>How do I start learning guitar/bass?
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frets.com
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IMAGINE PLAYING GUITAR IN 2019 LMAO
Why are you impersonating my posting style?
>imagine being a retard in 2019
L M F A O
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GUITAR IS TURNING YOU GAY
tfw permanently sad
at least i got a job that keeps me active and lets me buy guitars and talk to ppl
See a medical professional.
i know we're supposed to use kaka in our playing if we expect to be any good, but i farted a kaka log out of my stinky butt and, although it smelled like kaka, it didn't make my playing any better.
is there anything else i'm supposed to do with the defecation that i squench from my kakahole? please understand that my kaka stinks.
You have no reason to be
tfw permanently bad
at least i have neat gear but i'm losing faith in it because it doesn't make me sound any better
a new day another pedal goes into my closet
see
You have no reason to exist.
This world means nothing.
god tier, normally constructed with excellence as the primary goal:
Made in Japan
Made in the US
Made in Europe
meh tier, constructed dispassionately to make money but also to be well worth the price so people may enjoy playing the instrument:
Made in Korea
Made in Mexico
lol tier, constructed exclusively to sell cheap shit to beginners and poorfags:
Made in Indonesia
Made in China
Says Dean on the headstock
Guys, if you go from single coils to a humbucker, do you need different pots? I vaguely remember something about this from years ago when I first looked into it.
250k for single coils
500k for humbuckers
25k for actives
1k for absolute madmen
always remember to have two knobs for every pickup. any other configuration is heresy. if you are a heretic and have two pickups and two knobs, get out your drill or buy concentric pots.
Dean USA is good but you have better options at the price point
how much should invest into my first guitar
>1k for absolute madmen
explain this meme for a pleb pls
so what
I'd say at least a couple hundred. You'll get a better guitar and the more you spend the more invested you be because you want to make the purchase worth it. Also I'd get something used because you'll get something way better for less simply because someone else owned it before you. You can find brand new guitars that are $300 cheaper because you weren't the first one to own it
100 at most
$500 for the guitar and $200-500 for the amp and speaker if not poor
this is both standard kit for beginners and gig-worthy so upgrading is just personal preference and not a future necessity. a good setup is worth more than a new guitar 88% of the time. bear in mind good instruments aren't cheap. the tolerances involved in having a pleasantly playable one are very small.
$100 each if poor
1k pots are hella bright
The most important part is to get something that makes you excited to play. Something that makes you want to get up and play it,
>hella bright
thanks senpai
>guitar finds itself out of tune
>only two strings are out
>both are sharp
Did it get bumped or what
What is the second most likely brand of guitar to be owned by an illegal alien behind Dean?
Ibanez is probably first followed by jackson
>i-i-it's n-n-not D-D-D-Dean, r-r-really!
>says the illegal
1k volume pots and no load tone pots a best. A BEST! Think about it logically. Tone knobs can't add treble; they can only subtract treble. Thus, logically, it's best to have as much treble available to the signal as possible. Want less treble? Just roll the tone knob off. 1k volume pots and no load tone pots give you the widest available tonal range and are therefore logically the best choices.
>more automatically means better
This is how everyone knows you're a nigger
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Yes, more tonal range is better. Dark sounding amps are a thing that exist, as are dark sounding PA systems.
You mean 1000k?
If you used them with actives the results would be ass and actives are already difficult to set up and use between their combination of sensitivity and the fact they're actually very weak pickups behind an amplifier
Why? Is he getting to you?
Made in Vietnam is absolute shit tier
I meant 1M pots. I knew what I meant.
HIDING AND EVADING FILTERS BECAUSE YOURE LONELY IS AN OFFENSE JCUM.
Just remove the tone control all together
Imagine being so bad at producing bleep on your ableton live knockoff you have to shame people who know instruments to make yourself feel better. Faggot.
>he has manlet feet and can't afford a Gibson
That would make the guitar less versatile. The point here is making it more versatile. Plus, a no load tone pot on 10 is the same as no tone pot.
Now, removing the volume control altogether will get you a miniscule, likely inaudible amount of extra treble compared to a 1M volume pot, at the expense of the ability to control volume with your guitar. This would make the guitar less versatile and is not advisable.
>he could only afford a gibson
>he doesn't own an ESP
what's your excuse for not buying an ESP guitar
>manlet feet
>he could only afford an ESP
>he can't afford an authentic 1959 Gibson Les Paul Standard in Heritage Cherry Sunburst
What's your excuse for not buying an authentic 1959 Gibson Les Paul Standard in Heritage Cherry Sunburst?
