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    What is this chord called?

    I play this chord: 3 3 2 3 0 X My chord finder calls it a Fmadd4 - but that doesn't seem right. A F minor would have Ab not A. I often play it with G5 - C9 - ? 3--3--3 3--3--3 0--0--2 0--2--3 2--3--0 3--0--X Thanks
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    Buzzing problem

    Saturday I played an outdoor gig. The venue had a cheap blue tarp over the stage for shade. The wind picked up and ripped the grommets loose from the tarp and it came down and hit my bass which was locked into a stand at the time and it fell over and hit the stage. There were no visible scars...
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    Korg Pitchblack

    Anyone here use a Korg Pitchblack pedal tuner? How does it compare to a Boss TU-2? (Other than being less expensive) I have two pedal boards (one for my guitar one for my bass) and I have the Boss tuner. I don't want to move it back and forth so I would like to get another tuner. The Korg looks...
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    The Failure of Crate Amps

    Crate Amps tend to fail first at the input jack. At least that is what I've always heard. So when my favorite amp a Crate MX65 began to fail this way - to the point where it really wouldn't play, I threw the amp into the trash (after salvaging the speaker and all the knobs). I also had a used...
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    Show me your SG's

    About 5 years ago my son won an SG clone in a raffle at his school. A band was trying to raise money for a new PA so they sold raffle tickets at $5 a pop. I put a little work into it to make it playable, and it suited him fine for a few years. I just recently decided to unload some of my...
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    My new bass

    My Crate bass amp has been giving me problems - the input jack is getting loose and I keep losing the signal. I went into my local music store to see if he could repair it (he used to work for Crate) and he thought he could - so that's coming up. So then I wandered around the store... Back...
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    New pickups for my bass

    I have a cheap p-bass clone that I bought for recording purposes. Lately I've been asked to play bass out a lot, so I thought I needed a better sound. I considered buying a new bass, but, other than the sound, I like my bass. So instead I bought a set of Seymour Duncan Basslines SPB-3...
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    My Lincoln Brewster mods

    Last week I had a chance to go to a couple of guitar workshops led by Lincoln Brewster. In one of them he talked about the mods he had made on his Fender Custom Shop gold strat. Lincoln may not have come up with these on his own. He admits that Jeff Beck is his guitar hero, and while Lincoln...
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    Help pick out a multi-effects pedal

    I have a friend that plays keyboard in my band. He wants to spend his tax rebate on a guitar and multi-effects pedal. He's already picked out a Gretsch 5120 (I think) hollow body. For an effects pedal he is looking at a DigiTech RP350. He asked me for my opinion. I think I would be inclined to...
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    Height of Bass Pickups

    I was recording some bass tracks and noticed the pickups on my bass seemed kind of low, so I raised them. I just checked the recording and there was a series of clicks (like a fast delay) after each note in the recording. I'm wondering if I have the pickups too high now. They're not touching...
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    Pictures of my new rig...

    ...or why this is still the best place on the web. On December 2, 2007, my church was burned down by an arsonist. I lost over $2,000 in equipment in that fire - including a Crate Power Block amp, a homemade 2x12 speaker cab, a pedalboard, and a lot of cables. Here is my old pedalboard: A few...
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    Problem with Boss pedal

    I have a Boss OC-2 Octave pedal with an annoying problem. When I power up the pedal board, it starts out turned on. It's the only pedal I have that does this. And if there is a slight bump in the power, it goes on. I've removed it from my pedal board for this reason - and since I don't play...
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    Questions for you DIYers

    Question the first: I just bought a 2x12 speaker cab from Avatar in red tolex. I love it! I want to try to build a head cab to match. After a brief search, I found a few sources - but I was wondering if any of you could recommend a good source for tolex and cabinet parts (corners, handles...
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    1999 MIM Strat

    My local music store has been selling a lot of good stuff on consignment. I recently picked up an amp and a few pedals. I went in yesterday and he had a blue strat that caught my eye. He said it's a 60s reissue 1999 MIM. It has a white pick guard and a rosewood fretboard. It looks like mint...
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    Speaker cab for 30 watt tube amp

    Being new to the world of tubes, I'm really not sure how to match speakers to the amp. So I need your experience and opinions... I have a V Series V3112T combo amp with a 80 watt Celestion speaker (specifically the G12P-80 "seventy 80" speaker). I want to be able to go through a 2x12 cab...
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