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  1. Screwhead

    Show Your Pedalboard: 2022

    Current setup, but ever evolving!
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    Burning Hot Metal Takes

    Djent guitars have the same ADHD "I can't decide what I want to play" vibe as really shitty brostep dubstep like Skrillex, Excision, Kill The Noise, etc.
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    Recommended Scale Length for Ab Standard and Drop Ab?

    You should be more than fine. I've got an old Ibanez RG7-420 from 2000 in A and it sounds perfect. I've also got a Harley Benton fanned fret, but that's tuned FCGDgcf, so the 27" side really helps keep that 80 gauge sounding good!
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    The absolute WORST distortion pedals??

    Ibanez Cyberdrive. Kind of sounds like it an overdrive and wah had a deformed baby. Basically take a 3-knob overdrive pedal and replace the tone knob with a post-gain cocked wah. Whatever frequency you have the "tone" set to basically completely dominates the output, with no way to change the...
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    Pickups for Gibson SG (DOOM)

    BKP War Pig. I've got a pair in a 7 string fanned fret and they sound incredible. I'm using a Ground FX Burning Sunn as a preamp and the sound is absolutely perfect.
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    What DAW do you use?

    Ableton is amazing! I've tried almost everything out there, including Logic, and Ableton IMO has the best workflow, as well as the name implies, being able to be used as a live tool. Each channel has loops you can program (for VSTs/MIDI) or audio clips you can launch (drum loops, movie samples...
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    When should I switch to a multiscale 7 string guitar?

    With tuning just to A or Bb, you're fine with a 25.5". I've got an Ibanez RG7 tuned to A, and really you don't need much more than a 58-60 on that low A, unless you're attempting to take over the bass player's part in the band, at which point you should be using something tuned MUCH lower. I...
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    Less string tension for "lead" guitar?

    I used to use LTHB strings on my 7 string, but now I've been using stringtensioncalculator.com to get approximately what I'd need for tension, and I get it to "progress" from around 18lbs on the bass side and down to around 13-14lbs on the highest, getting progressively lighter as the pitch of...
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    What DAW do you use?

    I've been using Ableton since around 2006. Before that I used FruityLoops (before they called it FL Studio), and going back even further, I used to record guitar parts with a computer microphone by my amp using Windows Sound Recorder in Win 3.1 and bring them into Impulse Tracker. I also...
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    Drop tuning - light top / heavy bottom VS normal strings with a heavier low string

    With a floating trem, the absolute key to not having to do any fine tuning of the inner springs is to match the string tension as EXACTLY as possible. So, if in Eb your Eb has 17.3lbs of tension, you're going to have to find a single string of the right gauge that, when tuned to c#, is also 17.3...
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    Where has the bass gone?

    Why not both? Conan, for example, play in Drop F, and the bassist is also in Drop F.
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    The one song/album that 1st got you in to Rock/Metal

    My dad always listened to rock and had a huge vinyl collection.. Tons of Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Dire Straits, etc.. The first album that really got me into metal was Iron Maiden - Fear of the Dark. I love that whole album, every track on it could be a single and it all sounds so amazing! For...
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    Guitar neck replacement

    Wow, I didn't realize they could do something like that.. I'm worried though that being the headstock, there's that tension from the strings pulling forward.. I guess finding a luthier to see if they could fix it is going to be my next step, then! Thanks for the help!
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    Guitar neck replacement

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    Guitar neck replacement

    I wasn't too sure, but that makes sense.. I've been figuring I was measuring from the wrong point of the nut and that it was likely a Gibson scale, but 24 5/8" seems like it's a lot closer to what I've been seeing when I measure. I haven't played it in close to 16-17 years, around when it...
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    1st week on a 10 string

    I tried it out and I loved it for the low-end, but had trouble coming to grips with the high-end.. I felt like going up in fifths was too much for me, and never really got used to the high G. Ended up using a hybrid tuning based off of his NST that I'm calling Mirror Tuning on my 7 string and...
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    Guitar neck replacement

    Hey, I figure this might be the best place to go for this question.. I've got an 80s NJ style BC Rich Warlock, and ages ago, the headstock cracked on the back of the neck. I'm wondering if anyone knows what neck might be able to fit for a replacement.. I'm pretty certain it's a Gibson-scale...
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    Can't decide between schecter, solar and Nk guitars

    I've got a Harley Benton Fanned Fret 7 string, 25.5-27", tuned FCGDgcf, and find that it's easily as comfortable to play as my 2000 RG7-420 tuned ADGCFad. Pickups aren't the greatest, and my custom BKP Warpigs just got shipped out today, but IMO it's a great guitar to use as a pickup platform to...
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    Creating without music knowledge?

    I started playing guitar in '97, took a break from ~2002 until this year to focus on DJing and making electronic music. The extent of my music theory knowledge is root-fifth-octave, the minor pentatonic scale in a "standard" tuning, and the flat-fifth/tritone. The real trick isn't so much to...
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    Question about wiring EMGs

    Yeah, I've done some looking around, and emailed BKP after seeing that they had a "no poles" option in the pickup customization, and it turns out they also have a 10 degree angled plate in the Accessories section that you can add to make them angled.. coupled with the soapbar cover, I have...


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