>tfw no expensive guitar pile to come home to at night
Dylan Morgan
Just got this today. I now see what owning a Fender means.
Lincoln Bennett
>what owning a Fender means
"damn, I wish I bought a G&L instead"
Jaxson Wright
how do you guys get an intuitive sense for the fretboard? i know theory and i can drill scale shapes and stuff, but it doesn't really help me play what i hear in my head.
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Robert Hughes
You get so used to playing the shapes of the scale that you instinctively know where to get a particular melody
Zachary Lopez
When you're practicing scales, arpeggios, and licks slowly, sing the pitch of each note as it goes by.
Brody Jackson
>got a $1000 bass loaded with EMGs >got a decent class-D 400w head >got a decent 2x10 cab >got a compressor pedal >got a distortion pedal >got a tube-like overdrive pedal >still cannot get a decent aggro sound out of the damn thing
There are days like this when I feel frustrated beyond words
Caleb Wood
>buying all of that when you only need a B7K
Jaxon Brooks
b7k is not the sound I want. listen to this, bass kick in at exactly 1 minute mark. disregard the music and just listen to the tone itself. thats crunchy and tight beyond darkglass territory.
Why buy a practice amp when a USB audio interface + decent software will get you way better sound than a shitty Line 6 Spider?
Andrew Hernandez
yeah the pickups are weak and the wiring is total shit along with the pots and switch, but the guitars themselves are solid and well made and actually very resonant. With a few mods you can have a sweet little axe that you arent afraid to have stolen or destroyed.
these threads are really in the shitter at this point
sage
Carter Fisher
affinity tele really is an aberration i think they go for around $200 but they feel similar in quality to american teles i dont get it
Leo Collins
holy shit
Adam Nelson
outside of fret work, rolling the fingerboard, and better hardware there's not a lot you can do to improve a fender guitar
if you get a squire that "feels" like an american you have found a needle in a haystack and there's no shame in upgrading all of the shitty Chinese parts in it
Kayden Diaz
I don't really like his signature headstock, but damn, I want that RD. I tried an Eastwood, but it didn't feel good. When the fuck is Gibson reissuing those.
Sebastian James
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Matthew Thomas
>roland G3K >burl top >leds >sympathetic strings meme as fuck
Aaron King
they are pretty sick
Carter Bailey
>replying to bait
Nathan Jenkins
The old school ones from 2000 were 24.75 scale with floyds
Jeremiah Long
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Evan Gray
> mfw she says she likes strats
Joseph Sullivan
Hey, I'm new to guitar so I'm learning all the NMH songs for practice and I was wondering-
His guitar on Communist Daughter and Engine doesn't necessarily make a "ringing" noise- it sounds like he's sort of muting it at the end of the chord. How can I make my guitar sound like that?
Daniel Johnson
Either lift your fingers from the fretboard or place your picking hand on the strings
Christian Perez
The fuck is Engine?
Jack Diaz
unplug it when you want the chord to stop
Jaxon Reyes
what the fuck is nmh
Luis Cooper
>Single coils That looks so wrong
Juan Brooks
bait or not im objectively correct
Isaac Hall
NEutral Meme Hotel
Oliver Hill
it's like a girl cock so wroong yet so sexy
Aiden Collins
Okay, placing my hand on the strings seems to work despite the weird rhythm. Thanks.
Jaxon Miller
just play tons and tons honestly. after like a decade+ of playing your ear starts to train itself
Ryder Murphy
Do this Basically pay attention to the pitch of the notes you're playing on the fretboard, that is training your ear
>2 seconds in >guitar nowhere near in tune >close tab
there's no fucking excuse, tuners cost fuck nothing these days
Jaxon Edwards
I have a few questions. 1. What would cause a sudden change in my bass's tone? I've been fiddling with the knobs on my amp and my bass's active eq the last few days trying to get a tone I like. Found what I wanted after a while. I unplug my bass and turn off my amp, come back a while later and get everything set up, and I swear it wasn't sounding the same as I left it. Is this normal? Should I switch out my battery? Could it be my amp?
