I wanna get my first guitar and I want it to be electric. I've been doing some extensive research online for the last few weeks and learning some guitar-speak. Now, I know where G-string comes from.
I went to a local SamAsh store and saw a used Schecter Papa Roach Signature guitar for $250. It had dual EMG humbuckers from what I can tell, and a Floyd Rose tremolo. A giant roach emblem on the front and at the 12th fret. I don't know what year it is.
I plan to come back fully loaded with guitar lingo know-how, but I need further advice from folks who know something about bargaining with guitar sales people. What are the dos and don'ts of the art? Guitar sales people should share me their thoughts.
[G] DIE NEWBIE DIE!!!! [/G]
*Barf*
Ewwwww! Coors puke! 8O
With potato salad chunks.
Coors beer won't let the gas build up beyond a certain point........ Hence:
*Belch* [sorry]
..*FART!*..
nOob...humbucker my knob for awhile...
| Quote : What are the dos and don'ts of the art? |
There are none.... Music stores are already in such high competition The price marked is what you get in most cases... Sure there's a 200% mark up,so they can run 50% off sales & still make a killing.
Prices on used gear are usually set by the previous owner & are there on consingment...You can't haggle used gear & you can't haggle new gear unless you plan to spend a grand or better...
Now that I'm done being nice What the fcuk does a n00b asshoyle need with a Floydd when you probibly can't tune an axe with a standard bridge??... Seriously pal spend $99 on a Kramer focus & learn how to play the fcukin' thing before you go fcukin' around with an exotic trem set up...I got 30+ years under my belt.. I know what the fook I'm talking about... Besides now-a-days That shit you young turks call music is all drop D tuning which makes a Trem almost useless The low E slaps around & makes a chit-load of un-wanted noise.
I may have mis-read your music taste but the only need for a Floydd is Shreadin' & if your just starting now you won't progress to the point that its useful for another 2 or 3 years... Spend the saved cash on some lessons...And don't be an as[b][/b]shole just to look cool & sling the dam thing below your belt... Repetitive stress injurys are most common from shitheads wearing their axe too dam low.
And now for the benefit of the rest of this forums members.
[Die][poser][Kurt Cobain wannabe] [n00b c[b][/b]ock sucker][/Kurt Cobain wannabe][/poser][/Die]
Good to hear you figured out what a G string is. Now take a top E and garrotte yourself.
He's too busy trying to hide his pecker & nut sack behind the skinny string & wondering why the eye-patch dosen't cover his bung hole. :?
| Quote : Besides now-a-days That **** you young turks call music is all drop D tuning which makes a Trem almost useless The low E slaps around & makes a chit-load of un-wanted noise.
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Or just get a 7 string.
| Quote : I may have mis-read your music taste but the only need for a Floydd is Shreadin' & if your just starting now you won't progress to the point that its useful for another 2 or 3 years... |
Tremolos are 99% useless.
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Too true. A good rule of thumb is to sit down and hold the guitar. When you stand, the guitar should be in the exact same position.
| Quote : Tremolos are 99% useless. |
100% correct... I stick to Radius adjustable hard tails (Hard tail strat Knock offs)
My current fav is a $350.00 Ibanez Js 600 hard tail... Odd thing is they made less than 1000 so in another 10 yr's who knows..collectors item..Its a 94' btw...Too bad its a bolt on but the neck joints tighter than a catholic virgin at her communion.
Foul, dude. Communion takes place at around 8 years old. That's not good.
11-16 in the U.S. depending on weather you went to Catholic school full time or just sunday school...
And 16 bleeds for 7 days just like the rest of em.
That's still below the line dude. Let's keep it clean.
Were you one of those that ran Jerry Lee Lewis off the Islands?? 8)
Yes. I'm also the guy who dug up and orally satisfied Mother Teresa of Calcutta.
She doesn't look all that satisfied in the pictures.
Ahhh she was over rated any how....I guess you found that out 1st hand though.
She aged well in her coffin though.
I'm going to hell, aren't I?
Tip No#1
This is no joke either.
Look down the fret board where it was glued to the solid wooden neck of the guitar. If the neck is one solid piece with the frets tapped into the actual wood its authentic.
If the fret board is glued to the hardwood Neck then its a fake and also its probably separated from the main Harwood body of the neck, leaving minor cracks all underneath the fret board.
