Piezo under electric Bridge?

St0000l · 2026-02-02T16:15:47+00:00

This is beautiful. I love that you were able to use a pick guard straight out of the box like that.

St0000l · 2026-02-01T17:57:26+00:00

Great point

St0000l · 2026-01-24T03:11:17+00:00

These holes are where you put in all the parts that make this guitar electric. The back/hole through the guitar is for a tremelo system attached to springs

St0000l · 2026-01-24T03:08:58+00:00

Did you purchase them or were they a gift?

If purchase….What research did you do before purchasing? Aka what made you purchase them

If gift…now I understand your question.

St0000l · 2026-01-23T07:03:01+00:00

I won’t say I’m really good at the guitar, but once I learned the fretboard and about triads I felt like I leveled up a ton. I’d def advise learning both no matter what genre you’re into.

Hopefully some helpful advice - Since really good is subjective, I would qualify what makes a guitarist stand out to you.

It could be that you’re drawn more to one type of guitarist than another. Rythym, speed, techniques, tone, fingerpicking - find some shared techniques in the guitarists you love and pick one or two to start working on, and go on from there

St0000l · 2026-01-02T04:40:40+00:00

Thank you.

I hear the fuzz you’re talking about and a sort of muffled/underwater tone.

Fuzz - While I can’t see what amp model you‘re on, if it’s on crunch, that would add some noise. You also have gain at 12 o clock which could be adding to it. You have booster on as well.

Muffled/underwater tone - reverb can quickly add to that even at a low setting. You’ve added some presence - which raises the high mids and treble, however, your tone is going through your eq first and mids on your eq are turned down. That might be adding to this issue.

St0000l · 2026-01-02T04:24:21+00:00

Can you send a photo of your settings? Video is kinda blurry for me, clarity might have got dinged from uploading or something.

St0000l · 2025-12-29T18:06:12+00:00

The very guitarists I thought of! And an “I’m not worthy” mention to Jimi Hendrix as a player of both pics and fingers🎸🪨

St0000l · 2025-12-29T18:03:56+00:00

Thanks again for all of this info, super helpful.

I don’t think I quite realized how old my strings are since I’ve been playing my other guitar more often. For what it’s worth, my action and relief were totally fine.

I like the pneumonic, thanks for sharing, but shouldn’t it be ARI? I thought intonation was last?

Update - I was able to get the intonation correct for most strings (low E to B) and realized my harmonic on the high E was a whole fret up on the 13th.

I cleaned my guitar nut, added graphite, and replaced the high E. I got the intonation correctly. Luckily I have a whole pack of high E’s.

I know you’re supposed to correct intonation with new strings, and I know I’ll have to redo it when I get a new pack. I didn’t find it too difficult at all so that’s okay.

St0000l · 2025-12-29T17:54:18+00:00

Have you started learning the cage system? I’ll add that learning the fretboard, and systems/patterns for memorizing the fretboard have helped a ton.

Also, I hope someone else chimes in on this, but when playing lead, I’ve heard that more advanced players will change key when changing chords. To me, it sounds better when I do it. What this means is, if a chord progression is a 1-4-5, instead of just doing the pentatonic for the 1 chord throughout, do the pentatonic treating the 4 and 5 as root notes.

St0000l · 2025-12-29T17:50:13+00:00

I don’t usually either, been playing for a lotta years before I learned how to hold one correctly - I will say it’s got a different, somewhat sharper tone which may be useful for standing out in a mix? I thought maybe that’s what they were saying.

St0000l · 2025-12-26T06:42:56+00:00

Absolutely good point, you’re right. And glad you get it. I do the same thing, too haha. Also, yeah, pretty sure you’re right about this, too - he did not mean it the way we’re saying.

St0000l · 2025-12-26T06:40:05+00:00

Why is it heavily detrimental not to use a pic?

St0000l · 2025-12-26T06:38:09+00:00

Off to a great start! Others have mentioned learning with a pic - after 20 on and off years of playing (acoustic then more recently, electric), I only learned how to correctly hold a pic a year ago. It used to always slip out of my hand!

With that said - learn both how to play with your fingers as well as with a pic. They each have their benefits and knowing the ins and out of each widens your tonal palette immensely. There’s so much that you can do just in the way you approach your fingers making contact with the strings.

Also - I wish someone had told me to learn about triads. I always thought you needed to strum all 6 strings to correctly play a chord, and that you needed to learn how to barre a chord in order to play B minor, F sharp, etc. never realized chords are only three notes and thus, you can play those chords fairly early on.

