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Howdy, a question to everyone. What's the best accessory - be it slides, capoes, picks, polish, anything and everything - that you discovered, and can't live without, or just looked at and said 'hey, cool!'

 

I bought a Shubb Axys slide today, this is what inspired me. I had a 50 buck gift certificate for the local shop, and needed a slide, and I had seen these in ads and such, and decided 'why buy a 10 dollar pyrexy slide, if it's free to me anyway?' So I picked it up and took it home. Now, granted, I only have my travel guitar, a Yamaha Guitelele, to play on right now, because my stuff is packed up at home, so I can't I've truly put the thing through it's paces, and I'm not the greatest slide artiste, either, but hey, I'm learning. BUT, the thing really does do what it's supposed to. I'm sitting there, jamming away with the slide on my pinky, and as soon as you want to go back to regular fingering, all you do is pull your finger away, rotate it with your ring finger, and bam, it's out of the way, but still right there, ready to go. It's too small for my ring finger, which I'd prefer, but that's only a small gripe.

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I might say my Quiktime metronome. It gets used every once in a while, but I don't really use any gadget much. I'm not even sure I'm using it right, I just look at it like a drum machine, with the "tick" like a hi-hat sound.

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Originally posted by batterypowered:

Howdy, a question to everyone. What's the best accessory - be it slides, capoes, picks, polish, anything and everything - that you discovered, and can't live without, or just looked at and said 'hey, cool!'

 

I bought a Shubb Axys slide today, this is what inspired me. I had a 50 buck gift certificate for the local shop, and needed a slide, and I had seen these in ads and such, and decided 'why buy a 10 dollar pyrexy slide, if it's free to me anyway?' So I picked it up and took it home. Now, granted, I only have my travel guitar, a Yamaha Guitelele, to play on right now, because my stuff is packed up at home, so I can't I've truly put the thing through it's paces, and I'm not the greatest slide artiste, either, but hey, I'm learning. BUT, the thing really does do what it's supposed to. I'm sitting there, jamming away with the slide on my pinky, and as soon as you want to go back to regular fingering, all you do is pull your finger away, rotate it with your ring finger, and bam, it's out of the way, but still right there, ready to go. It's too small for my ring finger, which I'd prefer, but that's only a small gripe.

$99 buys one a J-Station these days, replete with tuner, bass models and S/DIF.
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1- Korg GA30 tuner, simple dependable and cheap

 

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http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:UE0RhA-G2W0C:www.amazingrecycled.com/arp00614.jpg

 

Wife bought me two of these in black, great for hauling stuff to practice, then turn em upside down, stack em up and a perfect amp stand for my Roland Cube!!!!!!!

 

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mini-mag light!

"You look hopefully for an idea and then you're humble when you find it and you wish your skills were better. To have even a half-baked touch of creativity is an honor."

-- Ernie Stires, composer

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Let's see... Hmmm..

 

I have one of these I love:

 

http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:XeyQyjjokagC:www.roland.co.uk/gr10/prodimages/95000244-front.jpg

 

It has an incredible number of variables (beats/accents/swing) for an electronic metronome, and is the size of a cigarette pack and half the width. The hole is designed for a pen or pencil to stick though as a stand. :thu:

 

Also one of these:

 

http://www.lacg.net/images/accessories_turbo.jpg

 

Great string winder. End pops off for installation in an electric screwdriver or power drill. Great for restringing multiple guitars. The end is slotted to accomodate large bass guitar tuners as well, and it has a scalloped cut out for pulling acoustic guitar bridge pins. :thu:

 

Something like this:

 

http://www.frisia-toene.de/dat10/egg-shaker.jpg

 

http://www.noisytoys.com/ecat_gallery/thumbnails/c-003F.jpg

 

I have several from different manufacturers. I didn't like the ones with the integral pic, but I hold one in my pick hand sometimes. My favorites are by Latin Percussion and have the handle. I believe they call them chicken shakers or Chicitas.

 

Not the most popular pedal tuner, but mine has worked great:

 

http://www.guitarsam.com/catalog2/samimages/T1.jpg

 

And, of course, my favorite strap locks:

 

http://www.janetdavismusic.com/strplk.jpg

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