It looks like you're new here. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!
Subscribe to our Patreon, and get image uploads with no ads on the site!
Base theme by DesignModo & ported to Powered by Vanilla by Chris Ireland, modified by the "theFB" team.
Comments
Done half a show with a guitar with a locking trem. Realised one string wasn't sat in the saddle properly. Moved it in place, sent the whole guitar way out of tune. Didn't have any tools to fix it and no back up guitar. Had to play the rest of the set with a guitar that I couldn't tune.
Awful.
It was then that it dawned on me that without being able to hear it, the tuner had locked onto some harmonics or other rather than the open strings and I'd tuned up it up to at least A or maybe B .
Cue having to restring it for free while the customer stood there with a "this guy has no idea what he's doing, and he's working on my guitar..." expression on his face. And not charging for the original fix. Oh well.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
On the tuner pedal score though as well...kicking one on and not realising is always fun (aka where did all my sound go)
Guitar change 1/2 thru' a song - Gary pulled the guitar lead partly out of the amp, the way you do - Changed guitar and head down straight into the riff/song to continue - A second later, realizing something wrong, he looks at the amp, goes over to it and pushes the guitar lead back in
http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/49541/note-to-self#latest
Pulled the whole board apart checking all the pedals, the patch cables and the power separately before spotting the actual problem
Not noticing that I had actually managed to pull the string up and over the trem arm that had swung in the way...
https://i.postimg.cc/nLgKWkn5/86-B643-E9-C25-F-4-C79-A984-75-F0-FAA3-FB7-F.jpg
and you can addd my inability to post pictures on to here to the list
EDIT or my lack of patience for it to work on an iPad
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Everything felt weird, but it took me a good few seconds to realise why.
I'd put the slide on my picking hand! Lol.
Spent all afternoon and evening swapping patch leads, removing pedals, even reinstalling Reaper again.
Turns out id knocked the kill switch on the guitar.
Doh!!