Guitar Discussion Thread V7 - More strings the better

[deggie]

[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 guitar sounds like fucking crap

[Siminov]

[QUOTE=Mak123;28983317]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.[/QUOTE]

Yes, but they are knock off hot rails, they sound awesome nonetheless.

Also they have coil tap :v:

[MrSneakymode]

Another track me and my mate finished in one day in his room with 1 mic, 1 amp and 2 guitars.

[media]http://soundcloud.com/gregdotporter/edge-of-desire[/media]
This isn't the final mix but I really wanted to get this up, so much passion :p

[Mark364]

[QUOTE=Siminov;28984350]Yes, but they are knock off hot rails, they sound awesome nonetheless.

Also they have coil tap :v:[/QUOTE]

nice i have the proper seymour duncans but there not coil tapped, nice dude

[Loompa Lord]

This thread needs more telecaster :3

[IMG]http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h250/claddyblastphil/61952edd.jpg[/IMG]

EDIT:
whoops, that ain't my tele, that's the carp I caught last week..

Here she is

[IMG]http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h250/claddyblastphil/53e8b757.jpg[/IMG]

[MrSneakymode]

argh fuck that makes me want the telecaster i bought even more now :(

I also want my strat back from the tech, should be getting it on wednesday or thursday and the tele next week :D

[deggie]

tomorrow is the day...

i'm gonna start doing some covers that hopefully won't sound shit.

[dranei]

My gear currently consists of:
1) Washburn acoustic (pretty decent for a 300 dollar guitar)
2) Epiphone wilshire reissue (currently in the shop, the input broke): This is actually a pretty sweet guitar for an entry level thing. The necks fast, and great fret access with a really cool vintage vibe. The only problem is the pickups are crap so I'm putting in some duncans and a bigsby vibrato, can't live without a tremolo arm.
3) Gretsch Chet Atkins Tennesean, made in 1964. Fucking sweet tone, though it's getting a little too aged. I got it for FREE, but it's apparently cursed. It's had 4 other owners.
4) Johnson Octave sized mandolin (the mandolin equivalent of a cello).

Amps:
Danelectro honey tone, for jamming on the go
Marshall modelling amp, for when my ampeg is too damn loud.
Ampeg Gemini 20, came with the gretsch, blows people a-fucking-way. I love this thing so much, since it was free I can't complain.
No pedals at the moment, my delay and distortion both broke so I need to replace 'em :\
I'll get a pic of the whole collection later.

[MrSneakymode]

[QUOTE=dranei;28986368]2) Epiphone wilshire reissue (currently in the shop, the input broke)[/QUOTE]

:argh: it's an output not an input

[Siminov]

[QUOTE=dranei;28986368]My gear currently consists of:
1) Washburn acoustic (pretty decent for a 300 dollar guitar)
2) Epiphone wilshire reissue (currently in the shop, the input broke): This is actually a pretty sweet guitar for an entry level thing. The necks fast, and great fret access with a really cool vintage vibe. The only problem is the pickups are crap so I'm putting in some duncans and a bigsby vibrato, can't live without a tremolo arm.
3) Gretsch Chet Atkins Tennesean, made in 1964. Fucking sweet tone, though it's getting a little too aged. I got it for FREE, but it's apparently cursed. It's had 4 other owners.
4) Johnson Octave sized mandolin (the mandolin equivalent of a cello).

Amps:
Danelectro honey tone, for jamming on the go
Marshall modelling amp, for when my ampeg is too damn loud.
Ampeg Gemini 20, came with the gretsch, blows people a-fucking-way. I love this thing so much, since it was free I can't complain.
No pedals at the moment, my delay and distortion both broke so I need to replace 'em :\
I'll get a pic of the whole collection later.[/QUOTE]

How is the Gretsch cursed, anything wrong with it?

[Dopey Trout]

[QUOTE=dranei;28986368]My gear currently consists of:
1) Washburn acoustic (pretty decent for a 300 dollar guitar)
2) Epiphone wilshire reissue (currently in the shop, the input broke): This is actually a pretty sweet guitar for an entry level thing. The necks fast, and great fret access with a really cool vintage vibe. The only problem is the pickups are crap so I'm putting in some duncans and a bigsby vibrato, can't live without a tremolo arm.
3) Gretsch Chet Atkins Tennesean, made in 1964. Fucking sweet tone, though it's getting a little too aged. I got it for FREE, but it's apparently cursed. It's had 4 other owners.
4) Johnson Octave sized mandolin (the mandolin equivalent of a cello).

Amps:
Danelectro honey tone, for jamming on the go
Marshall modelling amp, for when my ampeg is too damn loud.
Ampeg Gemini 20, came with the gretsch, blows people a-fucking-way. I love this thing so much, since it was free I can't complain.
No pedals at the moment, my delay and distortion both broke so I need to replace 'em :\
I'll get a pic of the whole collection later.[/QUOTE]

An octave mandolin is a Mandocello :science:

That name's always annoyed me, the Mandello is much cooler sounding, though it does conjure mental images of an all male bordello...

[dranei]

Ah see there's a HUGE argument over nomenclature with the octave mandolin. I enjoy it a lot though. I also am seeking a balalaika.

