>first is an american elite, 4th gen noiseless pups, ebony board, deluxe trem w/pop in arm, compound neck radius >second is the Ed O'Brien strat, with a fat C neck, fernandez sustainer in neck, duncan JB in bridge >third is a 1992 AmStand with swimming pool rout, rosewood board, downtuned to D w/13 gauge strings for creamy bluesy goodness >4th is a 1997 California Series w/Abigail Ybarra handwound custom shop 1969 pups + vitamin D cap and vintage wiring >last one is a MIM special run in surf green metallic that I bought for my nephew as his first xmas gift to ensure that he is indoctrinated into guitar playing as early as possible
Dylan Sanchez
>They are hardly the same my boy. they are when you're playing them
they are pretty shitty those string slots and that "finish" just wow
Sebastian Hall
have you played an ibanez before? you either hate them or love them
A lot of people, you know >They get hand cramps on the thin neck >Despite the thin neck their babby fingers get confused by 43mm nut >The headstock angle scares people who drop their guitars frequently >they're wannabe-boomers or actual boomers who hate anything that isn't #playauthentic and MADE IN MURIKA. Ignore these folks they're devoid of logical facilities and jerk off to K-On.
any knopfler fan in? i want to go pickless. what should i know about that?
Mason Brown
There are exactly two good days when you have an Ibanez: the day you buy it and then the day you sell it to some poor sucker for less than you originally paid for it in the first place.
no >Mark Freuder Knopfler was born on 12 August 1949 in Glasgow, Scotland, to an English mother, Louisa Mary (née Laidler), and a Hungarian father, Erwin Knopfler.[9][10][11][12] His mother was a teacher and his father was an architect and a chess player whose anti-fascist sympathies and Jewish parentage forced him to flee from his native Hungary in 1939.[13] Knopfler later described his father as a Marxist agnostic.[14]
Benjamin Barnes
Because you know me so well
Nicholas Thomas
>sell for less isn't that how this world works? you sell everything for less except for your house and a pair of jordans.
Blake Richardson
>called a superstrat >has more in common with a gibson than anything fender makes except for the scale length, the neck bolting on (to a smoother contour than anything fender makes) and the general shape of the body
and then you have straight up set neck ones
i find it entertaining that to make a strat super, you fuse it with some of the defining characteristics of a gibson
Leo Davis
That's dumb
Owen Wood
I love ibanez love jap products in general 5 way switch, dual humbuckers, 24 frets, tell me what other brand has all that for 300 dollars or less?
poor euronymous, when varg told him to stop playing guitar, he didn't listen. now he is dead
Jordan Reyes
As I said, I'm bored
Aiden Hughes
only stupid people get bored
Juan Young
>he doesn't know the horrors
in about 2-3 years, a guitar rushed into production with low quality, fairly wet wood will begin to move around. frets separate. the neck gets cockeyed. it might warp. even the body will contribute to it getting fucky and playing like ass. the hardware will corrode and the finish won't hold up to everyday wear. you can slow this down by taking very good care of it, but a quality guitar can hang on the wall in its downtime for decades and play better than the day you bought it every time.
my first guitar ever, a gio, is currently sitting in my closet with several frets popping out in nearly unplayable condition even with the best setup i can manage, the bridge has rusted, and several tuners are wobbly and shite. i took average care of it, wiped it off after playing, left it on an A frame stand, the works, meaning most other guitars would be perfectly fucking fine.
He can't, because he doesn't know what he's talking about. Just because they "rush production" doesn't mean they skip their reserves of dried woods and just start cutting down trees.
Lucas Adams
thats from 2006, man. you really couldn't find anything more recent?
Thomas Morales
Thoughts on mexican strats? Not going to fall apart in a few years at least?
also, it literally says right there that you can take it to a shop and its an easy fix
Jordan Hughes
the pickups are mud otherwise great
Noah Martinez
Buy one yourself. Don't say I didn't warn you.
They try and dry it. They run it through a kiln. Doesn't guarantee that every plank is properly dried. In the business of beginner shitplanks a 90% success rate is good enough, because nobody expects better.
