Electric Guitar, Anypony?

[Pickslide1992]

I guess. I'm more of a glam rock guy anyway (If you ever saw my pic in the FACES thread)

[Trillionage]

I have a whammy, but i forget to use it a lot :/ sometimes i even forget i have it.

[Trillionage]

What guitar you have? Mine came with it.

[Trillionage]

It looks rockin'. I suppose that to alter it to have a whammy could end up ruining it. :/ You should be on the look out in flea markets or garage sales. People sell stuff like that all the time. You could try craigslist too.

[Pickslide1992]

I played live about a week ago. It's a feeling like nothing else, man. Even if you screw up a note or something, the crowd is still behind you 110% and they love you.

[ChromaticChaosPony]

I just played live in my english class (I'm a freshman in high school). I enjoyed it, but need more practice. Everyone was suprised to see that I brought an 8 string (most of them don't even know it exists) and could actually play it.

[ChromaticChaosPony]

By the way, I played Point To Point by Animals As Leaders. My arms are dead from all the sweeps and awkward chords! It was so much fun.

[ChromaticChaosPony]

I messed up alot. Like I said, I need more practice. I could barely play it up to speed, so I did not use a backing track.

I'm being such a beginner right now, "It has to be absolutely perfect before anyone can see it..."

Sadly, I will never be as good as Tosin without experience. I just need to man up and record.

Which reminds me, I have collabs galore, a large project about Nepal due monday, and exams in school on wednesday. I miss having a life...

[Trillionage]

I played live about a week ago. It's a feeling like nothing else, man. Even if you screw up a note or something, the crowd is still behind you 110% and they love you.

Hey so did i and it felt the same for me. Did you play and original composition, a cover or did you improvise?

[Trillionage]

I just played live in my english class (I'm a freshman in high school). I enjoyed it, but need more practice. Everyone was suprised to see that I brought an 8 string (most of them don't even know it exists) and could actually play it.

I'm going to be honest, i didn't know about those either. What the 8th string tuned to?

idk about pickslide, but we always wrote our own stuff.
Improvised ALL the solos
and had lots of fun doing gigs, BUT we broke up because our egotistical singer wanted to sing pop music.

eww...
(he was a horrible singer anyways)

Nickelback pop or Blink pop?

[ChromaticChaosPony]

I tuned the 8th string to E. Drop E tuning.

[ChromaticChaosPony]

It's a fun instrument and can inspire some interesting stuff. Too bad I suck at recording and producing. My last track was broken (literally).

[Trillionage]

It's a fun instrument and can inspire some interesting stuff. Too bad I suck at recording and producing. My last track was broken (literally).

Reading about it i'm starting want one. With quarter tones Also, sorry about your track. Did you at least write it down?

[Trillionage]

Not to be a douche, but you forgot to write something...

[Trillionage]

Now i see it. I've only heard like two of their songs. Don't mind listening to them but i still think it could be much worse. It could be stereo love pop (there are few songs in the radio that make want to commit rage fueled acts of violence more than that song).

[Trillionage]

What kind of metal? Judging by what you've put its definitively not 80s heavy metal.

[Trillionage]

neoclassical metal. Like Yngwie Malmsteen stuff is always my favorite.
I absolutely love that stuff.

when I was in the band, we were playing, like, Bullet for My Valentine type stuff.
It was hella easy because of the fact that their guitarist isn't that good. XD he just spams fingertapping and lame shred licks, but I still like the band.

they suck live, though...

I've actually never heard of them:/ But i'll give them a try. Recently i have been listening mostly to soundtracks and funk (prince is fucking awesome). Though i've been feeling like listening to system of a down recently.

Also looking at their singles history, BfmV's songwriting seems to be very monomaniatic :/

[Pickslide1992]

I played live about a week ago. It's a feeling like nothing else, man. Even if you screw up a note or something, the crowd is still behind you 110% and they love you.

Hey so did i and it felt the same for me. Did you play and original composition, a cover or did you improvise?

It was an original instrumental solo I called, but didn't tell anyone, "Crackle is Best Pony."It was kind of a classic rock-like piece with a tapping solo.

[Trillionage]

I played live about a week ago. It's a feeling like nothing else, man. Even if you screw up a note or something, the crowd is still behind you 110% and they love you.

Hey so did i and it felt the same for me. Did you play and original composition, a cover or did you improvise?

It was an original instrumental solo I called, but didn't tell anyone, "Crackle is Best Pony."It was kind of a classic rock-like piece with a tapping solo.

Ooh. Did you record it?

[Pickslide1992]

No, but I can record it and maybe add some drums and such.

[Trillionage]

I think that i'll get a guitar adapter for my pc during the summer. Maybe after my next paycheck. Which one is good and cheap? I found these ones in Amazon:

first one

second one

third one

Which one would you guys recommend?

[sdoggingsworth]

I have an electric guitar question. It seems if I want any kind of guitar effect that can shred, the price of that is a ton of buzzing and white noise underneath, making my guitar tracks unusable unless there's a buck ton of other stuff going on drowning it out.

I've tried two different cables, using my pre-amp alone (and doing the effects in the software), and using my multi-effects pedal as a pre-amp.

I'm considering taking my guitar into a luthier to get checked out, but I think it has something to do with how I engineer the sound. Any solutions to this problem?

[MixolydianPony]

Also, if you record sitting right in front of your computer (or other electronic devices, or fluorescent lights) the guitar pickups will pick up the electromagnetic radiation from your computer. Try moving around and see if the white noise changes at all based on your location.

[Pickslide1992]

This is why I never record with my TV on, it adds some unwanted noise regardless of whether or not I have my noise gate on.

[sdoggingsworth]

Holy Celestia!

I just let my computer run on battery and it gets rid of most of the problem. There's still a slight hum, but that's pretty hard to get rid of when you have heavy distortion. (I record about three or four feet from the computer because that's what the cord will allow, not sure how far away is far away enough to get rid of it completely or if it even can be done).

Anyway, battery power is like...instant miracle!

Thanks everypony!