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    Best Guitar Solos ever

    Favorite solos: Jerry Cantrell- Man in the Box Jerry Cantrell- Junkhead James Hetfield- Nothing Else Matters Anything Mark Tremonti (*grin*) Tom Morello-Know Your Enemy That's it, the modern rock solo kit........
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    Help me pick out a new geetar for around $1000

    Well... I suppose they do cut through, if you're playing Simon&Garfunkel covers or something. PROVEN FACT: You cannot have two guitars and one of them playing in stereo. Sounds like shit, phase cancellation, out of phase, delay problems, general mud sound... I have practiced with modeling...
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    Help me pick out a new geetar for around $1000

    Get a Les Paul Studio Lite. Half the weight and all the tone. Can be found used for $600-$800. Check eBay. Epiphones are shit...atleast the electronics, anyway. Amp thingy: Modeling amps are nice and would suit for recording, but if you plan to play with a band the don't cut through, have...
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    EVH Wolfgang guitar?

    Okie... I have been considering buying a Wolfgang by Peavy. They look real nice and all but in the music store I never get a chance to just crank an amp and wail on one. Is there any Wolfgang owners out there? Is there and negative opinions? I normally would not bother but this buy...
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    Magical Mystery Switch?

    BTW: There is such a product as the 'combinator' which has multiple loops which can be combined and remembered like a multi-effects unit. 9 loops in total. Again this was a product I started work on with Radio Shack components about 2.5 years ago. (SIGH)..... I think that whenever you have a...
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    American strat vs Mexican strat

    SCREW FENDER (CBS) BUY A G&L!!!!!!!!!! G&L guitars are GOD! And they are reasonably priced for the wares. I would say that they are closer to a vintage strat than any american standard made since about 70'. And they play better. Viking_______________________________________
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    Guitar "Strings" what gauge??

    Blue Steel strings are the shit. I have played them since they came out and never have changed, but I am interested in the Elixirs though. I bought my first set and will let you all know how it goes. Viking_______________________________________
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    Guitar "Strings" what gauge??

    Great to know there's alt of guitar players out there! I use Dean Markley 'Blue Steel' strings which kick ass. (If you are out there Dean Markley I would appreciate a sponsor ship as I have converted about everyone I know to Blue Steel strings!!!). These strings stay in tune like a mother...
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    D-G-C-F-A-D

    Whoah!!! Not to say anything Even, but take it from a guy who plays in D, Db, and B all the time... I f you get lighter gauge strings you will have shit for intonation and the feel will be terrible. The lighter gauge strings reach pitch ( like D ) at a lower string tension. Meaning when you...
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    That dreamy smooth guitar sound

    Slack ! So hows those fingers doin? Was it the string change that got you? *GRIN* Anyway, I got the cream your pants solution to lead tone, enough to roll up in a big fat ball of 'Good God!' drippin' with some 'Have Mercy!'..... So send $19.95 check or money order to: Viking...
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    Pickup installation problems

    What the hell? They must be internally grounding the two sides of the coils (black and white wires that I spoke about earlier) and are using the the white wires coming out of the factory pickup as the center of the two coils. Then they are probably switching the white wire (in the original...
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    Tuning to "D"

    Leave it to the Doc...*GRIN* Anyway, I tune to all sorts of tunings. Some of mine aren't even tunings, I just twist the pegs til it sounds good. It's good ear training...., but have your allen wrench on hand!! What is happening when you detune is the neck moves, changing your intonation...
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    Pickup installation problems

    (* In Tears *): I spent all that time drawing out a humbucker and the damn thing won't come out right! *SIGH* How's about a clinic on how to draw stuff on this board.
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    Pickup installation problems

    Lo' there, I have a yamaha 421dm and did the same thing so here's the fix.... What you got when you bought the duncan was a humbucker with 'coil tapping' capabilites. This means you can use one or the other coils as a 'single coil' or use both in a humbucking configuration. The yamaha...
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    Shure Beta 52 ??

    Mr. Recording Engineer, Thanks for the input I am going to buy the mic then. I didn't know it was a bass drum mic, but I need one of those anyway! Thanks again, Viking_______________________________________
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    Shure Beta 52 ??

    I was wondering about this mic. It is at a local pawn shop for $45 and is in excellent condition. I want to record guitars right now and was wondering about the applications of this mic. It looks like one of those old bullet mics, but blue, not green. It also has a huge omni directional cover...
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    Acoustic pickups

    Hellooooo! That pick-up you are thinking about buying is shit! It's a Korean made Dean, which Dean is not known for their electronics!!So to me you have one of 2 options. 1): Mic the guitar. Most pickups were designed to get the acoustic signal to the board in a noisy enviroment. Otherwise...
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    Press Play

    Thanks G-Hornet! I have had the chance to learn alot from this site now, and I am putting it to good use. Found out why my sound sucked, too. My machine only is supposed to use Cr02 tapes, high bias. I was plugging in the sony 10 for $4.97 at Wal-Mart tapes! (duh-huh) So now I have cleaned...
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    Best amp for heavy distortion

    Ok Foo. Playing is important. But if you have a lame sounding guitar or a terrible feel to the instrument you will just wanna quit!!! I hung out back stack at a Gov't Mule concert one night with Warren Haynes. He was playing the guitar the radio station was having the band sign for a promo shot...
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    Need to borrow some fingers...

    Try super glue or PVC glue. Ever got that stuff on your hands? It makes a layer of thick plastic which doesn't easily come off. I spent a year with only an acoustic to my name once.. and being a metal head all I knew were thrash songs. So I played them acoustic. It made my fingers like...
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