For the Australian user who wanted the Gibson Tribute Honeyburst, if you can confirm the product ID is LPTR17FHNH1 I've found one for you in the country for sale new right now.
Angel Thompson
Anyone got any experience with Blackstar amps? They seem like a good option considering their relatively modest price, but heard some really bad things about their reliability.
Eli Ortiz
>shilling gibson this hard Go home
Gabriel Reed
Like Gibson needs shills on this shitty board. You can never even afford a real one
Brody Barnes
whoah these actually look pretty nice. At least they're somewhat filling the grain now..
Brandon Cook
Epiphone fags check in. Post what you got and/or what you want.
>Hide Gibson Posts >Ignore Gibson Posters >Do Not Reply to Gibson Posters
Ayden James
Epiphone is literally shit
Isaac Ortiz
>none of my friends play Sit them down and force them to strum
Nicholas Bennett
What kind of guitar is this?
Carson Phillips
Here you can hear me playing a Costom Fender Strat: youtube.com/watch?v=daaNiQqnP4Y This Song All People can cross the Border Part II is on the Album Azoth
Anthony Campbell
Someone asked about the Tribute Honeyburst a day or two ago. I have contacts at this countries distributors. I said I'd find out when they were being released or if one was in the country they could try/buy.
Sorry that I'm being helpful.
They're saving money by doing matte finishes only on the Tribute models apparently.
Jose Rodriguez
this is a joke right?
Jack Howard
that's a Gibson Les Paul
Tyler Allen
>love the steel lap weeping slide sound >decent models are $300 minimum >would never actually get to use it properly
it's actually disgusting how you can sound just like the pros if you plug in a few pedals and mash out a scale
Juan Roberts
I'm building one, got some parts arriving this week. georgeboards.com do these peel and stick fretboard markers, I've got an old Tele pickup and bridge and some tuners. Ordered a length of Burmese teak salvaged from a ship that was torpedoed bya German U-boat in 1917.
>not having your toanwoods torpedoed 100 years ago >get on my level
Jeremiah Collins
pros play like 60 gigs a year minimum and can't make mistakes. bit of a diffference
Luis Brooks
except when you make a mistake it's masked by the distortion..
Camden James
>"pros" only play with distortion >having enough distortion to lose your clarity in the first place
Cooper Edwards
An electric guitar
Kevin Miller
how often do you reckon that actually happens though?
if you're touring in a popular band with decades of practice you really shouldn't be fucking up ever
Lincoln White
Hi! Have a picture of my guitar from Tokyo! It's new and for sale if anyone is interested.
Gavin James
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Joseph Morris
Damn. From the first pic I thought this was some kind of fretless six-string.
Dominic Evans
Why should I get a six-string guitar with fanned frets?
It's comfortable, or so people say. Or if you want to tune to NST, it might feel less awkward.
Christian Miller
Sorry for the confusion!
Jose Edwards
This is maximum comfy indeed.
Kevin Bell
Bands are a thing that used to happen. It isn't something you can do anymore unless you're extremely dedicated and diligent.
Trying to start a band in 2017 is almost impossible.
All the big rock bands of previous decades came from a time before smartphones, gaming, widespread internet access and social media.
Back then, if you were bored and there was nothing on TV, you had to actually get off your ass and do something. Whether that was practicing guitar by yourself or starting a band with friends.
There's no time now. There's no mental space. It is all taken up by technology and lazy, coddled gen Y culture.
The average 14-16 year old today is simply not going to have the attention span, discipline and patience to pick up a guitar and go through the frustrating trial and error of learning play it, not when the which and easy dopamine reward of PlayStation and Facebook is at his finger tips.
That's just one individual, let alone getting 3-5 of them in a room together to practice even ONCE per week. The amount of work and practice it takes for a band to find their sound and build a good repertoire is something the youth of our generation don't have the hunger and drive to do. Can you imagine Aerosmith if they all brought their iPhones to band practice? They would have never got off the ground.
Combine this with the deliberate merging of mainstream pop culture with rap culture and it's almost impossible to find other young people in this generation willing to start a band. People simply did not grow up with guitar music and songwriting like in previous decades. In the 70s, even the bubblegum pop and urban black music was made with guitars, bass and drums. Now it's all about beats and lyrics and autotune.
On top of that, there just aren't as many venues or music scenes as there used to be. Bands used to gig several times a week at different venues, even in small cities. Now it's common for bands to gig once every 3 months.
