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Thanks for the clarity; your other post did come-off as being rather dismissive with regards to the issues of pick choice \ usage. Like you I...

I'm old enough to know well enough to listen to the experts. I've looked at the spreadsheet, and after un-crossing my eyes, thought to myself, "Wow,...

I, too, like flat-picking. I'm actually not keen on bluegrass melodies, but some of the flat-pickers get a fair way from that these days and are...

Thanks...total and complete shit show over here...tomorrow, barring any breakthroughs in negotiations, we are doing a "teach in," everyone is staying...

Actually, I hadn't thought about this, but for the most part, no. I tend not to like "guitar music." I can listen to a bit of surf music, that's...

I have a friend who had a genuine 35 L-5 and another friend who had a reissue. I played them both. They are very dissimilar guitars. The real deal...

Guitars are meant to be played and hopefully sound good while doing so. Good looks are nice but secondary--by quite a bit. The problem w playing...

Here in So Cal both terms are used. Hey, yesterday, I was reading about Chicago schools and teachers and the virus. Hope things are getting...

OH YES , we guitarists are indeed lucky when comparing the prices of OUR master builders to those of the piano, violin, cello, clarinet, harp or...

If a guitar is in good shape it's pretty easy to do a setup...clean, new strings, adjust the neck relief, adjust action, adjust pickup height, adjust...

And it looks like Stefan Kukurugya on keyboards.

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I've used my Bud for all types of gigs with all of my guitars, be it a Strat, a Tele, an ES-345 of my various archtops - sometimes plugged straight...

I actually did this experiment several years ago, on an Epi Broadway. I had a wood bridge (the actual bridge, not the base) made out of rosewood. ...

lastly.. how in the world can you tell those are Filtertrons on Benson's guitar??? My eyesight may be starting to go, but in that pic, they are...

To me a wooden bridge made a big difference in my cheap Ibanez Artcore AG75. Not a big investment and effort but maybe more impact than changing...

I just happened to notice, there was nothing in the playability that prompted me to go look around the neck join. Just by chance a little bit of...

Yes, apples and oranges. Lloyd Loar's designs and short stay at Gibson made that name legendary. Loar knew about violin making and implemented 400...

Here's a free online class. I dropped it because it's based around piano and I don't have one, or access to one. They explained modes right off the...

An 1982 ee ritenour. It had the pickups changed but the og pickups where in the case Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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The Filtertrons are great pickups and as their brothers from Gibson will sound different in different guitars. The specific construction of the...

I had the good fortune to play a 20's L5 , several original D'Angelico, D'Aquisto and Stromberg guitars in the upstairs "inner sanctum" at the old...

Nice! Reading the write up it appears that they do not ship amps anymore.

I know all about Filtertrons, I have been a Gretsch person for years. I've tried many variations of the design as well. I also like Dynasonics, and...

I've never been able to play the genuine article, but I did own a R/I once, and truth be told I've never regretted selling / trading any guitar as...

Yes; my Strat has 48 visible screws without even flipping it over. It still has a little of that "prototype look". :pride:

I second the unpotted pickup being the most important factor. Mid content is taste dependent (flattop acoustic guitars have less, archtops acoustics...

Not in the same stratosphere

I like Dynasonics a lot. They do hum. Filtertrons are also good pickups. They are quite different that Gibson humbuckers in their design. ...

Ragman, nice article. It is without a doubt a wonderful tune. As Kris points out, deceptively difficult, but also, in my opinion, accessible. You...

I guess I'm not explaining myself very well, my gear sounds good to me. I don't buy into thinking I need to search out the perfect strings, picks,...

'October 29, 2012 The recent passing of saxophonist and composer Sam Rivers on December 26, 2011 was followed by an outpouring of...

If thumb wrapping was illegal, I wouldn't be able to play. God gave me monkey hands for a reason, I say.

I hear "head" and "top" in Chicago. "You take the head on this one." "Let's trade 4's for a chorus and then back to the top."

