>How do I start learning guitar/bass?
justinguitar.com
studybass.com
>Guitar chords and inversions
chordbook.com
>String tension calculator (D'Addario):
stringtensionpro.com
>Music theory:
musictheory.net
>Ear training:
teoria.com
>Guitar Maintenance and other information:
frudua.com
youtube.com
>Why is my guitar buzzing?
frets.com
>Large repository of tabs, books and other resources related to playing and theory:
mega.nz
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first for kaka
is this what a tone hole looks like?
That's a what a nylon string guitar ends up looking like when you forced in the pickup from another guitar and had it strung with steel strings since the 50s.
well it looks like it has nylon strings on it
Look closer. Trigger had steel strings since he got it.
Protip: Nylon strings don't come with a ball end.
beautiful youtu.be
Is it just me, or the knobs on those kind of acoustics remind you of tea light candles?
ive seen them before with ball end
some nylon strings do come with a ball end. and on the unwound strings the ball end is plastic. and the unwound strings look like the common black nylon strings. it seems like you havent handled nylon strings in a while :)
each day that passes i play less and think more about how i suck and am stuck
paradoxical, isnt it?
i'm digging the fender amp tones on the Steely Dan first album rn
It's not like that because of the strings it's like that because you're supposed to fingerpick a classical guitar but Willie usually uses a flat pick so it's worn away a lot of the wood.
>I used to think that my guitar playing was a tragedy. Now I see that it's a comedy!
do you remember the times when we had fun together
more like the other way round, i cant even laugh at myself anymore
Actually, it's like that because he forgot to apply turd polish underneath the strings
I'm sure that if you post your stuff, we'll all do the laughing for you
That guitar is a Martin and even one that Willie Nelson didn't own from the same year is probably an order of magnitude more expensive than whatever you have.
Post kiss
instaud.io
this is my lenghtest sketch of song
>martin
>good
>more expensive=more better
only a SJ200 is good enough
Pickup? Steel? You really should know what you're talking about before you speak.
Actually, I buy Martins and shit in the sound hole, over and over again, until the inside of the guitar is completely filled with kaka.
After that, I leave it out in the sun for a few weeks while the kaka hardens, and the weak, faggy Martin withers away.
When this process is complete, I chip off the remaining tonewood until I have a nice kaka block. I proceed to shave it down into a classic solidbody shape, and sell it to Gibson at a profit.
Because only a Gibson™ is good enough.
The cable sticking out of old Trigger is not for his vape tool.
But it's nowhere near the hole.
I was feeling that way for awhile but over the last two weeks I've spent a lot of time doing things I wouldn't normally do and I've had a lot of fun and am a better player because of it.
Check out the "artist series" on Art of Guitar's youtube, he breaks down the coolest techniques of dozens of the best guitarists in the business. I've been watching 2-3 a day and then sitting down and trying everything I can technically do. Before, I had really felt I was limited by my lack of technical ability but there's a ton of stuff in those vids that blew my playing wide open.
rad mix, thanks fellow boomer
>milk truck just arrive
>"Do I look fat with this on stage?" - The Guitar.
>tfw secretly a zoomer
The Booming Zoomer or Zooming Boomer?
Thread theme: youtube.com
Happy 420 guitar bros
My acoustic guitar doesnt have those little pins you put in the bridge thing to keep the ball ends from popping
How much do i need those and how much are they to replace
pics
you mean these?
Pegs cost pennies.
Its bridge pins
This week marks the year anniversary of me first playing a guitar. It's been a good year. Looking forward to 5 years time when I hope to be fantastic. You have all helped
Do they sell them for pennies at guitar center and sam ash
I know what he's talking about, but his guitar might not use them. That's why I asked for pics.
thanks
>You have all helped
We've clearly been doing a piss poor job then
They cost 5 bucks for a set and you can't put strings in your guitar without em
No idea how much shit costs in your country, but I bought a pack for my fathers guitar for less than $8 USD equivalent. Any store that sells guitars should stock.
I've been playing for almost 3 months and I'm not doing anything right.
Is it just that self-taught practice autism can only get you so far or is progress normally just that slow?
Start pulling your weight then laddy
no u
Being self-taught is REALLY tough. Unless you really drill the fundamentals and build a solid foundation, you're probably going to be floundering around for a while. Just how it is man, sorry.
t.self-taught, been playing for 7 years
Stop posting your gay fucking pedalboard and practice not sounding like shit without 10 effects in a chain.
You need to go back to school
You posted the exact same picture in earlier threads.
And you want people to jerk you off for that tube drive of yours. Go practice.
I don't want anyone to do anything. And I already have practiced. But thanks for worrying about me.
