Guitar & Strings
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Setup, tone, and playing more than you buy.
About this space
Guitars and the rest of the stringed family: technique, setup, intonation, amps, pedals and tone. Repair threads with photographs, recordings of people getting better in public, and a strong preference for playing more than you buy. Good setup advice here has saved people the cost of an instrument.
Topics
- Technique
- Setup & repair
- Tone
- Recordings
Recent discussions
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- Buzzing on the low E above the fifth fretQuestion · Setup & repair · Oct 3, 2026 · 6 replies
- Tone: the advice I had to unlearnTone · Oct 2, 2026 · 3 replies
- Spend on a setup before you spend on an instrumentTone · Sep 26, 2026 · 8 replies
- Six months of practice, one minute of playingRecordings · Sep 13, 2026 · 12 replies
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- Tone: a small thing I am quietly pleased withRecordings · Sep 6, 2026 · 6 replies
- Tone: am I solving the wrong problem here?Question · Setup & repair · Aug 25, 2026 · 2 replies
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- Setup & repair: an unpopular opinion, argued properlyRecordings · Aug 21, 2026 · 3 replies
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