1 Reply by wafer

(9 replies, posted in Politics & Economics)

just keep your head in the sand and your feet in the Mediterranean

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2 Reply by wafer

(16 replies, posted in Everything Else)

Talking of guitar tuning and I hope its not off thread, I'm tuning and setting up guitars fairly often and have taken up using the  'Frequency-counter / instrument-tuner' off the website  http://www.techmind.org/audio/. The free download is called "tuner12.exe".

When the guitar is plugged in to the microphone port on the computer you have a direct read out of the musical note frequency, and the name of the note and the percentage plus or minus error. This is ideal for simple tuning and also gives best setting position string length for the bridge adjusting yokes.

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3 Reply by wafer

(14 replies, posted in Everything Else)

Is anybody else enthusiastic for flat wound (sometimes called ribbon wound), or flat ground strings? A bit biased towards jazz sounds, but intersting tones.

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4 Reply by wafer

(16 replies, posted in Everything Else)

of course Guitar Legend is right, but should we discourage creativity and lateral thinking? Oh well, yes you're right. This time we should. Sorry Woefuly Misspelt.

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5 Reply by wafer

(21 replies, posted in Amplifiers)

For home and practice use a friend told me about the Roland Micro Cube. 100 euros when I bought mine. Its packed full of effects and electronically mimics the tones of some great grown up amps. I use it all the time at home and occasionally use it as a pre-amp through bigger amps because its so easy to use.

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6 Reply by wafer

(6 replies, posted in Guitars)

I do have a vested interest, but yeah, do support and take interest in the guys who spend their time building beautiful one off custom guitars.

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7 Topic by wafer

(14 replies, posted in Introduce yourself)

I've owned, loved and played gutiars for fifty years now. The best guitar? The one that draws your attention every time you go in the room. The one that you never want to put down.
Thanks for the welcome to the forum.

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8 Reply by wafer

(7 replies, posted in Guitars)

In the end the idea of high or low output, is not important in choosing the pick-up for you. You are looking for character, response and how it handles overdriven tones. The biggest and smoothest doesn't link to output figures, and is also why there are so very many pick-ups made and so very many opinions as to which to choose.
Good luck. Sit in the shop and try as many as possible.

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