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

[Warmart]

Ok, so dropping it to D Standard was a total mistake. It sucked all of the life out of this guitar.

Instead of going back to Eb, I decided to take it all the way to E Standard. Much much better! This thing plays and sounds the absolute best in E Standard.

Any of you ever experience this phenomenon? My Strat plays and sounds best in Eb. My PRS, E Standard. It’s crazy how something so simple can affect the entire mojo of a guitar.

My PRS DW CE24 sounds like ass in D, some guitars just hafta stay in E.

 

[la szum]

Climate stays outside, it’s too hot 11 months out of the year to open the windows.

Considering this is 19 years old, has only been chugged on, resting my and on that bridge 90% of the time and was never once wiped down after, that ain’t bad!
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(The best lighting in here is under my vine plant, that green/yellow/gold is a reflection of it, the tan stuff is the lampshade)

Yeah, that Phillips Screw looks like new.

I think this is another reason the Ibanez Gibraltar Bridge should be resurrected.

 

[la szum]

Man, I find some guitars seem to be really sensitive to not only the tuning, but the gauge of strings.

I have no idea why.

Any thoughts @Eagle / Andy??

 

[norminal]

Not anything with a guitar per se, but I breadboarded a simple boost circuit from a schematic today.

I’ve done a handful of DIY pedal builds in the past but always relied on a PCB or kit. The problem I found was that I didn’t really learn anything by using PCBs or kits, other than the assembly part of it.

By reading a schematic and breadboarding it, I get to learn what each component does and how it interacts. I am also forced to figure out my own path on the breadboard and ultimately recreate it on stripboard. So far, this has been a game changer for me because I’m beginning to really understand and how to read a schematic.

The next step is to solder everything together on stripboard and install it into an enclosure. I may even take it further and have a PCB made of a future circuit.

 

[Warmart]

Not anything with a guitar per se, but I breadboarded a simple boost circuit from a schematic today.

I’ve done a handful of DIY pedal builds in the past but always relied on a PCB or kit. The problem I found was that I didn’t really learn anything by using PCBs or kits, other than the assembly part of it.

By reading a schematic and breadboarding it, I get to learn what each component does and how it interacts. I am also forced to figure out my own path on the breadboard and ultimately recreate it on stripboard. So far, this has been a game changer for me because I’m beginning to really understand and how to read a schematic.

The next step is to solder everything together on stripboard and install it into an enclosure. I may even take it further and have a PCB made of a future circuit.

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Nice! That brings back some memories for me, too!

 

[Spaced Out Ace]

I played my SRV inspired guitar (even though it has an HSH pickup setup), and learned how to play the Prime Time Wrestling theme from the 80s by accident. Lol

 

[greatmutah]

Been practicing a lot lately. Like real practice. But today I noodled a bit on my Strat through my Rockerverb. It’s an American special body with an Allparts neck. 22 jumbo frets, C shape (thicker than any fender I’ve owned) and a 12” radius. Love this neck. It’s just amazing. Fender Pure Vintage 59s for the neck and middle, Duncan SSL 6 bridge. I love my Rockerverb with everything but I forget how damn good it is with singles coils. The extra low mids beef up those pickups in the right way and let the top end come through. So between yesterday and today I used that Strat and started learning Stargazer by Rainbow and Stormbringer by Deep Purple. Does the Blackmore thing great with this amp and even does a higher gain Rory Gallagher kinda sound. I played some of Walk on Hot Coals. I don’t know it, know it but I think I could stand to learn because I love that song. Still gonna bust out my KH-602 through my Metro later but this was a lot of fun.

 

[DrewJD82]

This entire week has just been wanking away with the Electra Dyne and putting different dirt pedals in front of it. The more I play it, the more pockets of awesome I'm finding in it.

Both these clips are a Lovepedal Vintage Modern into the ED
(timestamped)

 

[Warmart]

This weekend I put Gotoh lockers on my Jackson Soloist and my Ibanez RG. Also shimmed the locking nut on my PRS DW CE-24, had massive massive buzz (think Oprah with diarrhea buzz ).

 

[norminal]

think Oprah with diarrhea buzz

 

[JasonE]

Tested out some pedals. At least it got the guitar in my hands and made me play a variety of things.

 

[Axe]

I am putting this one thru it's paces today. Awesome instrument !

 

[la szum]

For a second I thought of bludgeoning someone with one of mine. I then realized they
weren't worth the cost of a guitar to actually do it.

Yes, it's a joke NSA. A joke.

 

[Warmart]

For a second I thought of bludgeoning someone with one of mine. I then realized they
weren't worth the cost of a guitar to actually do it.

Yes, it's a joke NSA. A joke.

True story, I used to drive by the NSA fairly often.

 

[la szum]

 

[megametal7]

Friend of mine gave me this and gave it good clean, tune it up and played some drug lord music on it.

 

[Achilles]

About to take it out of the case for the first time in over 2 weeks.

 

[DrewJD82]

Picked up my JEM to warm up on the couch before going into the studio, about 5 minutes later I was setting up the FM9 in 4CM with the Electra Dyne. Then I realized I could crank the shit out of the ED and control the volume with the loop return via Out 3.

I didn’t even dick around with different sounds or effects, it was my same 4CM preset for the 5153, just cranking that ED was enough to get me lost for an hour or so on the red channel. There’s a lot more gain available on this head than I thought!

 

[spawnofthesith]

Day off from work to deal with some other matters this morning, been spending the afternoon prepping for our first show of the year this Saturday

Busted out my LP for the first time in a while. Been in PRS lala land for hot minute. Don’t think I’ve busted out the LP for a show in nearly a year

God damn I forgot how hard this thing fucks

It will make its triumphant return to stage on Saturday fo shizzle

 

[Spaced Out Ace]

Nothing, because my shit job has devised some cockamamie idea that we'd focus on specific "product lines" to assist users with to "allow us to stave off burn out because we're focusing on one area of the product." Instead of doing that, it has increased burn out and today was fucking insane with the ticket count. Not to mention the triage we are doing has ballooned by almost double versus three months ago, and I'm very fucking tempted to getting reassigned elsewhere. I am caring less and less if the manager, who I'm kind of friendly with, has anyone to do the tickets or not.

I was like, "I plan to play guitar after work" when starting today, then a bunch of tickets came in and most of them were for me. Thanks. Fucking bullshit.