Personalizing your guitar to where you've discovered it responds to your dynamics is gratifying in so many ways. The guitar becomes more like a part of you. Hard to explain, but it is very much like the guitar is an old friend. 😎👍❤ Thanks again for sharing with us.
bonjour dave je suis francais je regarde toute tes vidéos malgrés mon anglais approximatif je trouve que tu es personne merveilleuse et que tu dégage énormément d énergie et de force dans ta musique.je te remercie pour tes videos et te souhaite tout le meilleur pour les mois a venir...ciao
How did I ever manage without your channel? (would have saved me buying a telly!). Hope you're well and all is good. Thank you again, you have a wonderful soul, sharing as you do.
Well that was really very interesting. Basically your preferred setup is the condition everyone else's guitar is in when they bring it to a luthier to be "fixed" :) Love how personalized and unique your setup is. But that would drive me crazy (other than the trem). Thanks for another very interesting and entertaining video.
I set my guitars the same in every way you described. Except my Epiphone Casino, I have the string height very high so it sounds really clear when played acoustically. It sound great amplified as well. Really low pups allow for better sustain as the magnets do not effect the strings so much, so they can vibrate longer.
Greetings from Liverpool. I have an Ibanez JS with a floating term, absolute hell on earth so I blocked it now it’s great. Working on my tomman strat kit, my daughter is a very good artist so she’s going to paint a design after I’ve Donne the base coat. Sort of “Hendrix stays up all night painting his guitar”type thing Take care and keep on rockin Steve
Hey. Exactly the same setup for me too. Except I 'embrace the fret out' and have the D and G lower than all the other strings. This plays super smooth up to the 12th fret where it gets plinky. I have found that if I just relax my attack and come over the G, D, E for bends I can get a good strangled cat tone lol. Up past 14th fret is 'waste of time'. I settled on this after years off fighting high action on vintage radius boards and after realizing the number of notes I play past the 12th fret is bugger all in the scope of things! If I could be bothered I'd flatten out the frets higher up the board but to be fair they get that way after being played in anyway ..
You should do a quick video on intonation, neck relief etc. Just because I don't trust anyone else on RUclips and you said to learn how to setup my guitar myself. Please teach me haha
You know what. Scratch that. I found a decent vid and I'd rather not waste your time with this stuff when you could be putting it towards more JF vids ;)
Great vid Dave,there are no rights or wrongs when it comes to guitar set ups.We've all got our preferences and if it feels good,that's it! Take care mate.
I like the strings on my Telecaster '72 Deluxe the same way, through B to B. I'm tuned Drop BEADGB, you see. I have the neck nearly straight with a slight [noticeable by eye if looked say, from down the nut] concave/relief. If I had the neck at a Convex I'd be getting way too much string buzz with the gauge strings I use, 62, 52, 42, 30w, 17 13, & I like the action to be as low as possible albeit with an upward angle like you mentioned. I've had a few mates whom play guitar say my setup is all weird, but it's user friendly for me, intonation is spot on, all is lovely. :)
On most of my Strats I set the low E side of the single coils to spec but on the high E side I set them a tiny bit lower than spec. They are noticeably clearer sounding 👍
Hey I've found the video!!!, very interesting, specially how high you have your high E string. greatings from Mallorca again and keep on rockin' in the free world!! ;)
Hi Dave. It would be great if you could do some videos on the hendrix clean stuff you play so well. I have been trying to master that technique for years but can't quite get it right. cheers for all the great vids. :)
Hi Dave, It's always worth paying attention to the ways guitarist you admire set up their instrument. What got you started raising the G B and E strings? I would have loved to see how you have the saddles are set to compensate for the extra stretch in that high E. Have you ever had a guitar that you liked but didn't love - until you raised or lowered the tuning half a step? Great Videos - keep up the great work.
