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    Pedals, baby.

    in Guitar Gear, Amps, Effects, Pedals

    Posted

    Yes, sir! I have a YouTube Channel, "Old Guy's Guitar Vlog" where I play a good bit. I'm constantly evolving my channel, and am getting much more comfortable playing in front of a camera, too. I'm also getting better on the recording end, as I used to record all digital, but went back to amps recently, and never recorded with a two mic set up before. The first few times I recorded myself, the signal was way too hot and there is some clipping noted. Love and learn!

    I just sold the Blackstar, and am waiting on a new amp, but am about to put up a video soon of a demo of the Compression pedal I got.

     

    Members Recordings - Songs, Lessons, Open Mic!

    in Guitar Playing & Technique

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    2 hours ago, Wim VD1 said:

    This Slow Blues in G - solo was a long one to learn to play by heart and I had to go back to daily practice on pull-offs to get some tricky legato parts under my fingers.

    In this solo, the G major pentatonic is played over the 1 Chord and the G minor pentatonic over the 4 and the 5 Chord. 

    Thanks for listening.

    Wim.
     

     

    Brilliant!! I love the fact that you aren't trying to speed through and play a zillion notes to fill up space. Great blues breathes. Nice job!

    If I can give some advice that has nothing to do with your playing at all, it's great to add some reverb or delay to your signal to really give the notes some body and fullness. It also adds a good level of dynamics to your playing. Especially on those pull offs and single note playing. It rounds out the sound. Give it a go. You may really be surprised with the sounds you get.

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    Recording Gear

    in Guitar Gear, Amps, Effects, Pedals

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    Jut FYI, Zoom is coming out with an incredible little interface which has its own DSP, and will be used as a direct plug in for a PC/Mac. It will let you use a huge variety of amps, cabs and effects from within your PC/Mac and looks like an incredible little piece of hardware. No amp/mic needed at all. Just plug your guitar into the little device and then device into PC/Mac and you can record quietly or through monitor speakers. Has headphone line out, aux line in and USB - C cable out into the computer. Best of all, the price is ridiculous. $100. It's coming out in late March and I fully intend to get one and test it out. When I get it, I will put it through its paces and post a detailed review. Here's a little overview:

     

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    Soloing help

    in Guitar Playing & Technique

    Posted · Edited by Old Guy

    Bluegrass soloing is not easy!

    As well as learning the scales associated with the chord changes, I would also record yourself playing the songs somehow and then play them back and practice soloing over the changes on your own.

    Also, find the melody of the song, and hum it to yourself. Then try to recreate that melody on the guitar by individual note if you can. Play it as simply as you can. That can really help to open up the fretboard for you.

     

    Good luck!

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    Guitar Kits

    in Guitar Gear, Amps, Effects, Pedals

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    14 hours ago, Dave said:

    Looking good.  What kind of finishing are you planing?

    Thanks!

    It has a very thin flame maple veneer on it and the plan is to use a base of brown to bring out the flame, then carefully sand it back. Once that's done, apply a yellow base and then burst the edges with orange. I paint small wargaming miniatures, so I know how to paint, but have never done anything like this before.

    The "paints" I'm using are water based stains/dyes and once the cap is completely dyed, I'm going to seal everything with a few coats of True Oil sanded and polished.

    The body will be sealed with Mahogany filler and then a few layers of Tung Oil. I hope to pain just the top of the headstock black and then seal with True Oil as well.

    At least, that's the plan, LOL.

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    Fretwire LP Guitar Build Thread

    in Guitar Care, Repair & Building

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    9 hours ago, Oldjock said:

    Old guy, you asked in the video about any advice regarding the neck fit to the body. After many years of experience woodworking and I have all the tools. I would sand or shave the neck joint until it is a perfect fit. It would be a weaker joint if you used glue to fill the gaps. A perfect fit also evens the vibrations transferred from the neck to the body reducing any stress points. Just my take on it.

