about ohms: can I run an amp with a 4 Ohm output into a cab that has 16 Ohm input without damaging anything? I assume it would just be quieter than running an amp with a 16 Ohm output into the same cab.
I like kt77s. They are a nice balance with shimmery cleans. My amp currently has e34l in it but will put el34 in soon
Owen Brown
I think so yeah, speaker impedance has to be at least the output impedance of the amp. That is, if it's a tube amp. Solid state amps can't be damaged this way.
Isaac Martinez
My amp has EL34. It's compatible with 6L6 but I have no interest in trying them
Is nylon string guitar, dare I say it, based and redpilled?
>picking multiple strings at once >no plectrum required >sounds pleasant as hell >no effects or amps needed >strings feel nicer than electric or steel string acoustic
Asher Turner
I picked up a bunch of plectrums today. I quiet like the jazz 3 and the 1.5mm-2.00mm ones, they play really nicely. Not a huge fan of the thinner ones, but it's a shame that I have to trade tone for play style.
Brayden Thompson
You have to pay ohmage to the amp's output
You too never heard of the Jim Bon Jovis?
Josiah Gonzalez
Half of it is fingerpicking and it can be done on any kind of guitar.
Just play everything with thick picks
Asher Gonzalez
yeah. i do now.
Henry Davis
Try kt77s. A nice in between tube with more headroom.
Levi Fisher
Where are my pedal posters at? Post boards, wanted gear, maybe even trades?
The SL compressor would fit quite nicely beside that EP booster desu
Elijah Smith
Dynacomp
Brody Wright
Do you mean SP Compressor, also by Xotic?
I had one briefly and try as I might, it just didn't work with humbuckers. I'd be fooled into thinking it did nothing. I think HB are just too high output for most compressors and I need something better.
Asher Brooks
Why do you need all that shit? Why not just get an amp with good distortion?
Cooper Miller
Depends on the Amp desu. The problem is by the time you start worrying about the type of tube, you’ll notice that even 2 of the same tube can be “””different” and you fall down the rabbit hole from there
Jace Nguyen
Why are Les Pauls always uglier with a pickguard?
Jason Sanchez
Lol my board isn’t even finished. His is quite managable, ideal if he’s playing a weekly gig really
>tuner Self explanatory. >EP boost Essential for my "clean" and country/folk tone. Even zeroed out and just having it on colors your tone in a magical way. >EQ This is the most useful thing on any pedalboard. >Noise Gate Preference/sanity. >Delay & Reverb Every board needs it.
The rest, sure, but I like how they sound. The BE-OD is my main distortion because my amp can't go high gain well. The TS and Haunt I could get rid of but I love how they sound. TS piped into BE-OD is great.
My unpopular opinion is that how a neck feels takes a front seat to the sound. I'd rather play a comfortable as fuck guitar than one that sounds amazing.
Ian Richardson
>Jazz-III picks are shit You just need to get used to it.
Aiden Miller
Comfort is everything. Sound can be fixed with so much shit that you shouldn't worry about it.
Parker Gomez
Could be said about anything
Nicholas Phillips
The only good single coil sound is a split humbucker
Hunter Peterson
Sometimes shit buffers on pedals sound good
Camden Williams
Not high action. Trust me, i've been trying for a few years already.
Ryan Morales
How come you didn't just get a setup?
Blake Bell
>essential Faggotry. Either learn to sound good without it or stop calling yourself a guitarist
Blake Kelly
>fixed Lol You truly enjoy polishing turds
Evan Kelly
>i’m too poor and/or don’t have the auditory capability to know why a pedal will make my sound better
Luke King
Why haven't you gotten good at Guitar? Why don't you learn how to read music and play something that a classical guitarist couldn't learn in 5 minutes? Playing electric guitar without training or dedication is babby mode to classically trained guitarists. youtube.com/watch?v=LMui67TpMD0&t=24s
I've tried, it just doesn't get any lower than what it is without buzzing. Luthiers around my area are all shit, so that doesn't help either. I guess i've taken a few positive things from it though. I've toughened up my fingers and learned not to buy cheap ibanez guitars. I hope this helps with something once i get a decent guitar.
Zachary Parker
>I'm too much of a spoiled weak zoomer to be able to sound good without pedals
Chase Lee
What's this from?
William Ward
Is oud allowed in this thread? Been playing for 11 years.
Quit concerning yourself with gear and worry about getting good through practicing. What and how you practice should be practical, tried-and-true methods. Doing so will immensley improve your ability to play normal songs you currently find difficult, because playing classical music is already harder than what you'll come across anywhere else.
