/gg/ - Guitar & Bass General

>How do I start learning guitar/bass?
justinguitar.com/
studybass.com/
>Guitar chords and inversions
chordbook.com/guitar-chords/
>String tension calculator (D'Addario):
stringtensionpro.com/
>Music theory:
musictheory.net/lessons
>Guitar Maintenance and other information:
frudua.com/guitar_craftpedia_en.html
youtube.com/channel/UCXU3GYv5qEzuPePqXOJBgXw
>Why is my guitar buzzing?
frets.com/FretsPages/Luthier/Technique/Setup/BuzzDiagnosis/buzzlist.html
>Large repository of tabs, books and other resources related to playing and theory:
mega.nz/#F!v2oQgKhB!5nEaeUD8xxQYO8ipUoViqw

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Ugly John Mayer

>tfw you see yourself in the mirror with a genuine Gibson™ Les Paul Standard for the first time

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user this isn't normal, you aren't an anime girl

>and realiza you're an absolute faggot boomer

>tfw you see yourself in the mirror with the right gender for the first time

>tfw you hear that genuine Gibson™ Les Paul Standard tone coming from your amp for the first time

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>tfw

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I bow to the charvel custom shop HS

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looks like it wants to be ikea furniture

you bow so your booty hole can be exposed for violation

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so, an extra grand for yellow pickups? Dimarzio sells them for a lot less.

Anyone like fender strat thru an orange amp

website?

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>orgasmic cleans
>humbuckers

no gramps, we all play strandbergs through line 6s here

Govan said he switched over to based Gibson™ a couple of weeks ago because vintage 50s style humbuckers provided a cleaner base to build high gain tones with his Fractal Axe-FX II!

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delet this post

You mean gibson paid him to buy their guitar instead of just doing a pickup swap and he's currently enjoying slightly more endorsement money than he did before

Never trust a fusion player

>tfw only a Gibson™ is good enough

That picture is from three years ago fren

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Kys sjw fgt.

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That's not a Halo

Cuckservatives will never recover
youtu.be/dUI2mjMGFM4

When you want suhr aesthetics for the same price but with shitty quality

WTF are you talking about? I want to know what site came from

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It's from my vaporwave bandcamp

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GUITAR IS TURNING YOU GAY

the qualities not there, but the designer is pretty in-depth, you can shitpost with the tackiest giits

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Uwu

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>turning

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Beginner here. Is using my pinky finger as an anchor (having it always lightly pressing the pickboard) while picking bad form?

Your picking hand should always be floating

Or it should be anchored. Depends on who you ask. It all comes down to personal preference.

both incorrect

So just choose one method and stick to it? I pick worse when it's floating.

no you idiot

Then what?

Are Sheratons nicer than D'Angelico's?

yes

I did that when I first started because that's how my first guitar teacher taught me. My second one made me break the habit.
It's a decent way to learn if you're a complete beginner. But as soon as you play any intermediate-level stuff it's going to be very limiting.

Thank you. I'll stop doing it.

Plenty of pro players anchor. It's just a preference. If something works for you, then it can't be wrong.

Discord when...

Who anchors?
Not being a dick, legitimately curious.

All of Ted Nugent's guitars are worn in the same spot from anchoring during chuggy rhythm guitar. That chuggy rhythm intro to Stranglehold? Anchoring.

>t.

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anyone know anything about blade guitars?

Pic related, you can see it to the right of the bridge pickup.

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I place my pinky along the underside of whatever pickup is active for control. works for me.
it may not be proper but at least i'm not anchoring my thumb along the top edge of the neck like superbads.

Michael Angel Batio, Alex Lahio, Kirk Hammet, Joe Satriani, Dave Mustaine, Chris Shiflett, John Petrucci, Jeff Loomis. I can keep going.

This one, too.

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Batio is such a fucking hack
He's the equivalent of a nigger being better at rack because "muh twitch muscles"

He's still a pro

Of all these guys I'd rather listen to Loomis and Petrucci
The rest can suck a dick. Boring players.

Interesting. Anchorman if you're still reading this, do what's comfortable.Or at least look elsewhere for advice.

nigger

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well. mustaine for downpicked rhythm

congrats user
post pp

how can a school girl afford a les paul

Her friend and fellow club/band member is the daughter of the owner of the music store she bought it at for an absurd discount.

mugi negotiated it down to $500 and she borrowed money from ui

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k

Still here. I'll just use both when appropriate.

