Waiting for my bf to come over. Playing on my charvel in the meantime.
Owen Ortiz
What do you think of Fender Custom Shop?
I kind of have money to blow. I don't mind spending $4000-5000 on a guitar. But I don't know if they're good for the money or if it's really just the brand name.
And honestly, I don't know if I'd even buy it if it _wasn't_ the brand name. I read you can get G&L Customs for 1/2 the price, or Warmoth a guitar for 1/4 the price. But I think the resale value would hold the most for the Fender, yeah?
I think a Fender Custom Shop, I leave that to my kids or my kids kids when I die. Maybe it'll be worth something if they don't care about heirlooms. A Warmoth is immediately worthless in comparison.
Andrew Johnson
Redpilled to be honest. I learned on an electric but when I wasn't a kid anymore and matured, I switch to nylon. Nothing more based than playing on a nylon.
Not in a live setting, which is the whole reason for stompboxes existing
Gabriel Nguyen
Collect loads of insects (especially beatles)
Crush them up in a put and use the liquified remains of that to dye the wood
Oliver Sullivan
>sunset metallic >50's soft V neck >59's >American Elite trem Talk me out of it. The only thing I don't care for is I can't get locking tuners with the 50's neck.
You could, but the process of doing so, setting up the software to integrate with logic pro x, the time to hook it up and test it at every show, the cost of the plugins, and the poor reliability of a single system (if it fails, you’re fucked) means that its not really preferable over a reliable plug n play stomp box (which at the price i got it at is pretty inexpensive)
The mod builder is really barebones. You can't pick any of their neck profiles or body materials with certain finishes which doesn't make sense to me at all.
t. would love a 9.5-12" compound radius D neck
>not available with bordeux finish for some reason
Owen Brown
pink gang to deep red if you use cochineal
Elijah Price
You're not fucking with me, are you? I might do that.
Ive been at work since 7am yesterday. Just got off though.
Carter Sullivan
lol what a shit job you must have
Cameron Evans
Yeah i know it pays too well
Austin Murphy
Blog time: Getting back in to guitar. Not a serious player, jam with friends in a garage style, no recording, metal mostly, but some rock stuff. Probably hand down everything to kid when I die of white monsters and other boomer shit.
Used to use a distortion pedal, and a RP50 multieffects pedal. The plastic RP50 is falling apart and showing its age. I mostly only used noise gate, reverb on it, and some shitty amp modeling. I've decided instead of replacing it for the same old shit, I want to build babies first pedal board, and hopefully inspire myself to play more often and really get back in to it. If I find passion again, I can always upgrade later. I have a distortion pedal I enjoy, so I gave myself about a $330 budget for everything else. Here is what I have already, what I need, and what I want.
Should I buy or build a pedalboard? I have no usable raw material laying around, would have to buy it.
Was wondering if anyone wanted to help/give me suggestions on how to fill out the rest of the needs/wants within budget.
And remember, im going for cheap, I used a fuckin multieffects pedal for years, so super high quality isn't a big must have to sit in my office, or sit in a friends garage.
unless you're a ceo of a company there's no such thing as a job that pays well enough to lose an entire day for
Dylan Bell
go to home depot and get them to cut some plywood and 2x4 for you. its way bettrr to make your own pedal board
Hunter Foster
I was in a similar position last year. Used a Boss GT-8 for like 6 years, then an ME-80 for 2 years before I decided to go big and just build a pedalboard.
I had no budget so I spent like $4000 so I can't help with your budget constraints but my favorite compressors are the Xotic SP Compressor and Keeley Compressor Plus. And cables I use EBS PCF because they're flexible and small and relatively cheap. Ernie Ball cables were too rigid for my board and they were the cheapest, but EBS PCF was the second cheapest.
Isaiah Flores
I've been buy/flipping gear for years and it's been very profitable.
Mason Reyes
dont listen to those kaka people
Christopher Gonzalez
i must also point out that you must be a total loser that you don't have anything better to be doing than to stay at a some menial job for a whole day. how sad for you
Josiah Mitchell
Here's my board, BTW. Notice how the cables are thin and flexible.
I want to learn an instrument to be able to play tunes and melodies I hear, or from my imagination. I don't want to play a specific genre. Would an acoustic guitar, nylon or with steel strings be good for this sort of a thing?
Evan Smith
Nylon is redpilled.