2. How much time sent practicing a day is good for a beginner who really wants to make notable progress after hitting a plateau? I've been playing bass since early november, and while I made some strides at first, it seems like I've stalled. I also kinda lapse back into having bad technique and not being able to keep my hands co-ordinated a while into my practice sessions. Is this all normal? I've been trying for an hour a day split up into two 30 min segments, is that enough?
3.How much of an effect does cleaning your ears after not doing it for a real long time have on your hearing?
4. How important is sticking to fret hand technique as you see it on a lot of these online bass lesson sites? I'm trying for the thumb across from middle finger technique, but eventually my thumb ends up across from my pointer finger as I play. Is this bad? Also, I've noticed it's hard to press two strings on the same fret in rapid succession without completely lifting up the other side of my hand and "levering" off my thumb if that makes sense. Is that something I need to practice out of doing?
Jose Sullivan
1. 2. 10000 hours 3. 10000 hours 4.
Levi Wilson
I do have a tuner but the guitar is shit its not worth tuning After 0:30 theres voice to distract from the untuned guitar, put on 0:30
funny song You get it with a strat's or telecaster's bridge pickup through a bright amp setting
Colton Torres
>I do have a tuner but the guitar is shit its not worth tuning Another piece of wisdom from /gg/
Sebastian Ward
Yeah now will you rate my singing
Gabriel Sanchez
>I do have a tuner but the guitar is shit its not worth tuning
Xavier Perez
I didn't even listen to it. That attitude is enough to tell me you're shit
Jose Nelson
>the guitar is shit its not worth tuning
Camden Moore
all those things need hardware wise is one of these wilkinsons they accommodate both top load and string thru
Luke Jackson
Sometimes it's nice to not be tethered to the computer
William Mitchell
I've owned
>TC Nova Repeater >TC Flashback X4 >Walrus Bellwether >Noisemaker Nebula >EHX Memory Boy >Boss DD3 & DD7 >Seymour Duncan Vapor Trail >Earthquaker Afterneath >Earthquaker Disaster Transport Jr.
Of all those, I still come back to the tried and true Carbon Copy. It's literally the GOAT delay.
Ryan Ross
Even poor guitarists love to waste money
Oliver Diaz
>USB audio interface + decent software you can do this????????
Jason Lopez
>being this pleb It's one of their best fucking songs
the third verse always used to make me cry as a younger man
Chase Moore
What is so good about it? Looking for a delay and was thinking DD7
Kevin Fisher
uh yes, modeling tech has been great for years now, even the free shit
get a behringer um2 if you're just playing in your room, and have your output be a pair of studio monitors or headphones. set it up and find good software (I can recommend if you get curious)
Adam Turner
top kek this retard over here
well /gg/?
John Russell
DD7 is a digital delay, it has a lot more features than an analog delay.
Carbon copy is an analog delay, some people swear by analog.
I prefer the dd7 cause i can do cooler things with it with little effort.
James Lopez
Depends on what you want. I ended up coming back because I wanted a good, warm analog sound with a set-and-forget interface. I can find my setting, leave it, and with some playing dynamics and use of the volume knob it's exactly the delay I need at any time.
Some people like the DD7 sound better, and it's got FAR more versatility at the price point. However, if I have a ton of options I can't stop tweaking shit and just be happy. Also, the analog/mod on that is super strong.
There are plenty of good ones. The CC just gives me exactly what I need, doesn't break, doesn't need any more input. Mark my settings, be happy forever.
I use delay mostly for solos or swells, so one setting can hit both with my reverb added in.
Christian Rodriguez
>goat delay >doesn't even have a fucking tap tempo
bedroom players need not apply when it comes to naming GOAT gear
Robert Moore
anyone have any experience/recommendations with compressors?
i just want something clean for tapping
Lincoln Rivera
Have fun setting slapback with a tap
Evan Kelly
post your "gigging" rig. Timestamp needed.
Caleb Hughes
>get any compressor >turn it to compress >??? do your tapping Theres no secret any compressor will do
Angel Walker
i never really knew these existed
so i plug my guitar into that then i plug that into my pc then what i play comes out into my headphones? with absolutely no delay?
