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This is the phones jack from inside.

i know what you mean. I started a thread about needing a new amp. As the amp I have is cheap, I don't think it would be worth repairing (or if it can be repaired). I have a bass amp and a Positive Grid Spark Go I can use. I would only need a 1/8" to 1/4" adaptor for headphones for the bass amp (I have two of them, but I'm buggered if I can find them) and could use my pedals through it, but I've seen the Fender Mustang LT25 and am seriously considering getting that.

Thanks Dad. I thought it might have been something like that. I'm not sure if the headphone socket can be replaced. I took the amp out of the cabinet and the headphone socket seems to be glued to the circuit board. It's only a very cheap amp, so probably not economically viable to fix. The alternative to a new amp is that I just use my Fender Rumble bass amp. The guitar sounds a little muddy through it, but it works.

Something odd is happening with my amp. It works with headphones plugged in, but I need to push the jack plug in firmly. There's just nothing coming from the speaker. It's only a cheap Harley Benton HB-20R, so i'm not upset about replacing it. I might get the Fender Mustang LT25. If anyone has any ideas as to what the issue might be, please let me know.

I have had this a while now an I have to say I'm impressed with it. Is it the best sounding amp out there? No. Would I replace a practice amp with it no? However, what it is is extremely convenient. I often have to be away at weekends for a couple of days, so instead of lugging my 20W combo (not that it's huge) around, I stick the Go in my gig bag with a cable and that's me. On Wednesday, i had a bit of time to kill, so was able to sit in the car and play. The four built in presets aren't great, although the higher gain ones are better than the clean channel, which is also very quiet, but when you pair it with the app on your computer, tablet or phone there's a huge range of presets and you can change the settings on them. You can use the app to play along with songs, or use the smart jam facility to make your own music. It actually sounds rather good through headphones. It also functions as a Bluetooth speaker, which is an added bonus.

Good man!

Coming on rightly Shawn.

18 hours ago, Graham50 said:

Did you discover the source of your ticking, Papabron?

Maybe it was death watch beetle after all and his did fall down.

Welcome to the forum!

16 hours ago, Graham50 said:

If get the Johnson thing, do you have to take it down to the crossroads at midnight?

I got confused and watch an old episode of "Crossroads" at midnight. I couldn't understand how Benny and Miss Diane were going to teach me how to play guitar.

With those three chords you could have a go at Peggy Sue, by Buddy Holly - First song I ever learned on guitar, over 30 years ago.

21 hours ago, EdwardMarlowe said:

and even those were a huge step forward in their day. There was one year when the Sidewinder markedly outsold the Squier in the UK - and Squier seriously upped their game after that. The next big leap was when Yamaha put out the Pacifica 112 with a solid wood body. Remember the ad campaign which showed the butt end of a Yamaha and a competitor (impliedly a Squier) with the paint scraped off showing the 'brand x' was ply, and the Yammy solid? Caption - "Just ask them if it's available in a natural finish" or similar...  IMO, that's when Budget brands really started to step up their game. 

The next big leap was when they started to aspire to produce budget instruments for the long term player, even performer - not just beginners. I see Vintage (started off as a premium version of an Encore) are now styled as "quality guitars for the working musician", and really expanding their endorsee-user base. That sort of rethinking the "budget" concept - along with HB disrupting the model to provide so much more for a lower cost to the end consumer - is really light years away from the days of the Sidewinder. (I'd love to give one of those a go now, see if they're as playable as I remember!) 

Get yourself down to the local Cash Converters. There's bound to be at least one in there that you can try. 

20 hours ago, EdwardMarlowe said:

LOTS of backcombing..... or that thing with rubbing your palms on it - didn't you do that at the YM gig waaaaay back? Or was that Robert Smith you were going for then....

If anyone could tell *me* how to get hair like that now I'd be even more impressed.  

Crikey, I'd forgotten all about that. I remember the gig, but forgot about doing my hair.

As for yours, I think you would have to pay a visit to Elliott's

It doesn't look angry with you; just disappointed

55 minutes ago, jazzguitarguy said:

HI 

 

I'm developing a new app (originally started developing it for myself just to organize my own materials for practice, but would probably be useful for other people too).

 

I have a working version and I'm looking for a few testers to help give feedback on the feature set and steer the content that's on it.

 

Basically the app is for guitarists who know their theory, and can play their scales, but are 'stuck' and unable to turn their playing facility into actual soloing over changes.

 

The app consists of a phrase trainer and a song trainer - with a bunch of jazz guitar phrases in the phrase trainer/player, and then you move through to the song trainer/player and there's a notation system that makes it easy to see where you have to move all the phrases to in order to get round the changes.

 

You can change key into all 12 keys and change tempo as well. There's a bunch of other features.

 

If you're interested in trying out the software then I'm looking for people who a) really want to get over this 'hump' in their playing and be able to solo over jazz changes and b) would be willing to give feedback.

 

Thanks!

This sounds like a cool idea. I don't think my abilities would be up to scratch enough to be of use to you, though, but good luck with it.

Welcome Martin!

22 hours ago, EdwardMarlowe said:

Ha! Yes. I've never been a Gibson man, but it does seem that, if the user / buyer buzz to to be believed, they're going through a bit of a bad period for their QC. Either that, or their marketing approach of selling them as a lifestyle brand at high prices combined with inflation has led expectations to outstrip the realities off mass production? 

I've never played one (not sure I've ever even touched one), so that was a bit tongue in cheek, but I have seen comments on their QC. Still, I imagine that they produce excellent guitars in general.

When I read comments about Gibson quality control, I think you could say that not all guitars are good now, even the expensive ones. 

I forgot to mention, check out Justin Guitar. He does excellent tutorial videos. He is a right handed player, but a while ago he tried learning left handed, to give him an insight into what his students go through. He put up the videos on his YouTube channel.

Another easy one to learn is "Peggy Sue" by Buddy Holly - 3 chords, A, D and E

Welcome YnJ

Check out Louie Shelton's fretboard?.

Hey Mia! Tell us a bit more about yourself. What do you play? What do you listen to?

Check this out.

I would also advise you to invest in a physical tuner. You can get them quite cheaply. 

18 hours ago, ibanezImy said:

Clean tone a chord 

That's not an A chord, I'm afraid. You can play an A major barre chord by fretting all six strings at the fifth fret with your index finger and at the same time finger the sixth fret on the G string and the seventh fret on the A and D strings. Or you can play an open A chord by fingering the second fret on the B, G and D strings and playing them along with the open A string.

It sounds like the E and A strings are tuned to the same note. Do you have a tuner?