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I really, really want one of these. No icky EMGs, though.
Nathaniel Hughes
Is it wrong that I like this?
Carson Baker
>being this mad on the internet
Robert Sanders
Just bought this small bugera for real cheap. Any other anons have experience with the larger bugera tube models ?
Julian Perry
what? No, liking things is fine. That bridge is excellent, the finish is kind of neat looking, and no inlays on a fretboard looks clean as hell.
Daniel Nelson
Yes. You're only allowed to like generic Fender models
Jose Green
inb4 jokes about house/store fires
Wyatt Torres
Yes. Get help before it's too late.
Nicholas Butler
No, It's neat but I wouldn't buy it unless I was an amazing enough guitarist to overpower the detail put into that guitar.
Zachary Powell
Housefire jokes aside, I used an original non-infinium Bugera 1960 for a couple of months. It works VERY well as a Bass head. A surprisingly good clone of a marshall plexi/superbass. Build quality was pretty solid and the cheap tubes sounded fine to me.
It may only be the infinium models that start fires, I'm not sure.
Elijah Brown
Flat frets won't intonate properly. You need one point of contact between the string and the fret exactly in the middle of the fret. Rickenbacker basses are notorious for coming with flat frets, with is the reason they have a reputation for intonation issues.
It also means that pressing harder on the string will make it buzz more. That's because the string gets lifted slightly off the fret, rocking back on the back edge.
That user is being an ass and not even trying to explain himself, but fret flats are a big issue for playability. I can see how one would get used to it, but overall playing with properly crowned frets is easier. As someone who does fretwork, I can see why a company might not crown. It saves most of the effort involved in a fret job.
Ethan Cox
that looks like a bowling ball
Ethan Howard
>jew edition
Rude
Ethan Cooper
JIDF spotted
Josiah Watson
If they are all like that though couldn't you just tune a little lower?
Lincoln Perez
a...user what house fire jokes are you two talking about ?
John Rivera
Can someone explain what true temperament is?
Oliver Brown
I don't know I just see people say housefire any time someone posts Bugera so I assume its a dank meme of some kind.
Their amps are generally cheap crap, whether it sounds good or not is a different matter. Is McDonalds cheap trash? Sure, but it tastes good.
Landon Bell
Not, not really. First of all, the open strings would be out of tune. Second of all, the discrepancy is never going to be equal among frets because the whole point of leveling is to compensate for differences in height of the fretboard.
You are still also going to have less room for error in how hard you fret to avoid buzz.
Gavin Anderson
early-generation bugera amps used a connector to the mainboard that would short out and catch fire.
It's since been fixed, but the stigma remains.
Joshua Moore
forgot image
Daniel Diaz
I thought it had something to do with the infinium auto bias circuit.
Easton Lopez
not him, but i see a with that and the different fret distances. the discrepancy in his picture remains static, while the distance between frets used and the bridge changes.
i'm sure you could mostly fix it for a certain fret, but the farther away you move from it, the more the pitch would fall out of tune. it's because the fret-to-bridge distances keep changing, while the flattened fret (vs a curved one) tone difference remains the same
Michael Cook
thats actually kind of neat. I wouldn't want to give up the option for alternate tuning though
Matthew Carter
Adding on this user. Some companies DO have slightly flatter crowns (fender does this as of lately) on the tops of frets. But they aren't totally flat.
Very different from frets that have been ground down and are completely flat.
Bentley Price
a shitty solution looking for a problem
Carson Moore
What is your favorite guitar finish?
(pic related is not my fav finish or anything, i just post it because i think it's unusual)
Matthew Cook
Holykek
Xavier Johnson
gloss, but favorite look is pic related
Kevin Jackson
>tfw no walnut gf
Ayden Morales
Slightly flat frets are just flattened then polished frets. Guitar companies can ger away with it easier because they're usually starting with fairly level frets to begin with. It's a cost cutting measure. There are two acceptable fret tops: hair thin, and two hair thin. Two hair thin will last slightly longer without affecting intonation, but it's harder to be consistent, so usually some frets will be harder to bend on than others.
