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Haha!!! They've been around for about 15 years haven't they!!! I'm sure I had some 2010/11 time and I'm fairly sure that they were old news by then!!!
15 years ago I had wandered a long way away from guitars. But I can be very shortsighted too.
Any advice on a standalone midi foot controller for programme changes? I could use my HD500- but it is huge and I want sell it.
Check out the Morningstar mc6....I use one with my HX Stomp. It's far more capable thank am of programming it, but they really are great!
I'd never heard of that, thanks Tom.
I'll check out the spec but it sounds perfect for a pedalboard build.
Speaking of which I built a temporary board this morning during the slack spots at work.
A length of uPVC trailer lighting board extrusion and £5 worth of 50mm velcro from Amazon gave me this:
Not bad and saves me unplugging anything whenever I move it around. Need to sort out a better power supply next to replace the 4 wall warts.
Nice!
Yeah the MC6 is slightly bigger than your Strymon pedals, not huge though. They do an MC8 now too which is slightly bigger.
Fairly sure there's an MC6 for sale on thefretboard at the moment.
Power supply wise, I'm running the biggest truetone that they do....even though I don't have a huge array of pedals, a few of them are a monster draw, and I also need an AC connection too. I do it all off one plug which is nice! Other decent options for you would be gig rig stuff, or the Strymon Zuma.
I don’t need much from a midi pedal, just patch changes and the 2 foot pedal inputs will be nice. All I want to do is switch Irridium and Sunset favourites and different boards on the Plethora.
Power supply is needed for that lot (All 500mA 9v) and three more OD and distortion pedals. Should be fairly simple. And as you say only one plug 👍🏼
Seems strange to posting about Terry Riley and then to this but...
I’ve not been immersed in guitar for a few years and it was only lockdown boredom away from ‘home’ that got me to buy more toys and start getting back up to (low) speed, but so much has happened Over the last few years that I’m flabbergasted.
I still listen to lots of new music but somehow I’d never heard about Sophie Lloyd. Pretty girl who can shred rather well. I’m more an Orianthi or Nita Strauss kind of guy but this English girl is pretty darn good.
Interesting to see where she takes it.
There’s a couple of videos where the focus is more on her than her playing, let’s hope that isn’t how it ends up.
I'd thoroughly recommend the new Tom Misch and Yussef Deyes album. His a fricking amazing player.... Such a great feel, and an incredible ear for melody.
I shall have a listen.
Currently wading through Opeth’s back catalog. 🤟
Haven't played my acoustic for quite a while, I'm finding fretting notes impossible on the headstock end of the fretboard. I've taken to tuning down a full step and just leaving a capo on the second fret.
It's a decentish Tanglewood and I've played about with the truss rod and saddle setting action height,but thinking it might be nut related? Any ideas? Thanks in advance.
Was it always like this? Nuts don’t tend to suddenly go wrong.
Unless you change to thicker strings than the nut is filed for.
Good point. I’ve never done that. Honest.
Inexperienced (bass) guitarist here....and I'm getting what i think is fret buzz on the A string, when fretting around say 5-9 on the fretboard (sorry it that's wrong terminology - it's certainly buzz, where else could that come from?)
It's not on other strings, and far less pronounced fretting at the nut end or further towards the body, or on open A, and while I often get buzz because of bad technique I can just fret a single note and get buzz.
It's a reasonable quality bass (Squier Classic Vibe Mustang) from a proper shop but mail order, so I'd hope set up is decent. Anything I should look at? If it was all strings I'd wonder about relief on the neck from what I googled, but it is just one string.
Does the saddle height maybe need raising slightly?
possibly - that would intuitively make sense (just as a mechanically minded person looking at it)
Would that affect the tuning (prob not that I'd notice over that small adjustment!) - I have worse tuning probs coming from playing the wrong notes!
Get a straight edge down the neck to spot any high frets and check relief against manufacturers recommended.
Don't adjust anything until you are certain what is needed.
I have a bit of fret buzz on my Strat, but I'm not playing Carnegie Hall any time soon so it doesn't bother me.
