The Official Guitar Thread

Looks pretty interesting but I don't do kickstarters

Can I Demo ToneHub : We will be offering 10 day trials of ToneHub after the intro price promotion period ends (3rd April). You can demo the preset packs within the intro price promotional period

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Next month I'll demo this. The andy James STL pack was pretty good. Didn't do metal as good as neural dsp

Ordered a set of Fender Nocaster pickups for my American standard tele. I put them in my MiM Tele a while back and really like the sound. I've nearly rebuilt the American now, fret job, new tuners, new pickups now, put a new bridge and saddles way back. Not much left of the original at this point. Pickguard maybe.

Changed my mind. No reason to have two nearly identical guitars with the same pickup sets. Anyone ever use DiMarzio pickups? I've never used them. They have a few that the videos they sound good on.

Don't have much experience there unfortunately. I've always used Carvin (RIP) or Seymour Duncan pickups. Haven't done any guitar work or changes since '09 to any of my guitars.

With this quarantine, I've been playing so much more and I can tell I've gotten better even in the last 3-4 weeks. I'm also saving a shitload of money. A lot of budget was dedicated to live music, travel, and general city-dwelling fuckery. But literally all of those have been cut out of my expenditure. I might buy a PRS or something dope with the savings.

I was so busy in March getting people at my company equipped and prepared to work & teach from home that it destroyed my practice routine. I'm going to fix that this week.

String shortage grows.

I've had a few pairs of dimarzios

Tone zone and PAF Pro were very nice
D-activators .. feel those aren't your style
Blaze/II very nice, a bit bassy

I've always been a Seymour Duncan fan in passives though

I've been listening to a bunch of reviews. Like I do all the time the more I listen the further I get down the rabbit hole. Trying to decide now if I want to upgrade them at all. I have the nocasters on the MiM tele which I like, and I like the sound of my American standard as is. Of course you know what that means thinking of trying out a more inexpensive epiphone semi hollowbody for something really different. I'm really shy on shipping tho.

Been looking at the 339, but like everyone else hard to get out and try one out.

Figured I would make my first entry into this thread. I've been a tinkerer on the guitar for 20 years now, but I take long( like years) breaks and have never had formal instruction, so I am still very much a beginner. I rarely learn full songs and mostly just play riffs that I like, but I want to make a serious go of it and get good enough to play songs like Nothing Else Matters, some RHCP, Staind, and other stuff. I can move pretty quickly between open chords and can play barre chords well, but I can't shift as quickly from open to barre chords. I prefer classic rock and eventually want to get good at fingerstyle. I've watched a lot of Tomi Paldanius because I like the versions of Livin on a Prayer and Nothing Else Matters , among others.

I have always played acoustics and will be doing my learning on one. My first guitar was an Art & Lutherie that I bought at a local shop in Hawaii and I loved that guitar. I believe it had a Cedar top and had an amazing rich sound. To help motivate myself, I bought a Martin D-13E to learn on and told myself when I am good enough to justify it, I will reward myself with a D-28 or a D-45. I got myself a year long JamPlay subscription and have been watching the first few lessons of the beginner teachers to get a feel for who I want to continue with.

Anyways, just wanted to say hello and represent some acoustic playing since most of the posts here are electric.

Spent the weekend dialing in tones on the Fractal. Playing is sloppy, but definitely dialed a few tones in.


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Great work on your Big Wreck models. Especially That Song. Nailed it.

I've asked before and people said they had used Reverb with no issues. Did you buy from an individual or a business? I'm not looking to buy a special guitar and there are tons of them wondering if it really made a difference.