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I wouldn't worry too much about whether a guitar has a tremolo arm or not for your first guitar (strictly speaking, it's a vibrato system, not a tremolo). Trems can cause issues with guitars staying in tune - not always, but some times. i notice that the Schecter has a rosewood fretboard and a graphite nut. Some people prefer the look of rosewood (and, if they are to believed the sound) and a graphite nut would be good for tuning as the strings are less likely to get stuck. It's all going to be down to personal preference - how the guitar feels. I've never played Schecter, but I do own two Ibanez and they are both very good quality and I like the feel of them.

Thanks a lot for your help. I will look for a Yamaha for my 2nd guitar as Yamaha's agent ( @ezbass ) said they are all good.

i know this post is very old and the op is probably long gone but i had a very poor condition cheap accoustic guitar for 40 odd years and i was a very poor player, id pick it up and it had several faults and when i tried to play, it didnt sound very good. a combination of guitar and my technique so i lost interest quickly but would pick it up once every couple of months or so. then a year ago i discovered a long time pal played guitar and asked him if it was worth buying a new guitar despite me being a terrible player ie 4 or 5 chords and fingers deadening other strings by accident etc. . he said just buy a second hand one for around £100 then your not really throwing much away. i bought one and it sounded nice, much better than my old one and i made the decision to play or practice a bit more often and discovered youtube is full of free tutorials/lessons and was invaluable for showing me how to try and play my favourite songs and improve my technique.. i went round to a pals house to jam last weekend and he has 4 or 5 expensive guitars and i quickly found he is a worse player than me and he asked why i havent bought a decent guitar and i said im just trying to match my skill level kind of thing. in the same way you dont have to be a formula 1 driver to buy a ferrari but if you cant drive a ferrari is wasted on you. so an expensive guitar would be wasted on you. but a decent one might just inspire you to want to learn to play a bit more. a lot of chinese stuff in other areas is getting better quality so who knows your chinese guitars might be better than a decent guitar. i bought one with wider spaced strings and even just over a mm more gap between strings made it easier for me to not sound so bad. i'd been blaming my fat fingers but realised it was only 5% fat fingers and 95% poor technique. play minimum 15 mins a day i was told and ive trie to do that. you will become a better player. once a month or so. no chance.

Hi all If anyone has any experience with these amps it would be very much appreciated. I have after watching two videos on YouTube decided that I want a Vox valvetronix amp for home use. https://youtu.be/aC0lpwAAMlQ?si=WEdmH-BEqfmdUVOu (Andertons blind test modeling amp shootout) https://youtu.be/ffdoMiF75_w?si=W5HzFF7wKW6n6JUa (EytschPi42 review) The VT40x is available with Thomann at circa €260 I decided to look on local used websites here in Ireland (adverts.ie, donedeal, Facebook marketplace etc) and have come across what could be a few bargains, which I will list below 1) Vox AD50VT (11 amp models) for €140 (asking) 2) Vox AD100VT with dual 12 inch speakers for €200 (asking) 3) Vox Vt100x (now discontinued big brother of VT40x I'm looking at) for €320 (asking) All are in good condition from what I can see and youtube videos and reviews all look good. The AD50VT is particularly tempting as its only 30 mins away from me for collection and if I was lucky (and cheeky!) I might even grab it for nearer to €100. Is it worth my time going for the older technology or have the newer models been updated significantly, thus sounding alot better? The Andertons blind test highlighted the amp for me and the review from EytschPi pretty much sold it. Any thoughts and opinions are most welcome! Thanks!

I woke up this morning and annoyingly, it’s not doing it! It was quite bad last night. We had the heating on most of the day yesterday, but it’s quite cold this morning. I’m wondering if the temp changes have something to do with it. It’s an electric. I’ll try to get a video uploaded when it starts doing it again. Thanks both for your replies so far.

Thanks! I think the piece of cloth solution wouldn’t even be necessary, it’s that minimal. Good to know its probably nothing to fret about (heheh).

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Checking frets with with a fret rocker would be the second thing to do after checking the neck relief and string height.

Firstly (Good evening...), are we talking acoustic or electric guitar..? Any chance of a recording (a video with a 'phone should be enough, if it picks it up...), which would help enormously. Over to you...

Hi, I’ve got a relatively new guitar (around 9 months old). For the last few months, I’m getting some intermittent fret buzz/choking on certain notes/frets. It’s usually either B or E notes (mostly B). So when I get the buzz, I will experience it across the entire neck on every B note. So I’ll get it at the 9th fret on the D, 4th fret on the G, 12th fret on the B etc. It doesn’t sound like your standard fret buzz. It sounds like some minor fret buzz + a harmonic. For example, when you play the B note on the 4th fret of the G, you can almost hear the same note the octave above. It sounds like I’m using an octave pedal. This happens on and off. Some days, I don’t experience this problem at all. Anybody have an idea what’s going on and how to fix it?

