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first for jazz
https://voca.ro/1jtr7YUwrt2Y

>>129981102
Kevin is alright with me.

>>129981102
They don't call him Mister Wonderful for nothing, he can outplay most of /gg/.

>>129981102
GIT GUD with GUITAR:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gg1L-sBIxnY&list=PLJwa8GA7pXCWAnIeTQyw_mvy1L7ryxxPH
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QCt3UBTS1Y

ABSOLUTELY UNDERSTAND GUITAR PDF: web.archive.org/web/20251212114818if_/https://files.catbox.moe/qafrab.pdf

https://youtu.be/ZdBky2R3dk0

I'm looking to get a looper pedal. Im assuming they're all pretty much the same?

>>129981133
Never liked his lessons he can't apply what he teaches.

>>129981156
just make sure it's midi capable so you don't need to replace it when you buy a drum machine or something in the future

Is it hard to make a guitar company? I don't want to build them, I just want to create new designs and sell them.

>>129981176
A good guitar company would be hard.
You could outsource some designs to some Temu builder..but that'll probably still require a hefty bit of capital. I'm sure they all have preset templates for usual shapes and you could just stamp whatever name you want on them. Much cheaper, but still would require a hefty bit of capital to start.
Secondly, if your guitar designs end up being remotely successful, then expect said Temu builder to steal your shit and start building it themselves..then undercut you with cheaper prices. This happens to a lot of people who made the mistake of dealing with China. Both big corps and smaller businesses. But it's the small businesses who can't compete with the undercutting and get crushed.
OTOH, I heard Ola has his Solar guitars built in Spain. Much smarter.

>>129981169
I already have one. I just need a way to control my bass loops when jamming with my friends. The ehx canyon looks good and cheap so I'm checking that out

>>129981176
That would be called a graphic design artist not a guitar company if you don't plan on building anything.
Yes there is a market for graphic designers but its niche and pretty competitive and now its filled with AI slop.

>>129981230
Ola Englund designs the guitars of his brand even though he personally doesn't build them, it is still his company

>>129981247
Hmm, semantics that I haven't really considered.
I'll think about it for awhile. First thought is Ola Englund has a following so any of his designs come with built in interest so any third party builder would be happy to complete the request.

>>129981282
I think he also had sig guitars before this, sponsored by someone.. Washburn or something. I forget. And an amp model by Randall or something. So built-in online fans + built-in potential customers of his gear already.

>>129981211
Only his "Made in Europe" tier is made in Spain and are only a handful of models. The rest are from Indonesia and Chine. I forgot which factory is from Indonesia but I'm sure is one of the better ones (Cort or PT Wildwood or both). He still owns the brand.

>>129981313
Indonesian guitars can be good some of their luthiers are great, its when they don't pass the savings off to you then it becomes a problem.
Indonesia probably has a larger guitar culture than the USA now in some sense.

You will never see a mature, adult man with good taste and self respect play a double cut guitar or anything with a brightly colored or sparkly finish.

Are you highschoolermaxxing or adulthoodpilled, /gg/?

>>129981366
>10 tops: for when you’re emotionally 10

>>129981313
Well, hopefully it's Indonesia. They're Muslim, and for better or worse, they have some semblance of ethics and probably better business practices.

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Volume pot is super scratchy and deoxit isn’t cleaning it out so I’ll replace it but with that being the only issue on a used guitar that’s no big deal at all. So far so good, feels like a Strat and sounds like a Strat. My go to guitar for over a decade was a roasted maple neck Strat with jumbo frets and its nice finally having another Strat but with specs more in line with what I like as I get older and my preferences change

>>129981418
give us a demo of the neck and bridge pickups

>>129981397
Ok Sneako

>>129981418
What year is that the tuning pegs look weird.

my cawk is hard rn

>>129981438
Wtf are you talking about.

>>129980969
I have mostly the same sentiment but my 2025 AVII was a piece of shit in ways that weren’t even fixable

>>129981464
Oh wait, I just remembered who he was.
No, I'm not a Muslim. I just said "for better or worse". There's definitely downsides to Islam, but they are still not inclined to the same behavior. I would rather do business with the morality police than a lawless shithole. Places like China and India are dog eat dog hellscapes and everyone and their mom is hustling and scamming.

>>129981418
cheap pots have a silk screened trace, eventually they will completely wear away. the good CTS pots have molded traces that are solid

https://youtu.be/ej95s3triFs

>just started using overdrive
Holy fuck that sounds good. How much is overdrive used in modern pop songs? I don't listen to pop but I'd like to know if they use overdrive or gay clean sounds

>>129981572
A lot of modern pop bands crank the distortion and call themselves "Modern Metal" bands.

>>129981587
I was talking about actual pop/pop-rock

>>129981572
distortion has been around for a long time and was known as tube saturation, it probably even goes further back to acoustic instruments in some capacity but I haven’t read anything on it.

>>129981608
when i think of overdrive in pop rock i think of this song
https://youtu.be/0XH3oMNKApI

Spent 2k for jazzmaster.