I know for a fact loomis floats

How does a schoolgirl afford a $5000+ fully custom ESP M-II?

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He switches, like most people. There's plenty of pics of him doing both.

Sucking old wrinkly cocks

cosplay patreon, probably

I JAMMED OUT TONIGHT. WHAT YOU FAGGOTS DO BESIDES POST ANIME PICTURES?

>t. dean buyers remorse

>not a horizon
why i'll never watch bang dream

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hardtail or the highway, bud

tremolos are for losers who can't bend the neck

lol still not gonna watch bang dream

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i did both, suck my dick

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I mean I jammed out with other people. Not by myself

Okay that's fine, the CGI is pretty bad anyways and it's more of a video game than an anime, but now I want a horizon when I was already saving up for a strandberg original 7.

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I'm a broke bedroom warrior using plugins and a line 6 spider to play. Is the Boss Katana a meme for gigging? Its got effects and shit built in and I could get a couple pedals to help it out.

lol and all looked at each other like this when you started playing

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you are now imagining three neckbeards randomly shredding pentatonic boxes through boutique pedals

I actually got compliments.
Sorry baby i dont use pedals.

Get a marshall origin instead.

vocaroo.com/i/s1hepaDJ6dzx
imagine three or four of these in one room
>I actually got compliments
they thought it was amazing you were brave enough to be out considering you forgot your helmet or something?

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CALM DOWN FAGGOTS THAT POST WAS NOT FOR YOU

lmao hey what kind of jam session is over before 10:30pm my guy? did they tell you they were packing it in hoping you'd go home so they could keep playing without you or something?

You almost sound jealous my man.

ABSOLUTELY SEETHING

imagine three or four of these in one room

vocaroo.com/i/s0S7kVeytGrS

What's a good guide for transposing notes?

I have a tablature but there are parts where notes are 10 freaking frets apart, makes no sense to play that but maybe if I move it an octave I can play it.

Not him but you do understand you'd have to be able to play before could anyone could take you seriously, right? For goodness sake even Sam mogs you, you ought to be ashamed of yourself.

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NICE PROJECTION. 10/10 SORRY YOU'RE NOT WANTED SOCIALLY.

WE'VE ALL HEARD YOU "PLAY" YOU SHOULD GET A NEW HOBBY

I rear my palm just above the strings for fast riffs and stuff. idk if that’s right but it feels ok to me

THIS IS THE HOMOSEXUALITY TAKING ROOT, DON'T BE A VICTIM!

>he replied twice
lol that one got under your skin a little huh?

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i been watching this one in my ebay for the last few months

durn 4got my pic

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Tuners at the bottom look funny, I insist.

they're also impossible to turn by hand

terrible but better than

yea i dont dig on the black hardware either
>tfw spending $1500+ on a mememachine
>just to replace the hardware and pickups as soon as it arrives
i know better thats why i havent pulled the trigger yet. i'd like a fanned 7 to play with tunings but dot dot dot

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Just move your hand over, it's not piano that shit's easy on guitar

don't buy the djent stick if your heart is not as black and dirty as the notes you're going to play and you aren't prepared for your guitar to match that

youtube.com/watch?v=KC5H9P4F5Uk

the bit at 4:26 really butters my biscuit especially

They are played at the same time.

But nevermind, I will be learning this version instead:

songsterr.com/a/wsa/claude-debussy-clair-de-lune-j-edwards-arr-tab-s445494t0

Actually playable by a human, even if somewhat difficult.

>buying a mememachine to play mehtul on
hello plebe

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Isn't that all meme guitars are for? If you were actually playing music you would just buy a regular one and spend the extra money on strings.

fuckin' christ dude

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i already says hello plebe what the heck else do you want from me dood

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how does the drummer and bassist keep rhythm during this

nudes

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>modern gibson blah blah
>PAF pickups
what

real dumb but quick question
help me decide between a jaguar or a gretsch (hollow body)
my budget is ~$600

jaguar if you are a cute but medium sized anime girl who is too tall for a mustang
gretsch if you are an anime girl, but not a very cute one

if you aren't an anime girl may i recommend a PRS

i have a 1968 kapa continental modded with a maple neck and an h-h PAF config. its the guitar i learned on, and i love it. i will be buried with it.

i also recently got a 2010's schecter hellraiser c1-fr and while i love the thru-neck and arch top, i hate the active EMG's it ships with

I am considering, as a weird experiment, swapping those EMG's out for the PAF's on my other axe.