For $300 what do you expect? A guitar that's going to need fixed because it existed for too long.
Nathaniel Davis
I got a powerhouse model about 10 years ago and it has held up well.
Lincoln Peterson
i had a mexican tele
the neck was a noodle, some frets were uneven, and the pickups sounded like ass
two of these were fixed easily and cheaply. the soft neck was a discount whammy bar.
Sebastian Wood
>they're arguing about 100$ shitplanks now the absolute state of poorfags
>just trust my anecdotal story man, just trust it alright? >m-my 4 figure priced guitar with the same specs are the 300 dollar ibanez was justified, i know it was, t-trust me I dont deny that the wood and wiring and all that is just 'better" but you're definitely exaggerating. wear and tear is waaaay slowed down with regular and easy maintenance, and its not just gonna fall apart like you say unless maybe its literally sat in a closet untouched for like a year
Levi Rogers
Don't underestimate how fucked you can get on cheap production shit. It's a dice roll every time.
You get what you pay for (with everything but gibson).
Luis Price
if you want a basswood guitar better buy used, new basswood doesnt sound as good as early 80´s basswood.
>t. basswoodist
Adrian Reed
>pickups So those can be upgraded? Is it a diy type of a job? Are replacement pickups expensive? Would you have to replace all 4 of them at once?
Andrew Richardson
I got my ab y switch. Works great
Jayden Foster
thats a QC issue, thats why you look it over in person and have it set up (or just dont buy it if its that bad) also, more expensive guitars tend to be a one piece construction because boomers think it helps the sound, which makes it nigh-impossible to repair if something happens to the neck. less expensive ones have a bolted on neck, which is completely replaceable if its damaged somehow so what do you say to that?
Hunter Cox
its mahogany
Bentley Lopez
>EMGs easy shit, everything is solderless >seymour duncan passives >~$20 less per pickup and the best value in aftermarket but must be soldered. if you don't do a passable job at this you'll have sound issues. >seymour duncan actives easy shit to install again but more expensive even than EMGs >other brands, ie: bare knuckle not really worth it unless your guitar came with them
Ryan Rogers
Are you a fucking retard or is this bait?Fuck off either way and Google.
you mean nyatho, asian ´tars doesnt have access to mahogany.
Asher Roberts
The more expensive guitars that aren't gibson are set neck, but you'll get features like 5+ piece laminates of tropical hardwood with carbon fiber reinforcement so it's not likely that anything will happen unless you're a retard.
Yeah you can replace the neck in a shit ibanez when it goes bad, and if the body is off in any way you can shim the neck to get everything level, but if you have a job why not work a little overtime and buy a guitar that's significantly less likely to need that kind of attention ever?
Josiah Hernandez
this is /gg/, spending more for piece of mind is an invalid proposition because nobody here can spend more.
it's the guitar equivalent of civic modders that buy ebay turbos for $100
Hudson Martinez
humbucker counts as 2
Blake Perez
gibson uses quartersawn wood on their premium models so it's about as strong as laminates. and more expensive.
Austin Anderson
This is /gg/. If this is not the place to be retarded then I don't know what is. There would be no boards if everyone just googled shit.
Liam Hall
Mahogany is a blanket term for all mahogany ssubspecies. Nyato is labelled as such. Pic rel is asian mahogany. Luan
>everyone else is a retard so i may as well be. Fucking retard
Jose Murphy
Anymore.
>tfw older schecter with actual rosewood and mahogany (2 piece body) >tfw it's 6.75lbs
Nathaniel Sanders
How long did it take y'all to learn songs?
I've been practicing since late May, I can do the basic A, E, D, C, Am, Em chords, smoke on the water riff on the E string, 7 nation army on the A string, and that's it. The only chord changes I can really do are A to E and A to D. Is this normal progress or am I not progressing fast enough?
Funny how you can find quartersawn wood on instruments for a fraction of the price nigson charges
Lincoln Sullivan
>everyone so you too?
Lucas Gutierrez
>´tars > ´ care to explain this?