>>129981685
>jizzmaster

any guys here have experience with the cheapass pedals you get on amazon or that type of shit
i watched a video where the elder onions elemental at JHS worked with some dude's "affoardaboard" and really liked a flanger that was featured, I didnt have one and was gonna check it out, and was also furtively eying a NUX chorus i saw. i have like $50 to burn, anything else cool or funny

>>129981427
ok every pickup with every overdrive and fuzz pedal I have on
https://voca.ro/1bBRGqHldLJ9
>>129981442
1965 reissue so idk old boomer spec those old guys were crazy
>>129981499
Probably just old and used, it takes more time to take the guitar apart and put it back together than it does to actually replace the pot so I’m not worried about it. It’s 12 years and old and I knew it was used and scratchy pots are something that bug me anyway so replacing a pot is nothing
>>129981705
Just bought a $35 Chineseium modulation Amazon special pedal and it’s pretty ok for just getting weird borderline unusable noises out of it. Honesty just buy used beat up Boss pedals instead

>>129981726
god that tone is so /gg/ so squashed and boxy just need some ambient noise to really shit it up.

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>>129981572
Now build yourself a Harmonic Percolator.

https://voca.ro/1iZnPVD5yDm2

>>129981742
he’ll yeah
https://voca.ro/1lb6U8pAJjip
/gg/ vocas are all about phone mics and audio shitposting he will yeah brother

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>>129981705
>slime here
I bought a bunch of the JOYO brands just to fiddle with on guitar and bass. Most suck or feel too digital (reverb), but the only one that I didn’t sell back was the EQ and a basic looper (I’ve had BOSS loopers that works like a dream, but for $30 and small enough to fit in a gig bag, it’s good.
>pic rel for the EQ

After watching that “where does the tone come from?” series of videos, just dialing in EQ had me sounding like Dime, Fripp, Greg Ginn, and Jaco.

Same deal for distortion boxes, where I’d flip MOSFET and “Presence” when all it took was a nudge of midrange and voila, I can mimic a Misfits record.

The JOYO ebow sucks though

>>129981797
link to vids?

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>>129981366
>double cut guitar
Very wrong

>>129981901
Isn't he a schizo chud though?

https://voca.ro/118VnEHIZjfR

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>>129981102
hey guys ive been playing my new japanese 7/8 strat for a little while now and its legit so nice. a full two pounds lighter than a typical stratocaster and the shorter scale length isnt really that noticable despite having long fingers. japanese fenders are a really great value in general! not a blemish on the thing. the pickups are maybe a little anemic but im not a shredder anyway

man jared dines can play
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H76LUCBIUg

>>129982058
Spend less money on guitars and more money on a real watch.

https://voca.ro/16alLt7FOClx

>>129982058
Arent those 24.75 or is that different

>>129982083
sounds like shit good job

>>129981911
he’s proud of his heritage and has no problem getting laid

>>129980706
Neat thanks, Lord Umbasa bless you and keep posting dem vocas. I enjoy them even if I CBA with the captcha to give (you)s of appreciation.

>>129980979
Weird hotel.. any The Shining™ or Alyssa Lam experiences? Then I request stuff inspired by Stereolab - Instant Holograms On Metal Film their latest release. I like their stuff, something that does modal interchange modulates/moves but not one that is too electronic. Thanks

>>129981836
NTA but I presume these:
https://www.youtube.com/@JimLill/videos

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https://voca.ro/1hjvtRIGaMG2

Had a deep conversation with my drummer about who we want in our band and who we just wanna jam with. Finding someone who cares about music as much as I do has been so great for my confidence/motivation in my 2nd year of bass

>>129981797
>>129981836
>>129982136
>slime again yes aw lawdy
Yes, the Jim Lill vids. The most convincing one was the workbench guitar, the mic test, and building his own cabs. The entire music industry is pretty scummy and elitist so seeing them get taken down is nice.

However, this doesn’t apply to acoustic instruments as music. That’s most certainly where craftsmanship and precision come into play.

>>129982216
Now you'll never be able to talk to him again without thinking of frotting.

https://voca.ro/1OZA9MkHEHcN
How’s my toan?

>>129982326
We did say during this conversation that we are a gay couple. I'm not sure how you knew that though

Is this what they mean by wet and drippy
https://voca.ro/1bB3R474gemQ

slime listen to my voca

>>129982195
Hell yeah

>>129982077
thats a youtube thumbnail lol. i havent worn a watch in 20 years +
>>129982084
yep! so like a mustang or whatever

>>129981366
the exact opposite is the correct view, anon.
a person that wears the retarded newsboy hats and plays a semi-hollow with a bigsby because he loves jazz is the immature one.
the mature one buys his axe based on neck profile alone.

jazz sounds best on a Fender Stratocaster

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>>129982338
>How’s my toan?
improved greatly by pic related.

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>>129982552
>father slime witness me
Yes my child
Ok, which one:

>https://voca.ro/1OZA9MkHEHcN
Did you add a ring modulator?
> https://voca.ro/1bB3R474gemQ
Frog pedal?

> + C H A L L E N G E +
Try to get the Fripp tone and make it fuck three sisters at once:
https://youtu.be/EA-U5H4VoX8

https://youtu.be/a6BovzAgOJY?t=3560

Was gonna comment she was using a "measly" Harley Benton, turns out it was a Larry Carlton Sire which is relatively affordable as well.