I'm guessing Godin is finally figuring out that the Godin name itself carries the most weight, and having numerous "sub brands" doesn't make a whole...

I agree with all the posts above +1 on all of them! I will say that on hollowbodies, I can go lower than is desirable for me. That is, once I get...

That tone you describe is one of my favorites of all time.

That's a shame. Now they'll have to find a new name for their kid's model. Enfants de La Patrie won't really make sense anymore. John

Might not be a bad situation as such. First question is if this was something you just happen to notice or did it all of a sudden get this way? Next...

La Patrie was always a sub-brand of the company. Seagull, Art and Lutherie, Simon & Patrick are all sub-brands of Godin guitars.

Great info. Thanks.

Interesting points and analogies! Especially the one about the "smokey, peaty, single malt"! My Gretsch could NEVER sound like that, I...

" when we jam, I always end up playing the head. " Jameslovestal Hi, J, There's that word again (head) I/we never used in Chicago. See how...

There's more to this than "just" the guitar and the pickups: strings, even the pick unless you play fingerstyle. I'm actually not sure if there's a...

Yup, same as adjusting a les Paul. The bridge shouldn't move under string tension unless it takes an impact. Change strings one at a time so the...

Hi, A, When I had my neck reset, they resprayed the joint and it looked original. Don't take it to your local hobbyist. Only a qualified...

Lawson, I just caught the YT post that you made playing " Whisper Not" which you should post here also,...

Steve, Thank you for posting this video of Tal. Herb. & Charlie Byrd, fabulous stuff. The Blue Skies song sung by Charle B,...

Others may not agree, but I've always thought that low wind, unpotted humbuckers, do a perfect job of this. The reason being that the microphonic...

when you watch a facebook or instagram video, press win+g to open the game bar. press the record button to capture the video on your hard disk. ...

Speaking of bolt on necks, a timesaver I learned by watching a Fender sponsored video was how to adjust the truss rod on my vintage style Tele necks...

djg, I did not know this. Please elaborate, and a thanks for the useful info. What is the win+g button?

Yeah man! Lovely playing, sounds great. Extra points for being a thumb wrapper.

I totally agree with your comments, cannot compare 500 $ and 5000 $ guitars and my expectations are not that the AF Ibanez should match the high end...

Thanks all for your answers, it's really helpful!

Wow, so much stuff here....that's wonderful. I wanted to make sure to comment on a few people's takes who I had never commented on their stuff...

I'm maybe looking at this wrong and making some silly assumptions, but I'll take a chance at embarrassing myself and go ahead and say it...... ...

Ok FINALLY I got the parts and the time to do the swap. Ended up replacing everything except the jack - for some reason there is no long jack in this...

Yes I understand that, but still funnny. Btw in real life situations I prefer scenarios, when the seller is way more competent (regarding the...

I'm going to hunt me down a copy of Milestones. Loving the sound of that!

Thanks very much for the replies gang, I truly appreciate it! I guess it's no different than setting-up one of my Les Pauls then? Any...

Not cool. Which one was it?

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Besides sound, two other strong points would be the playability and feedback resistance of Gibson archtops. Don't know how they do it, but there is a...

Hey! Another idea! Tune your guitar to all M.3's. That way EVERYTHING is the same everywhere. It'd be the simplest instrument to learn.. but.....

Beatrice is a one of most popular jazz tunes on Youtube.I found a lot of different versions of this tune. As I see it is not so easy to...

In some ways, in a lot of ways, what we're doing here mirrors an approach to improvisation through history in that as music evolved, the language...

yes the bridge of sighs, in Venice ! we have been around there... hope you Will see it next time! cheers!

Very nice. Nice change of pace to see chord melody done on an acoustic.

Gentlemen, thanks a lot for your replies. They really helped me and opened my eyes to many of the doubts I had. I also understand your approach....

How to practice effectively...for just about anything - Annie Bosler and Don Greene - YouTube The last bit there. You dont need to be near guitar...

I enjoy all combinations of The Great Guitars. I haven't heard one that wasn't first-rate. Fortunately all that I know of include Charlie Byrd, who...