Evan Taylor
what are they?
Kevin Russell
Get a piano for that sort of thing
Cameron Hughes
Lol why does my life affect you so much. Whats sad the part where i ate japanese food and got paid for it or the part where i made over 1k in about 24 hours?
Josiah Jenkins
I WAS leaning on nylon actually. For it's more emotional, warm and soft sound but it also bugs me how it sounds too Spanish sometimes.
Nicholas Foster
EBS PCF cables, as I mentioned already.
Jeremiah Ward
My cousin is like this, no wife or kids of his own, no friends, no social life. So he went to be an EMT and just stays on call all the time because he don't have any reason not to be. It's how he runs away from all his problems, it's pretty pathetic.
Gavin Morgan
That's kind of what i was thinking, but with the cost of velcro and wood, and hinges for legs, I was wondering if it was worth it.
I like how simple and clean your board is.
A few years ago, I would have thrown money at it like that (though probably still not that much) But I recently had a kid, bought a car etc etc, just trying not to get carried away if it's going to collect dust. Not just to be kinda responsible, but also not to give the wife something to point at next time I want to blow money on some dumb shit
Jose Martinez
Not him but what's sad is that is you actually seem to think anyone here cares.
Jaxson Perry
It's an old photo but I thought it looked cleaner then, than now. I'm just trying to show how cables can make a difference.
it only sounds Spanish if you only play the minor scale with low action
honestly I think you'll want a keyboard synth
Dominic Ramirez
I can see what you mean with the rigidity. I'm hoping i wont have too many issues since I don't have that many pedals and i've been kinda of leaning towards smaller ones with my price restraints.
Logan Butler
ive been playing for years but my mind still goes blank when i pick up the guitar what the fuck
That's really nice, user. But is that with a piezo or just the sound hole?
Nathaniel Gomez
got tabs or can tell me something similar to this? having a hard time finding easy jazzy stuff to play
Jason Smith
>posted two years ago
Man you aren’t even trying
Colton Parker
When learning songs by ear do you just hunt and peck until you find the right notes or should you just be able to know the notes and chord immediately?
Luke Butler
How's yousician? Total beginner here.
Bentley Johnson
Whatever you say to make yours more bearable is fine by me. Cheers.
Daniel Hughes
What y'all practicing today? I'm doing pitch matching combined with vocal sovte exercises. Then I get home and do a bit of hand exercises on the guitar.
Also I learned Dust In The Wind before going to work, can anyone tell if the fingerpicking pattern is correct?
Is there a mic that's general purpose ish like an sm57 but with sub bass range?
this might be a stupid question. I'm looking to record electric and classical guitars
Josiah Reyes
*someone steps on the pedalboard energy cable*
Isaiah Garcia
for him? yes. for us? not at all. being able to witness the comedy of jroaches life is one of the highlights of /gg/. you just have to learn to laugh and not cringe is all
You should keep value out of the consideration. a 2019 fender custom shop guitar will appreciate about as much as a production line car
Oliver Wood
>he can't afford a Gibson, the only guitar which is good enough, because he's too stupid for a white collar job so he's developed a crippling painkiller addiction to deal with the aches and pains of pushing a wheelbarrow all day
thats a great looking guitar. I want something exactly like that, but preferably hss
William Thompson
Honest newbie question: I just got an old 80's Japanese J-special Fender bass - the one with both P and J pickups and the thinner neck / black headstock. I am pretty sure the frets are worn down and need replacing, but I also wonder if the neck is straight or not. I'll likely have to take it in, but what should I be looking for to make sure my diagnosis is correct before taking it in?
same kind of person who laughs when people buy sportscars
>lol that things useless you can't even take furniture and appliances home in it >what are you going to do, pay a mover? retard, be smarter with your money >rich person: Why do you think a moving fee for a fridge is money? It's pocket change.
Mason Gonzalez
That's just a phone recording. I hate piezos. This isn't super easy, be meticulous about the Rhythm. Pic related. youtube.com/watch?v=-RgkME7ugZc
>play this piano piece Would have to arrange it, sounds concievably that it will fit in the Guitar's range. I think it can be done.
