Music Gear Discussion

I started playing my 5 string baritone again, but only with 4 strings. It has a low F and is tuned in fifths.

Lusting after the Schecter Ultra VI - Tune Low. Play Slow.

I don't know about the tuning low as much. Literally EVERY four piece band and at least a third of the three pieces I've seen in the past year that tune below C sound like they're out of tune the whole set. These are not just local yokels either. What's up with that? It is such a wildly fucking popular thing to do right now so I wonder how come nobody can properly master it?

Also you were right about Weedeater . I finally saw 'em live the other night and they were outta this world! I don't know what they tune to but it was low and it was correct.

Tuning down low means you have to relearn pressure on the fretboard with your fingering hand. Most folk don't every bother and just play normal.

This is mitigated somewhat in abandonist since its just myself and the drummer.

That makes it easy. And it's the obvious reason that three pieces are less afflicted by said shit. I've been hanging with Tad (he digs the pedalz) a little lately and the first time I picked up his SG tuned to A standard I just couldn't even make it work. Just for fun let us hear Tad's band!



May not be anybody's cup of tea but it's just fun to know that TAD CANT BE STOPPED

is that one of their lawsuit guitars?

There were some awesome japanese guitars coming out in the 70s and 80s. Almost always a good buy.

I've got a late 70's Ibanez LP. It's fantastic.

Japan got damn good at making guitars by the early 80s. Rock was in and plenty of nerds put all their nerdism into figuring out how to built perfect copies.

Much of what ibanez does comes from figuring out how to build copies Gibson, Fender and Mosrite. Mosrite is the guitar brand that they borrow a good bit of their visual ques from. Just look at Mosrite or a Acoustics Black Widow (designed and built by mosrite before going to japan) and you'll see what I mean.

I adore those black widows. Never found a good enough deal.

I'm not sure if Yamaha had 'lawsuit guitars'. I'm not saying they didn't but all I ever heard was the switched the names of these guitars from "SGXXXX" to "SBGXXXX" but not because of any actual legal stuff. Just to avoid what the other guys were going through. I could be wrong about all of it as it's just hearsay from older dudes and not anything I read anywhere. They've reissued them but I don't think there's an American dealer. I'd kill for that goldtop one!



I'm thinking of trading in this Lafayette bass amp I have on a Traynor YBA-3 that's at a guitar shop owned by a buddy.

Did you get that Bass VI thingy icarus? I have a buddy that's got a Fender one and it is the weirdest thing ever. In a good way!

Traynor stuff sounds great. The Deckards use a Traynor YVM-1 for vocals. I've also got a YGM-3 that I play out on sometimes, and I just picked up a TS-15 (for $40) to wank around with at home.