Sebastian Nelson
I learned all of holiday by greenday back when i was shit in about a week. but I used tabs and didn't know what notes I was playing.
I brought up technical skill by playing the game rocksmith. you can also use it to learn things, but I just play it for fun.
ps. im still not necessarily good (cant play shreddy solos, bad at finger style and hybrid picking), but thats because I dont try hard enough to be good
Carter Cruz
I'm following man, but I still need to get the E to D chord changes down, I can only do like 40 in a minute
Jeremiah Moore
thanks for helping me feel good about myself
t. been half-assedly practicing since late february and lightyears ahead of you
>tfw do D to F faster than that because of house of the rising sun riff
how do i stop making goofy ass faces when i'm playing
Jonathan Rodriguez
I've been practicing for about 6 months but I have mostly been playing lead guitar solos, scales and licks and shit. I find the theory fun so I had been learning music notation and the scale theory for the first month instead of playing lol. I bought a jazz theory book by Levine but that shit is insane. Also I really wanted to learn some Santana's tunes. But Ive only learned about 1/3 of moonflower in 3 weeks and that's it lol. Shit is hard and I am repeating the same phrases over and over and I am playing the easiest parts so far. I suspect when I finally learn it I will be so sick of this tune I won't ever play it again. Or maybe I will never learn it and will give up and break my guitar and just go back to shitposting. I am curious what other people do about that. I mean when you repeat the same shit for the 500th time, wouldn't you feel like puking??
John Taylor
Japanese Ibanezes are legit some of the best guitars out there right now. People just like to hate on them because they're really popular
Chase Turner
Based sam strikes again:
Joshua Kelly
>E to D chord changes down, This is not the first time I read about that. Is this bait or just a coincidence?
Nicholas Clark
Cut your face off.
Logan Perry
No one cares, sam
Christopher Moore
Hey sam. Hows pops?
Lincoln Lee
sleeping
Bentley Nelson
That's not always true. I've got a couple of guitars that have gone up in value because they were part of limited runs. Squier Matt Freeman P Bass and a white with black pinstripes Jackson RR3.
Jordan Gonzalez
6 feet under?
Eli Collins
no higher than me actually
Ian Reyes
>sam sleeps on the bottom bunk and has to hear his dad dying throughout the kino
Grayson Murphy
i sleep on a normal bed and he's on these beds for ill people he still remembers me most of the times
Brody Morris
>he didn't consider ESP as an option
user 1 day after the return period expires: Ibeenhad!
If you don't like flashy figured tops please stay very far away from metal guitars. For your own good.
Say what you might about metalfags but they take gibsonfag furniture-ism and turn it up higher than their gain knobs. Once they pass the $300 ibanez teenager phase they tend to get jobs.
Dominic King
Want to ask a question in regards to my stratocaster.
1. Will shielding the cavity fuck with the sound? I'm running Fender Custom Shop '69s in the Neck and Middle and a Dimarzio FS-1 in the bridge. Originally I had a Duncan SSL-5 but after switching to the FS-1 I preferred the sound. When I put together my strat I was told to avoid shielding as it would fuck up the sound but the feedback from my FuzzFace and Big Muff are driving me batshit insane.
>how a metalhead signals his employment status the exotic top wood >how a boomer signals his employment status the "gibson" on the headstock >how a hipster signals his employment status when he stops being a hipster
no
Luke Wilson
Song fatigue is real. When i saw deicide play you could tell they were tired of playing their music lol
Angel Morales
>so he opened the case and it wasn't a Gibson, it was a DEAN >I thought he probably have big American penis, but not now, no, he have small penis like Japanese, he must with no Gibson
>schecter diamond series >metal guitars for the slightly poorer among us
yeah
Christian Foster
>two okay guitars >notoriously shit amp
this man clearly has his priorities in order
Benjamin Morris
>a david gilmour larper gtfo
Kevin Lewis
fuck you dude i wanted one of those white bullet mustangs but they only had black around here
Parker James
>XD
Gavin Fisher
>>schecter diamond series >>metal guitars for the slightly poorer among us >I don't know what im talking about its $1,300 retail.
