If your guitar isn't set up, in tune, etc. Your pedals are going to sound like shit anyway.

[Nostradoomus]

Just listen to my friend, Joe Walsh.

Sure he detunes the A string accidentally somewhere along the way. But if you don't get it, you don't get it. This is a great set up video. Also for a guy that did as many drugs as he did, give him some slack.

JWFL

 

[Nostradoomus]

The pickup height bit is something I feel is often overlooked.

 

[Nostradoomus]

Follow up with these lessons:

 

[drgonzo1969]

I love that Joe Walsh video, also Joe Walsh was the first concert I ever saw. He is very entertaining live too.

 

[HamishR]

Pickup height is critical! I recently bought a Gibson ES-330, which is a fantastic guitar. (I got a crazy price so had to pounce!) But for a rather pricey guitar there is no way to adjust the height of the pickups. So I had one shim left from a pack I got from Lollar a few years back and used that for the bridge pickup. It wasn't quite enough so I went down to the local art supplies store and bought some thick black card and cut some more. Now the pickups are nice and close to the strings (P90s can be quite close without causing problems) and the guitar sounds better than ever.

Filter'trons need to be quite close too, but traditional Strat pickups need a lot of room unless you want the warble.

 

[vigilante398]

So to make my pedals sound good I have to set up and tune my guitar? What's next, you're going to tell me I need to actually learn how to play? Everybody is gatekeeping these days smh

 

[szukalski]

If your guitar needs to be in tune to sound good then you're in the wrong genre.

 

[Robert]

I've yet to find a tuner pedal that does what it actually says it's going to do.

I hear no difference, on or off.

I've played tuned guitars, I still sounded terrible.

 

[Asdrael]

I've yet to find a tuner pedal that does what it actually says it's going to do.

I hear no difference, on or off.

I've played tuned guitars, I still sounded terrible.

See it this way.

If you don’t tune, « it » sounds terrible.
If you do, you sound terrible.

IMO, rather stay in doubt in that case.

 

[Stickman393]

If your guitar needs to be in tune to sound good then you're in the wrong genre.

 

[Nostradoomus]

So to make my pedals sound good I have to set up and tune my guitar? What's next, you're going to tell me I need to actually learn how to play? Everybody is gatekeeping these days smh

Whoa whoa whoa I never went that far

 

[HamishR]

I've yet to find a tuner pedal that does what it actually says it's going to do.

I hear no difference, on or off.

I've played tuned guitars, I still sounded terrible.

Actually I do hear an improvement when I switch my tuner on... the hum disappears.

 

[Robert]

Actually I do hear an improvement when I switch my tuner on... the hum disappears.

I tune at stage volume..... at home.

 

[Feral Feline]

I tune at stage volume..... at home.

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Hm. I did not know that.

 

[Nostradoomus]

the first 15 minutes of this are also good, even if joe walsh looks like a middle aged lesbian