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  1. drgamble

    To those that have moved on from a Tube amp to a SS/modeling rig.

    I've been learning guitar for almost 40 years, yes I'm old, get over it. I remember the days in the 80's and 90's and just making whatever I had at the moment work. I think this is how the classic rock musician found their "sound". They really maximized whatever they had on hand to make sounds...
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    Need Help! programming Midi bass/Midi Guitar!!

    It seems like a lot of people have tried to help you here. The biggest part of mixing is actually the arrangement. Using pre-made Midi drum loops is a good start, but you will normally have to go in and edit the drum hits to fit with the rhythms that you are playing. The drum arrangement can...
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    Need help with gain staging when recording guitars helix -> interface -> REAPER

    One of the first things I do with Superior Drummer is turn the instrument down 5-6 db using the instrument volume. This especially helps if I am using any of the presets in Superior Drummer. Once this is done a guitar coming in at -15 db will be more than loud enough for tracking.
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    Metallica: 72 Seasons

    Absolutely because they still sell out arenas. That has always been the game. It doesn't matter what your music sounds like, it's about how many butts you can put in the seats.
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    Metallica: 72 Seasons

    I don't understand why anyone that is established would even release music these days. Nobody buys albums, bands don't make anything off of recordings, so why put any effort into putting an album together if you are still pulling it in playing live? This is the rise of cover bands because you...
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    Kirk Hammett Appreciation Thread

    I remember being a we lad, I heard "Fade to Black" and I was like WTF? I had never heard anything like that. It was probably around 1986 or somewhere thereabouts. Anyway, I remember getting the tab books and recording the rhythm parts to cassette on a boom box, and learning the solos over the...
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    What's your regional genre?

    New Orleans is is everything from Louis Armstrong and Doctor John to Crowbar/Eye Hate God/ Goatwhore. We have always had a big metal scene here, but it's not really what we're known for. More people know about Cowboy Mouth, The Revivalists, and Better than Ezra on the rock side of things...
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    Ways of playing F#m

    He probably saw John Mayer playing this song. Using the thumb for bass notes does have it's pros if what you're playing requires it. In this case, that just may be the way he plays a full minor bar chord.
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    Where can I find harmony parts online?

    The only thing that may have something like that is a transcription or score. There should also be some easy versions of songs that show the notes of the vocals complete with harmonies.
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    Pointless to follow this dream?

    The few musicians that I know that "made it" work very hard on the craft and have worked hard for a long time. These guys committed to it early on and stuck with it. The pandemic screwed a lot of things up for these guys because most of the money that they make is from touring relentlessly. Now...
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    Looking to go all digital on a budget axefx vs neural dsp?

    One thing about the Axe Fx that I think gets overlooked is that it is quite a bit more than a guitar modeler. I have a lot of plugin effects on my computer, but there are certain effects that are easier to get to with the Axe Fx. I use my Axe Fx as a hardware effects processor as much as I do a...
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    Mixing 'Phones. Need an upgrade-

    I have some Sennheiser HD650's. I can get most mixes about 90% there using these headphones. I have a 10" sub and some Yamaha HS8s for mains and the Sennheiser seem to sound about the same as the mains without the lows from the sub.
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    Pickup switching in a live situation

    Like others have said, it just takes practice. If you switch pickups at the end of a line or on a sustained note, nobody is really going to notice live. When I started playing live, I had a traditional guitar rig and I had to practice at rehearsal all of the things that I needed to do to change...
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    imported midi drums to cubase but no sound

    It is just a regular windows shortcut ctrl+a to select all drums. Unfortunately, there is no easy way to select all kick drums that I am aware of. The only way that I know is to zoom out and use the mouse to select all kick drums.
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    imported midi drums to cubase but no sound

    The violet notes are a very low velocity and are almost ghost notes. I don't have Cubase open right now, but there is a way to set the default velocity value. You probably want to aim for like 120 default value for Midi events. The violet notes are probably in the 50 range out of 127. You should...
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    The 8 string dilemma...

    8 string guitars are an instrument themselves. They are similar to their 6 string counterparts, but there are a lot of differences that are small, but add up to make a big difference in the end. I have a RG852, and ended up changing the pickups to Seymour Duncan passives, just because I think I...
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    Do any coil tapped Humbuckers compare to a Strat?

    I bought an American Standard Strat a couple of years ago. In the past, I had a MIJ HSS Strat and I loved it, but gifted it to a family member who ended up pawning it off, and I hate myself now for giving it away. With that said, even the MIJ did not sound like the MIA strat. As soon as I...
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    GPU Availability

    It is probably easier to buy a new computer with the new chips in them than to buy them. There was a shortage on cards before the pandemic because of cryptocurrency mining. Prices were supposed to come down with China banning cryptocurrency mining, but I haven't seen it yet.
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    How to get used to playing different guitars?

    The only thing that I can add, is that some of the problems that OP stated about his pinky hitting the volume knob and pickguard. Over the last couple of years, I have changed my picking technique from having an open hand to having a closed hand. It was hard to make the adjustment, as I had...
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    Ridiculous amount of RF noise comes from my PC that is picked up by my guitar.

    Does this PC happen to have a glass side so that you can see the inside of the computer? Those tend to be some of the worst for RF noise. I have a Fractal case that is totally black, has shielding and sound dampening. You hardly can even notice the computer in the room. What I have found to be...


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