>>129980911
looks nice, black '65 reissue-anon

>>129982708
Jazzmaster btfo

>>129982777
got btfo'd even harder when joe pass picked one up ages ago

>>129982952
picked up a jaguar, fuck my tired ass

jazz sucks nobody really listens to it except other jazz guys and they all suck each others cocks, learn a stupid ass jazz standard and fuck up your major scale and suddenly you're a genius apparently.

>>129982064
What do you call that tapping with the pick? Just tapping? How the hell do you make it sound so clean

>>129982963
are u a femboy

oh my ass is leaking(shit)

>>129982967
>nobody really listens to it
no shit i got no (You)s on my voca =(

>>129983040
>posting vocas for the (you)s
Cringe
>posting vocas for the shitposting and degradation of /gg/ regardless of who may or may not click on them
Based

>>129983104
i've just been practicing very hard and would like head pats

>>129983113
My eyes glaze over the first post of the thread from habit.
>>129981110
The chords need to be more airy pull the treble back on the rhythm and the mids back on the lead.

>>129983148
disregard that I'm sounding like slime now, its good good job

>>129983184
screenshots of youtube videos now this is the kinda posting I can get behind

https://www.myroneman.com/play/
this is kinda fun

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>>129983181
thanks mang

>>129983196
Jesus you have 17 posts already out if 90

>>129983310
i don't get it

>>129983339
you need an audio interface

18

>>129983338
Fuck me for posting on a website about posting amirite? I type 160 wpm and am working 4chan is up on my second monitor with the auto refresh clicked, you want to tango tuff guy?

yeah didn't think so, little porcine worm remember who runs this shit

I can shitpost half the thread while making trades and still play better than you.
https://voca.ro/17Q5XcDxHZfA

>>129983385
unironically

>>129983385
but anon there is no guitar in this voca

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>>129983421

Gonna put my new Strat’s body in the freezer then in front of my wood stove to force it to check and if it looks like ass I can strip it and paint it black or white

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>>129983181
Keep my name out of your mouth
>stick to trading, looshharvester

Here’s some guitar:
https://youtu.be/fhrSv9JUQg0

>>129983464
Baby girl you can't even post with your name because you'll get nuked from orbit.

now enjoy some chords i dont know the name of
https://voca.ro/1cBRGHr5Xq3O

>>129983452
Boil it in tea after like the chinese do with eggs and some pottery

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do you guys unplug your guitar cable from your interface after your done playing? i read you can do it 1k times before it goes bad. i feel kinda weird leaving it in there 24/7, afraid im gonna trip on it one day and rip it across the room. also im gay and trans and play a music man if that matters

>playing into chinese built interface through a web connected computer
have fun getting your riffs stolen

>>129981418
Exercise it before you replace it. Spend 5 or 10 minutes going back and forth.
Congrats on the new beauty guitar, Anon. Those AVRIs are indeed some of Fender's best.

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The pentatonics clicked, bros.

>>129983660
jokes on you 99% of my riffs aren't worth stealing
i do like the idea that a bunch of pakistanis are sitting in an office listening to /gg/ vocas just Incase there are good riffs hidden somewhere

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>>129983592
If you’re sticking it in 1,000 times and it goes bad, I’d say it had its run and other shit might go bad with it
>but muh $100 focusrite is part of my sound
>how would I ever fix this?

If you’re afraid you’re going to trip over it, your setup isn’t optimized for recording. If it’s a tripwire just unplug it.

>the slime used a shitty used $40 8-input mixer (pic rel) that leads to the “hardwired by Velcro” audio interface
This setup also featured a 3-button wireless remote that turned on and off wall plugs.
>button 1: regular computer + peripherals
>button 2: KRK speakers + sub + Xmas lights
>button 3: mixer + amp + music shit

Easy to remember and gets rid of that “damn, I dunno if the mixer should be on for a week” anxiety.

You’ll still trip over shit, but the mixer gives you a lot more control. Plus, it’s easy to go into WORK MODE or RECORD MODE without blurring shit.

>slime didn’t mean to be harsh many sorrows and many arthoes to you based on your musical prowess
dont let me down

>>129983592
I roll the cable and put it on the desk when I stop playing

>>129983731
my gen 1 focusrite 18i20 has been left on for like 3 years straight except once when i went on holiday. the only issue i had was the tip of a cable popped off inside the channel 1 socket.
10 minutes and a screwdriver to pop it back out and good as new.

anons will try and tell you that you NEED x y or z but if all you're doing is getting your guitar signal into your pc it doesn't matter all that much.

once you wanna hook up mics and record amps etc, you might consider something fancier for some nice preamps but if you don't know why you would want that, it won't be the limiting factor in you sounding good anyway

>>129983040
Your Autumn Leaves? It was nice. To be fair some anon here said he posted a clip of one renowned classical guitarist and it didn't get a (you), go figure kek.

>>129983310
Super compressed makes it feel easy and good but the latency of playing it live through in the browser is horrible. Fun track though. Is it possible to download just the backing track?
A phone micd shitposter inspired shitpost: https://vocaroo.com/1lX9az8lBD7f

>>129983660
I only use a native TempleOS outside of shitposting.