Lucas Johnson
I want a fender seafoam green 60s strat but the only way to get them is if you're in Japan or you find one on the used market which I did last week but I let my girlfriend convince me not to and now I'm kicking myself for not getting it
what are some decent strats for under $1000 right now I'm looking at a white player series for 600
Gavin Thompson
Do people actually buy and play Kiesels, or do they just give out free custom guitars to anyone who has a bit of a following
So it costs less than half of what that US made ESP does
Mason Nguyen
Nice foto flame
Blake Reyes
there are only 3 brands worth buying US PRS, Fender, and Heritage
Nolan Walker
i knew a guy who had a headless 5 string bass in a tech death metal band and he said he really liked em and also had a 6 string super strat guitar he also liked from them
Liam Allen
Only a Gibson is good enough
Jaxon Peterson
kiesel is a real nigga brand
>real nigga brands Kiesel/Carvin Jackson (USA) Martin Heritage Macmull ESP G&L Steinberger Mayones Jap/Swede/US strandberg >poser brands for thots and fuccbois Fender Jackson (chinkshit) Gibson Taylor Strandberg (chinkshit) PRS All Ibanez
Easton Morris
>no Jackson dummy
Grayson Perez
>forgetting suhr and tom anderson
Urusai baka
Leo Nguyen
there is literally nothing wrong with Ibanez or thotty fuccbois
The more you look at him the more it looks like he got punched in the face one too many times.
Samuel Fisher
>Heritage literally who is this nobody brand, never heard of
Camden White
The real, authentic Gibson that nigson doesn't want you to know about.
Ayden Perry
It's not nice to bully hapas, it was their parents' choice to create an abomination, not theirs
Anthony Wilson
based tone wood meme this is why I didn't do sound engineering in college Dimarzio PAF Masters I have too many hobbies It's a shit amp that served me well user. I wanted a Hiwatt Custom 50 and realized they're all owned by boomers who shot the prices up like a '68 Camaro. I was on vacation 3,000 miles away from home and went into guitar center and copped that mustang for $50. Dropped the PAF Masters and my own wiring in and it's cherry.
body color -> hair color string ballend color (pick one) -> eye color string gauge -> boob size pickup output (pick one if unbalanced) -> butt size scale length -> height
Oh, I forgot what I'd do with her I'd set up a little living space for her in my desk cabinet and feed her raisins and cashews, then I'd take her out once or twice a day for a hot-glue session and put her back I guess I could leave my old DS in there too if she gets bored for waiting around all day to get used
This is guitar-related btw, because she is a guitar personified. Right?
Matthew James
You don't have to mention what you'd do if it's obvious enough but that's a little uh, weird
How would you describe the difference between Jaguar and Jazzmaster in terms of sound?
Adam Morgan
it's a mustang i play clean 90% of the time and very light overdrive the other 10% so i love the extra treble from low output pickups
Juan Brooks
pretty much just P90s vs regular single coils/ humbuckers
Parker Collins
Jazzmaster has a nice well-rounded warm sound rich in harmonics. Jaguar sounds like the trebliest ice pick in the world has been jammed into your ears, it makes Strats sound like Les Pauls. Both sound great w/ a bunch of distortion. P90s are pretty different from Jazzmaster pickups.
Ryan Anderson
Aren't you perhaps confusing Mustang with Jaguar?
Jack Gray
Mustang doesn't have a bass roll-off switch so no, I am not.
Chase Jackson
i've never actually played a JM, i just assumed they were P90s cause thats what they look like. guess I need to go watch some videos. i want one, and a fuzz pedal to go with it
Benjamin Parker
>it makes Strats sound like Les Pauls c'mon now...
Jazzmaster pickups are taller, but thinner. Both are very heavily wound, and P90s have adjustable pole pieces while JMs don't. P90s are in general hotter than regular JMs. I suggest you play one ASAP. It's my favorite guitar. I was exaggerating, but yeah my point is Jaguar is mad trebly compared to a JM.