If, as you say, it's minimal, I wouldn't worry about it at all. There are many guitars (even acoustics...) that are not symmetrically balanced anyway, so even if the wall mount was 'plumb', the weight could well be offset. I've never heard of a guitar neck being affected by being hung this way; they are pretty solidly constructed. If it's only an aesthetic thing, I'd leave it alone. It would be possible to redress things a little, without taking the wall mount down, by winding a piece of cloth onto one side of the mount, as packing, to have the guitar 'plumb'; I'd surely not bother. Hope this helps.

I have a Konig & Meyer wall mount for my guitar, and usually uave a Western guitar hanging in it. However, one thing that’s always bugged me a bit is that the way it’s mounted onto the wall doesn’t seem to be 100% level - the deviation is minimal, but it makes me wonder how strict we’re expected to be when attaching these things to the wall. I could imagine that, in the long run, any ‘sideways’ pull will be bad for the neck, but then again, guitars are often surprisingly resilient (and the K&M can move a bit anyway, so if there’s a serious weight imbalance one would expect that to be automatically corrected). Any opinions? Eric

Either pickup, swap the hot and earths around.

dad ive always been a tight git. i just go on ultimate guitar its free. plus ive just started learning to use fl studio which was given to me for nowt so i can make my own drum beats and backing stuff. dunno if you need to have a face book account to wacth this but here is a very short clip of my doing my best Ian mcCulloch impersonation. i was only going to put the chorus bit in and was virtually mouthing the lead up lines but decided to leave them in. ive watched youtube clips of echo and the bunnymen live and i can safely say i "p1ss" all over what he can do nowadays on the high notes. he needs to go on ultimate guitar and transpose it down a bit lol. https://www.facebook.com/alan.jackson.7731/videos/2532299470293234

Telecaster. Fender Noiseless neck pickup Suhr Classic t bridge. Out of phase when in the middle switch position. What grounding needs to change?

i dont have enough time to learn everything about playing the guitar. theres loads i am not going to try and learn unless it naturally falls into place as my technique improves and a song needs it. but so far like i say theres only 2 songs out of about 50 that cant be played with what i call open chords. im currently trying to get my fingers to do what i want them to do. eg going from an Am to a Cadd9 my little finger is very slow to move. and on sunflower the little intro was hard a week ago but now its almost easy if i leave out one note on the last bit. i practicing picking quietly even while watching tv. sometimes up to 2 hours a day. i can definitely see improvements. even over the last week. my approach has been - hear a song. think yeah lets try and play along to that and then learn to do so as accurately as possible. its been a lot of fun so far. im finding out my weaknesses and ive been trying to improve on them. not just sticking to the same open chords that ive done since the 1970's. when practicing i focus on what i cant play, instead of what i can play. when im jamming with a pal or singing to myself or missus (or neighbours through the walls) thats when i stick to playing to what i can play. im popping round to a long time pals this evening first time for a jam. is that the word? could be interesting. i think im going to surprise myself at how crap i really am lol and might see what other areas i need to brush up on.

As Dad says, it has to be playable and comfortable for your hands and body, whichever feels best should be the one you buy. However, that said, don’t overlook the visual appeal. The more you play, the better you’ll become, so having something you want to pick up and play, because of the way it looks, as well as the ergonomics, is also important.

got it, Thanks so much for your reply. no worries it's been almost 1 month since I'm searching for best guitar that suits me so I'm not in a rush. Also the shop has a Variety of guitars but the GRG was the one I was looking for and C-6 was the one they suggested for a beginner. I will certainly go there and try them out to see which is more comfortable for me.

It's difficult to answer this, all the more so as it's your first guitar. I'd start off by suggesting that there's no real point in comparing the 'sound' of any guitar in this range; they are all good, and capable of producing quality 'tone', in many genres, once one knows how and what to play (plus pedals, amps, modelling etc...). So, listen to them, certainly, but that's not the important factor, really. What counts far more is how it feels and appeals to you. Is it comfortable (sitting and standing...)..? Do the controls seem easy to understand and use..? Does the neck feel good, when forming chords, or trying out solo runs or riffs..? Does it feel 'balanced' (you shouldn't have to hold the neck up with the fretting arm if it's got a decent strap on...). Look at the price, factoring in a hard case, or, at a minimum, a decent gig bag. If they have any other guitars in stock, take the time to give them all a decent try-out, too; it would be odd that they only have these two guitars on hand. Which one feels best, to you, whatever the shop folk say..? Ideally, give yourself a few days to reflect, and go back once you've decided; don't feel rushed to take one home that day (Yes, I know that that's a very difficult urge to resist..!). You can get just about any sound you want out of any guitars there, so it's a factor, but not the principle one. Hope this helps; let us know how it goes, maybe..?

Hey guys hope y'all doing well, Schecter C-6 Plus VS Ibanez GRG170DX. which should I go with, this is my first guitar and I'm not sure which to go with. my local shop called me to go test schecter C-6 (they didn't have GRG170) to see if I like it or not, but I'm not the best at knowing if a guitar sound is better than the other one. The schecter has a fixed (Tune-O-Matic thru body) while GRG provides T102 tremolo.(Daddy told me to not care about a tremolo since u can always stick with a pedal.) what do you think, should I get the Schecter C-6 Plus or should I Stay with Ibanez GRG170DX.