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Topic: Beginner breaks string and messes up guitar |
Jason Meador
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Arlington, Texas, USA
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Posted 18 Oct 2007 6:21 pm |
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So I've been lurking on the forum for a couple of months. I finally took the plunge and bought Dave Sharp's Carter Starter from the "For Sale" section. I've had the guitar for a few weeks, I've had a lesson from Steve Lamb and I'm practicing my grips and forward and backward rolls everyday. Last night, I'm using my headphones and playing through my Boss GT8. I break the 3rd string. No prob, Dave tossed an extra set of strings in the box when he sent me the guitar. I break out my winder and put the new string on. Takes a couple minutes and then I turn on the tuner on the GT8 and get the string tuned up. When I hit the G chord, something is wrong -- I mean really wrong. Everything sounds tinny and distorted. I check the G#, it looks okay, it's in the rollers, the string ball is seated like the other strings. I loosen the string, make sure everything is the right place, tighten back up, put the bar on the 3rd fret and hit the G again. Same deal -- tinny, distorted, just bad. 
So I send the next 30 minutes checking everything I can think of -- pickup leads, jack, screws on the tuner, so on and so forth. Then I look down at the GT8 and the d*** wah-wah function is turned on... D'OH  I must have changed it from volume to wah when I turned on the tuner. I flip it back to volume and the guitar sounds normal. But I have a few more gray hairs in my beard! |
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Lee Baucum
From:
McAllen, Texas (Extreme South) The Final Frontier
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Posted 18 Oct 2007 6:59 pm
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I don't believe I would have told that story for my first post on the Forum! 
Welcome aboard. We're always happy to see another Texan join the club.
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Lee, from South Texas - Down On The Rio Grande
There are only two options as I see it.
Either I'm right, or there is a sinister conspiracy to conceal the fact that I'm right.
Williams Keyless S-10, BMI S-10, Evans FET-500LV, Fender Steel King, 2 Roland Cube 80XL's,
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Jim Eaton
From:
Santa Susana, Ca
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Posted 18 Oct 2007 7:06 pm
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I'd sell the GT-8! It's just evil!
JE:-)> |
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Jim Peters
From:
St. Louis, Missouri, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 18 Oct 2007 7:32 pm
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how many have tuned (6 string usually) with a chorus pedal turned on? JP
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Les Green
From:
Jefferson City, MO, R.I.P.
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Posted 18 Oct 2007 7:59 pm
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Jason,
Don't feel bad. Just last week I set every thing up for a job (or so I thought), then sat down and hit a couple of chords....Nothing, absolutely nothing. Couldn't even get a bit of hum from my amp. Spent the next 10 minutes tracing everything down and finally happened to look at the guitar. NOT plugged in.......and I've been playing 50+ years!
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Les Green
73 MSA D10 8&4, 74 MSA S10 3&5, Legrande II 8&9, Fender Squier 6 string, Genesis III, Peavey 1000 |
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Charles Davidson
From:
Phenix City Alabama, USA
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Posted 18 Oct 2007 10:00 pm
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Welcome Jason from Alabama,Mistakes are good teaching tools,You WILL make more mistakes,but I bet this won't be one of them.
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Hard headed, opinionated old geezer. BAMA CHARLIE. GOD BLESS AMERICA. ANIMAL RIGHTS ACTIVIST. SUPPORT LIVE MUSIC ! |
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Steve Norman
From:
Seattle Washington, USA
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Posted 18 Oct 2007 10:14 pm
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I made a big deal at a gig trying to find why no sound was coming out, amp off then back on, cables out and back in, kicked the volume pedal, everybody looking at me, I had the toggle on the c6 neck instead of the e-9. I told everybody I had a short in my delay pedal to save face....oh man
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Billy Wilson
From:
El Cerrito, California, USA
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Posted 19 Oct 2007 1:32 am
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| If I turn off the power on my Stob-o-flip, I can use it as a cheesey distortion effect. Haven't wanted to yet though. |
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Brandon Ordoyne
From:
Needville,Texas USA
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Posted 19 Oct 2007 5:11 am
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Jason welcome to the steel guitar world! Mistakes happen....One time I was pickin with some friends and I pluged in everything, no sound! I had just bought my Emmons and couldnt get no sound out of it....I switched out cables, nothing..pumped the volume pedal...nothing...all of the sudden I looked at the back of my amp and my headphone adapter was still plugged in....I must have not pulled hard enough when I unplugged my headphones
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'74 Emmons D10 P/P 8x5,'15 Rittenberry D10 8x5, Peavey Nashville 112, 400 & 1000, Fender Twin Reverb Tone Master, Hilton, Goodrich L120, Boss DD-3 and RV-3 |
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Ron Page
From:
Penn Yan, NY USA
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Posted 19 Oct 2007 5:39 am
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Well, Jason. Someone may as well warn you in advance. When you start snapping those .011’s at the key end it’s because you’re not putting enough wraps around the peg.
