Strings breaking near the top has me thinking it could be a nut issue or the frets in that area of the guitar aren’t smooth enough. Next time a string breaks identify if it broke over a fret. It could be worthwhile sanding down the fret just a bit.
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You might get the nut looked at by a luthier if you aren’t comfortable doing it yourself though I’m not sure on the cost of that
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Hi I have like five bass guitars but I’m not in any bands right now how is everyone
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Thanks for the tips. I’ll try taking the guitar down to my local music shop and see if they can look at the nut or the frets and maybe clean them up if needed and restring the guitar. They have a guy there I think who does repairs.
I’m so tired of this happening during practice.
I’ve got a fender fatstrat. It’s a bit of a mongrel ditching the classic pickup setup for humbuckers and the button that switches from pickup to humbuckers is broken and won’t stay in place. I’m kind of a fan of mongrel guitars, I feel you can take more authorship over them music you play on them - next to a classic fender strat where your sort of there with Jimmy Hendrix and Mark Knopfler…
These videos give me life
(I have not watched enough to know if this channel is deeply problematic in some way and because it is youtube I feel the need to state that)
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Considering the prominent people making guitar gear videos, this seems like possibly the only unproblamatic gear channel I’ve ever seen.
(Also, a combination gear and vintage clothes review channel is like, maybe the best idea)
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There are so many of these
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Started to play Guitar about 5 yrs ago. Started out with just one of those starter editions Fender Acoustic Guitars and like most, it was a slow build.
To preface I’ve always had music as a hobby:
Piano at a very early age but stopped before middle school. Standup bass in elementary school (still know a little bit about my electric bass). Alto, Baritone, and Tenor saxophone during middle and high school (Jazz band in H.S., developed a huge appreciation and love of jazz because of this).
But as soon as I graduated from BMT for the USAF I used some of that extra money to buy myself a beautiful Taylor 214ce and got into some Clapton and basic classical/jazz stuff. Fast forward to Christmas of that year and my parents got me an awesome Epiphone Les Paul (teal blue wood grain) and that’s when I found my dude, Santana.
Basically, I’m at the stage where I’m fooling around with stuff, jamming with friends, and just using it as my biggest destresser.
2 extra things:
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There’s this thing my friends and I do every summer called “Lake Week” where we get to stay at his grandparents lake house in northern NY and this is where me and one of my best friends just basically set up our equipment and jam the whole time, and its great to share it with people who want to listen (alcohol/pot induced or not lol).
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Heres a link to a Jam where me and that friend I mentioned are both on guitar (I start out with the first solo stuff). It is NOT very good lol but it’s just us fooling around with our friends that love to record and do drums. We are very basic but we just do it for fun right now.
– Woah wrote a lot more than I thought I would but damn music is just so fun my dudes!
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Ok this might be more of a production question, but I’m super curious if anyone knows how they’re getting that mega punchy/round/tight bass guitar sound?
It doesn’t sound like there’s a whole lot of processing other than some EQ and a bunch of compression but I’m having a hard time getting the punchiness without some amount of flabbiness. That might just be my playing though.
Well, from the video it looks like the bass player is using a pick, that could have a bit to do with it. If you’re using your fingers make sure you’re not attacking too hard, let your amp or mixer or whatever give you the volume you need. And maybe try out a noise gate to cut decay? I don’t know, that’s what I can think of, but I’m not a good producer by any means!
I have a super cheap acoustic guitar that I’ve been looking at and am very afraid of picking at. I can definitely keep a beat and play an instrument, I played saxophone for 8 ish years, but a guitar? That stuff scares me to death haha.
They now make the cheaper version of the ST Vincent guitar in black
I’m going to try and hold of by telling myself they might one day have the red in a cheaper version as well
I was going to say that black is the missionary of guitar colors, but then I looked and that model still looks very cool.
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My beautiful boy lives!
After a year of collecting dust I finally Got around to sorting out my guitar, changed the five year old grody ass strings, scrubbed the fretboard, body and hardware to a nigh unrecognizable sheen, treated the entire neck with lemon oil over three times, put on the fattest, thickest d’addario EXL148 strings, tuned it to C standard and boy golly gee, the boy has never sounded better.
I’ve started trying to find songs that are set to C standard and while there isn’t a ton of variere I have finally gotten around to picking away at No One Knows by QOTSA and Freya by The Sword. It’s certainly not the most subtle of instruments anymore but holy shit is a great hard rock guitar.
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Shiny! I have borrowed a Gibson from a friends as I had to leave my normal guitar behind in a move and only brought my bass vi, and wow gibsons are heavy! the damn thing weighs more than my much larger bass! I am glad I got to borrow one as it is too much for me as nice as it sounds and feels. I am impressed with how nice the neck feels with it’s satin painted (I think) neck
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Some of the older Gibsons are friggin’ tree trunks for sure, mine isn’t too bad in comparison but compared to my friends reverend it’s… yeah, he’s a heavy boy. I think at this point I’m just committed to turning it into a stoner/doom/sludge machine, I just bought a Crown Of Horns fuzz pedal that sounds utterly disgusting, and I can’t wait for it to arrive so I can just cover the entire neighborhood in sludgy goodness.
Eventually I’m gonna have to look into getting another more versatile and, err, “normal” guitar but so far I’m having a lot of fun with it. The thick strings take some serious getting used to but the sound is amazing and you can really beat the hell out of them.
I love me some thick strings for sure which is maybe a tad odd given I’m just not a metal fan but I have just how absurdly thick the bass vi strings are for normal guitar work. I will say it is very nice to be able to switch between the really thick strings and lighter more normal guitar strings. It’s fun to go back to the lighter ones and have them feel so easy to move
Yeah it’s a transition period, especially with how long it’s been since I’ve really played regularly. I will say that the strings I bought were specifically designed for downtuning to C and I have no idea how anyone would be able to play on them in standard tuning. Then you read about a guy like Stevie Ray Vaughn who played on 16’s and I just… Then of course there’s the whole thing about how his fingers would start bleeding and he would try to close 'em up with glue because he was a guitar hero in the 80’s and apparently you can’t be a guitar hero in the 80’s and not taking, just, unbelievable amounts of illegal substances.
I feel like I had something to say about ol SRV but found this videos where he is at the peak of his chosen crafts of guitar, cultural appropriation, and being high as fuck:
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