LOL WTF THAT'S SO WEIRD LIKE NIGGA WHO WOULD WANT TO PLAY A ROACH LMFAO
Carter Foster
My newest guitar, Fender Pawn Shop Mustang Special in Lake Placid Blue. What a fun instrument.
Isaiah Diaz
what a beauty
Jose Rogers
noice
Lucas Bell
offset niggers out
Jonathan Reyes
What was your first guitar? Pic related for me. Even the left handed model was just $210 (US dollars) so that'll tell you how cheap it is. Pretty much the cheapest guitar you can buy that isn't a toy.
Wyatt Clark
Thanks guys. Not my exact guitar but looks exactly like it, being the MIJ version not the MIM version.
A shitty 12 string whose neck fell off since it was a shitty guitar.
Jordan Jenkins
>fender starcaster
This thing was awful. I think I got it at Sam's club as a birthday present. Played it for 5 years before upgrading to a PRS SE. Good memories trying to do my best getting a metal tone out of the no-ouput single coils and SP-10 diode amp.
Jacob Gomez
i play bass and i'm anticipating having to scale up from my shitty 10 watt peavey practice amp pretty soon, any recommendations for something relatively cheap/transportable and powerful enough to be audible with a band
Kevin Gutierrez
Never heard of a starcaster. And you got it at Sam's Club? When did they sell guitars? Was it one of those cheap "barely an instrument" guitars?
Owen Cooper
Epiphone LP special 2. Was fun, I'm actually still using the Squier amp I bought with it. Purchasing a Vox ac10 soon though
It wasn't first act Wal-mart tier, but it was basically the bare minimum needed to be a functioning instrument. Don't think they still make them as squier has probably taken up this market.
Jaxon Martin
Fender rumble 40
Luis Miller
Oh. So it was basically a cheap, low quality variant of the Stratocaster.
Jacob Sanchez
anything fender rumble
buy used/craigslist
Jaxon Morales
Let me add: do you still have it? I do. The humbuckers are rusty so it sounds even crappier than it did new. I bet I could have new ones installed and change a couple of other pieces on it and make it better.
Jaxson Gutierrez
Looks like they still make guitars with the name starcaster but its a $700 semi hollowbody.
Colton Russell
Starcaster here:
I do but all the electronics were so poorly soldered that the wiring has come loose and it no longer works. I opened it up a few months ago too see if I could fix it and I just ended up pulling the rest of the wiring apart with minimal effort. Not worth breaking out the soldering kit desu.
Luis Powell
Hell yea Lake Placid Blue mothefucker, did you get this off Reverb? I saw one for $550 the other day and was gunna jump on it until I saw this vintage 1970s one here for $650.
Hunter Brown
Also wtf I specifically remember not typing desu at the end of that. This shit has been happening all the time I write sentences and then after I post I realize I used some weird Sup Forums term. What a fucking weird brain glitch to have.
Carson Gomez
>starting a new thread before the old one reaches bump limit
YOURE TEARING ME APART
John Morgan
The other two guys have the right idea but the 40 isn't the best choice. Try for the 200w-500w models if you're with a band. I'm currently trying to sell my Ampeg PF-500 and Acoustic 4x10 bass cab for an easy p-z Fender Rumble 500 for our mini tour
Ayden Perry
no pics but rate my pedalboard:
cry baby wah -> ehx east river drive -> hall of fame reverb -> boss ns2 noise gate -> tce ditto x2 looper
Xavier Cooper
thanks, i'll look into something on those lines
Adrian Bailey
Sup guys, moved finally into new place with the gal, sorry for the mess in the picture but got mostly everything set up.
the Bugera head we dont even use that often, just too fucking loud and I use the Bassbreaker more just for the tone. Thinking about ABYing the Bugera's distortion and the Model B pedal I have though for some super thick tones.
it's a filter for when you type shit like f a m or t b h or something.
Jackson Hill
not sure what this will be worth, but i have a 150 and i dont turn the volume past a 1. the guy i got it from said he would play shows on 4.
Carter Rodriguez
>it's a filter for when you type shit like f a m or t b h or something.
I had no idea that was a thing. I thought I was going crazy for like a month now ha
Luke Hughes
baka desu senpai
Aiden Hall
Yes, usual rule of thumb for bass is minimum 100w (for SS) for playing with a band. 40w is not enough. 200W is good. 300w+ is kinda overkill unless you're playing large venues.
Connor Jenkins
When practicing with a metronome are you supposed to focus on it or is it supposed to be more of a subconscious thing. I struggle with focusing on it kinda like how its hard to sing and play at the same time especially with fast leads.
Hudson Baker
>check some videos of a guitar im considering to buy >only generic shredding is played on them
fuck me
Bentley Long
>Look up videos of 6505mh >only people reviewing it are blues/rawk dads only using the crunch channel and complaining about how the lead channel has too much gain.
literally 10x worse famalam
Austin Bennett
Once I tune into my tempo, it becomes second nature, but I played drums before guitar so that may make it easier. It may be easier if you lay down drum tracks to the metronome before guitar tracks.
Logan Ramirez
If I can hear the tick of the metronome am I off time? In an ideal situation should I be playing over it?