>>129983758
in a pinch, the rocksmith usb cable even works as a guitar interface. it isn't pretty but asio drivers get rid of latency and you can toss it in a backpack no worries. i wouldn't use it for serious recording but for practicing or demoing its fine

why does my 2i2 make noise? its only 3 months old and i can rotate the cable in the combo jack and i either get sound (perfect) or lower sound with some noise or no sound. i told myself i wasnt gonna go scarlet again but i ended up doing. should i get some contact cleaner or something?

>>129983777
cable tip, busted cable or the contacts inside the interface if it got moisture in there.

check with another cable first to rule out the cable being old and beat up.
the surface on the cable tips wear out over time, might stop making good contact, or the solder inside the cable end might have come loose, pretty common but easy to fix if you have a soldering iron, it's just 2 connections.

but yeah if you have some contact cleaner, get it on the tip and ram it in and out a bunch, spin it, whatever, might work

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>>129983731
>>129983731
some other faggot here, if you are going to buy a behringer mixer / audio interface, stay away from the cheap ones, the X32 rack for example can be had for like 500 bucks used i believe, since the WING is out now, its 32 chans in and 32 out direct to your pc and its supported on linux, also it isnt noisy.

you can even smack that shit directly into reaper on linux

>>129983760
/gg/ has a knack for spotting authenticity, take your fancy city boy playing somewhere else

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>>129983758
>on holiday
>no Queens English used
u wot m8?

I’ve had a couple of electronics-based fires, so I’m wary of leaving stuff on for the sake of convenience.
>the slime’s last shithole house still had knobtube in a regularly-flooded basement
yeah I’m waiting for my lawyer to get back to me. Total damages are $15k + pain and suffering
>sometimes the slime cries

>” anons will try and tell you that you NEED x y or z but if all you're doing is getting your guitar signal into your pc it doesn't matter all that much”
u rite. I just offer what worked for me so I didn’t have the feeling of a patch cord between my feet and the carpet. I mean, you could literally use a headphone jack if you didn’t have an interface, but there’s reasons goddamnit

For me, I just enjoy the ability to have an external effects loop on the mixer; it was a cheap upgrade and it allowed me to leave everything plugged in (a guitar, SM-57, condenser mic, and one wildcard cable for whatevs).

>when slime wins his settlement, his house will have a tracking room next to the nude photography room + instrument storage

>>129983808
>looks good
thanks for rec. part of my ignorance is just being cheap, so I always equate digital interfaces with being one headstock smack away from being trashed. It’s also nice to have faders and I’ve mixed live sound on a dinky mixer back when I did college radio live music. Being able to yank a cord rather than digging around with that many channels when something goes wrong just eases my mind…

>>129982338
Bitcrusher? Though sometimes I get those weird artifacts unintentionally on Reaper when it's tabbed out.
Nice chords made me wank on it
https://voca.ro/14YvllSGM6iC

>>129983817
Thanks man. I thought it was soulful and authentic™ enough having lots of flubs and missed target bends

https://youtu.be/QhM6yLPsn2U

>>129983808
a bunch of bands i know picked up the rack X32's to run their own in-ear setups on stage. i've only heard good things.
the soundcraft UI mixers do a good job too if you can find a used one for a reasonable price

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>>129983862
yeah you can also control it with an app for all your faders or x-32 mixer program

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>>129983896

>>129983905
no u cant

>>129983592
My Digitech drop stays permanently plugged into it and I just plug the guitar into that, I only use the interface input for Rocksmith 2014

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my amp is simple and doesn't require $300 of new tubes every 6 months feelsgoodman

>>129984017
>Amp Knob
When did you get your own signature amp?

>>129984017
>every 6 months
User error but yes tubes are retarded in a post-1960s world.

>>129984030
he's right anon, even my valvestate only takes 200 worth of new tubes and only once a year. my amp tech keeps her purring

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>>129984020
>mfw when

https://voca.ro/16B9EKCeiHq5

>>129984068
over the hills is a lotta fun to play
the timing is the tough bit

>>129984093
https://voca.ro/1mUwO2qKRZvv

>>129980591
@evertune ni/gg/a just a different strum pattern for the B Major thing merged in one file. 3 parts -
just the loop, clean wank, then a plain jane arpeggio + distorted wank
https://voca.ro/14HAA3qOYvwc

>>129982083
Loaded up an EJ preset and tried as well, but not quite EJ. That pedal lick is so hard to do cleanly
https://voca.ro/1jU1nuOLfOzd

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Can speed be developed using forearm rotation?

>>129984030
nothing breaks up like tubes

>>129984387
this. you can mess around with sims and modelers for a while but the tone you were looking for all along was tubes

I’m finally doing it man. I wanted to learn guitar my whole life, I tried multiple times, age 9, age 16, age 22, finally got it to stick somewhat at age 27 and now at age 30 I just practiced for like 5 hours today. Dreams really do come true

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Do high mass bridges make a difference or is it another boomer snake oil

>>129984490
snake oil, but it should be said that all fender bridges are dog shit and should be replaced

My technique starts to fall apart at 120 bpm. Is that a problem?

>>129984602
only if play songs that are 120 bpm or faster

>>129984602
Try a 2 mm pick

>>129984490
>>129984592
I've never found a reason to complain about a bass bridge ever.
It's hard to screw basses up, no matter what's on them. Short of neck warping.

