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    Ebony

    It seems to me like ebony boards can vary in how problematic they are. Some are pretty temperamental with fret sprout, cracking, and an unstable neck. But some are quite fine. What are your experiences with different ebony board guitars? I'm thinking maybe it has to do with how much the wood...
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    Inside picking

    I'm curious how you guys feel about inside picking. So something like: -7---7---7- ---5---5---- and so on with d-u-d-u-d-...... I'm especially talking about consecutive notes like this but also things like: -7-------7--------7----7- ----5-5----5-5-----5---- where the last 3 notes are...
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    Comfort vs. tone

    Uncomfortable guitars like Les Pauls sound fucking awesome. But! They're uncomfortable and a real chore to play. Superstrats on the other are totally effortless. I put one on my lap and it just sits there, and my hands land automatically in the right places. But they never sound as good as...
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    Back where we started?

    I've found that the gear I like the sound of the most is more or less the first stuff I bought when I started playing. Both my first guitar and my first tube amp are still here and they sound fucking awesome. (An LTD 400 series guitar and a 5150.) So either A) I got so used to this gear that...
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    Replacing Grovers with locking tuners, which fit?

    Say that I want to replace the Grover tuners on an old Korean LTD guitar. How do I know which fit without having to drill new holes or anything like that? Could I get Gotohs or Schallers etc. that will fit or would I need to stick with Grovers? I'd like some good locking tuners with a wheel...
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    Switching instruments, quitting guitar

    I haven't touched a guitar in about two months. Instead I spend my time making gnarly synth sounds on the computer. It occurred to me that I could just quit guitar. Sell my guitars, my amps, everything. Maybe keep an acoustic. Why should I play guitar? It feels like such a limited instrument...
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    Synth bass instead of bass guitar

    This thought just occurred to me. I mean, aren't bass guitars kind of useless really? It's not like they sound very good or anything. Why not just use a synth bass instead?
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    Scooped rhythm guitars

    What do people here think about relatively scooped sounding rhythm guitars? I'm sort of a believer in this. I know there is this mantra of "you can't scoop mids on guitars, that's for beginners" but I feel like it depends on what you want the guitars to do. I like it when rhythm guitars sound...
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    Condenser on guitar cab, should I be careful?

    If I wanted to use a really fancy small diaphragm condenser (that I really don't want to break) on a (pretty loud) guitar cab, should I be worried about the sound pressure potentially damaging the microphone?
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    I think I broke my headphones

    I dropped my Beyerdynamic DT 770s and now the sound is really tinny without much bass at all. Something must be wrong and I suspect it's from the fall. 1) Would it make sense trying to diagnose the problem and maybe getting them repaired or something? 2) If not and I want to get another pair...
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    Magnet swapping, multiple magnets

    I had the idea of taking the side magnets from a Duncan Invader and putting them into a Duncan Distortion. In theory this should result in something closer to a Black Winter I believe. And... maybe I would try swapping the big ceramic magnet for an alnico 5 while I'm at it and see what happens...
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    Wrist pain

    I've had some problems with wrist pain in my picking hand. I like picking pretty hard and think that's the reason, along with sometimes playing for long periods of time. I've had these problems before and it's made me go down a bit in string guage. I'm currently taking some time off playing...
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    Can't finish music

    I can't stop revising my songs. I keep getting better at writing and when I look back at stuff I wrote only months back I think "ehhh, that's not so good, I can improve that". Somehow there's always room for improvements. And also I change my mind about what I like. For example harmonies I used...
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    Epic pieces of music

    I've been working on a long song that I'm trying to make "epic" so that it deserves being so damn long. This made me think about which songs/pieces of music that I feel deserve to be called epic. And I don't mean epic in the sense of having a bunch of sappy strings and choirs layered over...
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    What do you think about wah?

    I hate it. If a guitar solo has wah I want to turn it off immediately because I hate the sound so much. Does anybody else feel this way? Am I weird?
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    String skipping during sweeps?

    Is this a thing that's being done? So say that you wanted to sweep something but the interval between two of the notes is so large that you couldn't possibly do it on two consecutive strings. So you would mute the string you want to skip (with your fretting hand) and just add a little more...
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    One lug un-tuning itself

    Hey. My kit has an issue with the 12" tom. One lug un-tunes itself and starts rattling around. Is there anything smart that can be done to solve that?
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    Vocal melodies

    I'm writing vocal melodies but I'm not a singer. And I don't have a singer either. I want to have these songs finished with melodies and just tell someone "sing this". But I look at my melodies and worry that nobody will actually be able to sing it. C5 here, hm okay, oh D5? Alright... Oops...
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    Trem block size

    I want to get a brass trem block for my soloist but I'm not sure about size. I tried measuring but it didn't make me much wiser because I'm not sure how high the block should go compared to the edge of the cavity. I'm fine having the backplate off (it's missing anyway) but maybe it should still...
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    Need difficult stuff to practice

    I've been playing much more than usual lately and I've become kind of bored with the stuff I normally play (even if I haven't mastered it yet by any means). So I'd like some suggestions of really difficult stuff/techniques/exercises etc. to try and learn. Like what's the hardest stuff possible...
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