that looks exactly like it, more so than the D28, which you can tell the quality difference in the wood (D2r is laminated). Look at the back of both guitars. Initially I attributed the difference to the quality of the photos. So, it's about a third the cost.
Figured I would put this in here for the music folk. Bought this at an auction yesterday. Glass cracked on the flat pane, Bought it sight unseen, so I have no idea if it works (doubt it does for the price I got it but I couldn't pass it up). But it lights up when turned on. Need to get it checked out so I can get it going to flip it. No 45s in it.
Craigslist ads make me laugh TOURING METALCORE BAND SEEKING GUITAR PLAYER (West Columbia) Touring metalcore band seeking immediate guitar player under 30 years of age. Any interested members must be available to tour relentlessly as well as exceptionally skilled on their instrument. Currently dates are lined up for a few local shows this summer and tour from the end of October until right before Christmas. Must have transportation, ability to practice 3 times a week, and the drive and dedication to help make this project successful. Tryouts are beginning immediately. Email for more information. Also be familiar with both drop C and drop A tuning as we will be switching back and forth for the foreseeable future. Fuck I have to be familiar with drop C AND drop A?????
I kinda wonder if the post is fake. Who practices 3x a week? They have a tour lined up....k. And yeah Drop A, wtf
What's the point of using drop C and drop A? It's not like a metalcore band has to worry about their vocalist's register. I'll bet that drop A sounds like pure garbage too, especially if they don't have separate guitars.
not great I have a guitar that I fit for drop C - shaved the nut, adjusted the truss rod, and even with tight strings (can't remember what gauge) it still doesn't sound great.
what the fuck is a drop A. drop C is fun. lot of really tight instrumental acoustic guitarists play some tight songs in that tuning. i think the whole record label family that has Andy McKee and Erick Turnbull play a decent amount of songs in drop c edit: i may be thinking of Open C... tbh if they were the same thing I wouldn't know
Andy McKee uses a weird tuning but yeah that guy is good. My friend showed me his videos back in the day and I was like welp time to quit
Candyrat *was the label. Not sure if they have branched off but I went through a serious phase the first time I heard Rynlynn however the fuck it's spelled and they had like 4 Candyrat label musicians that were badass
guitarists ITT probably like this guy a little more though. most may know him already. Bob fucking shreds and it kinda makes me haterade
Those detunes are for bands who want to sound heavy without being able to write good riffs. Maybe some of them can but most are just trying to sound as heavy as they can and they think that's the way to do it.
It's unclear what people mean when they say "Drop C" anyway. It could be CADGBE, just dropping the lowest string down to C. Or it could be CGCFAD where you take Drop D then drop everything down a whole step. I feel like that's what a lot of people mean when they say "Drop C" but to me "drop" implies the first sense, ie you're just dropping one string.
Here's what wikipedia says Drop C tuning is technically an alternative guitar tuning where at least one string has been lowered to a C, but most commonly refers to CGCFAD, which can be described as D tuning with a 6th string dropped to C, or drop D tuning transposed down a whole step. Because of its heavier tone, it is most commonly used in rock and heavy metal music.
I post this because I didn't really know either, so I looked it up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drop_C_tuning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dropped_A_tuning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drop_D_tuning No one really did this stuff when I was playing
Hendrix tuned 1/2 step down. Page used Drop D on "Kashmir" (also used a bunch of other open/modal tunings)
Never realized that. There's some songs out there where they're off by a quarter step or something and it's annoying
1/2 step doesn't really count imo. It's all the same just not at 440, unless your saying he dropped the e string to a D#...I couldn't imagine that would be the case. All the Hendrix stuff I figured out was pretty straight forward. Didn't know that about Kashmir. Zepplin got better to me over the years. So much great stuff.
playing along with the radio was irritating as hell because of this and the half step. 70? motherfucker I am coming to your house
Nah I meant he dropped all the strings a half step. You're right, that's not near as weird as an "alternate tuning" where you cant use any of the same chord shapes or anything
Keith Richards did that a lot. Like some weird open tunings where you have to refigure out how to play everything.
More alternate tuning trivia: -Soundgarden has a song where they tune EEEEEE ("Mind Riot"). They also tune to EBEEBE on "My Wave" -Smashing Pumpkins "Mayonnaise" is EBBGBEb -The guy from Goo Goo Dolls is all about some alternate tunings; "Iris" and "Name" are in some incomprehensible gibberish. I read once that he "just started twisting the pegs until he heard something that sounds good"
I recall that about the googoo dolls. A buddy of mine had worked it up and showed me what they did. I quickly zoned out. song wasn't that good
Guy from Goo Goo Dolls does like every song in that tuning. You can tell because every song has that open sound
I know open tunings came about as "slide tunings" because you need to be able to make a chord with one finger
Have you ever let someone play your guitar and they want to tune to some weird shit :| Was a bigger deal before I always carried a chromatic tuner in my pocket on my phone I suppose
most people who play one of my guitars usually don't have much skill, so I don't run into that. Even so, my relative pitch is good. lol, I think of the chorus to a Dokken song and tune from there. I don't think I've ever told anyone that before. I don't have nut locks on any of my guitars anymore, have there been any improvements in that technology? Used to have to use an allen wrench on the nut lock then they had the fine tuners on the bridge. Shit made something that should take 30 seconds take far too long.
Re: easy ways to tune that are now bygone -- if you picked up a landline telephone, the dial tone formed an F major chord. Metallica "Enter Sandman" is my go to tuning from memory song, for some reason I can always remember how a low E should sound from that song. Re: locking nuts -- fuck em, they're just as big a pain in the ass as ever. I don't make much use of the tremolo myself. My main guitar is a PRS and it doesn't stay in tune too well with the tremolo. Also goes out of tune if you break a string (drops the pressure off the other strings) so that's annoying. PRS has their own weird tuning machines
Just messaged this dude off Craligslist https://columbia.craigslist.org/muc/6188723086.html What he's got on Bandcamp sounds pretty good IMO