why would you have your fuzz pedal switched on when you're not playing through it?
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i mean, these foot switches were created for a reason. they can be turned on and off with ease.
if you're just standing there, resting for 14 bars, turn the goddam thing off or roll down your volume, something. or if you're recording, fade down the parts where you're not actually playing anything. |
don't tell me what to do!
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current chain: guitar < envelope filter < noise gate < octave < noise gate < fuzz < noise gate < phase < noise gate < delay < noise gate < reverb < noise gate < amp
i leave all effects on all the time and only control the noise gates. |
this actually brings a tear of joy to my eye.
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lol slunken you're like being a smartass when it's you who's assuming that by 'not playing' we mean 'resting for 14 bars with fuzz pedal on'
how about riffs that stop and start, or when you solo and you want and pause your playing every so often, and not be concerned that every time you mute the strings you'll have a bunch of modulated static. noise gates are your friends |
some of us are still using single coil pickups that buzz like hell even with everything turned off
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man, this fucking sucks and brings a tear of sadness to my eye.
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truly
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literally
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Anybody have tips on pinch harmonics? Like, doing them is easy, the hard part is mixing them in with regular picking so that you can regular-pick and pinch the notes you want with precision (like, getting that one squealy note in a riff, or, even harder, in a solo). I can't really move the pick in my hand to the pinch grip in the middle of playing, I can only do squealies if I'm holding the pick that way the whole way through.
I've read some people say that your fingers should always be really close to the tip of the pick anyway so that you can do squealies with your regular pick grip, but I find that holding the pick that way makes my knuckles have way too much contact with the strings, and I'm more likely to hit strings I don't want to or get snagged and slow down. I've probably been holding my pick wrong this whole time. I tend to hold it between my thumb and index finger pads. I just found out recently that you should hold it on the side of your index finger rather than on the pad. Making this change hasn't been too difficult for me, and it still feels natural. But, the thing about letting very little of the pick peek through, I find that troublesome because it leads to the aforementioned problems. Quote:
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actually i experimented with noise gates back in the day and you can do really cool shit with it.
i fed a synth to the sidechain function of a noise gate plugin, and created loops with the patterns i wanted. you can control the length of each note, have it 'perform' patterns and the noise gate responds accordingly. i reckon that to use that in a song you would need to apply a good measure of good taste, as things could quickly plunge to cheap trance rave party territory (only with guitar) but it's cool shit. this song features a pretty cool example of such noise gate usage around 2/3 through. |
Porcupine tree ew
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It's not "a little noise" that I'm cutting out, it's noise that can be almost at the level of the actual playing. It sounds like shit. It's gone now. Why is that so scandalous.
No, I can't just turn up the amp, because then the noise goes up with it. Also, I live in an apartment. Just because I like things to sound a little less like shit doesn't mean I listen to prog metal. In fact, it kind of implies the opposite. And the Phrygian mode is pretty cool. I put that shit over everything. |
What wah pedal do I get
Is that what they call it Wah wicky Wah whicky Wah wicky Wah That one. |
I need to sound the least like RATM tho good god no
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I used to have a Boss wah that had presets to sound like other models, but I wasn't a big fan of it (no spring, and it weirdly came with built-in distortion). Quote:
How you make these pedals sound is in how you play them, though. You won't sound like RATM unless you take your shirt off and draw anarchist symbol on your chest. |
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At disco king - have you tried the obvious method of unchaining everything and listening to the sounds one by one as you reintroduce each piece back into the chain? Does any of the noise stop when you touch the jack on your guitar or the strings or any other bit of metal?
I almost want to say whatever you are using for gain/distortion has a bad capacitor. What is your chain? At Elph - Dunlop for sure |
I'm selling my car and getting a bike now that I've figured I can take the bus to school and with a bike it'd be about a 30 minute trip to work
I hate driving and mostly the car just sits outside my trailer So I'm gonna have a few thousand that I want to put into music equipment the wah pedal is first on the list |
I'm considering getting a keyboard I feel like I'd get a ton of use out of learning it, I'd play the Organ setting a lot underneath my guitar playing
can "and gear" mean non-guitar related music gear |
Okay you just spent $60
At the wah comment |
I'll probably get a legit amp as well I've noticed the amp you play through can make a world of difference
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have none of you ever played a single coil pickup seriously they fucking howl on the clean channel if you turn your body the wrong way.
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Also recommend shopping for a good head AFTER buying your cab and use same cab with each. There's cab makers online where u can customize the specs, looks, and speakers: I got an Avatar cab and I love it liked dealing with them |
I have this thing against anything "Fender" where I feel like it's "playing teen spirit in Guitar Center poseur" brand tho I play a Fender Strat just because it happened to be the first thing that was given to me
Idk the way they market themselves as like "buy this and be a Rockstar!" do you know what I mean |
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Gibson as well really
Im not sure how to articulate what I mean other than it feels phony it doesn't feel like the tools of someone trying to make music the same way an author writes a book it feels like playing dress up |
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