Guitar Discussion Thread V7 - More strings the better - General

I so far have spent about $400 in just parts for my guitar, hopefully it comes out well. I got my input jack yesterday, hopefully the pre wired pickguard comes today. I'll take a pic when I can.

[QUOTE=kitthehacker;28798249]I have a D10 6 string that I borrowed from someone before I got my own acoustic and have never given back, never really liked it. Right now I'm looking at the Tanglewood TRD 12 CE, heard it's quite good. [B]Edit:[/B] Ok I've narrowed it down basically to either getting the Takamine EG345C: [url]http://www.worldmusicsupply.com/Takamine-EG345C.html[/url] Or the Tanglewood TRD 12 CE: [url]http://www.guitar.com.au/guitars/acoustic/tanglewood/09/products/defaultdf48.html[/url] Or I could wait a while and get an Alvarez, or maybe a Seagull[/QUOTE] Every Alvarez I've tried I've fallen in love with, they'd be a very good choice. However it's a terrible idea for me to talk about them because I've restrained my want for a good acoustic for so long and don't want to bring it back out :v:

[QUOTE=Pepin;28795345]Trust me when I say you're not ever going to be unique with a chord progression.[/QUOTE] This is probably the dumbest, most close-ended statement I've read thus far in this thread. Writing music isn't just "copy and paste here". It takes more than just copying chords and playing lead over them.

drop g is so fun

[QUOTE=Nonikai;28800402]drop g is so fun[/QUOTE] [img]http://i.imgur.com/H2wGb.gif[/img]

[IMG]http://cl.ly/1L3T250w2Z1T3j1C0F3p/P3253563.jpg[/IMG] Sold my line6 fuck yeah

The concert was postponed, and I may be able to get a 150 watt stack in time for the new date, so I'm fine, but If the head still isn't fixed, I've been offered a guitar amp head, is that safe? [editline]25th March 2011[/editline] I'm playing bass if you didn't see my older posts. [editline]25th March 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=Teal Moose;28793297]Guys I need some advice. All I've been doing on guitar lately is trying to come up with some nice sounding improv and pretty chord progressions. I've taken examples from other artists and learned some of their licks. Namely Clapton and Santana, which admittedly are still of course somewhat above my level. I was doing alright and impressing myself for a while but now I'm just burned out kinda. My improv sounds like bored. Can't get into the music and I can't seem to find a good tone for me either. All it's been is just like scales played in only a few different positions with some bends thrown in. I know I can do better with this I just don't know how I'm going to become better.[/QUOTE] When improvising you just need to relax and let the notes play themselves, follow the chords, but let your instinct do the rest.

[QUOTE=Kingy_why;28789411]I've got a concert tommorow, but I don't know how it's going to be amped, I have asked to borrow a bigger amp, but I can only be guaranteed a cab. Would plugging my 30 watt combo into the cab make any difference to the volume? I play bass if you didn't already know. [editline]24th March 2011[/editline] If the person lending me the cab has his amp head fixed by tomorrow, then I have no problem.[/QUOTE] Depends on the power the cab is meant to receive. If it's 30 watts aswell it shouldn't be such a problem. [QUOTE=Kingy_why;28800939]I've been offered a guitar amp head, is that safe?[/QUOTE] Never ever plug a bass into a guitar amp. A bass has too much output for a guitar amp to handle

[QUOTE=nardix;28801024]Depends on the power the cab is meant to receive. If it's 30 watts aswell it shouldn't be such a problem. Never ever plug a bass into a guitar amp. A bass has too much output for a guitar amp to handle[/QUOTE] It will only be the guitar head, I'll have a bass cab.

[QUOTE=Loompa Lord;28800320]This is probably the dumbest, most close-ended statement I've read thus far in this thread.[/QUOTE] There is a finite set of chord progressions in contemporary western tonal music. We know all the intervals/chords based on our fundamental 12-note octave, and from there, all the basic progressions of the same that are possible. Shit's extremely basic math. It's what one does with them that matters. I get trying to emphasize originality but what you just said was downright moronic. Starting with an existing chord progression list and making a song based on it is no more "copy and pasting" than writing an english sentence with existing word combinations like "This is probably the."