Older guitars are magical things that are both worse and more expensive.
Are you talking about volume or tone? Removing the volume control would have no effect on tone.
B-but magical aging properties that make it sound better because of voodoo!
>Removing the volume control would have no effect on tone.
No, that's wrong. Even a 1M volume pot on 10 restricts the treble a little bit compared to no volume pot. I'm not wrong on this. You need to get learned and do more research.
no
THE MYSTERY THE SUSPENSE
Bitch please.
Anyways im going to roll the edges
>he doesn't just use only an on/off toggle on his guitar
Yes. You have no fucking idea how a guitar or electronics works. I will educate you now.
A 250k pot sends a lot of high frequencies to ground. This is why they're commonly used with single coil pickups.
A 500k pot sends less high frequencies to ground than a 250k pot. This is why they're commonly used with humbucker pickups.
The higher resistance of the volume pot, the less high frequencies are sent to ground.
When you remove the volume pot, NONE of the high frequencies are being sent to ground. Thus, you're getting the full signal from the pickups.
Even a 1M pot on 10 still sends a little bit of high frequencies to ground. This is probably inaudibly different from no volume pot, but it's a measurable difference.
The difference between no volume pot and a 500k pot on 10 or especially a 250k pot on 10 will be easily audible.
t. has no idea how electronics works
The capacitor is what effects tone
this guy is right
this is a samefag who is trolling
t.luthier
capacitor and resistor types don't affect tone, only value
Cap/resistor values do NOT affect the tone of a volume knob on 10. They DO affect the tone of a volume knob as it rolls down from 10. That's how treble bleeds work.
capacitor only affects tone when the tone knob isnt on 10
First edge rolled. Came out decent. Compare first fret to the second fret
then whats the point of upgrading to expensive boutique caps like oil, ceramic cts and other bullshit ?
caps don't affect the tone of a volume knob period because caps aren't on volume knobs. If they were, it would be a tone knob.
>effects
Its affects you fucking mindless ape
Voodoo magic. Snake oil. Making snake oil salesmen rich. The guitar world is full of this shit, as is the audiophile world if you ever get into that shit.
The component materials aren't important; the values are. Get the values right and you can have an audibly flat frequency response as you roll down the volume knob. This will require a lot of research and will essentially depend on what pickups you have.
So it csn be more gradual and subtle and some swear it colors the tone depending on the cap. But like an user said that only comes to play when its not on 10. Good caps have more range than shit caps in terms of rolling off the volume or tone knob
Dont tell me your dumbass thinks its finished. I obviously need to fine sand it.
>because caps aren't on volume knobs
My statement was not incorrect. Read it again.
A treble bleed circuit, by definition, involves a cap wired to the volume pot.
The materials are important. Electronics aren't flawless magic.
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any recs of decent sub-$200 guitar amps? it would be my first amp, ive just been using rocksmith as a workaround for a couple months and i hate it. looking at the vox mini5 pretty seriously
Why show it if it's not finished?
Save up for a good one you don't see yourself getting rid of for a long while.
Don't fall for the consumerist progressive upgrades meme. It was invented to separate you from your money.
>okay i'm at level 0, i'll buy the beginner model
>1 month later
>i've improved, time to buy one step up!
>1 month later
>repeat
Katana
>This behavior is a small source of nonlinearity in low-distortion filters and other analog applications. In audio applications this can be the reason for harmonic distortions.
>small source
Your own source showed that it's voodoo magic and snake oil, exactly as I said.
i think my hesitation was this in the back of my head..
>small source, relevant to its normal use in electronics (ie: it would not really matter for an alarm clock)
>creates harmonic distortions in audio
Did you read
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>The data and sound clips above show clearly that for tone capacitors of close measured capacitance value there is no difference in tone.
Objective data and subjective analysis both show no difference between different materials and similar values.
officially BTFO and REKT
>This dependency on capacitance value alone is EXACTLY what any trained electrical engineer would expect.
Yep. Exactly.