Only reasons for a guitar like that to even be for sale to the general public.
I had a Vantage Avenger some $900.00 bucks well its been 20 some years ago now. At any rate when I took it in to sell back to them the guy found a crack in the fret board showed me right there in the store and poof its now a $20 buck Guitar. I had that thing for nearly 12 years never noticed in dark rooms or once in the case after use that the neck had split from the fret board but it had and it really never effected the sound I suppose, but still at point of resale it means the things junk.
Foot in mouth yet again....How can an Ebony or Rose wood fingerboard be attached to a maple neck any way other than glueing....Its done the same way on a $5,000 Les Paul Black Beauty as it is on a $200 Epiphone.... You got robbed...Oddly enough I own a 1971 "Hagstrom" II (Kings neck with patented expander streacher!!!) A 1984 Kramer XLIII (Strat Knock off..But Made in the Kramer Shack In Neptune N.J. U.S.A. Hooray!!! ... Have owned several Strats, Ibanez, And an (Unknown year) Rickenbacker 480 (Same body style as 4000 series bases "Geddy Lees 80's Bass) and you know what.... every one of them had the fretboard glued on!!!!
Stop talking ... you'll sound smarter....
Again your basing your expertise on only what you know and not what is.
The original model he's talling about look it up is a solid chunk of wood.
The new knock off's have a bolt on maple neck and rosewood fingerboard and mahogany body's.
The originals were solid and they did not call him poppa roach for nothing.
The Jerry Horton "Pappa Roach" signiture modle of which he speaks is a Schecter "Tempest" with a 3 Ply maple /mahogany/maple neck construction with... a rose wood finger board!!!
Schecter Tempest
Check the spec's bub.
Edit Oh & btw... find me a link to Any Schecter with an integrated fingerboard....I wanna see it & the balls in your court...
how about i help you help me to help you and me to f*uck you in your dirty brown-eye?
Thanks for the helpful replies. Some of you keep busting my balls.
Jerry's guitar is based on the Schecter C1 I believe.
What's the best way of connecting an electric guitar to a PC in order to use those software amp modellers? If I go midi, do I really need a midi pickup?
Are there others, simpler ways?
If you've got a good sound card in your pc (one with an input level meter) just go analog. You don't have to break the bank, a sound blaster audigy 4 can be found rather cheap now that they moved to the next gen. ... any mini headphone amp will work as a pre amp ....Hot watt, Pocket Rocket ect...
So, I connect the guitar to the mini amp and the amp to the soundcard using the line-in port? Won't the amp distort the sound? Don't I want to maintain a clean sound going into the software amp?
Ahh but thats where the level meter comes in...keep the volume on the pre amp below half to start... then bring it up till you consistantly pull up short of red lining
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*points to avatar*
*points at King's tiny penis and laughs*
Being married, the size has been rendered irrelevant.
*sighs*
Yes. We can score when ever we want.
As long as she's sleeping.
Or very drunk...
Or dead.
If she's dead, I'd prefer her to still be warm.
I'd prefer her to be bloated and liquifying.
Do you have to wait 18 years after someone dies, or are they still considered a minor to you?
Also, do they continue to age in your book, so if someone dies the day before they turn 18, are the fair game the following day?
(Don't really know why I'm wondering...)
That would only work after the body has decomposed so badly that it's practiclly unrecognisable as human. Now that's a real turn-on.
Spend a grand on a guitar, amp, stand, case, tuner, spare string sets and other necessities.
A standard Fender Telecaster is a classic electric guitar to learn with. A new Tele with gig bag is $572 US.
Get lessons too.
http://www.fender.com/products/sea [...] 0135102387
In terms of latency, which is the prefered port to connect too: usb, midi, firewire, etc?
| Quote : In terms of latency, which is the prefered port to connect too: usb, midi, firewire, etc? |
What does it matter? I have no respect for computer musicians. If you have talent you don't need a computer to make music.
After you learn how to play. In a few years get yourself an eight track tape recorder and run the line out to your computer audio input.
Since I said Analog's the way to go ....Line in...lol
Unless you want to sound like anticeptic digital crap...(Pssst Nobody records digitaly anymore , almost everyone has gone back to analog for warmth...Same reason you want a tube amp )
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