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Today, 12:47 PM
On classicals too. +1. What he said
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Today, 12:44 PM
Hate them. An abomination on the beautiful aesthetics of the traditional guitar and violin. Did Stradivarius have sound ports?
OK rant over. I...
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Today, 12:34 PM
All this talk about fingering and positions... sheesh... makes me feel a little squirrelly.
BUT I have decided to change up ow I play measures 5-8...
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Today, 12:34 PM
Thanks for the detailed response! I’ll definitely look into those companies.
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Today, 12:34 PM
I use the Page in the FX loop of the Boss and use the 4 X 10 Fender Bassman setting on the Boss;
The Page does what the Boss can't do- add...
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Today, 12:30 PM
Thank you!
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Today, 12:23 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk0ARdh9rYU
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Today, 12:19 PM
Here paul alcantara
p.alcantara@btinternet.com
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Today, 12:15 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-pShRISHnQ
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Today, 12:06 PM
Hello. If you don’t mind going the non-traditional route, there are many nice vintage examples(1950’s-1960’s) from Germany. Makers such as Rodebald...
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Today, 11:50 AM
I used the contact email on that site and asked (thanks). I am just at the beginning of a custom commission process with a luthier and was looking...
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Today, 11:03 AM
Japanese fit and finish is a touch act to follow. Congrats Jack.
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Today, 11:02 AM
I was blessed to see Jack Pearson and Dickey Betts perform together with the Allman Brothers Band back in the late 1990’s. That was a great duo....
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Today, 10:54 AM
Contact Paul Alcantara at the prewargibson L5 sight. He has a whole bunch of information and site that keeps track of things like this. He is very...
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Today, 10:40 AM
I think the tone there is a little more country than jazz. I'm never sure what a small hollow body like that brings to things. Sorry not to be more...
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Today, 10:39 AM
Well I agree with you. I just couldn't get on with the big fat tree trunk V neck. Considering it's value, I just could not keep it. Was in the...
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Today, 10:26 AM
Maybe something loose somewhere. Maybe a failing speaker. Impossible to tell with any certainty from just that video. I only hear anything on the...
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Today, 10:19 AM
Jim Hall played with Ben Webster and said he learned a lot from him, i.e. to use fewer notes, and think more melodically.
He talks about it about...
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Today, 10:18 AM
I’ve messing with slide in standard tuning lately, yet again. I have found some good resources on the subject but the best advice is rather simple. I...
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Today, 10:03 AM
The fact that you never measured it is not stupid at all.
The fact that you used to own it, well ...
Sorry, just giving you a hard time. :tape:
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Today, 09:47 AM
Maybe one of these?
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Today, 09:40 AM
I used to own a '24, but I never measured it (stupid).
Try checking with these people:
https://prewargibsonl-5.com/
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Today, 09:40 AM
hi, could you you put this in a DM please?
Best wishes.
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Today, 09:39 AM
I have booked a jazz guitar weekend in Huddersfield and will stay 2-3 June in Manchester. Could you tell me the shipping costs to Ibis Styles...
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Today, 09:35 AM
Ben Webster had a real voice on the instrument. His breath informed each note in a way that a spoken or sung voice brings a lyric to life. It's...
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Today, 08:40 AM
Usenet was created from its precursors in 1980, "personal computers" in 1981 if you consider the original IBM PC to be the 1st of that class though...
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Today, 08:31 AM
I am looking for a Moffa Mithra, I prefer to buy the "semi hollow" as opposed to the "semi solid" model, but would consider either one.
I am in...
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Today, 08:31 AM
Ok I am having second thought because of the stick-to-stomach comment.... so maybe 4?
As per popularity: this is a poll from one of our previous...
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Today, 08:10 AM
New-ish because I have now had the guitar for a few months.
This is #55 of the Schorr guitars (and my #1 good 7-string guitar, but another...
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Today, 07:57 AM
I ended up finding a PM120. I really love the quality (and sound) of the high end japanese archtops and really missed having a pm120. It sort of...
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Today, 07:47 AM
I wonder if those who own a vintage Type 1 (1923-1924) or Type 2 (1925-1930) 16” L5s could provide me with some measurements. I see different #s...
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Today, 06:42 AM
Least popular?! But it is the only right place! My thumb has never touched it while playing, but hands are different I guess.
The place 2 might...
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Today, 06:19 AM
Didn’t known about this one yet. Interesting. Really like what I’m hearing here. Really like what I’m seeing, too.
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Today, 04:06 AM
That's it, I've had it up to here with the organ. :sour: I'm selling it and focusing on piano. :encouragement:
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Today, 03:25 AM
Hi!