Thoughts?

>>Stevie Ray V-
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Active pickups are a pleb filter. You must be a skilled player with a more than decent amp to make them sound good, but if you are one, they're amazing.

aw fuck you dude you don't like exactly what I like

While I appreciate the signal responsiveness, i hate the lack of dynamic range, especially around the midtones.

Stop relying on dynamic range to sound good pleb

Or, have two guitars for playing different styles instead of trying to make one for everything. Definitely don't try to have actives and passives in one guitar, the combined outputs don't really work.

>stop relying on tone to sound good
not even him but the fuck?

stop relying on sound to make music

poor shitposter is poor

right

Looking for a good single pickup guitar to fit that niche.
Whats the better choice?
Been eyeing a 2018 sg jr. Or a mij esquire

Yeah, fuck tone. If guitar tone was important what are pedals for? Buying good pedals is more important than having good tone.

For gigs I pre a rockman X100 through a peavey A220 head with an 18" Black Widow cab

Rate + what are you using live? Bedroom guitarist need not reply.

them joints butt ugly tho
but for real, id like a jag for the effect versitility (while not being a basedmaster) or a gretsch for the convenience of being able to practice without an amp, and the fact that i find it the most attractive (aesthetic and feel-wise) of the two, but i feel like id be limited in range of sounds
help me out here

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thanks for playing troll

neither

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i got chu right hurr ni/gg/uh

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F-holes in an arch top is pure memery

fu/gg/ u caint see thuh F

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"alternatively" the hollow jizzmaster (BUT NO F)

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danke user
my retarded ass never even thought of this

Jaguar

fuck u retard dont reply 2 me evah again

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If your neck active pickup sounds bad it means youre bad and should feel bad

i waa being sincere you monkey

^
so wuz i. theres also these gay ass shits if u wanna a memestang 4 homosexualitie's sake

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Where does frusciante rank amongst guitar goats

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lmao look @this gay shit imagine the kind of fa/gg/ who puts frozen hotdogs n their butt and imagines their a dick

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What is the appeal of offsets, besides fitting well under the breasts of well endowed women

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abetter question is why the fu/gg/ does zorro on doughnuts covers the top of his kay with brown paper

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I've been playing guitar for 14 years and I'm still trying to figure out SRV's appeal. Like, when I listen to his music, I just hear Hendrix licks played at 5x speed and they just don't grip me the way Jimi's playing does. Can someone explain?

Jazzmaster bridge is still giving me buzzing problems even after I put 11s flatwound on them.
Which should i invest in: staytrem or mastery bridge?
Any anons here ever use both?

Are there any goals laid out for you on any of the learning bass stuff?

Like how justenguitar has almost a list of things you should do and be able to do comfortably before trying to progress, is there anything like that for talkingbass/SBL?

You mean finding the note close to your hand position? Just find the note lmao you should know this by now

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Why are you forcing yourself to figure out his appeal?
If you listened enough and you still think it's fast Hendrix licks taht don't bite as much then just let it be, maybe SRV isn't your thing.

explain why you like SRV even though he sucks dick and i'll think about it

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Classical guitars are for autistic manbabbys that moan when they're dropping a kaka because they think it's Andres Segovia's cock, you missed that part

shhhh your tears say more than words ever could

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Keep literally getting fucked by your own kaka

shhhhhhh

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i've been playing for about two years now but i've never tried to get better with a pick,
i can only play fingerstyle and i was wondering if it's really necessary, are there things i cannot play without a pick ? so far the only thing i struggle with are fast rythm leads like these:
vocaroo.com/i/s0DnUcc7ghd7
but i think i could manage this with some more practice, what do you think ?

also who's the guy with anime eyes on his guitar, i always see his pictures

StayTrem. The Mastery costs four times as much and actually doesn't let you adjust intonation independently.

hey not "even" Sam

youtube.com/watch?v=GJG_GSndZr0

reduce feedback maybe? Pretty retarded solution if that's the case.

Protect the finish?

If I have £600 to drop, is it possible to make a guitar better than anything I could buy new for 600?

Hi, guys. I wanna buy myself a new guitar. Max price ~1000€.