Blues guitar is for plebs, but blues inspired guitar is fine
Mason Turner
>it's a "answered a bassist wanted" ad and it turned out the guy was a psycho and I may end up raped or dead episode Send help it happened again.
Blake Adams
You'd have to play some cool stuff for us to accept you
Chase Wood
The Carcassi Method, Fernando Sor Studies, for a more modern approach I recommend Christopher Parkening's method book as the others are demanding early and a bit archaic.
Jaxon Ramirez
Would also recommend Giuliani's 120 Right Hand Studies because they're very basic, but invaluable for training the Righr Hand to behave.
Ethan Howard
People that need to put up ads to find players are usually not socially skilled enough to be part of a music scene. Always watch out for these psychos.
Cameron Gray
Provide more detail, information and screenshots for us to understand the situation.
Liam Morales
>but invaluable for training the Righr Hand to behave. How can it be better than just practicing the right hand?
Tyler Ramirez
Source: self-observation
Ethan Martinez
>not socially skilled enough to be part of a music scene >Always watch out for these psychos Fuck you too, m8.
Its entire focus is the right hand. Often times we like to subordinate what the right hand is doing to ensure the left hand is acting properly. The right hand studies remove the need to worry abou the LH allowing us to focus on the RH patterns.
Evan Ramirez
I really like it, you into black metal?
Samuel Bailey
Haha, all good bro. I was always nice to you. Remember that when you go loco, alright? Haha just kidding.
Asher Moore
That's why we do right hand exercises while silencing the strings with the fretting hand. Any YouTube lesson on pizzicato will teach you that.
Ayden Bailey
Went to grab a beer with him and another guy he was interviewing for the drummer gig. The drummer guy asked him if he had anything he was working on that he could show us. So he pulled out an old phone (imagine a Nokia 3220 or something of that era and build) and showed us a picture of his microphone and said it was his baby. The drummer just looked at him with the most befuddled look I've ever seen on anyone's face, and this exchange basically took place >"what is that" >"that's my baby" >"... it's a microphone" >"yeah it's my baby" >"you're working on a microphone" >"it's my baby" Eventually, he got the hint that the drummer wanted to hear something in the way of music, and he started playing something he recorded on his phone. Seeing as it was basically a 15 year old phone, you could barely make out shit since it was an absolute garbled mess. He then went to grab another beer, and the drummer pulled me aside and went >"this guy is batshit crazy, I'm bailing on this fucker right now cause he's a waste of time" The singer/guitarist has now sent me youtube links of him and the other guitarist playing live, and I'm at a loss for words on how to describe it. The best part is the bassist they've currently got is some old guy that's clearly just a hired hand and he has "the shit I do for money" look on his face the whole time.
The best part is, I'm pretty certain he hired someone to shoot these videos for him, and then edit them into something to throw online.
Juan Cruz
Sure that's one option, but the doesn't put music in front of you. The Right Hand studies are applied, practical and I don't know of any academic who doesn't recommend them as supplementary studies to work into daily practice.
Thomas Cooper
It's been hit or miss for me in the past. Either you'll get a bunch of cool people you play well with, ro you get some crazy chick that insists on having a flute solo in the middle of a thrash metal song.
Nolan Mitchell
Now THAT is not being nice, I won't forget this insult.
>this guy is batshit crazy, I'm bailing on this fucker right now cause he's a waste of time How do people learn these smarts? I wasted a lot of time with lazy asshole songwriters and now I finally learned the lesson but even then I'm like "I won't play with anyone again and will only play in a band when I form my own band.
Adrian Sanchez
thanks and yeah, a little
James Diaz
Give me a couple examples on how it can improve the practice that I already do on my own.
Andrew Roberts
Orange makes the best amps
Nicholas Garcia
That's a very weird way to spell Bugera.
Carter Collins
>How do people learn these smarts? Being around for a while? The drummer was probably 40 something. But you can also get a reading from people in how they speak, mannerisms, etc. Even I could tell the guitarist/singer wasn't worth chasing anything with based on how he discussed music.
Evan Myers
>he can't afford a Gibson, the only guitar which is good enough, because his AIDS medication is too expensive
I don't need to prove to you that it's useful, something tells me you're not a good enough study to be a decent classical guitarist if you're this combatative over sound advice. Try them yourself and find out how little you actually know.
To clue you in, both Carcassi and Giuliani were some of the first guitar virtuoso's to make it big in Italy. Giuliani himself would go on to collaborate with Rossini to make theme and variations on some of his Opera Arias, the 6 Rossiniana's.
Camden Nguyen
rec some good cheap electro acoustic guitars
Landon Anderson
How much would that bad baby cost ?