Like quite a few people I got stuck into the guitar again when lockdown started. I've got to the point where I can get my chords quickly and cleanly, I'm starting to get most of the notes in the right order and I'm enjoying both my old acoustic and my new electric, and doing a good half hour most days and sometimes more.
But what next? A few years ago I used to take the acoustic to a couple of pubs and sit with a bunch of others where we would take turns singing and playing and joining in and I got to a reasonable standard.
But that's off the agenda now. And I'm wondering what other people do to feed their ambitions. I mean, I know exactly what motivates me to go for a bike ride or go windsurfing and I get a reward from the practice and training. But the guitar?
I can put on a CD and play along to it I guess. I could write my own stuff (I've done a couple) or do my own arrangements to songs I like, although churning away at one piece means it soon goes from a song you love to one you hate. I don't have anything other than a Windows laptop and Android phone and tablet. Together with a Vox headphone amp. No software, but that's not out of the question. Oh, and a fair bit of time working through Justin Guitar and Paul Davids, both of whom I really rate.
So, inspire me STW, and give me your good ideas. If it works, I'll post up the results!
Well BigJohn, you sound like an experienced player, I'm learning how to play flamenco with my guitar teacher, luckily he is a monster player and can play and teach any style.
I'm about seven months in and am progressing pretty well with rock, pop and classical, but flamenco is just bonkers hard, I play about four hours a day so I just keep slogging and it eventually sinks in.
Flamenco? Isn't that like the unicycle of guitar? No para mi, por favor! I'm not enough of a masochist.
I currently live in the Spanish minor (Phrygian?) scale.
Would love to possess the skills required to play flamenco!
I might, just might be going guitar shopping tomorrow.
Local shop is looking at taking on Tokai, so if that comes off I'll have something Stratish from him. That's the preferred option. The shop is great and everything he sells is set up perfectly.
If that fails to materialise, I'll look at other options, G&L Legacy or a Gordon Smith S type both appeal. Played the G&L and various newer Gordon Smiths and the quality is there.
Not drawn to any of the current Fender Strats, with the possible exception of the Performer series.
My ideal would be something vintagey in terms of looks and pickups, but with truss rod adjustment at the nut end, modern radius and frets and a non vintage neck profile.
Not keen on black or sunburst.
Not fussed about fretboard material.
All suggestions welcome.
Had the Orange Kongpressor for a while now and it's bloody excellent btw - very different to the MXR, much more transparent but a lovely effect. It's like having another channel on the amp.
That is rather lovely.
Hell yeah!
My Schaller locking tuners arrived today. The original pegs were the only thing on my Tyler that I had any concerns about. And I get to use one of the Park spanners I have that has never been used as my bikes have no nuts/bolts that size.
So, PMT today to look at some Strats today and....
....this followed me home. 🙂
You know how it is.
Oooh, I'll just try that one whilst I'm looking.....whoops.
G5422t Electromatic in **** off Orange.
It's delightful. Even stays in tune.
On sale too.
Happy days.
Anyone want to buy a Vintage VS6?
Schwiiiing!!
Everyone is raving about the new Gretschs.
Time to grow a quiff & strutt your cat stuff
Yup.
Just off to crap on next door's lawn. 🙂
It's the hollow body, made in Korea at WMI.
On sale as I think they're shifting production to China - all the centre block and solid Electromatics are now Chinese.
Nothing wrong with them, but this was too good an offer to turn down.
Tried the G5420T, the deeper singlecut, but it didn't feel as friendly to play and had a rattly bridge too.
Barely more expensive than the Streamliners but a much nicer finish.
Sounds lush.
ceepers, I’ve just bought a Jazzmaster too. It’s only a Squire Classic Vibe in Olympic white, but wow it’s lovely.
Music theoryists can you help?
If I was to play a I, IV, V chord progression in the key of G on the blues scale I'm left with the following chords: G, C# and D
Now, would the progression be played exactly like that? I'm a bit confused. With the blues scale being close to the minor pentatonic would you play minor chords instead? Or could you substitute with any chords as long as they are in the correct keys?
