Guitar Discussion Thread V7 - More strings the better - General

How would I learn sweep picking What's the best technique, how long does it take, how long each day should I practice etc

[QUOTE=deggie;28970966]How would I learn sweep picking What's the best technique, how long does it take, how long each day should I practice etc[/QUOTE] How long it takes depends on you, and no one can tell you how much you should practice each day. Just practice as much as you want, but make sure you don't get bored of it. [editline]3rd April 2011[/editline] wtf my English is horrible today.

Techniques?

sweep picking is really what you expect from it, it's pretty straight forward. just sweep the pick and push the according frets with your left hand. just requires a lot of practice, google up some patterns.

Gents :p say hello to my new Telecaster.. [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/ihvb8.jpg[/IMG]

Right, I'm sick of using up loads of 9V batteries on my two pedals, so would I be able to use ones of these [url]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/BOSS-PSA-240-EFFECTS-PEDAL-POWER-SUPPLY-REPLACEMENT-9V-/150560005292?pt=UK_Guitar_Accessories&hash=item230e135cac#ht_2022wt_905[/url] with one of these [url]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/5-WAY-EFFECTS-PEDAL-DAISY-CHAIN-POWER-SUPPLY-SPLITTER-/150563414732?pt=UK_Guitar_Accessories&hash=item230e4762cc#ht_901wt_905[/url] To power my pedals? Would a Boss power adapter be compatible with my Behringer pedals?

thats sweet brah, how much did it set you back? [editline]3rd April 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=BigSmokeDawg;28972915]Right, I'm sick of using up loads of 9V batteries on my two pedals, so would I be able to use ones of these [url]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/BOSS-PSA-240-EFFECTS-PEDAL-POWER-SUPPLY-REPLACEMENT-9V-/150560005292?pt=UK_Guitar_Accessories&hash=item230e135cac#ht_2022wt_905[/url] with one of these [url]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/5-WAY-EFFECTS-PEDAL-DAISY-CHAIN-POWER-SUPPLY-SPLITTER-/150563414732?pt=UK_Guitar_Accessories&hash=item230e4762cc#ht_901wt_905[/url] To power my pedals?[/QUOTE] i hardly think thats going to work, unless your pedals both require exactly the same wattage and stuff. something like [url=http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Dunlop-DC-Brick-Power-Supply-Pedal-Power-9V-18V-Voodoo-/260760935994?pt=UK_Guitar_Accessories&hash=item3cb6901e3a#ht_529wt_899]this[/url] is probably going to work better.

What is the best acoustic guitar for around $500 USD

[QUOTE=kirderf;28970609]Can someone tell me if this is a scale? [code]|------------------------------------------10-12-13 |---------------------------------10-12-13--------- |-------------------------9-10-13------------------ |-----------------9-10-12-------------------------- |-----------11-12---------------------------------- |--10-12-13----------------------------------------[/code] I came up with by finding the notes used in the start of one solo, and then just extended it to go all the way down to the low E string. I'm just wondering if that's a real scale, because it would be useful to know the name of it :v:[/QUOTE] It looks like the blues scale with some natural minor notes added in.

[QUOTE=furbrain;28973442]What is the best acoustic guitar for around $500 USD[/QUOTE] If nothing else, step up and grab a [url]http://www.thomann.de/gb/ovation_2078t5.htm[/url] it's a really sweet guitar. it's probably cheaper in the us

[QUOTE=LasGunz;28972739]Gents :p say hello to my new Telecaster.. [img_thumb]http://i.imgur.com/ihvb8.jpg[/img_thumb][/QUOTE] Want.

Reposting fer new page. My new Telecaster: [img]http://i.imgur.com/ihvb8.jpg[/img]

Lovely! [editline]3rd April 2011[/editline] sexy border

[QUOTE=BigSmokeDawg;28972915]Right, I'm sick of using up loads of 9V batteries on my two pedals, so would I be able to use ones of these [url]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/BOSS-PSA-240-EFFECTS-PEDAL-POWER-SUPPLY-REPLACEMENT-9V-/150560005292?pt=UK_Guitar_Accessories&hash=item230e135cac#ht_2022wt_905[/url] with one of these [url]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/5-WAY-EFFECTS-PEDAL-DAISY-CHAIN-POWER-SUPPLY-SPLITTER-/150563414732?pt=UK_Guitar_Accessories&hash=item230e4762cc#ht_901wt_905[/url] To power my pedals? Would a Boss power adapter be compatible with my Behringer pedals?[/QUOTE] Look into the "Diago Powerstation" best value for money, it's basically a worthwhile version of what you wanted to get and yes it will work for various pedals if you buy the adapters that Diago supply (very cheap), they have converters that will reverse the polarity for non conventionally powered pedals and they even have a converter to a mini-jack for some Electro Harmonix pedals. I'm looking to buy one soon, my old one kicked it a few weeks ago and I'm sick of 9V batteries, it's went down in price considerably. Don't skimp out on price with something like this, you'll get a ton of noise/intereference/hum from a dirt cheap daisy chain powersupply.

