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Friendly reminder: the kiddies who post in /gg/ threads have nearly ***zero*** experience concerning guitar. Playing, repair, new player recommendations, etc. The average age in these threads is around early 20s: green as shit grass.
If you have an actual question this is probably one of the most uninformed & least knowledgeable places you could ever expect a proper answer to come from.
Be weary of any advice given here as it's amateur & perfunctory at best.
nearly purchased a 200 dollar guitar and amp. im glad i didnt so i think ill just buy off gumtree
Chase Wilson
here, being left handed sucks, no easy access guitars
Brandon Brown
yes yes
Logan Bell
I just got a shitty starter pack epiphone. I'm going to return it in like 40 days and get a real setup going. Whars the best way for me to practice and what should i practice? I have rocksmith and one tiny beginner guitar book ive started working through. Tips for what guitar and amp combo to get when I'm done with the trial period? Budget $500 max (i also dont have any pedals, so any pedals would need to fit in the budget). Right now im thinking a used epi lp stamdard, idk about the amp though.
Jaxon Wright
Any advice for nailing "squealies"? I've been trying but I can't manage it.
Brody Powell
If only it were easy to mod a guitar to change its orientation...
Kevin Harris
>The average age in these threads is around early 20s Is this supposed to be a bad thing? Why would you expect 30-40 years old people to post on Sup Forums?
Lincoln Peterson
It is but a lot of them are uncomfortable and don't play as well as they would if they were lefty
Landon Sanders
that's what most music forums are like though
Angel Young
You mean pinch harmonic? Use lots of gain and compression.
Carson Hill
Quoted the wrong post.
Parker Thompson
In what way do they play different?
Jason Thompson
The cutaway ends up on the wrong side, all the contours are lost, and chances are you're going to have the knobs under your arm.
Jace Scott
Most guitars are not symmetrical.
Mason Russell
Does anyone have any experience putting together a kit guitar?
I'm thinking of building one instead of getting a new guitar.
Benjamin Allen
For $500 you need to be smart to get a great learning and possibly recording rig. No "it just werks" $400 guitars, if you want a decent amp at all. Get a guitar, do some fret work or get some fret work done, and put in the pickups you want. GFS is a good brand for pickups, but don't rush to put something in before you know what you want. You might want to buy your guitar ahead of time so you can spend the time you need getting it in working order before you ditch your epiphone. A cheap guitar is a great way to get started with your own fretwork if that interests you. If you mess up, it'll still cost the same to get it done professionally.
Personally I've had luck with SX guitars. youtu.be/zPFFbLHitRg (As you'll hear, these guitars need work)
That'll save you a ton and let you get a quality, versatile, amp with the remains. I'll let someone more knowledgeable than I chime in on a good amp. I hear roland cube a lot though. From the recordings I've heard it sounds pretty good but I've never played it in person.
Parker Allen
How about buy a guitar with good frets and don't have to do that? Fucking why?
Tyler Howard
Imo you should start with just a guitar if your budget is that small, it makes more sense to get a decent one now and a good amp later when you can afford it rather than buy crap ones of both and need to replace both I'm not an expert on a lot of guitars so someone else can chime in on which one
Austin Perry
Questionable timber and poor chinese handwork gives you top notch tones m8
Elijah Howard
Are 300 dollar guitars a trap? Its a squier bullet strat. I was considering also a squier aff strat
Tyler Allen
I've been playing professionally for 15 years kid
Carson Martin
There ARE guitars with good frets in that price range, buying bad shit then try to fix it is fucking dumb.
Jacob Gomez
It costs more, altogether. Especially if you actually want perfect frets, it's generally a much better bet to get frets leveled than hope they come level. It'd be nice if you could find guitars with perfect frets for $200, but what can you do. You can get pretty good frets for that price, but I'm one who's in the "perfect frets" camp.
