The Builder's Bench

Earmaster - need help or advice

Henriksen Bud: replacing the light?

Anyone remember the Sadistic Mika Band?

Drop 2 voicing series for beginner level

Altered Ipanema

WOODY: In this video, the Godin is easily the most WOODY-sounding instrument, to my ears. Most of the others sound like a variation of an ES-175... meaning, a "standard PAF archtop"... the Godin...

Getting the "most woody/hollow" sound out of electric archtop?

I set my action very low, like less than .50 MM at the first fret and .90 MM at the 15th fret. I use 10 or 11 on the E if I went lower on the gage then I will have to raise it some to avoid Buzz. I...

WesMo Setup How Low Can I Go?

What about the saxophone makes you want to stop playing it and play guitar instead? Variety?

Know my music on sax, now need a routine for guitar

The average LED will last for a long time. But that's average, and some don't last as long. I don't have a Bud, so I have no recommendation about replacing the LED. It's easy enough to unsolder an...

Henriksen Bud: replacing the light?

yeah ck74, the host was nicknamed whispering bob harris for a reason!! that was his schtick...he needed subtitles! he get's racist in a way that he couldn't ever do these days, with his...

Anyone remember the Sadistic Mika Band?

The story given on Wikipedia sounds almost too good to be true:

Anyone remember the Sadistic Mika Band?

Yes the plain strings are plain steel. you could try a coated plain to get lees of the plain string sound. Also a wood bridge will change how the plain steel strings sound.

Are all plain strings the same?

Some people think it's essential to adjust the trussrod with the string tension removed. I don't believe that it is, unless there is serious concern about a rusted rod and nut, which could be broken...

WesMo Setup How Low Can I Go?

You could try using acoustic strings.

Getting the "most woody/hollow" sound out of electric archtop?

Thanks zdub!!! shreddin'

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Losing the prehensile tail is the biggest mistake we ever made in our evolution from monkeys. So many things would have been much easier if we had kept that. [/QUOTE= Nidnight BLues; 1094562] I'm...

WesMo Setup How Low Can I Go?

You could say its a variant on the 'A' section of Topsy, with the ii7b5 substituting for bVI7 chord, and later the iv7 substituting in the same way. The tune "Evenin'" made famous by Cab Calloway...

What standard has this chord progression?

Under wound uncovered non potted pickups. And depending on the balance of tone pick a magnet type that suits you. I would use a humbucker style of pick up being they have less hum. If you really...

Getting the "most woody/hollow" sound out of electric archtop?

Tonal vocabulary gets in the way. 'Woody' is such a subjective term. Don't have a better term. I think what many think of is something like a Gibson L5 into a Fender Twin. As for making an...

Getting the "most woody/hollow" sound out of electric archtop?

Thanks. It takes me more time to hear the chords in my mind. Many songs have this progression of bars 1-2 and 3-4, but to me they work as a trap as long as I don’t get that d9 chord’s proper in my...

Jgbe virtual jam, round 1

RIP Gibson Archtop guitar

Jgbe virtual jam, round 1

Jgbe Virtual Jam, Round 2

Some very cool new amps coming from Fender.

2003 Epiphone Emperor Regent Video added

Green Heritage JS?

Is this a fake Gibson?

Retail therapy...bought a Martin 000

New Ibanez Thinline Hollowbodies

Thinline acoustic archtop?

Steve Holst be Da Man!

1988 Gibson ES-175–woohoo!

Scales/Arpeggios dillema