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alright i decided to put another spring on the back of my strat's bridge. so now i have 4, but now my g-string always goes low. does the arrangement of the springs matter? i looked on my friends strat and his springs a arranged different. here's how my springs are arranged: if each availabe...

i've been looking for a hollowbody jazz guitar thats not enormously expensive. i posted this a while ago and people suggested a joe pass epiphone model that run somewhere around $600. I'm looking for other possibilities that are out there. I went to the Dearmond site and looked at a X-155...

allright listen up cats- A college jazz band came to our school today and played a concert. they had two bands. one was a vocal group with a rhythm section. the vocalists did some skattin'(is that what its called? where they improv but without words...). My main focus was on the rhythm...

i've had jazz theory under my belt for a while now, but within the past few months i have been trying, and successfully at that, to get away from the Pentatonic-Blues based improvs and explore some different styles. i figure that jazz has endless possibilities in terms of where it can evovle...

allright cats, i've come to a very powerful dilemma. i am going to be getting a new amp. I want an all tube fender amp. So i've been looking into the Bandmaster and the Bassman. does anyone know the differences between these? I know that the Bandmaster has a vibrato channel on it, but thats...

hey i had to cut out a piece of my pickgaurd to add a metal jack plate(like on mustangs and jaguars) so i wouldnt have to take the whole pickgaurd off to re-wire it. BUT i screwed up. what's the best way to cut a pickgaurd from a blank pickgaurd sheet? i'm guessing a router, but i didnt have...

i just bought a fender bronco, i got it for real cheap, but it doesnt have the pickups, does anyone know what kind of pickups a bronco from the 70's would have?

i've been think about gettin a new bridge pickup for my strat and i was lookin around. so i saw this thing called a lipstick tube. it looks like a tele neck pick up. anybody know what these things sound like? i want to get that real high sound like on Led Zeppelin's Communication breakdown...

ok listen up all you recording genius cats out there. i'm just startin out, and i want to get some recording gear, nothin like real expensive but nothin real cheap. just some decent stuff ok? so umm...what do i need to get? i take it i'm gonna need an a mixer and i'm lost from there. like what...

ok listen up cats heres the deal: i'm gonna get a new guitar sometime in the near future. i cant decide against these 3 guitars: a '62 reissue Jaguar, a Gibson Les Paul (either a standard or the vintage reissue they have), and a Gibson SG. i've played Les Pauls, but i've never had any...

ok heres the deal: i'm trying to wire my guitar for series/parrallel right? i'm gonna use three on-off-on toggle switches for the pickup selection and a on-on toggle switch to switch between series or parallel. i've got the switches, but how do i know which terminals on the switch are hot...

ok heres the question: if i shield my guitar will i still be able to get the same amount of feed back? i thought i would still be able too, but i just want to make sure before i do anything later

i have a dbx 165 compressor/limiter and i have a TASCAM Portastudio 424 mk 3. is there any way i can hook these 2 up together? later cats.

hey people i 've been tryin to experiment with incorporating feedback into my playing & to make it sound musically good. how the hell do you do this? do you just turn the amp up really loud so when you take like a half second brake the feedback comes in or what? & also why does feedback happen...

alright, i know i've posted quite a few posts and they may be getting on the annoying side, but here it goes. alright i've got fender noisless pickups in my Strat right now. apparently there was some thing wierd with the fender co. apparently fender didnt include the proper wiring...

i just tried a telecaster tonight. i absolutely fell in love with the one i played. it was a '69 thinline. this thing is fricken awesome. however i was really confused when i got to the store to try them out. there was like 15 different types of teles. i think i'm gonna get it. does any one...

hey tech people out there, i'm lookin to do all that coil tapping, phasing, and series/parallel stuff to a les paul standard. i'm not that experienced working on guitars, but i have plenty of soldering & electrical experience. is this something that someone of my level could take on? also does...

hey people, is it possible to put a coil tap switch on any humbucker? & ya know how a humbucker is just like two single coils (isnt it?), does it matter which "side" of the humbucker you do it to? oh crap i gotta run to school. later

what in sam hell is coil tapping? i've read about this while looking at different pickups, it'll say either "humbucker w/ coil tap mini switch" or "humbucker w/ push push coil tap" what is this i hear about?

alright heres the deal, i've been looking into getting another guitar. i want a gibson les paul standard. i do alot of bend behind the stuff, i.e. Led Zeppelin's Heartbreaker. i tried a les paul out in a store and i bent it behind the nut and the string went severly out of tune. my fender...