Brayden Howard
>a fretted instrument >proper intonation tok pek check this faggot out
Nathaniel Johnson
It looks really pretty. I think I will constantly pish it and shit and be super OCD about not damaging the finish.
Jose Wood
:^(
Juan Wilson
For the amount of shekels I paid the amp is bretty gud. I get a pretty clean sound with a bit of overdrive. I don't play meme metal or djent or whatever that gay homo """"""""music"""""""" is called.
Jeremiah Long
Because perfect intonation isn't possible it's even more important to not fuck it up by putting the open strings out. Having flat frets will change what's normally a gradual and slight difference in intonation to one that noticeably jumps around, especially when playing half-steps. People care so much about intonation precisely because a fretted instrument suffers from intonation issues.
Nicholas Campbell
tfw not rich
Kayden Thompson
Alright /gg/ so I'm conflicted what guitar should I play?
If you play an SG, LP, Strat or Telly you're a dad rocker If you play a jazzmaster, Jaguar or hollowbody, you're a hipster cunt If you play an ibanez any sort super Strat/ pointy guitar you're a shred fag If you play a PRS you're a trust fund kid
wat do?
Ryder Mitchell
>SG >dad rocker
just no
Kayden Morgan
buy a guild
Robert Watson
Don't play anything. Become a producer instead.
Charles Phillips
Well, which one are you?
Jayden Brown
Anyone know how the fuck to cure tendonitis?
I've begun developing the shit in my left hand and elbow.
David Ortiz
True. More like a cuck in a cuck shed
Evan Williams
Classical guitar. It's the only true guitar.
Benjamin Garcia
Does this man look like a cuck to you?
Thomas Gonzalez
professional musician here. a fretted string instrument will NEVER intonate properly no matter how well the instrument is set up according to my perfect pitch, strobe tuner, and years of experience. it's commonplace to see guitarist with heavily worn frets playing in perfect pitch. it's called bending a string and it's the expressive hallmark and signature of an actual player. it's not the guitars job for ever note to be in tune, it's yours.
Charles Baker
do you sit and play? if so, try standing and playing
Ian Thompson
Sorry to say, but that's is a pretty common stereotype... And you don't have to hang out here long to find that most of the SG owners here are middle aged.
Nathaniel Jones
or this man
Sebastian Thomas
Yes, and a manlet.
Isaiah Parker
>literal grandadrockers
James Bell
Yeah I sit down while practicing, I don't know if it's got something to do with the angle my wrist and elbow is in that position.
Justin Morris
>And you don't have to hang out here long to find that most of the SG owners here are middle aged
Sup Forums is mostly highschool students. I remember a ton of threads had people talking about prom in them.
Angel Cox
>it's the expressive hallmark and signature of an actual player. it's not the guitars job for ever note to be in tune, it's yours
Jack Howard
not an argument faggatron
Carter Wood
I get pain in my left elbow and wrist when I sit and play. I assume you are right handed, so I'd give standing and playing a try, everything won't feel so tight, at least for me.
Ethan Bennett
I've got a chinese Stratocaster clone for kids. Did I fuck up by replacing the 6MM output with a 3.5MM output? It's just for fucking around with guitar rig, I've got a full sized strato clone for serious use.
Matthew Myers
Sure, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't keep your frets in good condition. If you have flattened frets you're generally sharp, and you can't bend a string down in pitch. What's more a polished fret will last longer, and having level frets means you will be able to play in tune on different guitars better instead of only playing well on one guitar. That's especially important because if you keep playing on dented frets you're going to need a refret sooner rather than later and you won't have that familiarity any more.
Really, nice crowned and polished frets bend and play better. One tends to get used to whatever they have but the fact of the matter is damaged frets cause buzz, string breakage, intonation issues, and less consistent bends.
A good player can compensate for some but not all of these issues.