Sometimes it's possible to fill gaps in the melody with another melody.
Cheers, Mikko
Blue Bossa #guitar #guitarcover #guitarsolo - YouTube...
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Today, 02:59 AM
Thanks for the reply.
The one Guild I'm interested in is the Starfire III Special with the Dynasonics pickups. Best of both worlds to me since I...
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Today, 01:22 AM
Sooo...Kramer? BC Rich? I look forward to your exploits!
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Today, 12:07 AM
Hey guys thank you very much for all your replies.
I am leaning towards position 2. I also bought the Dunlop straplock and will ask the tech to...
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Today, 12:05 AM
I love Ben Webster. The Holiday/Webster sessions with Barney Kessel on guitar is a legendary album. So much inspiration in there and Barney's...
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Today, 12:05 AM
I don’t do open strings. They confuse me.
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Yesterday, 11:56 PM
For some reason I avoided recording this tune for a while-- but oh well, it's a classic for a reason :) Hope you enjoy!
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Yesterday, 11:28 PM
Actually, the entire 4 bars could be played in the first position if you use open strings but it may sound country especially if you're playing a...
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Yesterday, 11:05 PM
Here’s a position for you.
https://youtu.be/OA7QvIzBr4Q?si=wZnUNxOOy0i3hw8z
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Yesterday, 10:58 PM
About 10 yrs ago and another in the early 80s. Not a lot of that sort of thing in my area. The one from 10yrs ago had 9s on it - yuck!
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Yesterday, 10:48 PM
Unfortunately I can't notate open strings with the Chord Writer app I have, but the top strings are open, so all the chords I posted, except for two,...
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Yesterday, 10:36 PM
Were you able to play a GB10 before you bought one?
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Yesterday, 10:35 PM
The OP's question is voicings of #11's with the 5th. I gave one example.
There are others but the chord charts you posted seem to omit the 5th....
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Yesterday, 10:14 PM
And there are many C Lydian voicings with open strings - more than any other chord if you count Am7 & Em7 voicings.
A couple of duplicates...
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Yesterday, 09:58 PM
Bluegrass players, almost without exception, will put the strap button at position 5 on their dreads.
My first archtop, an Eastman AR905CE, had...
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Yesterday, 09:52 PM
I have a Ruck 2010 classical with a sound port. Ruck provided wooden plugs so you can plug the hole and tell the difference. There is a huge...
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Yesterday, 09:46 PM
My opinion:
Hideous affectation. Never.
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Yesterday, 09:40 PM
This isn’t what you asked, but I’ve had an AR810CE for 17 years and I never put a strap button on it. I thought about it many times but it’s never...
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Yesterday, 09:26 PM
On a daily basis I’m often switching from classical/flamenco necks with wide FB’s to my Tele, with a moderately full C, to the full D of my Martin,...
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Yesterday, 08:45 PM
I always care about neck shape and size being somewhat ambidextrous,and writing with my left hand. Playing a right handed I’m sensitive to the feel,...
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Yesterday, 08:29 PM
Yeah! Apparently the Hammond, invented in 1935, was the very first synthesizer. It's just more dang skills to have to work up to work the switches...
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Yesterday, 08:29 PM
Catchy title Christian. I think you're getting the hang of this tube stuff!
(no time now, but I plan to watch at some point)
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Yesterday, 08:22 PM
All mine are 2 and 3. They both work great. Maybe I slightly prefer 3. Drilling thru the heel cap into end grain is fine as long as you understand...
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Yesterday, 08:06 PM
I have Martin's duo course. It's great. He makes it look effortless.
We refer verbally to the course during our duo practice ( I took notes and...
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Yesterday, 08:05 PM
I've only played with an organist about twice, and long ago. Just hit me that you guys were tweaking all those switches and stops long before us guys...
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Yesterday, 08:03 PM
A functional-harmony perspective might name the note according to how it resolves: #11 resolves up, b5 resolves down.
Of course this won't apply...
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Yesterday, 07:53 PM
So true about first fret. Knowing that just helps us gauge how much taper. My Lehmann is only about 1/32 thicker at 9 than the Borys. But it only...
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Yesterday, 07:36 PM
I wonder if one of Vintagevibe's humbuckers would fit next to the neck?
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Yesterday, 07:33 PM
Piano is going very well. I'll do a piano tune in the next standards thread next week. I tried to quit Hammond but everyone got mad at me and told...
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Yesterday, 07:30 PM
Light touch.
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Yesterday, 07:19 PM
Sounds good, churchy. Now do back at the chicken shack!
