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I am a bit more comfortable with my recording setup, but I will be an amateur for a while. This is my newest recording, just the guitar for Under the Bridge. Let me have it: https://soundcloud.com/stiff-parrot/under-the-bridge-rev I obviously screw up twice here, but I want to hear what you...

I see 3 guitars that I'd love to have, with bidding under $5 total ($50 shipping) on highly reputable sellers with listings with under 5 days left. Gotta be too good to be true, right?

with the X2u USB converter to help me with some of the tracks I've been recording lately. Never had a pro-grade mic, if you can call it that. I'm told it will be the only thing that survives after a nuclear detonation. So far I'm impressed with my vocal tracks in comparison to what I was using...

I was born and raised in Bronx, New York. It's not a small town, but the culture there makes it a small town. Yankee hats, before they became popular, was what everyone wore, from old men to little kids. We were a baseball town and it was in our blood. I'm 30 years old, so Mariano Rivera, Jeter...

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...

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...

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...

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...

As some of you may have remembered, I have been struggling to find something that is a little bit more pro-grade which I use to describe the idea that I want real quality across the board. I've looked at RG's, considered some custom Carvin's and have been all over the map. My uncle told me that...

I've finally gotten around to fixing my Crate VC50212. Looks like the optos are bad but I want to replace the jacks while I have the board out. I've never purchased these before, what are the reliable vendors for something like this? A quick google search (and a quick search of the the fret)...

I hope this thread doesn't sound silly to you guys, but as I've gotten more serious in my playing, i've noticed the limitations of my equipment. Always a picky person, I'm sure better players would gladly deal with less than perfect equipment for far longer than I am willing to, but at least I'm...

Hey Guys, I just thought I'd pop in and say hi. I'm still alive, doing pretty well, but still not settled from the big life move. My wife finally got a job in the area and she'll be moving in with me, after 6 months of living apart, today. I'm super excited. Unfortunately we haven't sold our...

Can anyone talk to me about these? A left-handed friend of mine has one and basically buys nothing but Carvin gear. The thing sounds great, I love the tone, but I obviously can't play it (because I'm a normal person :P ). Carvin seems to have a good deal going that if I build one and don't like...

For the first time in my life I'm actually having trouble staying healthy for all my stress. Work has gotten bad. There are a bunch of problems and they've cut some coworkers hours and are juggling mandatory unpaid furloughs. Luckily I haven't been touched yet, but it's difficult to deal with...

This has words, but the bass player didn't show up (again) and I used it as an opportunity to work with the drummer who was having trouble learning the song. The other guitarist missed the key change, I'll have to work with him a bit on that, and change his tone around a bit. This is on my new...

I got this amp for my birthday 2 weeks ago and it's awesome. Awesome tone, clean headroom to spare in the band and some awesome crunch, particularly with my Les Paul. However, I noticed 2 things with it that are giving me some concern and I was hoping you guys could help out a tube amp newbie...

So my frankenstrat is giving me issues in the neck pickup and in the selector switch. I get a little crazy with my strumming and coming from only playing a Les Paul for a while, I hit the switch a lot (I'm working on it) - when I hit it, I get a bunch of static and it seems to drop the...

If I match the impedance, can I use a Y cable into my amp with my guitar and the mic on the opposite end? How crappy will that sound?

Well that windstorm that the US east coast had made a giant tree fell on my house, 2 cars and a small part of my head. I'm okay, just a bump/bruise, but my house, cars, and mind aren't. Both cars totaled, there's a hole in my roof and other property damage (gutters, siding, fencing...

Okay guys, hopefully nobody is rolling their eyes here. My Les Paul is just out of whack right now. I don't know if it's a summer thing, but my strings are buzzing on the frets all over the place and my action is pretty high on the 12th. I guess I had been playing my strat so much that when I...