Is PRS SE Gustom really that good option? Picrel

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No. Stop spending money just because you have it and get something you actually want.

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I have a warped sense of reality ever since I started lurking here and other forums more and more and now see everything as complete shit tier where there is always a fault to pick and every company is trying to pull one over on me some way or another and it means I’ll never upgrade my own shitplank because lol what’s the point or buy custom shop.

help.

What guitars do you have and what styles do you play, user?

If we're going utilitarian here, all you need is a guitar that plays well and has good quality pickups.

No memeing, you should buy something you've played and feels good and comfortable. Price is secondary, because you can almost always find the same model of guitar for cheaper. So:

1. Go to a guitar store and try them out
2. Decide on how they feel and sound, not how they look
3. Find the same guitar online for cheaper with a return policy if something goes wrong
4. Enjoy gaming the overpriced guitar industry

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easy way to tell if the guitar you're looking at is shit tier or not
>does it have a quartersawn neck (y/n) ?
n? move on

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Are there any good relatively affordable Duesenberg Starplayer copies? If not, recommend me some other good semi-hollow guitars

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I hated this anime because they barely talk about guitars or music and yet they already have expensive ass equipment and automatically sound good in performance despite having episodes where they're too lazy to practice. Getting much more enjoyment out of Beck because the main character would be borrowing a guitar or fix up an old broken guitar and you'll actually have some character development. I guess I was a fool to expect some depth out of shit moe.

I tried to watch K-ON but nobody played guitar in it, they just went to the beach or similar unrelated bullshit.

sounds like you might be gay

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At least I'm not Elon Musk.

that's goes without saying

16 March 2019 marks 2 years since the game server launched.

Happy 2nd Anniversary Garupa.

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The only types of guitarists I've met are ones who are ten times worse than me (and I'm mainly a bassist) who think they're ten times better than me and look down on me like gum on their shoe, or ones who are ten times better than me and look down on me like gum on their shoe.
Is there no one who is realistic about being average and wanting to improve? Christ, why does the Dunning Kruger effect have to be so true?

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I wonder if I can learn guitar over the next few weeks. I already know the bass and I have loads of free time. How much should I practice/day

I'm probably ten times worse as you and I know it.

you can't hear the difference, it just takes fewer truss rod turns to keep straight

a 3 or 5 piece neck is basically the same thing but doesn't require the destruction of old growth forests to satisfy memers who would fail to recognize the fancy guitar made entirely from one slab of quartersawn wood by gibson as sounding better than a mid-range ibanez with the same scale length and a similar pickup configuration

if expensive guitars are how you let people know you're better than them you might want to try getting into expensive cars instead, because with a porsche GT3 you are actually getting what you pay for and not a wooden placebo

Lmao I get people that peg me as a bass player and 9/10 I’m years ahead of them on guitar. When you find a musician that’s on your level, 9/10 they like different music than you.

I think Scotty would have a thing or two to say about Porsches

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Yeah it would be something like this

>the engine is towards the back, where it's ideal for the weight distribution of the car, but where it's horrible for hobby mechanics to work on
>it's expensive
>you don't need a fast, luxurious car
>now the toyota celica, that was a car
>if you aren't a profressional race car driver stay away from those sports cars. they break down more often and burn too much gas, and speeding is illegal!
>these are for rich people who own multiple cars. track days? you'll just wreck it! if you aren't rich you're going to make yourself poor
>get a toyota celica

if scotty reviewed guitars he'd tell you to buy a cheap acoustic because electric guitars are too much trouble

>the amp is just one more thing to break!

>mfw acoustic guitars are more trouble (muh humidity)

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I like to think I'm pretty realistic about where I'm at. I've been playing for a long time, have a pretty solid command of music theory, and can play most styles of modern guitar music. Most of my practice routine is dedicated to learning and applying harmonic idea to my improvising vocabulary.

Most of the other guitarists I meet are pretty specialized, either dedicated metal or blues or indie players with skills developed specifically to play those genres. So sometimes I run into a guy with insane alternate picking technique or really killer blues praying that totally kicks my ass, although there's usually not much beyond that.

I don’t know if I want to learn guitar or bass more but I want to pick one.

Go away dumb faggot

I've been playing 6-string guitar for like 13 years now, but I want to go out and buy a 4-string bass for the first time, what should I know?

