ive watched some youtubes on how they work and it's just batshit. i don't know how they get used to the thinking process behind it, that seems like the hardest part, you press down a pedal and it changes the entire layout. and you can press two at the same time for different strings.... and there's also a lever system on the sides of your knees that you can also manipulate and that changes the layout even more
Robert Jenkins
Had some issues with my old shitty Vox VT15, now I'm not getting any sound. It isn't that the input jack pins are bent, but I'm sure the input board is the culprit. Where would I order a new one?
Xavier Powell
Just got a Fender Strat Jimmie Vaughan Tex-Mex ($850 new) for $250 on craigslist. Pretty good condidtion too.
Hudson Martinez
Glad you bought it. Hows the hot stack pickup?
William Bell
Ooh! Nice get.
Cameron Carter
>want to make hard rock tunes to lead into somber ones for EP >move to new town and stop partying for several months >left with a bunch of pity rock and bluesy desert rock
im finally getting the competence to structure a song but lost the motivations that made me want to learn in the first place. now its just job and bills.
how do i stop drinking
Charles Powell
>how do i stop drinking drink more i'll drink to that
Juan Hernandez
I don't know where else to ask so I'll give it a shot here.
I got a cheap MIDI keyboard for my birthday and I need something like Guitar Rig but for keyboard.
Also, is it even worth it or should I just get a plug-in for Pro Tools / FL Studio?
Justin Smith
Think of me
Jose Nelson
I use absynth it sounds good
Nolan Williams
Sunvox is a free standalone synth program. Has a learning curve tho.
Juan Wilson
what the fuck
Nathan Anderson
>mfw learn how to palm mute and fingerstyle on bass simultaneously >mfwhavenoface
Jaxson Edwards
yes, what the fuck indeed
it's hard to play, but the problem is it's not very versatile, it's more of a 'hole filler' type of instrument in the background
Carson Sanchez
Thanks guys. Do you still use these for recording as well or do you just use a plugin in whichever DAW you use?
Ryder Bailey
really nice, it works well on the bridge
Carter Wright
write a song about that dogger in your picture. call it "seamus"
Oliver Davis
I use absynth as a plugin into my DAW. Though desu I use my actual synth more often than absynth cause it's a bit tricky and I never bothered to master it. I just use it for polyphonic shit
Carter Reyes
I've been thinking of picking up a short scale bass like a squier bronco and changing the bridge, tuners and nut to make it into a bass vi. Is this a good idea?
Isaac Jackson
Since I've never seen /gg/ talk about pedal steels before, this dude is easily one of my favorite guitarists/musicians.
Lincoln Powell
Is it safe to buy guitars in the internet? Should I stick to getting them in stores? What are your experiences?
Now that you mention it, he's the only pedal steel player I know of too.
I've seen him live a few times and he's always killed it. At one point during one of those shows, they started letting anyone from the audience who wanted to (it was a fairly small venue) come up on stage and play lead guitar while the rest of them jammed out. Easily one of the coolest moments I've ever seen at a show before.
Robert Perez
I've done it several times with nothing but success. If you can, play one in a store to make sure you like it, then watch eBay like a hawk and make your move on a deal.
Your mileage may vary, but it's worked well for me every time and I've saved a lot of money this way.
Leo Richardson
Oh, but also try to buy from a reputable source, of course. Stores seem more credible to me than some rando from Peoria or wherever.
Adrian Garcia
Local guitar shop has several early to mid 70s strats and teles for $1200-$1500. Also has 2 NOS 03 showmasters. Thinking about copping 75 strat, it looks cool and plays well, all original including pickups. Should I? Guitar looks like pic related with more wear on the fretboard.
Jason Reyes
It's totally safe as long as you're smart about it. Buy from reputable sellers on reputable sites. If something seems too good to be true, it probably is. Craigslist is also good for great deals on gear if you don't live in a small as town.