Jose Perez
>watching guitar demo >"now I'm gonna play some metal" >tunes to drop B and starts chugging and doing pinch harmonics
Jayden Moore
Honestly I have never used a metronome in my life and I somehow can still play perfectly with my friends band. I just kinda wanted to better myself a little.
keep practicing and you'll learn to internalize it after hearing the first four beats, then you'll kind of hear it in the background as a reference point
its also beneficial to learn to count in your head
Luke Young
>using this picture constantly in every thread >not changing the filename
o I am laffin
Landon Adams
>bass demo >fully half of the video is slap bass
Slap is no good for getting any kind of idea of what a bass sounds like. Slap pretty much sounds the same on all basses unless it's fretless or the thing has flatwound strings on it. It's kinda like watching a drum demo for a bass drum and the guy doing the demo plays a much of super fast double pedal stuff.
Charles Davis
Give me 3 good reasons not to.
Alexander Lopez
> play surf > Amps known for thier Reverb aren't showcased further than clean blues with a bit of dwell > guitars like Jaguars and Jazzmasters are playing some alt rock or indie song and if pedals are involved it's ambient shoegaze
Oliver Diaz
It could have a longer scale but it doesn't so don't buy it
Jordan Carter
>Playing in B standard >Only own les paul scale guitars
end my suffering and cut my g strings user's
Nicholas Edwards
my first guitar was some stagg student acoustic with a built in tuner. it's still laying around somewhere. terrible action and it sounded like a slinky, but i guess it was good enough to keep me interested. first electric was a laguna from a guitar/combo pack. didn't sound great but played surprisingly nice. that one is in the hands of a friend who wanted a guitar to mess around with now. almost wish i still had it just to keep around in drop B but oh well.
Jacob Gonzalez
>china >cant play it before you buy it >you havent found one person online who can comment on its quality, especially someone who's played for more than a year >returns will probably be a major pain in the ass
Jaxon Stewart
which guitar?
Matthew Powell
Those arent even chinese
Brayden Peterson
>buy really nice single cut with duncans >play for 2 more months and all i want is a tele just fuck my shit up
Joseph Powell
I can't figure out the notes in this song for the life of me as simple as it is. There are only 4 of them
I had an Ibanez Atk 300 bass for a while but my first guitar was a MiM strat
Ethan Gray
I started playing my grandmothers acoustic chibson dove, first i owned was a really small first act acoustic. Normal size neck, but small body. Then i got a galveston super strat. Drive 20watt combo amp. That was many years ago, i can barely remembered how bad they sounded. Next amp was a rouge 120r, i had a behreinger "ultra metal pedal" and blues something. First was cause i needed more distortion than the amp gave(and wut haz moar distortion than metuhl?) and the second was cause i was trying to get the guitar sound from a dag nasty song called "the ambulance song." Both pedals sucked, it was all awful.
Joseph Myers
DCBC
Cameron Roberts
Is there any drawback to using a guitar amp head with a bass guitar? Would it work well with a bass cab?
Easton Bailey
riff challenge: you must play exactly 2 notes simultaneously whenever you are playing a note. ie no single notes and no chords
Christian Long
Why do people bitch about bolt-on necks so much in guitar reviews? I strongly prefer them, I've always found them to be more rigid and have slightly longer string sustain.
Wyatt Wood
cause elitism
Nathaniel Wright
China is objectively the best country to get budget guitars from right now. Indonesia and korea are quickly becomimg the new chink shit countries. Taiwan has always been native people spldering by rubbing two sticks together on top of a circuit board.
Michael Powell
Also thE fact that if it gets broken it'll only cost $200-$400 to replace and the rest of the guitar is fine
Landon Green
Those are the same people who are afraid to touch a screwdriver
Christopher Peterson
Because guitarists are generally the most logically ass-backwards people you'll ever meet. They're all so confident and full of themselves that they need to present an opinion on everything even though that "opinion" is wrong nine times out of ten. Most of them don't even understand what they're gaining or losing from a set neck, they've just read "set neck" in a list of pros on some other guitar review.
Caleb Green
holy crap you paid $650 for that?
Hunter Jones
Reply to this post if youre like me and realize you should have spent your time learning an instrument that you could have either easily earned money off of or could actually convey real emotion with. You could throw a rock into a crowd and hit a talented guitar player, youll look under every rock in the county to find a talented violin player and only find a mediocre one. A sax player can make you feel a certain way by playing one note, the only way a guitar player can move a crowd is with a perfectly timed bend to a high note. Dont even get me started on piano, where guitar and vass can be replaced by one person with a better result. I bet there's at least one person out there that will say im wrong but wont be able argue against me aside from a youtube link or just outright accusing this of being bait. Face it, guitar is a dead instrument that shouldnt have lasted as long as it did.
Colton Martinez
GRX 40 for me.
Didn't even have a whammy bar. It was this one. Was a real piece of shit. Still have it at my parents house.
