Guitarists/Bassist of /b/? What gear are you after? What gear

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>>722270972
I have a black Ibanez mikro that I just put neon green strings on and I just bought an Ibanez rg350exz which was like an upgrade and it's the perfect guitar for me. My next guitar will probably be a bc rich beast or a blueberry burst Gibson Les Paul

I also want to get boss chorus and pitch shifter pedals I already have the boss distortion and dynamic wah pedals

>>722270972

I play an Epiphone les paul standard through a peavey vk212 , using a metal muff pedal for sweet sweet distortion. Currently i want to swap the peavy speakers out for vintage 30's or man'o'wars and put a set of dimarzio dominions in my guitar.

>>722270972
I've got a squier and blackstar mini amp. That's all I'll ever need because I'm not a pretentious fuck

>>722272764
I've tried so many Les Pauls. epiphone, gibsons, knock offs, and I could never like them. I don't know why. What draws em to you?

>>722270972
>I've become an OffsetFag.

aka a hipster

>>722273457
ok, friend

I just started and my first guitar is an Epiphone LP Special II
How do I keep the neck balanced? It always wants to tip over.

>>722273512
let me guess, you already have a mandolin and/or a ukulele?

>>722273361

I'm a big fan of single cut designs, i saw mine in the used section of my local music store and couldn't not buy it. It was a great price and it's a color that i feel doesn't get nearly enough love in les paul land.

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>>722270972
Get a jag OP more settings so you can duck around with the sounds if you have a higher end amp. I got this jaguar Kurt Cobain edition

i play offsets for surf and country and am not a hipster. OP I recommend the jaguar after getting a jazmaster

>>722273899
God damn autocorrect cucked me

Craigslist musical instrument section is the worst fucking thing in the world

>>722273744
I feel you, I'm the same way with most fender guitars. I don't like their design. idk I'm just not a fan. Are you gonna stick wit an epiphone or try and get a gibson?

>>722272546
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>>722273677
No, but nice try.

>>722274461
I can only hope

>>722273899
>>722273950
Thats what I was thinking of getting next. I mainly play surf punk/surf garage and I know these kinda guitars are good for that, which ones would be the best for it?

What kinda reverb do you guys like best?
Spring, Plate, Hall (Room)?

>>722274574
I play a jazzmaster, jaguar and mosrite through a fender twin and 63 reverb tank. both offsets are squier VM's that I handwired and use .12 flatwounds. somewhere in that ballpark is a good start

>>722274574
Man I'm telling you if you want a nice distorted sound, get a Kurt Cobain jaguar because the dimarzio super distortion pickups sound so sweet with distortion, also I got mine for 1806 Canadian, whereas a normal jaguar is like 4000 dollars

>>722274409
i'll one day own me a true gibson. The huge upside of my Epi is that i can tinker with it without feeling real bad, since i know the electronics are pretty cheap and it was made in a sweatshop in korea, so i don't feel like i'm unjustly undoing the work of a venerable craftsman by swapping pickups and wiring and pots and whatnot. I'm a bit of a tinkerer so it being an Epi kind of worked out perfectly for me.

>>722274684
depends on the song. hall is a great go to for all settings. spring has its pros and cons

How do i tune a grampa guitar? For real I don't know how to read music but I love getting stoned and listening to rock

>>722274912
Is it truly worth 1k? Would it be better to get say a squire jag, and just change out the pups?

>>722275007
what are cons of spring?

>>722275305
taking acid, and playing literally any psych garage was the best choice I ever made.

>>722274959
I've always wanted to do that but never really tried. Is it difficult to solder/work on stuff like that?

>>722275412
depends on the unit/amp. the spring reverb on my twin gets really out of control at settings above 5. it gets real shrill and the feedback gets nasty

>>722275595
If you have ever soldered before it's pretty easy. The only real challenge is dealing with the fact that gibson pots are a touch bigger than Epi ones, so you have to enlarge the holes for your knobs if you upgrade to legit gibson hardware.

I have a epi dot copy kit guitar. It was a hundred bucks. Finished and set it up myself. Sounds fucking awesome, plays fucking awesome, looks like shit. Just like a guitar should.