Colton Walker
Never settle for good enough if it ain't from Kalamazoo, it's probably poo
post your setup, there has to be something wrong with it. maybe your tone knob is stuck.
Henry Martin
or >guitar/gear comparison >they play different songs on the different instruments/gear instead of the same song on everything to compare
Nolan Gutierrez
>gear comparison >they're talented enough so everything they demo sounds almost exactly the same unless you put the tracks right up against each other >with a few seconds of space the psychological impact of the difference is still nil
Maybe when you play consistently enough that happens because most guitars, pickups, and amps really do sound that similar? Or is it a symptom of cold, technical playing that actually has no feel? I dunno.
Elijah Rodriguez
Everything's sharp No real sense of melody, sounds like grabbing random notes from scale shapes
Blake Rogers
Just did some research on my bass and apparently it's Suhr designed from when he worked at fender. All I can say is, if what he makes now matches in quality to this, dont buy Suhr. The G string pole piece goes past the actual string, which is apparent in how quiet it is. The factory pickguard has odd lines running through it and doesnt even match up with the control plate, its 11 pounds, and buzzes like crazy even with a straight neck and "perfect" string height. It's all intonated and even still it remains difficult to really find a good sound with it. Theres too much bass in any setting and the treble boost is unnecessary unless you want to sound thin and shitty. The tone knob crackles if you even look at it, and the skunk stripe is rising out of the neck. Also 5 piece body, which I can only tell since the factory paint is receding in between the wood pieces.
I kind of regret giving away my squire and not putting quality pickups in it.
All in all, it's a good enough guitar, but I'll probably be picking up a nice passive P-bass and leaving this in the case so maybe I can sell it to some suhr chump in 20 years who'll only ever hang it up as a "authentically reliced pre-Suhr Suhr designed guitar"
Sounds more like satanic ambient surf than black metal
Evan Sanchez
>Squire: >a young nobleman acting as an attendant to a knight before becoming a knight himself.
>Squier: >subsidiary of Fender that makes cheaper versions of their guitars
>Esquire: >the first solid body guitar sold by Fender, which looked like a Telecaster but with only one pickup
i'm sorry but nothing hurts me more than seeing people keep writing Squier as Squire especially when it's on the fucking headstock
Alexander Rogers
nobody cares
Charles Collins
take the bridge off of this and put it on your new passive P-bass the new line of Squier basses are pretty good, I had a Chris Aiken signature a few years ago and it sounded and played great except for some buzzing on a fret that my luthier took care of in like, less than 5 minutes I've owned an '06 Fender Jazz Bass for 12 years now and have never had not one single issue with it, except the bridge which was more a personal preference, and the finish which i fucked up by playing in punk bands i agree user that shit is annoying
The guy who I bought it from did use it in his punk band for probably a decade. Theres quite a few dings and scratches, this might have affected the electronics if he dropped it, but he said he got a full setup and a new input jack before selling it to me. Yeah I'll probably switch the bridges out once I get that bass, looking at the ocean turquoise FSR P-bass. Played it at a store and fell in love with it.
Luis Lopez
>Autism maybe, but at least i can write 6 letters in the proper order
Luis Davis
are you a cute girl?
Jacob James
pink is the best tone color you fag
Kayden Sanchez
I loathe active electronics and would not play anything that's not a Stingray with active shit in it. Those new Mexi-Fenders are honestly too fucking expensive if you ask me, my bass cost like 430 bucks new back in the day... but yeah I played one of hose FSR P-Basses and they were pretty good. If you've had a shitty used bass for this long you deserve to buy a good new bass, put a badass bridge on it and boom, you're set. Just make sure to get one you can play before and doesn't have any issues. No I'm Mexican and hairy.
Anyone have a two handed tapping regime I can try borrowing from? Struggling to form one right now and the best I’ve got is scales like normal but the first two notes on a string are left hand and the bottom one is right, then alternate.
