Caved and finally bought a Benson Preamp after over a year of considering one, had a $30 gift card to CME so there it went

I havent played my piano in months and I'm thinking of selling it to buy a different guitar

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>>129945088

Um yeah it’s Monel strings for me.

https://vocaroo.com/127gX6okuktz

Ibanez and a line 6 amp recorded on my phone with backing track coming from YouTube played through Bluetooth speakers.

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soon tm
Kind of indifferent about the finish but it was quite a bit cheaper than the same guitar in other finishes so whatever. Thin skin nitro so maybe I’ll just easily strip it off and hit it was rattlecan black or white

>>129945088
Can't wait to hear it, kingg

>>129945340
I will post (continue to) awful vocaroos

>>129944884
Im using an ns-2 and it tames like 80% of the screech when i dime it. I tried to see if putting in headphones helped and it still screeches

>>129945376
that thread is over bud.

>>129945376
it may really be the amp

>>129945480
Maybe, for now ill just use it on a less meme setting and play around with it on other friends setups. Still sounds nice. I am curious about one thing though. A lot of iconic sounds are a combination of certain pickups, pedals and amps. Do people ever use a tone preset for a specific amp like a 5150 on their katana and run a pedal into that preset vs just running the pedal into the katana's clean channel? Forgive the dumbass questions, I'm super new and I spent the past few months actually playing the instrument instead of fucking around with pedals and amp settings.

>>129945615
sorry bro I’m pedal illiterate and also daw-retarded

>>129945719
yea me too bro

>>129945615
nobody uses noise gates, turn down the fucking gain and quit fucking around

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Is there a name for this style of guitar playing where you play simple chords only using the thinnest 3 strings?

songs that come to mind:
>Chastity Belt - Seattle Party
>The Strokes - Someday, You Only Live Once (mostly)
>Mac deMarco - Cooking up something good

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I ended up getting a sterling music man. Going to try this out at home and see how i like it. I hate the feeling of round wounds but I had fun playing this in the store plus it matches my strap. I also played a Rickenbacker in the store. That fret buzz thing the guy told me about at the other store just isn't true. It was definitely just an adjustment issue.

>>129945774
but it sounds like the music i want to play and hides how shitty i am. im practicing some riffs off the slaughter of the soul album

>>129945840
is that a weed bowl in your center console? just wait til you get to your destination, they'll throw your ass in jail for DUI even if it's just weed

>>129945872
that is 100% a bowl. keen eye anon

>>129945840
that anons right, you need a cart for when you're out so it doesnt smell like youre smoking in your car

>>129945872
>>129945904
I have a very good suburban code switching accent. Even though my car smells like weed I have never been searched or got a ticket after being pulled over. Also I usually put it away in the center console thing. I forgot to lol

>>129945272
>strip nitro and refinish
please dont

>>129945934
its 2026 theres no excuse to get a dui for weed anymore. use a cart when youre out and leave the actual bud in the trunk until you get where youre going. carts kinda suck, but theyre good enough in a pinch. i prefer joints and dry herb vapes myself

>>129945779
they’re called chord fragments typically

>>129945840
nice. thankfully those also sound great with flats. boost the 1.5k mids

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>>129945840
Happy for you, but man I hate those 3+1 headstocks. And yet I love their asymmetrical guitar headstocks. Thump away, brutha

man i love overly processed tones. Make some funky shit

https://voca.ro/14gHOrocNbj0

>>129945076
Likely to go shopping for a new guitar in Japan soon. Any recommendations on 8/9 strings with floating bridges that don't break the bank? I'd love an Explorer or V style but not enormously picky on shape as long as it fits my body well, it'll be used for metal.
Will also be looking at basses but might be hard to get it home.

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>scotts bass lessons offering a new course
>its $3500+

>>129946383
ill be there soon too. ill be looking for second hand mij bc rich guitars or maybe an edwards forest or even better a cheap beat to shit esp. i recommend also looking into the music scenes in koenji like koeni 20000v or shimokitazawa

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>>129946388

>>129946578
kek, I love Stu tho he’s awesome and a stand up guy.

