Guitar anyone? Electric or accoustic

[Jess42]

That's it. God the Beatles? Sound more bluesy to me. Maybe. My guitar don't weep, it screams. Capital SCREAMS.

[Miss_Bungle1991]

My guitar don't weep, it screams. Capital SCREAMS.

Do you use a wah?

[Jill F]

Do you use a wah?

I use 2 wah pedals sometimes.  I have a Vox Clyde McCoy and a Dunlop Cry Baby Fasel.  I usually operate the Vox with my foot after finding the "sweet spot" on the Dunlop and just parking it there, as sort of a parametric EQ.  It's a trick used by Brian May and Michael Schenker to get some really sick tones.

Too much wah wanking sounds cheesy to me.  I call it "Hammett's Disease".

[Jess42]

Do you use a wah?

Yeah. only on a few songs like Electric Funeral. And it is a Crybaby Wah Wah. 150 bucks on just a few songs. But Sweet Child O' Mine I needed it and Voodoo Chile, I needed it. So three songs I play for 150 bucks. Tax write off baby. It pays to be in a band even if not doing too many gigs if at all right now. I freaking hate teaching and preaching. I need a drummer and bassist and another guitarist. Who is close to New Orleans? Tired of the practice and begging and pleading, "play to the people not me or anyone else". My God, my kingdom for some musicians.

[Miss_Bungle1991]

Vox makes awesome wah-wah pedals. I have a Dunlop "Crybaby From Hell". I have no idea how old it is by this point but I've had it for a long time. I could never do that funky "wacka wacka" stuff where you rock the pedal back and forth to the beat. If I attempted to do that, I would lose my balance since my equilibrium is so bad. I would just find a sweet spot, set it and forget it.

These days I use it with dynamic mics when I want to do some psychedelic Japanoise.

[Jess42]

Vox makes awesome wah-wah pedals. I have a Dunlop "Crybaby From Hell". I have no idea how old it is by this point but I've had it for a long time. I could never do that funky "wacka wacka" stuff where you rock the pedal back and forth to the beat. If I attempted to do that, I would lose my balance since my equilibrium is so bad. I would just find a sweet spot, set it and forget it.

These days I use it with dynamic mics when I want to some psychedelic Japanoise.

Crybaby from Hell. that sounds like my style there. I just got the cry babby and yeah, you gotta' work it. But hell I saw Orianthi working it on Jimmi Hendrix's Voodoo Chile so I can work it if she can.

[Jill F]

<----  Some Fenders.  I had most of these long before I transitioned.  Not exactly the most masculine looking guitar collection, is it?

[Jess42]

<----  Some Fenders.  I had most of these long before I transitioned.  Not exactly the most masculine looking guitar collection, is it?

Does that really matter Jill. Are you masculine? I don't even care for Fender 'cause I am a Gibson girl or Epi girl and I see a pink or peach Telecaster that would fit my personality perfectly. Maybe really need a pink SG.


Can you tale a pick of the Tele on the very right end? Is it pink?

[CalmRage]

<----  Some Fenders.  I had most of these long before I transitioned.  Not exactly the most masculine looking guitar collection, is it?

i don't care how they look, i'd wish i had that collection. I love Fenders. No way back for me. No more Ibanez for me. Even a Fender Squire plays better IMO. Strats for example may take some getting used to to get best results but these results are miles above the Ibanez i used to play and they handle better too.

[Jess42]

i don't care how they look, i'd wish i had that collection. I love Fenders. No way back for me. No more Ibanez for me. Even a Fender Squire plays better IMO. Strats for example may take some getting used to to get best results but these results are miles above the Ibanez i used to play and they handle better too.

I am an SG girl all the way. ACDC and Black Sabbath. I can make some hellacious metal sound with an SG. Especially mixing the open chords and power chords.  If not a Les Paul woks really good. I little darker and heavier. I have one Fender Strat and it is absolutely perfect for Blues. Texas style with Tex Mex pickups, Chicago style I am not to into. Mississippi Delta Blues, only an acoustic for that. But mainly for me, it is metal with the SGs. Classic style metal at that an SG with hot pickups is the way to go. Love the Iommi sound.

[kariann330]

So I FINALLY got the Aria in. Its amazing but I really have some learning to do before I start playing. It has a Floyd Rose tremolo on it and I have never tuned or strung one before. I did some reading online already and did a double take when the first step in the instructions was "Cut off the bead and wrapping holding the bead in place"

Never had to do that with my Ibanez. But I did recently make a deposit on Paul Reed tube head and a Paul Reed stack. Once I get it in gonna get as much crunch out of it as I can and really shred up some Slipknot, In Flames and FFDP

[kariann330]

Oh I also have to get used to 6 stings instead of 8 lol

Apologies for the double post.

