NUX Matsamune compressor and boost. https://www.nuxaudio.com/masamune.html The boost works well, and being able to toggle the order is great, but the compressor adds a weird keening whine to the decay of notes - like a faint shimmer reverb but at a constant pitch. Presumed the pedal was faulty, got ...

rather battling with my head at the moment, but in between all that i began to figure out three songs i've wanted to be able to play on guitar forever: 'all downhill from', 'therefore i am', and 'last year' by jim o'rourke. i often heard a sort of drony aspect to the guitar parts but never really t...

Sick banjo https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/449956731179182 https://scontent-lax3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t45.5328-4/468177371_1268707467706445_3044611613204814936_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_s960x960_tt6&_nc_cat=107&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=247b10&_nc_ohc=WBt_hA1cTcoQ7kNvgH7JFuZ&_nc_zt=23&_...

Is it too obvious/homer-ish to give a shout out to To All Trains here? In a similar vein, in the run-up to my dad's death and afterwards, I found Bottomless Pit's The Cardinal Movements a huge huge help. It's sad and angry without being in any way depressing. The vocal line across the song is a thi...

I think "countries" are so fragile and volatile at the moment that my gut feeling is that it's probably a mistake to look at them like this. After the UK's Brexit referendum, so many of my European relatives and friends were bewildered (at times, verging - understandably - on smugness or c...

Cleaning and lubing has (unsurprisingly) made a huge difference. Boy, did it need cleaning. Feel pretty dumb for not automatically cleaning it when I realised there was any sort of problem. All the "saddle travel" has pretty much disappeared, bar a smidgen on the high E. Presumably the mov...

There's a guy in Twickenham doing terrible things to harmless old acoustics and then putting them up for sale on Gumtree (kinda Craigslist). https://imagedelivery.net/ePR8PyKf84wPHx7_RYmEag/00/s/MTAyNFg3Njg=/z/RrQAAOSwuO1hEB-J/86 https://imagedelivery.net/ePR8PyKf84wPHx7_RYmEag/d09e64ab-e105-4908-ca...

Yep, will try cleaning and lubing as a next step. The amount of travel from the saddle seems wrong, almost like the saddles working like a JM/floating bridge. If the rollers roll, there's no/way less force on the saddles to shift. And yeah, I'm sure my hammering away is part of it, but it's the same...

I have three guitars with Bigsbys. The two Gretschs have ToM style bridges and the Danelectro has a roller bridge. Whenever I use the Dano at a gig, I break a wound string, the core snapping at or around the bridge on the A or D. I've checked the saddles for burrs (can't see how this could be a thin...

Yeah, the binding or faux binding effect is horrible.