What Did You Do With Your Guitar(s) Today?

[la szum]

What are you in the middle of doing to it?

I quite enjoy working on guitars tbh.

I think it is because I have done all the things on a guitar (and with amps) that
I can do, and don't want to do them anymore. My time is getting shorter and
shorter, too, so that is a huge incentive to spend more time doing the things
I enjoy (playing, learning), and not so much time doing the things that are less
of a priority. For me.

My nearest/closest guitar playing buddy is really into working on guitars and
recently bought a couple of CNC Machines (Router/Cutter?) and has cut his
first few bodies. Ever since doing so he hardly ever plays and it kind of shows
to me.

As a friend I feign some casual interest (but mostly have no fucks to give about
that kind of thing. :lol ). The Singer and I joke weekly about "I wonder what
K*** worked on this week." Meaning, what he did woodworking, and not music.

Anywho, yeah, we are all free to find and discover our curiosities and enthusiasms
where we find them. And then not getting distracted by Bullshit once we do.

 

[SillyOctpuss]

I think it is because I have done all the things on a guitar (and with amps) that
I can do, and don't want to do them anymore. My time is getting shorter and
shorter, too, so that is a huge incentive to spend more time doing the things
I enjoy (playing, learning), and not so much time doing the things that are less
of a priority. For me.

My nearest/closest guitar playing buddy is really into working on guitars and
recently bought a couple of CNC Machines (Router/Cutter?) and has cut his
first few bodies. Ever since doing so he hardly ever plays and it kind of shows
to me.

As a friend I feign some casual interest (but mostly have no fucks to give about
that kind of thing. :lol ). The Singer and I joke weekly about "I wonder what
K*** worked on this week." Meaning, what he did woodworking, and not music.

Anywho, yeah, we are all free to find and discover our curiosities and enthusiasms
where we find them. And then not getting distracted by Bullshit once we do.

I can be quite guilty of that with guitar pedals tbh. I really enjoy building them but if they don't knock something off the board then they get chucked in pedal mountain or given away. It's tough to find a balance between learning new stuff, writing and building things sometimes.

 

[DrewJD82]

There's a CTS push/pull out there too that looks pretty solid. Something to chew on I suppose.

EDIT: I meant push/pull, not push/push!

Can you link it . I haven’t seen it yet.

Yeah I've only seen the push pull cts.

The last time I ordered a solderless kit from Mad Hatter I requested a push/push pot so I could just whack the volume knob instead of trying to grip it after reaching my arm over the bridge/bar to get to it (I do not understand PRS switch placement AT ALL) He uses CTS pots in everything, but I’m guessing due to the way it’s written here, the push/push’s aren’t CTS. I asked my buddy who I sold that guitar to to open up the control cavity and snap a pick of the pots for me because I’m curious now.

I’ll never use a push/pull again, being able to just smack the knob is such a faster/easier experience.

 

[DrewJD82]

Yesterday was the second time in a month that I’ve gotten perturbed by something and was able to actually put the energy into music where I felt the end resul benefited and would have been quite different had I not been perturbed. I generally have to wait until a situation has passed before I can work it into a song, but I was tracking my parts for the last couple songs I have to finish for the band and got to a chorus where I was on the fence about what I was playing, it was like a mouthy “Oh yeah?” feeling that made me want to come up with something better and I did.

I love using octave chords to come up with a melody over a basic 4-chords and the truth chorus. When the chords are just sustained for a measure at a time it makes a perfect bed for something like that and you can superimpose a whole different melody onto a chorus outside of the vocal line with it that carries the chorus over the finish line. The one I pulled out me ass last night added a bit of ‘drama’ to the chorus and tied the whole room together.

 

[Ed DeGenaro]

Tot day I travelled but this was finally finished yesterday

 

[Ed DeGenaro]

Finished this, as in did the solo...needs mix cleaning.