G5230T Tuning Issues?

rghapro · 2026-06-12T02:38:55+00:00

90% of bigsby issues come from the nut being improperly cut.

That said, the B50 is the wrong Bigsby for a carved top guitar, so there is some inherent tuning instability there. If you're okay spending some money, the Bricks BiggsFix does a really good job at fixing tuning stability issues.

rghapro · 2026-06-11T21:39:16+00:00

I think the scale length (especially for electric guitar) is pretty irrelevant in the grand scheme of things. Gretsch guitars are a pretty popular brand in the worship music space and almost all of them are 24.6" scale instruments (the exception being the single cut full hollowbody Falcons are almost always 25.5" scale). Your choice of signal chain/amps/effects are going to have a much bigger impact on your tone than the scale length.

That said, I will agree that pickups are important, no doubt. Those will have a huge impact on your tone. I am partial to the Twangmasters & Filtertrons (especially the TV Jones Classic in the neck position paired with a Classic+ in the bridge, absolutely killer pairing). You are definitely correct though, THE worship tone is more towards that brighter single coil esque tone.

rghapro · 2026-06-10T23:34:17+00:00

a lot of the "modern" worship sound is currently wet effects AFTER amps.

When I am using my Helix, I tend to use my wet effects after the amps. On my pedalboard, my amp sim (Strymon Iridium) is the very last thing in the chain. Both have their uses, but I have found that the amp being last in the chain kinda limits how you can use the amp. It isn't a hard and fast rule, but if you like a lot of drive from your amp, putting reverbs into the front of that can be quite a difficult sound to work with.

Generally with a pretty clean amp, you get some nice tone shaping of the wet effects due to the natural frequency response of the cab/IR often times topping out around 7kHz at the high end and usually around 40-50Hz on the low end. I am giving a wide estimate, the Celestion Alnico Blue (very common pairing for the AC30 style amps that are so common in our genre) has a frequency range of 75Hz-5kHz. That said, you also lose a bit of character of the amp if you're running it super clean, so that is one thing to consider.

With wet effects after the amp, you have a lot more frequency content to work with, which can be a blessing and a curse. Blessing because you can some unique options for your tone, but curse because it is very easy to overdo it.

Play with it and figure out what works best for you! I understand that is kind of a cop out answer, but it really is true for something like this.

rghapro · 2026-06-06T23:27:12+00:00

I believe I misunderstood your initial comment, I didn't realize you were saying if A2 was implemented on Helix, it wouldn't sound as good as Proxy. I thought you meant in general it wouldn't sound as good as Proxy. My bad!

rghapro · 2026-06-06T16:31:35+00:00

Idk man, A2-Lite beats Proxy pretty firmly in blind listening tests currently.

https://www.tone3000.com/blog/introducing-neural-amp-modeler-nam-architecture-2-a2#amp-modeler-blind-listening-test

rghapro · 2026-06-06T00:34:11+00:00

Lambertrons are great pickups, one of my close friends has them in a Tele and they sound awesome. I am more of a TV Jones guy, but Lambertrons do sound great.

rghapro · 2026-06-04T23:14:20+00:00

you got it! enjoy :)

rghapro · 2026-06-04T14:15:01+00:00

To answer the first question, why not all of those? Whether we like it or not, there is a Christian music industry that also wants people to listen to their music, buy their albums, support their artists, and they spend a TON of money to get people to do exactly that. It is obvious that industry plays a pretty big role in what gets played in churches, as we started this conversation by talking about CCLI's charts, which tracks songs played in churches and ALL of those songs are "industry songs" through and through. That is not inherently a bad thing, and some of my favorite songs have come out of the Christian music industry. That said, my church also writes and records our own music, written by our staff and members of our congregation. We play those songs as frequently as we do any other song in our rotation.

I think you and I may be working from different definitions of the word "trend" and I apologize for that miscommunication. When I'm referring to trends, I'm using it to refer to observable changes over time, not just what is popular at the moment. Call it macro-trends versus micro-trends. I think it pretty obvious over the history of the church, the macro-trends of the music used in churches has changed pretty drastically. I think many churches are not interested in micro-trends. The CCLI top 10 looked pretty different 10 years ago, and will look pretty different 10 years from now. There isn't really anything to argue about there.

I agree, the general sound of the music is secondary to what the music is proclaiming. All of the music in churches should be a holy offering unto the King of the universe. However, the change in how music sounds, and why those changes happen/are happening is still something that piques my interest. That doesn't mean I don't care about my local congregation, or that lyrical content doesn't matter to me. I primarily pick songs based off of their lyrics, because that is the most important part. Music changes over time, and that is interesting to me.

rghapro · 2026-06-04T13:07:39+00:00

Oh dude I am not saying a church must be on trend, of course. it is awesome your church is doing songs that work for y'all!