Best wishes and welcome.
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Ray Minich
From:
Bradford, Pa. Frozen Tundra
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Posted 19 Oct 2007 7:46 am
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On the bright side,
At least you weren't tuning up at a gig... |
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Ricky Thibodeaux
From:
Dallas,Texas
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Posted 19 Oct 2007 9:39 am Welcome
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| Welcome to the forum Jason. I know Steve Lamb and he is a great guy. Have fun and practice... practice... practice cause that what it takes bro. |
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Rick Johnson
From:
Wheelwright, Ky USA
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Dick Wood
From:
Springtown Texas, USA
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Posted 19 Oct 2007 11:52 am
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Hey Jason welcome to the forum.
I started taking lessons from Steve 5 wives ago which averages out to somehwere close to 26 years give or take a wife or two and I've been playing somewhere every weekend since.
Have Fun! |
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Mark Lind-Hanson
From:
Menlo Park, California, USA
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Posted 19 Oct 2007 1:15 pm
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| When I started out on steel (also with a Carter Starter) my gripe with the third string wasn't so much that they popped so often (true, they did) but that the volume just didn't seem to match the other strings. I got a compressor and that basically fixed things. & now I make sure they get a good double wind at the tuning peg end just to be sure they'll sit right- they pop a lot less now. |
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Ron Sodos
From:
San Antonio, Texas USA
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Posted 19 Oct 2007 2:06 pm Don't Be Upset
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I play almost 30 years. I've been in many bands and many situations over that time as you might expect.
I did some recording last week and had done a couple of tracks over a BIAB song. When I played it back after much hard work it had a wierd out of time distortion going on. So after all my hard work playing the track right I erased the track thinking it was ruined. The new track did the same thing because I had mistakenly turned on the delay in the boards effect bank. So I erased a perfectly recorded track for no reason. I had to do all my hard work over again. |
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Jason Meador
From:
Arlington, Texas, USA
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Posted 19 Oct 2007 5:36 pm
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| Thanks for the welcome and the words of wisdom! Tomorrow's my second lesson, so we'll see how it goes! |
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Danny Letz
From:
Old Glory,Texas, USA 79540
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Posted 19 Oct 2007 6:03 pm
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| Yesterday I took all the strings off my S-10 Zum and cleaned her up good. I put The new strings on and tuned it by ear to another guitar I am working on.I was running late and put it in the case and drove to the gig. When I began to tune the pedals and levers, they were all badly off. The Boss tuner was working fine on the open strings. I tuned all the pedals and levers. When we began to play, I was exactly one fret off. The guitar I had tuned to by ear was not in tune, it was flat. I missed four or five songs retuneing everything on the guitar. There were no holes in the tile floor to crawl into. |
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Donny Hinson
From:
Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 23 Oct 2007 1:25 pm
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Don't fret, we all do stupid things. I'd like to have a dollar for everyone who's changed a speaker...and then discovered their amps "distortion" switch was turned on, or they had a bad coupling cap.
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Mike Hoover
From:
Franklin, TN, USA
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Posted 26 Oct 2007 6:38 pm
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I had a friend of mine tell me if you weren't crazy when you started to play steel you would soon be.
Mike |
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Ernest Cawby
From:
Lake City, Florida, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 27 Oct 2007 6:47 am hi
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Before the show in Saluda playing back stage every thing worked fine. Tommy Dodd hooked up my rig no sound, we checked everything disconnected everything bug guitar to amp, worked the show without the DD3.
IF YOU USE GEORGE L plugs make sure you tighten the right sngle plugs now and then they work loose, and need to be tightened. That was it. I gave all my right hand plugs to Larry Moore, he was happy. They have been replace since and I learned a hard lesson.
No more problems.
ernie |
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