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06-29-2006, 10:05 AM
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How do I fix this? Just concentrate on fingering lightly? |
06-29-2006, 10:11 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: West Side SA | | | Just ask the old lady...
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06-29-2006, 10:14 AM
|  | Thump... | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Around Boston, Massachusetts | | I think you just won the award for "most excellent double entendre in a thread title"...congrats! 
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06-29-2006, 10:29 AM
| | | | ha...that's what I was going with and I'll gladly accept the honor...but seriously |
06-29-2006, 10:47 AM
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06-29-2006, 10:47 AM
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Commander-in-chief, 3Leaf Audio | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Seattle / NYC | | | Wow, funny thread. Anyway, try turning the volume on you amp up, it helps because you won't have to play as hard to hear yourself. |
06-29-2006, 10:52 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Dallas, TX. | | sounds like a personal problem to me  |
06-29-2006, 11:25 AM
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Endorsing Artist: John Doe Guitars | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Rochester, NY | | | Do you not like the sound you get when you play "too hard"? |
06-29-2006, 01:27 PM
| | | | i've got a ashdown mag 300, ashdown abm 4x10, and ashdown abm x15. and when I turn it up pretty loud and dig in like I always do I get some farting and I'm afraid to destroy my speakers. |
06-29-2006, 01:31 PM
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Originally Posted by triggervision How do I fix this? Just concentrate on fingering lightly? | Raise your action or adjust your technique I'd say. |
06-29-2006, 01:41 PM
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Originally Posted by triggervision i've got a ashdown mag 300, ashdown abm 4x10, and ashdown abm x15. and when I turn it up pretty loud and dig in like I always do I get some farting and I'm afraid to destroy my speakers. | When I used a MAG for a while, I would set the Gain pretty low on it, and control the volume from the Master.... that is most likely your problem.
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06-29-2006, 04:34 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: St. Louis, MO, U.S. | | | Are you talking about plucking or fretting? If you think you're plucking too hard, you probably are. You're fretting too hard whether you know it or not.
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06-29-2006, 04:37 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Nova Scotia | | | i pluck VERY heavy so i use very high action |
06-29-2006, 04:58 PM
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Originally Posted by freshmeat1989 Raise your action or adjust your technique I'd say. | Yeah... "raise your action" that's what you need when you finger too hard. 
Actually, which finger are you talking about?
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06-29-2006, 05:12 PM
| | | | my right hand....not slapping or popping just plucking..i've adjusted my truss rod according to that gary website to where I have .3mm between the top of the 8th fret and the string while both ends of the neck are pressed down. Now it doesn't make a rattle but the action feels high. Should I just leave it or try to bring the action down with the bridge? |
06-29-2006, 05:27 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: San Diego, CA | | | I would think that higher action requires you to fret harder which in turn drives you to pluck harder...
Makes sense? Try this:
Close your fretting hand lightly and with your picking hand, alternate your fingers as you would playing your Bass.
Now gradually increase your grip in the fretting hand and you'll notice that some of the tension is getting also applied to your plucking hand --Unless you have fantastic independance-- ...Tough to be tense on one side of your body and relaxed on the other!
So I would lower the action, and increase the volume of my amp like it's been recommended. That's what you got that amp for anyways.
And playing light will improve your touch and dynamic range. |
06-29-2006, 07:18 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Nova Scotia | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by frstr8dmusician I would think that higher action requires you to fret harder which in turn drives you to pluck harder...
Makes sense? Try this:
Close your fretting hand lightly and with your picking hand, alternate your fingers as you would playing your Bass.
Now gradually increase your grip in the fretting hand and you'll notice that some of the tension is getting also applied to your plucking hand --Unless you have fantastic independance-- ...Tough to be tense on one side of your body and relaxed on the other! | I can do it, but only when i concentrate lol. |
06-29-2006, 07:25 PM
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Originally Posted by PrimusNut I can do it, but only when i concentrate lol. | ...Which is what you don't want to have to do right?  |
06-30-2006, 04:08 PM
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06-30-2006, 04:26 PM
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