Nicholas Cooper
>Be me, a wealthy individual >Take my Gibson Custom shop out of its case and start playing smoke on the water >Every poorfag in earshot hears the blend of top notch tone and comes to see >almost in unison, like a flock of birds, they start squawking >YOU HAVE TO BE AS GOOD AS YNGWIE BEFORE YOU CAN HAVE A GUITAR THAT NICE >$5000? YOU MAKE IT SOUND LIKE $5! >YOU WASTED YOUR MONEY >YOU WOULD SOUND JUST AS GOOD ON A SQUIER >dime my dumble overdrive special and switch to playing iron man
yeah, but stompboxes are overpriced for the simple circuit you get, which is why you get things like the line 6 helix that contain 300 pedals for the cost of 10, plus amp and cab modeling and the ability to act as an interface, and the kemper which costs as much as one amp but can mimic the tone of thousands.
of course some loser with a board full of mooer, donner, and danelectro stompboxes (that sound just as good) will tell you you're missing the lively, organic impossible to model response of a real op amp or some other bullshit someone who couldn't afford a college EE class would come up with.
Redditors with pedalboards that cost more than their mexican-made semi hollows and telecasters would disagree
It's not about the tone. That's for people who play guitar. It's about the hands on experience of turning all those knobs and color coordinating your overdrives.
Found a decent arrangement. Music doesn't look too difficult, I looked at the piano score too and that fits well within the relative position of the guitar's comfortable range.
Jeremiah Clark
people who want to look like they hastily custom built their own shred machine in their garage before a gig and played it for decades because it sounded that good, but actually didn't
Camden Sanders
bass guitars are for faggots
Nathan Jackson
Nice, I really dig his amps. Haven't had a chance to check out the guitars
>fake relic jobs Because you couldn't pull of a quality normal finish >reverse headstocks on non-floyd right handed guitars Because you can't think of a good way to stand out >blatant fender knock-offs with trademark evasion headstock designs Because you're not creative enough to improve or modify the design of a
I actually get relics if you want the feel of an old guitar but some of these are just pathetic. The guy that built that one didn't even try to hide how little of a shit he gave to make it look aged.
Having a real relic is easy as fuck anyways, all you have to do is make the finish coats super thin, but I guess that would actually require playing the guitar for at least a year .
Nathan Gutierrez
>>fake relic jobs >Because you couldn't pull of a quality normal finish
facts
Hudson Thompson
The virgin strat clone The chad jackson dinky with logical improvements
If you want classy aging, buy a guitar with a thinner, vintage formulated coat of nitro (would have to be a custom order) and just play it. Otherwise they look like they were dropped at the factory.
Post pics when you buy this hideously overpriced wannabe strat with the pickup configuration of a cheap ibanez and an inferior bridge design that fender doesn't even use on their serious instruments anymore.
I like the ESP M/Mirage and Horizon as much as the next guy but this snapper business is laughable.
I'm trying to get a classic early 80s extreme metal sound. Is this a good setup? >1983 Gibson Explorer >1983 Marshall JCM-800 amplifier >1983 Boss HM-2 distortion pedal
ibanez gio and a dimed line 6 spider will sound the same
William Campbell
Flatpicking guitarist with a 7 string: 0000000 Tapping guitarist with a 7 string: musical nonsense.mp3 Fingerpicking guitarist with a 7 string: youtube.com/watch?v=v2b5ze5bX5o
Pedalfaggery is all about branding, everyone gets the "correct" make and model on their board. So you'll never see someone with like a Maxon chorus or a DOD comp since those aren't the allowable pedals from those brands.
Hudson Reyes
bad opinion intonation could be better but it's really not all that bad. The timbre is sick and sliding into and out of notes and chords smoothly is tight
John Roberts
did you ever get that backing track from jroachy
Zachary Harris
>The timbre is sick and sliding into and out of notes and chords smoothly is tight not really
Owen Morgan
Yes, this is instant Swedeath toan right here, late 80s/early 90s. Early 80s was more about JCM with a ts808. That's your Metallica/Slayer sound, just cut or boost mids resp.
If you play a power chord on this, you are instantly transported back to Sweden in the late 80s.
Jeremiah Morales
I just looked at the specs and thought it was good. I didn't realize Ola Englund was one of those YouTube shills, I didn't even know who he was prior to getting it. Now I realize it's no different than buying a Chapman Guitar.
Chase Reyes
When does strumming stop hurting? I already have a small silver colored callus on my index finger, playing rapid chords on a bass guitar is fun but it's kinda painful. Also, How do I rapidly strike the fourth string without accidentally touching the third string?