>>129946388
just get 350 bassists to chip in 10 bucks, then upload the content to a p2p site bro

>>129945779
>>129946100
they're called triads

>>129945272
it's a very nice finish, don't change it, especially not for generic black/white

>>129946833
what if u play 4

>>129946967
tetrads

>>129946984
wat if u play deez

https://voca.ro/1j78YMJ9FZRS

>>129946995
that'd be nuts

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I need to bring it back tomorrow and have the action adjustment. Hopefully it's free but I cant get a sound of the first fret. When I played this earlier I forgot to play along the whole fret. I was in the upper range the whole time.

>>129946083
I'm putting it down soon anyway so I wont have the bong for much longer.

>>129946113
>>129946119
Thanks, im thinking I'll try getting flats this weekend but I'll see after I play it tomorrow

>>129947420
wdym no sound

>>129947476
If i put my finger on the first two frets and try to play a note, the string doesnt even move. It buzzes barely

>>129946865
Fender doesn’t make this specific model Strat in black and that’s what I really want and I’ve got tons of high temp grill paint from painting old surplus muzzle devices and blank fire devices so I’m just gonna strip it and paint it black with that
>>129947640
Are you like for real pressing on the actual fret like for real ON the fret

>>129947640
bro I can’t even wrap my head around what you’re describing

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>>129946388
>needing paid lessons for bass

>>129947683
>>129947711
https://voca.ro/1ioYVNVsQWxz
I start with the open on each string then go to the first fret. Literally just placing my finger not even trying to put pressure.

im glad i started playing a few months ago this has been very fun :)

>>129947787
Needs more relief, should have been caught at the shop

>>129947823
if that’s the case the relief should be horrendously bad for it to cause the complete fretting out but it’s possible. maybe you have a massive temperature different from the store

>>129947787
Might need some truss rod tweaking, might need saddle tweaking, might need nut slot tweaking/new nut, not to be condescending but are you sure you’re pressing hard enough? Pressing lightly causes buzz and the first few frets are usually a little tougher to press hard. I’m assuming you are because you’ve been playing and taking lessons and everything but it doesn’t hurt to ask. Is it buzzing at the actual fret you’re playing or is it buzzing farther up the neck on a different fret?

>>129947823
>>129947874
I think it needs some sort of adjustment. I played a red one of the same brand and that one I did play at the first few frets. That sounded fine so I just took this one instead when I saw it on my last scan and played it for probably 30 seconds.

>>129947921
Nah I tried all kinds of pressure. If i put the normal pressure i use while playing my p bass, no sound comes at all. I'm guessing it may have just needed an adjustment and I didn't notice since I didn't play for long.

>>129948002
just loosen the truss rod a half turn, lefty loose, counter clockwise and see what it does. they’re really easy to adjust on MM

I'm a liberal California indie rocker who fell on hard times due to Trump's economy, forcing me to take a job as a police man to make ends meet. Until recently, the only "thin blue line" i cared about was the racing stripe on my CIJ mustang. A few months ago, the only black thing I stomped was my Proco Rat pedal. I admit I'm still learning the ropes and coming to terms with being "the fuzz" instead of rocking out with it. Sure, I'm a fish out of water, I'm learning the ropes... but maybe I can change the system from the inside out.

>>129948006
https://voca.ro/11AImsL7H8Yo
So adjusted the truss rod but I'm still getting the buzzing. This is after the truss rod adjustment using my normal pressure. After I played the MM I played my P bass using the same pressure and even played sloppy but still didn't get that buzzing that the MM has.

>>129947683
>specific model Strat
what's specific about it? looks like a bogstandard SSS to me

>>129948248
AV65, I wanted the ‘65 profile neck and the ‘65 voiced pickups

>>129948242
well you said it wasn’t moving at all earlier is that an improvement? make sure it’s in tune then fret the first fret and the 17th fret at the same time and see if the string is touching the frets in the middle of the neck

>>129948273
shit, I'd trade you a stripped down black strat body for your burgundy one

>>129948279
Yes it is an improvement but honestly I'm worried if I loosen it too much something will break in the bass

>>129948326
are the strings touching? one more half turn won’t do anything those have two way truss rods. they have about 2.5 turns of movement in either direction

I'm kinda disappointed in the lack of slot head, v neck, 12 fret parlor guitars worth a fuck under 8k, but I guess I know what I'm stuck with for now

>>129948639
you can have Martin make one of those

The guy I take classes from is such a joyless cunt, guess being a super shredder who never made it makes you jaded. Making great progress with him nonetheless

>>129948402
Are you asking if the strings are touching fretboard? Then no. I tried it with the truss rod turned both ways and even in the middle but still got it. I'm guessing GC can fix it for me.

