cheddatom

Oh yeh, that's the sh*t.

real tits become cyber tits once you take a pic and post it on a message board.

[quote name='mr.sibs' post='235836' date='Jul 9 2008, 04:16 PM']great that looks like the badger, many thanks cheddatom[/quote] No problem, now show us your tits!

The diago site doesn't mention a 12V adaptor. Godlyke seem to do what you need: [url="http://www.godlyke.com/shopping/pgm-more_information.php?id=135&thiscat=50&frompage=Online_Store&page_num=1&=SID"]godlyke adaptor[/url]

I can't see any screws going into the tuning heads! To be fair, it's at home, and i'm at work so.... Strings have got to be a cheaper gamble than tuning heads. Ta for the advice!

Get a pedal board with a 4 gang strip on it. That way you only have to carry your board, not a load of pedals and power connectors - however many PSUs you end up with.

Yeh Tanuki - what your customer switcher/level thingy whatsit?

[quote name='chris_b' post='235745' date='Jul 9 2008, 02:41 PM']Don't knock the 80's revivals. In 20 years time what will they be able to revive from today?[/quote] In 20 years time I hope music will have moved on from crappy attempts at making old sounds new. I have nothing against takng an old song and applying a different/modern twist. What I absolutely abhor is the way bands have taken the "style" (read fashion sense, music production style/sound etc) of the 80s and shamelessly recreated it. Everyone agreed, at least by 1995 that the 80s was the worse ever decade for style. Only 10 years after that blissfulll consensus and I start to see and hear it creep back! Why does everyone have to be so self loathing? We can make progress if we want to!!!

I don't give a toss about MK but one thing I do know is that I am absolutely sick of hearing about how great the 80s were. All this 80s revival sh*t going on at the moment is making me ill with stress.

Bump for the pics. Is this just really shameless?

Replace the tuning heads?!? I'm beginning to panic now! I'll have to try those fender strings. I don't mind f*cking about with electronics, but there's something a bit scary about taking apart such a nice guitar.

The have a tube with a hole in, and a pole with a hole in inside. When you turn the screw knobs on the back, either the pole moves up or the tube moves down to clamp onto the strings. The holes are the same size, so I could drill them both at the same time. Would it be safer to take them off before drilling? I've never done that much work on a guitar!

There must be a guide on the net somewhere - maybe even youtube? My advice is to wind down the tuning head for the thinnest string, and take it off, then put the equivalent back on by threading it through the bridge. Copy the winding on the other tuning heads so you know which way to bend it around the tuning head. Pop it through the hole, and bend a right angle the other side of the hole. Wind the string up until it's in tune. Do the same for the rest. This is my technique, I don't know if it's crap or not.

I suppose this "small ball end" thing will become apparent when I actually get to buy some? They don't have any links to UK dealers on the fender website! How crap.

The yamaha says my guitar is 26.25" scale, and the fender site says "Fits most 27" to 29" scale length baritone guitars". Do you think that'd be allright? I can't find anything about small ball ended strings.

£90 off ebay! It's got a few scratches, that's a stock pic up there. If no-one reckons I should drill them, I will try the fender brand strings, but I would have thought the tuners on a fender VI would have been special?

I have a Yamaha AES820-D6 that I want to tune very low. The strings that were on it when I got it were too thin for my liking, but when I tried to put thicker baritone guitar strings on, they wouldn't fit through the hole in the tuning head! I had to get a bass string 'cos they're thin at the end, and tie it behin the body because it was too long! This is working for now, but i'd like to have flexibility. Can I just drill the holes to make them bigger? The back of the headstock showing the weird tuning heads: The beautiful looking guitar:

[quote name='Sarah5string' post='235081' date='Jul 8 2008, 04:45 PM']How exactly do you not think about what you're playing though?[/quote] If you know something "off by heart" then it's stored in your subconscious somewhere. You can start off playing, and then not "think" about what you're playing. For example, lots of people play infront of the TV, and don't actually listen to what they're playing, but still play perfectly. To what extent this is acheivable is something i'm not aware of, and I'd say I am naturally skeptical about things like this. Another more common example, is where someone cannot remember a bass line that they know. However, when they start playing the song, it "comes back to them" and they play it perfectly. Whether or not they're actually thinking about what they're doing......... It's pretty pointless to play without listening to yourself IMHO. It's just i've seen the phrase "finger memory" around quite a bit, and I don't like the way people misinterpret it (if it has a real meaning?). I'm no expert.

Being able to play something without thinking about it is not the same as your fingers being able to remember something (which just doesn't happen).

[quote name='Jamesemt' post='235006' date='Jul 8 2008, 02:52 PM']Thanks for all the replies. I've got it sorted - if you right click on each part of the kit in Hydrogen you can solo that one part (ie snare, kick etc), then just export the song. Sounds like a faffing around, but only took me about five minutes to export the full kit onto seperate wavs...[/quote] That's fair enough, but it means that you can't change anything in the drum part now (unless you fancy cutting and swapping bits about). Maybe you should seek a better solution in the future that enables you to constantly change the drum part, as well as your other audio tracks.

A stool would be better I think, but get one with a back! I practice on the settee at home. For some reason if I play acoustic guitar/bass here, I get very bad cramp in my left hand. If I stand up - no problem. If I play electric (thinner) sitting down on the settee, again no problem. Weird!

The problem for him with this approach is that he may have no decent drum sounds in his soundcard. The midi data is there, and is useful, but you need some decent drum sounds to drive using the midi file, and AFAIK most soundcards come with sh*t drum sounds and/or you just get your standard crappy windows ones.