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yup.

yep
im having this feeling with guitars at this point

i cant believe i may even let my jazzmaster go...

I like to trade pedals a lot. But that's more for experimenting with different ones.

gunslinger_burrito wrote:That you wanna sell some of your gear and start over with a different instrument because you're tired of not being able to achieve anything with the current one?

fix'd

IF I wasn't playing a lot of noise and drone, I think I'd have done this a long time ago.

gunslinger_burrito wrote:That you wanna sell all your gear and start over from scratch because you're tired of obsessing over tone-searching instead of just writing music?

Only when I see the MOST AWESOME NEW THING EVERRRRRRRR and i need to buy it BEFORE IT EVEN COMES OUTTTTT.

no more like I have the feeling that I gotta keep saving for that amazing expensive vintage lefty guitar, and then some rich asshole with money buys it and I get depressed and blow all of money only to have the cycle repeat

i can't really afford to sniff around for the right tone, especially amp-wise so the tone searching doesn't really apply very well to me. thats also probably the biggest money sink for a musician. the quest for tone rather than notes. its like picking a font before you write a story, and even then most people don't really care/notice besides obvious things.

so i'm kinda partial to burbly round squonky middle position running through chorus and shitty solid state distortion and reverb.

the less you have to fiddle with, the more you fiddle, i guess. not EXACTLY true, but you get to something usable faster when you have less, imo.

Gearmond wrote:i can't really afford to sniff around for the right tone, especially amp-wise so the tone searching doesn't really apply very well to me. thats also probably the biggest money sink for a musician. the quest for tone rather than notes. its like picking a font before you write a story, and even then most people don't really care/notice besides obvious things.

so i'm kinda partial to burbly round squonky middle position running through chorus and shitty solid state distortion and reverb.

the less you have to fiddle with, the more you fiddle, i guess. not EXACTLY true, but you get to something usable faster when you have less, imo.

It's like when people ask "how do I get that Burzum tone?!"

Although, I tend to associate different sounds and tones with different feelings, if that makes and damn sense and doesn't make me sound emo or anything. Maybe it's time to stop buying "toys" and save for the things I know will work out.

Years ago I threw all my guitar stuff overboard...and bought a bass rig. I was more frustrated with my writing than anything else, and it took me a year or two to realize I was being dumb. Those two girls you don't need to choose between, you can keep 'me both around.
But I gained some newfound respect, and became a little bit of a better musician (along with realizing I kill on bass, and not so much with guitar...)
So now I buy stuff I get excited about because of sh*t I read here, and when the shelves get crowded, turn some of it over. My regulars are fixed to my gigging board, and the others I like using at home or for random jams get to keep their spots, and everything else gets "tested" every once in a while. Playing with your toys can get in the way of playing if you let it.
Sometimes it's not worth keeping something you don't use just because it might be handy someday, but some pieces you can't replace once they're gone.

skullservant wrote:It wasn't a matter of selling everything for me, but selling and trading pedals to try new ones before coming to the realization that what I was looking for is what I had originally

Dude that is TOTALLY it.


Guitars, too. I just went through this big guitar odyssey and ended up with the same two guitars I started with... with like five guitars in between.

Geez.


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That's why I won't ever get rid of my G&L

I'm super happy with my rig. But I have a redundancy policy - anything that does not get used gets smoked from my gig board, and I have it at home instead. I like gear that makes new sounds possible - hankering for a new Cosmi because I don't have a chorus at all on my board, but I don't really want to get rid of any of the existing sound palettes I have. Having a board of 7 fuzzes at home is on the other hand fun - sometimes turning on a pedal will make me write/play in a certain way, so I get a lot of inspiration out of new gear. I can then either recreate the sound/riff on the gig-board or if it is soooo pedal specific I can add that pedal.

Anyone with writer's block - we should totally do a "write me a riff and I'll write you a riff".

I play progressive metal - kinda like if Meshuggah lost half of their playing ability and started an Iron Maiden cover band. I'm pretty sure that sort of stuff is not what most of you dudes are playing haha. So like, try and write a fucked up progressive metal riff and I'll try and write something for your style of music (that I probably don't understand either). Worst case scenario: you've actually written a riff that is a bit different to normal and it might start your creative juices. Best case scenario: you get a riff that you like and can use in a song - and get your creative juices flowing!

Shit, we could even start a thread where people just post riffs for others to use. Open source riffs

- sorry if that got a little OT.

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greigoroth wrote:Shit, we could even start a thread where people just post riffs for others to use. Open source riffs

I believe that's call blues