Thanks, I think I'm going for the flanger. I'm looking more for something to put a sort of occaisional drama and character into whatever song I'm playing, instead of just boring old distortion. A few hits on the flanger ought to do nicely.
2 2008-04-17 17:03:38
Topic: Flange or Phase? (5 replies, posted in Electric)
I'm a little confused about the difference between a Flange effect and a Phaser effect. I'm looking to buy whichever one makes the sound like a jet plane going overhead, or a rocket ship blasting off, or, if any of you know Journey, like the sound they have in the very beginning of "Be Good to Yourself" (One rockin song!). It sounds like that sound should be named "Phaser", seeing as it sounds sort of like a phaser going off, but I'm also guessing that the pedal was not designed around Star Trek. Anybody know which one is which?
3 2008-04-17 16:57:56
Re: Watery Sound (7 replies, posted in Electric)
It's a sort of odd sound...not sure how I can really describe it, other than comparing it to a guitar played underwater. But strangely enough, it went away on its own, as far as I can tell.
4 2008-04-10 20:13:58
Re: Watery Sound (7 replies, posted in Electric)
Naa, I clean my strings every day after playing them, and I just replaced them all two weeks ago. I have been sweating more than usual though, seeing as how the temperature spiked from 50 to 80 here in the past three days. I'm determined to get at least a month out of my strings though.
5 2008-04-10 02:05:44
Topic: Watery Sound (7 replies, posted in Electric)
My High E string is sounding watery, whether I play it open or fretted. It's not hugely noticable, but it gets on my nerves a little, as I hear myself play all the time. Any ideas what might be causing that?
6 2008-04-05 17:59:21
Re: Buzz on Low E and A (6 replies, posted in Electric)
Changed all the strings out today.....it's heaven. No more buzzes, a nice medium gauge feel, and much less twangy.
Dean Vendettas come with .009's set of strings, change them to .010 set you'll have less twang because of the thicker string guage. I bought one at a guitar center for $80.00 american becuase I wanted the neck for a sg type guitar I am currently building. I stuck a samick neck I picked up at a guitar show ($20.00 with machine heads) and it plays like butter.
Bootlegger.
7 2008-04-03 15:47:19
Re: Buzz on Low E and A (6 replies, posted in Electric)
I think it's a little late for that. I bought it online, and I've already done some work on it that I think voids the return policy. I changed a broken string, I reconnected a loose wire, and there's pick scratches that show up in bright light. I paid a total of $100 for the guitar, so I'm not expecting it to be the world's best, and now that I really did raise the action this time, all the buzz is gone except for the low E, which only comes when I play it to hard with a downward stroke. A little annoying with power chords, but luckily, I mostly play A-G string power chords anyway. Maybe I'll get some guitar junkie friend to take a look at it.
I fixed the intonation by doing this:
I downloaded a free guitar tuner that shows the frequency of the note being played.
I tuned my guitar as close as I could get it on open.
I measured the frequency of the open strings, then multiplied it by two (To give it one more octave)
From there, I 12th fretted the string, and adjusted the intonation (tuning up periodically), until I got within .50-.25 of the open pitch x 2 on each string.
I played the guitar.
I found out it sounds pretty good (At least in my own ear)
So, crisis averted, save for that E string, which I am now willing to live with 
8 2008-04-03 02:10:40
Re: Buzz on Low E and A (6 replies, posted in Electric)
I feel like an idiot...I tried to adjust the action by changing the intonation! I turned the darn wrong set of screws. So, is it a bad thing that I changed the intonation on my strings, or is it easily fixable (Though I can't detect a great deal of difference in the sound)?
9 2008-04-02 20:07:37
Topic: Buzz on Low E and A (6 replies, posted in Electric)
I got a Dean Vendetta XM about two weeks ago, and I find the A string buzzing something terrible. So I turn the screws for that string on the saddle, and the buzzing stopped immediately. Then when I played again, I heard that it was now outdoing all the other strings in quality...so I proceed to adjust all the others as well. Now it sounds great...except, for some weird reason, the buzzing low E string (The thick one), and the A string, though only a bit on the A string. The low E buzzes pretty badly, and my tweaking doesn't seem to make it much better. Any thoughts on how to take the buzz out of the game? That don't involve messing with truss rods?