In all honesty i don't remember to well as i've been doing it for such a long time. I think i started doing it because i play with the flats of my fingers a lot and not the tips and having the strings higher makes it easier to bend and to grab hold of. I would love to try a scalloped neck but not living near any guitar shop thats not going to happen anytime soon. :( I have indeed but i love the guitar regardless. :) I have a Strat from the 80s that sounds great in standard tuning but if you lower it a full step and the whole guitar seems to come alive. Sounds so cool. :) Thank you so very much and i shall always do my best. :)
I spy a Letur-lefr poster 🙃 Cool set up! I have a mexi strat set up very similarly. They are fun super guitars. Play on 🤘 Oh! I noticed the finish on the strat, do you still have that finish currently?
Awesome Dave! Being that one metal guy here, I disagree with everything you said ;D Love your video's man! :) Also if I had my pickups that low, I'd be scared of them falling into the cavity! But I will try it because you said it :D
HI..I like your channel..imo your strat action is way high..I would have a hard time playing it...ive alwys kept it as low as possible..but everyones different..for a low cost setup,,i was impressed with your rory tones,,sounde great..keep it up Dave..Thanks again.....DH
Gonna say, when it comes to tremolos, I have a Bigsby on my SG, but I stick a couple of extra washers under the spring and an extra washer above the spring because then it lifts it up and you effectively get similar range to a Strat, but whilst having the advantage of being able to pull up on the tremolo as well, and because it's a much stiffer tremolo, it doesn't go out of tune when you bend a string, so it's best of both worlds really. I actually have locking tuners on mine as well so it doesn't usually go out of tune unless I'm properly going for it. I know this is a bit of a long paragraph, but I thought I'd mention it.
Hey Dave I just found you after watching your video on why you like solid state amps which I agree with. Wondering if you have a favorite ss amp? Also, would love to see a video on what effects you use if any. I am especially interested in boosts you might use..:-)
I have 2 favorite SS amps. One is the Marshall MG100 HDFX and the other is the Orange CR120. There just the ones. I have a video on my channel where i go through my pedal board. :)
I'll have to check it out.. I like to have my amp on a channel that just breaks up, then use an over drive or boost.. So I thought I'd check out what you use. Thanks my friend and cheers from Indiana, USA.
Hi again Dave , have you tried flat wound /jazz strings in your Strat ? I have just junk the low E for the A and move them all up , or is it down...depending on the string gauge you end up with a set of 9,42's ...I just use a regular hi E , great fun...and very expensive if you snap a flat wound string...ooops
Hi again Dave, You say you try to make all guitars as close as your strat (which is wonderful I must say) but that brings up a dilema I've been debating for some time: We all have a guitar or a type of guitar that we prefer in terms of sound / playability / feeling but doesnt this limit the sonic possibilities for us? maybe a discussion video on comfort zone in terms of guitars and even playing? just throwing around suggestions, keep up the awesome work :)
I know what you mean and that would make for an interesting video that i shall have to get round to at somepoint. Thank you for the idea. :) And thank you for watching and i shall do my best to keep it up. : )
I watch your videos at half speed. First, because I can better understand what you're saying. And second, because I want your videos to last longer :0P
Dave, any chance you could give a measurement of low and high e strings off the 12th fret? Should be enough to go off of to try your cool string height setup
Thank you very much indeed. I've played a few teles like that. I've never owned one though but they are great guitars. I'm not sure if i ever did a review on one but they are worth trying out. Thank you again. :)
Do you use dryer sheets in your guitar cases? Or you can just touch the metal parts. I can't believe how quiet the buzz got from it on my jag. It's amazing what static electricity will do to the single coils. Buzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz be gone!
Hey Dave, been wondering when you set up the height of your pickups (2mm on the bass side and 2 1/2 mm on the treble side) do you measure that distance from the pole piece to your string or is it just the actual height of pole? Thanks Dave, love your vids.
Yes, Set Up Your Guitar How YOU Want It. Not How The Book Or Tech Says. I Also Like Action A Bit Higher Than Normal. Lowering PU's Help Sustain, The Magnets Stop It From That. GREAT Video. Rock On, Mutha !!!