John Howard
just copy eddie
Liam Stewart
just watch buckethead do it for and practice what he's doing and then maybe in a couple decades you will be near his level
Christian Gomez
What the shit
Jaxson Foster
Actually >remove hum >signal that goes into the amp now has less bandwidth and lower level >signal that comes out of the amp does, too >so does the sound coming from the speaker >less bandwidth and lower level = less feedback
Nolan Lee
leftycuck here. would pic related (yamaha pacifica 112jl) be a better or worse choice than squier affinity strats/teles also around the $200 mark?
>black hair >light blue eyes >11-52 strings, so slightly above average boobs? >medium butt >regular scale Uff, I've found my dream girl.
John Sanders
More like buh .....dumtiss
Jeremiah Jackson
Ok so in yesterdays /gg/ I asked about changing the pick ups in my old Yamaha rgx121. I was told not to bother and instead to buy a big amp.
I don't have much space for a big amp, but I already have a nice hi-fi. bi-amped q Acoustic 3050's etc.
Is there something like a mustang gt40 with an optical sound out? or a way of getting the signal from a THR5 into a standard AV receiver? (without casting from my PC to my TV then back to my AV receiver via Arc?)
So any small modelling amps with optical out? Or any other way of achieving what I am trying. Pic related is my actual gear
Ja kson and charvel are both fender companies. The guy that wrote this is retarded. He should say pre fender, post fender, or both for brands like charvel jackson and gretsch
Blake Gomez
Gr8 b8 m8 I r8 8/8
Jordan Cooper
Why I’m basically asking for a small modelling amp without a built in speaker because I already have speakers far better than you’ll get in most amp cabinets.
Please help
Camden Sanchez
Only reply I will give you: Buy a katana
Levi Moore
>duncan JB in bridge Um, no, sweetie. THat's a JB mini.
Charles King
Try looking at some rack based units then like axe fx or something cheaper im sure that would work well with your setup
Austin Mitchell
probably, yeah. but you should probably save up or buy something used
I was 12 when I started playing, my dad taught me some major chords and finger picking and I would practice by providing accompaniment for his banjo playing as he learned songs. I remember it taking a lot of practice to learn to chord swap effortlessly. It depends how much you practice as well man. If you put in an hour a day religiously you should be much farther along, but if it's the kind of thing you pick up on the weekends for an hour or two only then it will take longer. > I'm 35 and put the guitar down for a couple years - having kids and other shit, picking it back up now.
Sure do - running scales to a metronome every fucking day.. But repetition is how you improve. At least when I actually play music to play it gets easier all the time and I'm only sick of the practice...
Elijah Myers
is this the bass from bang dream?
Hudson Davis
I've been playing since February, and I can do chord changes pretty smoothly now. Just start learning some songs, even if you're shit at first. Look at some of Justin Guitar's beginner song lessons. Try and play the song, see which chord changes make you pause and then practice those. It's better to practice with songs because you realise that getting the change 100% perfect doesn't matter, even if you play open strings for a few strums in between changes it can still sound good if you keep good rhythm. Also I've found that if I keep practicing the same thing over and over I never improve, try just learning parts of a bunch of songs fairly decently and then when you come back to the first song you'll be a lot better.
Also if you feel stuck then learn wonderwall, the changes are easy as shit because you keep 2 fingers pinned down the whole time and only move the other two, the only difficult part is the strumming pattern. Look at Justin's video, it's marked as like stage 7 but the intro is super easy, it took me like 30 minutes to master it when I was 3 months in.
Charles Price
What metrognomes do yinz use? Hardware or software? If software, your phone or laptop and how is software accuracy?
Christian King
>repeat the same shit for the 500th time practice dosent really start till i autistily play arpeggios up and down the neck about 1000 times
Levi Hernandez
dont pay that much attention to technique and better spend that time learning theory so you have something worthful to say.
Software, phone, seems legit. Haven't bothered comparing it to anything though as I'm sure a few milliseconds of inaccuracy won't cause issues for me. If anyone thinks or knows otherwise please let me know if I'm fucking myself over.
