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nitsuga posted:A picture would help me understand how you’re holding the pick, but I don’t think I’d worry too much as long as it’s comfortable. I see now you said you’d post some later though. My main guitar stays in D standard. This guitar will come setup in E obviously, so I'll likely just leave it there for a while and use it for the theory stuff. Also I tried holding the pick somewhat like how Justin Guitar shows, with the pointer finger pointing down toward the pick point, against the side of your pointer finger, and I think I can deal with that. If anything it sort of felt easier to do my pinches that way, so I'll work on that a while and see how it goes. I just can't hold the pick with a curled in pointer finger like a lot of people do, it's not comfortable for my hands. This weekend when I'm off I'll see if I can do a video of my progress so far with Spirit Crusher and take some photos to of what I'm talking about. Also quick question, when people make videos of guitar covers/their progress to playing along with a song/etc, and everything sounds like it has reasonable sound quality, how are they doing that? Do they just buy a decent mic and stick it there close to their amp and speakers playing backing tracks/whatever song, or do they just arm a track in a DAW and just overlay it on a normal video? Just recording with my phone sounds so bad it's probably impossible to even tell how good my playing is or not.
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mango sentinel posted:Got my last guitar related purchase for A Minute. You might want to check that bridge, I'm not sure the strings are supposed to go that way. (very nice!)
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That color and that torte pickguard are impossible to beat
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Carth Dookie posted:edit: Also hershey is loving garbage and I pity you americans who don't get proper chocolate.
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mango sentinel posted:Got my last guitar related purchase for A Minute. Same guitar, same color here. The CV guitars really do it for me in general, but yeah, I love me a Jazzmaster something fierce. Drunk Driver Dad posted:My main guitar stays in D standard. This guitar will come setup in E obviously, so I'll likely just leave it there for a while and use it for the theory stuff. Also I tried holding the pick somewhat like how Justin Guitar shows, with the pointer finger pointing down toward the pick point, against the side of your pointer finger, and I think I can deal with that. If anything it sort of felt easier to do my pinches that way, so I'll work on that a while and see how it goes. I just can't hold the pick with a curled in pointer finger like a lot of people do, it's not comfortable for my hands. This weekend when I'm off I'll see if I can do a video of my progress so far with Spirit Crusher and take some photos to of what I'm talking about. I’ll bet there’s a mix of approaches, but I think I’d record into a DAW somehow or another. There are a lot of options for recording guitar. Generally, you can: - Use a USB interface and your DAW’s amp modeling - Use your amp’s USB output - Use a mic or a line out and a USB interface It depends on what you have already, but the first two are definitely easier to get set up. But I think with some level checks you can get something workable with your phone too. Especially if it’s just guitar you’ll be recording with the phone’s mic.
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Mar 23, 2021 01:29
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Dr. Faustus posted:MODS!!!? They aren't wrong.
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Carth Dookie posted:edit: Also hershey is loving garbage and I pity you americans who don't get proper chocolate. How are you posting from the 1970s, where all kinds of good and local chocolate isn’t widely available in the US?
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a foolish pianist posted:How are you posting from the 1970s, where all kinds of good and local chocolate isn’t widely available in the US? Hey I thought you guys did as well, but Dr. Faustus posted:MODS!!!? That kind of posting suggests that either you aren't getting the good stuff, which is bad, or that you are getting the good stuff, but choosing the barf-bars anyway, which is even worse.
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Spoiled milk chocolate is good idc.  Butyric acid is yumballs.
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a foolish pianist posted:How are you posting from the 1970s, where all kinds of good and local chocolate isn’t widely available in the US? It’s like how Europeans still love to mock American beer like it’s all Coors Lite. Meanwhile lots of gas stations have rooms full of microbrews
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I'll admit I was a bit late to the jaguar and jazzmaster liking. Growing up in the late 90s and early 00s, it felt like the trends were leaning towards schecter, ibanez, and the nu-metal scene. Strats, teles and everything else felt like old guy guitars. I was mostly gravitating towards les pauls at the time. I think the first time I saw someone playing one in a music video or something (aside from Nirvana and I was never a fan) was the guy in smashmouth. Its funny how kids form this view based on absolutely nothing. Fender offsets are just one of those guitar types that eluded me for so long and for no real reason other than my own ignorance but now I love the looks of them but I don't think I've ever actually played one before so maybe I'll head into a shop to try one out. I just need to stay focused because my next guitar purchase will be a gretsch hollow body but not until after we buy a house. Also Hershey is rear end ... but its bad in the same way taco bell is bad. You know its bad but its okay because its not pretending to be great. Its cheap tasty junk. Even just the difference between a ritter sport or Milka and a hershey bar are night and day. That doesn't mean I won't still inhale a snickers or a reeses peanut butter cup but a ritter sport is divine.
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europeans don't even have barrel aged pastry stouts everywhere smdh
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Chocolate chat Tony's Chocolonely is made using slavery free practices so it's the only one I don't feel bad about buying.