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Yesterday, 07:17 PM
I would rather say slightly prefers, we both like them both a lot but that night with the setups we used He, I, and several listeners agreed if it...
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Yesterday, 07:01 PM
This perspective (anti-enharmonic) is just based on the idea that a single pitch within the domain of a chord should not take two scale degree...
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Yesterday, 06:22 PM
I appreciate the utility of a sound port, but not the aesthetics, so I've never bought a guitar with one. That being said, there was a post on this...
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Yesterday, 06:06 PM
My Cabaret has one, and I usually keep it closed with a plug I made because it gets too loud for practise.
I too would say it mostly boosts what I...
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Yesterday, 06:04 PM
Yes
A side port is just a way for the player to actually enjoy listening to the guitar.
Makes sense given you’re the one that plays it the...
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Yesterday, 05:59 PM
What happened to the piano?
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Yesterday, 05:31 PM
Does the input level control actually control the amount of gain from a preamp?
How does it work?
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Yesterday, 05:03 PM
Hey there! I saw that some of y'all on these forums dig really deep into the DV Mark Little Jazz.
I'm having an issue where any note I play can...
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Yesterday, 04:59 PM
Well, this one has gone unsold for over 14 months. :wink-new:
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Yesterday, 04:48 PM
With reference to the arch, I recall my Elitist Broadway had a slightly more pronounced arch, and more pronounced recurve, and over all a more...
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Yesterday, 04:30 PM
I've learned that the position is named after where the index finger is placed. Looks like that there are also other definitions on the start.
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Yesterday, 04:29 PM
I play with the neck angled up fairly high (45 degrees, or maybe a bit more). I don't find that the strap button position makes any difference at...
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Yesterday, 04:27 PM
I'm a little confused by this thread. Last year a 90s Gibson Le Grand went unsold at a $7-8k list on this forum for several months. What's special...
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Yesterday, 04:25 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdsFskwB7Xs
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Yesterday, 04:22 PM
One of these days I'll scope it to see what the innards look like.
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Yesterday, 04:01 PM
That's like treating fretboard like a keyboard, lol. Interesting. But what supports the fretboard? Do you press it against your body?
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Yesterday, 04:01 PM
If I say Barre the plebs won’t know what I mean
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Yesterday, 03:54 PM
For x35452, I also fret the x3545x normally then reach around "the other way" and fret the F# with the side of my thumb. So wrong!
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Yesterday, 03:39 PM
TBH, I haven’t used the effects loop in my Blu and don’t recall seeing a level switch for it. It’s about 18 months old - I’ll look when I get home...
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Yesterday, 03:30 PM
With the 5 fret grip, you can play a scale from the first to 12 frets with 4 positions.
"you’d still get different fingerings every time you move...
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Yesterday, 03:29 PM
Thats basically what I use too. Theres a sixth scale position I like too, but beyond that it’s a bit much
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Yesterday, 03:21 PM
There's other seven positions, or one position (the whole neck), or any number in between.
Or maybe more positions if we do the one octave thing....
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Yesterday, 03:19 PM
CAGED for life. Don't harden simple things.
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Yesterday, 03:15 PM
me too, some of my old guitars came that way to me and I like that spot though it seems to be one of the least popular
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Yesterday, 03:09 PM
I like 4 because it keeps the guitar from flipping forward, and the screw is in solid wood. 1 & 2 can tilt a guitar in the case, causing the...
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Yesterday, 03:08 PM
These are positions.
The UNT (and probably Berklee) definitions of “position” is the fret behind your middle finger. The pinkie can cheat forward...
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Yesterday, 03:05 PM
The only rule I've found that works well for guitar fingerings is the "5 fret rule," i.e., cover a 5 fret span with your index finger and pinky, and...
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Yesterday, 02:50 PM
CM7#11 with the 5th ..nice chord ! it does take a bit of practice but worth the effort..
the G lydian G F# B C#..I let the high E string ring...
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Yesterday, 02:47 PM
Since I no longer play bar gigs I don’t use “bar” chords.
Danny W.
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Yesterday, 02:40 PM
Pos 1 or 2 for me
As for straplocks, I had a set of Schaller in the past (not the new ones) and didn't feel secure with them. I almost dropped a...
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Yesterday, 02:38 PM
I haven't watched it but bro, I have a feeling we're totally stoked and/or super psyched!
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Yesterday, 02:35 PM
The position 5 (and to some extend 4) makes the guitar hang more snug when standing. Positions 1 and 2 make the guitar rotate slightly away from the...
