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Post subject: Guitar secrets
Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 6:50 pm
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Do you have any guitar secrets that you don't want to share with the world? How about a hint?


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Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 8:00 pm
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Real quiet out there... I can hear the crickets chirpin'... OK, so it is safe to assume that everyone has at least one guitar secret? It's no problem, really!

I'll stop buggin' you now... have a day!


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Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 6:48 am
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I think people just don't know exactly what you're asking.

What kind of secret? Something about set-up, or gear? If you're asking for some kind of playing secret, they can be pretty hard to communicate in a forum by text-only.


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Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 6:52 am
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the secret is, i smashed my guitar more 20 times to the ground, but, for me, the tone is getting better every time i smash it. thought it's not a secret, :D
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Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 7:01 am
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No secrets, just enjoy guitars and guitarplaying and trust your own ears.

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Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 8:03 am
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leonardusnn wrote:
the secret is, i smashed my guitar more 20 times to the ground, but, for me, the tone is getting better every time i smash it. thought it's not a secret, :D
LOL


Yea, I got that same secret from Pete. I actually threw mine through a a stained glass window in a church sock hop during a performance of "My Generation"


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Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 8:04 am
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Gravity Jim wrote:
I think people just don't know exactly what you're asking.

What kind of secret? Something about set-up, or gear? If you're asking for some kind of playing secret, they can be pretty hard to communicate in a forum by text-only.


Right, more along the lines of setup and ergonomics.


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Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 8:20 am
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I make all my own slides. I have tons of them in different thicknesses and lengths. Glass and various metals. The secret is the best glass slides I've found come from a certain wine manufacturer.


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Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 8:45 am
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I play slide a good bit as well. my little secret which is really no big secret is I use accoustic strings they seem to accentuate the slide. and I agree glass slides are the way to go


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Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 9:31 am
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I've got a Strato secret,but I can't tell becouse secret :wink:


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Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 10:10 am
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an other: 5 springs IMG]http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh104/stoni172008/IM002796.jpg[/I MG]


BTW The Question is good


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Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 10:21 am
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63supro wrote:
I make all my own slides. I have tons of them in different thicknesses and lengths. Glass and various metals. The secret is the best glass slides I've found come from a certain wine manufacturer.


While we are on the topic of slides, I just discovered a secret a week or so ago whilst reading something.

This was always a mystery to me and I must really be stupid, but it took me years to realize that slide guitar is set up to an open tuning!


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Strataholic wrote:
63supro wrote:
I make all my own slides. I have tons of them in different thicknesses and lengths. Glass and various metals. The secret is the best glass slides I've found come from a certain wine manufacturer.


While we are on the topic of slides, I just discovered a secret a week or so ago whilst reading something.

This was always a mystery to me and I must really be stupid, but it took me years to realize that slide guitar is set up to an open tuning!



slide isn't always set up in open tuning. whenever i play slide, I play in standard, because its a more familiar tuning.


a secret about setup eh?

....I switched the neck and middle pickups in my guitar when I installed a new set. they are vintage noiseless. While the mid and neck pickups have the same output and resistance, the pole pieces are staggered differently. I switched their places, and it makes my middle pickup have a bit more clarity in the midrange, which is where my old one tended to get muddy.

probably not a secret to everyone. but it does make a difference when you are dealing with staggered pickups.


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Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 12:35 pm
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Did you ever notice that when you're picking just doesn't feel right, you flip the pick over in your hand and everything just takes off?


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Ben13 wrote:
Strataholic wrote:
63supro wrote:
I make all my own slides. I have tons of them in different thicknesses and lengths. Glass and various metals. The secret is the best glass slides I've found come from a certain wine manufacturer.


While we are on the topic of slides, I just discovered a secret a week or so ago whilst reading something.

This was always a mystery to me and I must really be stupid, but it took me years to realize that slide guitar is set up to an open tuning!



slide isn't always set up in open tuning. whenever i play slide, I play in standard, because its a more familiar tuning.


a secret about setup eh?

....I switched the neck and middle pickups in my guitar when I installed a new set. they are vintage noiseless. While the mid and neck pickups have the same output and resistance, the pole pieces are staggered differently. I switched their places, and it makes my middle pickup have a bit more clarity in the midrange, which is where my old one tended to get muddy.

probably not a secret to everyone. but it does make a difference when you are dealing with staggered pickups.


Right - but certainly alot easier to deal with in open tuning IMHO.


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