Myths Guitar Players Believe Are True 

not if u have an original floyd rose. I tested it

Not true if you have a tele too

Absolutely fine for a Steinberger. It'll still be in tune.

I had a 87 mij squire and threw it about 10ft up and it landed flat , no tunning problems whatsoever.

Prove it

John Hanks smh.

You were awesome in Cast Away!

😄🙂

Fellow no-volume kiddo, that's a tube? I thought it was a weird looking lightbulb.

Very underrated. You, sir, are a genius.

TRUTH!

You don't need a $1000+ guitar, but you do need one with decent action and intonation at least.

Truth #2a:Need even more practice 😯

Mr.SmithGNR Smith What did you own before?

A lot more true these days than it was 30 years ago. A crappy guitar was a fight most guitarists lost back in the 80s. They make decent stuff at reasonable prices now. When I was 15 I had a copy of a BC Rich Warlock (some 'brand' called Series A). It was a nightmare. It rattled so much I heard it in my sleep. I bought a decent Jackson 7-string for less than $300 CDN, but I'm also getting a better Ibanez 7-string because the tone and feel are totally different. Not really because there's that much quality difference (other than ergonomics, which Jackson isn't very good at). I speak from experience when I say fighting with a guitar is the surest way to get someone to quit. I did for a really long time.

oh my god you´re famous

Hey there

Didn’t expect u here

Omg hi paul

Hi paul

I feel your pain man

Have you considered lower standards? Just saying

maybe in the 80s that would happen but not today my friend...

Cristiano Salgado I have a girl yet I am not really great at guitar

From my experience unless your playing top 40, only guys show up to a gig. If no chicks are there even the guys leave. Also let’s say you do play guitar and start getting some action eventually one is going to stick and it’s going to cut into your guitar time. Just saying as a happily married man of 12 years, I don’t play like I used to.

myth #2. Being able to play guitar makes you a musician.

So true lol

Edgy.

Well...playing the guitar makes you a guitar player, and a person who plays a musical instrument, by definition, is a musician. :p

Andrei Grozea - A musician is someone who knows how to play, also known as a player... Anthony Braxton is a musician, although he played some "unlistenable" stuff... I mean, the man is a genius... And so were Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band...

​@M. S. ...paid attention in grammar class?

Why stop there? You can get a First Act from Walmart for a fraction of what a high end Epiphone costs. Buying a 4k Les Paul Standard is significantly more than necessary, and you're right it won't make you awesome. Buying a quality Epiphone, or even a less expensive Gibson, can help you learn faster though. (Same examples for Fender USA, Mexican Fenders and Squiers.) The advantages are: 1. If you enjoy looking at and holding the guitar, you're more likely to be willing to practice. The mid to high end guitars give you this. My LP is a work of art, playing it makes me happy. 2. If you're playing a properly set up and in-tune guitar of that same mid to high end sort, it will stay in tune and set up. And 3. When you hear awful noises coming from a mid to high end guitar, you can know without doubt that the problem is the player, not the guitar. I bought a Yamaha Pacifica 14 years ago. Package deal, guitar, gig bag, Peavey amp, strap, patch cord. $150. I bought a Hal Leonard book and hacked at it for a couple of months. Then put it away for about 4 years. Picked it up again, bought more books, hacked some more for about 6 months. Was actually playing some songs, but I went through a time where I couldn't play for a while. Then 2-3 months ago, I picked it up again (after about 10 years). The time in storage had caused problems with the guitar. Even with new strings, it wouldn't stay in tune. The output was low and dull, and resulted in only being able to play on high gain...no clear tones. And the tones were just ugly. I'm fairly sure it's a bad pot or two. Anyway, I'm at a point where I could afford to buy a nicer guitar, and I did it. Under 2k, Gibson Les Paul Traditional Pro. Maple arch top, minimal relief (heavy!), wine with stainless hardware, binding all around, satin back and locking tuners. I also invested in a decent tube amp. The result is that when I practice, I use clean settings, and I'm not only learning to play guitar, but to HEAR when it's right. Now when I hear sour sounds, I KNOW it's me, and I can try to find out where it's coming from.