Has anybody ever squenched a farty log of kaka from out of their kakabutt with a metronome? I'm up to 180 kpm.
I hate this fucking meme but that had my sides in orbit.
Thanks for contributing to /bpg/ Boutique Pedal General.
There's nothing boutique on there.
So quit posting it then.
Is a Marshall code 100 for $300 good? Or would a Boss Katana artist be better?
Could also get into the real tube amps but don't really want to spend over a grand when my playing is shit
Code series was a flop. Katana is a meme.
No. It's guitar related.
>I don't want to spend too much when my playing is shit
FINALLY someone with some common sense in this godforsaken general.
Katana
I'm just plain bad. No sense of music at all.
I might give up and play shoegaze.
So it is but the entire thread shouldn't already be intimately familiar with some random dudes pedal board because he won't stop spamming it.
It doesn't even have any fancy boutique pedals to justify showing it off.
I could get a Twin Reverb or something and still get most of my money back should I sell it, but it still seems dumb
post reasonably priced pedalboards
A bad sounding amp will make a bad player sound even worse.
Vox AC30 better? Deluxe Reverb? Marshall mini stack?
katana artist supposedly sounds good though
I don't care
can't listen because I'm at work, but inherent musical talent is a meme and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
I used to have absolutely no rhythm at all, but I drilled it and drilled it and drilled it, and now I can play complicated syncopated grooves like it's nothing.
If you're willing to put the right kind of work in, it'll pay off in the long run.
Samuel: the cocksucker that doesn't want to rise above himself.
Also, I really love playing guitars that have low action, low action makes it such a delight to play guitar!!!
Don't go talking shit about Sammy, he's a nice guy!!
>wannabe Big Muff
Gaaaaaaaaaaay
Bro, just get a proper big muff
Samuel: The cocksucker that is cowardly enough to not defend himself in first person.
Also, floating bridges are harder to maintain, that said, once you get used to it you can do a decent string change and setup in little time
Get a Quilter. Don't waste your time with offshore sweatshop tube amps or the god damn Katana
When trying to learn a song on YouTube, different people use different strumming patterns. This is normal right? You don't have to use the EXACT same?
No, you're WEIRD!!!
if they're not using the exact strumming pattern of the song they're teaching, they're wrong.
forcing yourself to learn things different than you'd naturally do them is part of growing as a player.
According to NYT, Dave Grohl was busking not a mile from my apartment and I missed it
Goddamnit
you could have walked by and told him he sucked
But I see so many variations of the strumming pattern for a single song. Whose right and whose wrong then?
he's better than you
YOU COULDA TOLD DAVE GROHL THAT KURT SHOULDA LIVED AND HE SHOULDA DIED
YOU FUCKING SONUVA BITCH
This
I was thinking of learning to play guitar but the wound steel strings makes me want to vomit when I touch them. Do you think this is something that I could get over? or would I be better of playing a classical nylon guitar? If so do you have any recommendations of a beginner one?
Fuck Jackson
It is finally finished, the G string goes out a bit sometimes. I think it's settling though, an amazing piece of work. Only cost me like 900 minus strings. Any thoughts? Suggestions?
Nickel
OK?
Use it as kindling and buy a real guitar
>OK?
They're just bad
Not him but I thought nickel allergies strictly caused you to break out. If I'm wrong I know they make hypoallergenic strings.
OK?
Just wondering what that has to do with my post.
He said steel, so I suggested nickel
>Dinky body, all black hardware, HSH, ugly burst
Looks like a Jackson to me
It's not a Dinky body. It's a Strat body.
Sorry, it's the fact that they're wound that makes me uncomfortable.
Stick to playing the flute then, low-test
The horns are a little too long to be a strat.
Never played the flute before. Is it hard to pick up?
Trust me, it's a strat
Try flat wounds
Most people call normal strings steel, they're steel wire wrapped with nickel wire.
This.
The hardest part is the reed. Once you work out your mouth intonation it's actually pretty easy to at least pick up basic melodies. Then again I feel that way about every instrument I try. If I can figure out how to sound notes, I can work out simple melodies.
>flute
>reed
Sorry, I dont actually play it. Whatever the mouthpiece is called. You have to get your lips just right.
And?
Okay, cool. What do you recommend? A Gibson or a Fender?
It's called a mouthpiece.
Yeah I just looked it up. I guess reeds are mostly for brass stuff. Anyway my point was, if you can figure out intonation, melodies aren't that hard.
Reeds are used on woodwinds. Wood...Wind...
Reeds are for most woodwinds like sax and clarinet
Flutes are also woodwinds
See I thought Sax was brass. And oboe.
