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    Which amp?

    in Guitar Gear, Amps, Effects, Pedals

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    I have both a Fender Super Champ XD (the model before the X2), and a Boss Katana 50. Both are great amps. The Super Champ is pretty versatile, but I mainly use it for clean tones, which are really good. It has an acoustic setting, designed to make an electric guitar sound like an acoustic. That feature isn't great, but I guess it would be serviceable if you're into that. The Boss is even more versatile. It has an acoustic setting that's actually designed for acoustic-electric guitars, not for an electric to simulate an acoustic. I bought the Boss to leave at church so I wouldn't have to take an amp twice a week for rehearsal and performance. I have an A/B switch into the input jack so I can go back and forth between an electric and an acoustic, and a foot switch into the back panel to change channels accordingly. Very handy, and it sounds great.

    Suggestions for DADGAD songs

    in Guitar Playing & Technique

    Posted

    Laurence Juber plays in DADGAD probably around 75% of the time. He's done a lot of covers, primarily Beatles tunes (he was Paul McCartney's guitarist in the band Wings), but he also has a lot of original material. One of my favorites is "The White Pass Trail." I've been working on it for a while now, and hope to record it soon. Here's his original recorded version: 

     

     

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    NAD

    in Guitar Gear, Amps, Effects, Pedals

    Posted · Edited by Mike Hoodenpyle

    I've got a Loudbox Artist as well. I used to use it in church, but I recently bought a Boss Katana 50 for that. I wanted something inexpensive I can just leave there, and stumbled across info on the Boss here on the forum from posts by Ice9 and Blue Dog. It's a hybrid, so I can play either electric or acoustic, or both, without having to carry amps back and forth. It's a great little amp and serves its purpose, but the Fishman sounds quite a bit better to my ear. I think you're going to like it.

     

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    Major and minor

    in Music Theory

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    Dave,

    If I understand correctly, you're asking about the theory behind two chords with the same root in a song, one major and one minor, and sometimes one following the other. An example would be if you were playing a song in the key of G, and you had both a C major chord and a C minor chord. An example of this is the Randy Travis version of "Were You There." You can listen here:

     From about :37 to about :49, the chord progression is G - Em - C - Cm - G. The Cm obviously isn't from the key of G. It's a borrowed chord from the parallel key of G minor. You see lots of songs with chords borrowed from other keys, usually closely related keys. A closely related key is one where the number of accidentals vary by one (or two, depending on who you ask). For example, the key of A has three sharps. The key of D has two sharps, a difference of one. The key of E has four sharps, also a difference of one, so both keys D and E would be considered closely related to A. Chords borrowed from parallel keys aren't as common in my experience, but they do occur. 

    Hope that helps. 

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    1st Forum CD

    in Guitar Open Talk

    Posted

    7 hours ago, Wim VD said:

    @Cindy

    I have recorded the song for the 1st forum cd today in Garageband. When exporting from Garageband, the default format is .m4a.

    would that format be ok for you? Or could I get some advice on how to turn this into mp3?

    Wim.

    Click on "Share" on the menu bar, then click on "Export Song to Disk." Then you should have an option to compress the file. Click in the box to compress and two new drop downs should appear. Open the "Compress Using" dropdown and select "MP3 Encoder." For the audio settings option, I use higher quality. At least that's how it works with my version, 6.0.5. If you have a different version and you don't see the options I described, you might check your Garage Band preferences and see if you can change it there. Failing that, try Google. You can find just about anything on the web.

    Good luck!

    NAD

    in Guitar Gear, Amps, Effects, Pedals

    Posted · Edited by Mike Hoodenpyle

    On 3/1/2018 at 10:44 PM, Blue Dog said:

    Cool Mike. Keep us update on your likes and don't likes. I don't think you will have any dislikes. But if so tell us and we will see if we can work them out. Have fun . If you use the tone central  app and you turn any knobs it will go back to the amp set preset. I have not program any preset yet. I like the sneaky amps a lot you have to import them to your library. same with tone central has to be imported. Good Luck.   

     

    On 3/6/2018 at 1:15 AM, Ice9 said:

    Glad you like it Mike :)

     

    I used it in church for the first time yesterday, and I'm pretty happy with it. I played two songs on acoustic, then switched to electric for the next two. Pretty easy operation and it worked out well. I dialed in my settings and saved channel 1 for my acoustic, and channel two for my electric. Got an A/B switch, so no cable switching to do. I have a volume pedal for my electric, and a pre-amp with a boost switch for my acoustic, so I adjusted volume as needed with those and left the settings on the amp the same for both guitars. The only thing I questioned was the settings saved for each channel. The manual says when you save your settings in a channel, all controls on the panel are saved except for the master volume. That seemed to be the case, except you also have to switch the "Amp Type" knob to select Acoustic, Clean etc., as well as turn up the master volume. No big deal, I just wasn't aware I had to do that at first based on what the manual says, but figured it out before Sunday. The effects I dialed in and saved to each channel worked as advertised. The clean electric tone I set up sounded really good. Very fat, sweet tone. The acoustic was very good, too. Not as warm as I'd like, but I can probably make some adjustments and improve it. It's a great amp in my opinion, and when you consider the price, it's phenomenal. 

    On another note, I never would have had this amp on my radar if not for this forum, and you two guys singing its praises. Thank you both very much, and thanks to Steve for the forum!

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    NAD

    in Guitar Gear, Amps, Effects, Pedals

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    I'm very impressed. I doubt I'll download any presets, at least not for a while. For my purposes, this thing has plenty of options built in. I dialed in a nice, slightly boosted clean tone with a little reverb and saved it to channel 1, and saved settings I like for an acoustic tone to channel 2. That's probably all I'll ever need playing in church. I can't believe how good this thing sounds, especially for the price. Very pleased.

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    NAD

    in Guitar Gear, Amps, Effects, Pedals

    Posted

    1 hour ago, Blue Dog said:

    Helpful Tip If you use the amp recorded your setting some how so you can jump from acoustic to electric, Take a picture are something so you can change quickly. Even if you use the channels and a pedal.

    Right, I was thinking of writing the settings on an index card and taping it to the top of the amp. 

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