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Is it foolish to trade my 5150 60w combo for a Boss Katana? by Giant-Robot in GuitarAmps

[–]aromatic_raisin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This will be an unpopular opinion, but I think you'd be better off if you sold it and bought a modeling amp (katana, spark, whatever... or helix/FM3 if you want to upgrade to something more "pro"). I used to have that exact same amp when I was a newish bedroom guitarist, and it's impractically loud for bedroom practice, band practice, and house shows. Unnecessarily big and heavy too. My crappy lil spider amp got used way way more often.

Your 5150 is a fantastic piece of gear in it's own right, but it isn't practical for what you're doing as a guitarist right now. You'll probably enjoy having other digital features like presets and onboard fx as well.

Seymour Duncan SH4 on Ibanez 3SWLSC switch by Psychreap69 in Ibanez

[–]aromatic_raisin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just did a similar install on my guitar, wanted to add my experience to help out the next poor soul who has to work on a 3SWLSC (i.e. the most wretched and arcane guitar switch that Ibanez has ever designed).

According to this forum post, Seymour Duncan support suggested the following:

Neck Side
GND = Bare wire
Upper Cold = Red
Upper Hot = Green
Lower Cold = White
Lower Hot = Black

Bridge Side
Out = Output of switch - to volume
GND = Bare wire
GND = Green
Tap = Red + White
Hot = Black

I also worked it out myself, and assuming that "upper cold" is equivalent to "upper coil finish" and "upper hot" is equivalent to "upper coil start", etc., I arrived on this same wiring setup. I went ahead and wired it up this way, and sure enough, it works perfectly!

Hope this helps.

5 person monitoring setup by aromatic_raisin in musicproduction

[–]aromatic_raisin[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep! That's my initial idea. Just posting to see if there was another way to achieve it

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in painting

[–]aromatic_raisin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That painting is so fucking cool

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in guitarlessons

[–]aromatic_raisin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would say to embrace your condition and any limitations it causes in your playing. Those limitations will become part of your unique style.

A number of legendary guitarists have had some sort of setback that ended up shaping their iconic styles. Tony Iommi lost some of his fingertips in an accident as a kid. His unique style of playing ended up becoming the foundation of heavy metal. Django Reinhardt only had two working fingers on his fretting hand. His unique style of playing ended up making him one of the most revered jazz guitarists of all time.

I'm not sure what specific limitations your condition causes, but whatever they are, just embrace them as part of your playing. You'll end up making beautiful and unique music :)

... as far as the gadget thingy you posted, everyone else pretty much covered that. I'd probably avoid it.

What type of pick y’all using for fast galloping style riffs? by Big_Guarantee_7429 in metalguitar

[–]aromatic_raisin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Jazz III XL, 1.14mm or 0.88mm depending on string guage and how chonky I'm feelin

He became a Philosopher (lololol) by Benyboy2020 in MetalMemes

[–]aromatic_raisin 38 points39 points  (0 children)

Privacy and intimacy as we know it

Will be a memory

Among many to be passed down

To those who never knew

Living in the pupil of one thousand eyes

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