Whatever. I only played around with friends instruments who were in band in school. It was hard to make a note sound with some, but after an hour or so of figuring out I could do basic melodies.
I thought it was a reed that made it difficult. I'll stop talking now.
Reeds are for all woodwinds, except flutes...which are aerophones but are in the woodwind family.
I didn't say they weren't
It's all good, knowledge is power even of you may never use it again.
That's why I said "most" because flutes are also included. I mentioned flutes for the other guys sake, not yours.
is a gibson les paul double cut tribute a "shitplank?"
No it's an LP Junior
sorry i meant the "Gibson Les Paul Junior Tribute Double Cut 2019"
>musical talent is a meme
ahahaha
hahahaha
keep telling yourself that while you play shoegaze and oversaturated doom junk
ahahaha
so is the "Gibson Les Paul Junior Tribute Double Cut 2019" a shitplank?
It's a Gibson from 2019, so I wouldn't recommend it. Their QC has gone to shit.
Wait a couple of years so they get rid of their current inventory.
I've heard really good things about Gibson in 2019, 2009-2018 I heard nothing but shit but evidently everyone shitting on them all the time for a decade has got them back on track.
Why? What's wrong with their current inventory?
Your timing isn't too good, but you're better than I am and I've been playing close to a year. All I can do is play basic chords.
Have you not heard what's been going on with Gibson?
I'm not the kaka poster but I just drank some vodka and took a huge kaka
I thought I'd tell you guys so the kaka poster knows he has some support.
Ive tried some. Feels like its for kids.
Something wrong with their wood? This is all pretty new since it’s a newer model
All their inventory right now was made under Henry. New guy's only been there a few months. It's going to take a while to get the house right and start putting out good guitars again.
>Gibson has bad QC even though I've never even played one or owned one
>bleep bleep
keep crying, you're wrong
I tried a Gibson out in the guitar store the other day and it was a lovely guitar. I can't see myself buying (or affording) one but I'd be happy if I had one.
Ok, this has potential but please remove your amp footswitch from the board. That kills it. Also, ditch the green meme pedal. Tubes in pedal are the ultimate snake oil. Fill in the rest with boutique pedals and upgrade your amp. Good start though
Why would he take it off? Because you don't like the aesthetic?
Spoken like someone who's never gigged
Just dropped $1700 on this American made machine. What am I in for. First guitar btw.,
disgusting
that's not a guitar it's an ornament
moron
it's like buying a katana sword with dragons running up the blade. it looks cool but it won't cut shit and will probably break if you try.
Yes, it looks stupid. No one else does that
GUITAR IS TURNING YOU GAY
Based
I don't care. ITs sick yo. Imma be shredding soon, imma pick up a Marshall too
samefag. nobody that actually plays guitar would want that thing.
try again.
Cool guitar, man. Wish I had one like that.
>samefag
Sure thing pal. try again.
Maybe they should
i didn't want to believe there was really two whole human beings that stupid in this general
guess i deserve my dissapointment
Thanks man! You should go for one if you can, GREAT guitar for the money
lol wow. describe to me the electronics config please
Pure and authentic hair raising tone
you really seem to know a lot about your guitar, enjoy user
someone paypal me $35 so i can buy a behringer interface and record some shit to make you all look talentless
Have a jazzmaster with a floating bridge, the problem is the tremolo arm holder is sunk inside the cavity.
How do I raise it?
with a hammer and saw
It's not supposed to do that.
Get a scarlett solo to sound better
Please be serious /gg/. Shitposting gets old after awhile
sent
That's literally the answer, your guitar is broken. If you can't fix it yourself you're going to need to have it looked at.
Yeah I wasn't really shitposting man. That's not good.
Sorry if the general snark fuzzed the message.
>watch a video on Chris Cornell
>realize you've been using his signature shit as part of your general playing since year 2
I think I might be better than I realized, /gg/uys
>signature shit
Elaborate?
Well, is it normal for the tremolo arm to be really close to the strings when i bend it? Basically i have to bend it away from the pickguard so it goes down alk the way bending the strings
Its japanese so i had a hard time finding a tremolo to even to fit it, but I thought maybe if the holder was raised it wouldnt so low
I'm not watching that for 27 minutes.
I have a Squier Jazzmaster and mine doesn't do that. I'd say there's about an inch and a half of distance between the strings and the wahmmy, when you press it the arm itself doesn't actually have to move that much.
Does it interfere with you playing it?
why am I so creatively empty?
Yeah its so slow it interferes with strumming
Ive given up on using it for now
Heres pic related, is it normal to be this low?
because you're not practicing creativity as a skill
Dial in a different tone, more gain, less gain, etc.