How do you stop pickups angling slightly my bridge on the Bass side slightly angled a tiny bit how do you stop it. Also is it normal for your scratch plate to lift up a bit. Mine slightly does that under the neck pickup.
Wow thats so interesting... what made you angle the strings that way, like how did you discover it. Did you buy a guitar setup "wrong" like that and just love it? Always cool to see peoples unique setups :)
I honestly don't remember how i came upon my setup being this way. Haha. I've been doing it this way for such a long time i don't remember when i even started. Haha. I have only had my guitar setup once by a shop and they ruined it. That was what made me go. Right. I'm doing it myself from now on. Thank you for watching. : )
Have you played the new duo sonics yet? They play surprisingly nice straight out the box. I just had a jb put in my new duo sonic hs and it's gonna be my cobain mustang wanna be lol But it's technically an offset. Has a humbucker and is a hardtail. So it's basically a cobain mustang but slot cheaper for me (I live in the states) haha
3:35 Is the 'nought' end the headstock? You British blokes and your faulty English - hmm, oh wait a minute, you invented English ... my mistake , carry on! Haha , just fooling around ... cool videos! I've recently become attracted to the idea of a white-ish Strat (specifically a 'Deluxe Roadhouse Stratocaster - Sonic Blue' with this interesting 6 position rotary knob instead of the middle tone knob turned on by a pre-amp button inside the main volume knob! .. ok maybe a bit off-white blueish with a white sparkly pickguard area). Interesting that you mention a slight curve to the necks. I find that perhaps some people are too obsessive about trying to get their necks perfectly flat. I tend to use 10-46 strings (rotosounds) on my electrics and with high action (great for bending and even doing vibrato at the top of bends ... action too low makes strings want to slip under my fingers on bends ... I think sometimes people are obsessive about getting low action but if they truly like that for fast shredding on thinner strings then more power to them - but if poeple just assme low action is the most proper thing, then maybe they are just going along with what they've heard). I remember bringing my blue flame/quilt-top Godin SDxt into a shop during a time of low funds to try to sell it and upon looking at it the guy just blurted ... "this action is shit" ~ oh well, I'm so glad I didn't sell it and I still have it and his opinion was crap as far as I'm concerned! Anyway, keep on making the interesting vids!
Autocorrect will some day cause a giant nuclear war ... based upon a misundestood message from a General at the NORAD undegound complex to his wife about 'what's for dinner' ... so sad that the endless ages of human civilization should end this way... perhaps if there was only Kraft Dinner that night , the world might have continued far longer!
How does anyone not have relief in their necks? Guitar strings vibrate and need that relief in order to not bounce off the frets and cause buzz. Otherwise, you'd need super high action to combat the buzz.
Hello Dave, is there one particular reason for you set the springs in this "parallel" shape instead of standard triangle? Are there some particular differences?
very interesting :) it was after noticingyou had super low pickups, i lowered the ones on my ratocaster and the guitar became a lot more flutey and lively :)
Thats a great thumbnail! ;p Thanks for the info, have you ever tried adjusting pickup height on cheapo guitars?(like a 200 euro squier) If so whats your experience with it? Btw thats a cool poster painting thingy in the back there
Haha. Thank you. I have tried messing about with cheap pick-ups and i always end up having them really low just like my fenders. I do have one or two guitars with high pickups but thats it. Theres just something about the sound when there low thats appeals to me. : )
Hey Dave my friend , hope you are doing ok ....i was wondering if you have ever listened to Perry Frank or Andy Othling ...they play ambient guitar , really beautiful stuff ,check out there youtube channels ... with your skills on guitar and the feel and emotion you put into your playing i would love to know what you think of them and wether you would ever play that style...i think you could compose something really special :)
I do indeed. I just found thats the way that works best for me. I've tried all positions and all different spring numbers but 3 parallel just works. :)
+Behind the times Conservative (Democrat) I used 13s for years and then started having pains in my fingers. im down to 10s now and dont hear a damn difference. its all ago.