>>129984791
bass vibrates too much, the fender grub screws back out over time. also they lose their height adjustments during string change just not a good design for anything other than being cheap

>>129984891
IMO basses benefit more from having a string through bridge, it's weird how it's uncommon on bass but is standard on fender style guitars

>>129984932
the squier telecaster bass used to have it, then they went for a hardtail/top-load thing

>>129983886
Nah just a cheap Chinese modulation pedal with a bunch of weird sounds

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Made a list of stuff to ask my teacher today

I now realize I'm dyslexic after reading my note again

>>129984932
yeah I feel like it makes the strings have more tension and makes the low notes more punchy. Is 4chan shitting itself for anyone else?

>>129984490
Bridge is one of the few tone-things that has a measurable and reproducible effect on tone. Even tailpiece changes on les pauls consistently do something. Even on bass, changing the bridge does something.

You don’t need it but maybe you will like your bass more without needing the additional EQ steps

The others are the fretboard woods hardness, the nut, the fret wire and the strings.
These facts might hurt some poorfags feelings because they already told themselves the stuff they cant afford doesnt do anything

>>129985074
different necks have different dead and live spots and people attribute these to sustain or openness created by the body wood and neck attachment method and other bs
>its set neck so the tone channels in the wood grain are linked by glue!
>maybe the paint is improving sustain by letting the wood breathe
nope its literally always the neck

done posts tone myths as fact unless you’re going to provide empirical data. we’ve been over this a hundred times

i dont care about none of that crap i just play my guitar and adjust bass mids and treble on my amp until it sounds good with my tone knob rolled off to around 8 so i have room to go up in tone if needed

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This is the symbol you need for Good Cain. Its a Dragon~

قايين الأبيض (no Red)

You like electric? Never had a good electric guitar

Help

oops (forget second post *

>>129985138
>>129985166
>These facts might hurt some poorfags feelings because they already told themselves the stuff they cant afford doesnt do anything
how tf cant you afford knock off bridges that just have to be shaped right and made of the right metal? are you brazilian?
go watch some johann segeborn videos if you need reminding that different guitar parts sound different

i only accept peer-reviewed and quantified data

I only accept facts and data that appears to me in my dreams

Well, thoughts on Vintera III?

>>129985506
vintera line never offered enough to justify the price tag imo. same quality as the indo standard

Week 2 of playing guitar, think I'm going to drop it for good. I just have zero desire to pick it up, and will be going back to my bass. Just because I like listening to certain music does not mean I want to play it, it turns out.

>>129984051
you strike me as more of a TransTube kind of guy

>>129985506
They’re fine guitars but for the money you can buy thing: Japan and have a better guitar, or wait for a good deal on an old US made vintage reissue and have a much better guitar. The Vintera series would be really cool if they were all under a grand. At their price point they are directly competing with Fender Japan and for that money I’d much rather have a Fender Japan model with their higher QC.

>>129984030
Tubes sound better
>uhhh not in the mix after being recorded and thats all that matters! NOT MIC’D AT A BIG GIG AND THATS ALL THAT MATTERS (AND THINK OF THE POOR SOUND GUY!) ROOM TONE DOESNT MATTER!
Sorry, guitar is a musical instrument first and “just” a piece of equipment for studio production second.

Tubes sound better.

t. Wasted two fucking thousand dollars and ultimately lost a few hundred on resale trying to make a kemper and various arrangements of power amps, cabs, and powered FRFRs sound better than a boss katana

A $500 chinese made el34 powered head and a budget non-undersized cab will stomp all over that shit for in person sound
Leave the “professional tool” attitude in its appropriate professional environment.

The tube vs nottube debate shouldn’t even exist. Tubes are for sounding better direct to human ears. Nottubes are for being more convenient for making crappy rock music noises through a PA for drunk people.

>>129985506
all fenders are the same. you’re just paying for the exact paint color you want, body contour, and static hardware specs like bridge and pickup routing and mounting hole positions imho.

mij, mia, mim, mii, mic qc myths are just that. there is nothing about the japanese that makes them better at making guitars. all of my worst guitars have been japanese. all fmic products leave the assembly line slightly subpar and often require some luthier finishing if you have high standards (frets and nut) regardless.

amp sims seem like way more fuss than just plugging shit in to the right places

JP, US, and MX Fender guitars are all the same overpriced shit. No fender, new or used should be more than 1k max. Fuck Fender.

do gibson next

I've been itching for a starcaster as of late

>>129985904
>promises you toanwood
>7/10 guitars acoustically dead
>paint on the binding up the neck, chips in the binding down the neck
>body binding alternates between scraped too high and too low
>bridge drilled wrong, saddles bottomed out to intonate
>neck set too steeply
>tailpiece trying to escape into the stratosphere
>brand new guitars switch is corroded already, one pickup sometimes works
>first two frets play sharp
>d string pings
>headstock breaks when you hit a pothole on the way back to return it
>warranty dept says you need to detune before traveling
>a gibson is only good enough

>>129985929
some would consider all that authentic

>>129985929
boomers blown the frik out

shoutout to the real ones keeping the thread alive while capcha services are shitting themselves

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>>129984602
Listen to this advice (>>129984660)

Once you start getting into 120 BPM 16th notes, the friction of the pick either has to be paper thin (John MacLaughlin) or super stubby (Shawn Lane).