>>129948648
>under 8k
I considered it, but bourgeois makes the thing I actually want for that price. Prolly going with yairi.

>>129945376
I took the ns2 out of the chain and it doesnt screech anymore lmao. I may buy an nsx from amazon and if it works well swap them in the boxes and send the used ns2 for a return.

>>129948697
if you fingerpick at all I would recommend the yairi. I had a DYM70, best sounding guitar I’ve ever owned

>>129948682
rip good luck man

>>129948724
Yeah, the PYM seems about right.

Nothing but ni/gg/ers here

>>129945107
>mordecai and rigby, set up the anons ibanez by closing time, or you're fired

where are the fun posters?

ni/gg/ers shit my cum

https://voca.ro/1l93snfzjGh4

>>129948736
Thanks for the help anon appreciate it

>>129945249
Why is the backing track louder than you?

>>129948242
You need to raise the action at the bridge your relief is fine.

>>129946156
This is more groovy than funky, my disappointment is immeasurable and my day ruined.

>>129947001
>https://voca.ro/1j78YMJ9FZRS
Would sound a lot better with some gain and verb

I've seen so many videos shitting on those delta king amps that I wonder if I should get one now

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>>129948834
Nice to see a fan of my work.

>>129945840
unfortunately I can't get used to these, too big and heavy plus the neck is huge

>>129948991
what did you use? I usually use audacity, I don't remember if I processed that since it was just a lazy phone recording but normally I'd amplify, normalize, compress, and reverb just with the presets for acoustic guitar I used to try noise removal too but that always makes it sound crazy unnatural

>>129946388
If I'm paying that much I expect him to fly to me and give me personal lessons

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what's going on with this neck?

>>129949136
A group of skunks is called a stench

>>129949136
It saw you were gay and now it's trying to an hero

>>129949102
It was sarcasm, because its acoustic. Is my humor too high brow?

>>129949136
the maple is probably shrinking faster than walnut or mahogany whatever that is

>>129949136
Why are you gay

I wish I had a real Strat :(

>>129949530
Why?

>>129949221
I'm retarded, I played it from your post and my post and thought they sounded different.

>>129949577
Because I have a POS Squier and it sucks

>>129949658
kek that's funny, you can't even distinguish your own playing? impressive legit.

>>129949706
I just have a crazy imagination, I assumed the links were different so my brain made them sound different

>>129949779
>>129949706
I just thought you did some post processing thing to the file not played it yourself.

Is $1400 USD around the point of diminishing returns for premium electronics/hardware nowadays for an electric guitar?

>>129948811
>a slime’s gotta sleep too ya know

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I met Kim Mitchell once in a dive bar in Dundas Ontario. I was the lead guitarist in the opening band. So anyway, we finished our set but I had to piss real bad because I'm about 8 beer deep. I ran to the bathroom but Kim Mitchell was already there. I did my business and nodded to Mitchell and said to him "good set last night"...and I shit you not, Kim Mitchell turns to me from the urinal with cock in hand still pissing all over the floor and says "thanks man".

I still can't listen to Patio Lanterns anymore

>>129949819
Lol

>>129949819
Should've just went for a soda.

>>129949795
Haven't bought a guitar in 15 years Idk, id reckon as long as it says Fender or Gibson on the headstock its probably good enough

he'd fit right in
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_F44xxCGtM

i don't frequent /mu/ too much so i was looking for some stuff in the archives and it's really funny seeing that paul davids has a dedicated schizo

>>129950456
idk who that is

>>129950574
just a guitar youtuber, not really all that important

>>129949925
Neger needs to start practicing with a metronome

>>129949813
lmao, where can I get these

https://voca.ro/1c47ET4enWG4

https://voca.ro/12wJ815XYkqw

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$2000 ultra specced out bass with all the fancy features and this is all you could come up with to hold the strings in place

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Do you rest the guitar on your right leg or your left leg?

