Muzz

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So what d'ya reckon on the body and 3+3 or 6 inline?

If Lordi can win The Eurovision Song Contest, there is hope for us all, your friends and relos will love the gig, have fun.

Good job, the oak timber looks great, I like the shape, you might want to do a bit of tinkering eg buy/make new pickup rings and she'll be apples

Look forward to seeing another one.

Hey yeah, I see the eagle.

Those tuners are great, score! Are you going to replace the stop bar? it's the only piece of hardware that has lost its plating. Also the witches hat knobs, are you going to replace those with see thru resin knobs? looking forward to see how it looks with the respray.

Lovely, great placement of the knobs and selector switch, I bash into those things on a normal strat, you have them in a much better place.

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Cool guitar, the marble like effect on the top is great.

Here another site you guys may not have heard about.

http://www.guitarbackingtrack.com/

That site has a huge range, the ones I tried had a more laidback vibe to them than the freshbt.com site.

Here's my take on Kick Start My Heart

I love the "this song makes me want to ......." thread on youtube

I changed the start and the middle bit, but I still want to skydive naked from an aeroplane.

Here's one I did earlier in SONAR 8 with my POD X3 Pro....

Great stuff

And I have no idea how "Busty Karen Dreams In Sexy Pink Baby Doll Lingerie" became a related video to my tune

hahaha...i don't think you see the bird...the lower horn is supposed to be the beak...this looks like some picasso or dali-esque bat

Now this looks like a crow

eating a worm

Engl makes a hell of an amp that can be tweaked with an EQ to hit almost every preset on a spider...but with a better tone.

Solid advice, Engl is a class act, thick, lucious wall of sound guitar tone. And I agree keep the Fender, at least in the Family, give it to a little cousin.

Some cool shapes in the last few posts, the Schecter and Roman look lush, I am trying to give a flying *%#@ who makes them, mmm no it's not working. If you want someone to respect that really was responsible it would have to be Leo, that man had talent and vision.

I have never met a V I didn't like, especially the new one George Lynch endorses, except this one

Nothing like direct measurement in addition to the plan, you can do the following technique to ensure the angle will work, put your bridge on the body, measure how many millimitres you need the strings to rise. On a flat top this should be equal to the height of the bridge, minus the thickness of the binding on the neck (from the bottom of the binding to the top of the fret).

If you use a neck pocket routing template that reaches back to the bridge position, put a paddlepop stick under your neck pocket template in between the pickup positions to get the angle, adjust the paddlepop stick back and forward until the rise at the bridge is perfect. Fix the template in place.

Route the neck pocket, the strings should just rest on the fretboard when the bridge is fully lowered, so minimal raising of the bridge is needed to get the desired action.

As far as a commercially-produced body shape, I've always been drawn to the Yamaha SG. Call me weird.

I won't call you weird either, Yammie SG, cooler than a les paul.

Only when I miss the angelfire tag do I get creamed.

The only time? .......... surprising with a body like yours

I like the vid, nice tone, I agree with the comment that a bit of work to bring the guitar up in contrast would be good, you might even just be able to process the existing one in an editor to adjust the brightness and contrast. I am usually into more overdriven guitar sounds, but I loved the tone on that guitar.

Ive been looking around at various sites and have found pearleguitars for the body. But i need a neck that would fit, and a good bridge.

Could anyone recommend someone for the neck and a good bridge. Ive been looking at just getting a non-tremolo bridge (budget), so ive been looking at those ibanez fixed edge. Advice anyone?

Here is a pic of the hardware on my Iceman

You can get a bridge like that one that can be installed at 90 degrees to the strings at Stu Mac http://www.stewmac.com/

and any stop bar will do the job, but if you want the quick string load stop (they are fantastic) I think you can get something similar from Ibanez' spare parts web site http://ibanez.com/

if you sift through the different stop bars they have.

The combination is great for vibrato, happy hunting.

Okay...Who melted the violin???

Phoebe's brother.

Two main ways, you can use the computer and software to 1)create the guitar tone and 2) record, the stealth plug gives you an interface and the software you need,

http://www.ikmultimedia.com/stealthplug/features/

or get the tone generated on an outboard device like the pocket pod that can plug into the USB of your pooter, and use the bundled the software to record,

http://www.turramusic.com.au/Pages/Catalog....aspx?CIID=1608

Be warned, it's addictive.

Have fun and post some songs .

I like that sentiment, have fun, and it really helps to have a simple, straight forward set up. I like a good laptop because its portable, throw it in the car and go to your freinds house. For software follow the KIS principle.

Get a headphone amp mixer so you and the band can jam together through the cans and record.

You can throw down rough demos with drums using one mic in front of the snare about one foot back and slightly higher, it will pick everything, crap quality but enough to see if the song is turning out good, if it is, re-record the drums with more mics, a cheap 8 track mixer will do the job. Or talk your drummer into getting an electronic kit, these are less than a grand now and you can smash away at 3 in the morning without the police coming around.

For guitars the direct injection technology is so good it's a great alternative to a real amp. That said, an amp and mike in the bathroom makes a great isolation booth and the hard surfaces give a lovey recorded tone.

After you have recorded your song, slap down a rough mix, turn the sound right down until you can hardly hear the music, can you still hear every intrument? If not adjust at this volume and then crank it up. Listen to the song on lots of different systems, often the mix sounds completely different on an iPod as compared to a stereo. Listen to it for a week or two, you will start to hear things you didn't when you first mixed it, usually that the guitar is not loud enough

Here is an original song I did in an afternoon using Cakewalk

Post your tracks but wince as the internet compression makes mush of the highhats

Theres lots of videos up on Youtube which cover sweep picking.

There is indeed, wow, long time between drinks on this post, one of my favourite sweeps is up the left hand side of the pentatonic scale and down the right hand side,

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Another thing you can do with sweeping is insert a sweep or half a sweep cycle into a melody, I have put a link to an example with the second half of the sweep above slotted in with some tapping and standard picking,

In the video I tried to play along with my improvised solo and I think I remembered most of the notes except one

yes to progress shots

Schmicko work Daniel, it looks great.