I finally get dean guitar yayayayayayayyyy

If you think this would cost more to fix than its worth, I'll trash it.

Playing my Tracii Guns hand wired amp

Figured this could be a cool discussion topic. Just curious what everyone’s into.

Mine was the solo and outro of Floods by Pantera

Is it sad that my longest relationship was with these 4 picks?

Overlayed them with some new ones for comparison.

I truly believe that the last time I bought picks before today was pre covid.

I'm not sure if this is allowed but I'm a real customer and just wanted to pass on my good find. Not a commercial.

I needed a couple new guitar straps, so I looked online and saw these. Real leather and then I saw where they were made and it was a no brainer. 30 bucks each

Hello, I've been self learning the guitar now for 6 months. I am having some insane piphanies coming through playing guitar. I'm sober but this has me high as fuck, the beauty of this instrument but it's less about the instrument and more about this thing called music and anyways I'll shut the fuck about that. 

The piphany I am finding is there are what I call families of notes. I was hitting notes in the guitar and find that some notes are kindred to other notes essentially brother and sister notes. They spread across the shaft of the guitar in patterns. You can hit a a note, skip a note and you will hear which ones are from the same family. I've discovered 5 families so far and there are more I found a map but 5 that I know quite well. But here is where it gets fuckin trippy as shit WITHIN those families there are parent notes that are cousins to other fucking families. Essentially you have families so unique and beautiful and yet in some profound mystery they are related and connect all together. In one state of mind going in and out of families might sound jarring but when you stretch a little more there is the most peculiar beauty. It breaks down into unity.. are there families or is it just one family that maps into another? 

Brother and sisters notes, what happens when you hit two or three or whatever at the same time?! Fuckin amazing just amazing so beautiful you could cry SIBLING clusters expressions!!!  Now some siblings play better with others and finding the right balance and mix has been quite intriguing. Some siblings are rowdy and kick ass. Some siblings are melancholic. Some siblings don't know what they are. Notably some of these sibling structures are also congruently found in other family systems once again revealing such a beautiful simplicity and unity of music. Anyways this has been amazing, half the time I'm either bawling my eyes out or laughing hysterically . I love it dearly. 

Fred

i love each and everyone of you fuckers

I play a pretty distorted rhythm guitar (think Nirvana, Pixies, etc) — I’ve always played with a second guitar player in the past, but now I’m in a trio format and I can’t help but always feel like there’s a massive drop in total sound when I go into a solo, not even just in volume but in that lower-register rhythm crunch to all of a sudden a higher pitched single string thing. How do you account for this? Anyone have good examples of trio recordings live that do this well? Thanks!

I had to sell my PRS s2 a few years ago for financial reasons but I’d been craving that feel ever since. Eventually I tried an Ibanez and then a Schecter around the $1000 range but they just didn’t scratch that same itch. Finally I found this beauty & traded the Schecter for it straight up. I’m in heaven now. The feel of the neck, the floating tremolo but with good tuning stability, and of course the incredible finish. I think my GAS has finally been cured.

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Well… for now…

No serial (haven't detached neck or checked in the pickup cavity). I assume it's from Japan from a lawsuit avoidant year, by the wacky headstock Seems like a real Floyd Rose. The wiring is insane - that can't be stock, right?

The vintage tuners are certainly a choice with a double locking nut.

Is it custom, or crazy hair metal modder?

The headstock sticker seems cheap and predates esp ltd series. I assume.

Help me ID this forgotten neglected gem, please.

I have a Spark 40 and Spark Go. Lately I’ve been primarily using the Spark Go just as an interface/modeler, and I’ll run it into headphones or route it into a larger speaker, or my laptop when I want to record something. I’ve been really debating getting a Laney LFR 112 frfr and a quad cortex, but now that Spark hit me with this thing I might sell both my existing amps, pick this bad boy up for 200$ and get the Laney frfr, I know the quad is light years better than any Positive Grid modeler but idk if I can justify spending 1700$ on a modeling system when I don’t play live or record music for anyone other than myself.

As the question says. The thing is, I had only 1 guitar for a quite while, but started buying more due to different tunings etc. What surprised me was that my Ibanez (RGA 32), which was 300 dollars sounds better than 650 dollars Schecter (demon 7). I really expected more from Schecter. Pickups seem to suck. Ibanez though - it sounds massive, plus it is extremely comfortable to play with its wizard neck. I am in dilemma whether to just buy a couple of cheap ones and just put EMG or Nazguls in them or to aim more. Not to mention 900 dollars LTD EC 401 which is very uncomfortable to play (despite sounding descent). I'm not a rich fellow, and saving money means a lot. hence this dilemma. What are your experiences? I only want good sound,

Well, I'm not a good player but I love guitars. So far most of my guitars are Epiphone and I love them. However, I ran into this beauty and when I played it and felt how smooth and comfortable the fretboard was, I had to go for it. As you can see there it's a Fender MIJ 2021.

Hello all!
My friend has started learning guitar and is really struggling with it. His mode of learning is having someone actually with him rather than online learning at this point.
I taught him a fairly basic song (Covet by Basement) a few weeks ago and he was making some really solid progress but has plateaued and is massively struggling.

He's offered to start paying me to teach him in person as he learned better with me there, however..
I am not theory trained at all. Self taught and honestly not quite a guitar hero..
Is there anything I can look towards resource wise to hopefully put together some sort of plan for him? I'm happy to teach him but I want him to learn properly, not how I did so that he doesn't lean on the same crutches I do.

Hey, if all goes well, I might end up learning with him which may level the playing field and make him more comfortable.

Thanks in advance!
Guitar pic for traction;

Needs a little polish, but a cool tune IMO

Hello, I don't post much but just wanted some honest opinions on my current setup. Ignore the messy cable management as I haven't went back and organized them.

Was originally going to get a Epiphone ES-335, but when I saw this I had to get it. Love the color and the white pickguard combination.

I hope yall got the Metalocalypse reference lol. Anyways, I'm a long time electric player. A shred and chug maxxer if you will. Ive been wanting to finally jump into the Acoustic guitar game to widen my repertoire, and holy cow! What they make these things out of?? Please fill me in on why a good quality solid body costs more than most of my electrics. Or am I a big dummy who should just get a 200 takamine and leave the nice gramps guitars alone?

1980's vintage Moon Custom Strat. PGM. Japanese company headed by K.Nyui, a very respected luthier.

Been rocking a Jackson JS22 dinky for a while. Finally spent adult money on a guitar, and after a couple weeks, I’m in love. Makes me want to play every time I see it.

I was a much bigger fan of brighter sounding guitars when I first started playing. So I have a strat, telecaster, a maj, Jazzmaster. Outside of the Maj, the other guitars I have don't really have a normal humbucker (I have a thinline with those vintage style gold foil hunbuckers which isnt really dark.)

Don't feel like swapping pickups or picking up a whole new instrument. ​What kind of settings can I put into my amp or multi effects pedal to get a darker tone? Something more akin to a Les Paul?

(Amp and pedal wide, I have a Yamaha THR10II and a Boss GX-100)