Ayden Fisher
Does it have optical out that allows me to bypass the in built speaker? Will do thanks for the tip
Kayden Butler
imagine having an image of shit saved on your hard drive
Yeah I use my phone too but I am asking since that used to be a hot topic. You see, windows has improved quite a bit since the heyday of the cooperative multitasking when processes didn't know how to give up time slices. So it is probably not an issue in 2019. Still I own a couple of those old fashioned Korg boxes, a tuner and a metronome, but I rarely ever use them since the phone is so much more convenient. And ios is probably even closer to a true RTOS than windows. It is no qnx but hey it is linux. So I think it should be pretty accurate. We are talking microseconds. Nobody is that accurate. Especially if you are not playing the same exercise for several days non stop lol.
Carson Green
nice ebay decal
Joseph Wright
Cool, thanks for the breakdown man. Guess I'll be alright.
Gabriel Williams
are there any brands that sell a strat without a pickguard? I'm not talking about faggy ass super strats with gaudy tops and floyd roses, just a plainold regular ass strat.
Adrian Young
the strat tremolo is super outdated desu.
charvel make the plainest looking superstrats also they use the classic strat headstock
Sebastian Thomas
no
Jack Diaz
Chapman
Christian Lopez
i'm fucked then. they only sell one in a nice colour with a floyd I refuse to give autistic people my money. they should be purged not rewarded.
Jayden Reyes
cringe
Noah Ortiz
ugly
Luke Smith
What's a good ABY box?
Cameron Fisher
I started playing mid april and I can do all basic chords including 7ths and minors and change between them easily plus basic rythms. You're half assing practice because there's no way you only learned that in 5 months
Ryan Adams
I've been playing Ibanez for years. I love mine and it plays like an absolute dream. Mine is made in Japan as well. There's something about their original Edge trem that just puts it on a different level than an OFR. My Edge trem goes months without needing to touch the tuners dispite me bending the shit out of the strings a lot. I have never gotten even close to the same stability with an OFR
Gabriel Watson
>tfw made in Japan Ibanez and made in USA Fender What's it like owning shitty guitars? I don't know that feel
Ryder Flores
Kiesel is interesting because they do some absolutely amazing tops and colors and have some interesting shapes. But because it's all totally custom they end up making that gaudy ugly trash like the pic. And then people knock Kiesel for making ugly guitars. Kiesel makes what the player wants, so all those hideous colors aren't their idea. When someone orders a classic top and color there are few guitars that can come close
Ethan Turner
it's because he's been practicing nothing but changing between cowboy chords probably
Henry Hall
>When you need all the personal enjoyment
Kiesels are more popular with recording artists so they're more like living room art than fashion accessories
if you want to use a guitar as part of your wardrobe only a gibson is good enough for insecure homos
Jordan Foster
this guy could take the cake for goofiest looking nigger that plays guitar
Aaron Reyes
>playing a flashy gibson with their tendency towards flamed sunburst tops >not a flat color fender, the most generic guitar possible, so you definitely won't be judged for having a guitar that outshines your playing
It's sad how little shame they have. It's sadder that people actually buy that guitar+amp combo looking shit for more than 50 bucks.
James Long
People play Kiesels who actually care about the guitar. They're not paying for a name to flex or anything. They're designing a guitar to their specs and tastes. Casuals don't play Kiesel. In fact, it takes a very high IQ individual to even be able to navigate their shitty website
Andrew Ortiz
>Fancy guitar bad, for attention whore >Plain guitar bad, if not flame top and ebony fretboard not worth $1000
What kills me is paying $1500 for something made of alder and maple with OEM passive pickups and a brick heel when every other company can get you something with seymour duncans, tropical hardwood, and a contoured heel or at least something nicer than fenders for that price.
Connor Gutierrez
>Surely there's a middle ground Yeah. It's called play what you like and who cares what anyone else thinks.
Andrew Cruz
get used to changing strings on a floyd and you'll be ok
Owen Carter
The pau ferro looks like garbage, that's what I care about. Solid color guitars are the only acceptable guitar choice to me (bonus points for matte finish).