Christian Rodriguez
>Marshall amp Real 80s metal heads played on shitty Peavey solid state amps.
I am a metalfag but I kinda want something "normal" looking. An Aerodyne Strat has a slimmer neck, jumbo frets, is make in Japan and has a flatter body (I think). Otherwise, I'd maybe get an LTD EC-1000
Brandon Jones
The subtle compression of an active pickup sounds like shit for metal but makes for a great blues/country sound
Levi Murphy
Debating with myself whether to get this or not. Only a grand for a brand new one.
yeah because metal is all about the dynamic range of your distorted tone
Angel Edwards
Telling people what guitar, amp, pedals and sound to use because "it sounds good for this genre" is just putting people in a box and making them follow trends
Maybe I want a shit tone or a different tone
Dylan Nguyen
it is. good metal, that is.
Cameron Smith
Shit that doesn't riff hard isn't good
Jordan Scott
Just because something follows all of the trends of a particular genre doesn't make it good music
>he doesn't do behind the nut bends on open chords sheesh never gonna make it pal
Jason Kelly
Why would I be upset? Thats a nice guitar man.
Samuel Cox
Unironically some of the best tone in the 80s, the '87 Whitesnake album is okay from a song standpoint, but the guitar sound on it is impressive. And based for carrying Thin Lizzy sonically through their final album/tour
Tyler Rivera
Do you perhaps watch K-On? My mom asks
Josiah Turner
you piece of shit thats my guitar, i didn't authorise the use of this copyright infringement
post time stamp or fucking delete it you piece of shit
Could mean they want you to put two fingers on the string for a stronger vibrato, 4 on the A#, 2nd finger just anywhere behind it for reinforcement. Fuck if I know though, I don't read notation for guitar
What is the cheapest I could find an electric guitar for? I don't care about sound quality. I just need something to dick around with at home. Maybe $50 at a pawn shop?
Daniel Myers
>ESP >les paul >strat
I take it your next purchases are a tele and a gretsch white falcon
for me, it's neck bending Just don't do it with your Gibson or the head will snap off
Joseph Morgan
>Would have to arrange it Duh, just learn it by ear like you would do with a regular guitar. There's plenty of guitar covers of that song on jewtube even.
Nice. I'll be checking for your cover.
I was doing the interval ear training. I couldn't figure it's a maj7 after a while of trying so I cheated on the piano app. It's weird how sometimes the same interval sounds easy and then later it's hard to figure it.
Well said, tranny.
Every damn time
I posted that pic first on gg :-)
Why are you adding metal harmonics and palm mutes to the main riff And that tone is digital
user strumming is supposed to be done with a pick
This, it's required for the authentic buzzy metal tone
a gretsch for sure, but i was thinking a duo jet that or a nylon guitar and call it good
Austin Ortiz
thank you for actually answering me. anyway it doesn't make sense as i have to hold F# with the 3rd finger, thus making it impossible holding A# with the forth
The camo only adds to that authentic southern tone.
Jason Morris
I will strum the bass until my fingers stop hurting Bass strings are thicker and hard to strum than guitar strings once I master strumming bass strings, when I touch a tenor guitar I will fucking shred
Xavier Torres
I miss R~'s gear impersonation phase
Evan Harris
That ESP is the dumbest thing I have ever seen >MY HEADSTOCK LOOKS LIKE A SPEAR >ALLLL BLAAAAAAAACK >METALLICA! Edge won't make up for your lack of talent.
That's an ornament. You'll play A#(presuming the bottom note is F#) and then with the pinky play B#(C on 3rd string) and then back to A# again.
Brandon Sullivan
sweety who hurt you?
i don't have any control over the design and manufacturing of the guitar, they wanted to make it pointy? they did, people will either buy it or they won't. its all black because its the only "colour" that its available in apart from the swirly shit so again, buy it or don't. seethe more
Yeah that's it Guess I can't ever do anything with a 5 and b6 pedal going on, fuck you metallica
Landon Diaz
my money, my decision, i wanted the emerald green one but i wanted it with a dark fingerboard, the only ones in stock were the maple ones. to make up for this what guitar do you want me to buy next? guarantee you'll give me shit about it too
>cheap piece of shit noname acoustic as my first guitar >action is a mile high >messed with the truss rod but can't get it any lower >can't do chords for more than ten minutes at a time without the pain being too much If I preserve through this will I be better for it?