>>129952214
right leg because im a fucking cave man

>>129951923
>FB_IMG
i thought you were supposed to string headless guitars the opposite way, placing the ball end into the headstock?

>>129952214
either

>>129952256
huh nevermind i guess not

>>129952214
YOU should practice standup up. You're not gonna play a gig sitting down.

>>129952281
what if hes in a fucking wheelchair?

123rd post

>>129952256
Nah a few chink headless brands do let you hook the ball ends to the head, but most will just screw it down like pic rel

Can't wait for my new guitar to arrive today.

I can wait for my guitar to arrive next month.

https://voca.ro/1glEx5nSwIN1

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>>129926070
still no news, and tomorrow they're close so have to wait for more days

Going to GC today hopefully they can fix the sterling for me. Will be putting flats on it as well. Any suggestions for brand of string?

Has anyone made crazy sounds with an SY-200? I was thinking since I have one i might try to cook up some presets.

^^^another craig in the making^^^

>>129952761
another win for the deaf

>>129949795
yea if you just want locking tuners and some above average pickups. $2000 or so would get you premium pickups and graphite reinforcement in the neck

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day 10 or something of playing guitar. not my best, will probably warm up throughout the day. at a period where I prefer neither guitar nor bass
https://voca.ro/1bukr6N5n5cX

Who here uses integer pitch class notation?
https://youtube.com/shorts/Em7bfWUCIQ0?si=Sxux8ZF0fz5Q90n7

>>129953389
try listen to balawan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8Y5yzAvjtE

>>129953389
I think Rick is trying to hold back laughter.

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>buy a Korean Les Paul as my first guitar
>its about 11-12lbs
>figure that it's normal for the guitar to dig into your shoulder while sitting and using a strap after 40+ minutes
>end up sticking to playing after a year so buy a Fender Player Series Strat and get it set up at a luthier
>able to play for hours at a time without any issue now
Fun hobby, I think this definitely the one guitar for me

>>129953454
>guitar to dig into your shoulder while sitting
???
are you like 2 feet tall?

>>129953545
aren't you suppose to?

What year was your oldest oldest made? Newest guitar? Oldest amp? Newest amp? Oldest pedal? Newest pedal? Oldest cable? Newest cable? Oldest pick? Newest pick?

>>129952837
labella’s are the best but they never carry those. get whichever ones are stainless if possible

>>129953589
You collect data for the government or what?

Can someone help me transcribe this snippet? I am burnt out on this.

E D C B are the notes I can hear out from one guitar, but I can't figure out the harmony the other guitar is playing.
https://vocaroo.com/1mxLQN2NZP7C

And yet I fight, and yet I fight
This battle all alone

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>>129953826
The second I posted it and gave it another try I was able to figure it out. I think this is it:
Am G F Em, played as root position triads. The prominent guitar melody I heard was playing the 5th of each chord.

https://voca.ro/1hzEf8qVEf6w

shitty guitar line followed by what sounds like a really angry fly, same shit everytime

maybe it’s not /gg/, perhaps guitar just sucks

I bought an electric guitar and plugged it in my PC and booted Rocksmith 2014. Took me a good hour but I finally managed to play the very first practice track without missing a note at "master" level (which for a practice track is still baby mode of course).

Still sounds like shit because I'm not pressing the strings well enough and I pluck them sloppily but I guess I'll come with practice.

I'm kinda terrified though, that track was literally only the E string and going 3-4-5 7-8-9 12-11-10-9 and so on and so forth. Once they add more strings and shit I'm gonna struggle hard. Thankfully I'm not in a hurry, my fingers feel very clumsy and stiff though, just doing 3-4-5 was difficult without moving my hand.

woah… where’d they go

>>129954453
buying chibsons is a bannable offense

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>>129954500

bros……im thinkin taco bell for lunch to go with my mim fender

155th post

how important is it to actually keep track of playing in the correct hand positions with bass? i have pretty flexible fingers so i can stretch my pinky to the 5th fret from 2nd position instead of having to move it, but the bass method book emphasizes on them a lot

are grovers good tuners?