The holder doesn't look that different from the one on mine (but I'm not in my apartment rn so I'm just going off memory).
It might be that whatever bar you have is weird, it should be going at a slightly obtuse angle so that the part you press has a lot more distance from the strings than the cavity does like the one in this pic.
That picture looks way higher than mine, I guess I'll take it to a luthier to get it checked at
You should. Dude has like 2 dozen of these vids for different guitarists. I've been watching several a day, it's renewed my creativity. I've never really been around other musicians so seeing a lot of stuff I picked up naturally is really cool.
I should say, seeing a lot of stuff I picked up naturally, but applied in other contexts, is really cool. And I've picked up a bunch of stuff along the way.
So my style is largely rock in a pentatonic contexts, with lots of flat 5ths and shit thrown in to give it some blues. Think Slash on a heavier day.
The thing is, I love harmonics. Natural and artificial, even occasionally tapped. I hate the loss of midtones when I go full-gain for harmonic resonance, I realy need those scooped mids.
Anyone have a good idea on how to reach a middle ground here?
how do i know if im singing in key?
i like to cover songs, but most of the time the singer has a brighter/higher voice than me, especially if he original singer is a woman
i know how to transpose songs between keys, but im not sure how to figure out which key is right for my voice.
is it just something that i have to record myself and listen, or is there some easier way?
use a tuning key, keyboard or app. sing your most natural voice, then hit middle c. count the intervals until you find out which key you're singing. if you land on a flat or sharp, train yourself to hit the whole note as your baseline.
you can transpose anything from middle c.
sing your do rea me fa so la tee dos' while playing the major scale in their keys
How the fuck do i make my fingers faster
use a metronome. start at the fasest speed you can play perfectly. increase by 10 bpm at a time, mastering each speed at a time, until you shred.
also increase fret hand strength. especially the pinky. trilling is an easy exercise for pinky strength
Try an EQ pedal, they're good for certain situations. I use an mxr 10 band for funk songs that come up live. If you throw harmonics in outside of leads it probably wouldn't be practical. Most players get to a point where scooped mids don't sound that good, I used to play a lot of old school hardcore and thrash and I had the knob at 0 at all times. Usually after you get a good amp and a guitar with decent pickups you start to want the body that mids bring, or even playing with other musicians that play in the same range as you.
Honestly if you can't tell if you're in key you need to practice singing and do some ear training. Run scales to a backing track. Do you know how harmonization works? If not, learn. If you can hit the 1st, 3rd or 5th of the chord being played that could be enough for just fucking around. Play and sing, see if you feel comfortable. Singing in the same octave range isn't always important, but being able to hit the proper notes in respect to what root you picked is. One thing I like to mess around with is Landslide by Fleetwood Mac, I'm a baritone but I can sing it perfectly in the key it was written with a capo on the 2nd fret, without a capo a can't pull off the low notes with strength. Capo on the 4th I can sing it much better. Just experiment, a cover doesn't necessarily need to be perfect but not being able to pull it off is different from you adding your own flavor to it.
based on your response, i meant i want peaked mids. lots of body. but the harmonics that rolling back the mids gives is also very attractive.
How do?
Sorry I'm new
The shittiness makes it sound more authentic.
No need to be sorry. Try rolling back the gain, or the volume knob on your guitar a little bit. A lot of it depends on your set up. I once had this noisebox of an amp that would not produce high notes if a low note was ringing. Weirdest thing, if I plucked the low and high e at the same time the high e would be choked out. Pretty sure it was some rogue(maybe a drive) 2 channel 2x12 combo. I don't want sound like one of those "gear makes the player" guys but some equipment just doesn't do what you need. I couldn't hit pinch harmonics with that amp. Side note, I only learned pinch harmonics to piss off my drummer at the time who's brother loved Zakk Wylde.
Also, I did learn to play pinch harmonics with that amp and make them ring through. I just had to be very precise.
Jahseh was essentially a clout martyr.
Everyone is claiming this was a random robbery, but it's clear what was actually happening: his killers were driven to take his life solely for the sake of clout. They wanted infamy of their own and found it in gunning down a 20-year old.
As Jah was taking his final breath, he was surrounded by kids taking video and pictures of him. Why? For clout. No one was taking his pulse, no one was calling 911, everyone was standing around with their phones out as his body was clinging to life.
The moral lesson of Jahseh's life story should be a cautionary tale of the horrors of social media and how it's fucked our society beyond belief.