If you have the means to buy a guitar that has great frets to begin with by all means go for it. But the guy wants to spend under $500, so he's gotta go with the cheapest options for solid tone. To be clear, all this is just to save money.
Blake Richardson
It's not dumb if you know what you're doing, what you want, and have some experience, but a beginner isn't going to have any of these.
Bullet and Affinity Strats aren't worth 300$. Bullets are notorious for being hot garbage. I can also attest buying Ibanez GIOs is a terrible choice.
William Nelson
Not if you buy used. Look at all the cool choices you have
oh man you're pretty fucked then, I'm sorry for you.
Nathaniel Davis
This. Knowing what you want is crucial. A beginner should try to learn as much as they can what they actually want, but be prepared that they might end up unsatisfied with what they start with they start with. Maybe they'll get humbuckers and find they prefer single coils, for example.
I tend to recommend cheap gear with good frets because it serves well as placeholder gear that you won't have huge buyer's remorse over when you learn what suits your preferences as a musician.
If you are not diy-inclined and put off by diy stuff I can't give great advice other than taking a guitar in for fretwork is pretty affordable. I encourage people to do diy stuff because they're better off in the long run.
Please though, guys. I'm just making a suggestion of one good way for a beginner to start on a budget. There's hundreds of guitar companies and thousands of models, and no single "right" answer. This is just my two cents. It's worked great for me and people I know.
Thomas Gomez
i'm steve vai you fuck, take that back
Henry Harris
Yamaha Pacifica, Roland CUBE combo. Best your gonna do under 5c. Don't fall for the rondo sx meme, Pacificas are playable out of the box with minimal or no set up and the instructions are in the box.
Nolan Campbell
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Ryder Gray
There seem to be a lot of yamaha pacifica models. I found a link here about pacifica fret work. yamahapacifica.com/dress-frets/ But if I want to avoid fixing frets, what model should I go for? Will my frets be as good as a guitar that's had work done?
Jose Lewis
I see you just watched the new Rob Chapman video
Hudson Richardson
As far as amps, I'd recommend a Roland Cube. The 80, if you can get it and a guitar, I don't remember pricing. At the very least, get one of the models with reverb and distortion instead of just distortion.
Aiden Hill
Ay, senpai, that's my set up
Adam Gonzalez
Not a memer or a Chapman follower but I have played this config and I can vouch for it being the dankest within that budget unless you score big in second hand market.
Christopher Long
How the fuck do I clean this monstrosity?
Xavier James
Lemon oil.
Gavin Williams
I usually use just toilet paper to get rid of the accumulated sweat when I change strings but in your case I'd use something a little bit abrasive.
Brandon Richardson
Rate this nigger
Camden Stewart
Holy shit. Fire.
Nah, lemon oil and a cleaning cloth. Being the lazy whore I am, I bought a Fender tone-cleaning cloth and Dunlop 65 lemon oil and they work wonders.
Don't be fucking retarded and use your nails for anything tho, I made a little scratch in the fretboard through the cloth because I made some extra pressure trying to get the excess gunk out ;_;
Tyler Peterson
You need a scrub brush or something. Dave uses medical finger tip brushes with ronsonol
Jonathan Kelly
grab a pick and scrub that shit out. it'll take an afternoon. then use some almond oil (usually a hand moisturizer) to treat the wood. use just a bit, spread it carefully and it rest.
it even does wonders for the color.
Angel Murphy
Fuck's sake people need to stop making the high cutaway further than the low cutaway, that's the complete opposite of ergonomy, and it looks stupid.
Jayden Peterson
Drag a razor across the board, never push, brush it with your old toothbrush after you shortened the brush thing into max 5mm length. Then apply lemon oil.
Hudson Allen
Don't do what he did, first he used the wrong tools. They were flat and weren't crowned properly? Back in the box and returned, don't fix their mistakes. 112's 120's and if you want to blow most of your money,311's.
I've sold them for years.
Caleb Gutierrez
I agree, it's the complete oposite to higher fret access.