Pick my future $400 guitar waifu:

Ibanez RG450dx or Harley Benton Fusion-II HSH

If you have a similar guitar under $500 to suggest I'll consider it.

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I like the Harley Benton, not a big fan of Ibanez in general though. If you're looking for a decently-priced super Strat, ESP/LTD has a couple that sound good and are pretty well-built too for under $500.

I can already tell you play guitar. Why are bass players always friendly chads?

Maybe you should become a bass player and find out

I have that exact same guitar and love it. That being said you should really go try it out if you can.

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They have to be humble and nice because they're dispensable like that outsider in school that played along with the bullying because he had to

should i get a fractal ax8

>you play neo-soul?
>I play gospel
>you play metal?
>I play djent
>you play punk?
>I play ska
>you play jazz?
>I play dreampop
Deal with it

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Who are you talking to and quoting?

He'd probably tell you to get the Toyota of guitars: Ibanez, he'd probably do a based vid on his 89 RG550 that is insanely playable to this day.
Based scotty should be a guitarist

None of your business?

Lol want to meet up and make out?

don't fucking post it then autist

It’s not my fault you don’t know who Sam is newfriend

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Is there any point to amp as a bedroom player or should I just use software thx

Is there any way to make a natural stained body a lighter shade without sanding it off?

The actual amplification circuitry isn't very important. Software can copy it 1:1 with very little latency whether it's a modern solid state amp or a 50 year old marshall tube amp. But a proper modeler will have less latency and better output quality than an off the shelf laptop or computer with an onboard/cheap sound card. Traditional amps are good for superior portability, little setup complexity, and more stability than amp sims in software. Modelers are better than both and what all the pros use (and they like to laugh at fans who say "dood do u use a marshall or an orange" before they see the axe FX and then go "eh, sounded it a little soulless actually")

But ultimately something has to make noise or you just hear a bunch of tinny string sounds and little fret rattles, because electrics aren't meant to be acoustics. So whatever is processing the signal, make sure you get a good speaker or pair of headphones.

What’s your favorite fuzz pedal?

big muff or any half decent clone

the cheaper the clone the more authentic your black metal and stoner doom tone will be

I just grabbed a fuzzrite clone and it sounds amazing in conjunction with the big muff. Tops off the highs perfectly when you need to cut through the bassy-ness of the muff whether you’re soloing live or overdubbing

rec a $200-300 amp

Recently came into possession of a Bass guitar. I consider myself a somewhat intermediate guitarist. Is there any good tutorials for bass geared toward people who are already guitarists?

Small used tube amp

mustang GT 40

since the path of a simple tube amp is preamp > fx loop > poweramp, if i stick a volume booster on the fx loop will it distort the poweramp tubes?

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lmao
I live in a fucking devastatingly dry climate, and you know how much work it is to keep my guitar humidified?
>keep it in the case when I'm not playing it
>keep my special humidity sponge thingy (was less than $10) in the case
>soak my special humidity sponge thingy once every couple of weeks
that's it. if you consider that a lot of upkeep you must be one seriously lazy motherfucker

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I would go direct with a volume pedal, but I don't think it would make too much of a difference either way.

I just realized the staytrem has stopped production in the US as of last year and they only ship in the UK
What do? Im looking for a 9.25 radius right, since 7.25 is like for a jaguar

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Sugar daddy

Samuel: A glorious fag.
Sammy 2020 /gg/

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>try to recreate AJFA tone
>scoop the absolute shit out of it
>realize there's still too many mids

jesus christ why do i actually like the ajfa tone

Guess which amp is this?

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Some shitty solid state amp?

EZ

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Hi guys so I went to a store and tried some yamaha basses like you said. BB234, BB434, BB434M. At this point there isn’t a whole lot of difference since I don’t actually know how to play but they all feel comfortable and nice in my hand also the rosewood and maple necks sounded the same to me, am I deaf or is there really a difference?

Which do I buy?

I can either buy cheapest 234.
Mid range 434.
Or just go all out and buy a 734a even though I don’t know if I’ll get to the point where I’ll need the active stuff yet.

Start with the cheap one and see if you actually enjoy playing. You can always upgrade later

i honestly always go used because there's always the chance that when you open up the amp, you might find some kaka in the circuitry. i bought an old fender amp from a pawn shop a couple of months ago, opened it up to check out the tubes, and found a big ol' piece of stinky sharty assy farty kaka. It didn't seem to have any diarrhea on it, so it was pretty prestine.

