"Crustang" edition

Previous thread: >>126943175

SCALES:
https://www.all-guitar-chords.com/scales

GIT GUD with GUITAR:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gg1L-sBIxnY

>>126953459 (OP)
First for misogynist guitar goth man

Never got a mustang because I thought my gut would make it look too small. True story.

>>126953459 (OP)
more like methstang

>>126953459 (OP)
imagine the roaches and skin dust living inside of that little tone plank

>>126953478
I watched not a luthier's methstang restoration and he literally ended the vid with an indigenous land acknowledgement JFC

>>126953493
it must be a legal requirement for Canadians to be cucks

>>126953493
imagine if every time someone did that a bullet got shot into their skull

>Nocaster
>Custom shop Nocaster
>Fucking wide range in the neck slot
Do they choose to be this retarded or do all the Mexicans at fender USA drag down the collective IQ pool.

>>126953602
>custom shop
Does this not mean some guy not from fender ordered it to be made this way

>>126953666
it used to be. Now it just means a model not made in the main production line.

>>126953602
Pretty sure the concept here is somebody back in the day gets an original Nocaster and then wants to mod it with a humbucker in the neck which wasn't uncommon. That's also not a wide range it's just a normal humbucker.

>>126953459 (OP)
I ask you not to call it that and you mock me.

>>126953701
Take a shower kurt, the teen spirit is wearing off

>>126953578
ok im imagining it now what

I don't larp, I'm midwestern but I spent 2 years in Texas and I picked up a little twang.

I keep making clicky sounds similar to using a pick when I play bass because of my nails, even though I already cut them all the way down to the base

>>126953763
Are you perhaps Edward Scissor-Hands?

>>126953782
Not to be confused with Edward Scissorhands, thats just Johnny Depp in that one movie.

Tfw still thinkin of selling a few that are redundant or don’t get much play time anymore to fund another amp or another guitar that’ll get more love from me

>>126953791
get a bass

>>126953791
Any more than 2 and you're just playing with yourself at that point.

>>126953817
I have an old Ibanez bass from when I was a teenager sitting in the corner of my music room, I don’t need another bass
>>126953826
Yeah but I like having different options

I just accent the offbeat with staccato double stops

>>126953826
The truth is in what you use. Anything past two planks. If you're not getting checks for playing and your plank sits for four months, it's time to let it go.

If I learn guitar would it be easy to make decent sounding stuff with a synth keyboard?

How the fuck do I hold the tremolo arm in my hand while playing without changing the pitch, at least with traditional strat tremolo it's locked in the base position but on floyd rose the pitch always goes up or down and won't stay in one place

>>126953908
add springs, add stiffness

just got done jamming along with james browns gonna have a funky good time. what did yall do

>>126953935
Took a fat piss bout to eat some hot chicken

>>126953720
ponder it

>>126953791
seems like you could make do with just 3

>>126953960
my vote would be the white strat the squier supersonic and the lp

>>126953935
https://voca.ro/18Nw9PbDMCS1

>>126953996
that's rockin

https://voca.ro/1cRA35EExxGa

new vocs for the folks. 80s disco/funk style

never thought I'd be interested in fuzz until I tried it
the beautiful thing about effects is that they often push you into new territories with your playing, in the sense that you adjust your playing to fit the new effect and next thing you know you're playing shit you never played before.
also, the katana go iand its ilk are the easiest ways to try out new effect types before investing in them.

>>126953935
Recorded some riffs so I won’t forget them
>>126953960
I could and have made due with just one Strat but I like having different layouts and pickup options for sounds and feels
>>126953971
That Strat is a keeper, the Super Sonic is the only humbucker guitar I play (that EVH was dirt cheap and I never play it, my dad has already claimed it as his), the LP is one of the redundant ones

>>126954043
a little slow tempo for disco innit?
Feels more R&B to me. Guitar could cut over the backing track a bit better and just a little drier, also a couple different licks that one over stays its welcome and starts to glare out like a looped beat.
Better than your other work. Add some bass. You have the groundwork laid for an actual song you just need to layer some details now.

>>126953791
That revstar is a fine choice for a p90 guitar.

>>126954046
what kinda fuzz? i have a big muff that i hate and a peppermint fuzz that i love. Bias controls are 100% necessary for that true fuzz sound imo

>>126954078
built in katana fuzz he said in the comment you dingus

>>126954078
I played with both a "60s fuzz" which ima guess is a tonebender and "Muff Fuzz" which is obv big muff. I liked both for different reasons. i quickly realized chords were now stupid and that was fun.

>>126954068
duly noted.
its meant to have a vocal on top to keep it from feeling too repetitive as well. too bad my singing is shit

>>126954099
Katana go has 3 different fuzzes ya dingus

>>126954110
Singing is easy and its probably not shit you probably just don't like the sound of your own voice yet.
As long as you belt it out with confidence and add some verb you'll sound fine.

>>126954051
then fuck the lp just keep 2

anyone can sing

jamming along to math rock in my living room like a nerd

just pretend you're michael mcdonald
https://youtu.be/9gbQVj4MR3M?si=xMnH4x-0qqN6uH0o

>>126954077
It gets more play time than the LP but the Fano is my go to P90 guitar. I like all three a lot but they’re all redundant. The Revstar was $500 and it isn’t worth selling because I’ll never get a guitar that great for $500 again. I got the Revstar first and loved it, then wanted the Special because I figured if I love the Revstar I’ll really love a proper LP, then got the Fano because I wanted something Fender-ish but with P90s and a Tune o Matic. The Fano checks every box for me, the LP is “better” than the Revstar but not by much, and definitely not $500 vs $1600 better. The bridge on the Revstar is the weak point but that can be replaced, and the bridge on the LP is also the weak spot but it’s been replaced with a compensated bridge and that’s helped. The Revstar stays in tune better. Both have far necks but the LP’s neck is fatter, and the Revstar’s neck has a poly plastic-y finish feel to it while the LP has a sticky nitro finish on it. Both would benefit from some sanding on the neck. The Revstar is a really well thought out guitar, Yamaha nailed it with them. I’ve never played one of the newer gens so I’m not sure how much better or worse they are from the gen 1s but the gen 1s at least are great

>>126953791
I would sell 1 strat, the van halen guitar, revstar, fano, supersonic. Then get a top tier guitar with PAFs.

