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I'm thinking it's about time I replaced the 13-15 year old Yamaha 25watt amp I'm currently using.
I mainly play Rock/Punk-Rock but I've started playing Blues and Metal recently as well. I need an amp that's got more power than the current amp and has a decent sound quality. I'm not too bothered about the Distortion because I use a Multi-Effects unit but it needs to sound good clean without the effects unit.
At the moment it looks like either the Fender FM212R or the Hartke Piggy Back. 
Any advice?
badeye wrote:Been playing acoustic for little over two years, just curious
what is your progress. I have about 250 songs on paper and can do 15 without book, others I need the book. also self taught. What is your progress???
....Badeye
About the same as yours, but I mainly play Punk Rock so it's easier! 
I've been playing about...a year and a half? I honestly can't remember. I started when I was 5 then gave up after about 3 days...and started again.
The only capo you'll ever need is a Shubb.
http://www.musicstreet.co.uk/shubb-capo … db5df7f0c5
I got one of those for £3 because the shop I ordered it from had run out of cheap ones.
Found this:
http://www.gibson.com/en-us/Divisions/G … s/History/
The PU-490, as the pickup was officially named, featured twin coils wired in parallel and out-of-phase, adjustable pole screws on one coil and German silver metal covers to resist outside electrical interference. Although the patent was granted in 1959, Gibson's humbuckers bore a small decal on the bottom baseplate with the words "Patent Applied For" until mid-1962. Gibson humbuckers from that early era (1957 to 1962) command princely sums in the vintage guitar market today, and in the eyes of knowledgeable players, they remain the Holy Grail of pickups.
upyerkilt wrote:We ( as in the UK and USA) interfere far too much in other countries affairs. Just because we dont like what they do doesnt make them wrong ( doesnt make them right either though)
What China have done is far worse than what Iraq did.
Invading another country for no reason, killing the leaders of that country, killing the people of that country, destroying their culture and making sure no-one ever hears about it, so no-one will complain. Sounds pretty wrong to me. 
Not much point in talking about it though, that won't make any difference.
Can't think of any songs that go with it either.
Russell_Harding wrote:hohner blues harp, marine band or hot metal any of these would do the trick
Thanks, I've found a few sites that sell them but I'm not sure about the key.
It doesn't seem worth buying a box of 7 if I don't know if I'll actually like playing it or not.
Is it possible to re-wire a Les Paul copy? I've got a nice one made with good wood, bridge and tuners but the pickups are a bit...bland.
The thing is I'm not sure how you connect the wires. I've got a diagram for it but is it possible to get to the wires?
Turtlebo wrote:If you are D and D geeks you could honor it's creator (RIP) and call yourselves the "GYGAXES" (which has the word axes in it too-Rock On). Or you could be "The D20 System" or as a play on another band you be "System of a D20"
Nice one!
Russell_Harding wrote:it depends on what you like blues country or classical,for classical you would need a chromatic harp with a button to shift the tone up 1/2 step
It would mainly be Blues, maybe with a few Bob Dylan songs as well.
Hmm, maybe I'll get one as well. I've always wanted to be able to play it.
How about if you don't know which key you prefer playing in? Is there one key which has more easy-to-play songs than the others?
"Hitching' a Ride" by Green Day is played almost completely using an E-Based Barre.
Also "Macy's Day Parade" by Green Day uses just about all of the standard Barre chords.
That's why I can't play either of those songs. I hate Barre chords, I can just about manage an E-based now but I can't play an A-based barre.
I bought a Zoom G2.1U multi-effects unit so I could try the effects out. It's cheaper than a bunch of Danelectro pedals, that's why I bought it.
I've since found out that all I'm using is the amp modelling, distortion and flanger. So I know which pedals to buy once I've got the cash. I'll be buying Boss pedals purely because they're better quality, and quite a few people recommend them. 
Stock strat-style pickups, 5.2k neck and middle, 5.3k bridge. Around the same quality as Squier pickups. They came with the kit and I haven't got round to changing them.
I just used regular Acrylic paint on mine. As long as you use an Acrylic varnish over it it'll work fine. Much easier to paint complex patterns with too.
rocking razhy wrote:i cant find a chord chart!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! my computer is so retarted it wont let me go to places that have them can some one send me a link please?
Try this:
http://www.chordie.com/chords.php
Thanks for the links Doc.
cytania wrote:Hum can be lessened with screening. Do your pickup wires have little braided cuffs round them, are the body cavities lined with copper tape/paint? Doing these things cuts down on hum getting in. The copper tape can be bought and applying it just takes a steady hand.
No cuffs on the pickup wires.
No tape/paint in the cavities.
The pickups are 5.2k neck and middle and 5.3k bridge, so I reckon they need replacing before I'll be able to get a decent tone out of it. I've done all the setup again yesterday using the fender guide, I've just got to see how it sounds.
"All My Best Friends Are Metalheads",
"Help Save the Youth of America from Exploding",
"Richard Allen George...No, It's Just Cheez"
all by Less Than Jake.
Since you claim to be geeks...
How about the "Majik Squares"?
tonydr wrote:G S E wrote:My bro in law has been doing this with his 1970 Kustom SG since he bought the thing in 1971.
The first time I saw him do it about twenty years ago , I just cringed . He does it at the end of a few rock songs that he does , and it does sound cool . Having said that,
I don't think you'll be seeing me do it . Although has'nt bothered that Kustom after thirty seven years ???!!!.......
I think the SG really lends itself to the neck bend. The top cutaway gives you leverage. Never had a problem, but my strat is much stiffer and I rather just use the whammy bar.
Because the neck joint is weak as there is hardly any wood supporting it. Do that enough and the neck will come off the guitar. 
A Strat neck will bend slightly, but since it damages the guitar and only has the same effect as a tremelo bar, it's not worth it.
I read about this in a book on guitar building. It's your guitar so feel free to bend the neck, just don't come running to us when it breaks... 
So that's why they reverse the middle pickup.
I honestly don't know if it's getting hum because the pickups are so bad.
Think of the sound effects on one of the SNES/Mega Drive games and that's how the pickups sound.
Tremelo bar? That's known to cause tuning problems.
I've decided to replace the pickups on the Strat copy I built. I played it yesterday and they are terrible.
Now I've got a choice: Stick with the S-S-S layout or swap to coil-tapped S-S-H or H-S-H.
The body routs have already been done for H-S-H (it had those routs when the kit came), the only thing is I want to be able to keep the Single-coil Strat sound from it, and I don't know if it sounds the same with Coil-tapped Humbuckers.
Another option would be to use Strat-Sized Humbuckers and coil-tap them.
A trick which was used to name an entire company:
make something out of your middle names.
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