I hate my generation.
Liam Reyes
>NST
KYS
Connor King
Bullshit, back then they wasted their time just as much in cinemas, arcades, with books, records or just doing stupid shit. The average 14-16 year old has never had the attention span to excel at anything. If anything it's easier to start a band due to the increased amount of people you can connect with and the ease with which that is possible. No longer do you need to move to a large city or spend dozens of bucks a month to travel to people you may or may not like just because you heard from the friend of a friend that his cousin's bull is looking for a guitar player; you can simply join some facebook groups or forums or whatever, chat, skype and jam all from the comfort of your room. Becoming successful is just as hard as it was back then. It's easier to contact the right people, but like you said there are fewer venues and more competition.
Jaxson King
TL;DR, you're full of shit. People haven't changed. The scene has, but that has made life easier rather than harder.
James Gomez
Are either of you currently in bands? If not, have you been?
If so, how often did your band practice and for how long?
Landon Green
most bands met at school, specific music based college or university courses.
that's where all the passionate and hence good musicians are, of course you'll struggle meeting randoms on local internet ads
Christian Anderson
>It isn't something you can do anymore unless you're extremely dedicated and diligent. It's a pretty laughable statement when the two other people I know in bands are a drunkard and a lazy hippie. And they're both rehearsing consistantly and getting gigs.
delet this
Nolan Bennett
No, because I have a real job and playing the guitar is a hobby for me. I used to play regularly with other people as a teenager. You're missing the point though. The _average_ teenager has never been ambitious enough to become a successful rock legend.
Carter Robinson
>when the indonesia in company knockoffs are better than the actual product and cost half as much money
how embarrassing
people buying Gibsons over G&L and ESP have always confused me
At the very least if you have to have American you could buy a Heritage
Ian Thompson
really? I spent my entire teenage years wanting to be a rock star. comes part and parcel of playing an instrument surely
Colton Ward
Did you become a school bus driver after giving up on your dreams
Zachary Williams
Wanting to be one doesn't mean you have the attention span or dedication.
Benjamin Harris
I played the fuck out of a knock off strat and nylon string for nearly a decade because I loved playing
don't get why someone would want to be a music star without enjoying actually performing
Evan Gray
Am I the only one who is bothered by the placement of this fucking knob? It's in the way of my pinky when I mute with the right hand, or when I move my hand down for fast alternate picking on the high strings.
Charles Ross
>blue body >rosewood neck
vomit
Cooper Davis
hey could somebody please post the pics of that guy's les paul custom shop that was like dark ocean blue with yellow and red trim, and had gold hardware? the really fucking ugly one that the guy tried to show off a few times
Evan Hernandez
I concur. Got a similarly irritating knob on my Ibanez RG.
Bentley Taylor
>don't get why someone would want to be a music star without enjoying actually performing How did you get the idea I implied that? Here, some basic boolean algebra: (A implies B) implies (B implies A) = False
Basically: If you want to be a rock star, it takes dedication and enjoyment. You can enjoy playing, but without dedication you won't be a rock star.
Xavier Robinson
did he seriously not talk about his signature flanger at all?
Jonathan Perry
He had other signature pedals in the past that he didn't talk about either. The Fuzz Universe barely got a side note. The flanger was made in like 2008 if I remember correctly to replace the ADA flanger he modified. I actually bought the AF-2 and the nigger broke for the second time now thta it's out of warranty. REEEEE
Adam Foster
No, people complain about regularly, and I'll say what I always do, make the adjustment.
Sebastian Perez
Adjustment as in "deal with it" or "rip it out and drill a hole somewhere that's not in the way"?
Christopher Myers
damn i thought that ibanez flanger was one of the best out there >takeoff mode
i really want that big ass fulltone he used on technical difficulties and get out of my yard. his tone on those slays
Samuel Rodriguez
you can change the pot so it's push/pull
push/pull for on/off twisty for volumey
Robert Mitchell
Oh it sounds pretty great, especially if you lack a whammy (though you are still limited compared to an actual bar), just my specific one seems to be unreliable as fuck. I didn't even treat it bad, mostly sat in my room, put it in a cushioned box when travelling, used a regulated PSU... I should get it fixed.
Connor Moore
The variant is the centipede.
I don't have the pix you're thinking of, but there's plenty on GIS
Cooper Johnson
You're not gonna like this but here it is, move your hand two inches, problem solved.
