Guitar, Amps & Gizmos

Aria EA-650 pickguard question

2008(?) Henriksen 112

Bebop heads - Scrapple From the Apple

A little help explaining shielding with archtop...

JGO Virtual 'Bluez' Jam (Round 4) - C Jam Blues

This is a recurrent problem with steel bass strings even on normal 6 string guitars. Not sure if it's inharmonicity or something else, but they just lack the quality you can get from wound nylon...

New Guitar Build (2 more months) Erich Solomon 8 string acoustic

It's already basically beyond should or shouldn't; it's a fait accompli:

Why you shouldn't use AI to 'compose' music

This is not correct. Strings don’t introduce noise, but we do. Grounding strings grounds us, which reduces the EMF we introduce into pickups, wiring etc. Here’s the explanation from LindyFralin: ...

A little help explaining shielding with archtop guitars?

Put what?

Don Cherry on Lennie Tristano

As they say, that escalated quickly…. From 1300 + auction costs to 8000 is easy money :cool:

Randy Bachman sheds his vintage guitar collection

Polls are polls.. it’s supportive to understand how the popular trend of members of a group or cult express their thoughts and interests- of course the importance of truth all plays into the...

2008 Gibson L-4CES -carved spruce top, carved mahogany back -MINT

BUT WAIT how can you replace that Cm7 and F7 with an Eb and Eo?? Its like the only point of these chords is to get you back to Bb!!

How do you understand the 5th and 6th bars of rhythm changes?

I transcribed a bunch of his solos on Bird recordings. Probably because I was too lazy to transcribe Bird’s.

How do you understand the 5th and 6th bars of rhythm changes?

I had an uncle who was very much into this, with all the required licenses and a couple of big antennae on the roof of their appartment building, maps in his studies etc. He was an electronics...

Ham Radio

To get back to the original question: So: There are several variants for the WHOLE THING, not just those two bars.

How do you understand the 5th and 6th bars of rhythm changes?

He told me personally what pedals he uses or (used). The point I was trying to make is that Rich’s sound isn‘t just his technique, or just the guitar. He has a holistic view and pays attention to...

Rich Severson’s top 5 guitars

Sending all my best to Big Mike. He taught me a lot about Japanese guitars when I started out over 15 years ago. He was always very generous. Let’s hope the nurses have their hands full!

Campellone PSA

Or ... someone ask their favourite Mozai to compose a jazz version of this (with new music video, preferably)? :D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgc_LRjlbTU

Why you shouldn't use AI to 'compose' music

The player is usually the main source of hum and the purpose of grounding the strings is to ground the player. Most guitars seem to be already wired with shielded wire. Unfortunately the jack...

A little help explaining shielding with archtop guitars?

Aero Instruments makes a product which was reviewed in GP. Basically one end of a wire attaches to ground and the other to something that looks like a penny that you place against your skin. It...

A little help explaining shielding with archtop guitars?

Playing the changes vs. playing over the key center

Don Cherry on Lennie Tristano

Jazz and Blues Single Note Soloing Recommendations ?

Telecaster - Single Coil or Humbucker?

How do you understand the 5th and 6th bars of rhythm changes?

Not really sounding very 'jazzy'. Is it in the playing technique?

Eliminating the Metronome for technical studies?

JGO Virtual 'Bluez' Jam (Round 3) - Straight No Chaser

Rich Severson’s top 5 guitars

Blues and Jazz-Blues Comping Recommendations ?

What did early Jazz guitarists in America play live pre-swing era?

Just a Gigolo C7 Bb7 A7

How bad is this?