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  1. Originally posted by wyn525i:[..]

    Just play your guitar and mess around with the knobs and see for yourself what they do, it's not rocket science. Use something metallic and tap the pickups when it's plugged in if you can't tell by ear which one is on. From all your posts, it sounds like you're almost afraid to play around with your own guitar and equipment. FYI, you can play with your M13 with your tone knob on either 10 or 0. But on 0 it will be all muddy with no treble.


    It just takes so long to fiddle with all the settings, cos I have to put my guitar down (I usually sit and play cos I can't see the frets if I stand) and then walk over to the amp and adjust the knobs there.

    But I did play figure out how to select the treble pickup. It's strange that the tone knob actually gives you a purer sound the more you turn it up (seems counterintuitive, you would think keeping it on 0 would give you the unaltered tone).
  2. Originally posted by vanquish:[..]

    It just takes so long to fiddle with all the settings, cos I have to put my guitar down (I usually sit and play cos I can't see the frets if I stand) and then walk over to the amp and adjust the knobs there.

    But I did play figure out how to select the treble pickup. It's strange that the tone knob actually gives you a purer sound the more you turn it up (seems counterintuitive, you would think keeping it on 0 would give you the unaltered tone).


    Actually, all the tone knob does it to cut some of the treble. If you leave it on 10, it is like if it didn't exist, the signal goes "integral" to the amp (or to your processor or whatever is after the guitar on your chain).
  3. Originally posted by thechicken:[..]

    Actually, all the tone knob does it to cut some of the treble. If you leave it on 10, it is like if it didn't exist, the signal goes "integral" to the amp (or to your processor or whatever is after the guitar on your chain).


    Yea, i'm leaving it on 10 from now on

    Question I have about reading tabs:

    E-----------------------12---------------12----12s/14s/12----
    B--------10--9--10------------9--10--------------------------

    I know the s/ usually means slide up but on this tab (it's TTTYAATW) does it mean hammer on? As it sounds weird sliding over the 13th fret, and how do u slide up from 14 to 12? like it says in the end

    This Miracle Drug tab also has me wondering whether you're supposed to slide from the 7 to the 9 over the 8, or just hammer on the 9?

    Verse:
    e|---------------------------7-----|
    b|-----10--------------------------|
    g|-7--------9---(7/9)---7--------7-|
    d|---------------------------------|
    a|---------------------------------|
    E|---------------------------------|
  4. Originally posted by vanquish:[..]



    I know the s/ usually means slide up but on this tab (it's TTTYAATW) does it mean hammer on? As it sounds weird sliding over the 13th fret, and how do u slide up from 14 to 12? like it says in the end




    Slide up faster.

    It really sounds like you're trying to do the fancy/advanced stuff way too soon. You have to remember it takes YEARS(for the vast majority of players) to be a good guitar player. It takes a long time to build the dexterity in your fingers to be able to slide up and down, do vibratos at different speeds, hammering on and pulling off and so on. Also, a lot of the time tab is just one person's interpretation of how to play a certain song... what sounds right to the tab writer doesn't mean that's the exact way the original musician played it.

    Often times there are multiple ways to play the exact same song, depending on the player's style.

    You sound like a lot of wannabe players who think they will be able to do everything right away if they just have fancy equipment. Then they get frustrated that they don't sound like the record and give up.

    When artists are in the studio, especially people like The Edge do a TON of experimenting. You also have to remember that old tube amps sound vastly different if played on... lets say 2(moderately loud) than they do on 8 or 9, with the power tubes glowing hot and really pushing the power out of the speakers, then you have different types of power tubes, pre-amp tubes and, lets not forget what so many people do...... A HELL OF A LOT OF TONE COMES FROM YOUR FINGERS.

    In my opinion, you should step away from trying to exactly copy The Edge and learn how to do the very basics first.



  5. But then the fret in between will sound, is that intended?
    Or do u reduce the pressure when sliding over the fret in the middle (ie. to prevent the string from being held to the fretboard there) and then apply full pressure when you reach the fret you're sliding to



    I'm not trying to do the fancy stuff, i'm trying to play Miracle Drug and TTTYAATW they're both very simple, easy to learn songs - even the solo in Miracle Drug seems relatively easy (doesn't have pulloffs, fingerbends, hammer ons etc).
  6. Anyone here interested in a Line 6 DM-4 or a Boss OD-2? I'm tryin to sell them so i can buy a new guitar. If anyone's interested, let me know.
  7. Edge Tweet from November 20th.

