held a real guitar in their life, how difficult is it to learn to play well enough for music production (not live performance)? Are there textbooks that are actually worth it, or is it a bunch of bullshit like how it is for keyboards and music theory? Are the sub-200 dollar starter guitars OK for this or are they shit products aimed at children and howies?

almost everyone played the jcm800 or modded plexis chasing eddie's sound.

but even JCM 800 doesn't have enough gain on its own. unless its modified you have to use a pedal in front of it

I have a archtop and was honestly shocked that these things only work with fat strings. Literally impossible to intonate with 10s or you have to literally have to change the position of the bridge because i rn out of space for the saddle adjustment.

I also replaced the wood bridge on my jazz archtop with an adjustable tune-o-matic. Its beyond me how people intonate floating bridges otherwise, its nuts to rearrange that shit ever time unless you glue it to the body

Are there any issues with the '65 Twin Reverb from 2010s?

it's gonna be real fuckin loud

Loud enough to drown out drums?

yes

Looking for guitar solos that can be easily sung

this book will make me a better bass player right?

He's so good

Dumb looking guitar. Trying too hard to look different, but just ends up looking like all of the fender product line mashed together. Dumb

For me, it’s Ian Thornley

its really bizzare

Wild Side of Life or any other song that doubles the vocal melody
youtu.be/YUYnmOuEZEY?feature=shared&t=72
youtu.be/WhG6uQOSi_c?feature=shared&t=72

anyone here have a 5 string bass?

With a title like that, I believe it.