Dave put some duncan antiquity surfs in your strat and be blown away. I put them in my mexican 60s strat and it sounds better than any custom shop ive played
Hey, do you want to do some writing? I have a few songs, and I'm curious as to what you'd do with the song. I can send you a song and you can listen to see if it's something you're up for.
Does anyone really play with a neck flat? they are supposed to have releif to allow the string to vibrate properly, the most displacement of a vibrsting string is at it's center. Can you explain why you like to set ypur pickups so low?
There are people that prefer flat necks, usually sredders, but there are exceptions. BB King was known for prefering flat instead of the slightly bowed neck. People who play with a light touch can afford to have flat necks.
dave you have no idea how happy your videos make me. thank you
I am very very happy to hear that. Thank you very much. :)
mee too!!!!!!!!!
Personalizing your guitar to where you've discovered it responds to your dynamics is gratifying in so many ways.
The guitar becomes more like a part of you.
Hard to explain, but it is very much like the guitar is an old friend. 😎👍❤
Thanks again for sharing with us.
That John Frusciante poster. Lovely.
Thanks very much. :)
bonjour dave je suis francais je regarde toute tes vidéos malgrés mon anglais approximatif je trouve que tu es personne merveilleuse et que tu dégage énormément d énergie et de force dans ta musique.je te remercie pour tes videos et te souhaite tout le meilleur pour les mois a venir...ciao
How did I ever manage without your channel? (would have saved me buying a telly!). Hope you're well and all is good. Thank you again, you have a wonderful soul, sharing as you do.
Well that was really very interesting. Basically your preferred setup is the condition everyone else's guitar is in when they bring it to a luthier to be "fixed" :) Love how personalized and unique your setup is. But that would drive me crazy (other than the trem). Thanks for another very interesting and entertaining video.
Thank you very much for watching. : )
I set my guitars the same in every way you described. Except my Epiphone Casino, I have the string height very high so it sounds really clear when played acoustically. It sound great amplified as well. Really low pups allow for better sustain as the magnets do not effect the strings so much, so they can vibrate longer.
Your channel is a goldmine of information! Thanks again Dave
Thank you very much. :)
This makes me feel better about the high action on my guitars. I do need to check the relief as I still have some buzz in spots. Great videos Dave!!
Thank you very much indeed. : )
Greetings from Liverpool. I have an Ibanez JS with a floating term, absolute hell on earth so I blocked it now it’s great. Working on my tomman strat kit, my daughter is a very good artist so she’s going to paint a design after I’ve Donne the base coat. Sort of “Hendrix stays up all night painting his guitar”type thing
Take care and keep on rockin
Steve
You're awesome Dave.
:) Thank you very much. :)
Hey. Exactly the same setup for me too. Except I 'embrace the fret out' and have the D and G lower than all the other strings. This plays super smooth up to the 12th fret where it gets plinky. I have found that if I just relax my attack and come over the G, D, E for bends I can get a good strangled cat tone lol. Up past 14th fret is 'waste of time'. I settled on this after years off fighting high action on vintage radius boards and after realizing the number of notes I play past the 12th fret is bugger all in the scope of things! If I could be bothered I'd flatten out the frets higher up the board but to be fair they get that way after being played in anyway ..
You should do a quick video on intonation, neck relief etc. Just because I don't trust anyone else on RUclips and you said to learn how to setup my guitar myself. Please teach me haha
You know what. Scratch that. I found a decent vid and I'd rather not waste your time with this stuff when you could be putting it towards more JF vids ;)
:)
Another great vid Dave :) I use some of my old pickups to keep screws and allen keys together , plus old pickups are great to use like a mini hoover !
Thank you very much. :)
Great vid Dave,there are no rights or wrongs when it comes to guitar set ups.We've all got our preferences and if it feels good,that's it! Take care mate.