RIP Jah. See you in Heaven.
who the fuck is Jahseh
>I speak Portuguese therefore I'm not a spic
HAHAHA, OH WOW
His wife's bull
I live in a place with a lot of spics and some of them think they are white
i have no problem hitting pinches or even 12-step tapped harmonics, but all i have right now is a stupid line 6 and i want the "insane" channel but with actual body and not ass
sam please post your playing
ive been waiting for days,
no I am not Sammy I live in south texas on the border I am actually white though irish descent
sorry. i thought you were the spic that wasn't.
Maybe he meant you giys suck so bad that he didnt want to suck as bad as you haha
>Orange Amps
my man
creativity is a muscle that needs to be work. It is easier for some people but like most things you can learn creativity. You need to open up your musical vocabulary. Learning about new rhythms really gets me going, new modes, progressions etc. Improvise
childhood is saying the grapes are probably sour
adolescence is saying the grapes are delicious
adulthood is realizing the grapes were always sour
I tried a $3000 gibson les paul at a store once and it was decidedly inferior to an ibanez RG premium and the strandberg boden os they had on display (i convinced them to let me try them by flashing my bank balance on my phone, and told them what was my IRA was actually my checking account lmao)
you'd have to be some sort of retard to want one, really.
"Spic" applies to any Hispanic.
I will never be as good as Jandek
What would be a good electric guitar to buy for an intermediate guitar player? I’ve been playing for almost a year and a half, and im sick of my electric guitar being such a piece of shit.
dean
You made that? Very nice. I was thinking of building my own guitar. How long did take you?
Looking for a new guitar, help me out lads. It has to be...
>6 Strings
>Solid body
>Under £600
I prefer single cut guitars, but like some double cut styles too. I would also prefer a tremolo and would like the body to be blue. I don't mind pickup configurations too much. Just throw me some suggestions or stuff you're into. The sounds I like are Pete Townshend, Lindsay Buckingham, Jimmy Page, Johnny Marr and George Harrison.
What is right is whatever sounds good to you. All too often people just copy strumming patterns without too much thought and their playing is as bland as a bowl of unsweetened oatmeal.
>£
ew
I suppose so. I always manage to fit two up strums in a row usually to make a more trebly sound
Revstar.
>tfw some japanese youtuber is a better bassist than any westerner
And old age wisdom is not caring what guitars other people like.
Something something Asians are better
But they have such tiny hands.
>attempting to reproduce the recorded version of a song note for note because you have no ear or ability to improvise
Based
Him and Dave Simpson are the based-est guys on the JewTubes desu
I can't stand this guy. Horrible tone, can barely play, and builds extremely ugly guitars. Even Chappers is better for fuck sakes
I bought my dream Gibson about a month ago, a 2018 ES-330. It had two issues that were shocking for a $2500 instrument: the fret leveling was so bad that some notes buzzed against higher frets, and the fretboard was rough, like they never finished polishing it at te factory. Right now it's been at Guitar Center for over two weeks for repair. I keep calling but apparently the Gibson tech who is authorized to do warranty repairs only comes in once a week.
It also had some minor issues like black gunk on the nut and small cracks in the lacquer covering the binding at almost every fret. I don't really mind those as they don't affect the sound or playability of the instrument,but it's pretty wild to have those on a "premium" guitar out of the box.
I'm convinced the only reason anyone buys a Gibson is history, nostalgia, or because other people do. I bought one because that's what my guitar hero played. It sounds nice and looks nice, but you can get a better guitar for half the price.
no pic of the issues?
never happened
>is a better bassist than any WH*TE westerner
Come now, let's not pretend that the orientals know the first thing about soul
There's not really a good way to take a picture of a rough fretboard or unleveled frets. Here is the gunked up nut.
And here is the cracked binding.
Anyway these were the minor cosmetic issues and not a big deal. But the sloppy fretwork and fingerboard finishing, you wouldn't even see that on a $200 Squier..
That's not hj freaks
If I took a guitar to get re-crowned, how expensive should that be
>do it yourself
I have the money to let someone else do it for me
didn't you even look before dropping your cash?
i'm still not buying your story though, those pics don't look like a 2018. they look like an old guitar with a bad nut job. frets don't generally crack the binding till the neck shrinks aver many years
I was playing some new Gibson Acoustics yesterday and the fit and finish was just appalling.
They all sounded okay and mostly played fine, but the sloppy binding and finish work on instruments that pricey is just unacceptable.
On one L-00 they hadn't even bothered sanding in the soundhole before, during or after finishing - the whole soundhole looked and felt rough.
Needless to say every Martin or Taylor they had in stock was flawless - from the top of the range to the Mexican beginner models
No, there was a good deal online (ES-330s are usually $3k+ and Guitar Center had them for about $2400) and I've wanted an ES-330 for almost a decade. If I get it back from Guitar Center and it's not fixed to my satisfaction I'll just return it, not a big deal.
