Recent content by ixlramp2

I am enjoying the Angine de Poitrine performances, very impressed. Here is a good system to play quartertone music on a conventionally fretted guitar: Neutral thirds tuning. (Neutral third = 3.5 semitones.) All the intervals between the open strings are tuned to neutral thirds. This might...

Ah ... no-one replied to your post. No injuries, but i went through a long process of progressively reducing my string tensions, searching for the absolute minimum, and also moved to setting up my bass guitars primarily for 2 hand tapping (but also other guitar techniques). I dislike, and...

However ... my previous post refers to a guitar that is hanging freely, not in contact with the player's body (a rare situation). Usually the tilt of a guitar is mostly determined by how it rests against your body, this is something you should check, you might be able to solve the problem by...

As an experiment i once strung a 5 string bass with 3 strings tuned in fifths, located in string positions 1, 3, 5. The intention was to take advantage of the huge amount of string bending space this creates between the strings. I used ultra low tension strings to be able to easily pull (or...

The reason it tilts forward is because the 'centre of gravity' is slightly 'forward' of the plane defined by the strap buttons. Most guitars are like this because the masses of the bridge, pickups and neck are all on one side of the body. The only way to completely solve this (which will...

I was previously forum member 'ixlramp'. To confirm i am the same person, here is my 'balance mechanics' thread on the sevenstring forum Determining guitar balance through simple visualisation and here is my profile page stating my username on talkbass ixlramp Thanks, i was wrong to imply...