My picking made leaps and bounds as soon as I gave a stubby 2mm with a rounded edge with 9’s. For thicker strings (11s), I used a very thin pick and had to compensate a lot with amp volume.

Super stubby also made economy picking + sweeping make sense. I could switch styles from digging in riffing to technical passages, where I’d almost follow my fretting hand’s direction rather than dealing with synchronization errors and “brute forcing” through strings. When it came time to go back to riff mode, I just eased up on choking on the pick (unless I need some pinch harmonics)

It’ll take some slime to get it all going, but you’ll feel that breakthrough past 120bpm and then speed mostly seems irrelevant. The only thing left to do is shawnlanemaxx with diabetes and still not be able to afford healthcare
>he was a genius with an eidetic memory
he was defeated by donuts.
Cause of death: irresistibly delicious fried dough
>french crullers, the silent killer
Maybe you should shred some salad every now and then

Let’s recap:
>do or donut, there is no fry

>>129983760
whats the filter effect you're using sounds like prince, is that just a phaser

>>129986417
yeah its a fuck off retard lmao

>>129986776
nothing you say could ever affect me you are nothing you are dirt beneath my boot you disgust me

>>129986829
*slaps your ass*
what now tough guy

Oh good more schizoposting.

Oh good, more schizoposting!

man what a shit show this guitar has been.

40th anniversary squier telecaster vintage edition:
>"vintage spec" means the all the measurements are a mish mash of metric and imperial, no replacement pieces quite fit the right way
>pickups were trash out of the box, replaced them with wilde bill lawrence microcoils
>sounds fantastic now, but bridge plate pickup mounting spot is too fucking narrow because indonausea measurements and "Vintage spec" caused a fucking issue, whole bridge plate had to be replaced so the pickup wouldn't short out
>fender bridge mounting holes are slightly off but the string holes lined up, got the screws in as good as they'll go without damaging anything and called it a fucking day
>replaced saddles to compensated ones because the weathered vintage ones sucked ass out the gate
>control plate fits full size pots, but is not standard fender distance between knobs, had to buy a replacement
>all replacements mounting hole screws are off, so either i fill and redrill or grind out the old one
>say fuck it and make a 3d model of one with the perfect measurements instead, will eventually use it as a template to grind the pots out to the proper distance
>replaced weathered knobs because old ones no longer matched fucking anything

all this fucking work for a 300 dollar instrument lmao, but fuck it it's as perfect as its gonna get now.

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>>129986936
fug, forgot pic

>>129986944
I kind of like all of that matte... even the metal is matte. You're saying it didn't come that way?

>>129986936
sorry bro vintage spec just means it has a shitty neck radius, the truss rod is in a bad location, and it has a terrible bridge. it’s still gonna use chinese “too small” pots. idk what you expected

So learning and improving at guitar is supposed to feel incremental right?

>>129986959
pickguard is anodized aluminum, so has a sort of brushed matte finish. 3d printed control plate i used a textured plate to get that look, thought it matched up really well. then the bridge is smooth chrome on the top and then has a textured brush to the part underneath the pickup. i think it came together really well only thing kinda iffy is that the plate is plastic essentially, so i dunno what kind of shielding/grounding it no longer has. i'll worry about that later, sounds great for now.
>>129986966
pots were full size cts, the plate just had 60.2mm spacing, and i needed 63. also neck radius is 9.5, and it's roasted maple, and i found that incredibly rare for an instrument so affordable. checked a lot of boxes from the jump, and i went into it knowing i'd be upgrading some things to make it my own. i think i did a fair job all things considered.

>>129987099
Sure. But every increment is supposed to feel great. Whether you're an old theoryfag or some kid who just learned a Sabbath riff.

>>129987099
what i find difficult about music theory is it's not linear. every concept is dependent on every other concept. it's incremental in that you learn one thing at a time, but understanding often feels out of reach. you've gotta value those times when things click and your understanding levels up

>>129987131
the older i get, the easier i feel like concepts like music theory are to learn, it's memorization that becomes harder for me. i feel like i have to hammer locations and connections more, but the concept itself no longer feels out of reach.
i guess it's good to know that you can hammer in certain things at any time of your life, and that certain things become easier to understand at certain points.

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UPDATE THE FUCKING TRACKING REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>like how my strat feels on my body so much more than my Les Paul that I barely play it now
>get the autistic feeling to sell the LP and buy a HH hardtail strat from Charvel
Bros...

>>129987248
Delayed by at least one day

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>>129987284
I'm NGMI bros...

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.

Toggle or Blade switch? Which do you prefer assuming they're both the same amount of settings (eg. 3 way toggle vs 3 way blade)

>>129986936
>>129986944
how about... don't buy a guitar and immediately try to replace every fucking working component like a god damn retard?

works ok on a $65 kit

Hey guys, I have a valeton gp5 and I'm thinking of getting another multi effect pedal for the fx loop for mods/reverb/delay. I'm thinking about the zoom ms50, maybe a zoom ms70cdr. Anything else sub 100 I should look out for?