^average youtuber when posting a video titled like "gibson is FINISHED with these Yamaha guitars"

>>126954191
>>126954174
Switch out the Fano and get rid of the special them. I never felt the need to have more than 1 p90 guitar personally

I got rid of my P90 squier, I liked the pickups but everything else was so shit

>>126954143
That’s what I’m on the fence about but it sucks selling a guitar that you already bought that you have no issues with other than “it’s similar to something else”
>>126954191
Super Sonic will be a top tier PAF guitar for me once I get around to replacing the pickups and ditching the two volume pots for master volume and tone
>>126954197
Nah if they were the same price the Gibson is better, the Revstar just shines because it’s very good while being very affordable. Nothing touches it at its price point. If I had the LP first I’d have never gotten the Revstar. I just don’t think it’s worth listing the Revstar for sale and it taking months and months to sell because they’re not nearly as popular as something name brand just to maybe get $500 out of it.

>>126954276
learn to choose better in the future. dead weight drags you down.

>>126954276
I know a lot of guys who put their guitars up for sale as soon they get them because it takes a long time to get a buyer

>>126953791
IMO keep 1 SSS, 1 HH, 1P90
then you're good

>>126954302
Yeah the P90 stuff was a lot of experimenting, the Revstar was my first P90 guitar and I kept trying to keep it as something Gibson-ish and not another Fender style guitar but still ended up getting and preferring a Fender style guitar but with Gibson style guts
>>126954307
Do people really? Buying a good deal to flip makes sense, but buying specifically expecting to want to sell it is retarded
>>126954310
I prefer SS honesty

>>126954382
Eternal trader things I guess, if they get a bite and don't mind parting they make a couple extra bucks, and if they still want to keep the guitar they say it's sold but forgot to take down the listing

Been wanting to get a good amp after using only an orange crush 12 for the past few years. I want something with a plexi sound and I've been looking at the friedman pink taco ii and the little sister, does anyone have any recs for plexi sounding amps that i won't have to use an attenuator with? preferably around 1.5k in price

>>126954528
just get a plexi. costs about 700 more but buy once cry once.

>>126954382
Wouldn't SSS be able to do everything SS can? Do the Gilmour mod

I downloaded a Plexi sounds pretty good

>>126954197
I mean the new Revstars are better than LPs in alot of ways. They just don't have the name power.

>>126954420
I guess yeah as perpetual trade fodder trading for the next best thing that makes sense
>>126954617
One of my Strats can but it doesn’t feel the same as the Tele or as the Mustang. Bridge and neck out of phase like on a Mustang sounds different than positions 2 and 4 out of phase on a Strat, it’s a sound I didn’t think I’d like as much as I do compared to the regular out of phase Strat sounds. I just like having no middle pickup in the way
>>126954653
Before I got the Super Sonic I really considered another cheaper Revstar but with humbuckers to fill the HB role but then the Super Sonic popped up

>>126954653
it really doesn't matter, guitars don't sell based on objective quality

hows my clean tone?
https://voca.ro/11ISeZmlUO98

>>126954704
space invaders

>>126954623
gay

>>126954704
Sounds like driving down the street in a spooky haunted town in an 8bit horror game

now i can't unhear the squidward walking sound fml
https://voca.ro/16tzsALmvhW4

>>126954793
sounds like a soggy bunch of paper towels slapping the ceiling

>>126954793
mother fucking new ports

>>126954793
sounds like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_r2K3vvbQ0

anyone here know Get Offset? She's got some good pickup taste imo.

>>126954804
it does thats odd im just riffin around C Am Em and then some weird C chord idk the name of but u just put play the third fret instead of the first fret on the B string

>>126954822
isn't that the guy who sells the pedals? Why is he wearing a wig?

>>126954822
i don't watch women on youtube unless they are trying on lingerie

for me its her
https://youtu.be/C-vLEFm8tNg?si=_CoBfKXNxvO9SdSg

which one is the bitch which is the butch
https://youtu.be/b5pCa2OcqIA?si=BpfejryrVHGQJq3d

>woman
>youtuber
>trying to sell you useless shit
Name a worse combo

>>126954905
>poor
>4chan
>trying to sell you garbage

>>126954925
only good garbage tho

>find the sweet spot
>scoop the mids
>push the circuit
>move more air
>deck the bridge
>warm up the tubes
>lock the trem
>cock the wah
>pinch the harmonic
>roast the neck
>feather the pick
>dime the amp
>swell the volume

>>126954952
>good garbage
a daring synthesis

Real advice time:
always tune up to pitch.

https://voca.ro/13ma1OupRkAa

>>126955181
ill tune you up to pitch

>>126955200
is that che gruyera

I don't get how anyone can play guitar decently while bopping around

started learning guitar a while ago and I don't understand why drop d exists
seems that it just fucks with all the shapes/chords you'd normally play in exchange for easier power chords

>>126955234
rhythm is stored in the neck

>>126955270
You don't play normal chords if you're in drop D dummy

Pinky hurts

>>126955270
all alternate tunings fuck with shapes you have memorized. i hate playing in weird led zeppelin tunings
drop D is pretty easy though, it's only one string dawg, just play wigger metal

>>126955327
in the weird open tunings midwest emo has you seem to get a lot more out of it

>>126955322
ice it.