Ian Taylor
>whammy bar Like guitarist need help being out of key or out of tune
Charles Gonzalez
bait
Ethan Hughes
(You)
Thomas Parker
but guitar is fun and all the music i listen to is guitar music
also you contradict yourself >an instrument that you ... could actually convey real emotion with >a guitar player can move a crowd ... with a perfectly timed bend to a high note
Nicholas Rodriguez
(You)
Chase Sanders
I love sugizo guitars but I cant really blow $4,000 on a piece of wood anymore, I already have an S3 sustainer and an S1 mixmedia both cost me nearly 5k
Camden Ross
can someone explain what the difference between a chord and note on a single string is? asking for a friend.
Like I get that if you play certain strings together it makes a "c chord" but what makes this different from a regular c note? How does playing 4-5 strings together make the same sound as one string? You're not even hitting the same frets. Does hitting them at the same time somehow cancel out and end up as the same sound? How did someone figure this out?
I thought maybe a c-chord and c-note might be fundamentally different, but whether I play one string or a whole chord my tuner picks it up as the same note. What gives? How does it know?
If anyone could explain this without getting into music theory that would help. Asking for a friend who asked me and I couldn't explain it.
Adam Bailey
for what purpose would a guitarist put the bridge of a fender strat all the way down (read: against the body)?
Ian Sanchez
Look up what harmony means, that'll answer your question.
You mean when using the whammy bar? What kind of question is that?
Ryder Price
That's why I love being a keys player. Once a band offered me a larger cut of the pay for a gig because they were so desperate to find someone who could do it.
That said I don't think guitar is dead, but it is severely overplayed. It's still a fun instrument, but being a guitarist means never being useful to anyone because even virtuoso guitarists are a dime a dozen. The age of EDM is pushing into the background but I think it'll have a comeback someday, even if there's nothing new to do with them.
Ryan Morris
a note is a single pitch
a chord is a group of notes in harmony
on guitar you also use 'improved triads', where one or two notes are repeated in the chord, instead of C E G you have C E G C E
Daniel Lee
how do you mean?
Nathaniel Davis
>that Korg
That keyboard looks miserable to play
Jackson Bennett
i'll take a shot and help ya as best I can, boss. A chord is made of individual notes, as an example the C Major chord has C-E-G in it. The C note is just that, a note. I'm not entirely sure why you think the C note sounds exactly like the C chord - yes it has the C bass and octave note in it, but it is also made up of E (and it's octave) and G notes. As for the tuner, it is likely picking up the first note you strike, and not the ones following it, hence why you are getting the C note to appear.
Isaiah Bennett
All my Strats are set this way. With the bridge locked down you can bend one string without the other strings going flat as the bridge rises up under the increased string tension. Trem bridges are for 12 year olds.
Colton Bennett
No not the whammy bar, like I literally saw a fender strat that didn't have the bar in it, but the bridge was literally set all the way down against the body.
Isaiah Perez
if im understanding you correctly it just sounds like they locked it down tight so they wouldnt have to worry about it. some people dont like using the wammo bar.
Caleb Hernandez
Yeah that. Also some people argue having the tremolo 'engaged' (to be used at any time, unlike what you're describing where they've locked it down) can cause the guitar to go out of tune. I've never had issues with it myself.
Caleb Wright
That sounds about right; I've never seen that before. What benefit does locking it down tight have?
Easton Martinez
if you've never heard a trem knock a guitar out of tune then you either have the finest trem system known to man or no ability to judge pitch
David Davis
this
Parker Martinez
tremolos are shit
those who use them always OVER use them
John Turner
I mean, I tune my Strat everyday and it stays in tune according to my tuner, so I don't know man.
Also to add above, so much as touching the bridge can cause notes to go sharp, I had a huge issue with that when I was playing a guitar with a floyd rose. Maybe people want to avoid that too.
Personally I love tremolo, can add a bit of colour to some things.
Luke Bennett
it basically turns it into a fixed bridge. you dont have to worry about balancing the screws in the back with the string tension and all that.
Jayden Hernandez
With a trem bridge there's no way of doing these bends
Push the G string up a tone and a half and the E and B will go flat. That Strat is hardtailed with five springs, the claw tightened up and a piece of wood under the bridge glock so the bridge doesn't ever move.
Dylan Gutierrez
so a fixed bridge is like a hardtail, yeah?
thank you
Aaron Richardson
>glock
block durr
Jace Brown
exactly
Dylan Wilson
If it's a well made instrument and you don't know how to maintain them there's no problem, but on a cheap guitar whammy bars are definitely a huge pain in the ass.
Brody Collins
Just tried it and you're right. Never really noticed that. I don't often perform like that though, I wouldn't consider it a huge issue. I'd prefer the option of tremolo to be available than to not have that issue.
Brody Parker
>They don't like harmonic floyd wankery
Getcha pull!!
Jayden Diaz
You sometimes get away with a tone bed on the G if you use light strings but I always play 10-46 and bend them all over the shop. That would pull a trem bridge up in the air and throw the tuning right out immediately.
Benjamin Cox
i really dont know why people even bother with trems
what do you want to do? stupid dive bombs? shake chords? they are a pain in the ass to deal with and just aren't worth it
Logan Hill
wait so if i get a fender strat, and fix the bridge for tuning stability, do I need to get locking tuners as well?