[QUOTE=kirderf;28970609]Can someone tell me if this is a scale? [code]|------------------------------------------10-12-13 |---------------------------------10-12-13--------- |-------------------------9-10-13------------------ |-----------------9-10-12-------------------------- |-----------11-12---------------------------------- |--10-12-13----------------------------------------[/code] I came up with by finding the notes used in the start of one solo, and then just extended it to go all the way down to the low E string. I'm just wondering if that's a real scale, because it would be useful to know the name of it :v:[/QUOTE] So the notes are D E F G# A B C D Starting on the A instead of the D gives you. A B C D E F G# A Now it is looking obvious because that A minor with a raised 7th which makes it A harmonic minor. So the song is based on the harmonic minor scale. I don't know the song, so it could be based on a mode in the harmonic minor scale, so if you can figure out what key it is, you can figure out the mode. Here's a decent link. [url]http://www.howmusicworks.org/hmw810.html[/url]

Oh lawd, the eruption solo sounds so horribad on old vinyl. It's like when you rented an old VHS movie and realized the tape was worn to hell wherever it had a sexy scene from all the perverts who watched it before you. [QUOTE=LasGunz;28972739]Gents :p say hello to my new Telecaster.. [img_thumb]http://i.imgur.com/ihvb8.jpg[/img_thumb][/QUOTE] Hello, new Telecaster. [QUOTE=Darkslicer;28957641]really great unknown vst maximizer (which even gives better&easier results than izotopes Ozone!)[/QUOTE] You probably just aren't using Ozone right, hahaha. And yeah I hear not really liking EZ Drummer. I used to, but since Addictive (and putting my own acoustic kits together in Battery) I haven't used it at all. And I tried Superior Drummer but it was just eugh. If only they sold the samples for the Twisted Kit and DFH I'd be happy, but the program is so...eh. Plus Toontrack disappoints me these days with their stupid products like that mastering-instantly thing.

Well after 6 days of being away... I present you my latest creation: [img]http://img805.imageshack.us/img805/3985/0403112026.jpg[/img] [img]http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/5172/0403112026a.jpg[/img] The last part that needs replacement: [img]http://img535.imageshack.us/img535/3541/0403112027.jpg[/img] [img]http://img826.imageshack.us/img826/1761/0403112027a.jpg[/img]

What price range should I be looking at for an acoustic guitar AND if I'm just starting out and not sure I'm gonna stick with it?

[QUOTE=BassB;28969722]i'm just trying to help you for if you were interested of buying one of those guitars, you don't have to be a whiny bitch about it.[/QUOTE] It was my opinion. I know my shit about guitars, dude. I have an ESP Horizon, I know good guitars. I've played the washburn, my buddy has one, they're epic fucking guitars. But I can't get one, because they're nowhere to be found.

[QUOTE=Big Ben;28977966]What price range should I be looking at for an acoustic guitar AND if I'm just starting out and not sure I'm gonna stick with it?[/QUOTE] get this [url]http://guitars.musiciansfriend.com/product/Mitchell-MD100S-Dreadnought-Acoustic-Guitar?sku=518972[/url] It's a great guitar and sounds really nice. if you don't want to spend more than 150 dollars though, get this one [url]http://guitars.musiciansfriend.com/product/Mitchell-MD100-Dreadnought-Acoustic-Guitar?sku=518970[/url]