Im showing the "roll". Thats why i said compare. The shape is different at the edge.
grammartards btfo
the proliferation of shit like $20 effects pedals, $300 guitars, and $200 amps that sound as good as, and sometimes better than the "real" thing have encouraged a massive amount of innovation in the boutique industry so you often are actually getting something as special as the price implies, unlike the 80s, where you had cheap SHIT, and everything else was okay. you can get stuff that would be considered touring worthy last century for chump change today.
only the "authentic vintage designs and materials!" segment of the market is a true rip off. you pay a fuckload for no noticeable, or measurable, difference that could be attributed to how vintage it is rather than normal variance between any two chunks of wood, same species, same tree, same drying kiln, sanded first or last with the same piece of paper, or no.
and despite that the proliferation of digital audio processing is on the verge of completely killing the boutique pedal industry and possibly a good chunk of the amp and pickup industries - thank god. who needs a red panda particle and a dark world when you have a cheap thinkpad.
Why didn't you just use sandpaper to begin with?
Change the way you practice if you feel like you are perpetually bad.
What are you working on at the moment? Maybe I can help you make a practice routine.
>when they know they've lost the argument
In the world of audio, panicky talk about harmonic distortion is usually, not always, but usually placeboey, inaudible snake oil bullshit.
I used a rasp file and then hit it with 220 grit paper. Im finishing it with 1500 grit dry.
Tube distortion is some real shit
But it is fully understand and entirely possible to replicate so today is most likely the last hoorah of tubes. Buy your $250 orange terrors while you can, in 10 years tubes will be boutique shit for nutters like diamond plated cables.
tldr low pass filter
>tfw get addicted to krokodil 20 years down the line and sell my jcm900 for 10k and die in a krokodil induced hell
>Implying China won't capitalize on the legendary status of the thermionic valve and shit out cheap tube equipment so fast that tubes will be cheaper than solid state equipment that sounds exactly like them
In ten years men will be euthanized and guitars will be burned on top of a pile of books.
This is the discord tranny endgame.
>where is Orange terror being made now
*in ten years you will be re-educated by the state for playing an instrument of non-aryan origin
That's a $250 orange terror.
I mean, they're coming close already. There's that Monoprice tube amp.
Im under the impression that thw orange amp you said is a hybrid amp no?
Valvestate is okay actually, now that solid state sounds good the tubes are just a marketing gimmick
I'd still prefer solid state reliability. You will probably never need to replace a part in your solid state amp. Your solid state amp will probably never cease functioning when you go over a pothole a little too fast on your way to the gig.
Capitalism has its perks for sure.
I remember seeing a show in the early 2000's where the guitarist's Twin Reverb died mid-set. The band that played before him was still there and they had a Line 6 modeling amp that they let him borrow to finish his set. Dude literally set it to a Twin Reverb preset, set the tone knobs to where his Twin was and started playing, and it literally didn't sound any different than the real thing. That was in the early 2000's; modeling has come a long way since then.
Tubes are such a fucking meme.
But if you already fell for the meme it'll be worth some money if it's a brand name.
Tube amps literally never get cheaper.
A twin reverb without a tone wood guitar is like a Corvette without a transmission.
Yeah, he was playing a sweet, old-ass Goldtop LP that day.
Only a Gibson is good enough for anime girls.
Go buy a monoprice
It feela good not to have mental disease.
>a serious indication of a hormonal issue with regards to little bitty babby manlet feet
>no mental disease
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I bet you're a tranny.
Are tone nobs a meme?
I play jazz and always leave my tone at 10 and then EQ my signal accordingly. I've always found this works better than using the tone nob for EQ. Rolling off tone makes my guitar sound like a muddy piece of shit.
>plays jazz
>tone isn't a muddy piece of shit
You're a fucking unicorn.
why would you bother doing this to a squire neck?
Heh.
Well I lower the fuck outta my trebles in EQ so I probably would sound muddy to you.
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plywood is the best tone wood
if it has too much tone for you they make a convenient knob just for that purpose
No im a chinese late teen in hopes of meeting a honorable husband through the province matchmaker
Plywood is unironically great for gigging guitars. Alternating wood grains = less susceptibility to temperature and humidity-induced tuning problems.
If only some reputable company would figure this out and make some damn good plywood built to last a lifetime instead of alternating sheets of cheap pine built to keep materials costs under $100
I'm an anime girl and I play a fender jazz bass.
doesn't have enough gain
impressed that it has a 3 band EQ, spring reverb, and an effects loop though
If only you could add gain to it via pedals. If only.
hell yeah you play a jazz bass
tell me how much a quality high gain distortion pedal costs again
i don't want noisy knobs, switches that thunk, or excessive noise introduced by the circuit even when using a battery
>he butchered it
They call him American Samuel for a reason.