And the curse: 3 of the 4 previous owners died/went insane pretty oddly (One had an aneurysm right after buying it, another was crushed within four months of buying it, and the third sold it for forty dollars to the dude who gave it to me before immigrating to Venezuela), the fourth is on the way out from heart disease. Sucks, he's the one who got me into music.

[Dopey Trout]

If you go insane send me it, I need a Gretsch and don't think I can get any more mentally damaged :v:

I wasn't aware of any naming issues, but if there is, I'd still with Mandocello cos it sounds cooler :3:

[dranei]

Hah, I'll keep that in mind. It's a beauty, but I gotta replace the tuners because the G string can't hold a tune for more than 30 minutes any more. I figured that out when halfway through a performance it dropped a step and I had to improv like a mofo.

[MrSneakymode]

my hipster big muff

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/bNfSHl.jpg[/IMG]

the original for comparison lol

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/ABZ8gl.jpg[/IMG]

[Unreliable]

This might be weird to ask, but how old are you? You seem to have a good enough income to be able to support your interests.

[MrSneakymode]

[QUOTE=Unreliable;28990358]This might be weird to ask, but how old are you? You seem to have a good enough income to be able to support your interests.[/QUOTE]

Me? I'm 18. I get some money through a student loan and I'm a music student but I make most of my money through YouTube, I have a pretty large youtube channel for gaming, it used to be CoD videos but now I just play Minecraft and get paid for it through Machinima. (MrSneakymode is the name I use)

I make about £300-400 a month from YouTube and £300 from my student loan.

Don't get me wrong though I don't blow my entire student loan on stuff, I will spend some of that if I need to but I try and spend money I've "earned" on guitar stuff.

[editline]5th April 2011[/editline]

I've actually been pretty bad with money lately. In the past month and a half I've bought 3 guitars and 5 effects pedals, a guitar body, spray paints and lacquer and paid a tech to set up one of my guitars.

Hopefully after I get this Telecaster the only thing I'll want is a few more effects pedals but I can calm down on buying expensive gear for a while, I use ebay for most of my pedals because theres pretty much no point in buying them new unless you NEED it to be prestine, which I don't - as long as it works it's fine.

[Ir1shFox]

I was thinking about buying a new acoustic to replace my aging no frills fender I grew up learning on. I'm thinking of this: [url]http://www.thomann.de/ie/takamine_eg523sc12_jumbowesterngitarre.htm[/url]
I really just want a twelve string so I can just expand my song library and playing ability.

Good idea?

[deggie]

must be a bitch changing strings on 12 strings

[Ir1shFox]

[QUOTE=deggie;28994135]must be a bitch changing strings on 12 strings[/QUOTE]

Yeah, but read the thread title.

[deggie]

no thread title in the world would make me want to change strings on a 12 string

[Mark364]

[QUOTE=LasGunz;28993819]Me? I'm 18. I get some money through a student loan and I'm a music student but I make most of my money through YouTube, I have a pretty large youtube channel for gaming, it used to be CoD videos but now I just play Minecraft and get paid for it through Machinima. (MrSneakymode is the name I use)

I make about £300-400 a month from YouTube and £300 from my student loan.

Don't get me wrong though I don't blow my entire student loan on stuff, I will spend some of that if I need to but I try and spend money I've "earned" on guitar stuff.

[editline]5th April 2011[/editline]

I've actually been pretty bad with money lately. In the past month and a half I've bought 3 guitars and 5 effects pedals, a guitar body, spray paints and lacquer and paid a tech to set up one of my guitars.

Hopefully after I get this Telecaster the only thing I'll want is a few more effects pedals but I can calm down on buying expensive gear for a while, I use ebay for most of my pedals because theres pretty much no point in buying them new unless you NEED it to be prestine, which I don't - as long as it works it's fine.[/QUOTE]

WTF seriously your mr sneakymode?

i used to watch your cod videos when i gave two fucks about the game.

its a small world

[MrSneakymode]

I am yeah lol I haven't played or uploaded a CoD video in months though, it's all Minecraft now.

[Mark364]

dont blame you minecraft is a much better game. just wondering do you get paid per video? or by how many views they get?

[NotYou3]

any rough estimates of how much it would cost to get a killswitch installed on my guitar? ive always wanted one

i can't do it myself, i don't know the first thing about electrics and such. plus i'd be too scared of messing it up

[BassB]

if they ask more than 10 quid you're being ripped off.

it's literally 5 minutes of work.

[NotYou3]

yeah im gonna go into a couple of the local guitar stores probably sometime this week and ask around
i've heard that some places charge like £40+ plus the cost of the switch itself

[BassB]

if i were you i'd specify at the shop to getting a button, not a switch.

basically you'll push the button to kill the sound, instead of violently throwing a switch back and forth.

[editline]5th April 2011[/editline]

a button or switch will barely cost more than a pound, don't let them tell you otherwise.

[Longy]

I was looking for some tabs for Boris by Melvins.

"Tuning low to high: A-A-D-G-B-E"

How the hell? That's 7 steps down for the low A!

[Nonikai]

Welcome to sludge metal

[editline]5th April 2011[/editline]

I cheat tho, I use a 7 string heh