[QUOTE=LasGunz;28794214]It does. [editline]25th March 2011[/editline] Chatoic Lord you post messed up but I seen what you said. I will get some samples tomorrow night after college. I should be sleeping just now it's 3am lol[/QUOTE] Yeah, I realized that I put my post within the quote of you, I guess I didn't fix it in time for you haha. And I had the weirdest guitar dream last night. I dreamed that my guitar strings were getting horribly tangled within themselves, and eventually the guitar began falling apart, strings disintegrating, tone becoming demonic, and not in an awesome way either. I got new strings and replaced them and fixed the guitar, but it did it again! :ohdear: I managed to fix it, but the strings were horribly bent, as if someone took a par of pliers and twisted them on different spots. When I played it sounded like horrible, agonized screaming. I played a show with it and rocked everyones faces off! :rock:

[QUOTE=Hardpoint Nomad;28797915]Well.....I play piano but last night I picked up my sisters old Yamaha guitar, I never played a guitar a day in my life. But the amazing thing is....I knew how to play. Abeit poorly though, I know the frets 2/4ths of the time. That's weird.[/QUOTE] Not really, if you've played the piano you're used to seeing the notes in order

[QUOTE=Kingy_why;28801156]It will only be the guitar head, I'll have a bass cab.[/QUOTE] It's possible but not recommended. It'll sound pretty weird. Chris Squire uses a guitar head but he runs a stereo rig so he has a bass amp as well

[QUOTE=Dopey Trout;28803412]It's possible but not recommended. It'll sound pretty weird. Chris Squire uses a guitar head but he runs a stereo rig so he has a bass amp as well[/QUOTE] I might run my combo through into the cab for the low end and put the guitar head through the PA for the mids and highs, but then I'll have trouble balancing the sounds.

That's really overcomplicating things :v: provided you have access to a PA you will not have issues with volume

[QUOTE=Xenocidebot;28801289]There is a finite set of chord progressions in contemporary western tonal music. We know all the intervals/chords based on our fundamental 12-note octave, and from there, all the basic progressions of the same that are possible. Shit's extremely basic math. It's what one does with them that matters. I get trying to emphasize originality but what you just said was downright moronic. Starting with an existing chord progression list and making a song based on it is no more "copy and pasting" than writing an english sentence with existing word combinations like "This is probably the."[/QUOTE] He said "you're not ever going to be unique with a chord progression" What a joke. my statement still stands. Musical melody can be unique to anyone.

[QUOTE=Dopey Trout;28804347]That's really overcomplicating things :v: provided you have access to a PA you will not have issues with volume[/QUOTE] I'm not worrying about volume, that'll be fine, I want good quality and my combo is shit.

Guys stop hating on mey TÖNE! Heh it's okay, mixed that little thing I posted before a bit and made the tone more fat and living tell me if you like it :smile: and stop saying stuff about tube amps because I love that sound and the digital range of these [I]Lein schwitz kreuzschlüssel drei commandant[/I] amps :v: I am not after an iron maiden sound guys :smile: I think my type of mix is pretty good and I could do an whole album on it and it would not sound like cheap homerecording... Ah what am I saying this here, you guys are like metallica while I am someone that's punching trashcans. Anyway, check it out! It improved and got a more ballsy sound :v: [media]http://soundcloud.com/dekay-snug/phat-ass-mixed[/media]

[QUOTE=Loompa Lord;28804402]He said "you're not ever going to be unique with a chord progression" What a joke. my statement still stands. Musical melody can be unique to anyone.[/QUOTE] A melody and a chord progression are entirely different things. [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chord_progression[/url] [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melody[/url] Get your terminology straight before you call somebody out on something. [QUOTE=Darkslicer;28804635]Anyway, check it out! It improved and got a more ballsy sound :v: [media]http://soundcloud.com/dekay-snug/phat-ass-mixed[/media][/QUOTE] It sounds more or less the same to me. And not unlike what I was pushing out of the high-gain models in Guitar Rig just now before I dropped it in my practice routing for Amplitube. If you dig it woo but it still just sounds..."hairy" to me. Something that isn't supposed to be pushed being pushed and reacting like mayo in the summer sun.

[QUOTE=Darkslicer;28804635]Guys stop hating on mey TÖNE! Heh it's okay, mixed that little thing I posted before a bit and made the tone more fat and living tell me if you like it :smile: and stop saying stuff about tube amps because I love that sound and the digital range of these [I]Lein schwitz kreuzschlüssel drei commandant[/I] amps :v: I am not after an iron maiden sound guys :smile: I think my type of mix is pretty good and I could do an whole album on it and it would not sound like cheap homerecording... Ah what am I saying this here, you guys are like metallica while I am someone that's punching trashcans. Anyway, check it out! It improved and got a more ballsy sound :v: [media]http://soundcloud.com/dekay-snug/phat-ass-mixed[/media][/QUOTE] If you like it, then that's good, but there's something about the gain and low-end sustain that I don't like. That's just me though, if you like it, I guess keep using it.

