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Mine's working fine....

I'm bad for ending with "Okay" or just "kay". I guess it's a habit from always supervising and explaining procedures at work. I've got a tutorial on youtube that I made for "Woderwall" when I had only been playing like 7 months... I bet I say "Okay" 30 - 40 times in it It's enough that people have made comments on it Probably did it more then because of nerves, since it was my first recording/upload. I can't even watch it, because it annoys me and I sound so much like a hick in it, but others don't seem to really mind -Pix

If I sit down with the guitar and can't find a pick, I just take it as a sign that it's time for some fingerstyle practice

I did a pick round up shortly after posting this thread... Most have been recovered:) We have a gazebo on the back deck with a couch and a few chairs under it... I/we play there a lot and upon searching under the cushions, I recovered over 3 dozen picks The laundry room also turned up quite a few..

Hey Tangledup625, Welcome to the forums!! I've never actually played through a roland AC series but have heard good reviews from some fellow members. I believe NELA is a fan, perhaps he'll chime in on their behalf. I use a Marshal AS50D myself. I'm very pleased with it and would highly recommend them. Ultrasound also has some wonderful 2 channel acoustic amps in your price range that would be well worth a look... -Pix

Congrats Tops!! I know that felt good Best Birthday wishes to ya buddy!!

As far as a get together is concerned.... You don't even have to ask Just tell me when and were, you know I'm game -Chris

Hey Roger,

Sometimes when a guitar is new ,or has been serviced poorly, the nut slots are cut sloppily... or the guitar could have excessive wear at the nut... They should be cut at a slight angle so that the string loses contact with the nut at the very edge. If it's cut wrong or worn too much, the string can leave the nut from the middle or rear of the nut.  Most nuts are a little over 1/8 inch thick... So if the nut is off and the string loses contact at the rear, it essentially raises the scale length of that string by an 1/8 inch...  People that capo a lot on 1st or 2nd fret are more likely to have this problem, as the capo adds a lot of extra tension/wear to the nut. Plastic nuts are also quite prone to it... -Pix

Well I'm 35 years old, Male, and fron the southeast US (NC) I've had a guitar for 23 years but have only really been playing seriously for a little over 2 years. Before that it was just tinkering around on it with friends...

I generally use Elixirs.. When they start getting rust on the plain strings, I sand them lightly with a very fine 3m foam sanding pad. This removes any burrs and makes them feel & look like new. I then remove them and pass them down to my kids for their acoustics. Then when I change again I keep the old ones from my kids guitars and use them on the job. They work great as cutting tools! Say you have a mirror thats glued to a wall and needs to be removed. You can slowly pry it off and then have to repair sheetrock, or you can work an old guitar string behind it and cut the adhesive and pull it off nice and clean like. They also work really well when trying to seperate/remove old wood laminates from each other. Get the string started between the wood layers at a corner and slowly work them back and forth to seperate the pieces.. -Pix

Just wanted to to say "I think this is a great idea!"

I've invested some into recording equipment...  I dabble with it but have never really figured it out properly. It's just one of those things that keep getting put on the back burner Here's how my recordings usually go... I tend to start off with my drum track. Usually just a bongo or cajun beat that I'll record through my condenser mic... Then I play that back over my headphones and record my rhythm on a separate track using my guit. I prefer to mic my acoustics and seldom run them straight to the recorder. Most of the time I'll mic the guitar and run a second mic to record vocals at the same time. I tend to sing better while playing...;) After that I play those 2 back together over the headphones and add in the whatever solo work I want to track 3. Then I just repeat the same process with the shakers, guiro, or whatever else I want to throw in a little of. That's about as far as I ever get   I have yet to figure out how to save my tracks and transfer them to the pc for further work. My digital recorder saves it to a flash drive and I've followed the directions to a T. But every time I remove the card and put it in my pc, I only have a short riff that I ,somehow, saved on it about a year ago when I first bought it.... I'm sure I'm just missing something simple, but I hate to try it again 'cause I have so much stuff on it and hate to risk losing it all... So ,as you can see, my recording experience is very limited I'm hoping to pick up a lot of good tips in this thread from you pro's I'm going to get off the computer now and go torture myself with a few hours of tedious manual deciphering... It's about time I manned up and confronted this 100 big paged, small printed beast -Pix

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When I click on a beatles song, It shows the song for a second and then the message appears... However, if I hit page back once the song returns with no more complications. -Pix

Nice picks Kajima! Looks like a grand time Sorry to hear about Tony though...

"Reefer" ???   As in boating?