Thanks for the support Gavin. Good to have you around.

We are doing our best to get new users so your help in posting is greatly appreciated.

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(45 replies, posted in Guitars)

Welcome to the forum Chris. Best of luck with your learning. We will be happy to help you along the way should you need it!

Many valid points in this thread.

In my opinion you can teach yourself via the massive amount of resources in books, online, rocksmith etc.

What they cannot help with is bad habits, poor technique etc. So either getting a one to one tutor or playing with other musicians to help guide you is really important!

I picked up many bad habits along the way and they can be hard to train yourself out of!

Olly

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(2 replies, posted in Introduce yourself)

Good words from James

And a warm welcome to the forum Gavin!

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(1 replies, posted in Announcements)

Big welcome to all new members.

We seem to be ranking reasonably well in google at the moment so hopefully will attract a few more users.

If you can ensure you "like" the page in Facebook if you haven't already that would be great.

Sorry if the site is slow today, we have another site being attacked at the moment which is slowing everything down. This is being sorted!

Thanks for the continued support!

Olly

I enjoyed listening - it certainly sounds well produced and recorded.

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(6 replies, posted in Introduce yourself)

Hi Peter

Welcome to the forum

Would be great to see some pictures of the guitars you have made when you have time - also what is a cigar box guitar?

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(1 replies, posted in Introduce yourself)

Hi Shaun

Welcome to the forum - there are a lot of people here with good advice.

Once you have got used to playing chords etc, it is often hard to hear how much progress you have made which can be demotivating.

Try and record yourself playing periodically, you will then be able to listen back and hear how much you have improved - you will be surprised!

What kind of music do you play or wish to play?

Olly

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(2 replies, posted in Introduce yourself)

Hi Ste

Welcome! Look forward to hearing your playing!

Olly

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(4 replies, posted in Introduce yourself)

Hi John

Welcome to the forum! Look forward to hearing some of your blues!

Olly

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(6 replies, posted in Effects Reviews)

Wow I can't believe I have had this pedal for over a year and still not found the time to use it anywhere near the full potential!

Time certainly does fly!

So far I just use such basic functions of this pedal - I am using the 4 - cable method which basically allows me to to use my amps overdrive anywhere in the chain, or I could use an amp sim in place of my preamp. But all I use is literally the amp (Blackstar HT5) for the drive then use the HD500 to add delay or chorus or wah.

I have also been using in another room the Line6 M13 which is a far simpler device but fit my needs well. Really simple to operate!

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(6 replies, posted in Guitar Techniques)

I would imagine bassists not using their pinky would be extremely limited with what they could play!

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(2 replies, posted in Announcements)

Happy New Year to everyone on the forum.

I hope 2013 is a really great year for you all.

I got myself a Boss GT-10 over Christmas. Haven't had much time to play with it yet but seems to be a powerful effects unit!

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(19 replies, posted in Recording / Studio)

I think I get the idea here.

But the concept I kind of liked of doing it the other way was that once recorded, if you felt you had too much delay or didn't quite like the amp sounds you could adjust it after the event. Of course I wouldn't want to sacrifice sound quality to achieve this.

I am guessing that with this cable software you are using the standalone version then creating a virtual cable into the input of the DAW therefore recording what you hear. But ultimately isn't the computer still dong the same amount of work that would have caused the latency anyhow?

As another option, is it possible to use the standalone sim to hear the sound but actually just record teh dry guitar and then apply the VST after?

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(19 replies, posted in Recording / Studio)

So Poly, do you feel that these computer based guitar sims can never really work unless you had one computer as the sim and then mic' ed up to another to record? (or similar setup)

I have a computer upstairs and I reckon I could get away with using it a lot more for recording however all my amps etc are down in my cellar. So I am looking for a simple way to just plug in an record away.

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(19 replies, posted in Recording / Studio)

Guitar Rig 5

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(19 replies, posted in Recording / Studio)

Interesting stuff. I might have to quiz you further on some of these points!

So don't you rate the guitar rig type effects?

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(10 replies, posted in Everything Else)

Killers are good though not totally my cup of tea. Foo Fighters are good as well.

I still think there are other decent bands out there right now. They may just not be simple to come across unless you are looking in the right places.

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(3 replies, posted in Introduce yourself)

Welcome to the forum.

What music are you into?

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(17 replies, posted in Song Analysis)

Yes I think it could well be up there!

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(19 replies, posted in Recording / Studio)

Hi Guys

I have mainly been using my PODHD500 recently (but not for recording). So I am wondering what new plugins I could be looking for - I was thinking of giving guitar rig 5 a go as seems to have good reviews - but is there anything similar on the market I should be consdering as well.

I would really like something I can use for recording bass, acoustic, vocals and electric all in one if possible.

Also I am still using ezdrummer for drums - is this still the best one out there or are there better?

Any advice on what you guys are using would be great!

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(25 replies, posted in Guitars)

James - train your pinky - you need it more than you think!  default/big_smile  default/big_smile  default/big_smile  default/big_smile

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(3 replies, posted in Chord Progessions)

I really need to sit down with a guitar to hear how these chords go. But this is a good thread idea to discus some other common chord progressions

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(3 replies, posted in Politics & Economics)

Yes it causes a big headache and is only going to continue to get worse and worse I think

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(4 replies, posted in Introduce yourself)

Welcome to the forum!

What ind of music are you into?