>>126955337
just makes the twiddly shit easier you can midwest emo just fine in standard.
https://voca.ro/1gyiDyEjTWJw

>>126954528
In order for a plexi to sound right it has to be cranked, forget master volume. Get the SV20H Studio Vintage 20 watt, its a mini plexi reissue with the original 4 inputs. And with a single 1x12 cab you can dime it

>>126955499
I have an original plexi with a master volume mod and while I don’t usually use the attenuator id rather have my amp with a volume knob than a dinky knock off

Um, excuse me. Why don't people relic their amps, too?

>>126955520
i cut my speaker for that burp tone

>>126955520
You know what doesn't need relic? Your face

kino

>>126955552
looks like it peed its pants

whats a good audio cable when in recording situations?

What corks are we sniffing tonight, boys?

>>126955398
Yeah I gotta mess around with trying to play it in standard. I'm still a noob so I'm going off tabs. I looked up my favorite bands and most of them ended up being categorized as math rock. I like the chord voicings and time signatures they use I think.

>>126955560
i prefer a solid gold cable that is isolated from the ground on brass pillars

>>126955575
...Does it get any better than this?

>>126955556
Haha, I see you've never seen brand-new, fresh nitrocellulose. Understandable. It will get cloudy with micro scratches after it gets used and played, and eventually make its way down to your type of market.

>>126955591
i'll let you know when the sensory deprivation tank is finished

>>126955200
Shawn was a musician without equal, and a great human being. I miss him very, very much.

>>126955596
I have and they don't look like they peed their pants bro

>that guy who plays clementine at the open mic in a desperate bid to get alt girl pussy

>>126955499
>And with a single 1x12 cab you can dime it
i'm pretty sure that would be way too loud without an attenuator
i like the plexi sound and was eyeing the SV20H for awhile, but i appreciate that a lot of plexi clones can also get more gain than actual plexis. don't get me wrong, original plexis and the reissues are great, but for the price i think there's better and more versatile out there.

>>126955726
Nothing better than an original

https://voca.ro/1177jKgbLTN7

>>126955739
going to sound good with a bridge. keep it up

>>126954528
>get the Friedman pink brown eye or the naughty nun
Plexis are clean amps that you have to attack for breakup not these rodded 800 derivatives.

https://voca.ro/1dwvzYATj0Hy

>>126954528
>and I've been looking at the friedman pink taco
The Pink Taco is based on the BE-100. The BE-100 is a JCM800 clone, not a plexi

I love playing guitar so much bros, I wish I had more time for playing guitar though

>>126956150
i just picked up my strat strummed an fmin7 chord a few times then put it down.
some days you dont have creative juices. i suppose i ccould just learn shit and practice like beginners do, but im at the stage where im more interested in creating that learning

>>126956150
based
>>126956189
>some days you dont have creative juices
aye, this. i just wrote my 2nd song in as many days, though, minus the bridges.

>>126956189
Some days are for creating weird shit some other days are for practicing like an autistic robot, such is guitar learning

>>126955611
>I can really hear the tonewoods
>I can differentiate the bass/treble/mids from this pickup
>I can tell whether I'm listening to a ceramic or alnico magnet
>Rick Beato approved of this

proof tonewood makes a difference: https://youtu.be/7k_A8GhN0L8

>>126954822
Thats a man

>i can't hear a difference, therefore no differences exist and anyone who says they can hear one is an arrogant liar

Ok then tough guy name the magnets in the pickup as well as the wood in the guitar
https://voca.ro/18Rv5A3CUe0y

>>126956898
Ceramic, bASSwood, I can tell by the forceful punch and airy tone.

the only good thing to come out of that retard mouth is to get an eq pedal

>Airy
>warm
>bright
>dark
>mellow
>harsh,
>smooth
>crisp
>creamy
>round
>open
>closed
>fat
>thin
None of this means anything

>>126956928
t. tonal nihilist

>>126956801
This would have some weight if musicians weren't routinely failing blind tests

>>126956928
airy/bright/thin/open=treble
warm/dark/mellow/flubby/fat/closed=bass
harsh=usually some hard clipper
smooth/creamy=usually some soft clipper
these are all guesses from what I've figured out

Tonefags have already thoroughly been btfo by a single youtuber and his tacklebox. Their cope only serves to farm (you)s and give extra shekels to guitar makers.

https://voca.ro/1dfjJiiCzGXc

>>126957032
HE'LL YEAH BROTHER

>>126957082
I CAN'T GET NO ( SATISFACTION)

>>126953727
tex mex coded

First time on this board, so sorry for asking here. I don't see any relevant thread or a general question thread. I'm looking to buy an instrument. It's a pretty niche Asian thing, but I was hoping to just ask around for reputable sites for buying instruments from and hoping they have what I want

>>126954905
this, i prefer bald men trying to shill me shit

i prefer creamy scoops for my tone

>>126957096
Okay

>>126957096
Thanks for failing to tell us what you need help with finding.

>>126957096
>niche asain thing
>musical instrument
whats the joke here?

>>126957096
https://www.temu.com/

>>126957141
>websites

>>126957183
>websites that have what I want
>doesnt say what he wants
Yeah

>>126957183
try an asain basketweaving forum

its got that twang, ya know what im saying?

keep it up
keep it down
turn around
make sound
it better be brown

After my last show, a hot babe came up to me and said she liked my chest hair (I play without a shirt on) and said that I reminded her of Paul Stanley. I said, "You got good taste, babe. He's my biggest influence."
She wanted to do it with me I'm sure... but I got a girl back home, so I flipped her a Tortex and hit the road. I hope flirting with the Detroit Devil made her day.

