Your best and worst pedal hot takes? 🔥

owlexifry said:
assuming are you trying it in a drop tuning? (i would be lost if i tried it standard tuning)

IMO once you figure out how to adapt power chords w/ (the appropriate) minor/major 3rds to the phrygian dominant scale, it makes a lot more sense and becomes more applicable to compose riffs.

i.e. almost everything i write is in drop C, with the key being C phrygian dominant, and then the best part is you have this totally related minor key (F minor) that you can flip flop into and make it your base, instead of being stuck on C all the time (if that makes any sense)..

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I usually tune to drop G sometimes F# but that gets a little too low for my taste, the nice thing about a 7 string is I can drop tune and still have the ability to play in standard
blackhatboojum said:
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I have no idea what this means.

Did someone say TOOL covers? Drop D… Chugga, Chugga, Chugga? I’m in!

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It’s fancy pants talk for “I spend more time thinking about playing guitar than I actually do.” 🤣

Nothing wrong with a little chugga chugga… are you even a guitar player if you never do it?
 
Oh, here's one to play over a major chord. I forget exactly what the scale name is. It's one of the harmonic minor series.

1, b2, 3, 4, 5, b6, b7.
 
Erik S said:
I have! I don’t know if I saw the first one, but I’ve seen a bunch of em. I’ve seen your filming, editing, and sound capture game all get progressively better too. Seems like you were always a good player though.
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You just warmed this old farts heart, check is in the mail.
bean said:
You shouldn't own any pedals until you know all the basic modes on guitar and can name the corresponding note of every fret. This is my equivalent of "I walked a mile to school everyday."

Which I also did.
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Teaching my son to play guitar brought back all of those old scales and modes and notes out of the cobwebs and bong resin.

1, b2, 3, 4, 5, b6, b7. I grabbed a guitar right away to check this out, sounds exotic.

Anybody take lessons at 40? I am intimidated and not even sure what to ask anymore. "Dear person half my age, please make me better, whatever better means."
Paradox916 said:
You know one major mode you technically know them all… now learning how to effectively use them that’s a whole other game, I still have yet to figure out.
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This is a moving target for me too, some days i get it and others not so much.
 
jjjimi84 said:
You just warmed this old farts heart, check is in the mail.

Teaching my son to play guitar brought back all of those old scales and modes and notes out of the cobwebs and bong resin.

1, b2, 3, 4, 5, b6, b7. I grabbed a guitar right away to check this out, sounds exotic.

Anybody take lessons at 40? I am intimidated and not even sure what to ask anymore. "Dear person half my age, please make me better, whatever better means."

This is a moving target for me too, some days i get it and others not so much.
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I had been taking lessons for the last 5 years or so and just stopped. It's all about finding the right teacher. My teacher is a friend and has a very similar taste in music to me
 
jjjimi84 said:
Anybody take lessons at 40? I am intimidated and not even sure what to ask anymore. "Dear person half my age, please make me better, whatever better means."
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When I took lessons in my teens the age range was pretty much people my age at the time and people in their 50s.

We get a lot of professional musicians coming through the tattoo shop I manage and you wouldn’t believe how many of them do weekly lessons even though they can shred. I’ve was looking into taking lessons again to hone some parts of my playing that I don’t like before covid shutdowns and should probably look back into it!
 
Words/phrases/habits that must go away:
1. In a demo, calling a tone that has more crunch than AC/DC your “clean tone”
2. Using an attenuator on a high gain amp with multiple master volumes- this is how you get lost in a mix and cook your transformer
3. Describing a tone as “warm”. WTF is a warm tone? BB King’s tone? SRV Clean? EVH tone? Slash’s tone? Randy Rhoads? So many different ranges of tonal color, and at some point someone called it “warm”
4. Asking for help/talking about an amp/pedal/rig having “noise”. Be descriptive. Him, buzz, crackle, hiss, fizz etc tell a better picture, and some clue to what the problem may be. In fact, I can tolerate “noise” being used for all except hum/buzz as those 2 CANT be fixed by a noise gate if there is grounding.
5. “transparent” sounding pedal. The only thing I can tolerate being called “transparent” is a buffer/clean boost. Anything that adds any grit, changes the tone or adds anything to the signal is NOT transparent!!
6. It sounds “digital”. Sorry, like “warm” sound, that means NOTHING to me unless it sounds like picking up a phone on a modem OR 50s sci fi robot beeps lol

I’m sure I have more, but I need to chase those damn kids off my lawn again!!
 
Side mount jacks in 2024 is just effectively ignoring customer demands and being a dick.
... except for Boss because you don't need to care about customers not buying your pedals.
... although I wish they did do topmount.

Any new fuzz pedals released these days should work in front of buffers just the same as having them first in chain.

I don't care what YouTubers say, no I'm not using _______ [insert pedal here] wrong (and neither do you), it just sucks for my desired application.
Yes, some pedals only do specific settings with a specific rig well, but that doesn't mean the pedal is actually brilliant. It means it has very narrow range and misses the things I actually want to do with a pedal like that.
 
jesuscrisp said:
Side mount jacks in 2024 is just effectively ignoring customer demands and being a dick.
... except for Boss because you don't need to care about customers not buying your pedals.
... although I wish they did do topmount.

Any new fuzz pedals released these days should work in front of buffers just the same as having them first in chain.

I don't care what YouTubers say, no I'm not using _______ [insert pedal here] wrong (and neither do you), it just sucks for my desired application.
Yes, some pedals only do specific settings with a specific rig well, but that doesn't mean the pedal is actually brilliant. It means it has very narrow range and misses the things I actually want to do with a pedal like that.
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YouTube has been as much of a curse as it has been a blessing to the guitar community
 
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