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cameron

I wont give you the technical definition but I'll make it musician friendly ... A noise gate or noise suppressor eliminates unwanted noise, static, hissing or interference from reaching the amp ... some amps have a noise gate already inside (for example, the Line6 Spider III series comes with a noise gate that you activate yourself) ... a great Noise Suppressor is the NS-2 from Boss

http://www.bosscorp.co.jp/products/en/NS-2/

I mostly use Boss stompboxes and I highly recommend the NS-2 ... you can buy them relatively cheap at under $100

Sweet pickup deaken ... I used to have two Schecters (Omen 6 and Hellraiser FR) ... changing the strings is way tricky ... my suggestion is to bring it to a shop for restringing or you can go to youtube.com and type in Floyd Rose string changing and you should get a lot of hits ... I never restrung mine due to the complexity of it and making sure it sounded right

Have fun though ... you have a sweet metal guitar for under $500

06

What amp are you using ?  I play some Metallica but I run my Les Paul through a Line6 SpiderIII 75 and I can pretty much tweak it to fit the Metallica sound

I agree with 06 ... the Line6 Spider III (10?) makes an affordable model for $99 ... it's a good beginners amp and comes with some effects you can learn from ... although I will say for clean acoustic sounds it's not the best you're going to get ...

Thomas is correct as far as the Marshall ... I have it specifically for my acoustic stuff ... I rarely use it for my Les Paul; for that I use my Line6 Spider III 75 and it's perfect ... although a good noise gate or suppresor is a must

Thanks guys I'll check them out ... I like the video sites that show it "close up" so you can really see how they're playing

Agreed Alvee ... I didnt get really "hooked" until I was able to play that first song and then something "clicked" and I got the bug ... I've been playing rock, country, metal, folk songs for the past 2 years and last weekend, for the first time, actually started playing "Pop" songs like Dido, Robbie Williams, Peter Gabriel, etc.

It's really suprising how far you will come along in a short time span ... once you learn open chords, barre chords, and power chords you'll be EXTREMELY happy

One recommendation is to try and not limit yourself to what you learn ... keep an open mind to everything ... find out what you like, what you don't like ... for me as an example, I'm not great at Barre Chords so I find ways around it by learning other chord variations and it helps expand your knowledge

Now I have something to look forward too ... I just bought an Ovation Celebrity Koa ... nice insight guys thanks!

Here's a good site for you to learn from berti:

www.justinguitar.com

You'll be playing songs in no time

Pandora is pretty good Zurf ... I have that site bookmarked as well

SouthPaw41L ... I miss hearing Bubba ... loved hearing him when I was in Tampa and in Ft Walton Beach ... I always thought he was 10x better than Stern

Wow KAP that is a pretty cool site ... I'm going to save this in my favs ... it's beat google'ing a guitar to find out what it sounds like, etc

Thanks

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