>>126957437

>>126956975

only for the kind of people who give a shit what a youtuber thinks (you)

his job is to give poors something to keep them warm at night. 'tone doesn't matter!' 'it doesn't cost money to make good music!' yeah that really seems to pan out irl right? lol

>>126957573
No tonefag has ever succeeded at making music
If you wanna be a tonefag become a sound engineer

>>126957585
>No tonefag has ever succeeded at making music
>If you wanna be a tonefag become a tonefag
sure dad, have another.

>>126957606
Musicians cant be tonefags cause they have to actually make the fucking music and not jerk off about some fake nonsense like tonewoods on electric guitars or amplifier tubes

>>126957611
This is really bad bait, but its working I guess.

>>126957620
a good musician can make music from any quality of instrument

>>126957625
no one has said otherwise.

>selling a squier for 150 bucks because otherwise ill just throw it away
>dude messages me asking if he can come try it before buying
jesus times are rough arent they

>>126957611
What's stopping them from doing both tho? Tons of musicians are dumb as fuck and fall for snake oil shit all the time

>>126957686
Show me an actually successful musician who fell for snake oil garbage

>>126957692
Basically everyone who has a les paul signature

>>126957686
>>>sound engineers hate this guy

>>126957692
pretty much everyone was running sonic maximizers in racks or on boards for years

>I fancy myself as a producer and sound engineer

Weren't you idiots arguing about someone opting to use a shitplank in studio over a nicer guitar via his "artistic discernment" the other day, which is what made him such a good musician? Tune in next week for, "scooped mids are actually a good thing" and "is the boss katana loud enough to play with a female drummer (2D)?".

>>126957799
These rigs are purely for playing records lol

>>126955270
Check out “I’m Buzzed” by Michael Landau. Good drop D tuned song that isn’t just simple power chords. Also there’s a good bit of outlaw country that uses drop d, if I’m not mistaken. Not a huge country fan but some of the guitar stuff sounds really good.

>>126957754
I got a sonic maximizer for cheap recently and I love it. It makes a very clear difference in the tone in a way that I like. Maybe I could achieve a similar tone with an EQ pedal but I don’t care. It just werks.

>>126957799
>>places all his shit on the ground and not inside a levitated farraday cage

scooped mids are actually a good thing

do bigsby's go up and down too

>>126958180
bing it

>>>/sp/149661963

>>126958254
??

>>126956975
ok I'll bite. which youtuber?

>>126958533
Jim Lill I'm guessing.

How come this 230€ costing thing has Graphtech nuts? Also, 24 size strings? Is that real? Don't baritones usually have only slightly thicker strings, like 14s?

>>126956975
>guitar manufacturer advertises with claims like "great sustain and low end from our [wood type]"
>close and unbuy guitar

They create electric guitars, they must know that it doesn't make any difference whatsoever, yet they still insist on it. It would be less degrading for both of us if they fucked me in the ass in the store while offering me Nestlé stock than making those claims.

>>126958550
Thx. Very interesting video. I guess I'm going to watch more pickup reviews now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n02tImce3AE

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8gIfR8-opcg

the world is hostile to left handed people

>>126958800
cant you lefties just flip the strings around?

>>126958561
>coping with muh 8 string / baritone
just get a bass faggot

>>126958800
That’s what you get for practicing witchcraft/being born of parents who practice witchcraft

Buy a Squier Super Sonic and flip it upside down like that messican hombre from At the Drive In and the Mars Volta

>>126958954
nta but what about for doom/ sludge. Is a baritone less work/ better than a downtuned guitar?

>>126958561
it depends on the thickness of the string, the scale length and the tuning of the instrument. some baritones are tuned an octave below a normal guitar..

>>126959191
Depends on how low, generally the lower your tuning the longer the scale length, you can only downtune a standard guitar so much until it starts sounding muddy as fuck

>>126958561
Tusq is a great material. The problem is you.

>>126953908
Very carefully. You could reshape it and add a spring but personally I have no issue reaching down and grabbing it as needed. Probably helps that I rarely play with a pick.

>>126958613
They do it because guitarists eat it up and it makes their purchases feel superior. I saw a video where the guy said something like "the sound of Indian Laurel is so close to Rosewood" with a straight face... like you're so close to getting it man.

>>126958800
that is true but lefties are so vastly intelligent and talented that you could learn to play right handed. we all have the super power within us you just need to unlock it. i can do everything ambidextrous

>trying to search texas flood to get my SRV fix for the day, a bunch of dumb news sites pop up
wtf bros

>put something up for sale
>make sure to show my hand in one of the pictures to show im now brown
>more people message me
its almost like the normies are learning

>put something up for sale
>make sure to show my hand in one of the pictures to show im not brown
>more people message me
its almost like the normies are learning

>>126959523
haarp double bobbin extra wet

how low can a 9 gauge set of strings be tuned on a 25.5' with out it being stupid to play / sound muddy?

>>126959191
No doom, stoner or sludge band plays baritones. It's all shitty short scale Gibson guitars. I had some problems with intonation on an Epi LP custom tuned down to B with 13s or 14s strings as rhe fine tuners on the bridge already were on max but had to go further.

Im switching from daily for modes to weekly. I think that'll have a better effect on things getting set in stone. My practice routine for guitar is just scales and trying to learn topical solution by duster right now. Scales are kind of going better but holy shit playing a song on guitar is really fucking hard. I hate eleanor rigby so i know my teacher isn't going to be happy that i didnt practice it but I just don't like that song. Im trying to learn Get her by Daniel ceaser like the one anomaly suggested. That one is a bit easier but there's a Bb chord that's hard to finger. Okay time for a mid day walk

Hey all. I need to get this off my chest so thank you in advance for being here for me lol. It’s a long one. TLDR: Guitar center has gone downhill(which we all know) and I have anecdotal evidence. Don’t trust them to do anything on your gear unless you know the guy doing it.