Right, so I finished analyzing my EMG 707s (and, by proxy of testing samples from other people of 81s, 85s, and 81-7s), my guitar just to make sure it wasn’t secretly shit, and concluded why, according to SCIENCE!, they’re fucking raunchy. I was a bit sloppy with my methodology in testing things but it’s close enough, and definitively proves that 707s sound like shit…in specific situations which may not be yours/if you love them don’t kill me. I mean no harm, except to objectively claim they sound like spunky butt. Oh and I’ll be condescending as hell and explain shit just so people who don’t know what Fourier analysis means aren’t out of the loop. So if you know all of this already and don’t care don’t read it, and if you do, hey, you might learn something. Also I'll media tag this latter when they stop acting like whores. [i][b]Reasons why the EMG 707 sounds like spunky butt:[/b][/i] [b]#1) They have more low bass than my bass.[/b] Now, I’m not a wizard, but I happen to know that bass frequencies, by and large, tend to sound like speckled anus when driven too hard and/or in the wrong ways. It’s why dubstep folks or other “grimy” bass fans use distortion judiciously, or hiphop folk like using a plain sin wave layered with their basses for the absolute low end, or, if you’re not into that, why Lemmy gave the bass knob on his amp a pretty huge cut and the mids a boost. Listen to Lemmy. [i][Fig. 1.a: Lemmy, foremost expert on the dangers of low-frequency intermodulation distortion.][/i] [media][img]http://www.thenational.ae/deployedfiles//Assets/Richmedia/Image/lemmy2.jpg[/img][/media] Consider figures 1.b and c, rough frequency views of a synthesizer and a violin. [i][Fig. 1.b: A violin, yo.][/i] [media][img]http://img691.imageshack.us/img691/9008/violiney.png[/img][/media] [i][Fig. 1.c: Synthesizer.][/i] [media][img]http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/2761/synthe.png[/img][/media] Note that it’s pretty easy to find the fundamental (frequency with the pitch of the note we’re looking for), and the bass on both (the violin has a cut for noise from the body, but that’s literally all it has in the low frequencies on that note) is pretty much nonexistent or at least thin and manageable below the fundamental. Now look at this here bass. [i][Fig. 1.d: Dat dere bass playing a low E.][/i] [media][img]http://img810.imageshack.us/img810/1790/basse.png[/img][/media] [i][Fig. 1.e: High G of same.][/i] [media][img]http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/2136/bassg.png[/img][/media] Look at those low bass bands. The lowest on the low is barely even there. It knows its place, and its place is getting either low cut or boosted to hell depending on if this is a hiphop or rock job. On the G, there isn’t any crazy big bass presence. It’s still there, and it’s still pretty big, but it’s not oh-my-sweet jesus what the fuck. [i][Fig. 1.f: Oh my sweet jesus, what the fuck.][/i] [media][img]http://img822.imageshack.us/img822/3241/guitareh.png[/img][/media] 50-70hz tone turds, marginally more narrow but louder than the bass's equivalent. Which brings me to point two: [b]#2) The sustain is pretty much only for the low end.[/b] On any other instrument of that set beyond the synthesizer, decay (the falling in volume of a note) is inevitable. It happens. No amount of compression or output boosting changes that. However, how that decay happens has a big impact on the sound. Note that in Fig 1.f, the guitar had already lost most of its upper frequencies and had a quickly decaying midrange by the time I screenshotted my EQ. That’s because every time I played a note (and this is present on the samples I checked), it pretty much immediately decided to just be the fundamental and a whole lot of bass (or appropriately shifted lower frequency crap when it was a higher pitch.) Now look back to Fig. 1d and you’ll realize that a goddamn bass loses midrange frequencies slower than this fucking guitar. [b]#3) The voicing is a flock of geese getting murdered.[/b] [i][Fig. 3.a: C’mon man, he has a family.][/i] [media][img]http://www.thewrightfeed.com/_42853911_geese.jpg[/img][/media] The only way I could actually coax a full glimpse of what these things see for a frequency range on a low note was with a heavy attack. And after seeing it I had to see if smaller instruments have the same problem because I know this isn’t just a “humbucker thing.” [i][Fig. 3.b: Death.][/i] [media][img]http://img854.imageshack.us/img854/3016/guitarshimmer.png[/img][/media] That blurry, inconsistent mess of partials (frequencies that may or may not be related to the fundamental, several of which aren’t and make the instrument sound noisy) exposes a couple things about the voicing of these pickups. 1) There’s a goddamn deadzone in the upper mids and treble. That isn’t even funny. That isn’t humbuckers generally cutting the highs a bit. It’s there on smaller and brighter instruments, it’s there on higher pitches. It’s an intentional motherfucking high frequency genocide. The U.N. is passing trade sanctions on these things. 2) The “ripple” of the frequencies decaying is nothing like any instrument I’ve seen before this nor something I can even replicate intentionally with synthesis. The exact method the notes decay to being big blimpy bass is so freaking bizarre that I’m not even sure what’s going on, nor what impact is has on the next point. [b]#4) They distort terribly unless you have one of a few specific tube amps on hand.[/b] Distortion is a funny thing. If you’re talking tube distortion (Fig.4a), you’re talking about a “rounded” form of signal clipping that, while adding some harshness to a sound via intermodulation distortion (partials that sound “noisy” get introduced to the sound and/or made more prominent), generally compensates for it via its harmonic (related to the note we want) distortion. It’s a good combination of grit and the ability to actually hear the notes being played that is what makes distortion sound good. [i][Fig. 4.a: Tube-ish distortion.][/i] [img]http://www.geofex.com/effxfaq/d101_05.gif[/img] However, certain signals don’t distort well, no matter the method used to distort them. An example is a partially noise wave, or FM synthesizer with too much feedback. The reason is because all the extra inharmonic partials n’ shit present in both basically guarantee the distortion will just accentuate the inharmonic crap and spit out something that sounds like a chainsaw eating math. [i][Fig. 4.b: The chainsawmath wave.][/i] [media][img]http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/5295/10165152.png[/img][/media] When you play an EMG 707/85/81, you’re getting so much of that extra bullshit that, while it may sound FUCKING RAD palm muted (which nixes partials and by outright killing sustain and high frequencies) on a lot of gear, sounds like eating trees with open notes on that same gear. This is because not all tubes can offer enough harmonic distortion (or enough to compensate for their own inharmonic distortion) to counteract the wall-of-goose voicing the pups have. Solid state, or in my case, digital modeling, is right the fuck out as an option barring really weird EQ’ing or creative redefinition of the phrase “pleasant sounding.” So, basically, unless you’re Tosin Abasi and acting as the main bass element of whatever you’re doing and playing with really light distortion, or RZK and using a special amp you’ve had since before mankind invented soap, it's a bad idea to use these. [i][Fig. 4.c: The number of people on the planet that are not Tosin Abasi or RZK.][/i] [media][img]http://www.brainpickings.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/7billion.png[/img][/media] [b]Conclusion:[/b] The most apt description of what these pups sound like is a sledgehammer hitting a barstool, SCREEEEEEEEEE, tubas. Pickup companies should provide freq. spec information and not just that lame-ass 3 band eq style thing that tells you nothing about just how many goosefarts they're going to put into your tone, because I'm now fucking terrified about my next purchase. Also, I genuinely wonder if EMG singlecoils actually sound decent.