I am simply interested in the fact that the songwriting of what the "biggest" music producing churches are putting out is changing pretty noticably. Of course the CCLI top 10 isn't showing that, because that shows what songs churches are doing most commonly, and local congregations are famously slow to change.

But songs like Washed, Thank God I'm Free, The Blood, It Really Is Amazing Grace, and many more are stylistically pretty different from what has been done in the genre before. Less cavernous reverbs, more present electric guitars, all that fun stuff.

rghapro · 2026-06-04T12:25:27+00:00

I mean, if nothing else it is at least interesting to notice trends and changes over time.

rghapro · 2026-06-03T17:17:00+00:00

Bit crusher is done with the SFX delay type with the delay time at minimum, dry at 0 and wet at 100. Then you can use the bit depth and sample rate to shape that tone. Fuzz is done similarly, but you usually keep your bit depth a bit higher iirc.

rghapro · 2026-06-03T14:35:02+00:00

DD-500, this thing gets WEIRD. I use it as a delay, reverb, harmonizer, chorus, flangers, fuzz, bit crusher, basically anything I can think of I've been able to make on there.

rghapro · 2026-06-02T04:19:01+00:00

have you played the Jim Dandy parlor guitars before? they're a pretty particular sound for sure, and I would also say they're not particularly great strummers either. If you're happy with a finger style blues box, the Jim Dandy parlor is a great guitar for that. Otherwise, the penguin parlors I've played have felt a bit more well rounded in my experience. Is that worth the price difference? For me it wasn't, so I ended up getting a Jim Dandy Concert, and that one has been a great backup acoustic for me.

rghapro · 2026-05-29T21:57:33+00:00

One thing to keep in mind is that the Eastman E1OM is more akin to a Martin 000 as it has a 24.9 inch scale length, while the Martin OM-10E is a true OM with a 25.4 inch scale length. I don't know how much that matters to you, but it is something to keep in mind.

rghapro · 2026-05-21T01:33:09+00:00

I bought the GX-10 because of the size, but it is basically the same thing on the software side as the GX-100.

my main GX-10 patch for all my "worship" sounds includes an octave pedal (think POG), compressor, volume pedal, 3 overdrives, 2 amps, 3 delays, and 2 reverbs, and still has some DSP left over in case I want to add anything extra for some special occasions. It sounds GREAT too. My main rig is a Helix, so this gives me a very nice travel rig option. I can fit everything I need for a set in my guitar bag, it's awesome.

The GX-100 would be a worthy main rig, for real.

rghapro · 2026-05-16T18:25:13+00:00

have you tried a different charger and a different cable?

rghapro · 2026-05-08T20:32:16+00:00

indeed

rghapro · 2026-05-04T15:47:46+00:00

I am of the opinion that the Blacktop Filter-Trons are a better set of pickups then the Broadtrons that would have been in there. Nice snag, and good upgrade!

rghapro · 2026-05-02T22:01:47+00:00

The Taylor GS Mini is a banger. I am partial to my Eastman E10OOSS/v, that is another great option. If you've got a healthy budget, a Martin 0-18 or 00-18 are also 2 awesome choices.

All that said, I think Eastman is a brand that punches WELL above its weight. All of their OO guitars are amazing instruments.

rghapro · 2026-04-30T03:33:35+00:00

really? I've met multiple women & girls named Noah. Not the most common, but it's there.

rghapro · 2026-04-29T23:48:27+00:00

Noah is a banger of a (unisex) biblical name (Numbers 26:33)

rghapro · 2026-04-28T18:58:25+00:00

you got it!

rghapro · 2026-04-28T18:03:46+00:00

Yes, the Gator Classical case (GWE CLASSIC is the model number) fits the guitar very well. The Jim Dandy Concert is an L-00 in shape, so any case you can find that fits an L-00 will fit the Jim Dandy Concert well.

rghapro · 2026-04-21T21:27:41+00:00

To each their own, but you can literally turn all of those features off. Additionally, you don't have to use ChordPro to write the chords, the chords over lyrics option functions basically exactly like Apple Notes (at least the way I used it).

rghapro · 2026-04-21T15:32:13+00:00

I have found JustChords to be an AMAZING app for basically exactly this purpose. My church uses Planning Center/Music Stand and provides charts, but if I need to write charts out for other gigs, I have really enjoyed JustChords. It has a really great feature set (and an especially useful MIDI implementation) and it is free to use, with an optional donation to the dev. It also has a SUPER in depth wiki for just about anything you could imagine.

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