[Jill F]

So I FINALLY got the Aria in. Its amazing but I really have some learning to do before I start playing. It has a Floyd Rose tremolo on it and I have never tuned or strung one before. I did some reading online already and did a double take when the first step in the instructions was "Cut off the bead and wrapping holding the bead in place"

Never had to do that with my Ibanez. But I did recently make a deposit on Paul Reed tube head and a Paul Reed stack. Once I get it in gonna get as much crunch out of it as I can and really shred up some Slipknot, In Flames and FFDP

Replace your Floyd Rose strings one string at a time, tune the replacement back to pitch, and make sure the strings are the same gauges, otherwise you'll need to rebalance it. 

[kariann330]

Thank you Jill.

And whoever said that they couldn't get a good sound out of an Ibanez, hook it up to a 5150 head with the Gain at 5. Those guitars were made for metal and lots of gain with a ton of distortion. Trying to go clean with one is like peeing into the wind, it won't end well at all. My old 8 string Ibanez was very fickle when it came to amps and even settings on those amps/heads.

[CalmRage]

i just ran through Neil Young's Helpless. I attempted another song, but i have a bad cold and my voice is almost completely gone. I had to sing it in falsetto to hit any of the notes. 

You should've heard me attempt "Sail Away Sweet Sister" or "Crazy Little Thing Called Love". It sounded out of this world, and not in a good way.

[Lady_Oracle]

I've been learning a few of hendrix's songs I've always wanted to learn and have to say it's been a ton of fun and painful lol..my poor pinky is slowly but surely getting stronger by the day 

[Silverade]

I picked up an acoustic a few years back. Though I'm hardly anything special, I think its pretty amazing that I can play songs on it. Still feels a bit surreal, like I can't really wrap my head around the fact that I'm causing these sounds.

Guitars in general sound utterly fantastic and I hope that I'll continue getting better.

[Abby Claire]

I have an Ibanez RG that I've had for about eight years now. I tune it down to C and play death metal/black metal stuff. I have an acoustic and I wish I was better at writing music that is slower and more folkish, but I'm self taught for 11 years now and for those first 5 years I mostly listened to fast/heavy metal music. So it's all I find myself playing or writing. My musical taste has broadened tremendously since then, so I wish I was better at writing music for other genres, but I'm only capable of writing metal or generic pop riffs.

[Jill F]

I have an Ibanez RG that I've had for about eight years now. I tune it down to C and play death metal/black metal stuff. I have an acoustic and I wish I was better at writing music that is slower and more folkish, but I'm self taught for 11 years now and for those first 5 years I mostly listened to fast/heavy metal music. So it's all I find myself playing or writing. My musical taste has broadened tremendously since then, so I wish I was better at writing music for other genres, but I'm only capable of writing metal or generic pop riffs.

Wow, drop "C" or "C" as in every string dropped two whole tones?  What gauge strings do you have to use?  Do you have the Floyd balanced?

Sorry, ex-pro guitar tech here...

I like to write stuff too.  Before I transitioned, I wrote some pretty dark sh*t.  Now I write a lot of happy stuff and have problems trying to go dark again.  Anyway, here's your songwriting exercise/challenge- pick two chords at random and figure out as many ways as you can to get from one to the other, then do it the other way around.  Experiment.  Use as few chords as you can, then work up to using as many as you can. If it sounds right to you, then it is good.  If you don't like it, change things around until you do.   Keep doing this.  You will write awesome songs in no time.

[Miss_Bungle1991]

I have an Ibanez RG that I've had for about eight years now. I tune it down to C and play death metal/black metal stuff. I have an acoustic and I wish I was better at writing music that is slower and more folkish, but I'm self taught for 11 years now and for those first 5 years I mostly listened to fast/heavy metal music. So it's all I find myself playing or writing. My musical taste has broadened tremendously since then, so I wish I was better at writing music for other genres, but I'm only capable of writing metal or generic pop riffs.

C is a good middle ground. You can play Death Metal and play slow. Winter, Autopsy and My Dying Bride are just a few good examples of mixing up slow and fast. Well..actually, Winter was pretty slow most of the time....yeah.

I like to write stuff too.  Before I transitioned, I wrote some pretty dark sh*t.  Now I write a lot of happy stuff and have problems trying to go dark again.

I like listening to some happy stuff. But I could never play it. It's just not in my blood. Sure, I could play some major key Japanese Hardcore type of stuff. But it's not like it's peppy Pop music.