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pebble444
Italy2498 Posts
If you have more than 1 guitar, its better to have your guitar set up in a tuning, like keeping 1 guitar in 1 tune and another in another. And you should always have a "six pack" of strings available for backup. there not that expensive. i have 2 sets of six, one at home and one in my guitar bag. DAGGAD is much more fun for me for example: | ||
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docvoc
United States5491 Posts
 . Does anyone on here have experience with the NYXL or other types of "boutique" strings? I'm thinking of investing in a pair when I get my guitar worked on tomorrow so I don't have to change strings for a while, this really saddened me that this didn't work out like I wanted. | ||
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Brindled
United States508 Posts
What kind of difference does it make? | ||
Teoita
Italy12246 Posts
Tone knobs are wiered differently on different guitar models. Gibson-style controls have one tone knob (ie, one different pot) for each pickup, so you can have different settings when you swap between them. Telecasters have one master tone that affects both pickups. "Vintage"-wired stratocaters have one tone for the middle pickup, one for the neck, and none for the bridge, while more modern-style models have (i think), bridge+neck together on one pot and middle on the other pot. Other models have different wirings still. | ||
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Teoita
Italy12246 Posts
Tube amps are generally way more responsive to the volume control than solid state amps, but other than that, that's what tone knobs do. | ||
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Brindled
United States508 Posts
This not only gave me extra knowledge, but is also gonna help me out in what to look for in making an amp purchase! Thanks for the informative response Teoita. | ||
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WombaT
Northern Ireland26031 Posts
I take care of my babies, know friends who treat their guitars like shit and they never let them down, both of my main guitars have gone strange. With my Ibanez I swapped out the stock bridge pup for a Bareknuckle WarPig, but recently I can't switch to the neck pickup, at all. With my other the input jack appears to have shifted, I can't get a full response when going through an amp with the jack fully in, I have to sort of half insert it and wiggle it a bit. Anyway, any ideas? I'm pretty terrible with all things electronic or practical to a certain degree. Ideally if it is something simple I would have a go, because in truth my guitars have always developed more issues after I put them in for work than before. | ||
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Jockmcplop
United Kingdom9716 Posts
This might solve your jack issues. | ||
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Teoita
Italy12246 Posts
but recently I can't switch to the neck pickup, at all. What do you mean can't switch at all? Does the guitar go mute, or is the bridge pickup always active no matter what the position of the pickup selector is? | ||
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renoB
United States170 Posts
It was the picture on my desktop for a year, and when it finally came up for sale I had to have it. + Show Spoiler + ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/jgmjLfr.jpg) ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/9kMrhIk.jpg) ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/2ir56EP.jpg) ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/Cg43mYG.jpg) ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/q8s3f1kl.jpg) Also just picked up an axe fx ultra. So I'm going to be working on recording some stuff with another guitarist. Stay tuned. | ||
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LeperKahn
Romania1846 Posts
On October 08 2014 14:59 renoB wrote: Long time no post. I got this carvin a few months ago, and I thought it'd make your mouth's water :D It was the picture on my desktop for a year, and when it finally came up for sale I had to have it. + Show Spoiler + Also just picked up an axe fx ultra. So I'm going to be working on recording some stuff with another guitarist. Stay tuned. is the space in the middle in case you want to add another pickup? @v That happened on my new guitar from last year as well. I told the store that sold it to me and they fixed it easy. I think it has to do with something being grounded that shouldn't be. | ||
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WombaT
Northern Ireland26031 Posts
On October 05 2014 17:26 Teoita wrote: What do you mean can't switch at all? Does the guitar go mute, or is the bridge pickup always active no matter what the position of the pickup selector is? Yeah it mutes entirely now. For a while there I could switch things around, but the neck was a good bit quieter. I'll probably have to just pay someone to look at things, I really have so little time of late and I want my babies back. @jock cheers man! | ||
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Teoita
Italy12246 Posts
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NihiLStarcraft
Denmark1413 Posts
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NihiLStarcraft
Denmark1413 Posts
So, next question: what string gauges are you using? And what brands? I'm on Ernie Ball .9s at the moment and very happy with the feeling of these very thin strings when it comes to lead and solo playing, bends are awesome and easy. I miss thick lower strings for hard-rock/metal riffing and rhythm playing but... oh well. Doesn't sound as good with thinner strings but it's not like it sounds bad either. I've also tried Ernie Ball Top Skinny Bottom Heavy strings but they don't play nice with my Floyd Rose tremolo unfortunately (plus they do feel a little bit weird)... :p | ||
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WombaT
Northern Ireland26031 Posts
Ibanez with Floyd because I HATE restringing those things. I'd actually grind this thread hard if I had the time to play and do various musical things of late. This was me at my 'peak' and I have other vids up that channel if you folks fancy perusing them. | ||
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LeperKahn
Romania1846 Posts
On October 21 2014 08:02 NihiLStarcraft wrote: Man why is this thread so dead? :p I'd really like to get some more guitar discussions going. So, next question: what string gauges are you using? And what brands? I'm on Ernie Ball .9s at the moment and very happy with the feeling of these very thin strings when it comes to lead and solo playing, bends are awesome and easy. I miss thick lower strings for hard-rock/metal riffing and rhythm playing but... oh well. Doesn't sound as good with thinner strings but it's not like it sounds bad either. I've also tried Ernie Ball Top Skinny Bottom Heavy strings but they don't play nice with my Floyd Rose tremolo unfortunately (plus they do feel a little bit weird)... :p Agreed! I use .10s on the electric. Pretty sure they are ernie ball. I like em, but don't think about them much. I just restrung my acoustic, and I like how it feels much more. There were stock strings on it and now I've got elixirs light on that one. I love the way it plays now, but I think it has a much more "clangy" sound. Also I feel like there is less sustain. There is a song I love to play, Kansas City + Hey Hey Hey, but it requires holding G7 for a significant portion of the song. You also do quite a bit of pinky motion. The barre chords wasn't so bad, but with the pinky it just kills my wrist. Any suggestions? Further questions: How do you all solo? I started with blues scale and I'm now working with arpeggios. My teacher is trying to get me to use a variety of scales within a single piece, but it's very hard to keep all of the scales straight while I'm playing. What have you guys done to get better at this? | ||
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WombaT
Northern Ireland26031 Posts
I'm not the most versed in theory but do know a bit mind, but I do think knowing scales is useful, applying them regularly is what makes them stick. | ||
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NihiLStarcraft
Denmark1413 Posts
About soloing: the biggest thing I can think of on guitar is to not get stuck in the 'blues box'. I knew this was an issue of mine for a long time but still somehow barely ever bothered to break out. I knew the blues box (5th fret in A), the shape one lower and one higher on the neck (3rd and 8th fret in A). Later I also learned the one-string-higher position (the one at the 12th fret in A). But I still wasn't capable of really connecting them properly. Took me a long time to realize sitting down and learning ALL the boxes is something you NEED to do and properly. No idea if you've already done this step of course, I assume you have. Then I add the 'additional' notes for the aeolian ('normal' minor) scale into the skeleton that the pentatonic, across the entire neck, gives me. And that's pretty much where I am right now. | ||
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Teoita
Italy12246 Posts
I used to go with D'Addarios for a very long time for some reason but found Ernie Balls to just subjectively feel better somehow. Same here! I used Ernie Ball 10's on everything now. Regaring soloing, yep i've also been stuck forever on blues scales. Recently i've started to figure out how to switch between major and minor pentatonic, and adding on 9ths and 6th notes and whatnot, and it really is a whole new world. 9ths especially sound fucking awesome to me, not sure why  | ||
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