>>129954830
I only use 1 finger per fret if I’m playing triads or chords. switching to 3 fret fingerings is better for playing octaves and both the major and minor pentatonic. use pinky joint barring to play 5th and octave, slide down and play root and 4th with pinky and the flat 7th and flat 3rd and go down a string for lower 4th-5th. for major pentatonic keep the R58 shape but slide up to where your pinky is on the 3rd on the same string as root and now you can play the 5th and 6th on same string and root and 9th on same string. I don’t think playing the 4th sounds good when playing in a major key personally so no real loss

should i get a plethora?

>>129954853
they’re not bad at all, not my favorite tho

>>129954923
whats plethora

Truss rod in the music man was broken lol

>>129954999
lol rip. sorry to hear it man

>>129955014
Turns out it wasnt broken. There was maybe a pocket of air or something but the guy initially thought it was broke. He smacked it and that fixed the problem. I was very happy cause I did not want to lose this MM

>>129955083
they can get bound in the channel, when I did tech work I always massaged the neck before and after a truss rod adjustment by holding the heel of my hand on the body and pushing down on the tip of the neck just til I saw the strings touch the frets. you could hear them pop loose sometimes.

>>129954999
So replace it. You have tools, right?

What's more important, a good guitar or a good amp?

>>129955222
if you just play at home, guitar. if you play for other people to hear, amp.

Stratocaster = highschool quarterback
Telecaster = long-haul trucker
Jazzmaster = warrior monk
Jaguar = yoga instructor
Mustang = town rapist
Precision Bass = cook
Jazz Bass = chef
Starcaster = mall Santa
any Fender acoustic = carnival worker

>>129954999
Indonesian guitars, everyone.

>>129955222
a good guitar because acoustics don’t need amps

>>129955236
now do the rest

>>129954939
tc electronic plethora x3

>>129955342
>x3
I thought you were doing an emoticon for a second

So you're telling me any guitar over $1700 is overprice?

JAKARTA STRONG

I forgot to get the flats put on my MM. I want to have my teacher show me how to do it but I have to miss my lesson Tuesday to get my car fixed.

>>129955323
>the rest
literally who

>one made in Japan
>one made in the USA
>one made in Europe
what guitar/bass would you pick for each one?

Les Paul = mayor
SG = fireman
335 = local drunk

>>129955500
>Gretsch Country Club
>AVRI Jazzmaster
>Marshall SC20C

>>129955500
>Mustang, Japan knows how to make small guitars for small people
>Stratocaster, the most American guitar
>Alhambra 10 Premier, made in Spain

Do you consume guitar content on YouTube? It really makes me hate the instrument

I need to buy a capo and a strap. Anything to look for?
Also, any other gagets I should put in my cart to save on delivery fees?
I only have an electric guitar, small portable katana amp a cable and some picks.

>>129955500
ESP
Charvel
Mayones

>>129955696
what kind of guitar content? there's everything from song lessons to interesting tips all the way down to clickbait gear reviews and bullshit theory lessons that don't work

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>>129955698
i'd get one of these things. very practical even if you don't go out with your guitar a lot. i have mine stuck in the back side of the headstock.

>>129955698
>a capo
fretboard radius, 'clamping' pressure, cushioning
>a strap
metal parts banging against your guitar, adjustability, durability,
>other gagets
strings, string height gauge, polish/cleaner/lemon oil, stand, cables

>>129955696
>>129955806
What are some good follows?

I am so bad.

>>129955915
i don't follow many of the guitar "youtubers" (the ones who are basically an e-celeb) anymore but i remember liking paul davids's micro tutorials and insights, lost track of the guy like 5 years ago though so i have no idea what kind of content he's up to now. aside from that not that much besides jam track channels like Now You Shred which uploads basically backing tracks in different genres and styles + simple instructions on screen to act as a guide or a simple challenge which i really like.

https://voca.ro/127V1DMJumIY

>>129955420
depends on what you’re willing to pay for but some specs are disproportionately charged or locked to expensive models and some companies charge far more for upgrades than others (Martin)

>>129955915
Troy Downward, George Karayiannis, Erik Eklund, Erik Holmbom, Mauricio Murúa

I like the pinfields

can I use an eq pedal instead of an amp sim?