Kayden Kelly
ayy cheers bros sipping and playing some type o negative
Nathaniel Reed
I'm sippin and thinkin bout suicide rofl Whatcha playin' user
Isaac Ortiz
nettie, christian woman, and we hate everyone on [spoiler]bass and vocals[/spoiler]
Jordan Cooper
Post Ideal Rig, R8 Others
i have this rig with a green rhino and swollen pickle now. if i werent so broke i might keep them but ill be damned if those earthquaker pedals aren't baller. hoping they sound decent together
William Rogers
template
bonus round: post correct gain structure order for pedals
James Cooper
Your ideal rig is a cheap Orange and Gretsch?
Joshua Peterson
> post correct gain structure order for pedals No thank you, I've done enough work.
Eli Gutierrez
ideal =/= your $20000 mega world tour rig
i only play for myself and with friends, why would i get anything bigger? considered a wah but i prefer bending and tone knob adjustment for any hippy effect
Jayden Peterson
If I have a guitar with black coloured pickup borders/casing (in a rectangle shape) around but not over the pickup, is there anyway I can recolour it from black to cream/white or something without messing up the sound or messing up in some way?
Christian Parker
Google white pickup ring. Find one for either flat top or arch top guitars
Austin Sullivan
You can get small good amps, and better guitars tho?
If you're sticking with cheap gear, why bother calling it ideal?
Luke Gomez
>small good amps you mean like that one i posted? >better guitars what? you realize after you add in pedals the guitar is almost unrecognizable. without pedals, however, the tone of that gretsch is on point along with the neck. feels just right
are you arguing i buy more expensive things for the sake of them being more expensive? ideal doesn't have to be you having no money. living and being happy within your means might be foreign if your parents bought all your gear i guess
John Torres
this is one defensive poorfag ladies and gents I'm not the guy you're responding to, but those charts are generally meant for people to show their "endgame" gear. The shit they REALLY want. Don't be a cunt over semantics
Colton Cook
>using pedals
Brandon Young
how to get better at alternating picking
Sebastian Scott
Pick slowly, then pick a bit faster. Rinse and repeat. Start from 80 bpm, add 2 bpm every time you feel completely in control.
Connor Gutierrez
Should I buy this crappy kit guitar for 20 bucks? I mean. It's 20 bucks.
Kayden James
>Crush 35rt >solid state >shit speaker >literally top end of Orange's budget series >'good' >pic
You're only vaguely right about the pedals/guitar bit as well. Someone with untrained ears you won't be able to the hear the difference between one guitar and the other with fuzz. If you can't tell the difference between a LP and a Strat through a Chorus though, you're literally retarded.
Also I never said buy expensive shit, I meant buy stuff that isn't literally trash.
Hunter Ross
> just watched a man buy a shit guitar and mod it from Ali Express
I kind of like the second control plate. I think it gives it "character."
Ryder Sullivan
i can't imagine what part of my rig is actually trash. post your rig m8y lets see what makes these such shit
if it rhymes with harshall and Tes Paul kill yourself
Luis Walker
Ah, I saw that video. Pretty neat, yeah.
Brandon Sanders
I asked this question last year and it's a lot more complicated than you think. The neck is the trickiest part with not only the nut but the holes for the tuners
Xavier Jenkins
Fender Pawn Shop Mustang Bass and an Ampeg PF500/PF115HE is what I use mostly
Guitar rig is a Epiphone Casino and either a Vox AC4 or Marshall MOSFET 100 Reverb Twin
Have more guitars (actually 2 better guitars but I stopped playing metal much) and a few effects, but don't really use them because I don't have the space in my room. And I paid for all of it; it's called having a job, and playing for a long time, rather then blowing all your savings on bottom range junk and then paying for repairs every 6 months
Jonathan James
Looking into getting a 15-25W bass ampm which one should I get?
Julian Richardson
>paying for repairs every 6 months i literally set this guitar up 2 years ago and haven't done anything but a truss adjustment of my own
my friend who does play bars and clubs has a nice orange head and cab i can play on, and i recognize there's more body in the tone, but i can't even play my 35RT at half volume in my residential neighborhood of LA
maybe in many years when I have no other hobbies and solid living I can see a tube amp but there's really not justification I can think of for having one. it's opposite of ideal. they're larger and i won't even be able to enjoy what makes a tube amp better.
ideal is mobile and delivers the right tone.
i did see an orange tiny terror built into the amp the other day but it is still overkill.
and i have enough leftover cash to keep my cocaine and chubby asian hooker habit flowing
Thomas Ramirez
>rather then blowing all your savings on bottom range junk and then paying for repairs every 6 months How much of an arm flailing retard do you have to be to repair a guitar every six month. Mine's garbage and I haven't paid for a single repair.