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>>129987355
>fendertards when they have to play their guitar instead of play with their guitar

>>129987355
how about you suck a lemon and practice playing your instrument

>>129987355
what's wrong with buying a guitar that you like the look of and decking it out with the shit you actually like? it's not a foreign concept at all.

>>129987404
It's stupid and there's nothing wrong with the pickups/hardware that come on a CV squier. "shit you actually like" you mean you like giving your money away to scam companies that sell 5 dollars worth of magnets and wires for 200 dollars

>>129987429
it wasn't a classic vintage squier though. you were reading earlier right? the 40th anniversary telecaster "vintage" edition is notorious for a shit ass neck pickup. it's partly why it was so affordable at launch. i know the regular CV squier pups are already great. they just didn't look how i wanted them to, didn't have the type of neck i wanted, and also were the same price as this particular model + pups i actually liked. now i have an even better equipped guitar than the CV squiers. for the same price. and i learned a whole lot about how my instrument works and how to fix things in the process! learning is fun.

so tl;dr: you're a fagget go practice and stop seething

>burned ring finger fat pad on grill on fretting hand
>big 'ol blister
:'(

thingken bout putting 12s on my strat and detuning to B standard

>>129987449
>the 40th anniversary telecaster "vintage" edition i
it's just a dolled up classic vibe. same neck, same pickups, same hardware but with some cosmetic differences like binding and a (cheaper) matte finish

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Currently practicing, getting even better (I was already really good to start with)
>b-but the pickups on your guitar are no name factory pickups
Oh, I don't care. That's just the character of the instrument. They do their job, they convert the vibration of my strings to an electrical signal. That's all I need. I can adjust the EQ of the amp if I want to tweak the sound of the instrument.

You don't play.

instead of quitting guitar I just took up some classical guitar courses. I’ll do it on my dreadnought until I go out and buy a cheap classical I guess. I hate playing with a pick which I guess is no surprise coming from bass but fingerstyle is fun so I’ll give this the good ole college try before I quit

>>129987488
>it's just a dolled up classic vibe.
it's not, i promise you. if it were, it wouldn't have sold at 299 on launch over the cv's at 450-500. the specs are completely different. electronics and neck are completely separate offerings. they gave it shit electronics because it was supposed to be a collectors item, but neck makes it fantastic to play on.

i literally bought it for the matte finish and the roasted maple neck. shit looks so nice.

>>129987281
I dont see why it needs to be charvel specifically but go for it bro

>>129987515
[x] ponytail
[x] long fingernails
[x] tucked in collared shirt
[ ] nylon string guitar
you're almost there

>>129987525
kek im actually going to be playing without nails. wish me luck

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>>129987529
>playing without nails
As God intended.

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old Strat looks pretty good paired with the new Strat

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>>129987540
nice. I hope those are mounted in studs

I actually have taken to growing out my right hand nails out a bit. Not a classical player but doing some travis picking stuff and hybrid country stuff. I'm still very much a pick user but I make it a point to pick up my acoustic sans pick and fuck around a few times a day.

>>129987529
good

>>129987485
I like to play in drop R

>>129987584
Put it in H!

>>129987485
Get a baritone

>>129987550
Absolutely they are, plus I ditched the wimpy little like 2” screws they all came with for big and beefy 4” deck screws

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>he only has a 4" deck

>>129987550
you mean I cant screw them into the wall?

>>129987611
why would I do that when I already have a strat

>>129987627
SEXO

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>>129985929
>>129986944
>؞absolute amateur hour

At least the pickups are you're saving grace everything else is all over the place, back to the drawing board, Monica

>>129987540
>black rusty screws and pole pieces

>>129987718
If your pole pieces aren't rusted you don't fucking play guitar. KYS.

Remember Death Grips?

>>129987718
that's a reflection, he's black

>>129987694
what's all over the place about it?

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To answer myself from a couple threads ago it turns out Sadowsky does make PJ basses with a J body, just gotta shell out like 1.5k for one

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>>129987464
Damn. RIP full chords for a week.
You should get an aloe plant, my guy.

gg benson status?

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>>129987777

>>129987777
I can still do chords as I use more of the fingertip for that
it's more off to the side of the tip where you dig in for bends, unfortunately

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I'm having trouble finding good NAMs or IRs to make my quacky-ass Martin piezo sound like a real guitar...
Anyone know any good ones?

>>129987782
preamp set to be delivered saturday

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>>129987790
Get well soon, Anon.

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>>129987464
>>129987790
Careful with hot fucking objects all of you anons. Even Steve Vai stopped touring for like 6-9 months because he burned his arm cooking a pizza.

>>129987464
One time I slammed the middle finger of my fretting hand in a car door, and had a guitar competition in 4 days. I had wanted to win the first place prize, which was a new MIA strat and Deluxe Reverb. I still played the competition without being able to use my fretting finger middle hand and won nothing lol

>>129987855
You wouldn't have won shit anyways because the judges are all boomers looking for le sovlfvl bends and not actual technical skill or interesting composition.

>>129987808
nope, only thing I've heard is that lr baggs AI pedal

There was a guy here a few years ago who kept bragposting a 4000 dollar contest/sweepstakes guitar that he had and everyone just made fun of him, who was that and what kind of guitar was it?

>>129987865
>technical skill or interesting composition.
Yeah thanks for assuming I'm capable of these though lmao. You're right though, it turned out to be very cliquey and the winner was a family friend of the music store that sponsored the competition and donated the prizes.

