stupid guitar!! (help)

[guitarsingerguy]

hmmm, alright. i might have to get a pro to show me how to do that so i dont have to keep bringing it to a shop when i change gauge. or if i happen to find a guide somewere i might try tht.

im gona look into learning bout that today. i have noticed the trem is slightly more raised than it was, and the strings seem a lil further away from the fret board than they are on my other guitar. but i would rather learn how to do the callabrating myself, cos it would just get annoying if i had to keep taking it to a repair shop when i change gauges.

It's a difficult process and takes a long time to get used to doing. You can actually break your truss rod in your neck if you aren't careful, and I honestly believe you don't get a feel for it until you've broken at least one. *Don't try this at home kids* Certain things are very easy to do such as your radius. You simply buy a tool called a radius card and hold it over the strings. Your tremolo though is really going to be the biggest problem. Most technicians hate working on those types because they're such a pain in the ass. You're typically going to be charged double for the set up or they'll simply turn you away. Once you get it set up, the trick is to not remove all the strings at once. Remove and replace the strings one at a time. That will keep the proper tension on the neck as you go through the restring process as opposed to starting over from scratch every time.

 

[uchiha_itachi]

dammit..i better choose the string set i want and keep it with that then. defo taking it to a pro. im gonna take it to a guy ive gone to before when i needed my other guitar fixing, the bit were the lead plugs into (the name escapes me) came out and one of the pick ups were loose, he only charged like £7 to fix it.

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

dammit..i better choose the string set i want and keep it with that then.

Naw. Use a rainbow of gauges.
Throw an 11 flatwound on for the low E, an Ernie Ball 8 for the D, tie two mandolin strings together for the b string, round up all the stray cats in town, boil their guts and make a a big viola string for the G, etc.
Keeps you on your toes.

 

[The Dark Guybrush]

Naw. Use a rainbow of gauges.
Throw an 11 flatwound on for the low E, an Ernie Ball 8 for the D, tie two mandolin strings together for the b string, round up all the stray cats in town, boil their guts and make a a big viola string for the G, etc.
Keeps you on your toes.

uhhh, right.

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

Break free of your Pentatonic box.

 

[guitarsingerguy]

Naw. Use a rainbow of gauges.
Throw an 11 flatwound on for the low E, an Ernie Ball 8 for the D, tie two mandolin strings together for the b string, round up all the stray cats in town, boil their guts and make a a big viola string for the G, etc.
Keeps you on your toes.

That must be that new "Cluster ****" set I've been hearing so much about.

 

[guitarsingerguy]

dammit..i better choose the string set i want and keep it with that then. defo taking it to a pro. im gonna take it to a guy ive gone to before when i needed my other guitar fixing, the bit were the lead plugs into (the name escapes me) came out and one of the pick ups were loose, he only charged like £7 to fix it.

Those two things (it's called an input jack) are very medial tasks compared to setting up a guitar. It's definitely something worth learning to do. Just don't try and overdo it too fast. Learn little by little.

 

[guitarsingerguy]

Ernie Ball is going to put a commercial version of that set out next year.

jag

If any company is stupid enough to do it....

 

[uchiha_itachi]

Those two things (it's called an input jack) are very medial tasks compared to setting up a guitar. It's definitely something worth learning to do. Just don't try and overdo it too fast. Learn little by little.

yeah i will, im gonan use my first guitar to try that stuff on, cos i really dont care about it. i dont really wanna risk trying it on my new one after i spent alot of money on it

when i get paid i'll see about getting it set up, and maybe shown how to do it.
might even ask my old guitar teacher about it.

 

[Snipershot]

any guitar w/ a FR is gonna b a ***** to restring, i hate doing it on my strat bridge...

 

[souloffire]

That's why none of my guitars have a Floyd Rose.

 

[guitarsingerguy]

My other main problem with a Floyd is the amount of wood they have to remove to install one is pretty massive. That's a huge chunk of tone being cut out of the guitar.

 

[jimmy]

Break free of your Pentatonic box.

And unleash the Harmonic Minor fury while improvising freely over a Phrygian Dominant chord progression!

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

I remember when Flash Gordon defeated the Phrygians.

 

[jimmy]

I remember the first time I heard Yngwie Malmsteen play ascending A minor triads over three different modes.

 

[uchiha_itachi]

any guitar w/ a FR is gonna b a ***** to restring, i hate doing it on my strat bridge...

now i kno how to re-string the thing i thinks its pretty easy. the only annoying thing is i have to go get it calbrated to the string size i use

 

[jimmy]

All you really need to do is get another spring for the spring claw in the back.

 

[guitarsingerguy]

All you really need to do is get another spring for the spring claw in the back.

That doesn't always do the trick, not to mention, it changes the feel of the trem.