Brody Bell
daliy reminder that i fucking hate all of you genuinely i fucking hate all of you all of you fucking kill yourself dude poelase do it fuck
Angel Flores
PLS someone answer this. I've been playing guitar for 6 months now and although I'm okay I'm having problems picking up on something I keep noticing people forming chords to play melodies but I have no idea why people do this what is the purpose of this how can I start picking up on it and incorporate it into my playing pls respond my boipucci is aching for an answer.
Caleb Carter
this is a bit of an odd post like how to make chords or why epople use chords?
Christopher Evans
Shit gear needs setups and breaks more often because cheaper materials. Not every 6 months necessarily, but more often then something good. Most cheap gear is shit, most good gear costs more. Not always, because >Gibson, but generally.
Zachary Rogers
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Alexander Rodriguez
Like when I see people playing their fingers are set in specific positions to play notes not chords but like actually picking notes.
Aiden Baker
I disagree with this. Shit i have a cheap "hondo" fender knockoff that still works from 10+ years ago. Based on post trail you played metal at some point. I think ill stick to his idea you were just being an arm flailing retard
I'm on a budget of about $120, what's the best distortion pedal I can get out of that price range?
Ethan Bailey
Personally I really like the DS-2 it's pretty nice.
Daniel Morris
>but i can't even play my 35RT at half volume in my residential neighborhood of LA Exactly; it's 35 watts, which is not really enough to play with drummer, but too much to play in a bedroom. You can get ~5watt tube combos that generally have attenuators to lower them down to 1 or 2 watts. Probably costs the same amount as well. Would fit perfectly in a room (still not really enough to play with a drummer) and is equally portable and likely sounds alot better. Specifically the AC4 which is ok, but moddable into pretty decent amp.
Either way, if that's you idea of 'ideal' you lack ambition.
>arm flailing retard >anecdotal evidence Yeah, nah your a dumb cunt. And I didn't say all cheap gear is shit, I said most of it is.
Also some Hondo's were MIJ, I think made in the same factory as Charvel/Jacksons (so have fun with your offcut spiky guitar lad). MIJ is generally a pretty good indicator of quality regardless of price.
Ryder Robinson
I'll have a looksies at it, cheers guv.
Jack Flores
Wtf i use that 35rt with drummers now wtf are you on about
You can try to justify buying all that shit, you def needed it :^)
Robert Bennett
A full band as well? What do you play?
Ethan Perry
>Shit gear needs setups setups are free if you can do them, which takes one afternoon to learn and about €10 worth of tools >breaks more often the only part that broke on mine was the jack output, which I resoldered after buying an iron. I also broke the nut once, not because it was shit but because the guitar fell. I've also moved it countless times in an unpadded gigbag, and it fell a few times. I've spent a grand total of €35 on spare parts/tools, less than a setup at a guitar store. There's no way you should need repairs every six months playing normally.
>35 watts, which is not really enough to play with drummer wew, my amp must be magical because I can play with a drummer and a bassist only using 20w.
Levi Gonzalez
Typically 2-3. Most of what i play is rhythm and lead, rarely separate into two guitars. Green Rhino is plenty of boost for me since my only real competition at mid to high freq. is whoever is drumming
Adam Fisher
I was working off the idea that /gg/ has no idea how to intonate a guitar, let alone use a soldering iron. Or buy a tuner, because these threads are full of poorfags.
Also 20 watts tube or SS? If you can get an audible clean tone, out of a SS amp with 2 guitars, bass and drummer, you might actually have a magical amp.
Wyatt Rogers
>Also 20 watts tube or SS? If you can get an audible clean tone, out of a SS amp with 2 guitars, bass and drummer, you might actually have a magical amp. Are you genuinely retarded? Not every drummer plays like they hate their drum kit, not every practice space is enormous. I can work with a 5W SS amp on bass, and yes I can play with a drummer.