>>722275342
It was so worth it man, the guy at the store said that the price of the guitar will go up because it's a replica of Kurt Cobains, and not only that but the wood quality is better, it feels warmer and better, and it's so satisfying to own an actual fender lol, some may call me a fool for spending that much on a guitar but honestly, it was so worth it and I got the satisfaction I paid for

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tonewood: bullshit or nah?

>>722276189
Nah on bulshit. You don't have to spend a ton to get a great sounding guitar. Especially acoustic. Construction makes all the difference.

>>722276391
I'm so broke I'd be perfectly ok with a basswood piece of shit as long as it felt good

>>722274959
I'm not at all a guitar snob but there really is a difference between a Gibson and an Epiphone. It really doesn't matter the electronics you put in it. My most massive Epiphone (LP Custom GX with Dirty Fingers pickups) is a half-weight compared to my Gibson LP Studio (490R and 498T). Mass is such a huge factor in the tone of those guitars.

>>722276746
Learn how to set up a guitar and it doesn't matter what you have. You can make it play well for you.

>>722276036
forsure man, That'd be next big purchase, after a nice bass. Either a older p bass or rick. Not too sure about it yet.

>>722276189
I have 2 squier teles, one with a rosewood neck and other with maple, and just those you can really tell the difference. I mean it's not extreme but it's noticeable. Maybe I'm just tricking myself but I hear it.

>>722270972
Current:
Ibanez RG550

Ibanes RG350ex

Carvin X100-B

some shitty b-52 4x12

Digitech Tube OD

Peavey Vypyr 15 (for practice)

Looking for a newer RG550. MORE IMPORTANTLY going to be buying a Laney IRT studio soon.
https://youtu.be/NcF-QBHK4Ns?t=28s

I'm trying to find other amps that can do what this thing does. I need something that I can use my headphones with or have a volume that doesn't leave my ears (and everyone who lives with me) rekt.

Tubemeister 18 is not viable. Tried one at a local guitar store and so unimpressed. I spent a while with it and couldn't' find a decent tone.

>>722277284
If I were to choose I'd go Rick, such great sound, a bit pricy tho, coming from a guy who spent 1k on a guitar lel

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Gibsons. Most of them.

>>722272546
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>>722273677
>>722274912
>>722274959
>>722275305
>>722275342
>>722276029
>>722276036
>>722276189
>>722277044
these threads are always hilarious. i dont know what it is about music threads on /b/ but they always attract the dumbest people

>>722278931
yeah ricks have such a famous tone that you can only get with them, I mean jazz can get close but not enough. Plus they just look so nice. The jetglo ricks are beauts.

>>722276189
Bullshit

>>722278332
Nice, My curent set up:
Carvin 4x10 bass cab

Peavy Supreme Transtube (I actually really like it and its built like a tank, suprisingly good for surf/punk.)

Fender Classic Player Jazzmaster

Squire tele

Big Muff

your basic EQ and drive pedals

a danelectro chorus

a dod flanger

and I litterally just order a sorta cheap joyo delay and a biyang xdrive

>>722279543
Before I thought stratocasters and/or telecaster guitars had the cleanest sharpest sound, but then I heard a rickenbacker and I was so wrong, if only they were cheaper

>>722279505
Hmmm
>>722277044
is samefag >>722279061

I know what i'm talking about. I have Gibsons, Epis, a Mexi strat, USA strat, G&L's, Ibanez, Jackson, etc. In the end, any of them can sound fantastic when properly set up. Any of them, poorly set up or maintained, can be sold on eBay at a discount to fags like me who take advantage of technical ineptitude. Any guitar can sound good in the right hands.

>>722280035
if you're good with guitar electronics, you can probably get a pretty beat up one and fix it up really nice for not THAT pricey.

>>722280168
Yeah true, but hey, to each their own

>>722270972
The dream is to one day have the disposable income for arickenbacker lightshow. Until then, I've git a nice blue Ibanez.

Bass: German Warwick Corvette $$ active

(It can get a lot of sounds, can sound like a Pbass, Musicman, Jazz, etc. The tone I have now is similar to Tool "Schism")

Guitar: Edwards Horison, with SD Black Winters

( I love this guitar, but I play in a lof of different tunings, so I plan on getting two more ESP Horizon.)