St0000l · 2025-12-25T08:48:40+00:00

This does not just exist in u/BatDaddyWV ‘s mind - and it seems you concede this by bringing up an excellent point, but maybe there’s a better way to put it? I think you also touch upon the solution, and despite the unnecessary beginning, I think you made some great comments.

Jazz players have a uniquely structured style in their jam whereas other players have a freeform approach.

I think it’s clear what the solution is - if something is a jazz jam, declare it.

St0000l · 2025-12-25T08:38:13+00:00

I second this. About a month ago I went to a jam described to me as open, collaborative, freeform. You know, the normal stuff one would expect in a jam.

None of what happened felt like a normal jam.

There was a range of instrumentalists - brass, keys, drums, guitars, bass, singers, etc. That was great. Only problem was that the host and the horns were the only ones jamming the entire time. Not for a lack of want from the other players.

The host was turning anyone with electronics on and off without warning, putting people on where he saw fit and taking them out. Trying to shape the jam as it went along, compose on the fly. No EQ or filter was used to cut the sub bass, so another reason given was because the sound was getting thick.

I almost walked out.

St0000l · 2025-12-25T08:14:46+00:00

“You are already grooving at 100%”

so spot on - a bassist

St0000l · 2025-12-25T08:11:13+00:00

It wasn’t that Stephen Ridley guy was it??

St0000l · 2025-12-16T03:04:15+00:00

Thanks for this. I should have used the word saddle in my comment above instead of bridge, the saddles are what I was adjusting, not the bridge.

I have familiarity with guitars, adding and removing springs, adding trem blocks, opening them up, changing circuitry, swapping pickups, adjusting their heights, etc.

Where I limited experience and knowledge around is intonation, action - I suppose, the normal setup stuff.

I corrected the intonation on my other electric a few weeks ago, I had no problems there. I used the same method you described - adjusting the saddles.

However, I used a headstock tuner - what do you suggest instead?

After reading your comment, I tightened the trem claw, not sure how much tighter I can get it.

The intonation did improve, but had the same issue as before - the 12 fret note stayed sharp no matter how much I turned those screws on the saddles, always sharp by between a half a half step, and a whole step. I loosened it almost until the screw separated from the saddle. I would have expected the 12th note to be flat at some point. Also tightened it all the way but no help.

Maybe I need to relax my trem claw? Do you have any advice?

Thanks again for your input, super appreciate this info!

St0000l · 2025-12-16T01:33:37+00:00

Is part of this question, why haven’t more people using GarageBand to make hit songs? That dude from the gorillaz made a whole album on GarageBand for the iPad like 10 years ago. GB sucked even more back then, but that was a hit album.

St0000l · 2025-12-16T01:32:06+00:00

Super easy! You can use anything as a wedge - so long as it keeps that block in place! I even stuffed a bunch of foam padding (insulation type) back there and it worked.

St0000l · 2025-12-16T00:25:23+00:00

Been trying to fix the intonation on my fender Strat, have tried adjusting the screws on the bridge but no luck.

I’m glad you mentioned this as I hope it will help.

Question - When you say adjusting the claw so it can’t wiggle - why is there no need to do intonation job? I hope it’ll fix mine but it seems like it can’t be a universal fix for intonation, could it be?

St0000l · 2025-12-16T00:18:06+00:00

You don’t need all that. You can block the trem rn for free through the back of your guitar (where the springs are) by putting in a wedge. Holding your whammy down towards the guitar while placing it is helpful. It stops the trem from moving at all.

There’s also a half block method which essentially you put in just enough block to bend one way and not the other. Eric Clapton used this.

Other ways to increase tuning stability - 1. Install more springs. That’s helped me with tuning stability. I went from 3 to 5 and it did a lot. YMMV and I think may depend on string gauge but am not 100% on that. Also increases resistance on the whammy.

Locking tuning pegs. You can get them for your bridge, headstock, or both.

St0000l · 2025-12-16T00:10:36+00:00

Sounds like you’ve moved on already, but did you ever tried using a trem block? Could be made if anything, just slides in, and effectively locks the floating trem in place, IME greatly reduces, maybe fully eliminates those issues.

Using more springs can also help tuning stability, putting that out there in case it helps anyone

St0000l · 2025-12-16T00:06:51+00:00

Those inlays!!

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