Nope, this will be my first. I've twiddled with pickup configs for a long time, so I'm fairly confident in my soldering skills, and thus also have a small understanding of schematics. I've got an EE buddy who's filling in some holes for me ugh, but it's actually a pretty simple design. Just need to order parts and start piecing it together.
wow I really need to check these more often. Ive been screwing around more with intervals, 1,2,6 played in a cynicy kind of way. Im also experimenting more with tuning.
as for technology wise i am going to put one dimarzio liquifire John petrucci humbucker and one bare knuckle pain killer humbucker in my old epiphone SG. just to see how they sound together.
He worked in the Guitar Whateveritwas -- he taught at the Eighth Note for a while, then moved to work at the other guitar place (the tiny one on Main Street, forgot what it was called).
I've been having a lot of fun playing with delay and capoing the 7th fret of my 7 string starting at the low E so it's like I'm tuned low B-b-e-a-d-f#-b. Makes me really want one of those spider capos.
Been working on my sweep picking. I never really sat down and learned to do it, but the other guitarist in my band has been writing some sick sweeping parts recently, and it inspired me. Mostly I've been trying to get the intro to Smoke & Mirrors by Symphony X down, but it's slow going and I think maybe I should work on some 3 and 4 string sweeps first.
For whatever reason, I can sweep downward quickly without much problem, but it feels really awkward going up. No matter how I move my hand or hold the pick, I always kind of feel like I'm still picking the notes individually rather than letting the pick sweep through them. Guess I'll just keep plugging away.
@ variant
that thing is fucking awesome. I need t hear that beast some time.
@ distressed romeo and jdonegan
I need to start experimenting more with tuning and capos. any cool suggestions?
@ Hulk Krogan
I have been working on sweep picking myself and had the same problem at first. For me the problem was the way I held my pick. I realized that I bent it more going up than I did going down. maybe its that.
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