As a Christmas present to myself I picked up this ec1000 from zzounds. Loved the finish. I’m usually and active pickups guy but figured I’d give the Duncan Pegasus/sentient a shot. Worst case just swap them. I bought some 11s and tuned to drop c. I haven’t done this in forever. I’ve been playing on and off for 20 years. 3 years now been going hard but haven’t tuned drop c since I was 16/17. I played this the set up a little bit but couldn’t get rid of fret buzz. Overall iffy with the pickups at this point.

So I talk to a tech at guitar center in Manchester CT. I tell him my issues, what I want, and he recommends I grab thicker strings. I’m skeptical but maybe he knows something I don’t. It was 11s with a heavy bottom. I get it back 24 hours later.

Fret buzz is still bad, and it can’t hold tuning. I’ve never played a guitar that can’t hold tuning this bad. At first I thought, new strings need to be stretched and worn. Long story short a month or 2 later I decide to switch the strings to 11s with normal bottom. Take the old strings off and the bridge falls off…. This clown didn’t tighten the set screws on the bridge. So I think I’ve solved the tuning issues. Nope. Between that and now not being able to get good tone I contemplate taking a $1k hit and selling it to guitar center to stop obsessing over the issues. I’m not even playing at this point, just trying to get a good metal sound out of my helix and nothing is working, it sounds like shit, possibly the worst pickups for metal I’ve ever played. Da fuck was esp thinking with these. I end up putting it aside and playing my other guitars.
cont.

>>126960082
3 weeks ago I decided to switch to lighter strings and adjust the truss rod myself(which I’ve always been bad at). 10s with a heavy bottom. Figured the 10s should be ok with the nut being filed for the 11s. Swap them, adjust the truss rod the smallest amount. Fret buzz gone and tuning is stable. While working on it I notice one more thing.. the pickups are so fucking low. So I raise them to the appropriate height.

Guys…. These Duncan’s are sick af. The guitar feels and plays amazing. I pretty much payed a dude $80 to change my strings. Didn’t file the nut, moved the pick ups the wrong way, fret buzz out the ass. I’m so fucking mad that this tech is working on guitars for people. So unhelpful to whilst talking to him.

Let’s add to my story while we’re at it. Same place had 3-4 used guitars last weekend. I was going to buy at least one. They had a brand new Matt Heafy Epiphone Les Paul in white. Pretty much brand new. I see it was going to buy it. The action was LITERALLY and inch off the fret board, the high e was wound the wrong way, the locking tuners were all wound 10 plus times, and it was sticky af.

The also had a Misha Jackson that someone swapped emgs in. Pick it up and the tone knob falls off, then the bridge pick up came unscrewed so the higher strings were being muted bc the pickup was touching them. I ask a sales guy if we can screw it in, he says “yea we should check this stuff before it goes out to the floor” and then proceeds to stare at me. Dude give me a fucking screwdriver and I’ll do it! There was at least 4 other sick guitars that had some unplayable issue.

I find this to be unacceptable and when I go to GC this is the vibe I get. That they don’t care. I feel like years ago it was different.

End rant.

>>126954174
What did you pay for the Fano? Was it used or did you spec it?

>>126959715
wait huh short scale? i thought longer scale was better for downtuning

>>126960169
depends on the tone you want

>>126960095
adjusting the nut and frets aren't included in the $80 guitar center set up. but yeah you should learn to do TRAIN adjustments on your own instrument
>t was a tech at guitar center

>>126960227
What's the more expensive set up?

>>126960457
the one that's like an extra $30 is literally just cleaning and polishing the guitar lmao. you have to add nut and fret work specifically; there are specific sku codes for those. techs can bill store setup on instruments and make a little money but if everything in the store played well you would lose half of your sales and basically only have walk ins. you will likely be fired if you have less than a 30% commission rate. meaning you need like $3k a month of sales as a guitar tech. sounds easy to do in a large city but you wouldn't believe how many people would rather buy a new guitar than spend $80 on a setup

>>126960570
Why would I spend $80 on a setup? I can turn a truss rod

>>126960664
why would you buy a new guitar instead of just getting better?

listen man
im not spending 80 bucks on a setup
the guitar cost me 200 bucks, i can sell it used for 150 bucks and buy a new guitar

lmao guess i was right and struck a nerve

I think I'm going to put the bass down until I can play 1 song on guitar. The skill gap is insane and every time I jam out on my bass, I look at my jazzmaster and its crying to played the same.

but anyway you should definitely learn to do your own setups because even $2k instruments still need frets leveled and god help you if you spend $2k on an upright bass--it's going to need a lot of work. i would always advocate doing it yourself but you should know that the basic tools are going to total like $300

>>126960158
Used $2000, it’s an older Alt de Facto from when Dennis was still working there as a builder but after he had sold to Premier Builders Guild (who sold the company to another company who have since sold it back to Dennis). It was ordered by Chicago Music Exchange in early 2013 and sold by Chicago Music Exchange in late 2015. The thing was near mint when I got it. It’s a great guitar

Power brick came yesterday
Phase 90 and Pedal Board come today
That's a TS, Chorus, Analog Delay, Phaser, Compressor and Looper
I am ordering a Klone and a Fuzz probably today
Morning Glory next month
High-Gain and Reverb are both on my Orange and I am happy with them.
Any others I should be getting, /gg/uys? I was thinking a second delay for spaceship stuff. Maybe a Univibe for that Hendrix/Trower cosplay.

Dead general

>>126960169
Longer scales obviously are better for that. I'm just saying that nobody is using them in that genres. It's part of the tone and aesthetic to use stuff that was accessible in the 70s or with sludge to use anything that's cheap and horrible.