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If I eat hershey's 20 minutes later my innards will feel like I chugged a car battery
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nitsuga posted:Same guitar, same color here. The CV guitars really do it for me in general, but yeah, I love me a Jazzmaster something fierce. Yeah, I have both an amp that can do that, as well as an interface. I was mostly just asking what's an easy way to get reasonable sound quality if I just wanted to record a video playing for critique/impressing people on facebook/whatever reason, but I just found out there are instructional things on youtube for doing exactly that. I tried to record video of myself playing the other day so a friend could hear something and the audio quality was just bad through my phone obviously. Also I think I found out it's possible to build fatigue up in your arm on a day to day basis by playing fast stuff too much. My playing tonight was much slower and shittier than usual, so I think I need a break for a day or two and to obviously go back to practicing slower more.
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I turned on my Vox for the first time in a while and dialed in a better lead tone than before with a muff and memory man delay and ... I like my Katana's tone so much more. I've got it dialed well to my preset tones and I feel like my pedals are overkill for what I do now. The Katana's built-in effects are no joke.
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former glory posted:I turned on my Vox for the first time in a while and dialed in a better lead tone than before with a muff and memory man delay and ... I'm still trying to dial in some sounds I like in my Katana but my cheap expression pedal showed up yesterday and boy all those really fun to play with.
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I feel like I'm doing something wrong because I just move the knobs around on whatever amp I'm using and I'm nearly always fine with the tone I get. My amp is nothing fancy, just a Yamaha THR10X. Sometimes the song I'm working on needs distortion or fuzz or reverb or delay, so I add those. I used to have a cheap Danelectro practice amp, and that was fine, too. I'd love to get a cool-rear end vintage Fender Reverb or something, but I'm sure that's just fine, too. It's all pretty much just fine. Maybe I just don't have the patience but it seems like there's supposed to be this magic moment when you're like AHA THAT'S THE TONE! and I don't even know how I would know that. I don't even think different guitars sound all that different. I owned a tele with P90s for a while, and it sounded fine, too, but not all that much different from my first guitar, which has (splittable) humbuckers. I saw a rig rundown with Tom Morello where he talked about giving up on his search for tone and just drew some lines on his amp, called it good enough, and he's never changed them. I feel like that's more where I am. Get to good enough and then don't worry about it. Or is there something wrong with my ears? Like what are you all searching for when you are trying to find that perfect tone?
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Robot Arms posted:I feel like I'm doing something wrong because I just move the knobs around on whatever amp I'm using and I'm nearly always fine with the tone I get. My amp is nothing fancy, just a Yamaha THR10X. Sometimes the song I'm working on needs distortion or fuzz or reverb or delay, so I add those. I used to have a cheap Danelectro practice amp, and that was fine, too. I'd love to get a cool-rear end vintage Fender Reverb or something, but I'm sure that's just fine, too. It's all pretty much just fine. haha good luck to you sir what you're describing is what actually playing guitar is....
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The new Neural DSP Soldano plugin is friggin awesome. I could make this same post basically any time they release a new plugin honestly, but the Soldano really does kick some major rear end.
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I like clear distortions with a lot of saturation and presence without a lot of resonance. Those last two are referring to the knobs on the amp that govern gain in the high and low freq ranges. Also a moderate amount of high mids but not a lot of low mids. I can very easily describe a lovely tone but it's kinda hard to describe a good tone. I can later post examples of really good tones and really bad ones.
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Robot Arms posted:I feel like I'm doing something wrong because I just move the knobs around on whatever amp I'm using and I'm nearly always fine with the tone I get. My amp is nothing fancy, just a Yamaha THR10X. Sometimes the song I'm working on needs distortion or fuzz or reverb or delay, so I add those. I used to have a cheap Danelectro practice amp, and that was fine, too. I'd love to get a cool-rear end vintage Fender Reverb or something, but I'm sure that's just fine, too. It's all pretty much just fine. I've also got a THR10X, and it stays on the brown 2 setting, 3/4 delay+reverb, and the gain knob at either 1/4 or all the way, pretty much all the time. Being finicky about tone seems like a trap or a way to spend a bunch of time not getting better at actually playing the guitar while still kinda hanging around with the instrument.
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What's the go-to place to browse decent katana presets?
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"Tone is in the fingers" is one of those old TGP chestnuts but also not entirely wrong even if people are coming at it from the wrong direction. You're not going to make a poo poo amp sound like a vintage DR, but eventually you start to get a feel for how to get the best out of a piece of kit to make it work for your playing. For an example see that clip of John Mayer playing Tobin Abasi's eight string headless monster and pretty much sounding like John playing a strat.
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I found the kind of tones I like and then dial it in until pleased and that’s it. The “quest for toanz” helps for pushing yourself and also it’s necessary to look for new stuff if you design circuits but aside from that the emphasis should be on playing.
