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That part is hard to fathom

 

I think I may have misstated “real-time” I guess it uses loops somehow so that everything is synced when your listening to the jam session live. “Jam” is the key word here, not sure it would be the same if you were trying to actually play a song with coordinated changes between the various remote players.

 

definitely reaper! i’ll have to look into that

 

Gotta get a metal zone if you want truly awful tone

 

Cringe but relevant:

 

For those that don’t know bluegrass. Mandolin plays chords on the 2 and 4 back beat. We are the rhythm section, and utilize a lot of short sounding percussive chop chords if you are in a full lineup.

Since really digging into it I find myself listening a lot more intently to drummers in all the music I listen to. Equating some things they are doing and their timing to different variations I do on mandolin rhythm. I got into this to play tunes and melodies. But no matter what instrument you play in bluegrass, if you’re in a 4 piece you’re playing chords and fills 66-75% of the time. (Unless you have a bassist, and you are that bassist).

It’s kind of fun to see where I can add an upstroke, or some other variation, or not have the chop chords come exactly on the back beat and it still work. Sam Bush was/is a master at this.

 

I played bass instead of guitar in a band once. All of a sudden I found myself noticing the bass line in every song

 

This is pretty incredible if you have 20 mins and get in the weeds on tone. Or if you just want the payoff go to the 13:45 mark...

 

somehow I missed this growing up in the 80s
https://reverb.com/item/37696858-vintage-casio-ck-200-boombox-w-built-in-keyboard-organ

 

Went ahead and ordered the Katana 50. Excited to try it!

 

So I've been listening to "Texas Flood The Inside Story of Stevie Ray Vaughan" on Audible and it's awesome. I highly recommend. A few pages back it was talking about how SRV was playing 13 gauge strings and tuning a half step down. But he was playing so much and so hard that he'd have cuts 1/4 in deep in his fingers. He would fill them up with backing soda, super glue the end, and try to get some skin oil to add to the top of that. He'd just reach out and swipe your forehead mid conversation to get some oil for it.

 

I read this book last year

I like pictures where you can see the veins popping out in his forearms. Takes some strength to move those 13s around.

Spoiler

After he got sober, he switched to lighter strings and said "how the fuck did I ever bend those?"

 

Currently reading "Heaven and Hell: My Life in The Eagles" by Don Felder. Team Don Henley and Glenn Frey are pricks

 

Think the string gauge stuff is somewhat overblown with SRV. Billy Gibbons uses 7s and he was turned on to lighter strings by BB King

 

Better him than me. I remember trying 9s back in the day and they broke easily

 

That prob had to do with the setup of the guitar

 

It was on my PRS or on my Ibanez Stagestar. What’s the ideal setup for light strings?

 

I'm just saying you can have burs or weird angles on the saddle or bridge that cause string breakage. 9s shouldn't break easily imo

 

i’ve got a set of 11-64 on my 7 string and need to go to 13-74 i think.

 

I played clarinet and the thicker the reed, the better the tone was considered to be. It’s more material vibrating. But it’s more difficult to play and takes a stronger embouchure.

I figured it was the same concept with guitar strings

 

Yeah I did too but I've seen YouTube videos where string gauge has minimal affect on tone.

This one for instance where the thick gauge strings are actually a little muddier than the lower gauge strings if anything (there's not a huge difference though)...

 

I thought Billy Gibbons was usually some super heavy strings back in the day?

 

I'm being told that to get a really nice Les Paul I need to get a custom shop and probably spend about $5k. That's probably my next guitar purchase. I've done no research on it yet and I'm not sure what the difference is in terms of the custom shop guitars.

 

Here he talks about it. I hate that it's a Facebook link but whatever

 

He used a quarter for a pick, so not sure how much there is to be learned from his gear choices

 

I'm admittedly a guitar cunt. I want the real deal .

 

I would definitely second and go further to say try to play any guitar before buying it. I'm not a huge fan of buying them online but sometimes you gotta

 

But isn't that how he got that cool sound you can make when using the coin or the side of a coin ? You can do it with a pick as well. But it was one of his signature moves. Forgive me as I'm not sure what the technical term is for that kind of sound he was creating.