Assymetry in general can be jarring to some. Pic related is the most ergonomic instrument I've ever played and yet has a very polarizing aesthetic.
Benjamin Miller
first get a razor and scrape 90% of the gunk off. Then you can clean up the rest with lemon oil and a t-shirt.
Luke Bennett
I don't think there are any in that range that strictly speaking don't need fret work, the idea is that they are good enough for a beginner. Good enough might sound bad but really it is not. A beginner won't notice the difference and it really won't create any serious bad habits.
If you want "perfect" frets on a budget you have to be lucky or get them leveled. But perfect is really unnecessary. People tend to have different definitions of perfect... It's honestly better to think of it in terms of good enough... Doesn't sound good but as I said imperceptibly flawed is as good as perfect. Sure, you can get a cheaper guitar and get the frets leveled by a reputable luthier and they might be a bit closer to perfect than an off the shelf pacifica, but is to really worth the effort? That's for you to decide but personally I wouldn't want to have to wait a week for a luthier to fix my frets just to save a few bucks and get an imperceptible improvement in fretwork.
Charles Moore
Fantastik will cut right through the grime, then a lemon oil treatment.
Jack Roberts
Which is better, a used epi les paul standard or that? I sorta like the les paul sound, but a lot of people have recommended the pacifica.
Hunter Roberts
I would get the Epiphone, The standard series is nice. I don't really get all the pacifica love, they're pretty typical guitars for their price.
David Flores
Epiphone has weak and strong models. Mainly, they have a lot of models. I'm not familiar with all of them but the consensus is they make anything between shit and pro level. The value for your money however is generally thought to be kinda low. You have a ton of options when you're looking at les paul copies, so check out some other brands since you're on a budget.
Carter Reyes
What is the optimum pickup layout for max flexibility in tone?
I'm looking at single coils in bridge and middle position and a humbucker for the bridge atm
Ryder Gonzalez
It's the closest you'll get.
Adam Collins
I'm planning tele style bridge + humbucker middle + p90 neck. Between coil splitting the humbucker + the bridge, and just soloing the humbucker, I'm hoping I can get a nice lead tone without losing the tele tone I crave for punk and garage rock. I won't really have any jangly sound available though... hmm, maybe some phase stuff is called for.
But I think the ultimate would be a bit more complicated. If you want both a single coil tone and a humbucker tone in the bridge position you at least need magnetic pole pieces... But that really changes the humbucker tone. In the end the bridge position is always going to be a compromise.
Dominic Powell
I guess it's a question of if I want to djent or shred, either way I'm stuck in a meme.
Oh well, I like choking unusual sounds out of guitars with wiring mods anyways, any recommendations for pickups? Planning a guitar right now and I've only really used stock previously because they're decent and I'm fucking up the wiring anyways.
Matthew Johnson
If you want the Gibson sound, HH 120. HSS 112 you can get both Gib and Fender sounds. You'll mostly dial it in on your amp anyway.
Dominic Carter
Hard to make any recommendations specifically, honestly it's all down to preference. Hell, even ceramics are gaining popularity, especially in the neck position. I'd say if you like quirk p90 is interesting. On my list for pickups I want to fuck with is lipsticks, noiseless p90s, p-rails(obviously), something with big ass pole pieces, and bill lawrence blade humbuckers (L-500 I think?). Those are just the weirder things though. I'm not a fan of gold foils even though they fit the criteria of interesting and fun pretty well.
4-lead noiseless stack pickups are pretty cool for having both thin & thick single coil sounds. Parallel for thin, series for thick.
Brayden Wilson
Could go HSH
Christopher Anderson
Oh yeah, forgot to mention, I think jaguar style pickups with the ferrous claw are pretty cool. Maybe not the most interesting tone to some but hard to beat dat clarity. I bet they would really shine in a 25.5" instrument.
turned off Sunny Day Real Estate for this, did not disappoint.
