The Guitar Thread
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- lnu3
- Such a good job... i have a 90s Japanese Fender VI I play like once a year and I'm wondering if someone would part-trade.kingsteven
- Squire was my first electric bassGnash
- kingsteven3
- What year is that SG?Gnash
- just a 1991 Special with probably twice it's value in upgrades at this point. think they only made the lighter brown for a couple yearskingsteven
- ok_not_ok2
- lovely, what colour is that?kingsteven
- Graphite Metallicok_not_ok
- Really cool! I like the angled bridge pufuturefood
- kingsteven4
This has been a bit of a constantly evolving Electric XII build over the last few years... took some time over the last few days to wire it up / get it all back together. Really happy with how it's playing and it has a great sound with a ton of really geeky options.
Started life as Fender Mexican Jaguar Blacktop body which I stripped, reshaped, filled the bridge holes and routed a larger cavity (to change the scale length). I had the neck made by Musikraft in New Jersey - with a reclaimed Coney Island boardwalk fretboard, pickups are custom wound Firebird style humbuckers that can be switched between series/parallel modes, phase switched, and blended.
Originally pained it in lake placid blue nitrocellulose but I wasn't too keen on it so did it again in sherwood green... I ran out of paint before respraying the headstock and wont be able to get more until lockdown is over, can live with it for now :)
- fisheye3
And my new build - telecaster body + shell pink strat replacement for my partscaster
- docpoz0
- I just wanted to be one of the Strokes, now look at the mess you made me makefooler
- the strokes are dead, man. dead.docpoz
- fooler - that opening lyric is just so perfect for that album. I love it!mg33
- Long live the strokesdocpoz
- never really paid much attention to their music before, but these tracks are great to learn and play. thanksfuturefood
- I recently watched a few old gig of theirs. First 3 albums are hot shit.robthelad
- angles is my favedocpoz
- set2
- https://www.thaliaca…set
- I was thinking that is something I would never buy and then I saw 'Chrome Finish with Figured Hawaiian Koa Inlay' oooof... and now I want a £50 quid capo.kingsteven
- these could be real interesting: https://www.thaliaca…kingsteven
- ^ yea, love the functionality of these. THere was some buzz about it scratching the neck but turns out people were pulling it off..set
- .. rather than depressing the button fully. £50 is a lot for a capo but I use one almost constantly and I think, hope, it'll last.set
- Plus they look awesome.set
- nice.notype
- kingsteven3
This is my live pedalboard (actually it's down at the rehearsal room so the photos about 6 months old - before i rigged it up for stereo). My previous was about twice this size but had to downsize for touring... I added a patch bay on the back that gives me a loop after the distortions so I can patch in more mods/ reverbs if needed so have managed to stick to the PT2 for a while... (that's just my old bass pedal board below btw.)
The Zoom pedals aren't the best but serviceable for live... all the patches are blatant rip offs of hi-end stuff.. one (on a parallel looper) is taking the place of my Eventide Pitchfactor and HOF, the other mimics 3 pedals previously in the Super Ego FX loop.
The signal splits on input through a JHS splitter (on the bottom of the board) and one side goes through - clean boost -> super ego -> volume -> zoom mfx...
The other side is a bit more traditional - tuner -> octaver -> distortions -> zoom (on fx loop)...
Both channels then go in to a Palmer mixer (also mounted on the bottom) and out in to the Space Echo
Keely TS and Muff on there but currently running a Brassmaster clone, EH Soul Food and always the Recovery FX Bad Comrade...
When it works it sounds like this:
- Nice. I'm growing more and more curious about the Superego; I see it mentioned often for ambient guitar stuff.mg33
- it is great, but the auto mode needs a booster before to track well with p90s. i run it 100% wet and use the vp jr as fx send volume for a bit more control.kingsteven
- it then bypasses all the distortion so i have a nice clean drone behind whatever else i'm doing.kingsteven
- do you play bass or guitar or both?mg33
- currently playing bass in two groups guitar in one. prefer bass but will willingly strum chord inversions through fx all day long :)kingsteven
- i do a lot of recording up here so like to have a good selection of guitars around but it's often someone else playing them.kingsteven
- kingsteven3
- How's that a sitar? Shape only? Looks like a 6 string with a lipstick pickup to me.section_014
- yeah, not far off... it's just the resonating bridge that gives it the sound.... https://www.youtube.…kingsteven
- picked it up for 200 quid on a local classified ad. how could i resist :-Dkingsteven
- Weyland0
- metalApeRobot
- I'm a glass man mostly. Sound too messy with the brass one I've got.sausages
- yeah, I still use and like this one the most, I like the messy harmonics actuallyWeyland
- I really like ceramic slides. Sounds like glass, but they don't glaze the inside so there's raw ceramic...feels a little grippy, you have a little more control.JackRyan
- https://tinyurl.com/…JackRyan
- Glass, or socket wrench.boobs
- BusterBoy0
My daughter has asked for a Guitar for Christmas. I know stuff all about them. Have asked a few people what to look for. Probably half have said to get steel strings...the other half say nylon for a beginner.
Thoughts?
- what age? if your going acoustic a nylon strung 3/4 is a good starter... very easy to play. if she takes to it (and not to flamenco) be prepared to get her akingsteven
- fuzz size steel strung acoustic or electric...kingsteven
- and, if she likes electric guitars... just skip the acoustic altogetherkingsteven
- Just classic stuff to begin with I guess. Bit of Tears in Heaven etc.BusterBoy
- I know it takes away the surprise, but an instrument is a very personal thing so I’d say take her to the music shop and try out different models to seepressplay
- what she feels most comfortable with in terms of handling, playability and sound wisepressplay
- I might just take her to a store and see what she feels comfortable playing.BusterBoy
- 3/4 nylon, as Kingsteven suggested. not too expensive, easy to play. Move up if she takes to it.Gnash
- also the nylon are more forgiving on cheaper guitars. Steel strings really defects a poorly crafted instrumentGnash
- *accentuates defects inGnash
- Yes, 3/4 nylon, take care of it. and when she out grows it, it makes an awesome easy travel companion.futurefood
- stoplying0
How do you all string your guitars up?
Wrap and through?
or
Through and wrap?
- i twist the windy things for a bitdoesnotexist
- split posts are the businesssausages
- only have one guitar without split posts and do the old: through, wrap over, wind under.kingsteven
- i have a hofner that has split posts AND the hole comes out the back of the tuner so you trim at the back of the headstock, vorsprung durch technik!kingsteven
- A guy I worked with found a hofner 12 string at the bottom of a river in PNG many years ago and it still plays wellsausages
- i'd get the homeless guy with guitar to do it for me.pango
- kingsteven2
The best tone debunking demonstration i've seen
- Didn't Eddie Van Halen prove all this in the 1970s with his Frankenstrats?boobs
- Frankenstrat is a strat with tape on it lolkingsteven
- Big gimmicky but this guy has another great vid (the opposite phenomenon) where he demonstrates that tone is mostly the guitar cabkingsteven
- stoplying3
I just visited Nashville for the first time, and at the airport by baggage claim they have a few rotating Gibson displays. One display was featuring an Ebony ES-335 semi-hollow body.
I saw it and was fixated. It's an absolutely gorgeous guitar and at only $3500 it can be mine. Not likely but maybe one day!
- Ebony 335 with a stock Bigsby B3 is my dream guitarkingsteven