ok guys i'm at home this weekend so i decided to finally test out my black mim after it's setup i played for hours and i noticed that the action was high (i normally play with low action but i played it no problem) a few minutes later i grabbed my olympic white squier vm strat and i couldn't play it cause it felt like i had no strings... does that mean i like a high action? or does it only mean that i played it for too long and i just needed to play my vm a bit longer? which do you prefer low or high action?

i always put my action as low as possible without buzzing. im so used to slinky guitars tuned to B and C, i feel restricted with high action.

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10 LTD M-350NT (duncan custom4/jazz2)
99 LTD m-100 (duncan distortion/gibson 496R)
71 les paul deluxe gold top(mojo)
peavey vypyr 100, 85 red-knob, bad monkey, peavey iphone amp kit

nice i dropped d to test my slinkys... it was fantastic!!!

normally i use d adarrio 9s for standard and drop D tuning and 10s or 11s for standard D or C# tunings.

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10 LTD M-350NT (duncan custom4/jazz2)
99 LTD m-100 (duncan distortion/gibson 496R)
71 les paul deluxe gold top(mojo)
peavey vypyr 100, 85 red-knob, bad monkey, peavey iphone amp kit

i used d'addarios everytime i would change strings... it's the first time i give slinkys a shot
i liked the stock strings that came with my vm strat too, they held up pretty well they were fender 250l nickel wound 9's... btw my guitars sound is a little more trebly for some reason i can't recognise what i play in the 6th string if i do a riff there is the problem the high action or the strings?

sounds like you played way to dang long before you realized your action was high.

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"The good thing is in a club situation, most of the patrons are trashed and really can't tell the difference."

i meant to say was that i noticed before playing but i didn't notice the diference while playing only when i grabbed my vm

Yes. Kind of but no, not really. You just prefer something more normal.

You quickly adjusted to the higher action but you were slow to readjust back to the lower action. High and low action both have their pros and cons and going to extremes in both directions are always mistakes. As guitarists we sometimes tend to think like hotrodders. We seem to have the mentality that if some is good then more must be better. Moderation is the key. I'd be willling to bet that the action you played wasn't all that extrememly high, just slightly higher than you were used to and it was likely well within standard spec. The reason you adjusted to it quickly is because it was closer to normal. N'est pas?

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Just think of how awesome a guitar player you could have been by now if you had only spent the last 10 years practicing instead of obsessing over pickups and roasted maple necks.

wow makes sense

I had spagetti once!!!!!!!!

ha??

I had spagetti once. There, I've said it. It was good spagetti. It made me wonder if fat spagetti is better than thin spagetti.

It all depends on how fat the spaghetti was. I like fat spaghetti, that doesn't make me a bad person. Everyone is entitled to choose their spaghetti!

I like my action quite high. Comes from the days of real strings (wound third) and tone.
As I'm not a twiddler, I don't find the need for a low action.
I actually don't see why there is a need for a low action (weak fingers?).
My EPI Les Paul has a low action, but I don't feel any advantage over my high action guitars.

What kind of spaghetti do you like?