/gg/ - Guitar and Bass General

first for dildos

>>71568782
8/10 only thing I would change is the reverb pedal. I really don't think those sound good at all, definitely the weak link in your pedalboard.

Rec me a boutique Fuzz pedal

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Early for boards!

>>71569724
Skreddy P19

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqZY8ZgB-z0

What are the essential pedal categories

>>71569865
>Pink Floyd copy
eh

>>71570023
It's basically a smoother big muff, you don't have to play Pink Floyd on it...Sounds crazy good if you like smooth sounding leads.

>>71569677
how are hall of fames bad?

How the fuck do I write a good bassline
I'm trying to avoid having it be a little more interesting than just following the chords but it sounds kinda cheesy and formulaic

>>71570068
Their reverbs sound cheap, digital in a bad way. Usable but they're kind of in an obsolete class of pedals imo now that you can get studio quality stuff like the Neunaber Audio reverbs for not much more.

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Is John Petrucci a good goal?

>>71570129
those pedals are like double the price, and honestly not as versatile. do you have a specific model in mind?

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>mfw he doesnt have an Evertune™ and need to retune his G string more than once every 3 months

>>71570180
don't listen to him. Take an hall of fame.
When you get tired of it the resale value will be much nicer than the other because its just that famous.

>>71570180
The Neunaber Immerse is $225, totally worth the extra bit of cash and it's just as versatile.

>>71570115
having this problem as well wish I could help

>>71570241
[citation needed]

also, that's triple the price

>>71570237
i can't tell if you're being sarcastic

>>71570221
>Keeping strings for over three months
anon

>>71570221
>not replacing them every two weeks because of how much you play
Casual spotted

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>sonic duo

Does playing guitar and singing at the same time come naturally?

Cause I can't do it.

>>71570485
i'm not sure. i never really sing but i can still do it. how long have you been playing? i find that it comes with very ingrained muscle memory.

there are some weird rhythms i find hard to sing and play at the same time. as cliche as it is, come as you are is one probably. i can get it if i practice for a bit but it's not as natural as strumming

>>71570524
Long enough that I should be able to do it. Doesn't matter what it is. Could be a simple E/A/G/D/C etc. chord and my non fretting hand will still try to sync with the vocal rhythm.

I think there's a lapse in my brain or something

>>71570334
A hall of Fame is $150 new, how is it triple the price? I would say it's even more versatile since every setting on the immerse is top quality and usable while the reverbs on the hall of fame are just OK, opinion of course, but come on now dude...The difference in quality is huge.

It's like comparing your Strymon pedal to the TC electronics equivalent. Totally different league.

Did I tab this correctly?

http://pastebin.com/cGDJxjyh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9Y5Dhzciyc

>>71570552
idk i think that's natural. i would just practice really slow until it clicks, i'm sure it will at some point

>>71570559
>$150 new
idk i was going by the used price

>even more versatile
dude the sounds on that pedal are pretty specific to certain genres like ambient and shit. doesn't seem too versatile to me but that might just be my opinion. but yeah it's obviously higher quality, i just don't know if the difference is as great as you're making it out to be. what genres do you normally play?

>>71570115
>"the Who haven't got a proper bass player." - Entwistle

Treat your bass like you would a guitar or piano when writing, melody is what makes music interesting. You can worry about restructuring whatever you come up with to strong beats and root notes later.

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>>71570440
>not refretting your neck everyday because you played so much theres big cuts in them Xtra Jumbo

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poor guy

>>71570337
>Having less than 5 guitars
How do you even live ?

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What's the best finish?

inb4 vomit

>>71570627
>the sounds on that pedal are pretty specific to certain genres like ambient and shit.

Nah, that's just what everyone that reviews one seems to play. Check out the Spring reverb, hall and plate settings on it, definitely not just an ambient pedal. I don't own one (I have a Strymon Bigsky) but I can recognize a quality pedal. If you're happy with your HOF that's all that matters though...

I play everything, from jazz to dark ambient.

>>71570717
sunburst>white>blue>>>>>>>>>>>>>>red

>>71570717
white > sunburst > red > seafoam green

>>71569617
is that Rob Chapman?

>>71570742
i don't have a reverb pedal at all, i just use the spring reverb on my amp. looking into one though

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>>71570717
2-color sunburst

>>71570717
the blue but with a gold hardware swap

>>71570791
this

>>71570717
white>>>blue>>>sunburst>red

>>71570742
>I don't own that gear and never played it but i'm pretty sure my perfect hear and the compressed shit tier audio quality of youtube are enough for me to tell people what $300 pedal they should buy.

Shimmer reverb is the grossest tackiest shit I've ever heard. It already sounds dated as fuck.

>>71569764
good bass board there buddy
not the biggest fan of the tech 21 but regardless of my opinions of the sounds, it's a great di pedal
all those way huge pedal sound amazing on da bass

>>71570870
I've played the pedal you dingus, I just don't own it.

How do I tell my melodies aren't shit? Should I get second opinions?

>>71570717
my brother saw my new blue duo-sonic and his reaction was "were they all out of normal ones"

>>71570697
I have 4. Somehow I get by

>>71570936
record and listen

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>>71570888
Definitely digging the tech 21, really versatile. And the pickle is almost too powerful, I usually keep both top knobs barely past the lowest settings. Might switch him out for an OD in the future, but mindless stoner rock jamming is a blast sometimes.

>>71570882
It can sound good if you mess with the intervals and a 100 wet signal. The typical octave up U2 kind of setting sounds like shit though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSQHSIhgw58

>>71570784
>>71570791
>>71570818
>>71570822
>>71570835
>>71570940
I was leaning towards the two color burst one because I think a maple neck is more indicative of a Tele than rosewood, and I like the 2 color burst more than the white.

I still kind of like the red and blue ones though (the red a little more).

>>71570717
>3 pickups on a tele

sacrilege and disgusting

>>71571037
Natural ash with maple neck and black pickguard is the purest and best Tele.

Serious question

Why would anyone want to start playing bass?

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>>71571112
I don't want my tele to be pure, I want it to be a dirty whore

>>71571278
Because you can't have a band without bass

>>71571303
Eh...

>>71571303
Lmao

First off:

1. That's not true
2. That still doesn't answer the question as to why anyone would aspire to be a fucking bass player.

>>71571278
I tried it and it was fun. Same reason I play ukulele pretty much. Anyways, the actual writing behind bass parts is pretty far from guitar parts, whatever style of bass you're playing.

>>71571303
bolzer does okay for themselves despite no bass

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXkP4WS8Y_Y

>>71571300
if a skanky aids ridden heroin addict truck stop prostitute transformed into a guitar it would look like that

>>71571313
Theres a couple of sweet bass lines out there. Primus makes good use of a bass. The seinfeld bass (still prumus guy but good bass)

>>71571278
>friend hands me his bass
>hey wanna start a band it'll be sick
>sure

>>71571362
>friend hands me his bass
>i do him a favor and put it in the dumpster for him

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>>71571300
that ground wire tho

building a bare-bones home studio and I have everything except a daw, should I use pro-tools or ableton? what are the pros and cons of each

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>>71571379
>friend hands me his bass
>....
>wait a minute
>i dont have any friends

>>71571389
>>>/prod/ will put you straight

>>71571407
>friend hands me his bass
>start playing it
>something stinks
>wait a minute
>it's actually a turd
>my hands are covered in shit
>the camera starts to pan out and "Only Shallow" starts to play

>>71571412
ok, i was hoping to get some answers from people who play and record the guitar , because I would imagine the people in /prod/ would not be as knowledgeable on mic'd instruments

Looking to buy a Boss DS-1 just for the fuck of it. Is there any benefit to buying an older one from the 80s or 90s? Is there any year/era models I should avoid?

Also, has anyone tried the DS-1X?

>>71571447
>producers not knowing how to mic instruments

then again /prod/ is full of synth babbys

>>71571460

I have a keeley modded one and an original one, the keeley is much better

>any benefit to buying an older one

probably just a reverb meme

>>71571460
I've heard that the 80s ones are superior. But who fucking knows. Guitarists from back then were all retards and if one dude who could shred started a rumor like that within 2 weeks every guitarist in the world would be repeating it.

>>71571447
That's probably not going to change which daw is best. Pretty much the daw won't affect recording much, only editing. Anyways, I'd help but I produce in debian cuz my laptop is too slow with windoze to record hi-fi audio.

Anybody know any pick materials that are especially resistant to wear, but still have an attack that's not as hard as metal? Best I know of is ultex, but even those wear down a little quicker than I would like.

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Can someone give me the quick rundown on BOSS' Waza-Craft pedals?

>>71571447
Use Pro Tools

I practice three hours a week and I'm still shit

This fucking sucks

>>71571303
Damn, someone tell Jack White and his sisterwife to give back those millions of dollars

>>71571313
option 1
>play bass and be part of a band because the other 2 guitarist are just better than you
option 2
>live in mom basement and ask on anonymous chilean image board why someone would ever want to play bass.

It's basically the easiest job in the band and you get the same cut at any gig.

>>71571633
Try 3 hours a day and reevaluate in 3 months.

>>71571313
Why would anyone aspire to be a drummer? Or a rhythm guitarist? Because people have different tastes than (You). And I for one love the fact that I can go on Craigslist at literally any time and be bombarded with "seeking bassist" ads.

>>71571648
>99.9% of the bands have a bass player.
>but THAT specific "literraly who" does not haha checkmate bass player 11!1
I guess you dont even need arms to shred, some amputee shredder use their feets.

>>71571713
>the white stripes
>literally who

>>71571723
Are you arguing that the white stripes that are literraly only known for a bass line do not need a bass player ?

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>>71571313
peter hook and les claypool are few of the many bass players that inspire people to master the bass. hating on bass is literally falling for a reddit HAHA DAE BASS IS POINTLESS meme

>>71571743
i slappa de bass

>>71571313
>why anyone would aspire to be a fucking bass player.

bass has its own skillset and nuances just like any instrument. asking this question just shows your total lack of musicianship.

>>71571303
>Lightning bolt
>Om
>Death From Above 1979
>Royal Blood

Considering buying a cheap sitar. How hard are they to learn?

>>71571627
Why?

>>71571753
bro.. he just bought a used squier and a roland cube.
He is obviously above all bass players

>>71571736
Kek I don't actually give a shit either way but seven nation army doesn't have a bass in it. If you want me to tell you that you're important too, I will, pal.

>>71571763
You're a fucking idiot

>>71571771
>cheap sitar

Enjoy not being able to tune it.

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>>71571792
Be careful who you talk shit about.

>>71571763
do you want me to list the other 80k band that used bass players instead of "literraly who"s ?
Dont tell me you actually use your arms to play ?? https://youtu.be/lGm96vFvmxk

>>71571753
this desu. the most talented musician i knew in high school was a bass player, and he was damn good at it. like rhythm guitar, bass is as interesting as you make it. also see victor wooten or squarepusher, he absolutely fuckin shreds

>>71571799
Why wouldn't I be able to tune it?

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I just bought a 50's special edition rangoon red stratocaster, I've never heard anything about 50's strats but I've seen demos on youtube and they seem pretty good. I got it for 200 bucks off for 600 on the musiciansfriend deal of the day a few days ago. My amp is a voxac10

>>71571827
Shit muting technique. Bends and vibrato are atrocious.

>>71571771
I'm not gonna lie and say I know what I'm talking about but I've heard they take a lot of discipline. There's also inconveniences if you're a seasoned guitar player like you have to tune a sitar differently just to play in a different key if I remember correctly.

>>71571704

>craiglist
>three guys need a fourth this weekend
>$$$ guranteed
>needs to be able to play FAST and HARD
>yet refined enough to sit back while others do their thing
>experience is preferred but not required

>>71571858
Because the tuning pegs slip easily on really cheap sitars. I had one and sold it for that reason. I assume you're talking the ones on Ebay and sites like that for under $300, I bet you would have to spend around $600+ to get something decent.

They're definitely something you should play in person to make sure it's stable.

>>71569617
Seriously, who is this? I remember seeing a link to a documentary someone had made about him on Youtube on here a few months ago.

>>71571960
Gothic King Cobra

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvhchxHUCA0

>>71571626
They added true bypass, the custom switch is mods that have been done to these pedals for years at cheaper prices. The DM2 is probably the only one worth getting if you can find the waza version used.

>>71571626
BD-2 has less bass which is actually nice

>>71571936
I was planning on spending 500-600 on one

I thought that was cheap for them, considering some of them are 2,000+

>>71570717
white > blue > sunburst >>>> absolute dogshit >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> sunburst

>>71572117
>using the BD-2 for anything other then added bass where the super overdrive cuts out

>>71572143
try again anon

>>71572117
>>71572147

Yeah, I like how the Blues Driver thickens up the tone

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>>71572026
thanks anon

>>71572147
>using a distortion pedal to EQ

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>tfw want to play like Johnny Marr
>but can't stand to listen to The Smiths because of Morrisey

fug

>>71572143
>if you pause here you can see the exact moment anon decided to make a dogshit joke

>>71572173
>being too poor to have a real tube amp

>>71572173
>Blues Driver
>Distortion

>>71572147
BD is for the bell-like highs

Thoughts on my precision fender bass? I want to get a new one maybe a bass Gibson sg

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Redpill me on mustangs, meme or real deal?

>>71572228
meme

get a jag instead.

>>71572206
>bell-like highs
>not dimeing the mids on every amp and pedal

>>71572186
>willingly contributing to the confusion created by the meaningless distinction between overdrive and distortion pedals

>>71572228
If it fits your style and you can afford it go for it typically your pickups,amps, and pedals are what you have to worry about when it comes to your sound besides being able to play. They're cool looking guitars would definitely get one if they came around. If you do a humbucker in the bridge would be siqqq.

>>71572228
leave your house, try one at a shop, try a jag, a jazzmaster and a duo sonic while your there, then sit there in indecision for a few weeks

>>71572228
the pillows

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What kind of guitars do Alt-Righters play?

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>>71569724
Really brassy sounding

>>71572310
Flamenco

>>71572186
>https://www.boss.info/us/products/bd-2/
>The BD-2 Blues Driver delivers the creamy, yet crunchy sound associated with great blues guitar. This popular pedal provides instant access to the kind of warm overdrive and emotive distortion usually reserved for 30-year-old tube amps.

>>71572310
Whatever the most expensive guitar they can afford at guitar center is

>>71572174
damn that's an unfortunate situation, I didn't know it was possible to dislike morrissey n-no homo

>>71572310
Gretsch and Duesenberg, in memory of their motherland

>>71572310
Banjo

>>71572174
He still plays Smiths songs himself, though it kinda sucks that he has a backing guitarist.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3anv9GQBBC0

>>71571771
Why the fuck would you want a shittar? Get a lute.

>>71572335
even with personal politics aside, his voice is just way too whiny and nasally and it annoys the ever loving shit out of me

Better thru the jungle

>>71572408
Rob Scallon told him to

>>71572417
don't know his politics and hope to never learn them but damn to each his own i suppose. I think modern "surf rock" sounds similar to johnny marr.

>>71572405
>that picking at 1:00

people say he's more creative than technical but fucking hell that's godly

>>71572296
>mustang
>jaguar
>jazzmaster
>duo sonic
>implying that these aren't all the same guitar

MEMES

>>71572405
Taylor Swift can really play the shit out of his sig Jag
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGDkg3QiJmk

Johnny Marr really is amazing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLSLx5wt9Fg

>>71572296
>sit there in indecision for a few weeks
why the fuck didnt you bring any money if you're going to do shit like this? Take a fucking chance

>>71572518
Never really liked his stuff post-Smiths though. Like him or not Morrissey gave his music much more context.

>>71572488
If by "play the shit out of" you mean lightly strum to a shit tune then sure.

>>71572559
Wildest Dreams is good and pure. Whens the last time you've writen, played, and sung a multi-million dollar song?

>>71572488
Why is she so perfect bros?

>>71572559
irony anon

especially since versatility is the whole focus of marr's signature jag

>>71572583
>Wildest Dreams is good and pure.
Good at pandering. Pure shit. Boring mindless Pop.

>Whens the last time you've writen, played, and sung a multi-million dollar song?
I don't have to be a famous musician to criticize shit music you mong.

>>71572488
You made me watch that you son of a bitch and all she ever does is strum some open chords.

>>71572600
Shove the oblong headstock of your 8 string piece of shit up your ass.
>>71572601
your welcome

>>71572618
>I don't like Taylor Swift
>I must play an 8 string

You're not even trying

>>71572618
>your

When you're grammar is this bad your excused for thinking Taylor Swifts shit lyrics are well written.

>>71571389
Pro Tools. Ableton and some other DAWs are more aimed at midi, synth, and virtual instrument stuff and the layout and workflow reflect that. Pro Tools is much better for editing waveforms, which is a huge part of recording real instruments. Of course you can do good work in either DAW, but people who track instruments tend to prefer the feel of Pro Tools

>>71572630
I dont have to try with a roman light like you
>>71572642
You must know memes, welcome new friend

Where my pot headz at?

https://clyp.it/i5ettgjp

>>71572654
>I don't like Taylor Swift
>I must be a troll

Don't post a shit guitarist in a guitar thread and expect a good reaction.

>>71572488
wtf I love Taylor Swift now

>>71572583
I don't need to be an award winning engineer to know that kia and saturn make shit cars, and I don't need to be Ludig von Amadeus Bach to be able to critique or know when a song is shit or not. Your argument is invalid, your post is bad and you should feel bad.

>>71570973
yeah I agree the Tech 21 is versatile in its sound and is an excellent di but I like the Darkglass Electronics Microbes B7K just a little bit more because you can get a tube sound from them and they have a good od pedal too, the Darkglass Electronics Microtubes Bass Overdrive. Not shilling Darkglass cause the Fulltone OCD is another good option. I just hate that their pricey.

Stuff like Tech 21 bass driver and MXR M80 Bass di are legit one pedal does it all on a budget type buy.

can Tech 21 character series do what their bass driver does? yeah the SVT is good but both the Leeds and Oxford sound dope on bass.

>>71569617

I love that he stays strictly in the chromatic scale during his sweeps.

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Can you get kvlt tones with this?

>>71573101
>line 6 pod

avoid like the fucking plague

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCC2-DbKLIM

>>71573145
That is not the pedal I posted

>>71573101
You can get kvlt tones with anything. Cheap distortion pedals from the 80s and early 90s would be better though. DOD grunge shit like that

>>71573145
I hate this guy. Didn't he talk shit about a directional microphone while using it at a right angle to the proper direction?

What would you suggest between a Marshall DSL100h and a Mesa Boogie Single Rectifier? Local guitar shop has both used for a pretty good price.

>>71573145

To me it's always surprising how metal is over represented in gear demos on Youtube (for some reason, especially with mic shootouts). It's always either metal or dadblooz.

>>71569617
what's a good website for learning piano?

>>71569724

Only one? Hmm that's tough, I guess Death by Audio Fuzz War.

I'm selling my Big Sky to get an Industrialelectric RM-1N

I've figured my tone out a little more and I prize sounds breaking up in clean amps, like my Deluxe Reberb, and the Strymon is too much clean. the RM-1N has two post and pre gain knobs and gets real weird which I like.

anyone have an RM-1N that can weigh in? the youtube videos by and large blow but it was pitched to me like a DBA Reverberation Machine/ Caroline Meteore on 11 which I like a lot.

>>71569887

compressors
boosts
overdrives
distortions
fuzzes
wah/envelope filters
volume pedals
reverbs
delays
various modulation (e.g. phaser, flanger, chorus, etc)
loopers
pitch shifters
noise gates
a lot of sui generis pedals (e.g. Boss Slow Gear, Hologram Dream Sequence, 60 hz hum suppressors, etc)
probably a lot more I'm forgetting

>>71573529
>lists 4 different types of distortion effects
>lumps phasers, flangers and choruses together
Fuck you mate.

>>71573516
Haven't tried this pedal yet, from the demos it sounds like a pretty dirty reverb though. Have you tried putting a light overdrive after your reverb, seems like you could get some similar sounds.

>>71569617
test

>>71573199
Not a right angle, he had it completely backwards. He's made a few ridiculous fuckups like that, and he always tries to play it off like he's still superior since he owns up to his mistakes right away and corrects them. Which I guess is something.

>>71573585
I haven't yet, which now that you mention it would be a good call to try before I commit on a sale. It's either hawk the Big Sky for the RM-1N and a looper or ditch my Analogman Bi-chorus for the RM-1N. I picked up a Chase Bliss Warped Vinyl Mk2 a couple days back and haven't decided if that fully replaces the Bi-chorus quite.

I got a Timeline for weird ambient stuff so in my mind I'd be losing the swell/shimmer settings but everything else I got covered in one shape or another. I would certainly pick up another clean reverb down the line, maybe an EQD piece, but we'll see.

I'm at this immensely dangerous point in my gear-career in that I've finally enough equipment that any odd pedal that strikes my fancy I can afford by selling a similar one on my board, losing out maybe $30-50 per trade. Awful power, that.

>>71569617
>Gothic King Cobra Edition
I wonder how is life is at the moment. Is he still in that same shitty town?

>>71572174
Oooft, you may like some jangle pop bands like Close Lobsters. Twee would also be a suggestion but the singing would probably be offputting

>>71573442
The boogie will be built like a brick shithouse, personally I'd go for the DSL as I really like the tones it produces

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>>71573746
Yup, he has a child sized sex doll now. Shit got pretty crazy in the last year.

>>71573145
What a punchable moron. I stopped playing this vid at 3 secs.
Why most guitar reviewers are fucking asshats?

>>71574505
found the line 6 shill

>>71574511
nah mate I don't play guitar
sometimes I have an urge yo buy one but then after visiting gg I decide not to.

>>71574526
>taking a shitposting forum seriously

>>71574531
these big guitar forums are all the same

is it worth selling my sdgr 5 string for a mexican jazz bass?

>>71573553
>>lumps phasers, flangers and choruses together
because they're fucking gay

>>71574526
>on /gg/
>don't play guitar
why are you even here?

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What bass strings do you use?

Possibly the best sounding roundwounds on the market.

>>71574586
sometimes I have an urge to buy one

>>71574677
D'Addario NYXL because they're what my local shop carries

>>71574677
>best sounding
>strings
yeah, they also match best tonewoods like baked birdseye maple and Antarctic oak

>>71574711
I bet your strings are pure black and they sound like stretched shoelaces

>>71573101
you can get kvlt tones even with a table
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiAPf5C6A_I

to get the trve cvlt sound you guys gotta record in a dungy basement on a torn up amp from the 50s

>>71574752
Or just a norwegian kid recording without a sound engineer

>>71574744
Varg makes better riffs than Steve Vai

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>>71574752
that's what they want you to believe

>>71574711
>strings don't affect tone

negro please

>>71574699
I dunno, tried D'Addario couple times and there is something about the feel that I absolutely hate.

>>71574837
the only thing which can affect an electric guitar's tone is its magnetic pickups.

>>71574874
this guy right here is on Mt. Stupid

>>71574856
Too bright maybe ? Prosteels are extremely bright for a week or two once they're out of the package, which I love.

>>71574874
>flatwound and roundwound sound the same

Would you hire this guy for guitarist role in your band https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rT5Qagf2D4

Thoughts on this solo @2:40 https://clyp.it/312f140m

Hey Samuel,

Can you start using a name or a trip so I can filter you?

Thanks,
Anon

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has anyone tried the keeley loomer? how is it

>>71569764
I just use an old Zoom G1X for effects but looking for a newer G3 for tempo-tapping tremolo and stuff, more realistic distortion for recordings, and whammy effect

>>71574974
no you ain't gonna filter me

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A friend of mine is selling this melody maker for 300€
Should I pull the trigger?
First electric for me

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What's the best reverb

>>71574997
best reverb for what?

>>71574994

Sure, sounds like a good deal.

>>71574997
Vallhala Vintage & Plate
I'm yet to find the best spring reverb for guitar amp for Surf purposes

Whats the best cheap Les Paul with small string spacing?
Vintage V100 Tobacco is all i ever wanted but its spacing is too large, it would be hard on my manlet hands, my current LP copy has a smaller spacing and i love it

>>71573461
Most guitarists are playing dadblooz and metal.

>>71572405
man, his voice is so weak

I just want to see him play this song with Morrissey again ;_;

>>71575037
I thought that about John Squire and Ian Brown until it actually happened.

Some dreams are better kept as dreams Anon

>>71575064
I listened to like two singles they've put out recently and I liked them, classic Stone Roses I'd say. Never seen a live performance, though. Although I imagine Squire is still stellar as ever.

How to stop Amplitube from sounding bassy and muddy
I always have to end up boosting the high mids and highs and it end up sounding like a battery radio

>>71575134
turn down the bass knob on your guitar

I love this dadblooz album https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKzNQbj7y_Q&list=PLprfpWiHXeWI-_Hs4CZzgW9IOVCCKZugJ

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oi /mu/

I'm really thinking to get the Revstar RS720, do you have any opinions about it? worth buy? maybe I should go for anything else considering the price?

sorry for bad english

>>71575146
Kek

>>71575169
played one of the other revstar models so I can only comment on that one but it was a really good guitar, fair play to yamaha

>>71575079
Yeah Squire is incredible, the word underrated gets thrown around a lot but he really is.

Seeing a 50 year old Ian Brown swagger around singing their madchester classics from the 80s just feels wrong though.

>>71575169
Played a couple of Revstars and they felt really good

>tfw learning crossroads
If I can play this does that mean I made it

>>71576526
Not until you make the only deal that matters

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I can copy songs I hear onto sheet fairly well due to my interval training, but I notice I'm not really writing it in any key

Is this how it's supposed to be? How would I find the key in songs I'm writing down?

>>71577159
count the sharps you dumb nigger.

I am stuck in the dadblooz pit

please help

>>71571278
listen to some post punk u pleb

>>71571763
fucking cringe, literally what are you thinking

>>71577198
Sorry, my theory is pretty shit atm

So the main use of key signatures are for writing and improvising then?

>>71572310
a cheap ltd from 2011 with bullet hole decals

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would you a rabbit?

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>pentatonic

>>71577430

Jesus Christ. Punk is not the same thing as post punk. It's like saying Sid Vicious and Jah Wobble sound the same.

reminder avatarfagging is against the rules

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>>71569764
wew
gonna get a compressor soon though

>>71578008

Are you stupid or something?

>>71578116
So you're like, mega-stupid?

>>71578122
stop responding to roman
he dropped out of highschool
he's that stupid

>>71571278
Fun to play, I like the sound, I like the different approach, locking with a drummer feels good.

I only play EEEEEE

that's better

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>>71574677
I use these, they're a bit pricy but they feel really nice, sound great and last longer than any other brand I tried.

What is a good tremelo bridge to put on my LP style guitar? Bigsby? Floyd rose?

>>71578356
Bigsby style is fine, you don't want to get into how difficult it would be to put in a Floyd. Just don't expect to divebomb with a bigsby.

>>71570717
vomit>vomit>>>powergap>>>vomit

which company makes the best strat?

>>71579002
How long is a rope?

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>>71579002
DUH

>>71579122
>rosewood
dropped. if it was maple i'd ask w2c

>>71579002
In terms of tone, build quality, prestige, playability, customization, etc... Fender Masterbuilt Strats

In terms of bang for your buck... a Squier 2bh

>>71579255
what about other brands?

>>71573553

Wow you get pretty emotional over lists of pedals.. What's bothering you?

>>71579143
I bet you can't even describe why you hate rosewood

>>71579002

Suhr is considered by many to have the best bang to buck ratio of the boutique Fender imitators.

>>71579306
It looks like poop

>>71572405
>TFW love morrissey but hate Jonny's obnoxious ear rape trebley playing.

Thank god morrissey went solo

>>71574994
Yeah, great deal. Good enough guitar to play forever or perhaps until you are an advanced player.

>>71579471
it smells great tho

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>>71579331
Suhr sucks my big fat tonewood

>>71579642
>tonewood
oh man i love this meme

how do I get better at guitar /gg/?

i'm tired of just doodling around and not being able to solo well

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Took a pickup from an old mini strat, gonna wire it to an output jack and mount it in my acoustic.

>>71573145
>a fat 50 year old ugly faggot with faggot hair talking shit and screaming at a camera in his basement.
>tests it with chugging riff shit

Spider amps are shit though I hate mine. I havn't played the new IV and V though.

However, Neal Morse used POD exclusively for recording with a strat and it sounds great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vc4JxEnrQUk&list=PL9926034F0A46F0DB&index=3

>>71579668
If it's "just a meme" surely there's guitar manufacturers out there that make quality inexpensive guitars from inexpensive wood

Is Fender coming out with a new American special and standard range?

Stores are running out of them and it doesn't look like Fender plan on replacing them.

I'm not sure if I should buy one now or wait for the new range.

>>71579817
They do. They're called [spoiler]Fender[/spoiler]

>>71579941
Their American-made guitars are still overpriced

G&L beats them at every price point

>>71579965
You mentioned "inexpensive" and I thought the Mexican series. All they need is a pup change- and that's only if you care to do it. They're still legit strats and teles.

>>71579751
>a fat 50 year old ugly faggot with faggot hair talking shit and screaming at a camera in his basement.

More like a semi-pro audio and recording engineer in his studio with the experience of recording multiple mid-tier metal bands,

I guess you like to leave out that fact so you can mask your massive ass pain

>>71579727
Might want to add a volume control in there unless you are deeply in love with howling feedback

Just sold a tube amp on Reverb but I've never shipped one before.

Do I really need to remove the tubes before shipment?

It actually seems MORE unsafe for them to not be in place. Every tube amp I've ever had shipped to me had their tubes still in the sockets.

Since tonewood is just a meme wouldn't it be more profitable in the long run to manufacture guitars with inexpensive wood (but with quality everything else) and charge much lower prices for them since people are more likely to purchase cheaper products?

>>71580084
literally a dime a dozen. about 5% of my high school class graduated from college with a degree in recording engineering

>>71580146
Cheap wood looks like shit though. If you see a particle board cardboard guitar glued together with used toothpaste sitting next to a Solid swamp ash with a flamed maple top for 300 bucks more I guarantee people pick the latter 9/10 times

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>>71580146
>*knock knock knock*
>*echo echo echo*
>WEW anon listen to that , its practically an instrument already

>>71580146
People like pretty wood. Pretty wood looks high quality even if the instrument isn't. It sells fine as is.

