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Post by Frank on Jul 12, 2014 15:50:20 GMT
"Lemon oil"
Puh-lease. Get some Zippo lighter fuel and a piece of old t-shirt.
"Sustain".
I never understood this one. My Strat sustains plenty long enough. I've never felt the need to hold a note for 10 minutes, who cares how long your guitar can sustain? It's the attack that really shapes a note, sustain is pretty much irrelevant as long as it doesn't sound like a banjo.
"Tone"
FACT: there is nothing you can buy, no pickup, no magic effects box, no carbon fibre titanium strings, no platinum trem block, NOTHING that will make you sound good unless you can take a simple one-pickup guitar, plug it into a CLEAN amp and make it sound pleasing to the ear.
"Relic"
Seriously, grow up. Your guitar isn't scratched because you've never taken it outside of your bedroom. Want it to get beat up a bit? Do a tour. I guarantee it'll come back properly scratched up at no extra cost to you. Now put down the belt sander and wire wool and go book some gigs.
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Post by Frank on Jul 12, 2014 15:58:20 GMT
"PRS Private Stock"
That's just great. A guitar so valuable you daren't play it.
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Post by Tony on Jul 12, 2014 16:04:13 GMT
"PRS Private Stock" That's just great. A guitar so valuable you daren't play it.
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Post by MDV on Jul 12, 2014 16:57:40 GMT
I agree that sustain is nearly irrelevant. Also, most people don't seem to get what makes it.
Its in the guitar. Nothing else. There is no pick up, amp, pedal or voodoo that will make the string ring longer, except feedback, actual sustainers and vibrato.
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Post by Tony on Jul 12, 2014 17:42:20 GMT
And the EHX Freeze.
But that's more of a drone than sustain.
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Post by Frank on Apr 13, 2015 14:48:21 GMT
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Post by Davemc on Apr 14, 2015 12:57:12 GMT
^ Ooof I don't really like relics at all (I don't care if others do, just I don't- if I'm buying a new guitar I prefer it to look new, call me crazy ), but those two are really bad.
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Post by Frank on Apr 14, 2015 23:58:43 GMT
"DC resistance"
Like it tells you anything, other than whether the pickup coils are broken.
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Post by MDV on Apr 17, 2015 15:43:53 GMT
"DC resistance" Like it tells you anything, other than whether the pickup coils are broken. :lol: "Active tone" What the hell does this even mean? All electric tone is 'active' tone. Do you think that amp you're using runs off photosynthesis?
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Post by Frank on Apr 18, 2015 11:43:49 GMT
A few favourites from ebay ...
"Rare"
Usually applied to a Squier Affinity in a weird shitty colour.
"Customised"
Usually applied to a Squier Affinity with a fresh set of £25 pickups and a purple mirror pickguard autographed by some "artist" you've never heard of. If you want to annoy the seller then send them a message asking how easy he thinks it would be to remove the autograph ink.
"Treble bleed volume control kit £9.97"
Usually applied to a resistor and capacitor with a combined value of 10p.
"NOS capacitors"
Guaranteed to leak a good 20 Volts plus of DC into the next stage of your amp. Handy if you only want -10 Volts of bias on your power tubes, they'll light up a treat!
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Post by Frank on Apr 19, 2015 9:54:36 GMT
Not a phrase but this gets me so angry I vomit piss out of my nostrils. Youtube moron demoing a Strat, says he's going to switch position one, flicks to the neck pickup.
NO. WRONG. THAT IS POSITION FIVE YOU TIT. BAD DOG. NO BISCUIT.
And another thing, "front" and "back" pickups, what the tits is all that about? I've looked on the backs of my guitars, there's no back pickup on any of them, they're all on the front.
Neck, middle, bridge, that's where they are called. Not front and back. If you say front pickup then I honestly still do not know if that's bridge or neck. I mean, you might as well call them left and right pickups. Or give them names like Bob, Albert and Maurice. Yeah, I'm switching to my Maurice pickup for a bluesy sound then flicking back to inbetween the Bob and Albert pickups for the clean sound. Makes just as much sense.
Christ I hate guitarists.
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Post by Davemc on Apr 19, 2015 16:29:12 GMT
I was under the impression that position 1 for neck might actually be correct- for a similar reason as to why the neck is the front pickup.
But I agree with you that it's really (and needlessly) confusing, and saying bridge, middle, neck or whatever is easier.
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