Epic fucking fail

[ahjteam]

I just bought Elixir strings for the first time and wondered about that color was different than my usual strings. Anyways, I proceeded to chang the strings and noticed that after I had changed the last string to my electric guitar strings, that the package said "acoustic guitar strings" :zombie: But atleast they weren't nylon.

 

[Harry Hughes]

Can't say I've ever made the mistake of buying the acoustic Elixirs. The purple packaging is kinda a dead giveaway that they aren't the right ones

 

[ahjteam]

...but I also noticed that HAET to change the strings into a floyd rose guitar. takes fucking forever.

 

[amarshism]

This is fail. This dude posted it on a local metal forum saying he'd tried every big name amp company and this is the best tone he could find. One mini stacks on clean, ones on dirty. Amp switcher to pick between the two. Then they get slaved via a y split in the input of the mg100 feeding the quad.

Face palm.

Oh, and fail on the strings. Can't say it's ever happened to me.

 

[Nebulous]

Does he have the mids set to 0 on all of the amps too?

 

[drawnacrol]

Hate that, How do the acoustic strings sound on your electric??

 

[Jevil]

Fucking Epic Fail!

 

[ahjteam]

Hate that, How do the acoustic strings sound on your electric??

Like this: http://www.ultimatemetal.com/forum/rate-my-mix-tone-threads/635046-stoner-djent-something.html

Well, it sounds like an electric guitar none the less. Main difference I noticed was that the input level to my soundcard dropped like 10-20dB and the timbre is a bit different

Can't say I've ever made the mistake of buying the acoustic Elixirs. The purple packaging is kinda a dead giveaway that they aren't the right ones

I said I bought Elixirs for the first time, right?

 

[HeadCrusher]

This is fail. This dude posted it on a local metal forum saying he'd tried every big name amp company and this is the best tone he could find. One mini stacks on clean, ones on dirty. Amp switcher to pick between the two. Then they get slaved via a y split in the input of the mg100 feeding the quad.

Face palm.

Oh, and fail on the strings. Can't say it's ever happened to me.

Holy shit, you would someone even make up such a setup?? Would've NEVER come to my mind! :Spin:

 

[Loren Littlejohn]

I hate Elixer.

I suppose that's a pretty big fail?

I got a fail that isn't my fault:

Ordered a .072 for the F# on my 8 string from juststrings.com, there were only 2 companies that I could find that made them D Addario and Ernie Ball. I went Ernie ball and the strings were 3/4" to short.

What fucking string company makes a string gauge that large and not expect you to put it on an extended range guitar? Seriously?

A string being to short was the last problem I had on my mind.

 

[amarshism]

Haha shit.

 

[Lazzari]

I hate Elixer.

I suppose that's a pretty big fail?

I got a fail that isn't my fault:

Ordered a .072 for the F# on my 8 string from juststrings.com, there were only 2 companies that I could find that made them D Addario and Ernie Ball. I went Ernie ball and the strings were 3/4" to short.

What fucking string company makes a string gauge that large and not expect you to put it on an extended range guitar? Seriously?

A string being to short was the last problem I had on my mind.

What scale is that guitar ?? 30" ?

 

[HeadCrusher]

I once stepped in to track drums for two songs in my friends little home studio. Although he has a Fireface and HS80s other than that he doesn't really have a lot of gear. Only few mics were available (one for each drum plus two overheads) and I really had to go out of my way to even get their signals into the interface. I ended up using the inserts of my friends little Mackie mixer to get a signal into the line ins of the Fireface to be able to record all the microphones because the Fireface only has four pres. So after carefully tuning all the drums (including Toms) as good as I could (of course the drummer didn't know how to do it himself...) I made him play them to get levels etc. Ok, off we go, record the first song, done. And that's were I realise he doesn't play a single Tom through the whole song. The drummer said he never plays Toms in that particular song. Ok, fine. Song number two. Well, you probably already guessed it: No Toms again. Well, I could have used a second mic on the Kick/Snare or one for the Hihat or whatever if I had known that earlier. I mean who brings their whole kit to a session if they are not gonna use it? I mean drums are heavy and stuff, geez...
What's also funny is that he forgot his kick pedal in the rehearsal space. Needless to say he didn't have a key and the only bandmember who had one was in another part of the country at the time of the session. He almost went and bought a new kick pedal just to get the session done. But eventually after a few calls and a little driving around the city I got one that he could use to record.

But whatever, after all the band was happy with the result and my job of 5-6 hours was paid rather well.