Can i save this .gif?
anime girl guitars:
ESP M-II
ESP Snapper
ESP Random Star
Schecter BH-1
Gibson Les Paul
Gibson flying V
Gibson SG
Gibson Hummingbird Deluxe
Gibson ES-335
Tom Anderson Drop Top T
Fender Mustang
If you own one of these guitars, turn in your man card. You are officially an anime girl.
This list is not complete.
>no dean
feels good to be a dean man
Of course. Everyone needs more cute laughing girls for posting in a derisive manner. That's a universal need up there with food, water, guitar strings and firearms.
>own a guitar on that list
>look down
>no cute anime girl cunny
In the market for a new amp, looking for something high gain that can still do cleans in the $300 range
Things I have scoped out
-Vox AV30
-Boss Katana 50W
-Peavey Valveking 112
Help Yea Forums what would you get? I play mostly Alice in Chains, Ozzy (w/ randy rhoads), and some SRV. Would I be better off sticking with my fender frontman 15 and saving up for a couple of months? Currently leaning towards the Vox, primarily just play at home, jam with some friends every now and again.
Open to suggestions
What firearms you have? Did you join the gun club by your house? Is it all fudds?
what the fuck am I looking at. what have you done??
i bought an old second-hand esteve classical guitar off ebay. teaching myself off justin guitar. the guitar keeps going out of tune. what do i do.
also any other tips to help learn alongside justin guitar.
holy shit electronics are fucking cheap
10 cents for a resistor or cap
a buck for perfboard
a buck for a jack, a buck for a switch, a buck for a pot
how do pedalfags not build their own klon centaurs all day
>tfw i started playing guitar almost 10 years ago, but i only ever PLAYED guitar, never really practiced so even after all this time i'm still just an intermediate player
i feel like such a failure
>he uses high gain settings because he can't sound good without them
I know that feel. I'm probably gonna quit playing soon. I can't write anything good.
Most people who can't play for shit use the cleanest tone possible and then a shitload of effects. It's called shoegaze.
The opposite, very few to no effects and high gain, is known for highly skilled technical players that wank harder than a berkley music theory professor. It's called metal.
>shoegaze
>clean
maybe garbage nu shoegaze like Slowdive
High gain is for "highly skilled," "technical" players like Herman Li who are sloppy as shit and need the high gain to mask it. Players like you.
>sound bad
>turn up gain
>unwanted string noise overpowers tone
>sound bad
>turn down the gain a bit
>step on reverb
>now turn on the delay
>MORE DELAY
>ALL OF THE DELAY
>CHORUS PEDAL
>MATT DEMARCOOOOOO
>[ambient bullshit]
>NOW I NEED A BLACK GUY TO TALK OVER THIS AND I'LL HAVE A HIT
>tfw my first guitar weighed fucking 6kg (13 lbs) and basically cuts of circulation to my leg if i play with it on my lap
>tfw second guitar i bought was even heavier
granted i was 15 and 17 respectively back then so i literally never even thought about weight of the instrument.
how much does a "light" guitar weigh?
i held some that felt like they were lighter than 2 kg
talking about electric guitar by the way
I haven’t played an electric guitar in over a year or so bcuz as soon as I plug it in and get some pedals I stop playing music and start playing with the signal until it’s a broken mess and then I buy broken shit on purpose to get even weirder sounds until I’m literally playing 1-2 notes and bending for an entire “song” in what is effectively shitty psychedelic electro with a guitar instead of a midi for inputs
Am I just retarded?
>tfw lost my cool red jazz 3 pick
sloppy playing sounds like ass with high gain unless you use such a shitty eq that you can't hear your mistakes, or anything for that matter, because it all sounds equally bad
Get an Orange Micro dark its pretty decent and easy to use even comes with an effects loop. You can buy a used 1×12 cab and you'll be set for a while.
DONT LEARN GUITAR
DONT LEARN BASS
BUY A DAW AND A MIDID KEYBOARD AND LEARN SOMETHING USEFUL IN TODAYS MUSICAL LANDSCAPE
DAWs and Vsts are soulless
nihilists are the fucking worst
Have you heard about masking tape?
Have you heard about files made especially for that job so as to not chew into the wood of the fretboard?
At least it was just a shitty cheap squier you just ruined. Jesus fucking christ.
