Does anyone have tips for getting barred notes to ring cleanly on acoustic #guitar, other than low action, light strings, tune down to C#?

Is there a technique? I'm working on thumb position, pausing to check that my hand is relaxed, and trying to fret accurately.

(song: Calling You / Bagdad Cafe. Slow 4-note arpeggios. Maybe I should do the low notes separately, on bass.)

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#gearsquad

Well this is even more fun than I thought it would be.

(Torso S-4. Dark, nasty, hard audio coming soon.)

#ElectronicMusic #gearSquad

Tidying things up and more isolation

Really great things come just from adding the snake and wireless IEM/self-mixing

#GearSquad

Please advise!
I'm trying to rescue an old DigiTech Vocal 300 Effect Processor.
(seems like Eventide with its LED alpha display and patch names).
It starts acting like it can't read the tone knobs when I take it off bypass.
I've opened it up and nothing seems wrong.
Could it be the power? The supply I have is 500ma; the stock one is 1.3a, 9VAC(?!). I can buy a replacement, but I don't want to throw money away.

link if it won't play here:
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#GearSquad #guitar #EffectPedals

OK Mastodon, here’s one of the looping performances I recorded last month. @Denny #gearsquad #guitar #MusicProduction

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Forty Three, by Tufnel's Ghost

track by Tufnel's Ghost

^{Tufnel's Ghost}

A question for #GearSquad: I have a late 70’s #Fender Twin Reverb combo amp I’m considering selling. Its power amp tubes have had it. Two have gone already, and I don’t think the other two will last long (though it’s demo-able).

If you were buying this amp, would you prefer I replaced the tubes first, or would you rather just do it yourself so you can put the ones you prefer in?

#gearsquad! I must have messed up earlier, lol. And I'm sure you've figured out by now, but in case you haven't, you can follow hashtags here. So any time anyone uses that hashtag, it'll show up in your timeline if you follow it.

And welcome aboard! That was an absolute sick tele you posted earlier. I'm not usually a huge tele fan (insofar as design is concerned), but I'd make an exception for that.

Here's my homemade ”tele”

@noodlemaz @elaterite Whenever you're struggling with Alt Text, you can also ask @altbot to write a draft for you.

Also check out the hashtag #GearSquad for more modified guitar goodness

In the absence of an inbuilt promotion algorithm, discovery is pretty much organic.
Follow people who seem interesting, unfollow the ones that turned out to be less interesting, and follow the interesting ones that come into your timeline through them.

Also, it can be worth following hashtags.
#gearsquad seems appropriate, off the top of my head.

Further suggestions:

• Add links to your Youtube channels to your profile, along with links to where people can find your original music.
• You can pin posts to your profile, so that anybody looking at your profile sees those first. An intro post like this one is a good candidate for doing that.

Lastly: welcome! 😀

A colleague brought this to work the other day. It's a Höfner prototype from 1951 and I thought you would like to see it too.

#guitar #guitars #GearSquad

When I’m not writing, playing or recording music, I like to pretend I’m a luthier. This was a kit build (not really a luthier) of a Thomann Jazzmaster guitar I finished 1-2 years ago. Plays and sounds better than I ever expected. Also very happy with the paint job, which was done just with aerosol cans.

#GearSquad #Luthier #Guitar

Anyone getting any of the three new JHS 3 Series pedals (Oil can delay, tape delay, and rotary chorus?) The rotary chorus seems interesting but the other two I feel like you can get those delays and more in other pedals, some of which are actually cheaper than JHS.

#guitar #GearSquad

For the 4 people with Faderport Classic using Bitwig on Linux

I have a Faderport Classic. It's the PERFECT transport device -- small, with only what you need to survive, and fits in my keyboard drawer beside my keyboard and mouse. But alas, it's pretty old-fashioned, and isn't supported in most places. Bitwig has never liked it, even on Windows.

But as of today, it's working with Bitwig on Linux! Here's how to set it up.

alisonwilder.net/for-the-4-peo…

#Bitwig #GearSquad #Linux #LinuxAudio

Preparing to play my music live: guitar sounds.

Originally I exported my guitar patches for each song from Helix Native to my floor unit, tweaking them as I went. This quickly got tedious and I've realized that in a live setting 90% of the nuances are lost and it's going to be WAY easier if I just dial in good baseline sounds and use them most of the time.

#guitar #helix #gearsquad #indiemusic

New music. Eleven minutes of dread. #guitar #Ambient #gearsquad #MusicProduction

tufnelsghost.bandcamp.com/trac…

Like Tears in Rain, by Tufnel's Ghost

track by Tufnel's Ghost

^{Tufnel's Ghost}

"Play Like Joe Satriani with the New Satch Grip Pick."

Ahh yes. That's a great photograph: you must have a fantastic camera.

#music #guitar #guitarist #gearsquad #MastoMusic #FediMusic

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Has anyone done a DOD #DigiTech PDS #pedal foot switch upgrade?

My dog marked my good old PDS 20/20 echo/chorus/flanger and I cleaned the switches out with deoxit stuff, but this time the switches are not coming back.

I have replacement switches from 'Bay, but I'm considering putting in proper footswitches. pins 1&2 and pins 3&4 are connected all the time, and all the pins are connected when I push the button.
#gearsquad #EffectPedals