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

[Trollbait]

Today I tuned up the restrung Roland G202 guitar and lowered the hex pickup on the strings that were creating sympathetic resonance vibrations that were causing the GR300 analog guitar synthesizer to false trigger. The heavier gauge string raise the action slightly and now Problem solved.

I then ran the guitar GR300 output to a ADA analog guitar preamp and, the GR300 synth output to the the instrument input of a Moog Matriarch. I turned all The Matriarch oscillators volume to zero, set the VCA to be on continually and randomly modulated one side of the stereo filter. Then added the Matriarch stereo delay. So now basically the GR300 are the oscillators for the moog matriarch.

This all goes back to a mixer where Reverb and other effects from an ensoniq dp4 are added along with the dry modulated audio from the matriarch. Into the stereo power amp and out to the speakers for some chronic noise.

 

[la szum]

Telecaster into Wrecked Express Preset on the FM3. Twangstastic!

 

[norminal]

Telecaster into Wrecked Express Preset on the FM3. Twangstastic!

Try this with the settings and IR’s mentioned in the thread:

Fractal Audio AMP models: 5F8 Tweed (Keith Urban's '59 high power Fender Twin-Amp, 5F8)

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[la szum]

Them Brass Saddles are the shit! Thanks again. They upped the twang factor by a considerable amount!

 

[greatmutah]

This week and today I’ve been playing and learning the solos to Jet City Woman and Anotehr Rainy Night by Queensryche. I’ve also been using a metronome with the harder sections of those solos which I’ve never really done before. Muscle memory is coming along nicely.

 

[Spaced Out Ace]

This week and today I’ve been playing and learning the solos to Jet City Woman and Anotehr Rainy Night by Queensryche. I’ve also been using a metronome with the harder sections of those solos which I’ve never really done before. Muscle memory is coming along nicely.

Gotta be difficult to do that while spraying green mist.

 

[greatmutah]

Gotta be difficult to do that while spraying green mist.

I spray the green mist during long string bends.

 

[megametal7]

I finished tracking all guitar parts for one of my new song. Now waiting on bassist and singer to complete it.

 

[FuzzyAce]

I spray the green mist during long string bends.

 

[DrewJD82]

Not sure how much I’ve said it here, but I know I talked about my dry spell for quite a while and I had a few false starts in that period where I thought the dry spell was over, but as of now I’m finishing 6 straight weeks of playing guitar almost every day for 2-3 hours a day, the most I’ve played since high school. This week I took a few days off because I had a nasty sinus infection (not drug related for once) that kicked my ass pretty hard.

I haven’t been writing/recording at all, just playing and loving the shit out of it. Getting through some parts of “Cliffs Of Dover” for the first time definitely pushed some motivation in a way that hadn’t been there since the 90’s.

And then last night, out of nowhere, I felt compelled to sit in the studio and write. Took a song I had fully written about 5 years ago, it was 7 minute song….hahaha I deleted everything but the pre-chorus and chorus and re-wrote everything. 5 hours in the studio last night and about 4 in there today, straight up metal.

Kinda odd….I don’t feel the same feeling I used to of “I HAVE to get this done ASAP”, there’s no rush or expediency in my head, I’m completely in a “I really love playing guitar and that’s all I really care about right now” phase.

 

[TSJMajesty]

I'm playing much cleaner these days..., clean not as in tone, but accuracy when switching to a different string. Been really focused on that for a while, and it makes me happy that it's paying off.

Today I slowed down some of my practice riffs, focusing on keeping a consistent picking motion, and hitting the downbeats. Still not yet where I'd like to be in terms of tempo, but I'm slowly making progress. Been going at this pretty hard for about 5 years now, but I'd completely lost interest in guitar for about 5 years prior to that. And I don't know why, or what possessed me to get back to it. But I'm glad I did!

 

[la szum]

Love all the inspirational confessions in this thread. Nothing has been found yet that tops actual playing.

Time on task is irreplaceable.

 

[Spaced Out Ace]

Not sure how much I’ve said it here, but I know I talked about my dry spell for quite a while and I had a few false starts in that period where I thought the dry spell was over, but as of now I’m finishing 6 straight weeks of playing guitar almost every day for 2-3 hours a day, the most I’ve played since high school. This week I took a few days off because I had a nasty sinus infection (not drug related for once) that kicked my ass pretty hard.

I haven’t been writing/recording at all, just playing and loving the shit out of it. Getting through some parts of “Cliffs Of Dover” for the first time definitely pushed some motivation in a way that hadn’t been there since the 90’s.

And then last night, out of nowhere, I felt compelled to sit in the studio and write. Took a song I had fully written about 5 years ago, it was 7 minute song….hahaha I deleted everything but the pre-chorus and chorus and re-wrote everything. 5 hours in the studio last night and about 4 in there today, straight up metal.

Kinda odd….I don’t feel the same feeling I used to of “I HAVE to get this done ASAP”, there’s no rush or expediency in my head, I’m completely in a “I really love playing guitar and that’s all I really care about right now” phase.

You should cut back on the gakk if you're getting sinus infections from it. Yeesh.

 

[fretworn]

You should cut back on the gakk if you're getting sinus infections from it. Yeesh.

Boot it …

 

[TSJMajesty]

Nothing has been found yet that tops actual playing.

Get this- Sometimes I even play my guitar UNPLUGGED!!

 

[megametal7]

I've been practicing sweeps, I'm having hard time descending between middle finger and ring finger.

 

[Spaced Out Ace]

I've been practicing sweeps, I'm having hard time descending between middle finger and ring finger.

What do you mean? It's possibly you are using too much finger pressure and not rolling from one finger to the next smoothly/quickly enough.

 

[megametal7]

What do you mean? It's possibly you are using too much finger pressure and not rolling from one finger to the next smoothly/quickly enough.

Roll is the problem it dose not flow…. Its like brain is glitching during that part. LoL

It could be too much pressure on string but its most likely my fingers not used to that combination of flow.

Ascending is fine going back down is the problem. Ill make quick video of that problem.

 

[Eagle]

Two string roles are fine, three is a bit more problematic, what is the particular arpeggio ? You can always finger it different on the way back.

 

[megametal7]

I have no idea what its called, my theory is limited , Im starting on A string on on10th fret ( G note ) to 15th fret on C note, see video below.