Isaac Parker
How would that fix the knob being in an annoying place?
Dylan Fisher
Up or left? If I move it up it fucks with my picking, if I move it left I can't mute and the strings feel janglier which makes fast alternate picking harder.
Gavin Lewis
it wouldn't, but it stops you accidently turning the volume down which is what I assumed your problem was.
Been playing a strat for something like ten years. I've just trained myself to not hit it.
Basically, git gud
Isaiah Morgan
I want a Les Paul Custom Pro.
David Cooper
>white body + gold hardware
Jason Myers
what a kind user you are
Ian Perez
>accidently turning the volume down Doesn't happen, I did the Paul Gilbert mod by switching the volume with a tone pot (turning that down is less noticeable) and I got used to it after a while. I just wonder why someone would design it in that way. Someone looked at that design and said "yup, that's totally not in the way". Yes you can learn not to hit it, but it would be more convenient to not have it in a place that necessitates changing your playing technique in the first place.
Cameron Fisher
>I just wonder why someone would design it in that way
because it's an iconic classic, man!
I do agree with everything you say, however I'm not drilling my strat. I learned to avoid it. I like learning new things. I do have the autism though.
Carson Stewart
>iconic classic I doubt the Strat was an iconic classic when it was being designed in the 50s.
Evan Perez
What's the difference between the Studio Deluxe and the Standard?
Jayden Lee
this is arguably true to some extent, but im sure if you re-worded it you could have it apply to previous decades also, kids still learn guitar, infact id argue more people take it seriously now than before as the kids who want to learn WILL. guitar used to be like souncloud rappers, everyone just trying to act like their musical heroes, but now guitar and other instruments have taken a back seat, ive found the real "proper" people have started to take up the hobby
also starting a band is easy if youre in the right area
Jaxon Taylor
no, but that's the reason the design hasn't changed much over the years
Adam Mitchell
Left and use a thicker gauge to compensate if necessary.
John Rivera
>Someone looked at that design and said "yup, that's totally not in the way". Leo wasn't a guitar player
Jaxon Rogers
That's fine. It's a very aesthetically pleasing guitar after all and I love looking at it. I just don't get how they came up with that placement in the first place.
But that makes vibrato and bending harder ;__; Guess I need better calluses.
Carson Miller
i think he was saying thats why it hasnt been changed
ur the one with autism here
David Johnson
When it was designed they probably didn't anticipate palm muting, shredding, drug-fueled guitar abuse etc etc I imagine they thought people would be strumming pleasant chord progressions, just louder! Once it was a hit they followed the tried and tested: if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
obv not looking for better, but what guitarists do you know with a similar style to jimi? ie. rhythm, lead riffs all over the place, mini solos and singing all at the same time
Connor Wilson
yes, I installed one on a squire strat. Used an arcade button.
Very easy to do, pretty pointless unless you're buckethead
Evan Thompson
Yeah man
Ryan Stewart
>makes vibrato and bending harder I still use 9's on my strat even picking between the neck and middle pup, it's a skill, it can be learned like any other skill.
he means he installed one on a knight's apprentice
Tyler Ward
he was tripping balls at the time
Leo Campbell
>install kill switch on squire >push it >he ded son
Nathan Price
How do you pronounce Squier? Like squire? Skweer?
Brandon Perez
>I don't like what you like therefore what you like is wrong
Elijah Clark
I love it. You can see him zoning out then immediately launch into a godly solo.
Aiden Ortiz
SK - WHY - ERR
squeeeeeee-err fags are mudbloods
Luis Bell
I never said you were wrong, I just stated the combination makes me vomit. You're free to like whatever you like user.
Benjamin Ramirez
i fucking hate that guy
Ayden Stewart
I had an HT60 for a while, blew the preamp valves about 2 years into ownership which was annoying, total pain to get to them so cost a bit to get repaired.
Besides that, it was OK. Sounded a bit sterile and was surprisingly hard to get q good crunch tone out of. Good for metal if that's your thing. Got a Vox AC15 now and with a couple of drive pedals it's exactly what I want.
Owen Cox
Gibson master race reporting in
Jeremiah Stewart
>gibsonfag >can't take a picture the right way unsurprising
Kevin Perry
tyvm my dearest famalamadingdong
i reward you with a rare OC reaction face; this one is called 'furious frat boy', taken from the film Animal House