>Implying anyone mildly serious about music doesn't have at least 1-2 midi controllers, use a DAW and multiple VSTs for whenever they demo their shit as well as several guitars, at least one bass and a shitload of gear.
>gibsons. fenders.. that's real cute
But for me, only Harley Benton™ is good enough
>You have no reason to exist.
>This world means nothing.
[citation needed]
holy fuck my eyes
Did you buy guitars made of bricks? My 5 string bass is the heaviest of my guitars and it’s like ~10lbs
Who's your favourite...
>Electric guitar player
>Acoustic guitar player
>Bass guitar player
>Electric guitar player
Probably Guthrie Govan. The guy can play fucking anything and still sound unique.
>Acoustic guitar player
Don't really listen much to "pure" acoustic players, but I guess I'd have to go for Al di Meola.
>Bass guitar player
Hard to chose. Philippe Bussonet maybe, the man is a beast/machine hybrid.
>mfw can't decide between 2 amps
Why is it always harder to choose an amp than it is a guitar, fuck
Flip a coin, best out of 5 wins.
Like it or not, this is what peak guitar looks like
>and you can have an audibly flat frequency response as you roll down the volume knob
but why would i care about that
i gotta buy new strings, which ones should i get? the D'Addario NYXL are supposed to be good
This is really good.
>only the "authentic vintage designs and materials!" segment of the market is a true rip off. you pay a fuckload for no noticeable, or measurable, difference that could be attributed to how vintage it is rather than normal variance between any two chunks of wood, same species, same tree, same drying kiln, sanded first or last with the same piece of paper, or no.
wrong, the specs on the vintage correct models of the gibson lespaul matter to me
you mean non black
hahaah
i would if i were north american or west european
not true, you can have shitty legatos and stuff but be able to play cleanly enough
ace frehley
joan soriano
gene simmons
Stop lookin' down and look up and proud of it
Don't be a fool and keep takin' all that shit
It's time you saw that it's wrong to be pushed aside
Stand up and fight and you soon will realize
You gotta separate the men from the boys
If you hesitate, you might lose a lot of joys
So grab a hold of your girl, and give her everything you can
If you can penetrate, she'll make you feel like a man
Always remember your strength comes from deep inside
The world's a joke, so beware, you could lose your mind!
So don't be fooled by the lies lots of people say
Trust in yourself and you surely will find a way
You gotta separate the good from the bad
If you hesitate. you might end up feelin' sad
So grab a hold of your girl, squeexe her tight and don't let go
I you can penetrate, by then you'll surely know
are there any floyd rose drop in replacements, I want to buy a guitar that comes stock with a floyd rose but I play in a lot of alternate tunings is there a drop in replacement?
Depends on the guitar. iirc most licensed floyd rose are interchangeable with the original parts.
Or do you mean you want to block the trem, so you can easily switch tunings. If so all you would need is this. basically turns your guitar into a hardtail.
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Just buy a fixed bridge
Brouwer's great - really well written for guitar.
I played El Decameron for my graduation recital, it's one of those pieces that can sound really impressive without being super difficult.
Always found pieces like Britten's nocturnal
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and Rodrigo's 3 Spanish pieces harder
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Worth pointing out that Gibson are made in the USA by Mexicans and niggers
answer me
I've owned a several Gibsons over the years. You're completely delusional if you think they're worth even half of their sales price.
Buy Heritage guitars then.
Made in the old Kalamazoo factory by Gibson workers who didn't want to move to Nashville.
They're everything Gibson should be - well made and finished, with things that Gibson abandoned long ago to save a few dollars like one piece mahogany bodies.
Don't you have enough money to buy one, user?
Maybe you should get off the internet and get a job!
I only have one guitar, an Epiphone special I bought for $200 7 years ago, and it still kicks ass. I've tried plenty of Gibson's guitars and they're all amazing. Never understood why people like you seethe over them.
I would like a tremolo for the guitar just not a floyd rose is there a non floyd rose tremolo that would fit on the posts already drilled into the guitar?
The tremol-no lets you use it as a dive only trem.
so with a tremol no i can take off the locking nut and i wouldnt have to tune with the pins on the floyd rose but with the machine heads on the headstock?
Just buy a Strat perhaps? Lots of copies out there that have a regular non-floyd trem. Regardless of what trem you go with though you'll encounter setup issues when changing tunings so 95% of the time its easier to just buy a fixed bridge model guitar to begin with for that type of stuff
yeah pretty much.
thanks I'll look into it
based. I still have mine though I am soon giving it to my brother in law
He's saying '1k' but he means '1M'.