>>71579994
Mexicans are about 80% of the way there. They need some work under the hood but I doubt most players will even notice whats wrong with it because most hobbyists lose interest after high school.

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Sup fa/gg/ots

Lets do a shootout on Slate Digital's plugins Virtual Mix Rack and Virtual Tape Machines.

2 clyps for comparision: the recording straight from the mic, no processing. And processed with the Slate plugins.
Plugin settings used are in Pic Related.

No processing
https://clyp.it/actq5gvi

With Slate VMR + VTM
https://clyp.it/gfs3mk23

Whats your thoughts? Too heavy? Doesnt change at all?

>>71580209
>most hobbyists lose interest after high school.
I did lose but it was on the same amount i lost interest on everything on life except traps so i dont think it counts as losing interest in the guitar.

Thoughts on this picking technique?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rT5Qagf2D4

>>71580146
No, because people believe in tonewood. So you get to charge crazy prices. But yeah, I buy cheap wood good quality guitars.

>>71580146
As long as the finish looks good no one will give a fuck

>>71580305
Picking technique seems solid, dunno about the timing though, but I'm not familiar with the song.

What is next for guitar playing?

If you go on insta there's literally tens of thousands of 12 year old kids who can play guitar like Hendrix and John Mayer. It seems like the only way to move forward with guitar is to embrace electronic music and minimalism, shredding, licks, insane solos etc are out. When I see someone doing a guitar solo in 2017 I roll my eyes, even the guitar solo in this video is more interesting than 99% of instagram guitarists

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q56EnTSuqOU

>>71580647
>implying every 12 year old fuc boi on insta can play anything worth listening too
>implying metal will ever die

k

>>71580647
Guitar pyrotechnics are worn out and people are flocking to EDM because of its accessible nature. Guitarists might actually have to embrace songwriting instead of vomiting out notes.

>>71580674
>>71580668
I didn't imply metal was dead but a lot of you guys worry so much about techniques and theory etc when all you really need to do is focus on making simple songs, not worrying so much about standing out as a guitarist.

Like look at Earth...the guitar playing is so simple, there is no shredding involved. It's just got something about it that makes it interesting. Anybody can play like Carlson, it just seems like he was able to find something that really worked for him and focused in on it.

Fantastic song btw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HotqwCorVA

>>71580257
Heres another reference

Unprocessed
http://55chan.org/b/src/1489522317192-0.ogg

Processed
http://55chan.org/b/src/1489522317193-1.ogg

>>71580576
Timing is a bit off actually
Heres song https://youtu.be/EnL_OBkXfGk
That video starts around 1:30 of the song

>>71580718
but people love crazy technique and theory in metal. Without it it's just noise rock with the gain on 10. Look at bands like Kalmah, Vektor, and Deathspell Omega, they all use insane technique to make interesting sounds and atmospheres and they sell tons of records because of it.

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Is there any humbucker that sounds better than a dream 180?

>>71580881
Yeah, my Nazgul 7 sounds pretty rad

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>>71580647
>If you go on insta there's literally tens of thousands of 12 year old kids who can play guitar like Hendrix and John Mayer.

>>71580881
Yeah a honky Super Distortion
This is how it sounds through a 10w Alien Mars:
http://55chan.org/b/src/1489522317193-1.ogg

>>71570485
rhythm + vocals, yes, just as long as you're comfortable with both sections individually. for the most part, all your attention should be focused on the vocal melody/lyrics, while the strumming pattern is carried out automatically via muscle memory. if it's a new song, you'll need to periodically switch your attention to your guitar for a few milliseconds whenever there's a chord change; thankfully, most chord changes correspond with a minor pause in the vocal melody, giving you the space to make this change.

lead + vocals, no. the brain is unable to split itself in this way. musicians who fulfil both functions in a band tend to alternate between the two, using a simple or no lead line whenever the vocal line is complex and vice versa.

>>71580647
this is satire right?

>>71580954
Ace Frehley can do simple leads and keep singing actually
And stop singin in the middle of a word to play a chord
He can go to both extremes

new
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>>71581056
>>71581056

>>71579002
Ibanez

>>71580174
>5%
>a dime a dozen

>>71580129
Probably going to at some point, but right now I just want to get it working. Gonna start drilling the holes for the pickup right now.