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Yesterday, 02:35 PM
So your freind says he prefers the Korean T50 to his US made SF3? That says something !
Thanks for your thoughtful comments, very interesting.
How...
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Yesterday, 02:33 PM
Of course, before the interweb and forums we had Usenet and BBSs (and mailing lists) ... with far fewer people on them because connectivity wasn't as...
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Yesterday, 02:33 PM
New vid
https://youtu.be/lfIFT-etlqg?si=oYPTaDQh8sI-Cmj0
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Yesterday, 02:19 PM
I can never understand 4 and 5. It’s right in the way of the hand when you are on the upper frets.
I’d go with 2 because you’re not drilling into...
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Yesterday, 02:17 PM
They existed, but far fewer people paid attention. Same thing with fretboard radius and fret size LOL.
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Yesterday, 01:52 PM
Behold, I gift you with my brain-facts
https://youtu.be/RlZjCiDr6xU
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Yesterday, 01:52 PM
I've had the LJ for several years now.
Early on, I was enamored of the sound. I still like it, but I only use it for very quiet situations now. ...
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Yesterday, 01:45 PM
See the thread “shipping catastrophe” under “everything else.”
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Yesterday, 01:41 PM
I just don't care, maybe because I used to own a music store and played, probably, hundreds of guitars in a month's time. Since I can rarely play...
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Yesterday, 01:37 PM
Even a medium-low-end archtop can be pulverized (like this Tacoma AJ-22 I almost got to buy).
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Yesterday, 01:32 PM
FYI the latest gen of the Blu no longer has a switchable send level in the loop. But I agree with you, most of the time I prefer my pedals in the...
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Yesterday, 01:28 PM
I sourced the woods for this one when John was going to build my guitar, after many calls all over the country I found 3 great sets of maple and 3...
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Yesterday, 01:06 PM
You also need to take account for the nut width when looking at above specs. 1&11/16” vs 1& 5/8” nut width makes a huge difference on how much...
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Yesterday, 12:57 PM
Acoustic Image Clarus 2R Series III -- $700, plus shipping to continental US only.
I'm in the process of downsizing some gear, and I'm selling my...
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Yesterday, 12:56 PM
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Is a common major7 voicing with both the 5th and #4. In this example it's Cmaj7#4. You bar the first finger slightly at an angle...
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Yesterday, 12:50 PM
I got a new Eastman AR910ce (!) which has an endpin jack but not a strap button. I wish to have a new one installed and am wondering (1) where to...
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Yesterday, 12:37 PM
I got lucky, not only did I get to borrow the Starfire but a really good player came over last night so I got to compare listening from audience...
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Yesterday, 12:23 PM
As I've said before, I think the LJ needs to be tilted to get the best sound, taming the bass and slight boxiness I hear when it's flat on the floor....
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Yesterday, 12:19 PM
Obviously you never shipped a very high end guitar and had it arrive with a broken headstock on a irreplaceable guitar.
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Yesterday, 12:17 PM
Yes, if you play an acoustic archtop, the port is a very good thing. It fills in those lower midrange frequencies that you otherwise wouldn’t hear so...
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Yesterday, 11:52 AM
Are people familiar with this? This helped me get more specific with my neck preferences. I found that I like the large c shape and the 66 oval c...
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Yesterday, 11:41 AM
Yeah the #11 with a natural fifth is pretty common –– most chords marked 7#11 will sound pretty good with the fifth as long as it's an octave lower....
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Yesterday, 11:39 AM
Hi All,
I decided to do extensive nitro lacquer drop fill on the back of my 1981 ES-175. There were extensive buckle rash, gouges, etc., and the...
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Yesterday, 11:34 AM
https://youtu.be/_oAK42erZJk?si=KXeqnuYuRwIkQsRy
When I play freeform, and everything is in the moment, I strive for compositional logic and...
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Yesterday, 11:31 AM
Don't think the modern electric archtops would really do the sound you're looking for. Something with a bit more acoustic dry punch would be better?...
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Yesterday, 11:16 AM
On the Benedetto style archtops (solid, carved) from Wu and Yunzhi, ports are huge. Very easy to test playing with them covered to see the...
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Yesterday, 11:08 AM
You might want to email Michael at DjangoBooks.com. He carries all sorts of rare and old pickups, including DeArmond. He also might be able to give...
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Yesterday, 10:43 AM
I have two guitars with sound ports. The Beardsell short-scale high-A flattop is almost all soundport on the upper bout and delivers a lot more...
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Yesterday, 10:42 AM
Oh, right, there is a bar line at the enclosure. Thanks a lot!
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