Connor Wilson
Keeley Seafoam is the best chorus pedal
Luis Walker
>I can't wait for Dave Friedman to release his Dirty Whore Cuckold Fetish series amps!
>AIDS which he got from a tranny You deserve eachother
Juan Turner
Fair enough, I'll check that out when I get home >something tells me you're not a good enough study to be a decent classical guitarist if you're this combatative over sound advice Post your own classical playing
Samuel Cox
I did.
Robert Rodriguez
couldn't tell ya i stopped using my compressor a while ago
Cooper Morgan
Am i the only person who thinks Ola Englund's tone sucks?
Jackson Cook
>Jazz-III picks are shit for playing Nile Rodgers style funk guitar rhythm
ftfy
Justin Foster
I think he sucks in general and I can vividly imagine what kind of inbreds make up his audience
Anthony Cook
Why do you listen to youtube guitarists?
Daniel Nguyen
I've got nothing else to do with my time.
Julian Peterson
Yeah I just moved the same chord shape up and down the neck. It's a b6, 7 and 5, so technically that would be what, a Maj7(add13) without a 3 or something? I was thinking that taking the same chord quality and moving that around would surely change the tonal center at some points (versus getting interesting harmony by changing the chord qualities and staying in the same key), which might sound interesting. And it kinds does to me. Wasn't thinking about theory though, just some dicking around by ear.
Juan Sanders
you could play
Andrew Russell
>b6, 7 and 5 and a 1 of course
Isaiah Hughes
why not play the fucking guitar you moid
Jack Gutierrez
>implying that i’m not good without pedals.
Lmao imagine living with this poorfag mentality. You get good at guitar and then you use pedals to enhance it to new heights.
You’re probably one of those faggots who think that Car Seat headrest is more musical than anyone else cus ‘hurr durr he recorded it on minimal equipment’
What an ass backwards bumfuck nowhere mentality lol. How about you start wiping your ass with the back of your hand because otherwise you’d be ‘le spoiler weak zoomy for not being able to do it without’
Oliver Harris
Playing guitar all day is even more boring than watching youtube guitarists all day.
So i want to get an sg because i like the shape but im a bit worried about 1)gibsons tuning, is it true they lose tuning easily and frequently? 2)the lack of pick guard. is it likely the body will get damaged?
Charles Campbell
each to his own. id assume any guitarist would like the ability to improvise.
if you're going to be a big faggoty bitch then get an Epiphone or bass guitar like a faggot
Logan Jenkins
I'm all about uploading to Youtube once I get good enough.
Anthony Morgan
hey man im in the same boat honestly dont worry about tuning just get after market ones. as for the pickguard get one with the batwing pickguard. the smaller one looks way worse and doesnt help at all imo. pic is sg im eyeing.
Phrasing sounds good, clicks with the changes the band plays underneath. The second legato half starts off well, but maybe dawdles about in the same range a bit too long. Maybe consider some phrases in that section that change key depending on the chord underneath to make it aurally interesting/experiment. Obviously don't do that without feedback, but see what you can get away with.
Leo Garcia
Why you want to see my bad side? Baby Baby Don't you know you drive me crazy? Oh yeah it's true you do I just want to kiss and hug you
Ryder Howard
I never play loud enough for them to matter.
1) Yes, special care has to be taken to keep them in tune. If lubricating the nut doesn't help you'll need a new one cut just for gibsons. Gibson doesn't do this for you. 2) Only if you're a retard AND using a coin as a pick. Modern nitro is pretty tough stuff and the coats are fairly thick. Even so, if you do ding it, nitro is a very easy finish to repair unlike poly where any damage can either be buffed out or is permanent until it's recoated.
Jason Moore
bro are you sponsored?
Asher Diaz
>Stop using electronics to get a variety of timbres and musically useful effects that are humanly impossible to replicate with technique alone
Buy an acoustic you fucking retard
Pedals do a worse job at hiding bad playing than a gain knob. Light crunch has enough compression built in to make your shitty beginner right hand sound good. Sloppy dynamics? Fuck man sounds crisp to me. All the way up? Just hit the strings at random, it all sounds the same. Reverb cranked to 11 probably has a little more clarity to it.
Jaxon Wilson
That's killer.
Michael Moore
That's such a boomer thing to do. You need to upload those neosoul licks to instagram.
Oliver Sullivan
sponsored...? i just sent a picture of the sg i might buy what do you mean?
Asher Thompson
I don't like soloing. I'm alright at riffing but i'm completely untalented when it comes to solos, the type of untalentedness that just skill can't mask.