I think it's great that you're straying a bit from your comfort zone and trying to improvise and experiment rather than transcribe and/or play...

For guitars where the neck is bolted on like Fender Strats and Teles, there is something important to know... If for any reason the neck is...

If you go too low, just turn the wheels in the other direction and raise the bridge up a bit. When you get down near the limit of what is acceptable...

There are no pitfalls specific to lowering floating bridges*. How low you can go depends on the same factors as with other types of adjustable...

I play solely fingerstyle but I still do think that picks have a place in this world at the very least in terms of tone production. Listen to this...

With guitar, everything is a mess at first. Like a proper mess. Like messy kitchen.. or worse. Kitchen after moving to a new house. And when...

Wish I could find this whole album...

That phred looks decent. I remember seeing him say that all the clones of his guitar sucked but I’d bet these are quality instruments. I wonder who...

Just slowly lower it until it plays comfortably w out string buzz and you should be ok, though it may require some adjustment once it settles in.

I'm in there most days and have played with more jazz players than I can remember so anything possible. However mines a 65 JS and same avatar i...

A piano player I used to play with who knew him, said he was known as a string player. He could play any instrument with strings-banjo, mandolin,...

Eric Gale is one of my heroes.

Don’t tell a shamisen player that picks don’t matter. I had the pleasure of hearing and talking with a master shamisen player in Tokyo several...

Setting-up my own guitars is something I've wanted to do for years and last year, I finally decided that I would learn. I've done some of the...

Agree. Perhaps a photo of the back of the neck where it merges with the headstock would help explain the rather odd-looking area around the nut?

Week 8. Day 1 of "ATTYA" at 71 bpm. Wow, this is challenging! I'm not even focusing on the triplets too much. Like JBN suggested, I'm trying to...

QC on plain string gauges is low, in my experience. I've been checking the sizes of a bunch of plain strings recently, with a decent micrometer and...

I remember looking at those and a competitor's Langueclones on the interwebz. The reviews were all over the place but some of the demos sounded...

Wow, congrats, Fred!! You will be thrilled! One tip, if you don't mind: listen to his suggestions. And have fun with the process!!

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Studying the rules allow us to hear these items Barry calls “The Basics”. After you get these in your ear, you hear them all the time on Bebop...

Inspired by a recent post from Alessandro77, I decided to give JamKazam a try. I added a focusrite scarlett solo 3rd gen and an ethernet-to-usb-c...

No, but I know a guy with a Phred (Languedoc copy) and its fantastic, so I can only imagine the real thing...

yes, that's a bad situation. It needs a reset.

Thanks and yes, I agree on the critique. There were too many choruses and I did indeed lose concentration or whatever a few times. But that guitar...

Figures can run the gamut. Depends a lot on the job that's being re-worked. Seriously, some glues are reversable, but I've been shown repairs that...

no im talkin about the guys who are responding here!! all my people are long hip to the importance of everything when it comes to guitar...from...

man if you cant hear the differences that a pick & speaker makes to your tone and playing, then the one guy in the audience doesn't even matter...are...

Tone is to die for and I like the way you approach creating melody. Lots of good lines. Nitpicks only: seemed as if some phrases swung harder...

Yes the 13 TI usually mic out at 12.6mm. Regardless TI plains have a more bell like quality up around the 8-14 frets than anything else I a/b’ed. ...

if you are stateside, contact curt wilson @ old school guitars in nj...he's a member here..and one of the best out there with bodywork and...

Don't suppose anyone knows a ballpark figure on a reset these days? Is it easier as there already been a reset? I think the finish usually covers the...

The problem is that Gibson sound is unique. No one does it. There are for sure other builders which might be even better in terms of quality. Like...

Retail therapy indeed! Sweet 000!!! My first 'nice' acoustic was an early 2000 Martin 000 GTE. Sold it to a friend to raise funds for...

Well, you guys (and the photos) sold me. I reached out to Steve today and he already replied. We've started the process. I'm going to fill out his...