Indeedy. Thank you very much for watching. : )
I like the strings on my Telecaster '72 Deluxe the same way, through B to B. I'm tuned Drop BEADGB, you see. I have the neck nearly straight with a slight [noticeable by eye if looked say, from down the nut] concave/relief. If I had the neck at a Convex I'd be getting way too much string buzz with the gauge strings I use, 62, 52, 42, 30w, 17 13, & I like the action to be as low as possible albeit with an upward angle like you mentioned. I've had a few mates whom play guitar say my setup is all weird, but it's user friendly for me, intonation is spot on, all is lovely. :)
You wouldn't rather tune the G to an F# so you don't have to relearn all your chords and scales?
Super informative Dave!
On most of my Strats I set the low E side of the single coils to spec but on the high E side I set them a tiny bit lower than spec. They are noticeably clearer sounding 👍
Hey I've found the video!!!, very interesting, specially how high you have your high E string. greatings from Mallorca again and keep on rockin' in the free world!! ;)
Hi Dave. It would be great if you could do some videos on the hendrix clean stuff you play so well. I have been trying to master that technique for years but can't quite get it right. cheers for all the great vids. :)
In my 2nd lesson on how to play like John Frusciante i do cover that Hendrix esc style. Its in a playlist on my channel. Thank you very very much. :)
I’ve found JF lovers are similar people. Thanks for the videos mate. Another subscriber added
Thank you very very much indeed. : )
Hi Dave,
It's always worth paying attention to the ways guitarist you admire set up their instrument.
What got you started raising the G B and E strings?
I would have loved to see how you have the saddles are set to compensate for the extra stretch in that high E.
Have you ever had a guitar that you liked but didn't love - until you raised or lowered the tuning half a step?
Great Videos - keep up the great work.
In all honesty i don't remember to well as i've been doing it for such a long time.
I think i started doing it because i play with the flats of my fingers a lot and not the tips and having the strings higher makes it easier to bend and to grab hold of.
I would love to try a scalloped neck but not living near any guitar shop thats not going to happen anytime soon. :(
I have indeed but i love the guitar regardless. :)
I have a Strat from the 80s that sounds great in standard tuning but if you lower it a full step and the whole guitar seems to come alive. Sounds so cool. :)
Thank you so very much and i shall always do my best. :)
I spy a Letur-lefr poster 🙃
Cool set up! I have a mexi strat set up very similarly. They are fun super guitars. Play on 🤘
Oh! I noticed the finish on the strat, do you still have that finish currently?
your pickups are low but the magnets actually stick out quite high up so it makes sense that you set them like that.
Awesome Dave! Being that one metal guy here, I disagree with everything you said ;D
Love your video's man! :)
Also if I had my pickups that low, I'd be scared of them falling into the cavity!
But I will try it because you said it :D
Also I must compliment you on the thumbnail
Haha. Thank you very much. :)
keep the john love comming mate makes me happy
I shall do. :)
thanks mate
HI..I like your channel..imo your strat action is way high..I would have a hard time playing it...ive alwys kept it as low as possible..but everyones different..for a low cost setup,,i was impressed with your rory tones,,sounde great..keep it up Dave..Thanks again.....DH
Thank you very much indeed. :)
Gonna say, when it comes to tremolos, I have a Bigsby on my SG, but I stick a couple of extra washers under the spring and an extra washer above the spring because then it lifts it up and you effectively get similar range to a Strat, but whilst having the advantage of being able to pull up on the tremolo as well, and because it's a much stiffer tremolo, it doesn't go out of tune when you bend a string, so it's best of both worlds really. I actually have locking tuners on mine as well so it doesn't usually go out of tune unless I'm properly going for it. I know this is a bit of a long paragraph, but I thought I'd mention it.
Thanks for your input. :)
You should try a roller bridge too!