>>129957075
yeah it’ll probably sound thin and dry.

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https://voca.ro/1gBbqtTYZ1jd

How do people record their guitar?

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>>129957243
with one of these

>>129957173
nice, now plug it into a audio interface

Tele - Mario
Strat - Luigi
Jazzmaster - Princess
Jaguar - Toad

Les Paul - futa Rosalina

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>>129957471
WTF I love Chudson now?

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MY SHIT DIDN'T GET DELIVERED
UPDATE THE TRACKING UPDATE THE TRACKING

>>129957549
This BETTER NOT be me when my guitar is supposed to arrive Monday

I hope any company that starts producing their shit in Indonesia goes bankrupt

>>129957503
s-same…

>fuckin' tiko craf-BLAM
M.I.I, M.I.I, M.I.I!

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>>129955500
>Jersey Girl electric
>Jimmy D'Aquisto Solo
>Robert Bouchet Classical

if it's only things I can afford

>D'angelico New Yorker from the Terada factory
>Gibson L4 in black
>Jose Marin Plazuelo Bouchet model

/gg/ - Gay Gooners

>>129957723
trust fund guitar

>>129945076
>Spaceranger
OK so $750 is wa-a-a-a-y too much for that guitar.
I spent $200 on mine, sunk a couple of bartolini pickups into it for maybe $150 and it sounds good enough.

The problem is, if you put it on, the balance is way towards the headstock, so you wind up having to hold up the neck with your left hand while you're playing. no bueno.

Still tho, fun instrument to have & look at.

>>129945272
>he bought a gay guitar

>>129955236
that's.... that's pretty close to accurate desu

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This is a really good bass. I actually might keep rounds on it. Pretty fun to pick round and finger flat on my p bass. Hopefully I'll get a jam session with my friends this week to test it out there. I'll probably down tune it after a month of playing with it

>>129957939
nice glad you like it. figured it would suit you since you liked the p bass

>>129957822
You're not wrong. Found out about them from Henry Kaiser

>>129957939
>Stingray HH
for that superb Tony Levin tone

>>129957822
if I had a trust fund I'd just buy David Gilmour's black beauty

>>129952214
You do both when you’re standing. Mostly it’s in the middle, but playing around open position, you’ll find that it wraps around your body based on the balance point
>angus young speaks of this

Middle is the best for RH fingerpicking, as it’s like scratching your midsection. Right leg position is when you want the open position dead and center. Look at how guitarist likediabetic Chambley play like a bow tie.
Holdsworth did the same, and you can watch guitarists put a foot on the monitor when they reach the upper sections. Unless you like slinging it low, keeping it in the middle is the best.
>pickups should be on your balls

>>129957998
Yeah these MM are great i love the humbucker pickups too. Way better than the westone one. I think I'll still save up for a Rickenbacker

>>129958198
Who's that

>>129958292
>whos that?
((Bassist)) with King Crimson, Peter Gabriel, Lou Reed, and countless sessions. He’s very tasteful but he’ll never be John Wetton

>>129958344
>lou reed
Was this guy in TVU when they were good?

Giga beginner here, why does it sound like shit when I try to play a note but open strings sound great? Am I pressing too hard? My shit's tuned.

>>129959179
>Am I pressing too hard?
probably

>>129955696
I think this is a lot of YouTube now, but people just ramble for 5 minutes before getting to the point or talk so vaguely, you have to wonder if they even play guitar. I saw some dude doing a video on how to make neural tone vsts to sound good and he was speaking about random shit like your mindset when playing. like they are reading a wiki how script. the best channels are boomers who work on their own guitars in the style of Guy Clark or tone and pickup design autists.

>>129959179
if it’s muddy not pressing hard enough if it sounds out of tune too hard

>>129955696
I just look up all playing no talking demos that are shorter than 8min everytime I find an interesting looking model

>>129959218
My trigger is store channels that use salesmen or women who talk a lot and then switch to someone else to play demo, fuck should I listen to you if you don't even play

>>129959245
>>129959202
Alright, probably pressing too hard since I'm new (literally started today). Well at least I know it's not my shit being busted.