[QUOTE=Xenocidebot;28981697]Data about how EMGs are terrible[/QUOTE] Hmm, this explained a lot to me. I just can't wait to get rid of them.

Look what I found [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2dJ_hKI-s4&feature=related[/media] [editline]4th April 2011[/editline] Why media tag don't work? Must link then post. [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2dJ_hKI-s4&feature=related[/url]

I either need more hard cases or I need a stand that will hold 6-7 guitars. I hate leaving my guitars out in the open because they attract dust, especially under the strings. I'll probably just pickup a 7-guitar stand later this week when I'm picking up my G&L from the Tech.

[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kLgN6WlmlA[/url] My first YouTube guitar cover. (Yes, I'm a guitar newb)

[QUOTE=Xenocidebot;28981697]Data about how EMGs are terrible[/QUOTE] I'm interested to see how DiMarzio's would do.

[QUOTE=Hullu V3;28981944]Look what I found [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2dJ_hKI-s4&feature=related[/media] [editline]4th April 2011[/editline] Why media tag don't work? Must link then post. [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2dJ_hKI-s4&feature=related[/url][/QUOTE] That my good sir, is fucking amazing.

are there any companies which make a decent Les Paul shaped bass but aren't gibson or anything ridiculously overpriced?

Ibanez made some. [editline]4th April 2011[/editline] Gentlemen, I present to you the guitar abomination of the year 2011: [media]http://members.cox.net/aspinwall/side%20view.jpg[/media] The guitar's a Dano Innuendo, which came out about 2000-2001 and had a built-in FX module with echo, tremolo, fuzz, & chorus. Some guy added vibrato, phase shifter, EQ, compressor, tuner (all Dano Mini's stripped down to the PC boards), Black Ice, Smokey amp (2" speaker on the back, also headphone jack & ext. spkr jack.) The slide switches are series/par, in/out phase etc. Never intended to be played, it was basically an exercise in engineering overkill... every control device is wired up; there's no "dummy" components.

[QUOTE=Siminov;28977260]Well after 6 days of being away... I present you my latest creation: [img_thumb]http://img805.imageshack.us/img805/3985/0403112026.jpg[/img_thumb] [img_thumb]http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/5172/0403112026a.jpg[/img_thumb] The last part that needs replacement: [img_thumb]http://img535.imageshack.us/img535/3541/0403112027.jpg[/img_thumb] [img_thumb]http://img826.imageshack.us/img826/1761/0403112027a.jpg[/img_thumb][/QUOTE] dude that is fucking sick! are those pick ups hot rails? if so i want to make love to you, i use them in my own strat and they sound incredible.