>>126961169
Learn how to actually play before going balls deep into effects. I had tons of pedals and sold them all because I realized I relied on effects and cool sounds more than actually playing. Four or five years of playing clean with just an overdrive pedal got me to play more precise and articulate, and then I got back into pedals. Don’t let pedals and effects be your crutch, let them be something that complements your playing.

>>126960570
lol I have to crunch the numbers on this. I was just funposting.

Doesn't the tech work count as basically straight commission? You're not making nine thousand per month. Commision is what 10% profit, 2% sales?

There's also the fact that these places are managed by apes that pit every staff member on the floor against each other. People think they become a guru when they get a management position and can preach ABC to peons. This is common across all retail.

>>126961260
Don't make assumptions homie I've been playing since 1993 lol I'm just a) getting back into the hobby and b) switching back to analog because dsp makes me sad.

>>126961169
I reccomend trying the TS with an EQ and see what you can get. If you still want the Klone after that go for it.

Modding your guitar to your tastes >>> buying someone else's sig

>>126961377
I like buying other people's used modded guitars.

>>126961327
I love the clarity of the Klon circuit, I absolutely fell for it the other day playing with a Klone on my Katana Go. I had been on the fence about it but I am sold now.
I use the TS for obvious applications, but I also use it to tighten up my amp distortion and give me a nice, gain-y brownish sound when I want.
You're dead-on about getting an EQ though, I just don't know if I have the ear to use it effectively. Going to have to get an education.

>>126961272
Ok then in that case yeah go wild and have fun. Pedals are fun when they’re complimentary but are lame when they’re a trick to hide sloppy playing.

>>126961377
Agreed. I fucking love my beat-to-shit 2002 MIM that I've modded out. I have seven guitars and it's my second favorite behind my Studio. Different guitars, different applications, both amazing. The Studio is an excellent example of a stock guitar going above-and-beyond, and the MIM is my personal sig.

>>126961382
Do you kick down their prices?

>>126961404
Designing a pedal board for max tonal range and efficiency is something I've always wanted to do... I've always used multieffects or just a handful of DoD's sitting on my carpet. There's something far more satisfying about designing gain stages and loops and splits and buffers. Signal chain is fascinating to me but I'm a nerd.
Anyway I digress, sorry for the sperg. I'm just excited about guitar again for the first time in forever.

toan is store in the balls capeesh?

>>126961540
nice

>>126961540
Toan is stored in the boipussy if you play a telecaster, a jazzmaster, or a jaguar.

>>126961269
no the tech is hourly plus commission. you have to make an ungodly amount of money to make decent commission. they would post the quarterly results of top techs in the country and some guys were generating $7k a month in tech sales and it only equated to like $27/hour. that's like having a setup to do every hour every day for 18 days of the month. gc sucks and there are genuinely some good techs there. they make you pass a written test but it's possible to know how to mentally do the work but not physically. i was given the choice to resign because my sales were low. i had to do full setups (but repair and spot fret leveling) at the $80 price under the table because it was a struggle to get people in the door. the other annoyance is they put the tech right at the entrance and want you to be there most of the day and all the other sales people fuck off and around in the back so you literally have every single customer asking you for help in drums etc.

>>126961377
i just buy good tuners and call it a day. 90% of your sound is from your amp unfortunately and those are expensive

>>126961456
I offer above their asking price. It's part of my tipping culture.

>>126961692
>$27
JFC that sucks, meanwhile GC charges customers like they are counting motorcycle mechanic hours instead.

>>126960783
Are you the anon that bought and returned the Strat and were looking at a Jag? What JM did you end up going with? Keep at it, if you’re serviceable at bass you’ll get there on guitar

>>126961272
Fellow old ass nigga, I know this feel. Not quite as old as you though.

>>126961711
Hairy metal guy insisted that it's the speaker, but I still hear difference between my two guitars with different pickups.

>>126961802
you're right but i don't want to spend 20 minutes explaining why

>>126961614
This offset meme is all projection. All of the queers that play offsets are just poseurs.

>>126961711
Most of the time I find the tuners are good enough, but if you're getting slippage it's an easy upgrade anyone can do.

>>126958954
I like playing a few songs which are tuned down from standard. I reckon it's better to get a baritone to accommodate that than tuning down a standard scale guitar.

that Offset Telecaster is a strange one to me. it's a more comfortable Tele sure, but it loses that look. It's like an offset for people who don'T want an offset.

>>126961759
Nah I'm the bass pedal anon. This the guitar i ended up getting. I like it a lot i just gotta get used to playing guitar. I can do my scales and I've been able to do some chords for songs but I cant play a full 2 bars of a song yet I can do the first bar of inside out but that's it.

>>126961801
Yeah I have no idea why I'm here, I've just been here a long ass time and refuse to leave. I'm consistently the oldest person on all of my boards.

Congrats to whoever won the SG raffle the Guitaristas was doing. It wasn't me. Hope it was a ni/gg/a.
In other news FedEx isn't delivering my new cooking pot today and I am very angry.

>>126962426
I bought two tickets to support the channel, I like that long haired bong’s channel

>>126962266
Nice, a proper JM with a rhythm circuit. Settling for anything less is a shame

>>126962548
do you actually use the circuit or is it just an aesthetic thing

Had to cancel lessons, 300+ a month for 1 hour a week. There's definitely gotta be a cheaper option. Sucks cus i really liked my teacher

>>126953459 (OP)
>starting to do the F chord pretty consistently
>can't do the mini F
wtf is wrong with me
Btw is it ok to use F Major when learning House of the Rising sun until I get the mini F chord down?

>>126962991
Your teachers only charging $75 an hr.

>>How cheap do you want it?

>>126963087
If you switch fast enough you can just pick the top strings and hold the entire chord. There's no strumming there as far as I remember.