>>129959387
you should take a note that you know works and keep incrementally adding fretting pressure until you can’t add anymore while picking it each time so you have a frame of reference for what a good and bad note sounds like

first for Heritage

I have an itch to play again but I have no guitars except my brother's acoustic sitting in the garage
I don't really wanna touch it

>>129959634
>acoustic in the garage
might as well, he clearly doesn't care about it

bass guy learning guitar here. guitar is still going really well, still lots of daily growth and I played for an hour today. I think I’m losing interesting in playing it though

>>129959634
post pics of her

https://youtu.be/3rigrvdSLXM?t=394

>gay guitar literally has the word "homo" stamped into it
cant make this shit up

https://youtu.be/9GD9VHLCgts

>buying anything made in the USA after the year 2000
you are a special kind of retarted

>>129959828
every time I hear someone named Osborne I think of Sonny and Bobby Osborne. great bluegrass players. idk who the fuck this john guy is

>trogly
*vomits*

>>129959870
John Osbourne was Ozzy's real name

>>129959862
I liked the seethe in his other video. I gotta watch this

>>129959870
mormon scum

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN-gkIXC5Uw

Google AI completely fucks up everything to do with music theory
maybe less than 5% of the time it's actually correct about something

>even chatbot gave up
grim

i buy cheap strat copy guitar (brand is like… glarry or something idk lol) and when i play chord it sound like bee buzz?? like not clean like youtube man

bee buzz

>>129960747
turn the gain down/off

>>129960815
Indobeesian

https://youtu.be/pRSEYdo7DC4?t=7m58s
Bought a cheap $35 Chinese ring mod pedal to make this goofy sound

>>129960959
a 40 minute example eh

why have I heard ring mod like 40 times in the last few threads? is that like those doorbell cameras

only song i know that needs ring mod is southpark intro

>>129960972
my high school buddy had a DOD Gonkulator Modulator. those go for like 500 bucks now, such a stupid awesome pedal.

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>>129948724
>>129948745
I wish they didn't have that gay moustache bridge.

>>129961058
I saw one of those miku pedals at my lgs for $800 and I sighed and left

>>129961058
You can buy a perfect clone of it on aliexpress for $30

https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256808334243292.html

>some guy rambling about chink boxes for 40 minutes
can't pay me enough to sit through that

https://voca.ro/15yXMQOQbRUK

https://voca.ro/1jFO4bieLTxW

>>129961370
>>129961410
Can you play something a little more serious or rehearsed? It sounds like you're smoking weed and just banging on the strings. I appreciate the short duration of your vocas.

>>129961442
https://voca.ro/1aVA3JbGt3bR

>>129961442
The guy calls himself "shitposting retard"

>>129961471
I don't know what I was expecting...

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100 years ago all you had to do was buy an electric guitar and you would become a millionaire. It was like bitcoin. These guys can barely fucking play. They were adult guys who just went to a store, bought electric guitars and became millionaires.

>>129961518
You can share the name with me its okay, its so you can filter me easily.
https://voca.ro/1odpAArOjl1o

>>129961538
electric guitars didn't even exist 100 years ago and you'd probably get drafted into one of the two world wars

Maple cap

>>129961844
its a veneer

>>129961442
The banging is his mom. Specialneeds PRS reseller calls her his landlord.

>>129961538
I feel that way about Duane Eddy.

>>129947787
lmao my local shop gave me my bass in this exact same condition after a 100 dollar setup. fucking faggots

truss rod adjustment should fix it slightly.

fuck local shops. I buy online. I go into local shops and intentionally damage shit. I bring a baggie of dog shit and put little poop nuggets in all the acoustic sound holes.

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so what the fuck is up with all these youtube videos goin "yeah here's what you look for with neck relief and here's the recommended string height" and you buy all these gauges and rulers and you set it up exactly how they tell you and the first 3 frets sound like ass and it also buzzes on some frets around the 12th

>in b4 your frets are unlevel
they're not. i set up two completely different guitars with the exact same measurements and there's still buzz. is my fucking playing technique just shit? i also google if some buzz is acceptable and people say that some is excpected for "low action" but are all these youtube videos and luthier faggots really setting up these guitars with the lowest possible action every time?

who the fuck do i believe

>>129962104
Can you hear the buzzes through the amp? If not who gives a fuck, practice instead of worrying about it

>>129962104
this general should have an advanced setup guide, but we're too busy shitposting

>>129962150
Trusting the retards here to not fuck up your guitar? lmfao

>>129962104
I bought a music nomad setup kit and have been happily doing my own setups for years with no issues and great results.