1k would be dull as shit. You mean one meg.
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what is the genre he's playing called? where can i learn the basics of it?
Delta Blues/American primitivism I suppose
fingerpicking is dead
>been playing bass for 10 years
>got to decent level
>shit theory
I'm only just learning the notes on the fretboard now lads, why didn't I start this earlier.
Any advanced guitar chads in here?
How difficult do you think this is to play?
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Tabs in the attached pic.
I thought i was an intermediate player but the quick changes with the different chord shapes and especially that pull off/hammer on section are kinda killing me.
who are the fender strats of acoustics
Just bought a Special II a week ago, pretty excited to use something better than the IAXE I tried learning with in high school
Martin Dreadnoughts
i play with more attack and confidence than everyone else
help me decide between an electric v acoustic first
what kind of music do you like
K-Pop
Techno
I like the sound of acoustic but as far as songs go I listen to a lot both, mainly electric I guess.
Indie, Bedroom Pop, Power Metal etc etc but some different examples from what I listened to the last few days.
Nirvana
Mac Demarco
Brian Jonestown Massacre
The Stooges
Twisted Sister
Motley Crue
Ratt
Vance Joy
Sonic Youth
Current Joys
I'm pretty sure the answer is electric but something about the fullness and the feel of the sound of acoustic just attracts me so maybe thats something to try later on.
Also if electric, idk if I should be SSS/HSS/HH for a broad range like those listed.
Most of my guitar friends and myself are usually too lazy to plug in the e-guitar and fire up the amp to play/practise so we all just have acoustic guitars next to our beds that are easy to pick up and play whenever you want. I wish i would play e-guitar more often but it's not that fun if you can't go all out and i live in a shitty apartment so i just stick to acoustic.
yea id only be a bedroom player anyway
sounds like you and your friends like to butt-fuck each other
>Electric
Can never go wrong with Guthrie, absolute legend, though I don't listen to much of his music, so I'd say a tossup between Jerry Cantrell and Stevie Ray Vaughan
>Acoustic
I prefer classical to steel string
Ana Vidovic
>Bass
Mike Starr without a doubt. John Paul Jones close behind
How can you be too lazy to do something that takes 3 seconds
>.
wheres the upvote button? i want to give your opinion so validity
Getting this bass used for ~200 bucks, am I making a bad choice Yea Forums?
> electric
Willy Tit McGee, he plays for The BigSpunkers and is a total wizard.
>acoustic
acoustic is gay so no one.
>bass
Ballsack TimpleTits. Used to play for Peenus Weenus back in the 90s before he overdosed huffing jenkum
This is nothing, just learn the chord shapes individually first until they come natural. How long have you been practicing this?
do i need an actual amp if im only a bedroom player? i know i could learn unplugged but it sounds shit so do i just get one of those amplug headphone things or an actual amp even though its going to be low volume?
Question. How much time do you spend daily playing the guitar?
I don't need an exact figure, an aproximation is ok
>Return
are you an actual retard? just do what you want
depends, usually about 1 hour but I also use my guitar as a sexual partner so that adds some extra time to it
I get about 20 minutes a day in, either just before I head to school/work or just before I sleep. Usually I play anywhere from 10 mins to an hour but I'd say the average is 20 min
no
yes
if you spend anything over 70 dollars on a bass you're getting ass raped
well shit
Idiotbox is always doing some May 4th Star Wars related deal I missed out last year on the Holy Trooper but now they're making a tube screamer/muff/rat pedal
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What genres are you planning on playing m8?
Nice bait
I'm building a klon and the materials came to about $60 despite me buying too many 1n34a diodes, rare discontinued caps with funky values, and a pre-finished PCB.
if you were building these in bulk you could probably get materials well below $50 a pedal. Since circuits can't be patented, why hasn't china made a 1:1 klon clone instead of cheapened ones.
A one piece body doesn't affect tone or sustain, it just wastes expensive wood. Not really rare though because various industries already logged so much of it that commercial sources are nearing 100% plantation grown.
Can't really say the same about ebony and rosewood though.
Kek that's exactly the one.