Great stuff dude awesome
Thank you. : )
Hey Dave I just found you after watching your video on why you like solid state amps which I agree with. Wondering if you have a favorite ss amp? Also, would love to see a video on what effects you use if any. I am especially interested in boosts you might use..:-)
I have 2 favorite SS amps. One is the Marshall MG100 HDFX and the other is the Orange CR120. There just the ones. I have a video on my channel where i go through my pedal board. :)
I'll have to check it out.. I like to have my amp on a channel that just breaks up, then use an over drive or boost.. So I thought I'd check out what you use. Thanks my friend and cheers from Indiana, USA.
Hi, Dave! My two favourite solid-state amplifier heads are: The Marshall MG100HCFX and the Orange Crush Pro CR120H too! Cheers!
Hi again Dave , have you tried flat wound /jazz strings in your Strat ? I have just junk the low E for the A and move them all up , or is it down...depending on the string gauge you end up with a set of 9,42's ...I just use a regular hi E , great fun...and very expensive if you snap a flat wound string...ooops
I haven't tried flat wounds on my strat but i don't like them. Tried then on a few other guitars a just don't get on with them. :)
Hi again Dave,
You say you try to make all guitars as close as your strat (which is wonderful I must say) but that brings up a dilema I've been debating for some time: We all have a guitar or a type of guitar that we prefer in terms of sound / playability / feeling but doesnt this limit the sonic possibilities for us? maybe a discussion video on comfort zone in terms of guitars and even playing?
just throwing around suggestions,
keep up the awesome work :)
I know what you mean and that would make for an interesting video that i shall have to get round to at somepoint. Thank you for the idea. :) And thank you for watching and i shall do my best to keep it up. : )
I watch your videos at half speed. First, because I can better understand what you're saying. And second, because I want your videos to last longer :0P
Dave, any chance you could give a measurement of low and high e strings off the 12th fret? Should be enough to go off of to try your cool string height setup
There in another video on how o setup my guitars.
@@thedavesimpson Found it, thank you!
nice vid dave just wondered if you had a telecaster 72 cumstom as iam eager to buy one just havent seen any reviews of them. cheers! great vids btw!
Thank you very much indeed. I've played a few teles like that. I've never owned one though but they are great guitars. I'm not sure if i ever did a review on one but they are worth trying out. Thank you again. :)
Really interesting, thank you! And reminded me that I should also hang some John Frusciante posters for inspiration :)
Thank you very much and they do help. :)
Do you use dryer sheets in your guitar cases? Or you can just touch the metal parts. I can't believe how quiet the buzz got from it on my jag. It's amazing what static electricity will do to the single coils. Buzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz be gone!
I don't use anything like that nopes. :)
Dave Simpson Try it if you ever start to get that annoying buzz. It works great.
Is it a common problem the only string I cant intonate is my D string ? Makes the last note of descending licks sound awful
Hey Dave, been wondering when you set up the height of your pickups (2mm on the bass side and 2 1/2 mm on the treble side) do you measure that distance from the pole piece to your string or is it just the actual height of pole?
Thanks Dave, love your vids.
I actually measure the height of the pickup cover from the scratch plate if that makes sense.
Thank you very much indeed. : )
Thank you so much for your reply Dave, I love the sound that comes out of your guitars especially those strats!
Yes, Set Up Your Guitar How YOU Want It. Not How The Book Or Tech Says.
I Also Like Action A Bit Higher Than Normal. Lowering PU's Help Sustain, The Magnets Stop It From That. GREAT Video. Rock On, Mutha !!!
Thank you very much. :)
How do you stop pickups angling slightly my bridge on the Bass side slightly angled a tiny bit how do you stop it. Also is it normal for your scratch plate to lift up a bit. Mine slightly does that under the neck pickup.
Wow thats so interesting... what made you angle the strings that way, like how did you discover it. Did you buy a guitar setup "wrong" like that and just love it? Always cool to see peoples unique setups :)
I honestly don't remember how i came upon my setup being this way. Haha. I've been doing it this way for such a long time i don't remember when i even started. Haha. I have only had my guitar setup once by a shop and they ruined it. That was what made me go. Right. I'm doing it myself from now on. Thank you for watching. : )
On the les Paul is the bass side lower then the treble side on the pickup like peters??? Or just flat at the same height Dave??