    Recent pic of EDGE pedal board in the studio... as they said they would... they are right back to work. (Good news!)



    TOP row L-R:
    Fender Bassman pedal (to be confirmed)
    Cyber Psychic - parametric oscillo filter
    Moog Moogerfooger Murf- Multiple Resonance Filter Array
    Moog Moogerfooger Ring Modulator
    EH Holier Grail - Reverb

    Pedal BELOW the Boss Fender Bassmand and Cyber Psychic:
    MXR Custom Audio Electronics Boost / Overdrive

    BOTTOM row L-R:
    EH POG
    MXR DynaComp
    Digitech SynthWah
    Ampeg Scrambler
    Digitech WH-1 Whammy.
  8. Originally posted by anstratdubh1979:Edge Tweet from November 20th.

    Recent pic of EDGE pedal board in the studio... as they said they would... they are right back to work. (Good news!)

    [image]

    TOP row L-R:
    Fender Bassman pedal (to be confirmed)
    Cyber Psychic - parametric oscillo filter
    Moog Moogerfooger Murf- Multiple Resonance Filter Array
    Moog Moogerfooger MF 101 - Low pass filter
    EH Holier Grail - Reverb

    Pedal BELOW the Boss Fender Bassmand and Cyber Psychic:
    MXR Custom Audio Electronics Boost / Overdrive

    BOTTOM row L-R:
    EH POG
    MXR DynaComp
    Digitech SynthWah
    Ampeg Scrambler
    Digitech WH-1 Whammy.


    What ever happened to a good old fashioned guitar, lead and an amp

    Not that I'm complaining


  9. That's pretty much what I usually play with. My Strat, compressor peddle and my Hot Rod Deluxe Ltd.

  10. Lyndon.

    s/ means slide, not only slide up, it can be slide from 7th to 9th and then to 5th... The " s/ " (or sometimes just the bar " / " ) means slide, whether it's to a upper fret or not.

    And the slides are done applying full pressure in all frets, you don't have to reduce the strenght when you go through the other frets. If you have to slide from 6th to 9th frets, you simply put your finger on 6th, pull the string and then go moderately quickly (it depends on the song, obviously) to the 9th, going through 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th. Otherwise it wouldn't be a proper slide, just pushing two different notes. A slide contains all frequencies from the note X to the note Y

    So you're messing with Miracle Drug now, huh? It was the first U2 song (the riff and the solo, actually) that I ever learnt... Great memories
  12. Originally posted by LikeASong:Lyndon.

    s/ means slide, not only slide up, it can be slide from 7th to 9th and then to 5th... The " s/ " (or sometimes just the bar " / " ) means slide, whether it's to a upper fret or not.

    And the slides are done applying full pressure in all frets, you don't have to reduce the strenght when you go through the other frets. If you have to slide from 6th to 9th frets, you simply put your finger on 6th, pull the string and then go moderately quickly (it depends on the song, obviously) to the 9th, going through 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th. Otherwise it wouldn't be a proper slide, just pushing two different notes. A slide contains all frequencies from the note X to the note Y

    So you're messing with Miracle Drug now, huh? It was the first U2 song (the riff and the solo, actually) that I ever learnt... Great memories


    Thanks Sergio

    Yea Miracle Drug seems quite easy to learn and sounds great.

    On the sliding, I realise when ur doing a slide solo you use a slide and so apply full pressure on all frets in between the ones you are sliding to, but when sliding with fingers do you still do the same? It sounds a bit weird when you pull the string over the metal frets

    And you have to slide pretty quickly otherwise the string falls dead and the slide won't sound (though I am practicing unamplified atm and the longer sustain you get with an amp may fix this).

    I was also trying to learn the riff from Magnificent:
    e|---------------------------------------------------------|
    B|---------------------------------------------------------|
    G|----9-----9~----8------8~--8~--\-------------------------|
    D|-11----11----------11------------4-4~--------------------|
    A|---------------------------------------------------------|
    E|---------------------------------------------------------|

    I don't know why there is a slide symbol after the 8s on the G string when the next notes are on the D string? What does that mean? I'm guessing it means you slide up to the first 4 on the D string from the fret below so D 3--/--4?

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