Should have

@@TheScottJeter, d'ya think your dynamite info might be a bit overwhelming for a "starter, beginner"? But you sure know the stuff! I should "have" known! But you do know that you can find treasures at a "reliable" pawner. You're an o k guy!

Shoulda

and change your strings

Then youll be a pro

Chaka Wolf -It's usually my old drunk neighbor Ernest, and when he's finished,he passes out and the guitar sound horrible....damn crossroads😈

not a myth,,, just ask eric clapton...

Ol' Willie Brown!

Actually, that's not a myth at all, but entirely true (provided the cheap guitar plays reasonably well)

Guitars are mostly marketing, so true.

There's something to be said about quality gear, but otherwise this is mostly true.

I’d rather hear a good player on a cheap guitar than a bad player on an expensive one.

This was actually the first thing I learned about playing guitar before even strumming a note. Very important to know!

Music..., Well hell.........That actually makes sense. THANKS!

ALWAYS TUNE UP. I go a half step down, then back up, before each session.

I have also noticed that my gutars stay in tune much longer when I tune up as well.

Static friction is an interesting concept. It’s real and I deal with it in my work all the time. Static (not moving) friction (things rubbing against each other soo,,, moving). So it’s resistance to movement between things that aren’t moving.

Actually that depends where you are... being from the North of England there are some bars that you will not be allowed to leave... unless you play Wonderwall. This week as soon as my son stood up... WONDERWALL!!!!!!!!! pbs.twimg.com/media/D5zHWSfXkAEOMEK.jpg

There is a time and place. House party? No. Bonfire out in the desert, yeah, bring your guitar. But only if you can sing.

Literally pissed myself laughing at this....

@@danieljensen2626 many people seem to forget that last part... That's why I never bring my Acoustic anywhere except when it's for singing with children or whatever and I'm the only one able to strum more than three chords

Who's Wonderwall ??

i think it depends entirely on the person's personality. some people really need rote rules and inflexible axioms for every little detail otherwise their brains explode. music theory requires imagination to use it. I've seen music theory liberate one person and cage others. but to be honest, for the people it cages... they're pretty much hopeless as artists or musicians anyway. maybe they should try accounting! lol (kidding, just because they're not generally creative doesn't mean they won't be popular or successful as musicians). i have noticed that the people it cages tend not to study it formally- ie don't go to school for it. when done right it seems to help waaaaay more often than not. (myself, i was worried that the intense grind/pace of a music education might kill my love of music- not knowing the math- so i stuck with private lessons and youtube videos- just kidding... i mean books. i'm not young enough to have learned theory from youtube)!

Paul McCartney once said that studying music formally might "take all the magic out of it" for him. I don't know if he ever put that to the test, but I do know that the Beatles' famous lack of musical education reinforced the disdain that baby boomer rock musicians had for theory. I fell for it myself, but now I think that if you have the talent and imagination, a bit of formal studying can only enhance your abilities. For all their inspired amateurism, look at how much the Beatles relied on George Martin.

This argument has always baffled the living shit out of me...how on God's green earth does NOT KNOWING YOUR INSTRUMENT increase creativity, and adversly knowing all you can know make you less creative somehow? This is nothing more than an excuse, usually put out there by those who are either too lazy to put in the hard work or don't possess the mental capacity to learn! Those relatively few players throughout history that have achieved greatness with zero knowledge to back it up? Chances are extremely good that you're not one of them...neither am I...and since neither of us possess an absurd level of inexplicable natural talent, we can only benefit by hedging our bets and learning as much about the instrument we love as possible, to help us achieve the highest level of musical greatness we can reach!

Maybe you did it the right way. Explore the country, then look at the map. This is the way I did it, and still do! After playing for almost 30 years in ignorance when I do watch some theory guy out of curiously i find that he is just giving names to what I already knew. I think education is mostly a BAD thing for rock and roll guitar. I'd rather listen to some kid in a garage than Steve V.

crush537 Yeah, I have found that I already knew the theory - I just didn't know the official names for certain things.

I never liked tube amps they sound weak to me

It's called the Dunning-Kruger effect ;)

I know a couple of guitarists who can tune a guitar accurately by ear. It is a talent that comes naturally though and cannot be taught.

That's perfect pitch my dude. It's rare.

I can...Not :-)

+Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa actually perfect pitch is different. Being able to tune the guitar without a tuner, many people can do this.

I think many guitarists *think* they can. And perhaps it’s good enough for the average listener. But if you actually put a tuner on afterwards, I highly doubt they got it right down to the cent.

i think this is common for children and i feel that this is single handedly responsible for a 90% reduction in te amount of guitar players around today.

I’ve played guitar for 20 years... i now have 3 young children, two are having guitar lessons at school... they hate the cumbersome acoustics they play there, gave them a 3/4 strat and boom, the practice is fun for them again.

My mom told me this when I first started! She never played before but I just think it was because she didn't wanna hear a 13 year old badly playing Metallica all day.

I mean really, the single most detrimental thing to learning how to play an instrument is losing interest and giving up on it. This is several times more likely to happen if you're playing an acoustic finding yourself bored out of your mind. Learn acoustic if you want to play acoustic. Learn electric if you want to play electric. Learn both if you genuinely want to play both. All "rules" for playing and making music are really just guide lines anyway to make things easier. No point if it works against you lol.

A friend of mine wanted to learn the trumpet. His parents, who never played an instrument, said he had to learn this wooden flute first. Idk, because they have so much in common? Long story short, hated the flute, quit playing anything.

yes - but packed in flight cases instead of paper cardboard

Actually they still do tune those guitars every day and probably change their strings every gig anyway. I've watched a lot of rig rundowns and the average I've heard is around every 8 songs the strings are changed.

Only if you're Mr Methane.

Liam Whiting you’re a mad man

Crazy train baby. Vomit

My band plays Smoke on the Water, because nobody else does. Nobody else does because they think everybody plays it and people are sick of it. But nobody plays it so how can people be sick of it? People love it when we play it.

2003. I was teaching my gf to play. She could do smoke on the water and the intro to manson’s sweet dreams. We went to out Local music store. She tried smoke on the water on a couple guitars. No one cared.

Yeah, FedEx broke one of my acoustics shipping it back from Chicago. I had it packed extremely well! Plenty of "fragile" stickers on it as well and it was in a really good hard case inside the box,packed with bubble wrap...They must've managed to throw a mini refrigerator (or something) on top of it because they put a crack/dent in the top. Yeah, they denied my insurance claim even though they had no problem letting me purchase the insurance. Oh, and it was detuned, lol!

Fedex doesn't temperature control their cargo.It's cheaper. They don't ship live animals with their boxed cargo.

Dude, thank you for that shared lesson! I am about to start selling and shipping guitars. This bit of info is priceless for me! Cheers!

Can't believe nobody else mentioned this! first thing on my mind.

Look up "United Hates Guitars" here on RU-vid

You will but you won't play like him

Not all drugs are bad for you. Psychedelics are great every once in a while. :-P

Watchman4u I did it all wrong with the 20 menthols in prison-.-

these days all people hear is the quality of your amp or recording. most 'musicians' i've played with can't tell the difference between a skilled player and a glorious amp. nevermind the general audience. a great amp can make chord strumming sound like the hammer of the gods. it's absolutely true. on the inverse a great Player can make the cheapest of amps (except line 6) and guitars sound like a fine quality instrument. this happened when i was a newbie and a deaf blues lady picked up my plywood warlock (seen in profile pic) and made that baby weep! it was a great lesson for a newbie metalhead.

You can sound like Jimi on a fender frontman. His tone is quite simple

Yep, when baggage handlers see really sturdy, damage resistant, expensive luggage......They take it as a challenge.

@@hayden8491 Yep, I can see the airlines new publicity campaign now: "SCREW THE FRIENDLY SKIES! We are Honest Airlines; We don't care and we admit it! Just ask our newest baggage handler. We hired him after the other airline fired him because HE DIDN'T CARE! He's a lousy worker, but we got him cheap. Hayden Wade may be bad for your luggage but he's good for our bottom line. See how honest we are!" So....FLY HONEST AIRLINES AND TAKE IT LIKE A MAN!

Yeah, my acoustic neck got cracked near the headstock, not really sure if it had anything to do with the strings being tuned or not though. But I'm sure manufacturers have different procedures for shipping rather than literally throwing the guitars into an airplane.

Exactly! I've had some shops ship me tuned guitars, other shops shipped them detuned. I never had any problems, but I prefer detuned, just in case. My own theory, with no knowledge about this, is that the wood will be more flexible the less stress it has, so it should be able to take a hit better with detuned strings.

Yeah I'm sure it's happened to others but specifically, I remember a couple of years ago reading an article where an airline severely damaged one of fingerstyle guitarist Don Ross's expensive custom Marc Beneteau guitars.

you also have to bend them further to get to the next half step...

Light strings for 12 string guitars and finger picking on acoustics seems to help me. Even then, I try to avoid bar chords on a 12 string acoustic. And understand that if my 12 sting was a $3500.00 guitar, I might just be fine. But I don't seem to have enough strength for clean sounding bar chords on an acoustic 12. This could also be affected by surgeries I have had. On an electric guitar, I have tried them all. Heavy/light, medium, heavy, and am still experimenting to see what works best. My next string change I'm going to try Elixir Optiwebs 11/49, to see if I like them.

Light strings are easier to bend but harder to control. I always over-bend with 9's. I have 11's on my Les Paul for more consistency. I think of it like using the whammy bar on a Floyd vs a Bigsby.

I much prefer the sound of 9-42's, but I'm just too heavy-handed for them, unwanted bends and too many broken strings. Ended up just compromising with 10-46's, a bit hardier without sounding too different.

I put some rev Billy 7s on a strat and holy cow all they do is bend, they practically sag. Won't sit tight over nut angle unless you physically push them down to form the bend. Fun and interesting for leads and melody, but not practical for my rhythmic needs.

i actually lolled thanx for that one

True, it's happened to me with a bass string on my first ever restringing moment as a teen-ager

I broke a string once, and it stuck into my thumb.

I only place my face on my guitar while caressing it...ooof I’ve said too much, carry on

Yeah...I knew a piano tech that snapped a string that he was tuning and lost an eye.

what about during? lol

I got my epi. L.p. in hand now

Pa - Pa D what about watching Bonnie Rotten porn ?

that's true I wacth beginner vids for drummers and turns out I'm a Awsome guitar player compared to them

@@stevestevestevesteve6466 So which is correct, Yutube or Outube?

Never heard of that? you can play anything on a tele. A humbucker (bridge) would be ideal though.

One name, John 5.

You can but if you’re referring to the standard model of fenders tele’s they’re really not designed for metal. John 5 and Jim root from slipknot play custom telecasters with humbuckers or active pickups instead of single coils.

Plot twist, you can, seariously you just need to know the songs XD Now if you wanna SOUND metal, well, go for the pickups

*cough cough* JaReD DiNeS

Michael kemper i

DON'T PICK UP MY GUITAR

My guitar...Don’t touch it...don’t point...don’t even look at it...it still has the tag onnit

Haha weird, I make a point to play with super dirty hands. But, I love that shitty worn look. To each his own I suppose.

austindorf83 then I’ll just wave a hello and skip the handshake...lol

That is a really good point!

You just made that up, didn't you?

True up to a point. I spoke to a lutanist a while back and he told me that his biggest issue was gut strings go out of tune if you look at them the wrong way. Shipping with less tension is good for gut.

Also he let me in on thefact that each of his strings on an tique ten string instrument cost $40+ and they would still go out of tune every other song.

rcmaster207 hate to tell ya...somebody else has been playing your guitar...notice any marks on your girl too...i know buddy we’re the last to know

Same here. I actually play with my fingers tucked in. Helps me play a bit faster and I don't risk bumping knobs or anything.

BaldAndBarefoot no ukeleles...mandolins...there’s your goto...exotic acoustic...I jest of course or do I

Nathan Seybold tucked in you say...hmm interesting technique...must search this out..my technique is in getting my fingers fucked usually between sets...well if a quickie is unattainable...

I'm a guitar player and I also have a mandolin. Mostly a guitar player.

Nigel Tufnel says it's true so it must be fact!

But this amp goes to 11 . . .

Well...It's ONE louder, idn't?

The real joke there is that the amp they put the custom knobs on normally has knobs that go up to 12.

Are you doubting our Lord and saviour Niguel Tufnel

X - Doubt.

Doubt

And then they all clapped.

As the others said, the way you say this makes it seem very unlikely to have happened. BUT if it did, the music shop did have a reason to say, at the very least, it's inadvisable to put strings on it. Old guitars, are well, old, and therefore they are much more prone to breaking. If they were poorly kept (Which sitting in a cupboard for years on end would qualify for that) then they would likely be damaged by the tension strings put on the neck, especially heavier strings. You probably just got lucky that it didn't horribly warp the neck.

@Phil McCrevice Also, they probably said something like, "We cannot affordably set up that guitar due to the age and dried out condition of it. You would be better served to buy a nice entry level accoustic." To rehabilitate an old guitar you'd have to rehydrate it, and fix all the problems caused by dehydration. If it was a vintage, collectible guitar, spending $500-1500 to rehabilitate it might be worth it. If it's a 60 year old Sears parlor guitar, shine it up with some pledge, put some strings on it and nail it to the wall. Use the $500 to buy a really nice midrange Fender, Gibson, Yamaha or even Martin acoustic.

You are actually wrong on all three of those.

Sounds like you caught the cool video by Josh on his JHS Pedals channel. He did cover all that as I recall. I played a legendary Germanium fuzz once (or at least a modern day recreation by a major brand), and it sounded terrible, weak and nasal, so I hear you, but some people like it filtered into other devices, etc. Different strokes for different folks, no doubt.

@@colinmcnab6145 Analog can be better than digital in many cases. Depends on quality of the analog device and the result you are trying to achieve. For the average person digital would probably give a better result.

For synthesizers, I can most definitely hear a difference between analog and digital. Analog sounds so much better.

Well they’re all opinions but I guess to you they are true.

Neal B it’s like that sometimes isn’t it

big myth! but i have noticed that to get really, really bad warps out (like warps that aren't just along the one dimension a truss rod is designed to combat- ie torquing/twisting warps) you need to make measured adjustments and let the guitar be for a week or so in a good humidity room. then come back and do another adjustment, repeat until good. playing and tuning regularly in between seems to help a lot also. (i've gotten some pretty bad warps out this way in used electrics). most just need routine maintenance, time, and some good old fashion practice usage.

I've never had problems adjusting my truss rod to exactly am where I want it. It's just that after a while, it might need another tweak. But it doesn't take weeks. After this, it hardly need to ever be adjusted again unless I change string gauges. I think I've inly needed to adjust a neck again after 6 months due to the climate changing.. maybe once or twice... and I've always had over 25 guitars in my posession at a time for over 20 years... but I also have lived in humid climates for most of that time.

Well there's some reasoning behind that when applied to older guitars. If the neck on an old Gibson had been in one position for 50 years the Truss rod won't immediately change the neck relief it might take around 6 hours or so. Now that's not 24 but in some cases I'm sure a neck continued to move after the initial adjustment for a day or so

A truss rod adjustment may not produce instant results; neck relief can take over night to stablise. I recently set up a 5-string bass with new strings and it played perfectly when it left my hands a day later. A week on and it was unplayable because the strings buzzed so badly. Who knows how long it took the neck to move, but it was definitely more than 24 hours, so if you are doing super low action give the neck time to respond to changes in truss rod tension. Myth not busted.

Lindsay Rowlands The myth is that you have to let it sit there without playing.. resting. In fact, if you play it, you might get it to settle faster. Still, most instruments tend to settle pretty quickly unless something drastic has changed like string gauge tension, temperatures, etc, or the neck is just not very stable...maybe even an old instrument. Luckily, I haven't had these problems. If you have a problem, it isn't that difficult to fix. You don't have to be a rocket scientist or have a doctorate in physics to do it.

Zakk Saam I would argue 70s

Well as far as pro audio gear

Technology is always at its peak because it is always improving. But if you were talking about guitar design, yeah, the best guitars were designed in the 1950s. That doesn’t mean that technology was better, just that people were better at designing guitars.

@Jay McDanieL because people want to sound like their favorite bands who used tube amps because there wasn't much else available?

As a guitar builder, I can tell you that beyond a shadow of a doubt that guitars are WAY better now than they were in the 50's. However SOME electronics have improved, while some '50's pickups are still the gold standard. Using the Telecaster (which was the very first mass-produced and successful solid body guitar), as an example, the necks were unstable in the first ones (due to a lack of a truss rod). The three barrel saddles could not be intonated, the ashtray bridges lacked weight (and therefore, sustain). Some of the circuits were horrible. Etc.. Hard to believe that Fender actually re-creates these flaws in their "reissue" models, and even harder to believe people actually buy them. Another example is the earlier Gibson & American made Epiphone ES335 and variants (330, 335, 345, 355, Casino, Riviera, Sheraton, etc.) All these guitars (models with stud bridges) had the bridge studs set either too far forward or too far back (can't remember which). To be properly intonated, either the studs had to be re-set, or have the bridge replaced with the extra wide Schaller style bridges. There were many other changes and improvements thru the years, but these two are pretty blatant blunders!

David Malone nice insight. I think you are on to something with the less attractive wood thing. Oil will make the wood look darker. I personally don't care and have never oiled any of my fingerboard and nothing ever happened

Hear, hear!

Flawed logic. Violins don't have frets that can become loose.

@Rawhide Leather If it's a viola da gamba, you have frets :P

Rawhide Leather - Guitars from the late 1700s on have had metal frets. They aren’t a recent idea and generations of guitarists have played on instruments blissfully unaware of the supposed benefits of fretboard conditioning. On new guitars, poorly seasoned timber can shrink soon after manufacture and fret ends might become noticeable and need to be filed. Fretboard conditioning won’t fix that issue. I’ve never seen a modern guitar where the problem was so severe that a fret became loose. Have you?

Absolutely and not only that 24 .75 scale will feel cramped at the high frets for some players and the bass strings can lack definition regardless of string gauge. Some guitar reviews don't place enough importance on this. I wish more makers would offer 25 inch scales.

Yep. If you got extended scale like (like 27") with the exact same gauge strings and even same tuning, it will still definitely feel different not just in fret spacing (obviously) but also in how the strings feel as well.

BuT tHeN I CaNt pLaY thE 24tH fReT

You are hilarious - so you think that a through neck glued with 2 side pieces glued to it and a maple top glued onto all 3 on top (a Les) is not as strong as a bolt on neck? you do not do wood work.

LOL what the fuck are you talking about? a les paul has its neck set into the body. You might be thinking about rickenbackers? I have smashed a les paul up and know how easy it is. Google "les paul building" and look at the second result

How you know, you tried to smash that guitars maybe?! Your all story is hilarious and unnecessary to mention, you just start from assuming that solid connection with bolt is stronger than glue one, which is probably truth ofc, yet in the same time doesn't mean that glue ones are weak at all.. Popular myth?! Who on this world (beside you) said ever that glue ones are stronger, nobody never, you just didn't know what to say but feel need to say something ..please don't write anything on social nets anymore sir

Callsign Static LPs are not neck-thru...

William Land: I was told by my instructor, now this is only for acoustic finger style, that having a cut away with a shorter scale length, would help with string bending. He has a s 25.5 Martin, and bought an Artist series Seagull cut away 24.75 scale length. His Martin is a dreadnought, and he wanted a cut away as well. This was his recommendation to me. There was at no time any mention about changing to heavier strings. Do you think this is solid advice?

If the goal is to make bends easier, then going to a shorter scale length but keeping the same gauge, is a good option. If you want a shorter scale guitar to have the same feel as the longer scale, then going up in gauge would accomplish that.

For sure! I remember when i started out i picked up an old guild electric in a pawn shop and it played so well! Later i figured out the scale was 24 1/4”. I miss that guitar. The fat single coil in the neck sounded unlike anything ive heard since

Wupme oh I gotta see that..,maybe on here or google, thx I’d never heard that love listening up the.violin or fiddle if you’re amongst us Texans😝😝😝😝

Additionally, both violins and acoustic guitars are known to explode when stuffed with dynamite and/or other highly volatile explosives. The more you know....

Wupme same thing with mandolins. Tuned the same as a violin and similar scale length

bottles of shampoo or lotion will often 'splode in the cargo area also, or used to, i guess before they began pressurizing the entire plane.

I may be wrong, but I thought the violin thing was mainly about damage to the bridge.

My guitar teacher told me to practice on an acoustic guitar then play on my electric because bending would be so much easier. He was right. Now I just use 10's on my electric all the time and enjoy it because I've built up the hand strength to do so over time. Chording, note playing, bending - meh it's all the same after a while, bro.

That's true.

@@molochsorcery4357 10's aren't thick. I play with 14's on my jaguar..flatwounds. that'll test your finger strength =D

guitar myth #2: scooped mids equal heavier tone. No, it doesn't.

Answer: Just get EMGs.

@@idk4529 No... Lace Sensors all day

@@88_TROUBLE_88 Either

@@idk4529 fair enough

If its a fully floating isn't true?

@@anidemolimacnauj you can put something under the bridge if you want and then take them all off. Although I have a Brian Moore guitar that came with specific instructions to only change one string at a time from the manufacturer. That's the only time I've seen that. It has a crazy thin neck though

Makes me wonder how these people think that a re-fret is accomplished or replacing the tail piece on a Les Paul. "Thinking" and "reasoning" are lost.

Absolute garbage. I always remove all of strings at the same time. It gives me the opportunity to clean the fret board and polish the frets. It’s also a good time to clean up around the bridge and pickups. When I do restring it, the action and relief are exactly the same as they were before I cut the old strings off.

hi VoxofReason....your old 80's Randall has the spirits of ex-Fender California engineers. Man!! I have some fantastic memories of my RSM-150, Randall SwitchMaster, an RG-80 and a RB-60 bass amp that my buddy used in small clubs. Thank you for your comment. It brought back some cool memories. Rock on and Tight Lines!!!

True, a lot of the licensed Floyds are no better at staying in tune than a good nonlocking trem.

I have the Gotoh GE1996T and set up properly it holds tune nicely

A real Floyd Rose, when well set-up, will stay in tune very well. But to get to the well set-up stage is a fucking pain. I never really got the hang of it, and my friend, who is a luthier and guitar tech, he absolutely hates working on Floyd Rose bridges. As he jokes "I'll pay you to not have to set it up".

i never liked Floyd Rose, and ive set them up for several folks. As a Jazz player, i don't have much call for dive bombing. They are great at holding tune to be sure, but the majority of owners don't know what to do with one. Still, it is a preference, which is legit. i don't tell anyone to remove theirs. i just set them up and turn them loose. They often return when its time to re-string. For those who love using it, it is fine workmanship, and wont let you down. Its just not on my pallet. ":^D

Ah, but what about a fixed bridge vs. a trem system when it comes to sustain? That might explain where the bolt-on myth comes from, unless that too is a myth.

As a former theatrical electrician/ lighting tech, I know well that you don't touch a high heat producing lamp (bulb) with bare fingers. I've seen the melted glass after one goes bad.

Interesting point. The fact that you heard this before halogen bulbs is worth discussing. I wonder if the same “finger oils not being bad” applies/applied to the giant hi wattage radio transmitter tubes from back in the day. I imagine those babies were much more delicate and sensitive. I wonder what type of heat they generated.

The Neon Chimp Channel maybe it was sent detuned :)

The Neon Chimp Channel Did it come with locking tuners because I refuse to believe your guitar shipped half way across the world and stayed in tune😂

José Dalí Ortega yeah he's a great chap

Not a myth

The legend says that in Dominican republic everyday is Sunday

suparosc02 DR is great for tourists, not so good for dominicans. Minimun wage is less than $200 a month and middle class average is between $400-600. So there's not much money to enjoy our beautiful country.

I've purchased two guitars off Amazon and both were shipped in tune with the G string just slightly out of tune when they arrived. Mind you both were delivered by FedEx and their delivery being "better" than the USPS or UPS is no myth!

Really? I have never heard it before.

Its not Halogen bulbs that you cannot touch, it Quartz bulbs that will burn out where your finger has touched it.

Correct....I was told that in the late 60's.....when I bought my first valve-powered amp

Don Crowder I had to cut down on my lemon oil fret conditioning...it was sprouting...Lemons! Ok bad one I know (awww cawwmn...to the showers)

6105 frets

Salt isn't an organic compound.

So you should never wipe down your strings. I've no problem with that but I'll be wiping mine down.

this is true but some people have much more corrosive hands than others. My hands seem to be fairly innocuous but I have a friend who I am loath to let play my guitars because the strings start corroding almost immediately afterwards. his guitar string are always rough and scratchy.

Eventually the spring in the capo will become weaker, but I don't know how long that would take. No, I saw another video covering this and they said with sound reasoning that hanging guitars from the typical instrument hooks that you see, is fine.

Sean Macaluso I define before I cut my strings

If it was true then dive bombs would quickly destroy guitar necks.

Detune*

If you cut your strings under full tension you should wear eye protection or make sure the strings can't fly out and poke you when all that tension is released.

Sort of related, I've been told that tightening the strings can help adjust a warped (hyper-extended) neck...This doesn't sound right to me. Is the neck, with truss rod, really so weak?

Edit: It's true - Look at the Petross explanation

LawrencePetrossDesign I agree. That's why I also consider it true.

Geronimo Egea That is true. Objectively it's 100% true. That's just the nature of the geared system a tuning machine is based on 😉👍

That can be a factor in some cases. A quality nut which is set up properly should allow the string to move smoothly over it without binding, but a less-than-ideal nut will be very prone to hold for awhile and then slip if the tension on the peg side is looser than the tension on the bridge side, but less prone to slip if the peg-side tension is higher. Ideally, though, the string should slide smoothly enough for that not to be a factor.

+Jimmy Parris Unless you have a really bad plastic nut that was cut for much thinner strings than what you are using, the amount of tension that could "leak" across the nut to the headstock side while playing is relatively small. Compare the length of those parts of the strings, nut to tuning peg/nut to bridge. But that isn't so bad. The human brain finds slightly flat notes less dissonant than slightly sharp notes. It's all about taking up slack in the gears of the tuning machines.

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So many that are UN-Scientific as well! I'm tired of opinions from meatheads that aren't backed up with some scientific fact especially where something like using lemon oil and my fretboards are concerned. Besides who is using lemon oil on the fretboard every time they play?

Jep, just scented mineral oil. The next problem is that there IS "real" lemon oil and some people look for it and use it for their instruments...and that one is really bad for the instruments. So if they want to use it, they need the fake one. The linseed/olive oil guys...boy..."I used it for years"...and they don't know that it can get rancid and really mess up the guitar. The other thing is the fire hazard. Look up "linseed oil +spontanous combustion"...some houses were burnt down by experienced woodworkers cause they left the rags lying around and they just start to burn.

Mineral oil. It's lemon oil without the lemon, marketing team and high price.

crush537: Yes it’s mineral oil with a nice scent. But it’s a non-curing oil which is a better choice than linseed oil. I have just used mineral oil for years, much cheaper.

That can be true for so called master guitars. Those can barely take the tension and some of the luthiers advice to store them without strings.

thewebspinner yeah I hate bunked myths😜😜😜