Tunings I use:

E standard
Drop C
Drop G#
F standard

My guitar tone is similar to killswitch Engage, very modern Recto/5150 sound with a tube screamer. I prefer amp sims over real amps.

>>722280585

Ricks hold their value really well so it's hard to find a good deal.

Because they are neck-thru, have a high mass bridge, and their own pickup design it makes it hard to copy the sound.

Most bass companies that make their own pickups won't sell them aftermarket, or they raise the price.

A German Warwick humbucker is like $300 US, but Alembic bass pickups are like $2k lol.

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>>>/mu/70976354

Come to /mu/ and be a fa/gg/ot, /b/.

>>722274912

You must have never heard of MIJ Fender Jaguars.

$800 and you can get a matching headstock, the US ones are WAY overpriced.

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>>722270972
x-posted from /mu/ gg:

Got a friend selling a Marshall JCM 900 1x12 50w for £400 - seems low for how good the amp is. Yes or no?

>>722281551
I would. Even if you end up not liking it/wanting it, you can probably resell it for more and make a bit of money

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>>722272932
fuck you evan

>>722276391

The wood type does matter.

Go play a Les Paul made of swamp ash, or a Strat made of Mahogany and they will sound completely different than the standard woods.

Basswood is easily the worst. It isn't even structurally sound, strap buttons rip out because it is so soft, it's also the cheapest wood there is.

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>>722282014

>>722272932

"Squiers and mini amps are for faggots"

- David Gilmour

>>722282014
Not arguing that wood doesn't matter. It absolutely does. I posted in either this thread or the \mu thread that there's a huge difference between an Epiphone Prophecy and a Gibson Les Paul Studio. I'm just saying here don't dismiss a guitar because of the nameplate and "rank". Lower ranking guitars can be made to sound every bit as good as a higher ranking guitar, depending on whose hands it falls in. So learn to set up a guitar and make it sound as good as it can. Make sense?

>>722282136

Scientific proof you dumb faggot:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Y_tyUjkkhA

Now what bitch!

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>>722282267
>"The only thing I hate more than a queer is a nigger." - David Gilmour

>>722280151
Professional musician of 30 years here, this is truth. If you know what you're doing, any guitar can sound however you'd like it to. For the most part, brands are just a fashion statement. As long as the neck is straight and the frets haven't been worn down to uselessness, a little maintenance and knowledge go a long way.

>>722282014
Look, obviously a guitar made out of balsa wood is going to be shit and fall apart. The wood does matter.

Also, >>722282136, you're super hilarious and all but tonewood does make a slight difference. But it's pretty slight and can be easily compensated for through amplification. Unless you're playing pure acoustic, the difference is there but pretty negligible. The player will hear it far moreso than anyone in the audience would.

Tonewood isn't bullshit, but it's a very small consideration overall.

>>722282580
Thank you. I think that, in general, people don't know how to set up an instrument. And when they fail, they blame it on the guitar, not their own incompetence.

>>722282812
Which isn't to blame therm for their incompetence. If you don't know what to do to set up an instrument, it can be hard...

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>*wrap wrap warp*
>oh, ha, anon, didn't see you there
>what is does your Gibson there have a heh, mahagony-- body guitar? That isn't really what you'd call, resonant. You would know if you ever browsed the Tonewood Library® locked away in the Tone Vault ® next to my office. But, anon, those are only for the Private Reserve ® customers.

>>722282580

You can't make a strat sound like a Les Paul, and you can't make a Les Paul sound like a strat. Period.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iGXP_UBog4

>>722282812
Oh, for sure. People will blame a hilarious array of things on their instruments when it almost always comes down to their incompetence. "It isn't that I never bothered to actually learn how to play the instrument, the problem is the guitar itself!"

Douchebags have given the entire instrument a bad reputation, unfortunately. Technique or basic maintenance, I'm always gobsmacked by the shit people try to pull.

>>722283035
Bull fucking shit I can't. Done it, not that hard.

>>722283074
Case in point: >>722283035

Anyone who wants a strat to sound like a Gibbo has spent his money in much the wrong way...

