Messages

Cool. I'd love to hear it.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I love it. Phasers are always awesome.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

That's freakin awesome. Looks like maybe you  need to reflow the solder on the stomp switch though.....


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

As another side note, I think Gibson's current line up is very weak. The HPs aren't my thing, but there is a gazillion variations of Les Pauls to choose from. They are just ridiculously expensive to get into. But look at other models. The outing is just weak if I compare it with Epiphone (!). Take Flying Vs: want a Korina? Epiphone. Want binding on it? Epiphone. Trem? Epiphone.

There is an affordable les Paul studio line up, about what you'd pay for an mim Strat. I'd love an affordable V or explorer.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Looks like several solder joints are starved. I'd go through and reflow and add solder to the ones where the pad is covered with solder.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Alrighty. Went through and checked everything out, replaced T1 with the correct size trimmer, and now I get a slightly distorted signal which varies with adjustment of T1. I ordered a 4.7V Zener which MadBean suggests in the build doc as a possible solution.

Does it make sense that I get the same voltages across all the pins of the JFETs?

Did you reflow and add solder to the starved joints? The zener won't effect the sound in this regard.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

^^^^^what he said. I am just as interested in how they're doing it as the entertainment value.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Headstock shape would go a ways at figuring out what it might be.

Or take the neck off and see if it's stamped

I agree that the pickgaurd should go immediately.

This


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

  I had this same type discussion with my buddy who owns a local music store, and I think this type thread 6 or 8 most ago here. Guitar sales follow music trends. Right now, they're selling acoustics and Ukes of all things. I told to the other local music store owner in town whom said the exact same thing. The guitar isn't dead, guitar music is currently not top 40.  I'd love to see / hear Bonamassa or the likes on the charts. That being said, I haven't listened to the "radio" in a good 20 years. I listen to my iPod or iPhone only. The kids at work listen to "beats" and the lyrics don't matter.

Looks like several solder joints are starved. I'd go through and reflow and add solder to the ones where the pad is covered with solder.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Got any pictures of the solder side?


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

When you calibrate it with T1, you have to turn it in very minute turns. The sweet spot is microscopic, it's easy to miss.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I wouldn't discourage someone from learning theory, but blues and jazz area lot of vocabulary of licks placed into some improvisational context. Learning a new scale will not help you improvise better.

Plus, Locrian mode will just make you sound horribly depressing.   

YYZ?!?!


Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Pro

Sure, why not a little Alex Lifeson?


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I'd try and get into a band Jimi.  Learn those songs you think you hate.  Play out in a pub somewhere and have some fun with it.

It's hard to wing it while you're learning when you're fronting a band I would think. I'm learning songs here at home, and when I get good enough to at least sound like an awful guitar player, I'd be confidant. As for playing in bars, I've done my time as a bassist lead singer, I can't stay up that late, hurts too much the next day! I would love to get a group to jam with regularly though. Jon made a good point though.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Jimilee,

All you need for going up and beyond is this pedal

Sweet, but where's the phaser knob?


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I'm not a guitar teacher, but have been in a bunch of bands and have played for a while.  I think the first thing to ask yourself is: What are your goals?  Do you want to jam with people?  Do you want to just hang at home and shred your balls off?  Or something else?

You can get a ton of mileage off the pentatonic scale, to the point where you can totally fake it till you make it.  I actually generally stick with pentatonic because people get it, it works over most everything, and when you dial it in and understand the patterns you can really express yourself musically. 

Modes are rad though.  I remember the first time I learned about modes, I think I was listening to Flying a Blue Dream by Satriani... It was like this is spacey and moody thing... and he's using a different pattern then the key it's in!  What is happening?  I went to my guitar teacher (Swedish hair metal dude, oh those were good times) and he said, "It's lydian dude... chicks dig it!".  To be fair he said that about everything.  But modes are also hard... when do you use which mode?

For me the best thing was to buy a couple of backing track CD's.  I think they are still around, might even be available on streaming services.  They list the key they are in and you can just jam some epic solo sessions.  I would just solo over these tracks for hours.

Learn licks, but also analyze them and understand how they fit into the scales you are learning.  What are the base shapes used to formulate these licks.  This will help with shifting between the different patterns.  I feel that from there your understanding of the guitar and scales and connecting them will increase.

Once you can jam over everything then with the simple stuff, at least for me, the other stuff will fall into place more naturally and you can get all crazy with the modes evoke a vibe.  Everyone learns differently and has different goals, so this might not work for you at all.  But maybe?...  Good luck dude!  Hope this helps.

That's good stuff man. Really my goal is to be good enough to jam with some guys if I wanted to, but not necessarily.  I don't wish to shred so much, but solo with heart and the occasional fast run.
  I really dig the blues, so that's my main focus. I just rediscovered chord tones, and now that I have more experience, I know what it means and how it works. I have been thinking about modes, and what I've learned is Dorian and mixelydian are ideal with blues. I did learn a little bit the other night about putting the major pentatonics in to minor 7th chords.
  I just gotta figure out what I want to tackle next, there's a whole lot of information in this thread.
  I played bass in a a band for several years, and I had a guitar player that used to say "chics dig it" about everything too.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk