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You could add a switch which adds a higher capacitance in parallel with C3. Label its off position "low cut". The low value of C3 is what is rolling off bass response. Elsewhere, note how 10X bigger 22 nF couplers are used.
It is usual for guitar amps to roll off bass. Fairly aggressive bass roll off is needed, in particular, to achieve "chunky" distortion ...
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There is no one single cause for this type of problem. But if you have eliminated mechanical factors such as floating bridge instability, loose truss rod, or microphonics from metal parts coupling into the pickups magnetically, you should take a look at your electronics. Actually that should be the first thing, perhaps.
I have cured this problem in the past ...
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Probably the best place to start is the Ibanez Tube Screamer TS9 or TS808 (there's also the cheaper, but discontinued TS7). The TubeScreamer is a classic and many, many guitarists still use it (or a clone of it) today, including some of the payers of the bands you listed.
It is characterized by a mid-boost which makes the guitar stand out a little more in ...
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i have to agree with @Chipsgoumerde, a reference point is always very helpful when picking (if pick or finger) the simplest reference is (as mentioned) the pinky.
i once also was only comfortable with my hand in the air, right now i rest my full right side of my hand on the bridge, if single-picking and my pinkie, ringfinger and middle-finger on strings 1,2 ...
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Practice your guitar in bed at night, with the lights off, and try to find the same note over and over consistently. This will help map your physical muscle memory to your guitar.
Secondly, take the chord you know the best, like an Am or EMaj or CMaj usually. Finger this chord to the best of your abilities without looking, only by feel. Strum it a few ...
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I also had such tuning issues. Especially since I use .10 strings.
I solved it with a simple little device called a Floyd rose stabilizer. I used the Göldo Backbox and installed it within one hour.
It causes the pull resistance be much higher then the dive resistance resulting in a stable middle.
Just search on google and YouTube on Floyd rose stabilizer ...
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Looks like it could be Kramer guitars owned by Gibson.
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There are many websites with specific picking exercises, but you don't really need them. What you do need is to decide on a set of notes, and play along with a metronome to help you learn timing. Starting off slowly and bringing the speed up as you can pay each arpeggio exercise perfectly is the way to do this.
An example exercise is this one from ...
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A really good example might be Steve Vai - he is a master of the long, fast move or slide to a specific fret.
With my current band, I wear a very restrictive mask with laser diodes shining out the eye holes, so my vision is extremely curtailed.
To manage moves up and down my fretboard I use three techniques:
a rapid slide (muted or unmuted) lets you ...
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If you look at blind guitarist Raul Midon, you can tell is counting fret with his finger very rapidly when he has to do big jumps. For smaller jumps, just feel where you have to go in relation to the previous chord.
I've also heard that French songwriter and guitarist George Brassens use to...saw marks into the back of the neck to have tactile points of ...
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According to product specifications on the Aria company web site for the current MAC Presto model,
Controls:
Volume (CTS) x1
Tone (CTS) x1
5-Way PU selector SW x1
Series / Parallel / Tap Mini SW x2
I interpret this to mean that the two switches are:
1) a switch to change the pickups from wired-in-series to wired-in-parallel and
2) a coil-tap switch ...
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Try editing your patches to turn off the amplifier emulation without changing the rest of your patch settings. You didn't mention what multi effects box you use. We have a digitech and it is very easy to turn off one of the effects settings.
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I bought my 10 year old son a digitech RP355 multi effects pedal to use. It's cheap and simple to edit patches for different sounds and you can download patches to get the sound used in some popular songs but the thing I like best about it is the amplifier emulation. After using it for a while my son found he liked the sound of Vox amps so we bought a AC4 ...
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Multi-Effects (Multi-FX or MFX unit)
A multi-effects unit can offer a broad range of effects in one unit, including Amp emulation and speaker simulation.
These effects are usually produced by digitizing the audio signal and using digital processing of the original effects produced by a Digital Signal Processor or DSP.
Generally several effects can be ...
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Pitch Pedal / Whammy Pedal
Although this might fit in the octaver pedal, it deserves a category of its own. This pedal raises or lowers the pitch of the incoming sound. Most models and emulation go from one octave below to two octave above. Lowering the pitch by an octave enables you to simulate dive-bombing without a floating tremolo for example.
The ...
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Amp Simulator
Although it is not really an effect in the sense it changes the sound before it enters the speaker, it is found more and more by digital guitar effect units.
An amp simulator does what it says: it simulates a guitar amplifier, mimicing mostly famous guitar amps by adding a combination of effects mentioned earlier (like boost, distortion).
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There's no reason not to try an effect if you want to. Sure, some kind of effect might mask some bad habits (reverb and delay might sort off mess your timing), but distortion for example is almost like playing another instrument, and if you're into punk/rock, the sooner you try it the better. You will have to figure out ways to mute the strings and reduce ...
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