>>129962145
this is the general consensus on other sites from what i gather. apparently this shit just lives in peoples guitars and i guess because it doesn't translate through the amp or isn't as noticeable through recordings, it doesn't fucking matter. or is it that everyone on the internet followed some stoner fucking idiots idea of what it should be like and it just caught on sometime in the 60's/70's? it just doesn't feel right.

>>129962181
What the fuck are you even upset about retard? That it makes some small noise unplugged which is not how it's supposed to be used?

>>129962212
yes. did you need me to reiterate it in another way you might understand better?

>>129962155
I have a gibson and a kit lp. There were several measurements I had to reference from the finished instrument.

using gauge for relief is some weird shit. Get it perfectly straight, then if it buzzes on low frets you loosen it til it doesn't.

>>129959704
>bass guitar learning guitar
thats how i started out. im still a bass player at heart. its also why i gravitated towards larger scale guitars. a hour practice 3x a week is sufficient for significant improvement over your first year. breaks are fine, though. why do you think your losing interest? just too much grind?

>>129959606
their Chestnut burst is really nice

>>129962275
1 hour is hardly a grind. When I was a kid I'd play for like 6 hours a day. That's why I'm rich and famous.

Vibrations and rattles are lost energy and ultimately deplete your tone.

What's depleting tone is your dumbass sausage fingers dude

>>129962314
not really. buzz and rattle sounds cool if it's uniform. Jimmy Page, Joe Walsh, tons of the best guitar tones are shitty buzzy hyper low action
https://youtu.be/Fds_2qH9sBQ

Sausage fingers, sausage dick. And my tone is nice and thick.

sausage warming up

>>129962311
one hour when you arent enjoying yourself can be brutal
i just spent a hour today learning cky 96 quite bitter beings. played it over and over and now im up to 70 percent speed. didnt feel like a hour because i was enjoying myself

must be an earth rocker

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A jumped up pantry boy who doesn't know his place

https://youtu.be/rtqHJnH7-y4

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Why chu leave the keys upon the table

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IOPrY6NI6Cc

>>129962358
well just playing is fun. and playing is practicing. You never practiced speaking English, you never practiced walking, you just did it. Just play. get drunk and have it in your lap, watch anime, watch gokkun and just play

Guan michibi

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XcicOBS9mBU

>>129962426
it's nice to see the fender custom shop having a good time together

What is the ideal pickup selector switch tip shape and material?
Let's get to the bottom of this.

^^^ whybois be like ^^^

>>129962482
F

>>129962539
Bridge pickup only (humbucker)
One volume knob
Zero tone knobs
No switch needed

>>129962611
>t. Brian Setzer

ill be honest i almost exclusively use the bridge pickup on my single coil strat. i have embraced the noise. middle + bridge sounds odd to me and it doesnt palm mute right for big chunka chunka

>>129962740
Maybe the real reason you're avoiding the controls is the proximity of the volume knob to the strings?

https://voca.ro/1ndQ5fdyaJE3

>>129962740
stacked bucker, route for a full size, or add a dummy coil to reduce noise

If any Anon wants to know what a veneer top on a guitar sounds like, listen to this voca >>129962772

>>129962772
house show tone

Jam in A minor
https://voca.ro/19iO3W5GUoCj

>>129962788
its genuine alder with a thick coat of poly and several pieces copiously glued together.
the neck, however, is maple good ear.
https://voca.ro/1d6pJG2muR4v

and a little finger picking for those of you who forgot
https://voca.ro/17htGqlrvNTC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGSKrC7dGcY

i miss mountain

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMNYt3uaW2o

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give me a reason I shouldn’t buy a MIJ Pacifica Pro vs spending an extra $1K for a MIJ Ibanez AZ

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RIP

>>129963661
very sad. He brought a ton of energy to Bon Jovi.