I still enjoy playing guitar, it's just not something i could do all day without getting bored (though in an "inspired day," after about 3 to 4 hours of just playing guitar, the type of riffs you start coming up with are worth the previous 3 hours of boredom).
buy a wah pedal it will make you enjoy soloing if you suck tee hee
Noah Rodriguez
>uploads to YouTube >not a single one reaches 100 views What you do after?
Jacob Flores
That's gay.
Samuel Ortiz
>playing for recognition Fag.
Nathan Morris
or maybe the local music scene only plays gay genres with the exception of teenage cover bands
>you: playing metal >your music scene: metal is dead bro, we play modern country. billy, hit me with a click track! >also your music scene: how about some funk and jazz? >the music scene in a different state: fuck why can't we find any metal guitarists >a guy in your situation in that state: i just want to play country and funk.
historically people uprooted their lives and moved to "the scene" to hopefully "make it"
in reality you would be a retard to do that as anything but a vocalist. as an instrumentalist the industry has no interest in you. bands are dead because digital instruments and whichever session/backing band guy is around at the moment are cheaper and more dependable than 4+ extra faggots playing instruments. you're better off recording and selling yourself as a session guy.
Liam Thomas
>Light crunch has enough compression built in to make your shitty beginner right hand sound good Stacking crunch pedals work better tho
It's literally how Pixies were formed, and they invented the alt rock scene
John Garcia
This guy is pretty good. I'd never expect a douchey looking 40 year old with a green anime looking guitar to play like that instead of shitty funk rhythm and johnny marr riffs.
>uses pinky twice >thumb never goes near the back of the neck, ever guitar teachers seething
Even if you don't blow up you can always show your videos to anyone you want. And it's sort of like a time capsule in case your computer breaks or you lose all your backups.
For First Take Friday threads on R/Guitar douches upload solos with like 3 views so who cares if you don't get a lot views.
>Single coils >Vintage humbuckers >EMGs other than the overly hot 85 All make new players sound like themselves, ie: bad unless you mask it with gain and effects
Just go to a pawn shop and try out different guitars on a clean amp
Hotter metal passives will make you sound better and meaner, lower output pickups are clearer and unforgiving, EMGs are low output pickups with a preamp so if they aren't driving the fuck out of an amp with poor headroom they're just like low output pickups albeit twice as loud, so it's even more painful when you play poorly.
William Gomez
You talk like shit >dugggg headroom maiieaaaa twice as loud
Carter Davis
Deal with it you limey faggot
Ryder Jones
That hasn't been my experience with hot pickups. If anything I find it difficult to make them sound good clean.
Is there anyone here who could tell me something about MIJ Fender Mustangs? I got my eyes on one from 1996, but I wonder if you know something about them
I bought a classical guitar a month ago and now I'd like to have an electric guitar too. I don't have much money rn but I can afford one of guitar packs from this site mitrosmusic.com/proizvodi/k:15-Paketi---električne-gitare which one should I get I know nothing about guitar brands
Nolan Edwards
Dont use my words fucking faggot.
Bentley Watson
Thank you so much
Nathan Martinez
What are you going to do about it, stupid bitch? Lmao
Owen Walker
Imitation is the highest form of flattery. Thanks user.
Sebastian James
You’re flattered bylmfao
Matthew Mitchell
>Imitation is the highest form of flattery. cope for people being mocked lmao
Ryder Anderson
Some user posted pic related yesterday. Is that a genuine p90? Specs say it's a Gibson p94 in it.
Post some competent bass playing right now and I won't hate you
Alexander Cook
Because they are ten times more competent than the average guitarist
Aiden Ross
Big dick envy
Xavier Garcia
They have no rhythm
Lincoln Martin
All of these are going to be bad guitars. Pick one you like the looks of best if you’re dead set on them.
Nathaniel Watson
me
Lincoln White
thx for the response user I guess one of these should do until I get better at playing guitar and until I
Wyatt Murphy
I had one of those Squier packs and it was awful. It constantly buzzed and getting it fixed would have cost more than it was worth.
Samuel Baker
Anyone know anything about trem bridges? I want an arm for this one but dont know what it takes. I already ordered a 5mm push-in arm but it doesnt fit and I don't want to have a collection of unused arms. All I know about this one is it was made in Italy.
i always thought the picking was the hardest part of that stuff because its so jumpy, but after watching the troy grady stuff and doing the downward slant thing picking it is quite easy. getting the fretting hand synced up with it is much more difficult
you post it here, download it, then do a couple of exercises and forget about it by the weekend because you're never going to make it,
i bet there's not a speck of kaka on your guitar
Jackson Rodriguez
I bought Jason Becker's kaka from his nurse on the darkweb and bathed in it while sacrificing a goat to the same demon who robert johnson sold his sould to. I'm gonna be the next shred god.