>>722282967
It can be hard if you're trying to figure it out from scratch, but there's about a million resources to help anyone figure it out. I chalk it up to general laziness, frankly. If you can't learn your scales or how to set up a guitar, then anything you play will sound like shit. That's fine, I accept that there's shit guitar players in the world and whatever, but I am pretty tired of mediocre (at best) guitarists always trying to prove they have a bigger guitar dick than they do.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmFSivO5Tuk
>*wrap wrap wrap*
>*echo echo echo*
>weeew listen to that Tonewood ® Wow
>oh, hey anon, didn't see you there
>wow, I just pulled this fine specimen from the PRS Tone Library ®, listen to that even the same pitch all over the body
>*knock knock knock*
>wow
>oh, whats that anon, your guitar is made of alder? Thats too bad. That is not a tonewood.
>I have all the tonewoods here in my ToneVault ®.
>Nope, sorry anon, the Tones belong to me and my PRS Private Reserve® customers only
>I'm afraid your guitar doesn't qualify

>>722283128

Because you think you were able to do that, I can tell you are a shit producer.

I've seen fags like you before, you think you can make your Dimebag signature guitar sound like a Spanish made nylon classical acoustic.

No you can't bitch.

>>722283438
We've been talking electric guitars, genius. Acoustic is a different animal, and I've said so elsewhere in this thread. But you keep intentionally misinterpreting the entire context to make yourself feel superior.

I can damn near anything sound like an acoustic run through an amp, however.

And also, because you have no ability to read/comprehend a basic conversation without derailing it for your own purposes/use basic inference skills, I can tell that you're a shit producer who hears what they want to hear and are incapable of being useful to anyone but their own bullshit. Fuck off and die, faggot.

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>>722283665
>I can damn near anything sound like an acoustic run through an amp

>>722283296
>u before, you
There's the technical resource aspect, yes. It can be hard to learn what the terms mean. I've been playing guitar for 27 years, I've been a structural engineer for 18 years, but it was only the last 5-6 years that the two disciplines made sense together...

>>722283781
Made a typo there, I'll own that. "I can make damn near anything sound like an acoustic run through an amp."

My bad. Sorry you couldn't figure out what the verb was supposed to be.

>>722283839
>my intellectual superior
>can't write a complete sentence
you only get to choose one faggatron

>>722283986
Take your finger out of your ass and point to where I said my intellect was superior. I'll wait.

>>722283802
>40 years old
>on /b/
consider suicide
>>722284040
>admits his intellect is inferior
well that was easy

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>>722284040
>>722284040

>>722284150
Alright, last post before I go to bed because you're boring the shit out of me. You first said that I was claiming to be your intellectual superior and submitted evidence that it wasn't true. I was actually accusing you of being unable to properly read my posts and get my meaning, instead hearing what you want to hear--I was calling you arrogant to the point of retardation, not necessarily stupid. Told you to point to where I said I was intellectually superior to draw attention to the fact that I didn't, and your own stupid fucking mind decided to misread it into my admitting my intellect is inferior.

You are a faggot and useless.

>>722284150
Nah. Got baby girls that are far better people than me, and I want them to be far better people than you. I bet u understand, tho.

>>722282580
>>722283802
>b-but m-muh experience
lol you dicking around in your bedroom makes you a "professional musician" now? nice try gramps

>>722284365

You have been playing guitar for 27 years and you think you can make anything sound like an acoustic instrument through an amp.

Simply eat shit and die you failure.

>>722284365
lol tl;dr

>>722284522

I'm glad digital production has gotten so good. It makes all of these old fart producers skill's worthless.

"I know how to"...SHUT UP FAGGOT!

>>722284522
Sorry. Haven't been dicking around in my bedroom. I have a dwelling that has multiple viable rooms. It's called a Home. My room dedicated to music is only 800 square feet. I've gone through many opportunities to play with some great musicians, both live and recorded. When you're ready to let us know what you've contributed, just feel froggy and leap.

>>722284883
lol the retard thought he was going to come in here and shut everybody up with
>muh 30 years uh playin moosic
and when we pushed back he ran off like a busted ass bitch

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Im after a phant o matic but sadly my bank account is emptier than schools in kentucky

>>722285021
LOL
THOUGHT YOU WERE GOING TO BED FAGGOT?
WHAT HAPPENED?
YOU DRANK A BIG GLASS OF FAGGOT JUICE AND WOKE THE FUCK BACK UP?!?

