#25

I would genuinely love to hear this. Love Swedish folk

#26

Havenā€™t had the time to go to my studio at all so far this year and iPhone recordings suck so my renditions of ā€˜Det gĆ„tfulla folketā€™ and ā€™okƤnda djurā€™ will have to wait a while

#27

:cry:

#28

I used to pretty much solely play on acoustic. Canā€™t recommend Faith guitars enough as a pre-amped, affordable, and gigging guitar.

Recorded the faith for something a long time ago (and itā€™s still going strong) and it sounded great - recorded it on two channels, one from the DI from the guitar inside, and another condenser mic in front of it.

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#29

Iā€¦umm

I mean it sucks for recording vocals

yesā€¦thatā€™s what I meant

yours sounds quite kitchen blues, which suits the piece

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#30

:smiley: :wink:

#31

hereā€™s me mewling in a practice room with my knackered, rattle-y acoustic

wanna buy something nicer but donā€™t really use it enough to justify the expense, iā€™d probably only wreck it

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#33

Sounds pretty nice actually!

#34

Got ok with whatever that finger next to the pinky is called after playing my nylon string a bunch last year. Got rusty again now but I reckon a few weeks practice is all it would take really.

#36

Just sorta have to lock your hand/wrist in a position where you have minimal actual hand movement and its all in the fingers I guess. I have no formal training so probably haveterribke technique mind you

#38

Just easier and nicer to play in my opinion, feels very satisfying to get a good arpeggio going and none of that brittle high end

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#41

I just want to say: always put electric strings (with a wound G-string - wheeeeey) on my steel string acoustics and find they stay nicer longer and just tend to sound more even. Always found the bronze wound strings seemed to have too much buzz and oomph in the bottom range.

Hereā€™s my throat-clearing video of how I swiftly and easily restring my guitars

#42

I donā€™t like standard acoustic strings, too zingy, I found the answer to be silk and steel strings, much nicer sound to my ears

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#43

Ah I never knew there was a special technique for stringing. I always wondered when you by a guitar how they get so many ā€œwindsā€ around the machine heads. Now I know. Thanks Theo :slight_smile:

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#44

I recently bought a string winder after years of being confused by them, regret not getting one at the beginning, makes it so much easier. Recently paid to have my main guitar set up for the first time ever, I always over or underestimate where to clip the strings so end up with too many or too few winds, when I change the strings I am going to cut them to the length that the current ones were, and keep the bits I cut off as a guide to use in future, hopefully be able to replicate its current state forever

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#46

Fucked up my last restring and the intonation and everything has gone out. Never fucked it up before and donā€™t actually know how I managed it but I was a bit pissed.

#47

i kow thatā€™s the proper way but i never bother. even when i do i always make a hash of it.

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#50

Wow, never heard of this unless you went to a really heavy gauge and your neck was actually already a bit cracked or faulty?

#51

I canā€™t see anything obvious as the problem, and itā€™s never happened before in 15 years with this guitar so Iā€™m just gonna bite the bullet and take it to someone. Same gauge strings as always!

#52

Very odd. Iā€™m guessing a guitar tech (luthier?) can resolve it. My stepdad had a 12-string that had warped where the bridge was: if you looked across the top of the guitar you could see over the years the tension in the strings had pulled the wood up and dragged the bridge forward! When I took it to the guy under Hankā€™s he managed to somehow restore the intonation and everything and it played great again.

Thatā€™s why I can only assume itā€™s something like this thatā€™s suddenly gone and changed the scale length just enough? :frowning: Hope it gets fixed.

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