Hunter Stewart
well, by here I meant /gg/. Even if /gg/ is pretty young, though by now it's clear they're on average older than the rest of Sup Forums, the SG owners here are not.
Anthony Fisher
The Dream
Bentley Adams
>and you can't bend a string down in pitch >pic related stopped reading right there. i do this all day everyday, you don't know what the fuck you're talking about. opinion discarded
Christopher Perez
>posts picture of mechanism that literally causes your guitar to never be in tune ever
You're one dumb nigger aren't you?
Jacob Watson
hnnnnnnnng
Owen Bennett
>he can't keep his guitar in tune when playing i laughed at you
Nathan Russell
How am I supposed to play the 7\5 part? I thought it was just a slide, but it sounds so much different in Guitar Pro. (I'm new, obviously.) I read some "how to read tabs" articles but none seem to explain the weird thing above the 7\5 connecting them and how it makes it sound different from just sliding your finger.
Evan Mitchell
Meme time all the time
Justin Miller
That's a slur senpai
Nathaniel Scott
it's either a slide, or it's a whammy bar being pushed down a whole step while holding the note
anyone have an angry charlie pedal? it sounds pretty good from the videos i've watched
Daniel Hill
Not all guitars have a tremolo. In any case you can only be so subtle when bending. When you bend, it sounds like it. Obviously bending is not always appropriate. Moreover, you won't be able to compensate for each note in a chord. You can't use all right hand techniques while holding a trem bar.
John Peterson
Thanks!
William Thompson
Traditional straight frets don't intonate perfectly. Those do.
Cameron Miller
nope, sorry. you're obviously not a guitar player in any sense of the word. not responding to you anymore after this post, so have a nice day
Dylan Lewis
>this is a professional musician's attitude towards reasoned argument
No wonder they're still buying into tonewood. The only thing I wonder is how someone can simultaneously hold the belief that you need a high-end guitar and also believe that fretwork doesn't matter.
Brayden Morales
underrated
Lucas Mitchell
Impressive. Very nice.
Lincoln Rodriguez
This guy is correct. It's impossible for a fretted instrument to have perfect intonation. Obviously all good instruments get pretty fucking close but sometimes you have to compensate. It's automatic for most guitarists to correct slightly out of pitch leads by tiny subtle bends, you don't even have to think about it. It's something all guitarists do to some degree.
I just try to match the flow of the song and accent key changes and such
Andrew Wood
>that transition at 1:44
Literally how
Joseph Powell
couple power chords. Everyone else stops playing. Continue with change
Easton Rivera
rate I guess
Xavier Mitchell
>wanting a guitar that looks like the wall paneling in a community center
Levi Miller
dear lord/10
Liam Diaz
stop downloading these retarded pictures and filling them with stuff you've never even used to get other people's approval and go play guitar/10
John Young
High aspirations/10 You should start by getting a decent Sterling guitar.
Isaiah Barnes
the guy is arguing against good fretwork. I absolutely believe that you cannot get perfect intonation with fretwork. The guy is only coming back to that point repeatedly in an attempt to misrepresent my argument. But what he mistakenly believes is that because the player should compensate for the intonation problems, a fret job doesn't matter. He's wrong on multiple counts, even if you discount intonation. There's many things that will be more difficult on a guitar with damaged frets, and many things besides pitch that you can't simply compensate for. I absolutely believe his premise that a player can and should compensate for intonation though playing. I disagree with his conclusion that good fretwork is not important because of this.
If he wants to take pride in being able to play a damaged guitar well, fine. If he wants to say that to him in has no value, fine. But to everyone else good fretwork and setup, including intonation, is what makes a guitar's playability and quality.
David Turner
>But to everyone else good fretwork and setup, including intonation, is what makes a guitar's playability and quality. Hmm. Zorro On Donuts might disagree.
Tyler Roberts
Looking for criticism and advice on what I can do to improve my improv abilities. I did some noodling with the harmonic minor for this one.
