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Fantastic info. This is great constructive criticism. I'm surprised you guys are complimenting the singing. I thought it was the weakest part other than the transitions. I noticed my band prefers I sing even some songs that are a bit out of my comfort zone. I guess if you can hit the notes at...

Holy crap! I'm going to have a ball with that later. 115 RHCP tracks? I don't know how I never knew about this.

Awesome info man. Thank you very much! I'm going to go over this a couple of times and try to absorb it. Where did you find the backing track? That sounds like the actual recording track.

Okay guys, I tried to make a recording and I hate it. Thing is, I can't seem to do better... this took me hours. I play and sing in a band, and I sound way better than this all around. The guitar parts I did exactly what I wanted even though someone told me I missed a note. I don't care about...

Wow, beautiful voice. That was great!

Bass came in, seafoam green, 3/4 scale, SX P-bass. Pretty high quality, great finish - will post pics this weekend. She was really excited and played around with it a bit. Then I took a turn. As a guitar player I found it really easy to create some great sounding lines and now I have all this...

I'm kind of insecure posting this in front of you guys who know infinitely more about the guitar than I do, but a good friend of mine moved to an island in Michigan which doesn't have a lot of resources for musical instruction. My friend asked me how I taught myself guitar without lessons, I...

Well, she pulled the trigger last night. Bought the SX P-bass package and she's pretty excited. She told me she really loved it when I was singing and playing the rhythm guitar. I hope she doesn't get overwhelmed, but I think the fact that I had her playing songs with the full band right away...

I realized i was doing this and backed off quite a bit. I told her to let me know when/if she was interested. So this weekend, I had most of my gear at her sister's house because my BiL has a drum kit and we like to get crazy. She asked if she could hit some bass notes for some of the songs we...

My wife is a social worker outside of a big city and it's just beat her up over the last few months. She submitted her 2 week notice last week, is on call for another 7 days before she'll be unemployed for the first time in her adult life. I told her to take some time and find herself. She...

Man, that just sounds cool. I'm going to see if I can find something here.

I would love to try one, just to see if I could get up in front of a crowd. I can do it at parties just fine, but have never tried anything more formal. I wouldn't mind attending to see the local talent either.

I was wondering if what I'm doing has been normal when it comes to converting a song to a single acoustic while singing. I'm mostly playing the bass line notes converted to chords because it can make more rhythmic sense while singing. For instance, this is a really popular song that I play on...

I'm less worried about the shim after playing this for a bit. He was trying to get the action lower at the higher frets, but I am playing it really well where it is. I'm not particularly shreddy and I play chords hard so when the action is much lower than it is now, I get a lot of buzz. Where he...

Stingx, I'm actually really scared to do this. I am the head of experimental testing at an engineering research facility, have no qualms about totally ripping apart my amp, but messing with the guitar scares the hell out of me. Is there a good tutorial you know of? I admit I never had my tech...

Looks like the dirty channel still has an issue. Volume is very low. Fortunately I don't use it and rely on pedals, so I think I'm going to leave well enough alone until I have a backup amp.

I would rather pay my tech for it than juggle it back and fourth with GC, but I just want to make sure a shimmed neck isn't the sign of other problems and won't affect anything adversely. The switch thing is a non-issue. I'd fix it myself if I didn't have a policy about working on my guitars.

That's kind of what I"m afraid of. Does the neck shim take anything away from the guitar? Any reason NOT to do it?

Thanks again for this rec, I got some high quality jacks from these guys. Not as pretty on the front panel unfortunately, but my amp was such a PITA that I'm just happy everything is working now. This was my biggest repair job on an amp yet. For the record, and anyone searching, I fixed weird...

So I mentioned to my tech that the switch was a little weird (middle position sounded like the bridge) and the pickups needed to be balanced (low E sounded like a bass line) and the action was too high. This guy sets up all my guitars and I trust him. He said that the pickups are wired...