I have them just flat. I have messed about with the slanty Peter thing but didn't work out. :)
Have you played the new duo sonics yet?
They play surprisingly nice straight out the box.
I just had a jb put in my new duo sonic hs and it's gonna be my cobain mustang wanna be lol
But it's technically an offset. Has a humbucker and is a hardtail. So it's basically a cobain mustang but slot cheaper for me (I live in the states) haha
Not yet but i hope to. :)
***** I paid off the duo sonic now I just have to pay for the pick up and the the time it took to put the pick up in haha
3:35 Is the 'nought' end the headstock? You British blokes and your faulty English - hmm, oh wait a minute, you invented English ... my mistake , carry on! Haha , just fooling around ... cool videos! I've recently become attracted to the idea of a white-ish Strat (specifically a 'Deluxe Roadhouse Stratocaster - Sonic Blue' with this interesting 6 position rotary knob instead of the middle tone knob turned on by a pre-amp button inside the main volume knob! .. ok maybe a bit off-white blueish with a white sparkly pickguard area). Interesting that you mention a slight curve to the necks. I find that perhaps some people are too obsessive about trying to get their necks perfectly flat. I tend to use 10-46 strings (rotosounds) on my electrics and with high action (great for bending and even doing vibrato at the top of bends ... action too low makes strings want to slip under my fingers on bends ... I think sometimes people are obsessive about getting low action but if they truly like that for fast shredding on thinner strings then more power to them - but if poeple just assme low action is the most proper thing, then maybe they are just going along with what they've heard). I remember bringing my blue flame/quilt-top Godin SDxt into a shop during a time of low funds to try to sell it and upon looking at it the guy just blurted ... "this action is shit" ~ oh well, I'm so glad I didn't sell it and I still have it and his opinion was crap as far as I'm concerned! Anyway, keep on making the interesting vids!
He's saying "nut end" it's just his strange northern accent. Never go north of London, there be dragon's and people with strange accents :)
Dragons, damn autocorrect
I'll try to never go forth North of London ... perhaps though to cautiously bypass these dragons to visit the legendary Sage of Guitar
Autocorrect will some day cause a giant nuclear war ... based upon a misundestood message from a General at the NORAD undegound complex to his wife about 'what's for dinner' ... so sad that the endless ages of human civilization should end this way... perhaps if there was only Kraft Dinner that night , the world might have continued far longer!
Thank you for watching. :)
How does anyone not have relief in their necks? Guitar strings vibrate and need that relief in order to not bounce off the frets and cause buzz. Otherwise, you'd need super high action to combat the buzz.
Hello Dave, is there one particular reason for you set the springs in this "parallel" shape instead of standard triangle? Are there some particular differences?
No reason really. Its just what worked best for me. :)
;)
very interesting :) it was after noticingyou had super low pickups, i lowered the ones on my ratocaster and the guitar became a lot more flutey and lively :)
:) Thanks for watching. :)
Thats a great thumbnail! ;p
Thanks for the info, have you ever tried adjusting pickup height on cheapo guitars?(like a 200 euro squier) If so whats your experience with it?
Btw thats a cool poster painting thingy in the back there
Haha. Thank you. I have tried messing about with cheap pick-ups and i always end up having them really low just like my fenders. I do have one or two guitars with high pickups but thats it. Theres just something about the sound when there low thats appeals to me. : )
***** allright thanks for the response.
I guess i'm gonna have to try putting my pickups lower
Dave are your starts 7.25 radius, i can’t get on with those, much prefer the flatter Gibbo radii .
I like the 7.25 radius best. just works for me. worked for Jimi
True but you and Jimi are something else. Whats with the name change?