Oliver Rivera
Boss HM-2
Jaxon Hughes
>If you can get an audible clean tone, out of a SS amp with 2 guitars, bass and drummer, you might actually have a magical amp. I actually do. SS poweramps don't have to deal with any breakup, so I can stay as clean as I want.
Andrew Baker
How stupid is it to put a bass bridge and a new nut (for the 4 bass strings) on a guitar? For a super short scale bass essentially. Can a guitar neck/truss rod even deal with the higher tension?
Owen Lopez
No, it can't. What are you even trying to achieve..? Long scale too much for your infant hands?
Michael Allen
>5W SS amp on bass Bullshit
What amp is it? Most cheap SS's I've used start to sound weird when you turn them up with low gain.
inb4 MOSFET masterrace
Christopher Hall
I just checked, tension isn't much higher than guitar strings (19lbs per string) at that scale length and with less strings the overall tension would be lower. I just have a cheap guitar and a bass bridge lying around.
Benjamin Miller
it's extremely fucking stupid the intonation's never going to be quite right, it'll be muddy as hell in the low register too, and you'll need a stupidly thick string gauge in order to not play a pack of wet spaghettis basically if you want to waste a lot of time and money putting together a pile of shit, go for it.
Thomas Jenkins
>Bullshit It's a bit louder than my 3/4 UB, going through a 410 cab. Last time I checked UBs, you know, worked.
Nathaniel Allen
Why would the intonation be an issue? Yeah, it's very low tension for bass strings but I have some flat wounds lying around that require ridiculously high tension.
Cooper Moore
orange micro dark through a 1x12 the key is to not jam with raging gorillas that turn everything to the maximum
Logan Lee
>the key is to not jam with raging gorillas that turn everything to the maximum
I'm in a shoegaze band, so that's not happening
Ethan Anderson
Because it's a guitar neck, not a bass neck. Talking just about tension is nonsense, frequency is defined by scale lenght, tension and linear mass, not just tension. Since a guitar's 25.5" instead of 34" as opposed to a bass. If you just reduce the scale lenght, which is your case if you put bass strings on a guitar, you're making the frequency go up as the scale lenght is inversely proportional. So in order to compensate for that, you have to lower the tension. Which with bass strings, will end up too low to give a proper note, meaning you'll have to get really thick strings. And I'm not talking about .100 kind of thick, I'm taking >.150 kind of thick. This means the string will require much more space for relief too, making the action wonky and nigh unplayable in the upper register.
Brody Cox
>shoegaze >clean the gay noise part of shoegaze is much more interesting than the gay jangle part though
I agree, but I don't write the songs. And I can override the guitars when they're playing clean.
Also the Micro Dark isn't really SS lad
For cleans, JC120 or similar, for anything else, something hybrid probably. Or MOSFET.
Cameron Torres
Quilter MicroPro
Carter Bennett
FL studio has some quality synths packaged if you jave the producer edition.
Its pianos suck, for piano i either use lounge lizard(electric) kontakts enotional piano library(acoustic)
It has some decent drum samples, but theyre best suited for hip hop and electronic music, although they do have live drums. For drum machines I use stock sounds, for drum kits I use kontakts Steven Slate Drums library or BFD3.
LA scoring strings and broadway big band are noce kontakt libraries too.
My favorite synths that come with fl are poizone, morphine(fl 12), harmor, toxic biohazard, sytrus, and sakura, though sakuras adjustments are kind of obtuse and i still havent got the hang of it.
You can run an isntance of fl studio in pro tools(i have yet to do it because i dont know if my compiter can handle it), and kontakt, bfd, and lounge lizard have rtas plugins. Whenever i can I always sequence in fl, export midi, and import in pro tools, and then load the plugin over the midi track if im recording and finallizing a project, easier to make adjustments on the fly.
Luke Ortiz
sounds kinda messy but I can't advise on it, ask /prod/ for some tips
that legit sounds like the one time me and my friends tried to record something on the fly bbut none of us were any good. We just got drunk/high and made noise. Very fun thing to do.
>Also the Micro Dark isn't really SS lad Well it's an SS poweramp, that's the part that's going to matter the most in getting volume.
