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What a wonderful tribute, Diane. Thank you for sharing this.

I hate that! Of course, usually it's the other guy. hehe I'm going to run my own monitor from now on so I can be sure to hear my vocal and guitar better. I've now moved from rhythm to lead for our band. The bad thing is that I now know both parts for every song! So when the other guitarist doesn't play something that is expected in the rhythm part, it is very distracting.

Ian! Great job! I noticed that you did EVEN BETTER the second verse when you were playing guitar and really busting it out! There can be so many distractions when performing live (our own errors, insufficient monitoring, and even errors by bandmates can be even more distracting because I think "what the heck was that" and then have a break in concentration). I sing 3 songs in my band's sets (to give our lead singer a break) so I can relate. Also, you looked as cool as a cucumber. You might have been nervous on the inside, but you certainly didn't show it. Cheers!

Mark is a unique player in that he doesn't use a pick, even when playing electric guitar. Neil is correct about the first one. At 5:18 he's just doing a blues rhythm riff. At 9:02, he's just doing some open chord strumming. At 11:38, it's kind of a bluegrass strumming pattern which normally might be called flat picking, except you can't use that term for Mark since he doesn't use a pick! At 12:43 he's just going over a I IV V blues progression. At 13:22, it's kind of like comping. At least that's how I would describe these techniques.

Tele + Princeton = Classy!

We have 6 gigs this summer. This one last night was only one hour, so we played the Back in Black album: I’m on the right of the screen, playing my Malcolm Young Gretsch. Our lead singer does AC/DC great. This Saturday we have three one-hour sets!

Love the top on that!

We've got a 1-hour set on Sunday at a biker bar! Doing a bunch of AC/DC and ZZ Top (which is why our name is AZ/DZ)!

FYI Tommy Emmanuel doesn't use nails. Just sayin'.

Super! Great playing! Mike - with the recording, it was only coming in one ear. What likely happened is you armed your DAW as a stereo track (where you record a left and right channel with separate inputs at once) but then only plugged in your guitar into one. It's no problem - you can change this track from stereo to mono in your DAW so that it comes through equally through the left and right.

Hi all! Since joining my rock band, I've been working on covers and have not been working on any original music for the better part of a year. All of a sudden out of nowhere, I felt the urge to do a few of my own. This is the first result - an original composition I call "First of Spring." Played on my Fender '52 RI Telecaster (neck pickup, of course), direct through my Duet interface and into Logic Pro X. I just used a stock preset in Guitar Rig called "Buzzed Michael Clean." I also added some reverb (though that delay sound you hear was already built into that preset). All comments welcomed! I may do a youtube video version too, as Blue Dog mentioned in chat that haven't done one of those in a while either! Peace...

I'd have to win the lottery. Actually, several lotteries.

Yeah, there's a guitar in and out on the back. I just watched the demo, and it can use the guitar signal to adjust the harmonies. So Nutty may play with that function. If she gets good enough harmonies by just setting the key of the song, she may not even want to run the guitar through the unit. That's probably what I would do - have XLR in and out of the Boss and then through to input 1 on a Scarlett, then guitar direct into input 2 on the Scarlett. So as to Nutty's original question, yes whether you run the guitar through the Boss or not, you'd be recording two (vocal & guitar) separate tracks.

It doesn't move freely when manually tuning as compared to a regular guitar. You can hear and feel the gears moving, so I'll do this sparingly!

Instructions say tune manually but only when off.

Wow, what an expensive wall decoration.

I found this to be true. However I do have a neoprene strap (one that Steve recommended a long time ago, a bass strap) that handles this pretty well. This is not an issue at home sitting down.

Here's my experience with the tuners. I've traditionally been against them, but considering I was just a play-at-home guitarist, I really didn't need it. I always plug into a tuner or have my DAW's tuner. However, it's different to be in a band. I have about 6 different tunings (standard, drop D, Eb, D standard, open G, drop Db) I use and now they want me to play slide on a Black Crowes song that's Open Gb, so that'd be 7. Here's where the tuner comes in handy because it starts tuning all the strings at once. To tune to Eb for example (this is where you tune every string down 1/2 step, or one fret basically), manually you would tune one string at a time. After tuning one string, you go to the next, but that invariably makes the string you just tuned out of tune as the neck tension changes. So when changing tunings manually, it takes 3 or 4 efforts to retune before every string is in tune. So the auto tuners on the guitar accomplish this because they tune every string at once, so it's very quick and accurate! The downside of these tuners is that when I go from open G back to standard, it doesn't handle it too well. It gets confused and sometimes it even tries to take a string down an entire octave so that it becomes completely slack. Going from standard to Eb doesn't seem to confuse it - it's mainly on the open G to standard. I think what I have to do is retune the E's and A strings manually to get it close and then use the G-Force to fine tune it. So I could never totally trust the G-Force at a gig without having another tuning system as a backup.

I dig that vintage finish in hollowbodies. Nice piece of axe!

Is this a makeup for that previous song about murdering a spouse? In the words of Monty Python, "Alright, we'll call it a draw!" Tasteful harmonies there as the song progressed. Strings were a nice touch as well. Bravo! Keep up the good work!

I was yearning for a proper (humbucker ) Gibson SG! I'd been searching, preferably for an ebony-colored one. However, this one came up and it was too good to pass up, so I offered him a bunch less but we met in the middle (though a little closer to my price). It's Gibson's High Performance (HP) version of the SG Standard, - this is 2017. Pickups are the Classic 57's. Mint, including plastic on the metal case. The color is called "cherry burst" which I love - from the front it''s a burst, but looks ebony from the back. Ready to rock!

I'm a Texas Tech graduate though. ?

Nerves were 0 beforehand, maybe 2-3 out of 10 beforehand, only because I knew the material so well. What nervousness I did have was over the fact that the lead guitarist doesn't know the material as well.

After years of searching for a band, I joined an AC/DC cover band as Malcolm (rhythm guitarist). We only had 3 practices which I don't think went all that well (though I'm a perfectionist). Anyhow, the leader (the Angus lead guitarist) set up a gig at a biker hangout. I was told there probably wouldn't be very many people there. As I walked up, there were tons of bikers outside eating and drinking. Anyhow, we were to do an entire set of Back in Black. The next pic is from the stage as I was setting up before everyone came back inside. The best part was that there were 5 Marshall stacks permanently on stage, so I just plugged into one of them. I ended up bringing my Gibson ES-335. In hindsight I wished I hadn't because I sweated all over it! Here's a pic of the stage from Facebook. Unfortunately, it was snapped just as the bass player on the right stepped in from of me! You can kind of see me behind him with the burst 335. After the last song, I was already putting my guitar in the case when the owner told us to do an encore. We argued a little bit on stage of what to do. Our lead guitarist wanted Whole Lotta Rosie and I wanted Highway to Hell. The singer sided with me, so we did Highway to Hell, and it ended up being our best song IMHO! The lead guitarist didn't even know how it started, so that's me at the beginning. But the mono recording of the show was on the other side of the stage, so the other guitarist is more predominant on the recording. The song files are here (the originals were not very audible so I did some stuff on my DAW to juice them up and make them more stereo): www.soundcloud.com/capmsworkingfiles Long story short, it was fun as heck and I can't wait to do it again. The toughest part of live playing is not dealing with your own errors (and I don't think I had any), but with others. When the drummer skips a beat, singer comes in early, or even our lead guitarist accidentally skipping the Back in Black guitar solo, you have to figure out how to get yourself and everyone else on cue. I still had to call out some things to the bass player, and a couple of times I had to cue the drummer on some things since we had only played together once. Lots to work on, but all in all I think it's something we can build on!