    Henk

    Thanks for the feedback! The guys at Fretwire suggested I glue it as is, as they were concerned that if I filed it down too much, it would change the geometry of the neck to body. I did all the measurements before I glued it to the body and it seems to be to tolerance.

    Worse case scenario is that if it's not right when I'm completely done, I will steam the neck joint apart and really adjust things after I see what the geometry is with everything together.

    I agree with you though about it being a weak joint. That is a big concern of mine once all is said and done. I just glued it today, so tomorrow I will see if I need to fill that gap with wood filler. We'll see.

    Monthly Recording Challenge 65 - "Couldn't Stand The Weather"

    in Guitar Playing & Technique

    Posted

    On 2/7/2019 at 12:34 AM, NeilES335 said:

    @WATSON43 terrific recording Kevin? . Just getting into recording myself so Im finding out how hard it can be to get a "clean, error free" take. Congrats.

    I've been recording myself for a decade and still have this issue. Don't get too hung up on that. Just play and record. You can spend an inordinate amount of time trying to get that take juuuuust right, and it will drive you nuts!

    I recently did that video of the Suhr Eclipse pedal. I've played "Mary Had a Little Lamb" for YEARS. Used to play it in a band, and could play the song blindfolded. The night I recorded it for the video, no matter what I did, I just couldn't get it right. The one that ended up on the video was my 15th take, I think. I had to let it go and just put out what I had. I still hate how it sounds, but it reminds me that sometimes, letting go is what's in order.

    Just play and record! That's the fun!

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    Recording Gear

    in Guitar Gear, Amps, Effects, Pedals

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    2 hours ago, NeilES335 said:

    Thanks for the tips @Old Guy  Not keen at all to upgrade my 2 yrs old PC laptop... I've got another "issue report " into Avid... I'll see what they say too. 

    Ahhh, with such a new Lap Top, you should be fine with the OS and the RAM then, unless you have less than 8GB of RAM.

    Man, I wish I lived closer to you as I would love to help you through the initial DAW pains. Once you get a work flow going, it gets very quick.

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    Recording Gear

    in Guitar Gear, Amps, Effects, Pedals

    Posted

    2 hours ago, NeilES335 said:

    "ProTools has shut down trying to stop" , which in the middle of a project stops the recording an playback, meaning I have to close the program, and start it up again.

    This could be a few things. The first to check is whether your PC/Mac has the minimum system requirements. If it does and it still does this, Pro Tools could have been corrupted when you installed it. I might recommend uninstalling and then reinstalling it.

    The other issue is something that could be with your RAM. If you are running minimum RAM, this can sometimes happen when you are transferring information and the system gets bogged down. This was the reason I eventually upgraded to a new Mac. Once the new OS was installed, my system was running slowly, and poorly, and I stopped being able to run Garageband almost at all.

    The last thing I can think of is make sure all programs that might be running in the background are shut down. This message happens a lot when AntiVirus programs are doing something in the background and it trips off the program to reset. I hate that, because you have to turn those programs off every time and sometimes you don't even know they are running at all. If you run a PC, check your system manager and close down any programs before you run Pro Tools.

    Good Luck!!

    Fretwire LP Guitar Build Thread

    in Guitar Care, Repair & Building

    Posted

    18 hours ago, matonanjin said:

    What fun @Old Guy,!!  Please keep us up-to-date on your progress on this.  I am one of those guys Neil mentioned that has thought about doing this.  (Very briefly thought about it!?

    Will do! Every step will be documented!!

    It is brutally cold in the NE right now, so I have to wait a bit to sand it down, get the neck right and glue everything in place. I also want to shape the headstock before gluing which will send sawdust flying everywhere, LOL.

    I'm super excited to try to stain the top. Hopefully, I won't screw it up when sanding as that veneer is only 2mm thick! I have a lot of painting experience but nothing like this.

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