>>722285148
No.

>>722285230
so it was a big plate of faggot chow then?

>>722285021

No one gives a fuck that you played drums for Wynonna Judd once.

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>>722270972
I want to get a Jen Ritter Jupiter six string bass

pic related

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>>722285378
lmao that dumb nigger wants to brag about *almost* backing up john tesh in 1993

>>722285230

Lord knows your failure ass isn't drinking a tall glass of pussy juice.

You probably tell strangers online that you did something once, like they believe you or care.

Your ego is hilarious, post a picture of your hair!

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>>722285021
Cool. I hadn't realized Yanni was still around.

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just found a pic of dad up there gettin' ready to go on tour any day now

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>>722285449

Looks nice. It kind of reminds me of some Marleaux basses.

I love this shape.

>>722285378
What have you contributed? Did you aspire so high as a Judds session drummer? Did you only manage to play in the LAC's warmup band? Dosen't matter. The point is that you can insult my achievement in music...the original point was that it is difficult to learn how to set up a guitar. And having a guitar perform poorly for someone isn't the guitar's fault, all the time.. Not sure where the vitriol is stemming from...

>>722270972
Always wanted a Rickenbacker 4001 Bass. THE most beautiful bass ever made. The only instrument I have is an old hand me down telecaster but I make the best of it

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>>722270972
Always wanted a Rickenbacker 4001 Bass. THE most beautiful bass ever made. The only instrument I have is an old hand me down telecaster but I make the best of it.

sup faggots

I'm gonna get a martin 000-15M next week

bredi gud

>>722285912
If that's the best counterarguement you've got--NyuhhuhHHHHHHHHHH....that's great and big people can move along to more constructive discussion.

More constructive discussion: anyone have G&L ASAT or similar? I have two Legacy USA three bolts that I love. Any advantage over later Asats, or over Fender Tele's?

>>722285692
is that headless? Been thinking about getting a headless bass..

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>>722286498
>it is difficult to learn how to set up a guitar
huh, that must be why fender pays shitbrained mexicans minimum wage to set guitars up at their factory
y'know.. because it's so difficult an' all
keep replying idiot

>>722286498
>anyone have G&L
Quit trying to find a faggot to suck your dick, queer.

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How do I tune this motherfucker, I got this bad ass acustic gutair dat came from Mexico. I just wanna place stairway to heaven and drop acid or something.

Currently have a American Strat, it's super nicely set up. (makes all the difference)

For delay I have the Boss DD-7
For looping I have the Boss RC-1
For chrousy sounds I have a Uni-Vibe
Finally I have a T-rex Valve screamer that really rounds off the tone.

I love my strat to bits, but I want a double coil Humbucker for my next guitar and I'm unsure of the sound so far!
Any recommendations?

>>>/mu/70985437

New fa/gg/ot thread.

>>722286924
>Plays guitar
>Still needs a tuner

>>722286924
just tune it a quarter step above D#. That's what Megadeth does

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>>722287295
megadeth is so kewl

Gonna buy a bass and learn to play for shits and gigs. Any tips on where to find free lessons online that are good?

>>722287402
>Any tips
only the tip of my dick

>>722287451
I'd love to suck you off but that's not what I'm asking for right now

>>722287486
>bass
weren't you though

>>722287402
>nd learn to pla
Wow. Lot's of uncooperative dicks in this thread tonight.

Try https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/ and search for a song. Usually there are 3-5 versions of a song, although fewer bass versions.

>>722287584
>spoon feeding a babby
it won't get you any boi pussy faggor

>>722287560
Wot
>>722287584
Thanks man, will check it out

>>722286715

Dont talk shit about fender mexico. They pump out quality shit that I can actually buy with my good boy points.

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>>722288027
>American Fenders: made in America by the best Mexican minimum wage labor money can buy!
>Mexican Fenders: made in Mexico by the best slave wage labor money can buy!

>>722288212

I wont argue that their wages suck, but the instruments they make are impressive.

Got a fender jaguar!! Great guitar and also I managed to get my hands on a special edition one from 2002 which has the ocean turqoise laquer! Just like the one frusciante has in under the bridge :)

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