>>126962991
What style of music are you interested in? There are some good resources on the net

Kempers are black magic, and anybody using one should be presumed a witch and thrown into the sea.

>>126963311
Yvette really should have sex with me, just saying.

>>126963409
she's got no sex appeal.

what did you practice today?

>>126961692
>27/hr
Any skilled trade or white collar job past the first year apprenticeship, with any reasonable employer.

The closest center to me has the tech stranded toward the back. I assume yours was trying to double dip the tech as a door person because they don't want to pay for security.

It seems like these places have given up their goal to be a "cool hangout" and have just punted to the most basic beginner product lines with a few custom shops hanging 15 feet up at the ceiling. The sales staff just parks it at the register.
Paying their tech a straight up hourly to improve the overall sales floor is the common sense move. Car dealerships don't park a bunch of unserviced beaters on the lot and expect their mechanics to generate sales.
I understand the difference between a good tech and $80 tune and polish. Say they give you a room to set up a luthier shop, sell concessions, and just be a body while people utilize their practice spaces. Throw concerts. The stores have no vision or culture. Unfortunately, they've buried most other brick and mortar. Online retail will cut them back down.

>>126963638
this guy fucking gets it. I will say some GCs are cool enough to host local bands but it's not common.

>>126963087
What's a mini F chord?

>>126963638
yeah you basically described the gc i was at exactly. i had to supply like 80% of my own tools as well. i enjoyed the work but hated the customers and my employers.

>>126963311
Ive bought 20 pairs of Yvette's used panties off Poshmark

>>126963628
jesus christ you scared the shit out of me, i thought that was a childhood picture of me

>>126963843
Instead of barreing all the strings you just barre the first two

>>126962577
Yeah, I use it with fuzz and certain distortion

>>126963868
also want to add i agree with just moving the tech to hourly. most high end manufacturers especially martin wont even let third parties do repair work when under warranty. far more people buy new instruments than get setups so it made more sense to me to just set up the instruments in the store and sell more of them. i got absolutely flooded with setups when they did the free setup special on certain instruments a few years ago

remember just holding your guitar for 5 minutes gets you further than letting it watch you watch guitar videos for 5 hours

>>126963628
I'm rehashing ground I've already covered but this time with a pick and amp instead of lazily using my fingers unplugged

>>126963181
>lessons from shop 1 were $178/month for 30 minutes and $342 for 1 hour
>lessons from shop 2 are $200/month for 45 minutes
>mom is paying for school lessons as birthday gift
>shop 2 is only 1 mile from my apartment
>met a boomer about a month ago who said he gives lessons
>charges $11/30 minutes $22/45 minutes and $45/60 minutes
>can pay him out of pocket myself
>get almost 2 hours of teaching a week
Even if i only do 30-45 min extra with the boomer I save. Its funny that his prices are so odd. I may just do 45 minutes but if I just did 30 minutes on 2 separate days with him that's saving even more. But id rather just sit for 1 hour.

>>126963280
Noise rock like fushitsusha or les rallizes denudes, industrial like throbbing gristle, post rock like swans, indie stuff like pavement or BTS, country/slowcore like songs ohia or red house painters. Theres a lot of stuff I wanna make.

>>126963919
You could host a setup class or a basic kit assembly workshop. The good stores offer lessons. Client loyalty should be earned. I bet not once did you ever even jam with your coworkers.
It's a similar rot to in here and everywhere else. Buy new thing! Uh oh, you didn't sell enough guitars over the last three and a half seconds. Watch half naked Stacy play Through the Fire and Flames note for note. These are the type of people that will die for the Fender or Gibson logo no matter the circumstance. They value only the finish line and none of the process or meaning.

>>126964119
i jammed with one of the sales guys that was really into industrial music. everyone else just wanted to drink downtown in their off time

I just want to find a couple dudes to play Pixies style songs with bros. Everyone local is into lame metal stuff or singer songwriter acoustic stuff

>>126964001
hey no need to get personal my guy

>>126953459 (OP)
looks like there's room for a heroin kit under the bridge plate. no wonder kurt played it.

I don't practice at all, I think about playing. And when I do play for a half hour every 3 or 4 weeks I'm better than I was

picked up the acoustic guitar and I'm finally getting somewhere after dropping it a few times. having tons of fun

do electric guitars need a bunch of extra equipment to be played? or could you theoretically simulate amps, pedals and such through software? would that sound like shit?

>>126964433
you can simulate amps and pedals through software. you'll want an audio interface like a behringer um2, an audient EVO 4 or a Focusrite solo/scarlett 2i2 in order to get your guitar to talk to your computer

>>126953459 (OP)
>pretty much nailed the f chord everytime yesterday
>all of a sudden i cant do it now
what the fuck

>>126964538
Muscle memory, just keep doing it. Keep practicing chord changes with an F or another E shape bar in it and you’ll get it.

Dirty Deans Done Dirt Cheap!

>>126964662
might be a deaner

>>126964538
arthritis from too much practice perhaps

Anyone here got one of these Epi's? I think this is gonna be my next guitar. I like my king V but it's a Chinese mage piece of cheapness and I want a better V next.

>>126964984
next guitar? james jamerson used one finger.

all the great guitar players play bass guitars too

>>126964984
>I like my king V but it's a Chinese mage piece of cheapness and I want a better V next.

So is the epiphone. You can find used Gibson Flying V's around $1200. Best deals are on the Japanese sites. Save up don't settle for another Chinese piece of shit.

>>126965039
Well I'd like a guitar that can stay in tune, be perfectly intonated and is a flying V.

Anyone else feel like having a manic episode?

>>126965121
Go for it bro. I got your back

>>126965121
https://youtu.be/SsmVgoXDq2w?si=4ccTr6QWAA8x7ZoM

>>126965108
Flying V's always sound tinny and bad.

