fritsthegirl
Taste of home
If you have the time, please can you listen to this short sample of me playing and offer me some advice.
My fingers hitting the strings is ruining the sound. I recently got my first electric guitar and a vamp. I've been playing acoustic til now and I've only really noticed this nail scrape noise since playing the electric. I guess it's always been there and I think I need to learn how to use a pick because it sounds so bad. I don't object to it it, but obviously kicking myself for not learning it sooner.
I know a handful of guitarists that don't use a pick, but they're mostly finger picking kind of stuff. What do you reckon? Is it possible to get a good sound strumming without one? Is it a question of changing my positioning/technique a bit?
Maybe this fingernail slap sound can be lessened by adjusting something, like the tone? It's pretty severe though so I doubt it. Just being naive and hopeful, and lazy.
I'll leave myself open to further suggestions on the general recording. I just picked a setting that you could hear the nail thing on really well.
Thanks in advance, sorry for the long post. Hope I made some sense.
Oh maybe I should mention that I have a guitar with 3 I think 'coil pickups' I think they're called? LOL, what a NOOB. I only mention it because the nail noise seems more obvious when I'm on the frets close to the bridge. Figured it might be something to do with which coils I'm using?
My fingers hitting the strings is ruining the sound. I recently got my first electric guitar and a vamp. I've been playing acoustic til now and I've only really noticed this nail scrape noise since playing the electric. I guess it's always been there and I think I need to learn how to use a pick because it sounds so bad. I don't object to it it, but obviously kicking myself for not learning it sooner.
I know a handful of guitarists that don't use a pick, but they're mostly finger picking kind of stuff. What do you reckon? Is it possible to get a good sound strumming without one? Is it a question of changing my positioning/technique a bit?
Maybe this fingernail slap sound can be lessened by adjusting something, like the tone? It's pretty severe though so I doubt it. Just being naive and hopeful, and lazy.
I'll leave myself open to further suggestions on the general recording. I just picked a setting that you could hear the nail thing on really well.
Thanks in advance, sorry for the long post. Hope I made some sense.
Oh maybe I should mention that I have a guitar with 3 I think 'coil pickups' I think they're called? LOL, what a NOOB. I only mention it because the nail noise seems more obvious when I'm on the frets close to the bridge. Figured it might be something to do with which coils I'm using?
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