Can someone shop the guitar pink and put anime eyes on it for me?
heavy stuff for the most part, Alice in Chains, which Is why I opted for the active to be able to get that gritty sound, but also be relatively clean when I need to be, this is my first bass though so I might be talking out of my ass completely
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>he makes it unnecessarily difficult to perform large string bends by using strings thicker than 9's because he's stupid and thinks he needs thicker strings for "thicker" tone
>he unnecessarily tires his hand out and fucks up his callouses with strings thicker than 9's
>posts anime girl
>has anime girl hands
>doesn't know theoretical max sustain and volume are functions of string tension
>doesn't know pickup volume is affected by more massive strings
>doesn't know heavier strings are more dynamic since they require a stronger attack to vibrate at the same volume
tldr play 14s
Mate I hate to say this but metal is shit for bass and you won't develop as a bassist if you stick to it so I wouldn't limit yourself to metal, look into funk and jazz. Make sure you don't just turn into a root note pleb if you're going to play metal.
That being said I'm sure the Omen is a fine bass, active basses have more control of the EQ and you can get some nice sounds from them.
Did SRV have anime girl hands because his stupidly thick strings tore his fingers up and forced him to put superglue on them?
Your vibrato is shit if you can't coax infinite sustain out of Billy Gibbons .007's.
>volume
Who fucking cares?
Choose your fighter
Because they charge about twice what fender does and gives you the same quality now that the mid 20th century is over and you can get fenders with crazy features like humbucking pickups, good neck joints out of the factory, and necks made from boards instead of baseball bats. Since features have evened out between all the major brands all people see when they see gibson is:
A shitty headstock design that demands a special snowflake nut that isn't factory equipment on all guitars
A history of QC issues that even squire would be ashamed of
Heavy as shit
Guitars that cost as much to repair as they are worth in good condition if bought used, and so are better off scrapped and replaced
Costing $2200 when the 1-to-1 equivalent by fender costs $1200 and still has a neck you can replace
And move away from fender and you'll get bolt on neck joints that aren't bricks and 12"+ radiuses as standard instead of snowflake
Mind you what they charge is not a lot of money. Guitars remain cheap instruments with the highest of the high end brand new hand made from a solid piece of nephilim bone guitars costing only a little more than entry level pianos ($10k! oh wow! instruments are so expensive!). They only get actually expensive when they're collectibles.
How I suppose to finger the chord:
--2
--3
--4
--5
--5
--2
When I try to put my pinky accross the two 5s it just mutes the rest of the strings. I think it's an augmented F# chord with an added 13th?
I do quite like those genres, Steely Dan type stuff if that counts, my question then becomes, would an active bass be suitable for that kind of thing? or are they too harsh
Nevermind I did it.
I AM A FUCKING WIZARD FEAR ME
HOW
>Not spending twice as much to get an inferior product
How do you expect Yea Forums to believe you have a job?
it tilts the hand or it mutes the strings again
For me it's the esquire
I'll take the most expensive boomer guitar so I can sell it and put the funds towards a good one.
>his guitar has string trees/retainers
Ahahahaha, was that thing built in 1850? I bet it has catgut strings and only three saddles, too.
I bet you play it through a tube amp, too.
I can make strings out of my dead cat's gut?
Save a little more and get a Hot Rod Deluxe
It has staggered tuners and I like my tube because even at $1800 a kemper doesn't sound exactly the same at volumes below 90db. Nobody bothers to model that old broken radio sound of practice EQ.
i just started and im almost 30 time to become the next interpol
>staggered tuners
Doing it right.
>tube
Doing it wrong.
>practicing plugged in
Doing it really, really wrong. Practicing unplugged makes you a better player. It forces you to use interesting note choices and phrases to make the otherwise plain sound of your instrument sound interesting and compelling, and it forces you to rely on technique for sustain instead of gear.
I have exactly that one too but the pickups died so I put the EMG passive hzh1 set in them and it sounds fucking fantastic
>rely on technique for sustain
My guitar is set up with a low action so it sounds like buzzy shit unplugged. It's not audible, but it might color the tone and reduce sustain veeeeeery slightly.
>tube
>doing it wrong
What would you recommend over a $200 tube amp? A $200 boss katana? I don't even like effects except for delay.
>I like tubes because solid state just doesn't sound terrible enough at low volumes
Tubes in a nutshell.
Solid state often sounds worse at low volumes until you start spending I NEED PRO EQUIPMENT FOR MAH GIGS money and I'm a bedroom player so that money can go into a retirement fund
>My guitar is set up with a low action
Electric guitar+the amp is the instrument and if you're not compromising acoustic quality and playing a rattly guitar just so you can fret faster you should just buy an acoustic
But wait, acoustics have heavier strings and are harder to fret, and....