Parker Bell
No. Well I guess that makes sense then, those niggas are always trilling everything, needs a quick notation
Caleb Martin
Yeah, when he has more than two electric guitars with the same general bridge type and pickup configuration it's a red flag.
Hudson Green
>used mexi strat and install 59's and locking tuners in it Or >partscaster What do?
Christian Lopez
Lmao you got me, I'm still a beginner.
Aaron Sullivan
lemme guess, and you own just a first act guitar and are some virtuoso or something? get real. seethe more you poorfag
Julian Davis
What a meme machine. What can you even use these for except for playing some Death in June songs?
Brayden Lee
whatever you choose man, i'd say mexi strat upgrade simply because you have the strat at least and can wait a couple weeks to buy and order the pickups and tuners. then again you can just buy them all at once like with the partscaster
Zachary Foster
Jangle Pop, Goth Rock, 70s Miles style fusion,Narco-Corridos so many things
Connor Mitchell
It's also HS guitars are the sign of a beginner, because practicefags use the weaker neck pickup as a clean practice setting for scales and then switch to the hotter humbucker bridge to fuck around with riffs.
Brody Bennett
YEAH! Fuck beginners man.
Jace Lee
I thought about getting one too but I'm going to wait for next years models now that rosewood is legal again. I hate those pale looking pau ferro fretvoards
Luis Taylor
yeah and fuck beginners with money
>i dun know what i want yet >better buy FUCKING EVERYTHING
Liam Gray
Aren't you banned, Samuel?
Eli Powell
Damn. That feels real personal. Honestly half the fun for me is collecting.
Daniel Sullivan
Sell everything but the ESP or the les paul, your choice. Block the floyd if you keep the ESP so it only goes down. Sell whatever amp you have. Buy a roland jazz chorus. Start taking good lessons. The kind that hold you to a standard and require homework.
You might actually be good at guitar in a few years.
I don't recommend starting on a strat because electric guitars are bitch fingers mode already and that fretboard radius only makes you more of a wuss.
Samuel Cox
What the hell do you mean by strumming
Anthony Smith
HS guitars are some of the rarest configs around on today's market especially in the beginner segment.
Asher Murphy
You put your index / middle finger and your thumb together and you strike it laterally against the strings Welcome to Guitar 101
Benjamin White
HS and HSS fall victim to being used the same way
as practice axes with a humbucker so you can riff
Brandon Moore
Metallica One Wasting love
Cameron Price
metallica owns the clean first position riff sorry man
move up a few frets and you'll be agalloch
Cameron Smith
Instead of what? Playing surf rock?
Adam Morales
So versatility = bad?
Camden Russell
lol versatility is a meme
Hunter Cooper
Ok buddy.
Zachary Stewart
I bet that fender won't bring rosewood back
Easton Brooks
guitar versatility is for beginners who can't get it from technique.
Nolan Ortiz
This. You're lucky as shit if you have one guitar that does one thing well, the idea that you're going to find a guitar that does two things well is how you can always spot a retard.
Imagine wanting to please others with your own purchases
Austin Nelson
wtf I'm not no one
James Edwards
Yes But you can sand the bridge
Luke Flores
practice at least one hour a day spread over 15 minute sessions always use a metronome raise your action use lighter strings play clean arrangements of heavy metal songs until it sounds good
Elijah Turner
What the hell does that mean? Only beginners practice
Cooper Robinson
>raise your action wtf I don't wanna actually have to use force in my legato
Haha you're so full of yourself that you're offended by being given good advice
Jonathan Hall
It sounds like shit without a pick, so it's dumb to play with it unless you're playing mindlessly
Oliver Richardson
you're just not strumming hard enough
Ethan Williams
>all this hate for HS config shut the fuck up you cherry picking nigger. kudos to you though for having a platform to argue for once. any other shitpost is just baseless and retarded, your argument about HS guitar does make sense, but i've never done that, i just roll off the volume to clean up
thanks for the dry advice i didn't ask. i have fun practicing different techniques and applying them to songs or jamming along to a song with each guitar, not all at once but a different guitar any given day. keeps my fingers on their tips because of the different widths and neck shapes of each guitar. i have fun playing guitar, you and everyone else on this thread should learn to do the same