The only sharp in the key of G is F#. G, C, D is usual. Em is often added in to the mix.
I IV V in G major is G C D (major)
The b5 (C# or Db) is the "blue" note in the blues scale.
Lots of 'blues' uses a minor scale over a major chord (the blues scale is a minor scale)
Another quite common thing in a 12 bar blues would be that all of the chords would be dominant 7ths. If that's the case, then the blues scale works well over it and you can just add in a major 3rd over chord I.
Nice choice rusty! If you have a Tele in the house then strats aren't that different tbh so a semi acoustic with filtertron is the right call 🙂 hope you are well
Thanks to Rusty's guitar acquisition I been playing a lot of Cult this morning using the Gretsch models on the Variax. A bit of delay and a smidge of chorus and instant She Sells Sanctutary.
Forgot how much I loved Love and Sonic Temple.
I bought a 2nd hand squire vintage modified jaguar in January but just haven't bonded with it, so for sale or swap for anything duo-sonic or mustangy pref with a humbucker in there somewhere
Details on the Jag please.....
Typically you would plav the natural minor pentatonic/blies scale over the major chords
So G major C D would be Eminor Pentatonic or blues scale
C major F G Am pentatonic etc........................
I tent to think of major scale as more melodic and pentatonic as more guitary they are almost the same except the pentatonic is missing 2 notes
So G major C D would be Eminor Pentatonic or blues scale
I’m no expert, but don’t think that’s right. Em pentatonic is essentially equivalent to the G Maj pentatonic which will work fine over the G chord but won’t sound right over the C or D.
I’d use Gm pentatonic over those chords (or use the major pentatonic pattern but changing position on each chord change).
Happy to be corrected.
I tent to think of major scale as more melodic and pentatonic as more guitary they are almost the same except the pentatonic is missing 2 notes
The minor pentatonic is the (natural) minor scale minus two notes (the 2 and the 6). Ditto the major pentatonic is the major scale minus two notes (the 4 and the 7).
Music theoryists can you help?
If I was to play a I, IV, V chord progression in the key of G on the blues scale I’m left with the following chords: G, C# and D
No quite sure what you mean.
The sound of the blues is essentially playing a minor pentatonic scale over a I, IV, V dominant 7 chord progression so in G you would play G minor pentatonic over G7, C7, D7. The so called blues scale adds the flat 5 to the minor pentatonic so the C#.
You can also play the G major pentatonic over that progression which would be a major blues (just drop whichever pentatonic box you are playing in at the time down three frets and you are playing the major blues). In fact you can mix up minor and major pentatonics in the same tune/jam.
Things can get even more interesting if you incorporate the major 3rd of whichever dominant 7
chord you are playing over at the time especially when playing the I chord.
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Nice choice rusty! If you have a Tele in the house then strats aren’t that different tbh so a semi acoustic with filtertron is the right call 🙂 hope you are well
I'm well mate, thank you! Just passed my degree course, so now qualified as a Nursing Associate, yay!
The guitar was a present to myself, it's lovely, but I think it's going back - issue with the bridge allignment. I'll get my tech to look at it and report back on Wednesday.
Bah.
What didn’t you like about the jag?
Guess they are quite idiosyncratic sound wise and the scale length feels small compared to
Most other things?!
I have a squier vm jag that I put fender AVRI jag pups in. Made a massive difference to the sound for fairly cheap.
Lovely for Marr style jangle or biting fuzz tones! 🙂
Quick poll to the electric players out there:
When practicing do you plug the guitar in?
And if so, to what?
I play most if not every day but 95% + of my playing (practice?) is done un-amplified.
I have an Orange Rocker 15 Terror that attenuates to quiet listening levels but my wife and kids have the hearing of a dog and I get moaned at. I have a Boss Tube Amp Expander that I use for recording that I can plug headphones into but that all seem like effort and I just end up picking up the guitar and playing.