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funny thing happened last night. my bass player looks at me... he plays on my bass amp, a hartke ha300 w/ 4x10 cab. he goes: "Dude... why is it that I can't get any more volume out of this thing without clipping? When we play shows the clip light is, like, permanently on?" I replied by saying...

Hey fellas, Picked up another Rondo the other day... http://www.rondomusic.com/sstftowl.html I decided to order this guitar because in the past I've played strats with floating bridges that were all pretty useless from a tuning/intonation standpoint, and have since switched over to fixed...

my bass player and I got into an argument last night on the subject of smashing the shit out of a guitar with regard to delighting in its destructification. you see, i snagged a 25 dollar epi sg off craigslist the other day. i restrung her. my bass player saw it and was like, 'yo, whatchoo doin...

Hey, I'm about to start tricking my Fender Hot Rod DeVille... I'm reading tons of specs and reviews of different speakers, but I have to admit to myself (and to you) that I have no idea what the difference between a ceramic speaker and an alnico speaker is. Other than the price. Any help...

Last night at rehearsal my bass player wandered in, and I was talking with the drummer about our next string of fall shows starting in October. Specifically, I was talking about the annoying gear-sluts who come up and stand with their faces an inch from your pedal board, staring at your pedals...

Greetings, gentlemen: I've just gotten hold of a Digitech Whammy, and I'm having trouble figggering out where to put it in the line. The real question is... before overdrive, or after overdrive. Not that I really give a shit, but I did check guitar geek. The two major players I know who use...

I'm wondering what the point of all these polls is... What do they do for you?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLUh1xnVCfM funniest thing i've seen in a while. i have tears rolling down my face. i decided my rock band is going on tour in mexico. who's with me?

Hey Gents, Just ordered a GFS Mean 90 Bucker to turn my chinese agile tele into a frankenstein esquire from hell. problem is, i received a GFS Mean 90 Neck pickup instead. What's the difference between the two? Is it going to make a difference? I can just send it back, but if there's not...

I thought some would get a kick out of this. A message i sent to ---- customer service: "Hello, I write with a question I haven't been able to answer from the manual or by common sense. For the most part, I bypass the input pres on my [digital 8track] and I'm able to use the meters on my...

apologies in advance for the stupidest question ever... my master faders in logic... they're without a scale. what dB scale are they measuring? i've been through the manual thrice and ITS KILLING ME.

i've recently started listening to the stooges fun house on repeat day in and day out, which has had noticeable effects. when my band plays shows i bring a jar of peanut butter and i find myself resisting the urge to piss on the crowd. but the crowd is usually six people, mostly consisting of...

We just took our first EP to a world-class mastering facility. Our ME was nothing short of an artist. Through about a six hour session, I learned a great deal. He encouraged us not to slam the shit out of our mixes and ruin our record... and gave a pretty great insight into the 'loudness war,'...

Gents, I gots a problem. I'm mixing my band's guitar-driven rock opus, basically a catalogue of riffs in E minor and I have one problem that is makin me crazy. Though by the end there are like 13 different guitar tracks, for the bulk of the song there are just 2 guitar tracks, panned hard left...

Dear friends, For about a year I've been playing on a G&L Invader and I love her so very much, but I'd been using an old Mexicaster as a backup. Methinks it sounds like shit, and it never, ever, ever, ever stays in tune for longer than 90 seconds. So, needless to say, I've been in the market...

I learned a few things tonight: 1) Crappy places usually have crappy monitors. 2) Often times it will be difficult to hear everything. In the gig we played tonight, the drummer had no monitors. At all. We're used to practicing like that, but in this case there were 20' high ceilings...

why oh why oh why oh why do i have analog vu meters in my dmp3? and furthermore... most of the time they're either not moving or flying all over the place. sigh.

Hey fellas... Never played a synth before, but bought one with my Bush money. I haven't hooked it up yet, but plan on putting it in my... guitar signal chain... I want to grab some guitar tones, fuck with them through the vocoder, and spit the madness out through a tube amp. Anyone know of any...

but it will likely feel good. You tell me. The guitar shop down the street has a Hughes and Kettner 20W 1x12 that some guy walked in off the street with. I have it on hold for $80, picking it up tomorrow, if you can believe that. It has a 12" Celestion in it... not sure if that was original or...

So I've been reading a textbook on mixing, and it's sort of opening up a lot of trains of thought that are all driven by midget coke addicts. I had an idea yesterday, but perhaps it's bananas. The out of speaker trick... you know... You record a mono source... say my guitar... you copy the...