Carson Powell
Is pic related any decent?
Matthew Harris
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William Gomez
some people swear by it but I watched some gameplay videos and it looked confusing. It's supposed to be guitar hero plus tab but it doesn't look enough like either of those things imo.
it's good at physically getting the guitar in your hands, but it isn't very good at teaching actual songs or technique. It's better than nothing, and incentivizes practice while you're new (which is when you're most likely to give up), but you can learn some real bad habits that are hard to shake.
Bentley Martinez
ay thanks lads, its kind of sloppy but you get the idea
here's a webiste that helped me play this theoreticallycorrect.com/st/index.html you can input a guitar tuning you like and the key you want to play in and it draws a diagram of notes safe to play for you. it's really fun
Nicholas Anderson
I'm absolutely retarded when it comes to music. When I hum something I can't hold the melody, it starts out alright but then I drift into randomness for some reason.
I was hoping buying a cheap guitar and having something that plays a bit like a video game would help me out there a bit.
that's a shame. Why can't learning stuff be easy?
Carter White
I bought pic related at a guitar center for 90 dollars, and now I want something better. Whats something I can upgrade to for maybe 500 dollars? I was considering a used MIM Fender of some sort but I've been reconsidering.
Angel Hall
Where there's a will there's a way. I'm not a naturally gifted musician but I've gotten bretty good at guitar in the last 12 years. I even write guitar parts in my head throughout the day. I'd say grab a copy of Rocksmith for cheap and try it out. If you don't like it, just start learning chords, scales, and easy songs off websites.
Leo Perry
The key is to play lots of songs you like. Have fun at all costs. People tend to make a big deal out of proper technique but I'd say take an hour or so to learn posture so you don't hurt yourself, and then go crazy. Checking up every now and then is good, it'll make life easier. But Learning without structure until you actually WANT to know what's going on is fine. Should happen sooner or later, and actually having some songs you can reference all that theory mumbo jumbo to is good.
Evan Thompson
Just how different do different priced guitars sound? Is it night and day
Luke Myers
Decide on the pickup config you want first, then body shape to narrow it down. When I started I really liked the tele bridge pickup but not the neck. So, you know, I didn't buy a fender telecaster.
Liam Brooks
Tbqh if it wasn't for custom rocksmith dlc I probably would have given up guitar two years ago.
Samuel Watson
Sound wise, it's all in the pickups. Price wise, it's all in the neck, features, and finish. Hopefully that answers your question.
Gavin Russell
Ah ok, so its more paying for a luxury item than a better sounding one
Grayson Perez
The LP guy doesn't sound very bright but that bear seems like an even bigger douche than him.
Christian Myers
It's basically just guitar pro converted to guitar hero format. You still have to put the same amount of effort to actually learn the technique
Has anyone had any experience with the Epiphone Sheraton II and the Dot?
There's a sheraton at my local gc for $450 and a dot for $350. But I get the feeling that the classic vibe tele has a better build quality, yet I want the tone and feel of a semi-hollow archtop.
Any other ideas?
Sebastian James
Rancid bass tabs
Eli Jones
Well, some people consider great playability, which is definitely part of the price, as a necessity rather than a luxury. But I guess you could say that... If you isolate only playability + sound you don't usually get into what people consider high end in terms of price unless you have special needs like extra strings, scale length, or a heavy duty tremolo.
Cameron Harris
I tried it but I found it easier to just learn from tabs.
John Taylor
So I'm in the process of looking at a new bass.
I already own a Fender Jazz Bass but now I'm looking at a P-Bass and / or a Rickenbacker 4003. Which one is better?
Ian Brooks
it's the best as an addition to "standard" learning
just for fun and relax
Carter Evans
I've shifting from a multi effects pedal to building my own pedal board.
I play bass and want a reverb, but there's not much information on good reverb for bass.
Anyone have a knowledge of good pedals or have actually tried some that sound good with bass?