How was it?Has anyone here seen the Experience Hendrix tour? It's coming to my area soon and I'm thinking of going. Any impressions?
How was it?Has anyone here seen the Experience Hendrix tour? It's coming to my area soon and I'm thinking of going. Any impressions?
What is your speaker setup? I am looking to get a Kemper here soon-ish to upgrade from the helix. But, trying to pick a speaker setup is a pain. They announced their own speaker at NAMM but there is no release or price in site, and I believe it is going to be passive, and I intend to go with the unpowered Kemper.
I mostly play metal stuff. Metallica, Maiden, Megadeth... Etc. I really have no business owning something as fancy as a Kemper, as someone who only plays in my living room. But, fuck it, I can afford it, so why not?
Why has no one told me about Devin Townsend!? Just randomly clicked on a youtube video and this is some interesting shit going on here.
I played guitar for about 15 years. I stopped for nearly 4 years and late last year got a Fender acoustic guitar to start picking at. I'm obsessed all over again. I bought a Gibson SG a month ago along with a Fender amp. I'm even re-learning how to read music. I have to admit though, it is kind of like riding a bike. I'm nearly as good now as I was back then.
However, I have to bitch. As a left handed guitarist, I hate how expensive they are. I wish I would of just learned upside down in the beginning, but it felt too weird.
one thing that will always confound me, as a lefty, i never once felt picking up and playing guitar right handed was unnatural. did the lefties here try and have it feel impossible?
one thing that will always confound me, as a lefty, i never once felt picking up and playing guitar right handed was unnatural. did the lefties here try and have it feel impossible?
Alternate tunings are a godsend when you start getting bored with standard. Whew.
Still need to work on my barre chords though. I still have issues with that shit.
Let us know how you like that Super Viking. I've got a Viking baritone and love it so much I was thinking of picking up another Hagstrom down the road.Just bought a black Hagstrom Super Viking, can't wait to play it! I'm gonna sell off 3 of my guitars and pick up a white Hagstrom Fantomen. That'll leave me with the 2 hagstroms and my ibanez acoustic, which I adore. 1 electric, 1 semi hollow and an acoustic. That should keep me good for a long time!
Curious what kind of strings folks like and use. I think the local luthier put standard D'addario lights on my guitar when he set it up. They've been fine but I'm up for exploring a little now that it's time to change them. Ordered a few different variations of lights (coated, wound third, Ernie Ball regulars) and a medium to try out. Have balanced lights on my old guitar but haven't messed with them much.
Depending on how I feel about those I have some others I'll try. Any other brands worth checking out? D'addario and Ernie Ball seem like the most popular ones.
Curious what kind of strings folks like and use. I think the local luthier put standard D'addario lights on my guitar when he set it up. They've been fine but I'm up for exploring a little now that it's time to change them. Ordered a few different variations of lights (coated, wound third, Ernie Ball regulars) and a medium to try out. Have balanced lights on my old guitar but haven't messed with them much.
Depending on how I feel about those I have some others I'll try. Any other brands worth checking out? D'addario and Ernie Ball seem like the most popular ones.
Are those chords that they've constructed based off whatever key they are working on or are there more chord shapes that I don't know yet? (I'm not talking about additional chord voicings like 7th, 9th, sus chords). Talking more about general chord shapes.
Curious what kind of strings folks like and use. I think the local luthier put standard D'addario lights on my guitar when he set it up. They've been fine but I'm up for exploring a little now that it's time to change them. Ordered a few different variations of lights (coated, wound third, Ernie Ball regulars) and a medium to try out. Have balanced lights on my old guitar but haven't messed with them much.
Depending on how I feel about those I have some others I'll try. Any other brands worth checking out? D'addario and Ernie Ball seem like the most popular ones.
I'm curious, what's your favorite pedal on your board, Era? For me, it's easy: Tube Screamer. I can't believe how much 'life' it breathes into your guitar signal. Even if you drop the gain to the bottom.
The Walrus Audio Descent multi reverb. It was the first boutique pedal I saved up for and it hasn't left my board since. Can go from a subtle always-on reverb to huge ambient washes, not to mention having presets and octave up/down goodness.I'm curious, what's your favorite pedal on your board, Era? For me, it's easy: Tube Screamer. I can't believe how much 'life' it breathes into your guitar signal. Even if you drop the gain to the bottom.
I've never a pedal person, mostly because i concentrated so much on spending money on guitars that I figured pedals complicate things too much for me, though I've wanted to dabble. I got a Line 6 M13 stompbox modeler for free 11 years ago and thought that thing had tons of possibilities. i did snag this BD-2 for $20 last week! I am probably gonna try fiddling with the M13 again soon, it has been in the closet for a VERY long time.
new unexpected acquisition. got what i consider to be a REALLY good price on this 1984 Gibson Explorer reissue from their Guitar of the Week thing back in 2007. They only made 400 of these and i've pretty much never seen them pop up for sale. This is pretty much Hetfield's original explorer.
Jelly. The explorer is one of my favorite designs. I have 2 of them, one is an Epiphone goth 58 explorer, and the other is a Gibson Explorer faded. They look so much better without a pick guard and I'm glad my gibson doesn't have one.
Just got myself one of these, looking forward to having some fun with it
Will do, hopefully will have some time this weekend to have a proper play around with it
Anyone have gold hardware and ever tried to do anything to polish it? I have used metal polish on chrome hardware with great success, but I seem to recall that that is a bad idea with gold hardware? Have a bit of oxidization on my 2002 PRS. Should I just ignore what is there and start wiping it down more regularly to slow it getting worse, or is there a gold safe polish I can go for?