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Wraub, +1 It's great when the guitar inspires you and keeps you interested in learning more. It's also great when you get the one you have always wanted in your hand!
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SurferGirl, It's great to hear about a new local product and I know the kids are going to love it too!
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Dave B, I have also noticed that I am no longer receiving the warning that this site is not protected.
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Welcome Aboard Mia!
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Thanks Dave Bryce!
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Kuru, since you will be replacing the jack with a SwitchCraft (great choice) and have thought of going direct with no tone control in the past, now might be a good time to try the idea? Also, How about having all three pups live with each having their own volume control. You could call up more or less treble by adjusting the volumes on each pup. just a thought.
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Congrats Kuru! Nice little project and recording find!
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Here's more of the story of how Guitar Center is finding it's way out of bankruptcy.
https://www.retaildive.com/news/guitar-center-exits-bankruptcy/
The pandemic did play a small role in sales and next year looks even better, but there were other major financial factors agreed to in the Chapter 11 agreements and the lockdowns did not help as many stores were boarded up...
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It's good to hear that GC is going to pull themselves out of bankruptcy and offer an IPO on the stock market for investors. +1 DBM I too bought a guitar this year from MF which is joined at the hip with GC AFAIK. I know there were a lot of people looking for a way to entertain themselves due to the pandemic. But a lot of them were also out of work. So I'm not ready to make the leap that the pandemic is the main reason GC came back to life. I'm glad GC survived all the looting that was going on in some of our major cities this past year of our big box stores...
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Update for Caevan, I found it!!! It was one page that was buried in many pages of my notes that I had copied 11 years ago! I have sold off almost all of my Guitar Player Magazine copies and no longer have the issue mentioned above. But from the one page that I have, I can confirm that it is the January 2010 issue. On page 79 Exercise 2, you will find the 5 scale fretboard charts that I too had come up with in my studies. They omit the same two modes Locrian and Phrygian scales that I omit. They are all played over 5 Gm7 chords ascending the neck. They start with Aeolian then Ionian then Dorian then Lydian then Mixolydian using the same 5 framework patterns I use. You can slide the 5 frames to any key or you can move any of the modes starting points to the key you want to play them in. They are all found in the same order of the major scale no matter which key you start on (using the 1st and 6th string starting points).
Anyway, Mr. Martino confirmed for me, what I had been trying to learn from the David Lawrence book "Guitar Language" and put it in a nutshell. The name of the article is "10 Things You Gotta Do to Play Like Pat Martino." I already know I will never be able to do that but Lord knows I've tried LoL! I give Mr. Martino and David Lawrence my deepest thanks. My sincere heartfelt condolences to Mr. Martino's friends and family. He has many guitar lessons on YouTube and he can explain things about guitar improvisation way beyond my ability. I wouldn't attempt to start a thread on his material as he is the only one that can do it...IMHO.
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What a wonderful invention!
Rest in Peace Emmett Chapman...
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Caevan, I doubt I can find the article as it's been many years since I made my copy of the page to study by. But, if you have $20 bucks...
Well, what I was referring to, was-
...my scale work as he and I shared the same scale framework concept. What I had discovered over the years was just a theory of mine and then his article came out and confirmed the fretboard roadmap I still use today.-your ideas, what you had discovered, that theory of yours, that his ideas were similar to and confirmed by... that's what I was asking that you post a thread about. Not necessarily that article.
Caevan, If you click on the Hal Leonard link in my post above and send $20 bucks for the material, You will have all of your "guitar in hand" information you will ever need when it comes to the study material you seek. I can't do one without the other meaning I simply mentioned the article and what it did to confirm a theory of mine. I found what may be the article I'm referring to. For $6.30 on Ebay you can order the issue if it's still available. I'm not going to send for it and will keep looking but here is the link for the January 2010 Guitar Player Magazine issue hopefully with the Pat Martino article that I would need in order to demonstrate what I'm referring to:
I have CRS (can't remember sh*t)...but I remember the article (this link may be it from about 11 years ago. If it is, you'll find the fretboard roadmap I mentioned "diagramed" for you to practice from. It's just a perfect layout of the fretboard as a sheet to put on your music stand and practice with. There are many others on-line that show the same info but Mr Martino breaks it down perfectly in the article I'm referring to. My study from David Lawrence's book on improvisation was the beginning resource that I was working on for 10 years before "the article" came out. One in which involved the learning 84 fretboard pattern guitar necks (12 starting points x 7 notes). My theory is there is only one pattern and it's found in the major scale. The rest of the 84 mode patterns only involve shifting the major scale in the proper sequence to cover 5 of the 7 modes that interest me. The root point octave pattern will stay the same for all of the 7 modes. Of which, I use only 5 as I correlate them with the Pentatonic 5 positions (major and minor shifts). I also have CD's backing tracks and charts from another source which makes it fun to practice improvisation techniques...