>>126965107
Yeah but the Epi is the higher standard than the lowest tier of Jacksons. And I can't find Gibson Vs that cheap locally and I'm not gonna risk spending that amount of money to order with the shitty luck I have. Also if I had that amount of money, I'd sooner get a custom build than get a Gibson anyway.

like listen to this shit what in the fuck
https://youtu.be/BKY8KIt9kqc?si=kJkBMcDoy3ty6-Gm

>>126965215
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WydRZHhVb00&list=RDWydRZHhVb00&start_radio=1

>>126965236
Doesn't cut through

>>126965234
Cuts through but sounds like a 15 year old playing on his Fender Frontman

Get a stratocaster.
Put a humbucker in the bridge position.
You now have a guitar that can do anything.

>>126965215
I disagree
https://voca.ro/1cKVOGd0XDyo

>>126965108
>perfectly intonated
is not going to happen on an instrument that doesn't have fanned frets
>stays in tune
in my professional experience the secret to get 3+3 headstocks or similar to say in tune is to relieve the nut on the back side with a file. ernie ball sells compensated nuts but you still have to fit them so just easier to work on the original. if you've ever head your guitar creak when tuning the string is getting pinched in the nut and causing tuning stability. even without the creaking this can happen with bends and hard fretting pressure. having a crappy neck without good stabilizer rods can also make the neck relief swing wildly with temperature changes

>>126965275
Well I guess not if you cake a ton of mud on your tone this sounds like I have pillows in front of my speakers. Even with the booming over compensation you can hear how tinny the highs are. Theres like an upper register in the timbre that just doesn't sound sweet. Reminds me of a paper cup and strings or like screaming into a pop can.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3LvhdFEOqs&list=RDG3LvhdFEOqs&start_radio=1

>>126965295
those are actually the high mids i think. around 750hz

>>126965319
Randy just sounds good on anything, also the distortion kinda masks what im talking about.
Zakk Wylde gets a better tone imo
https://youtu.be/CSvmwGWZtSg?si=2XJT_QfcAJNDDCgM

>>126964227
pixies are pretty based

>>126965258
Nah, i'd rather have a stratocaster

>>126965397
single coil bridge pickup is just worthless. Nobody uses it.

>>126965410
please permit me to disagree

>>126965410
sounds better than a strat bridge. just scoop your mids retard

>>126965378
I just wanna make music with some people who share my taste in music and I want the music we make to make me feel the same warm fuzzies I feel when I listen to Surfer Rosa

>>126965410
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEFChMd8-7U&list=RDuEFChMd8-7U&start_radio=1

>>126965444
cant see the switch most of the time but when i can thats neck baby

>>126965258
I wish I would have tried a HSS sooner. I was always preoccupied with HSH and put that off for years and years until getting this last year. Now I’m very glad I still have a single coil in the neck. It’s a player 1 and it buttfucks any other Strat I’ve played in the last decade. I’ve played hundreds, and some have had nicer components or tighter setups, but none of them have felt or sounded as all around 10/10 as this one does. It is a limited edition but I don’t think that those receive any extra QC, just unique features like the headstock, and pickup wiring. I chalk some of it up to personal preference but I think this one just got all the right hands on the right components at the right time. I wouldn’t trade it for any other Strat new or vintage.

>>126964433
>do electric guitars need a bunch of extra equipment to be played?
Yes. The purist approach is to just play into an amp. If you think abstract, guitar is just the controller, kind of like a midi keyboard, the signal it outputs is merely a rough suggestion about what sound you actually want to produce. You can then manipulate it any way you want, which you probably want to start with emulating the good old amp and cabinet.

>>126965461
You really still have the sticker on it?
You ain't even consummated the thing yet, does the pickguard still have the plastic too?

>>126965121
thats just another saturday for me bro

>>126965461
fiesta red gang

>>126965566
it looks plain and sad. like a student model

>>126965575
should i put anime stickers on it?

I hate red Strats. Other red Fender guitars are fine but red Strats just give me the ick as zoomer women say.

>>126965599
it's Fiesta red not red dude learn your fucking colors

>>126965594
Yes. You must be able to at least play some random riff from that anime ost to qualify for a sticker.

>>126965594
i think it's just not being able to see the pole pieces. it's fucking with me

>>126965635
Well that's just how lace sensors are

>>126965656
i know but it's like the difference between grabber blue on a 1970 mustang vs 2010 mustang. it looks good on the 1970 because the chrome and black accents balance it out. look its your guitar and if you like it i love it but i just think all that white needs to be broken up by something

>>126965215
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGY0KEGVK6Q

>>126965608
bro im not that guy but thats obviously more of a sunset orange

>>126965608
Oh lo siento me fiesta amigo, yo no se los colores de guitarra Fender muy bien

can we not schiz out the next thread

>>126965720

>>126965724
No, sorry, we have to

>>126965728
thanks my guy

>>126965475
No, that was just the first pic I took of it.

>>126965566
I’m convinced that Fiesta red guitars sound better. I have the HHS P1, a Noventa JM and a MG73 Mustang in Fiesta red and they all play and sound better than other versions of the same models

>>126965599
What you just said is so goddamn gay that I’m having trouble comprehending it.

>>126966174
post 3 100% straight men who played fiesta red strat
(you can't)

>>126966458
Gilmour is most famous for his black modded Strat but his #2 is a fiesta red. He plays it on Pulse and a few others.

>>126966553
that's one

>>126966553
>>126966562
My bad it was candy apple not Fiesta
sorry I'm not gay enough to tell the difference

>>126966584
>>126966458
only one I can think of is andy summers, but the police are pretty bisexual coded so I can't say 100%

>>126966782
>>126966782
>>126966782