Adam Rivera
There is nothing wrong with alder though. My favorite guitar is made of alder and it's extremely comfortable to hold and play. The perfect weight
John Long
>get used to changing strings on a floyd Does anyone ever do this through? Seems like you begrudgingly change your strings and hate it the entire time.
Leo Lee
>overly conservative american companies make overpriced junk
no really?
a PRS S2 is close to the same price and ten times better than anything fender makes at any price point, and that's just keeping within mainstream brands. if you spend the same money at kiesel, mayones, or ESP you'll still beat out fender and get a guitar that plays and sounds better for every genre, dollar for dollar. fender needs to drop the "authenticity" and innovate or lower their prices.
Brody Collins
what? change strings on a floyd or be used to doing it?
Elijah Bailey
Their brick neck heels, mediocre pickups, and finishes that make them look like rattle can jobs are inexcusable though. >but vintage
I'd rather save up another $500 and get a gibson. They do vintage and quality at the same time.
Austin Price
Isn't the whole point of a metronome to get you playing in time - not to build up some superhuman timekeeping accuracy? When you play for real you're just going to be keeping to the time of the drummer.
Luis Ross
>playing with a real drummer
how's 1990
Elijah Reed
I am the percussion section *does a street performance in california with his fender acoustasonic and slaps it*
Caleb Jenkins
I wasn't talking about Fender but alder body guitars in general. Fender is trash on every level.
Justin Price
Be used to doing it. It's such a long annoying process and one I always put off for as long as possible.
James Cook
just change one string at a time man
Nathaniel Wood
yeah and the best drummer is much worse than the worst metronome and everyone has figured out that
James Bennett
drummers are shit
>lol sorry im so loud lol drums have no volume control >ew digital kit? might as well use a drum machine >how about you guys just use your volume controls to play at 120db so you can be heard over me >everyone goes deaf
Gabriel Collins
>ew digital kit? might as well use a drum machine i knew a dude long time ago who bought a super expensive kit and he was banging those drums days and nights and i always wondered why couldn't you just set an auto mode and that thing would play for you, and much better too. maybe it was kind of a therapy lol
Grayson Anderson
A mitten guitar, looks neck-heavy
Adrian Harris
Wow, that's some expensive stuff but they do have models with optical outs I could use.
Pic related is my solution so far. I already have the THR5 so the only thing I need to buy its the 1/4 to 2XRCA I will let you guys know how it works on the weekend after I try it out.
If anyone knows a better way to do this please let me know.
Quality is gonna cost you, it's still a musical instrument
Jaxon Jackson
guitars and hi-fi are not compatible not even jazz would sound good on a house stereo.
Nathan Moore
Will the THR's phono output be poor quality?
The Receiver and Speakers are both, good mid range items. The guitar is shit, the THR5 seems ok if a bit limited in terms of volume.
Would doing the same thing with say a Fender GT40 be better?
I know you can get an Axe with an optical output but it's a lot of money when I am using a poverty tier guitar and I just want the sound from my practice amp much louder. I've already ordered the cable so I will see how it goes.
What would be the best way to upgrade a RGX 121z that's in working order? New pick ups?
Jack Gomez
But it sounds so good when I listen to guitar music on it! The little amp is shaping the sound, it already has stereo output so why is putting that stereo output into bigger better quality speakers going to be bad?
Juan Butler
the THR5s modelling and speaker emulation pale in comparison to the real shit. same for the GT40.
if you shelled out for hi-fi it'll only play what you feed it. maybe go guitar->scarlett solo->PC running amp sim->poweramp->speakers
they are, as long as you use cab emulation. direct out is for further EQ only not listening purposes.
Brody Ross
Lets see your gear m8
Ayden Diaz
because house stereos come with a shitload of bass, their main loud speakers are a big whoofer and a tiny treble speaker.
Joshua Davis
I have sincere question. Does playing Rhythm Heaven, or similar game, actually give you transferable rhythm skills for playing music or is it just for Gaming?
Oliver Gray
I beat all the cooking mama games and now im a world class prestigious chef cooking for only the richest in the world. Ama.