Anyway, Mr. Martino puts it all in the simplification mode breakdown in the article. I'm sure he also has a way better teaching method available to explain it all in the Hal Leonard link I posted above...hope this is helpful.
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https://www.wwbw.com/Hal-Leonard-Jazz-Pat-Martino-Book-and-CD-Package-940383-940383000000000.wwbw?
Caevan, I doubt I can find the article as it's been many years since I made my copy of the page to study by. But, if you have $20 bucks and click on the link above, I'll bet you and other guitar players could really benefit from all the information contained in the Pat Martino book and CD by Hal Leonard Jazz. Hope it's still available and don't forget to have fun with it!
http://www.patmartino.com/ <---this is his website. Under "articles and reviews" you'll find a 2004 article by Jude Gold, Guitar Player Magazine, with diagrams. It's full of chords and Pat Martino's theory. Not the article I was referring too, but it is as close as I can get for now. I'll try and find out more in my hard copy stuff, but that is gonna be a long shot...
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+1 Wraub, I like what I see and I think it might even look better in person as Caevan pointed out. I like pearl pickguards (especially white and red tortise) on Fender guitars. I have 3 Strats in matching black bodies with white pearl pickguards. The red tortoise works best on a white bodies IMO. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder! Nice axe!
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Rest in Peace Pat Martino...one of the greats has passed on to the other side. One of his articles (in Guitar Player IIRC) really helped me with my scale work as he and I shared the same scale framework concept. What I had discovered over the years was just a theory of mine and then his article came out and confirmed the fretboard roadmap I still use today. I could never put it to use like Mr. Martino as he was a master at jazz guitar improvisation...
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Very cool Harmony pedal!
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Congrats on the new gear Wraub! You can never have 2 many guitars LoL!
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The AC Adapter for my MPX100 says that it's 9 volts/1900 mA, but there's no indication as to whether it's center Positive or Negative, and no other info on the adapter, nor in the Manual for the MPX. I've wondered about trying a 1 Spot or a PA-9 Power All (they're much the same thing), and checking out the different connector cables, to see if any of them will work.
The 1 Spot won't work WP...it's 9v DC. My DigiTech JamMan takes a power supply which is 9v AC 1.3 (1,300ma) amps, that would come closer to what you are looking for.
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Kuru, +1 having an AB switch to kick the OD in and out by switching channels would be a good way to go on your NOGAD amp since it lacks a footswitch jack while providing two separate channel inputs. I found my pot issue by rotating the pots on my Fishman in the same way you did. Then I just shot the pots using computer air (with electronics duster) and it brought mine back to life. +1 It's nice when it's easy to take the amp apart and you can get to the pots. I didn't recommend my Roland EX4 to Rabid as the footswitch just turns the effects on/off on the reverb/delay guitar channel and another footswitch input to turn the reverb on/off on the mic/inst channel. I'm not sure how he wants the footswitch to work. It's too expensive of an amp to be considered just a practice amp. My new Fender amp has footswitches to turn the reverb and/or the tremolo on/off but I very seldom ever use the footswitches. I always leave the reverb on and can turn the tremolo speed and intensity knobs when I want to use it throughout a song which rarely happens. Anyway, thanks for the info.
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Kuru, I'm wondering if it has a footswitch jack on the back to switch from "normal" to OD? Rabid, was looking for a small practice amp with a footswitch on his thread...this "NOGAD" amp would be a good candidate for a footswitch.
+1 on cleaning those NOGAD pots. I had a Fishman 2 channel amp go down on one channel after about 10 years of use. Cleaning the pots brought the channel back to life and as of this week it's back in the lineup!
Congrats on the find!
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Congrats Wraub! You should get some great Fender Strat sounds with that new baby! Have fun!
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Thanks Skip! Yeah, the guitar had gone missing for 45 years and then the sleuth finding the wood grain match up in the story really got to me...that's what I call "a happy ending!"
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+1 Skip, you would think it would have made the newspapers in Japan!
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Glad to hear Fanny is finally getting some of the recognition they deserve...
I did a thing I've never done before...
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