And I'm absolutely not the only one who has had these experiences. All you have to do is google "Gibson quality control." Do you think we're all making this up?
mylespaul.com
>Yesterday I ordered a particular Gibson Les Paul from Sweetwater that was currently out of stock. The online listing noted that, “More are on the way,” and indicated that I could reserve mine now. So, I pulled the trigger. Today I received a telephone call from my assigned sales engineer. He said that today they received a shipment of the particular guitar I ordered but not a single guitar in the shipment passed their inspection. All of them have to be returned to Gibson. I was shocked. He told me that Sweetwater has to send an average of 13% of all Gibson guitars back to the company because they do not pass Sweetwater’s initial inspection. It looks like today was an especially bad day for Gibson.
>He bought a $2,400 guitar over the internet from a company that has notoriously spotty quality control.
Can anyone help me to do chugs on guitar? I've got the palm muting down, it's just the only thing I know that sounds good is playing the top three strings with an e minor chord. Is there any other chords I can play? And is that e-minor chord a power chord?
YALL DIDNT WANT TO BELIEVE ME.
pic related is a brand new es335 at guitar center. What a shoddy job
the only pic posted over and over
that's what you get for buying a guitar with binding on its neck
Try playing in drop d since you suck at playing metal in E
Im not dumb enough to buy that. But it was quite astonishing to see such issues on what should be a prestigious guitar. Take it for what you will but my korean dean is superior in quality control
I'm one octave below the default, I'm not sure what scale it is I just set my tuner to the default and tuned it down an octave or a step I'm not sure
Why did you do that if you dont even know what youre doing in the first place? Anyways try forming barrw chords and play them arpeggiated and muted. Frok low E to high e
>tuned down an octave or a step I'm not sure
so THIS is the power of the metal """musician""" in action
>my korean dean is superior in quality control
indeed quite stylish as well
good choice
>I'm one octave below the default
Excuse me but what the fuck are you doing?
Did you compensate in string thickness for dropping it down to a literal picollo bass?
If you buy a guitar from Guitar Center its your fault for being a retard. You don't buy dream guitars from a shitty store like this, ever
Currently in a rut where I think everything I'm playing is shit or wrong
Trust me I have a better musical ear than you.
Forcing yourself to learn a song note for note is important for growth. Improv after you know it.
good chugs are all about rhythm, add some syncopation, triplets and shit like that.
Why do you guys shoo all the tripfags away? Some of them were the only people to actually talk about music and guitar in this thread unlike you shitposting faggots(although some tripfags were real fags). You dug this general into a pit with little semblance of real discussion.
Most of you barely even play
I didn't shoo the namefags away (except jcum, fuck that guy)
Also, shitposting just comes with the territory when it comes to generals, dummy
Happy Easter :)
suggest me some fx units that don't have the typical obnoxious "amp modelling", cab sim, and overdrive/distortion sections which I don't like one bit and which I don't need. What I need is simply an FX processor, not a guitar tech abortion with a built-in vacuum cleaner. I've noticed G-Major racks, is there anything similar.
Axe FX or nothing. Save up for it.
I thought it's an amp modeler?
Anyone else jealous when people can afford 3 grand Rickenbackers and you're stuck with a £100 squier that sounds like a piece of shit and holding you back?
Rickenbackers are furniture.
>not getting the $500 acoustic and sounding better than every clean electric
Maybe I'd buy an acoustic if I wanted to play Polly non stop
>it's 2019
>electric guitar players still believe wattage = db
I see tabs and chord sheets with strumming patterns to songs but I usually ignore these and just strum the song according to how I think it is by listening to the actual track. I'm afraid that I might have fallen into the trap of doing this instead of looking at the strumming patterns online. Does it matter if the strumming pattern I play is different from the other Tom, Dick and Harrys?
As a result of now bring conscious of this I've fallen into a rut of thinking everything I've know (been playing for about a year now) has been wrong and it feels fucking depressing. I'm going skitz so someone please enlighten me before I off myself
>not exploring the vibrant world of acoustic music outside of your safe little RAWK bubble
It does everything and more
I want to make fun of you, but you're doing a pretty good job taking care of it for yourself.
In all honesty I want an acoustic too, which at some point I hope to purchase in the future
user, my motto is that if it sounds good, it IS good. If you feel like you're falling into a rut, maybe learn some new rhythms to spice things up a bit
Get a Seagull user. Hard to beat for the price.
I don't need everything, I need comp, reverb, delay, wah, mod basics
Guitars don't hold you back, good guitarists could make anything sound good.