Johh Frusciante's is 7,25, all 50's and 60's are 7,25
Honestly i have no clue. Its a vintage spec so what ever the originals were. Haha. Thank you for watching. :)
Hey Dave my friend , hope you are doing ok ....i was wondering if you have ever listened to Perry Frank or Andy Othling ...they play ambient guitar , really beautiful stuff ,check out there youtube channels ... with your skills on guitar and the feel and emotion you put into your playing i would love to know what you think of them and wether you would ever play that style...i think you could compose something really special :)
Hello. I am doing well thank you. I hope you are to. :)
I shall take a look. Thank you very much. :)
So you run your springs in the back parallel to each other as opposed to a pyramid formation. Any particular reason?
I do indeed. I just found thats the way that works best for me. I've tried all positions and all different spring numbers but 3 parallel just works. :)
you deserve way more subscribers :)
Thank you very much indeed. :)
Could you do a video showing your entire collection
ruclips.net/video/ra96JZ3ncFY/видео.html
There you go.: )
How do you get that high kind of action on your strat with the saddles that low? Is it all in the relief?
I'm not sure but i do like a lot of relief in the neck. :)
Sorry but if you remember what pickup height is on the strat middle and neck
What's the heaviest strings you've experimented with? Stevie used 13s but they kill my fingers!
13s are just silly. no reason to hurt yourself and it's not that big of a difference sonically.
+Behind the times Conservative (Democrat) I used 13s for years and then started having pains in my fingers.
im down to 10s now and dont hear a damn difference. its all ago.
The heaviest I've gone is 12s and thats was just silly for me. 9s or 10s is my go to. :)
What do you feel that the low pickups on the les paul give you compared to setting them higher?
more clarity of sound and a cleaner tone. less distortion. :)
can you do a billy corgan tone video
I shall see see what i can do and hopefully get round to him soon. : )
Strat + big muff and occasionally an octave effect and slow phaser.
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HI DAVE did you make that JF poster in the background?
I didn't no. It came with the Vinyl record of Letur Lefr. Its a painting John did. :)
awesome !
Thank you very much. :)
Dave put some duncan antiquity surfs in your strat and be blown away. I put them in my mexican 60s strat and it sounds better than any custom shop ive played
I might try them one day (If i can ever afford them)in another guitar but not Mr White here. Thank you for watching. : )
+Dave Simpson I got mine off eBay you can get really good deals
i nedd your opinión about carvin bolt on 1998 hss. is a good or bad guitar??????
I can't really comment as I've never tried one before but from what i've seen of them they look pretty good to me. :)
Notification squad :P
cool letur lefr poster!
Thank you. :)
Hi Dave.
Nice poster
Thank you. :)
Hey, do you want to do some writing? I have a few songs, and I'm curious as to what you'd do with the song. I can send you a song and you can listen to see if it's something you're up for.
Dave, your strat is shielded??
Yeps.
thank. you. for. the. info
Thank you for watching. : )
Dave do you change out pickups on your Strat?
I don't no. I like to leave everything stock. :)
+Dave Simpson Thanks my brit friend..:-)
Ok...higher action on the high E. Why??
Easier to grab it when soloing. : )
When is how to play like John Frusciante part 3 coming?
Very soon. Next weeks or so. :)
cool guy
Thanks you. :)
Letur lefr say nay more dave
Does anyone really play with a neck flat? they are supposed to have releif to allow the string to vibrate properly, the most displacement of a vibrsting string is at it's center.
Can you explain why you like to set ypur pickups so low?
I have my pickups super low because I want them as clean sounding as possible. :)
There are people that prefer flat necks, usually sredders, but there are exceptions. BB King was known for prefering flat instead of the slightly bowed neck. People who play with a light touch can afford to have flat necks.
Are you using 10's or 9's.
10s to 46s. :)
i love that white rosewood strar give it to me huhuh
Your middle and bridge pickups are actually too high for my taste lol.
your intro is getting whackier all the time . not a bad thing though .
:)