Imagine thinking a 9 pound Les Paul is heavy lmao
>he needs low action as a crutch to play fast and cleanly
Never gonna make it.
The best players are masters of all techniques, including string bending, which is rather severely hampered by low action. You're gimping your expressive capability because you require a crutch.
>low action is bad it makes playing guitar too easy
>heavy strings are bad it makes playing guitar too hard
Bending isn't hampered by low action by the way, that's because you're playing a fender.
The EQ/tone knobs on a passive will just cut the signal, so reduce the bass/mid/treble. On an active it can cut and boost the signal, so you can add more bass/mid/treble. You can obviously change these settings on the amp but having the controls on the bass adds another dimension and you can fiddle.
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I think they look at the Omen on this vid
>Bending isn't hampered by low action by the way
It is, unless you take corrective measures which limit the scope of your right hand technique.
Low action means your fingers end up on top of neighboring strings when you bend. At this point you have two choices:
- Let the neighboring string ring out, which is gonna sound real bad;
- Mute the neighboring string with your pick hand.
If you're constantly having to mute strings with your pick hand to compensate for your low action when you bend strings, you're limiting the scope of techniques your pick hand is capable of while you bend strings.
Why don’t you two faggot settle this with a bend off?
Hitting adjacent strings on full bends is happens with all actions and it makes a noise no matter what so you mute it with your left hand
One finger bends, one finger motes, the other two do whatever. Use more fingers if you're a wimp.
is there a problem if i play with a humongous amount of attack
i'm so drained into my job that i dont even know what to do with my weekends anymore and just lay around on the couches and sleep and shitpost
i wanted to see a whore today so i could figure whats it like to be in bed with a woman but i couldnt bother to shower
i dont even bother playing guitar anymore because i can't finish a song with the little riffs and themes that i come up with, and i can't write lyrics for them either because i'm a mentally ill virgin loser
i can bend with one finger because i'm an alpha
even forgot pic
i can play with so much attack you wouldnt believe it
nah you should record that, give it some structure/buildup/denouement and then make an album of like 20-30 minute semi-ambient songs
This, seeing all the Gibson fags crying about 10 pound guitars makes me laugh. My tele is 10 pounds and my bass is 11, it's not fucking heavy at all and I'm a 125 pound 5'10" twig. I'm surprised they aren't getting all excited about more """tonewood"""
uncle and grandma
Do you play a Les Paul?
yes!
>buy a guitar from thomann
>pickups cut out and go silent at random
sent them a message but holy fuck this is annoying.
playing? up to 3h
practising? 0-10 minutes
desu the problem is the fast h/o p/o section.
the chords are easy on e-guitar but difficult on classical
i'm almost sure this happens on like 50% of all their sold guitars.
happened to my mom's shortscale bass too
>strat
>HHH
into the trash it goes
You are part of the problem
But it's cheap?
Jesus, that's one ugly, mismatched guitar.
is £480 on a mim strat too much for a first guitar?
should I just buy a squier/yamaha?
Get mim or yammy
I objectively have the best gear in this thread
AMA
Nitzche so often misunderstood, this world means nothing is a freeing thought, so do what you and live beyond the traditional thought process of good and evil, go practice caylpso music
nah
>Don't play guitar for like two weeks
>Play some today and strings feel noticeably looser
Should I be worried
i dont know brah, just cut the innecesary parts of your guitar
Pacificas will kill your hands unless you have japanese baby sized ones
oh how come
thanks, if not squier, I guess player strat is what it's gonna be
what kind of idiot retard hits other strings when bending? just learn to play the guitar retards.
>what kind of idiot
Remember where you are.
yeah just buy anything, go to a shop and see if you like it in your hands, if you like how it looks, and buy it, you wont notice difference between any of the guitars, its all just personal feelings
he cute but not really
I tried a player hss Tele last week and it felt good.
it seems to be like the cables inside are broken off from somewhere partly, as it sometimes works and sometimes doesn't. maybe shipping is the issue.
just wanna get this sorted out and in the future buy any guitars from a guitar shop locally.
Probably bad soldering. Fix it yourself.
Star wars soicuck
Very thin necks both in depth and width
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Orange micro dick*
Nigger that red tele looks fly as fuck and its only 200 smackerss...