What Music Are Ya’ll Listening to…

[Chillygirl]

 

[SweetCheeks_95]

 

[CuriousMe2]

 

[Chillygirl]

 

[SweetCheeks_95]

 

[Chillygirl]

 

[ShowMeYourSmile]

 

[curious_slut]

 

[QwertyMaster]

 

[QwertyMaster]

 

[SissyBrandi19]

Literally just got done to playing along with this on YouTube and thank god I don't live in an apartment. This one goes to "11".

I'm an Ibanez guy...here's my #1, Ibanez RG920QMZ and I'll tell ya, I played for decades but was never one to do a lot to my guitar, on my own. I was a driver, not a mechanic. But just to keep life interesting I took up the Luthier side and I learned so much! I learned about rage....true rage...blinding...blinding, true rage...It doesn't help that - did you know that some YouTube videos...are not accurate in the sense of being correct, being accurate, having the property of correctness...or depicting things correctly? It's true. I'm pretty sure in the last 3 months I've worsened my lot in the afterlife by probably, ohhhh...3 orders of magnitude? I blame Trump.

When any instrument in the broad definition of the term has high-end capabilities, that brings along high end headaches. Meet the Ibanez EdgeZero2 floating tremolo with its ZPS3Fe tuning stabilizer! So here I am, poring over literally the factory drawings, and due to Things That Happen to People That Break Bodily Stuff, I only have vision in one eye, and that weirdly makes it challenging to work with drawings like that and translating it to the 3D object. I won't even go into the...deep-seated, irreparable, hmmm is "trauma' the right...yes..Yes, Traumatic experience...of my first 3-D movie - with the glasses. Guys, if...if I'm ever in the news, and I mean national...national news. It's not going to be for any...how do you say it..."sane" reason. I'll do my best to make it spectacularly idiotic and, uh, cross your fingers if everything goes well? I'll become a meme. But I want it to go on the record let the record reflect...I blame 3-D movies. And I blame Trump.

One thing you become hyper aware of, is that the guitar is a literal living, breathing instrument - almost entirely of a variety of woods. Non-guitar people would probably find this new knowledge, but traveling the length of the guitar neck, through the center of that neck, is a metal contraption that is adjustable, and can influence the curvature of the neck - called the "truss rod". You don't want a neck that, if you looked down its length, is completely straight; you want to see a slight concave bow or "relief", because to add complexity, hey why not, you have these metal barriers going across the fretboard at regular intervals and the strings can catch them and "buzz" which you don't want. So the relief is clearance. Because added to the living/breathing aspect, the entire means of sound is based on six, high-tension wires, each of differing gauges for which 100% of the energy used to create the sound is via vibration and magnetism. It's a two-edged sword - on one hand, it plays just - I've owned it since 2011 and still, every time I take it out well, first I put on my gloves, I take it out and I just...stare at it for about 5 very....very awkward seconds. On the other hand, simply the act of changing ones strings, which I do on average weekly - it's a 2-3 hour process, if anything goes well. And you do it, you strap on this...freakin' piece of art that shreds (Well...I kind of...help that out, heh-heh)...Den I gets downs ta bidneth. I'm still learning my new Line 6 Catalyst - the last time I bought a new amp, it was clever...it incorporated digital modeling you could control by buttons or dials. This thing? Has firmware, software (duh), I have an app on my phone - probably more studio capabilities than pros in the 80's, albeit digital. So get out the Excedrin Migraine, holy shit.

Sorry, I...I don't do...people. And if you read all that? My word...you guys are Troopers! I dedicate Iron Maiden "The Trooper" to you!

Joe Satriani - Summer Song (Live)

 

[investor2020]

1977

 

[Chillygirl]

 

[LLCox]

 

[Awaywego]

 

[Awaywego]

I know random today

 

[orangecurious]

this has been in my head all day... the original and this cover

 

[QwertyMaster]

 

[QwertyMaster]

 

[QwertyMaster]

 

[Chillygirl]

 

[ShowMeYourSmile]

 

[LLCox]

 

[SweetCheeks_95]

 

[LLCox]