Liam Martin
You don't really need tap tempo if you're only using it as am ambient effect like most analog delays.
Noah Allen
ok thanks i will get this then
Eli Sanchez
Keeley makes great compressors.
Isaiah Anderson
it will do fine just do a quick search on it to see if its not absolute crap with noisey bypass
Carson Robinson
I really like this one, especially price wise.
I can run a spray gun non stop, and run a grinder or sander for about 15 minutes non stop before it cant keep up
Dominic Rogers
What do those little red squares on fx schematics mean?
Austin Jenkins
then you just use the time knob
tap tempo isn't the only way to time delay on real pedals
Jack Sanchez
On the right? Cut the trace
Camden Ross
posting hot fucking guitar
Grayson Cox
Also, if this is your first build i'd start with something simpler. Delays are pretty complex, hard to troubleshoot. Troubleshooting is important, because it won't work the first time. Vero seems easier, but its much easier to get a short or bridge than perfboard or an actual pcb.
Guitar pcb has an "analog" delay board for like $7, and for an extra $25 you can buy stuff to give it a tap tempo.
They both use the same ic
Ryan Ross
Like remove those blocks from the circuit board?
Isaiah Scott
charvel is basically metal fender
Christopher Wright
Thank you for the advice. I was actually gonna start with a fuzz, but that pic was just the one I had handy on my phone.
Justin Campbell
are cream/black zebra duncans the most aesthetically pleasing pickup ever? yes.
Bentley Mitchell
Yeah. You can use a razor or exacto. I like to use a small drill bit in the hole first, makes it harder to get a solder bridge, but also makes it harder to patch if you cut it in the wrong spot
Jordan Price
Oh yeah, fuzz face or mammoth are dirt easy(pun not intneded). Tim Escobedo(sp?) has a couple cool fuzz circuits that are pretty straight forward. Muffs clones are much more complex, my second build was a mk 1 swollen pickle and it took me over a week of troubleshooting. I wasnt unfamiliar with electronics by any means, but just never did audio before.
Elijah Torres
>1 It could be ear fatigue. In mixing, it's when you think you have a really good sound but only because your ears are so used to it that you can't really be objective any more. Then when you take a break for a few hours or a day, you come back and it no longer sounds good. Same thing can happen with dialing in a tone. Or it could be your battery. Might as well swap it out anyway if it's been a while
>2 You could practice every waking hour if you really wanted to as long as you keep your hands stretched and aren't using harmful improper techniques. That's what a lot of the greats used to do. One hour a day isn't bad, but you won't be progressing super fast at that rate. I used to practice 5-6 hours daily when I was young and had the time and nothing else to do.
>3 I'm not an ear doctor, but as long as you don't have wax obstructing your ears and you don't damage your eardrum while cleaning you should be fine
>4 You don't need to be super strict about keeping your thumb behind the middle finger. You should be fine as long as your thumb doesn't stray too far out of position and you can switch back quickly and comfortably when you need to do a big stretch. As for the "levering" thing, some movements will naturally make your other fingers want to pop way off the fretboard. It can kill speed and accuracy if you don't fix it. You should practice keeping your fingers close and not make unnecessary movements. Do it really slow with a metronome and focus on keeping your hand loose and close to the fretboard
Anthony Hill
a pair of humbuckers, what should I choose, Duncan or DiMarzio? don't recommend other brands, don't wanna buy them
James Richardson
duncan, sh-4 bridge, sh-1 neck
Asher White
Duncan for the vintage clones
Leo Brooks
This is an old project i never boxed, if you can look closely with the shitty image quality, 2 strips from one side and 3 from the other, there are 2 circles where i drilled out the trace.
Angel Richardson
BOSS really hit it out of the fucking park with this amp. This is a game changer, lads
Camden Barnes
ok, how about dimarzio tone zone and air norton I really like tone zone sounds because I prefer maple alder basswood superstrat guitars, what's some duncan which sounds close to tz.
Julian Harris
Your parents have never been so impressed by your tone
Elijah Powell
Just read the glowing reviews on The Gear Page, Rig-Talk and Gearslutz