I'm never selling this. the kaka tone is fucking A1

>cheap guitar
>weird ass multi-effects from China
>doesn't sound bad

Pretty much every demo video of the Mooer GE200 makes it sound like shit. Is it actually good?

youtube.com/watch?v=J9du3xs0-6k

Heres exactly what you need
youtu.be/kBIXDov8G80

You can load IR through it. If im not mistaken, the only other pedal that loads IR (and that is its only purpose) is almost the same price of the Mooer. That alone makes the Mooer interesting.

what the absolute fuck are you talking about

Mooer is actually just a computer like a raspberry pi, right?

HEY GUYS RATE MY TOAN PLS

IM NEW SO PLS RATE THE TOAN NOT THE PLAYING OK

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Need to increase gain and scoop mids a bit

Hey guys, got some questions about ground loops. I have an unusual amount of noise coming from my Axe FX, even at low settings (i've posted in here in the past about it.) I have noise even when my guitar is unplugged. I currently have my guitar in a shop because the tech seemed to think maybe my pickups had some bad wiring, and he's checking it out. So maybe it's that. So I just want to confirm, if I hear a hum or buzzing on a tone, with low gain (like 2.5/10), even when the guitar is UNPLUGGED, do I have a ground loop?

Yes

This was actuslly quite informative. Thank you

Ooooh.

Hmmmmm, looks hard work.

Damn. So I bought a ground test just in case and it says I have ground. However, my Axe Fx goes through a furman power conditioner first. Can that cause it? I also bought a tripp-lite Line Isolator, but it did absolutely nothing no matter what way I set it up.

Awesome but you'll be changing the strings every other day.

That's potential.

re-volting.

Instead of being gnarly, compose a melody. (i assume).

yuk. do not do.

Just wondering does anyone else here just love natural guitars both gloss/satin for the wood grain over any type of nitro/poly colour or is that just me?

>changing the strings every other day
Why?

I can't quite see from the photograph but if it is as I think, the bend on the string on the bridge is quite steep and *thunk* *thunk* it *thunk* snaps the strings *thunk*

also the locking *thunk* nut does as well.

>0.14- .57 and a trapeze tailpiece,

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It's a standard Floyd

It happens basically like this: your axe fx is connected to the ground, and it's connected to something else, right? And that thing is connected to the ground too. Now, if you're using just a coaxial cable, it ties the ground of the axe fx to your other device in another point, creating the loop.

The way I understand it is basically pic related, now what I'd suggest is using the balanced outputs (XLR connectors), since they're engineered in a way that cancels any kind of noise that is picked up by either line

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I do use the XLR outputs from the Axe Fx. I should also mention that I don't use it with an amp, I actually just plug it into the input of an audio interface, a scarlett 2i2, and that's it. I basically just record directly from there to my computer. Is this still an issue then? Technically, only my axe fx and my studio monitors are going through the Furman Power Conditioner. Thanks for helping btw.

It doesn't need to be a guitar amp, any kind of amplifier will be similar in the way the input signal is handled

The Axe FX has an USB out, doesn't? Does it still pick up hum if you use it instead of the scarlett?

Btw the balanced output can still cause a ground loop since it has a ground line too, some recording devices have a ground lift switch just to break a loop

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As in, basically use my axe fx as the audio interface and just take the scarlett out of the equation entirely? I could try it I suppose.

Yes, and then trying guitar into the Scarlett, and then the axe fx alone with earphones

check out my new biggy boomer boy

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Unfortunately like I said earlier the tech still has it. I was just feeling antsy not being able to play or figure this out so I want to do as much as I can while it's gone. Currently all I'm doing is noticing that when I have my axe fx on, even on a mostly low-gain preset I have, that it makes a lot of noise. I have 3 cables, 2 balanced and one unbalanced, and they all make the noise, but it was definitely translating over to the guitar itself. I also tried the Axe FX by itself with headphones a few months ago and it was mostly the same.

I did just try the AXE FX by itself, and the noise is still there.

UPPER CASE LETTERS ARE NOT EXCLUSIVE TO ME, SORRY ABOUT YOUR EXTRA CHROMOSOMES

Could still be the Axe FX itself picking up noise

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from the tests i've done before this, it really does seem like it's the unit. I should also mention I sent back the axe-fx to fractal to look at a while ago for something related to low output. They guaranteed me it was totally fine and sounded normal, and sent it back to me. I'm assuming your pic is what it SHOULD look like?