Luis Edwards
can jason becker still kaka?
Bentley Allen
Why didnt i think of this. It makes too much sense.
My husband bought a new guitar and I'm questioning how much he spent on it. I'm a little tiffed he didn't tell me he was buying a new instrument but he assures me it was cheap.
It's a "Fender Contour Body Stratocaster" and it says "Custom Shop" on the back. This certificate in the case says "Roadshow 2016 Custom Shop". It's black/red fade with white, I don't know anything about guitars so I wish I could be more specific.
He said he spent $400. Any ideas what it's really worth? If it's only $400 then it's not a big deal but I'm thinking it's like $1000 maybe? I'm ready to be pissed.
>The unparalleled clarity leaves no room for error >>Single coils >>Vintage humbuckers >>EMGs other than the overly hot 85 >All make new players sound like themselves, ie: bad unless you mask it with gain and effects oh, fair enough
> buy cheap old schecter tele > action is quite a bit higher than my superstrats but schectele has similar specs (jumbo frets, flat 14" radius fretboard) > bending and vibrato somehow seem easier to do and I don't sound as sloppy
Does a higher action making bending easier or something?
You seem pretty insecure about all your gear user, starting to think you really can't play without yer pedals boyo
Austin Mitchell
What if I removed the magnet from the middle pickup so that its only purpose was to cancel noise from the other two? It would take switch-trickery so that in position 1 it's bridge + middle, position 2 it's bridge + neck and no middle, and position 3 it's neck + middle.
I really want the hello kitty strat, but the price on it is stupid. and dont get me started on the fishbone pos
Juan Parker
Wait, people actually do this. It's called dummy coil pickup.
Joshua Parker
K A K A J E E T A K A J E E T
Alexander Parker
In seriousness, unless you want to quit guitar, then no. I've played violin since I was 9 and have developed tons of bad habits since, but you would be surprised what you can accomplish with some hard work.
Xavier Ward
u wot?
Henry Adams
Needs a lynched nigger sticker
Ryder Taylor
t. poorfag
Grayson Parker
Racist
Owen Thomas
You mean Hangman? Man, that game was fun
Dominic James
Ill make you one if you have the money
Joseph Walker
Imagine believing gear has any bearing on how good a player you are
Carson Ramirez
I love alabama wind chimes Nigger/negroid. I feel like sam has really adopted the black panther party ideology
Ethan Collins
George Benson is a better guitarist than anyone who will ever post in this thread ever. Appreciate him white boi
Carson Diaz
>be god-tier guitarist or >be white Easy choice for me.
Evan Torres
>he cares about gear >he doesnt just get a guitar and an amp and play
Jeremiah Fisher
i actually agree, so many gearfags that cant even play an f chord
David Parker
i dont know how people play strats. that volume knob drives me out of my mind
Liam Howard
how else would you do roll on volume swells without a pedal?
Hunter Sanders
Always. Even the greats do it, Neil Peart relearned how to play the drums late in his career. A new instrument will give you a new perspective and approach.
Wait, that's too positive for /gg, so slap some kaka on it.
Isaac Jones
>he can’t help himself from replying Lmfao every damn time
Zachary Gutierrez
There are hundreds of really great guitar players who never get mentioned here, because they don't "shred and play sick jams, man".
Connor Morris
I seriously don't get these. They look so fucking stupid how can anyone like them?
every strat player says this and then i never see any of them do enough volume swells to warrant the volume knob being right next to the strings. its stupid and in the way, put it 1-1.5 inches down and you can still do those corny volume swells
Easton Baker
not as sick as George benson hes world class and can play tasty as fuck but also shred like shit. Best bop guitarist besides Wes imo
Samuel Wright
I was just sayin' I do it with a volume pedal despite having a strat, though I can't say I've noticed the volume knob being in the way at all
Kayden Martin
COOM on over
Levi Nelson
maybe people dont notice it when you play it for long time and it just feels natural, but its just completely unnatural for me to feel that thing brushing against my fingers. the only way to avoid it is play further up on the body and that feels totally off for me too. no thanks
Parker Thompson
Oh i agree though. Kenny burrel is the shit. Prince is the shit. Thing is they aint niggers like you. And r kelly is my nigga fuck you
Julian Long
I'm actually white. Kenny Burrell is good but George benson has more chops and better feel but yeah Burrel Kessel and Pat Martino are up there. Pat Martino's time feel is sketchy post stroke tho