[QUOTE=Kab2tract;28805704]If you like it, then that's good, but there's something about the gain and low-end sustain that I don't like. That's just me though, if you like it, I guess keep using it.[/QUOTE] It has a similar tone that I want as a bassist.

Does anyone here know how tube amps work? I know the difference between them and solid state amps and digitals, but I've never actually known how they work and what the tubes are for.

I might go through a line 6 into the bass cab, I can imagine the line 6 having an alright bass tone, I'm playing poker face on monday so the digital sound is quite good.

[QUOTE=Darkslicer;28804635]Guys stop hating on mey TÖNE! Heh it's okay, mixed that little thing I posted before a bit and made the tone more fat and living tell me if you like it :smile: and stop saying stuff about tube amps because I love that sound and the digital range of these [I]Lein schwitz kreuzschlüssel drei commandant[/I] amps :v: I am not after an iron maiden sound guys :smile: I think my type of mix is pretty good and I could do an whole album on it and it would not sound like cheap homerecording... Ah what am I saying this here, you guys are like metallica while I am someone that's punching trashcans. Anyway, check it out! It improved and got a more ballsy sound :v: [media]http://soundcloud.com/dekay-snug/phat-ass-mixed[/media][/QUOTE] i guess the tone would be awesome for some doom metal or somthing

I can't fucking believe it. I seriously can't. Tonight I had a gig at a talent tourney with the band I'm in. We're first on, so we have a dead crowd to work up, which we do. They all fucking get the fuck up and love us. Biggest cheers of the night. One of the last acts was a deathnumetalcore band which managed to break a brand new drum skin, the singer got stoned, dude's like 15 (this was an all age event, including children) and their first song in the set contained the word fuck as the main lyric. and we fucking lost to them. we did a range, we did Blitzkrieg Bop, Johnny B. Goode, Thunderstruck (with both guitarists having wireless, they both went off the front of the stage to the crowd and soloed in front of all of their faces) and American Idiot. all they did was a fucking mash of noise (this coming from a metal fan)

I'm offically pissed, I have to modify the body because the pots dont fit. That's what I get for buying some body off of ebay.

Just buy mini pots?

[QUOTE=dcalde78;28808267]I can't fucking believe it. I seriously can't. Tonight I had a gig at a talent tourney with the band I'm in. We're first on, so we have a dead crowd to work up, which we do. They all fucking get the fuck up and love us. Biggest cheers of the night. One of the last acts was a deathnumetalcore band which managed to break a brand new drum skin, the singer got stoned, dude's like 15 (this was an all age event, including children) and their first song in the set contained the word fuck as the main lyric. and we fucking lost to them. we did a range, we did Blitzkrieg Bop, Johnny B. Goode, Thunderstruck (with both guitarists having wireless, they both went off the front of the stage to the crowd and soloed in front of all of their faces) and American Idiot. all they did was a fucking mash of noise (this coming from a metal fan)[/QUOTE] They won out of pity for how bad they sucked.

[QUOTE=Dopey Trout;28809239]Just buy mini pots?[/QUOTE] Nah, all of it is specially wired in, would be too much of a hassle.

[QUOTE=Xenocidebot;28805444]A melody and a chord progression are entirely different things. [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chord_progression[/url] [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melody[/url] Get your terminology straight before you call somebody out on something. It sounds more or less the same to me. And not unlike what I was pushing out of the high-gain models in Guitar Rig just now before I dropped it in my practice routing for Amplitube. If you dig it woo but it still just sounds..."hairy" to me. Something that isn't supposed to be pushed being pushed and reacting like mayo in the summer sun.[/QUOTE] If someone claims that you can't write a unique chord progression, then why are they even playing in the first place? Don't give some wikipedia snob bullshit in defense, that's seriously dumb. I'm referring to chord based melodies. My whole point is that this whole type of thinking (which my original response was directed) really closes doors in terms of creativity and inspiration. It doesn't matter if a chord progression is cliche or not, it can definitely be considered unique to the person who discovered it. I'm sorry if I came off as a massive asshole.