>POSTS IN ALL CAPS
>CALLS OTHER PEOPLE RETARDED
REALLY ACTIVATES THE ALMONDS M8

It's what it's supposed to look like, the thing is, when designing a complex pcb like this it's pretty difficult to not end up with loops. You use tricks like using more than 2 layers (the axe fx seems to use 4 or more layer boards with the signals going in the inner two), you stitch the groundplanes with vias around signal traces to shield them, etc. Now with the power supply unit looking like that without any sort of shielding it's not difficult to guess where the noise is coming from.

is there any real difference between 2 and 4 piece body other than looks?
same with poplar v alder?

Sorry i'm not totally following. Are you saying with the power supply exposed like that it can cause some interference issues or something? What should be done about it?

>Are you saying with the power supply exposed like that it can cause some interference issues or something?

It definitely can

>What should be done about it?
It's a design flaw, without getting rid of the unit there's not much you can do about it other than recording a noise profile and removing it from whatever you record.

Honestly i've been thinking about abandoning it a lot because i can't really get all that great of tones out of it anyway, it actually sounds kind of weak to me too, with little sustain on almost all presets and things like harmonics really don't ring out even on high gain. But that's an expensive ass thing to just forget about, you know? So I'm tryin my best to just get it to work for months now before I just give up and buy a helix or something.

My palm mutes are terrible on Les Paul. Is my technique just shit or are meme-o-matic bridges bad for palm muting? I'm talking rock-type palm mutes.

It's do-able but it's probably not the best choice for war ensemble.

honestly, i would just fart a giant log of kaka out of my butt. take some laxative and eat some bread so that your kaka is cakey.

pretty much keep it in a jar and smear it on the side of your hand so that it's poopy.

then palm mute with the power of asshole shit

You should have some sort of roughage really.

just work on your technique, the type of bridge you have shouldn't impede your ability to palm mute

I got like a 1960s Gibson EB0 bass that I think has a warped neck and the knobs are a little finicky. I don't play bass really, but I need one to start practicing on. I don't know how much it'd cost to get this one repaired/setup, but someone told me it could be $200+. Should I get it repaired or use that money on a beginner bass for now? I'm not a bass player, but I need one to start practicing on

How do I make my guitar sound like at 2:40?
youtube.com/watch?v=27sk1fNPL88

It sounds like a vocal mic with a fuzz pedal, not a guitar?

m.thomann.de/gb/fender_am_elite_strat_hss_mn_sjpm.htm?o=8&search=1552777226

LADS
What colour pickguard and pots are these? I can’t fucking find the official ones.

Boomer mother-of-pearl

Gibson boys make do

white moto?
idk if that’s it but it looks more cream

appears to be cream

But in some pics, it appears white

shop.fender.com/en-GB/parts/electric-guitar-parts/pickguards-backplates/elite-strat-sss-pickguards/0992191001.html?rl=en_US
It’s the same model and there’s only one pearloid so I guess it’s that unless fender don’t sell some spares

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All that just for root notes.

One word: adequate.

>dude metal LMAO

Absolutely dripping with adequacy, this guitar.

>single pickup
This guitar has zero allure.

Replacing all old the electrics shouldn't cost half that. A warped neck might (does your guitar have a truss rod?) adjust out with care . Buy a book on guitar maintenance.

This guitar has one too many strings.

>Buy a book on guitar maintenance.
Hell, you can learn most guitar maintenance shit from Youtube.

learning chords. should I be focusing on speed or moving my fingers on the strings without looking

Congratulations: you attempted to create something hideous and you succeeded.

Emesis.

Upchuck.

buy a book though.

There's something to be said about being able to watch actual video of the procedure before attempting said procedure.

Learn to play the chord cleanly first before worrying about speed

>went to GC
>play Gibson ES-335
>feels like an Epiphone

why live

Feel is almost entirely dependent on setup, which is independent from manufacturing quality and which is something every guitarist should be able to do themselves.

Dans les manèges du mensonge
Le cheval rouge de ton sourire
Tourne

Yeah the setup was a lot of it. At my GC all the Epi's are set up terribly but the Gibsons are usually set up pretty well. That 335 had a ridiculously high action and the neck didn't feel any better than an Epi.