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>>129987629
if you put them in drywall I’d get real anchors
>>129987771
seems like a good price for a Sadowsky

>>129987808
kekking @ that schizo scribble pickguard
can't believe they have the audacity to charge $300k for these abominations

>>129984122
I can't ever remember how it actually goes I haven't listened to the song in like a decade so I just wank around.

new captcha slows down the trash ahh vocaroos at least

>>129987894
I remember seeing the post but I can't remember any specifics
I want to say it was megadeth related

>>129987948
lol no it doesn't you underestimate my patience I just haven't eaten yet the long captcha just gives me time to really beef up each post with a proper payload of dookie.
here i pulled an old one out of my poop folder.
https://voca.ro/15SjHPhAbHK6

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>>129987948
i have a pass

>>129987909
Depends on what series, the metro express line is chink made and is under 1k brand new

>>129987956
thank you for your service

>>129987950
>I want to say it was megadeth related
yes this rings a bell. Megadeth or some similar rock band, like a Dave Mustaine signature model of some sort and he was trying to pass it off like it was actually Dave Mustaine's personal guitar

>>129985506
I like them very much. The colours and features are mostly all suited to my taste, perfectly. If they have decent--> QC, then they fit right in the sweet spot for a more or less vintage spec guitar.
>>129985572
Fender Japan has a range from high to low QC, just like anywhere. Their top-of-the line stuff is well over a grand. Plus, a guitar made in a dry place like Mexico or southern California settles in better where I live than a guitar built in a humid place like Japan.

Thinking about getting a honeytone or something similiar to harass the general public, all the tests for them though the mic is right next to it are these little portable amps at least louder than someone can yell?

>muh japan fenders are better built
some bullshit based off a 1-2 year span in the early 80's when Fender "new coke'd" the stratocaster and Japan built them the classic way. That changed real fast and it's simply not true. MIM, CIJ, MIA, it's all the same shit with USA being number one and real and the rest of them being officially licensed counterfeits so Fender can make some money off of copies

>>129988115
The wood is seasoned a 1000 times.

>>129988097
honeytone is legitimately loud, will blow the fuck out of the loudest acoustic guitar but it DOES sound ugly and is pure midrange honk. You are an effects fag and there is nothing to hide behind with a honeytone, it's a zero headroom migraine inducing annoyance machine. ridiculous fuzzy distortion built in but all you need to do is turn the volume up and the 2.5 inch speaker distorts by itself

>>129987344
blade

>>129988132
>i'm an effects fag
excuse me?
>>129984110

The shittier tone the better I'm looking for volume, ordered and shipped 2 days, might give a voca demo when it gets here.

>>129988097
pure buzz box shit

>>129988155
go ahead and order some 9 volt batteries too, the dano one it ships with is not powerful enough to actually run the honeytone (not even joking, bing it)

>>129987512
I play the clitoris.

how can the tone not be sweet? it says honey right on the box

has anyone tried the blackstar st.james 6l6, I'm probably going to live in the clean channel forever

I'm actually offended for the first time on this board, an effects fag, fuck you ni/gg/a I barely even use reverb. I'm irked now or at least irked adjacent and bro I'm straight up not havin' a good time.
https://voca.ro/13mwwG3nItd4

I think I might get a pedalboard just for modulation

Which artist?

https://voca.ro/1a414eMf7sHk

Me?

I actually legit play a honeytone all the time it's the best amp on the market
https://voca.ro/1g9LU7XHSPpw

284th post

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Is there anything better than a P90 into hot tubes?

>>129988283
Other than Telecaster bridge into hot tubes?

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Our boy did a Gretsch video.

I was watching some live Who videos and my 9 year old nephew said the guitar player looks like Squidward because his nose is so big, lmao even in the year of our lord 2026 kids make fun of Pete’s huge sniffer

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What one pedal would you add to a simple studio acoustic board?

>>129988325
k

>>129988354
eq

>>129988354
one of the lr baggs preamps

>>129988370
my nigga do you not see the jhs colour box right there, it's parametric eq that comes with a preamp

Don't ask me questions you're not prepared to know the answers to.

>>129988208
sounds pretty gud chief

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Are we in the golden age of guitar aficionados?

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>>129988399
yes

Watt is a yapper not enough playing

>>129988354
a landmine that blows your pedalfag ass to valhalla when you step on it

>>129988385
n-no.
>>129988386
>t. on insane mode

>>129988425
good fucking suggestion

jpj carried lz, damn

>>129988425
I might try this one, makes for a good stage gimmick

>>129988446
*Ol' Jigaboo Johnson

>>129988446
https://youtu.be/lSFRHuk_ovU

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wow sure does take a long time to get my captcha. going back to mylespaul dot com

https://voca.ro/1i5fvpeZQpa4

>>129988492
Who the hell is Myles Paul?

>>129988530
les pauls brother

https://voca.ro/1aeBqBKQisBa

Finally the forum is finally acting like it really is, shitty and archaic just like i like it reminds me of shitty dialup days when you'd watch pictures load one line at a time. Luckily I'm wicked smart and know how to deal with jankness.
https://voca.ro/14wxAgocx9ZW