But if you're really dissatisfied with your guitar save up just a little money and get a better Squier. The power-gap between the £100~ ones and even the £300+ ones is insane.
get an archtop
I find playing lead a lot more fun so I'll occupy myself learning solos etc
Will probably end up getting something from the Player series in the future
bestbassgear.com
Thinking of getting two of these and having volume/tone volume/tone in a two knob guitars.
Steel string acoustics (american guitars) sound so bad I prefer the cleans of a neck pickup on an EMG 81/85 equipped 24 fret guitar.
Nylon stringed spanish guitars are the only good acoustics. Everything else is a dedicated countray machine with a neck off an electric guitar.
wattage = more db without distortion and amp distortion is rarely desirable when you are a pedal stepping motherfucker who spent so much on brand name analog effects that you couldn't get an amp with an effects loop
Guitars can hold you back but there are diminishing returns getting closer to and past $1000 and anything that makes a $1000 guitar sound and play good can be done to a $100 guitar by a talented luthier unless it's so shitty the neck is made of one piece of random pine and it's a low quality set neck joint of a special snowflake shape.
my watch and rings on just one hand cost more than 1k
get a job
i'd rather buy something that actually gets better as you pay more for it instead of a fashion accessory for wannabe rock stars
Nylons are based as fuck, but if you can only get one kind of sound out of a steel string then you probably have brain damage
Any sound you can get out of a steel string besides 'murika will sound better on any other guitar
why do you want to play a tube amp at full volume, do you think it's still 60s?
Hey man. Typically I don't even read posts without images, so consider this an actually good response if you're around still.
A squier that holds you back is still a guitar. You know what would hold you back further? No guitar.
In addition, Rickenbackers, although expensive, are not particularly good instruments. They're unique alternatives to the Gibson/Fender model.
& to be quite blunt, I've heard almost big-box style acoustic sounds come out of modern solid state amps. It's like, the touch sensitivity of the acoustically played plank body guitar with the overtones created in amp make for a rather unusual visual/audio experience.
If I'm being fully honest with you, I would recommend you upgrade your amplifier before you go for a more expensive guitar. Your amplifier, even if it's with a, for instance:
I had a $1300 Canadian marked down factory special run Fender Princeton to play through. I used the Epiphone Junior that came with Rocksmith for about 6 months waiting for guitars I purchased to be brought from my brothers home in the States to my home in Canada.
tl;dr Comparing to a Rickenbacker is a flawed thought, unless you legitimately find love & want for a Rick'. Personally? I would want one of their standard scale, two pickup, single coil, single output jack [so none of their stereo guitars].
p.s. My girlfriend started playing guitar in September. She started on an HH Squier Strat. The new passive ones that are like, SuperStrat style. Through a Fender style amp, the pickups have a sterility during clean runs. There's a particularly unappreciated, or difficult to appreciate coupled piece of tones when the two pickup winds are so near while they cancel out frequencies.
>[and although it's not particularly a part of this talk, I just wanted to bring up the idea that a Fender Twin Reverb, with its dry channel & its effects channel, while they're wired to cancel out if you jump them, if you dial one to the lows, other highs, it works!]
>spending hundreds of dollars on shiny trinkets
I didn't know that magpies could have full-time jobs
i hate my neighbors
i mean i love them and want them to experience sparkly strat clean tones
>he has a watch
>2019
Wow. An intelligent and engaging reply, cheers user. I've heard that buying a better amp before guitar is a better way to go. I'm currently using a champion 20 so it'll definitely need replacing. Though my strat is a piece of shit, I still love it
>pictured: Vox AC4
Yeah, it's actually not the 60s. If anything, it's a throwback to the 60s, when you crank an amplifier. In fact, it's more a throwback to the 60s, than even a throwback to the 50s, because for the 50s decade, people didn't even particularly enjoy the cranking of amplifiers.
Now, having said that, a 4 watt practice amp used for recording purposes would have its own 'idea' of shaping each tone, through the cascade of gain. Now, with just the amp cranked, that's about all you're going to get. & I'll be honest, when I played my Epi ES-335 Pro through my Vox AC4, it bothered my mom to hear me just play with feedback at max vol.
In short, the electric guitar is limited only by the gear. Typically? Pedals are employed. If they're not, you're pretty simply there! But if you have to boost in the pre, or if you have an effects loop, you have more things to turn off/on.
For best effect during practice, unless you're prepping for some sort of performance, you just want your shit on & then to feel it out; so as to know what is availed to you.