 

Gibson has had some bad QC problems of late so you definitely want to put your hands on it first

 

Never played a guitar with a neck that doesn't have a glossy finish

Is there an easy way to slick up the neck if it's wood grain? I like this bass at a local shop but the neck is wood grain and feels almost sticky. I can't slide my hand as easy.

 

Idk, it’s terrible when I’ve tried it though. Those grooves get caught on the strings.

Read about the “amp cabin” he used for recording. Built a cubs of amps pointed inwards, surrounded by plywood and cinder blocks, stuck a mic in the middle

 

I prefer a more natural finish to be honest. Glossy is less comfortable to me

 

re that video, feels like running 8s on a LP the G string would go out of tune on the first bend but what do I know.

I play 10s on my electrics except for one of my homemade guitars I have 9s just to switch it up.

 

No guitar neck should feel sticky but before you take anything to a guitar neck (particularly an abrasive) figure out what it's finished with.

 

I have 10s on mine but played a half step down which supposedly equates to 9s in standard

 

Team 10 gauge strings. I did the whole 11s and tuned down. That was years ago. I can’t remember what it sounded like or felt like. Might need to try it again.

 

I’ve gone back and forth with 10s and 9s. I used to be incapable of playing 9s at gigs because by the stuff I loved in the third set, I’d strum waaaay to hard and break a string every time.

Completely solved that issue by playing Ernie Ball Paradigm 9s. Haven’t ever broken a string. Even playing them for months at a time.

 

Could be a bur in your saddle!!!!!1!

(Sorry Redav)

 

How many guitars does everyone ITT own.

I have 3 electrics and 2 acoustics. I feel the need for many more.

Also have 3 amps, 1 bass guitar, 1 piano, 1 clarinet.

 

I generally lube my nuts with graphite to try to avoid this.

 

Moved a few years ago and haven’t had luck finding like-minded musicians in the wild, so I caved and put an ad on a city wide musicians FB page. Sorry to go off topic a bit here, but there are sooooo many over the top conservatives responding.

While I’m a whiny tree hugger, I don’t particularly care about having a conservative band member unless it’s the type of person who regularly posts Let’s Go Brandon and Anti Vax stuff on social media. Only 2 of the responses so far are from people who don’t have explicit conservative bullshit on their pages. I guess that’s probably a function of doing this through Facebook, but it really caught me off guard.

 

5 electrics, 2 acoustics (1 is a pos), 2 bass, Mesa 2x12, Quad Cortex (in between on in the room amps)

 

Have a couple junkers (squire that I’ve had for 25 years and a SG that I put together when I wanted to learn how to be a luthier). Then 2 Les Pauls, 1 Mexi strat with a new neck and Texas specials, a G&L tele, a 24 fret PRS SE, an 8 string Ibanez, a PRS acoustic/electric, a Takamine acoustic, and a bass. And a Mapex drum set.

 

store: G&L tele, D'Angelico jazz, travel size classical

built: kit tele, partscaster strat, kit 335, kit sg, a guitar I routed out of plywood and built up, and another on the way (next step is learning how to rout and shape necks)

 

Gibson Les Paul (tribute- love the satin finish btw)
Epi 50s LP gold top
Charvel Pro/mod SoCal HH FR E
Mexi Strat with CS 69 pu upgrade
G&L Legacy Tribute HSS (gorgeous ash natural finish)
Epi Genesis (freaky double cut LP/SG hybrid)
Two semi hollow first acts that have been upgraded with new pickups (one high strung Nashville tuned)

Washburn jumbo acoustic
No name thin acoustic electric with raised nut for slide playing (poor man’s dobro)
Nylon string from some estate sale years ago

Brian Moore i2000 bass
Ibanez Ergodyne 5 string
Wishbass 4 string fretless
Squier jazz bass

basically I have a problem with accumulating and never actually selling off guitars lol