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One of the Adam Neely videos he says, "tone is in the fingers" and "gear doesn't matter" apply to most players, because most players aren't good enough for it not to be true. It doesn't mean, a real player can make the neck on a LP sound like the bridge on a tele using just their fingers. It means, "stop tone chasing by buying gear when you are just starting out and/or can't half play what you have already." Another Paul Davids video along the same lines he says, "If you are playing SRV on a tele and it's driving you a little nuts, by all means go out and buy a strat. But don't think you NEED a strat to play SRV or that getting a strat will inspire you to play SRV. If you wanted to play SRV, you'd already be doing it on whatever instrument you had access to. Gear can be fuel on a fire that's already burning, but it's never going to be the spark in the first place."
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"Tone is in the fingers" is a reference to the fact a lot of players leave expressiveness on the table because you don't know/haven't practiced the art of getting the most out of the guitar. The reason people sound like themselves is good guitarists develop their own stylistic language that they can "speak" on any guitar. The rest of the adage, that gear doesn't matter, is of course total idiocy. Anyhoozlebee it's a gross oversimplification that mostly misses the point but has some wisdom in it.
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Dang It Bhabhi! posted:"Tone is in the fingers" is a reference to the fact a lot of players leave expressiveness on the table because you don't know/haven't practiced the art of getting the most out of the guitar. The reason people sound like themselves is good guitarists develop their own stylistic language that they can "speak" on any guitar. The rest of the adage, that gear doesn't matter, is of course total idiocy.  It’s entirely true and probably the best sign of a genuinely talented expressive guitarist but in text it can be meaningless if not examined in the correct context.
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Robot Arms posted:Maybe I just don't have the patience but it seems like there's supposed to be this magic moment when you're like AHA THAT'S THE TONE! and I don't even know how I would know that.
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Dang It Bhabhi! posted:"Tone is in the fingers" is a reference to the fact a lot of players leave expressiveness on the table because you don't know/haven't practiced the art of getting the most out of the guitar. The reason people sound like themselves is good guitarists develop their own stylistic language that they can "speak" on any guitar. The rest of the adage, that gear doesn't matter, is of course total idiocy. I've been practicing this song for years and for the longest time I've been able to play the right notes at the right times and everything, but I still don't consider myself completely there yet due to what you're referring to. All of those little subtle things that can't really be taught and only come after thousands of hours of practice.
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Robot Arms posted:Get to good enough and then don't worry about it. Yep, this is me. Sometimes I need clean, sometimes I need dirty, sometimes I need time effects and modulation, etc. Other than that, I don't really worry about tone, and if you came in and swapped the pickups on my guitar while I was asleep I probably wouldn't notice. I hate shopping for gear, I hate sitting there fiddling with knobs going "does this sound better than this?" for hours and hours. I might start caring more if I had unlimited money or was getting paid to play, but I'm perfectly happy with the little built-in sounds on my THR at the moment.
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Robot Arms posted:I feel like I'm doing something wrong because I just move the knobs around on whatever amp I'm using and I'm nearly always fine with the tone I get. My amp is nothing fancy, just a Yamaha THR10X. I'm not a good player but you are doing yourself a huge favor. That said I keep buying more gear.
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I bought a bunch with stimulus funbux and, while I've still got a pedal wishlist, my gear avarice has sated for now. Last thing I bought was a string height gauge and I think I'm chill for a while.
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for me, tone hunting has always been about inspiration. Can I get the job done with drat near anything? Sure, but a great tone just makes me want to play and never stop. Any new rig or plugin or whatever I'll spend a little time dialing in sounds that speak to me so I can just call them up at a moment's notice and just stop thinking about the gear entirely. I have a bunch of go to sounds for the various styles I like to play, and I just don't mess with them at all until I've recorded something and I need to tweak for mixing purposes. The reason I have always recommended modeling amps to newer players is that it takes the gear hunting completely out of the equation basically. You've got access to a ton of sounds. Find a few sounds you like (3-4 is plenty for most people), and just play the drat thing. When you're ready to upgrade you have a good idea of the tone you like and you can just buy the real versions of what you've been modeling.
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Speaking of modelling, here's some weird rough Ministry sounding thing I just whipped up in 20 mins Puppy eater One of my patients accused me of eating puppies yesterday, so here's a tune about eating dogs to get high. Also feat L'il Jon samples I had for some reason. Used guitar rig 6. Left guitar is a Metalzone into a Marshall cab, right is the Rammfire.
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The Yamaha THR10X is fancy tho.
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My physical head is a Blackstar 100w modelling thing and whilst it's not the best sounding amp ever, the range of stuff I can coax out of it makes up for that. Guitar Rig is easier until I get a bigger interface
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I also think part of it is that my ears are just not that refined. Give me a blindfold test between 5 different OD pedals and 5 "placebos" and I doubt I could even tell you when the pedal changed, much less tell you which one I liked better than another and why.
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Sweaty IT Nerd posted:The Yamaha THR10X is fancy tho. It has little orange LEDs in the cabinet that power up slowly to help you pretend it's a tube amp! fancy and cute
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a foolish pianist posted:It has little orange LEDs in the cabinet that power up slowly to help you pretend it's a tube amp! It's adorable for sure.
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