I sense a keen lack of imagination on your part
my 15 watt tube combo cranked all the way up can probably damage hearing of a person who stays in the same room. 50s musicians were much saner in this regard indeed, but it was a question of stage volume, not of musicians' whims, later they had to adopt 100 watt amp heads when they started playing super large venues/stadiums/open field stages in the 60s because they didn't have decent PA systems, and it all resulted in crappy hissy deafening amp sound a la "4x12 rock star stack" that has become a cliche, but has no rational justifications today.
As somebody with little to no experience with guitars, what is this guy doing to achieve this sound? im trying to identify the technique used to make the notes sound this way. Is it tuned a certain way or is it some type of pedal?
slausonmalone.bandcamp.com
btw, not shilling my own work, this guy is apart of standing on the corner
It does get better as you pay more tho, get a job
perhaps some tremolo and lo-fi
Nah, but mainly because I can afford three-grand Ricks.
Ha, well. You clearly have a lot of well-to-do-knowledge about thE CURRENT DOWNFALLS OF OUR LIFE IN 1960 DECADE THAT WE DEAL WITH ON THE DAILY
Thanks for the lesson but I'm saying most people don't crank amps in order to damage their hearing, & the hissy blasted shows were not for the sake of having a good record, they were to satisfy an average of morethan 30 people. At a time. These were stadium venues, not downtown bars. They could play an acoustic guitar to 30 people, then do the same thing louder on a different instrument. Except knowing soundscapes, they typically stuck to double-stops or power chords rather than full strums because of the muddiness of too much attack in the music.
So in short, Yeah. I was literally talking about cranking, & continuing to boost the signal of, a 4 watt amp. 100 watt amps are more powerful.
not much better.
it doesn't . tone and finish quality peak at $1k everything after that is gimmicks and placebo.
you see i can afford shit like macmulls but i still think they're fucking stupid.
you can measure its DB with a, umm, DB measurer
That's 50 cents in the LARP jar lad
Please don't spend $50 on something that's worth $1.
To each their own. I'm not the jackass who owns jewels & plays music.
>because I have a legitimate fear of one day getting a ring caught in a door & the folowing pain of the unsheathing my flesh from bone.
Let me give you a quick chatter before new thread:
Guitar --
Sub $50: Bad
Sub $100: Better
Sub $250: Decent
Sub $500: Deal
Sub $750: Standard
Sub $1000: Mexican classy
Sub $1250: American classy
Sub $2000: Gibson classy
Sub $3000: Vintage deals
Sub $4000: Do you really want 1 instrument when you could get a stable of Epi's? [kind of]
Sub $10,000: Average spent
heh. Anything more & you're richer than your mind is bright, assuming instruments are a hobby & not your income source.
For the case of the bass racers, you'll have to chime in on your own. I started bass 15 years ago, but I am 30 now and the information of a bassist is lost by my knowledge of guitar flipping.
>tl;dr I can play 'decent' but not 'particularly amazing' & I have spent enough to own a Gibson Les Paul, a Fender Telecaster, an Epiphone Thunderbird, & an Epiphone 90s Stratocaster knock-off [which cost me under $100 & is worth over $300 if I just put the strings back on]
>gibson
>classy
Trust fund bedroom poser detected. Professional guitarists play suhr.
>watch
>1k
Only on /gg/ would this be considered bragging. Sell it so the investment wankers don't laugh at you.
I can afford three grand in the LARP jar, lad.
i was not bragging just being honest
No worries, user, as long as we accept it's nothing to brag about.
honestly, spending that kinda money on knick knacks is pretty retarded
>*literally dies of laughter @ the idea that a fender custom shop upseller could construct a set-neck*
I know! I feel gay, in my anus, because I own a boring Gibson Les Paul with the known popular flaw of poorly engaging electronics because it was constructed pre-2019! I should sell it & spend 4 times the amount on a scraped guitar with a headstock I don't like the look of, because the body is almost exactly like what fender would do, but you don't have to modify it at all to get the sound Suhr has been known for since they started more than 3 years ago!
"When you think Suhr[TM] guitars, you are allowed to think about the part of the 1970s that they were top of the line."
What a sloggan.
Do they make strat clones with no cutaway
>does fender make a electric ghitar that is not strat
I don't know what do you consider a tele because the cutouts on the strat are just sneaky body shit. The necks are the same & upper fret access is essentially equal. The bolt goes in the same place.
>um can I get an electric guitar that has no fret access? HEHEHEHE
New thread
lmfao nice cope
No they don't dumb ass. Wood quality, finish quality and other aspects go up a lot at $2K.. keep playing your poly coated shitplanks ok?
Im still here dumbfuck ive been here all thread. But im curious to know how i got your panties in a bunch? Did i upset you user?
Ever tried getting a job?
Stop posing as me.
If you buy a rick and it's not a bass, you're doing it wrong.
